lmao fucking boomer website.

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      Roaming nowadays has largely been surplanted by E-sims, but in this scene they’re talking about inter-state roaming charges. The woman in the screenshot is from florida and she’s supposedly getting roaming charges while in Pennsylvania

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        Even when the show came out roaming wasn’t a thing. Roaming has nothing to do with esims and it has to do with which cell network you are connected to. In the American context, if your provider is Verizon but where you are you can only connect to T-Mobile towers then you are roaming.

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            Some of a telco’s biggest customers and biggest vendors are other telcos.

            MVNOs operate on MNO networks. MVNOs have agreements on access and usage to use MNO networks. MNOs also have agreements with other MNOs to roam on each other’s networks. These are called access charges and access revenue

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                I don’t think that’s true. Cringe comedy certainly punches down sometimes, as many types of comedy do, but to say it is “inherently down punching” seems pretty rediculous to me. There are plenty of examples of cringe comedy where the majority or all of the cringing is being done at bad people, or people who hold power over others. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a good example. That show definitely has problematic aspects, but pretty much 100% of the cringe moments in it are because of awful stuff the awful main cast are doing. Even going back to the Office, which I don’t really like either, I’d argue the majority of cringing that happens is at the expense of Michael, the racist, sexist boss. Obviously both these shows have problematic aspects like most comedy does, and I’m not defending them, but I do think it’s kind of rediculous to say that cringe comedy is inherently reactionary, or that it inherently punches down on marginalized people. I won’t deny many examples of it do, but that’s not because of some inherent flaw in the medium, it’s because we live in a deeply racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic and transphobic society, and our popular media reflects that.

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                  IASIP is totally unwatchable for me, I need characters with at least some positive aspect.

                  From what I’ve seen of the Office, even the racist sexist boss isn’t “cringe” and the butt of jokes because he’s racist or sexist or a boss but because he’s profoundly socially unaware and inept.