[Chlorus]

> it's gotten really unreliable in many places these days because the infrastructure is decaying and companies are spending the absolute minimum to keep it going, but they're milking it for profit from all the dinosaurs who refuse to give it up.

Citation? I haven't heard anything about this and I work closely with telecom.

> and is getting older and easier to manipulate into buying stuff.

You know, Slashdot was never quite this toxic back in the day.

[magduf]

>Citation? I haven't heard anything about this and I work closely with telecom.

It's what I've seen with some of my family that lives in smaller towns or rural areas. Some crappy company like CenturyLink buys up the infrastructure and then just lets it rot, but charges huge prices for phone service, higher than cellular service. Then service quality is poor and outages are common.

>You know, Slashdot was never quite this toxic back in the day.

How on earth is it "toxic" to state a fact? Older people are generally easier to manipulate, which is why there's laws against "elder abuse". Are you going to try to claim now that dementia doesn't exist, because that's "ageist"?

[serf]

>Older people are generally easier to manipulate, which is why there's laws against "elder abuse".

That's absolutely not the reason laws like that exist, unless you consider the neglected elderly who are ignored in places like hospice care facilities as having been 'manipulated'.

I think that's a grossly overbroad definition of the phrase.

[ColanR]

> How on earth is it "toxic" to state a fact? Older people are generally easier to manipulate...

That's not true.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3525123/Generation-...

[diffeomorphism]

> That's ... true.

Partial citations can be very misleading...

[fortran77]

> Disclaimer: I listen to radio in my car sometimes, but only NPR, not anything commercial.

He doesn't even listen to radio! It's beneath him!