Matt, hoping you understand the respectful grammar correction is important and given out of love! (We want no ammo for the haters.) Since your greatly-appreciated credibility is the universal gold standard, we adore you and care to WIDELY publicize your exceptionally outstanding work!
It's refreshing to see a journalist that apologizes. 😂 No need, Matt. You, Glenn, Jimmy and the dudes from the Grey Zone are National Treasures right now. Keeping it real in a landscape full of woke wackos, fanatical theocrats and corporate bootlickers. The Populist (class and policy oriented) Left, AKA the "Dirtbag Left" must be heard!
The monopolies wouldn't come close to where I live in rural northwest Colorado, so we built our own fiber backbone through the NWCCOG, Project THOR. My town ran fiber to the home itself. I pay $70/month for 1Gbps up and down(could get 2Gbps for $10/mo more) and haven't had an outage in months. Customer service is about 7 blocks away.
I couldn't get service like that in the heart of Long Beach for double the price.
You nailed it. Telecommunications companies are among the worst monopolists out there and they have their "rent seeking" hands in virtually every Americans pocket.
Unless you have escaped the use of banking services and you don't eat food grown on American farms you are still getting screwed by monopolies from Monsanto who steals farmers profits to the Meat and Poultry slaughter houses that rip off farmers to Money Center banks that almost certainly control the money at which ever bank you use you are being ripped off. I am guessing you use gas right? Big Oil = Big Monopoly.
Love the story about how you are getting broadband. Perfect example of how the monopolists are ripping us off.
It could be worse: think Spectrum!
You know you're a Spectrum customer when your "backup" hotspot gets more use than your mainline.
Amen to that
I see your Spectrum and raise you a Comcast.
Getting AT&T fiber installed right now.
While I've had few problems with Spectrum, still, the best thing about them is the commercials with the monsters. I can't help but giggle at those...
Matt, Matt Matt! “... who tuned in to listen to Eric Salzman and I talk on Callin today.”
C’mon! Listen TO Eric and ME talk.
Matt, hoping you understand the respectful grammar correction is important and given out of love! (We want no ammo for the haters.) Since your greatly-appreciated credibility is the universal gold standard, we adore you and care to WIDELY publicize your exceptionally outstanding work!
Lee, how do you know that? Taibbi is far too experienced a writer to make that sort of public error.
OK, I won’t suggest he be flogged, but you gotta get rid of those knee pads.
I’ve commented before that he (and many other Substack writers) needs an editor.
Somewhat respectfully,
RBM
If you went around correcting grammar at burning man I’d throw you in the fire.
It is not a correction, but advice. I am adored at Burning Man.
i guess there’s all sorts. I tend to run with the groups there that kill their egos, not grow them massively.
Whatever makes you happy though, man.
Oh, because of the 'To' it's "ME, whereas, "to I" makes no sense. I would have made the same mistake as Matt.
It's refreshing to see a journalist that apologizes. 😂 No need, Matt. You, Glenn, Jimmy and the dudes from the Grey Zone are National Treasures right now. Keeping it real in a landscape full of woke wackos, fanatical theocrats and corporate bootlickers. The Populist (class and policy oriented) Left, AKA the "Dirtbag Left" must be heard!
it’s alright, Matt. We understand.
"...to listen to Eric Salzman and I talk on Callin today." Should be "listen to Eric Salzman and me."
The US pays more for internet access than any industrialized democracy. And our service still sucks.
Monopolies... gotta love them
The monopolies wouldn't come close to where I live in rural northwest Colorado, so we built our own fiber backbone through the NWCCOG, Project THOR. My town ran fiber to the home itself. I pay $70/month for 1Gbps up and down(could get 2Gbps for $10/mo more) and haven't had an outage in months. Customer service is about 7 blocks away.
I couldn't get service like that in the heart of Long Beach for double the price.
NDK
You nailed it. Telecommunications companies are among the worst monopolists out there and they have their "rent seeking" hands in virtually every Americans pocket.
Unless you have escaped the use of banking services and you don't eat food grown on American farms you are still getting screwed by monopolies from Monsanto who steals farmers profits to the Meat and Poultry slaughter houses that rip off farmers to Money Center banks that almost certainly control the money at which ever bank you use you are being ripped off. I am guessing you use gas right? Big Oil = Big Monopoly.
Love the story about how you are getting broadband. Perfect example of how the monopolists are ripping us off.
Did anyone else think something scandalous happened on Callin before reaching the second sentence?
I wish you had notified me of your call in with Eric Salzman, my husband of 62 years who died
on Nov. 12, 2017. I have been trying to reach him for years.
I accept your apology.
Eric Salzman and I - me not I
Even worse than Spectrum it could have been the Great Satan AT&T
Hi “listen to me.” Not I
A little friendly help from the grammar police
listen to Eric Salzman and I talk, no, listen to Eric Salzman and me talk. Everybody’s doing it.
Never mind that . . . "listen to Eric Salzman and ME." And ME. Not "to listen to . . . I."
Amazing how we live by the technology sword and die by it as well. Also, be thankful you don't have CenturyLink.
(Shrug)...Sh*t happens...