This is absolutely hilarious and couldn’t happen to the nicest people however few there are.

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    the company’s spokesperson then added the nugget that they were still evaluating whether they needed to inform the affected customers

    Very on brand.

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      Legit they might not have to because the laws around that are based on the number of people affected. 3600 might be below that number.

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    Interesting enough article, and thank you for sharing. But can we talk for a moment about the “About the author” and his apparent inability to decide whether that section should be in first- or third-person?

    About the author: Writing is my one incontrovertible passion. Over the past six years, he has authored over 2,200 distinct articles on financial and tech-related topics, spanning nearly 1 million words. And he has been a member of Wcctech mobile team since 2025. As an alumnus of the University of Toronto, Rotman Commerce Program, I bring nuance, in-depth knowledge, and a unique perspective to every topic that I cover. When I’m not writing, I’m traveling the world, exploring hidden confectionaries and restaurants as an aspiring food connoisseur.

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        It’s kind of like how all the world’s best athletes congregate for the Olympics, everyone there is great at what they do, otherwise they wouldn’t be there.

        This is like that, except exactly the opposite. They’re all idiots. Delegations from individual towns, having a contest of supreme dunceness.

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    I didn’t think “Trump Mobile Subscribers” would be a big enough pool of people to be a tempting target for hackers…That’s a lot of work for a list of trailer-parks…

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    I want to put money on the fact that they sold the data, themselves, for a profit. Since they had an absolutely pathetic number of subscribers

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      This is a bit mean but it reminds me of some older customers I’ve had who were dealing with dementia. Sometimes you say stuff to them and they look both skeptical and a bit hostile like they don’t understand if what you said was offensive.

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        Just a bit about dementia, you know you should know something or you know you are struggling to understand others and it becomes very frustrating and that can show up as anger. On top of that the degradation of the prefrontal cortex results in less control of emotional urges.

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        Nah, that’s not true. My hometown has less than 400 and has a Dollar General. They’ll put a store anywhere.

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          dg loves food deserts with high percentages of poor and/or elderly. they exist solely to gouge snap and wic recipients and other poor people unable to drive elsewhere for a more reasonable price on grocery.

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            dolllar tree is the equivalent here in the west, they are usually in between the big box stores, like tar’ge, costco , albertsons,etcwhich arnt close to each other. we dont have walmarts here, because walmart avoids our area like the plague, due to potential high taxes.

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        admitting incompetence is the most competent thing anyone associated with Trump’s businesses has ever done

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    Speaking of PR, the Poplar Group, which had entered into a services contract with Trump Mobile only in June 2025, and whose Chris Walker had given the now-infamous statement to USA Today back at around the same time, asserting that the T1 Phone was, in fact, made right here in the United States, is no longer representing Trump Mobile. Trump Mobile has, since then, altered its marketing narrative to “assembled in America.”

    Isn’t that old news? I thought they changed it again, to something like “Designed with American Values in mind.” Like, literally no part of the design or production takes place in America. It’s a slightly modified version of an old HTC phone. They might put it in boxes to ship out, but that’s it.