Re: Encryption comes to RCS at last on iPhones.

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:30:39 -0000 (UTC), Tweed wrote:

According to my bill:
Magenta Military $90 (3 lines) unlimited voice/text/data
Equipment Fees $51.67 (2 iPhone 15)
Netflix Standard $0.00
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Monthly Bill $141.67 taxes included
 

 
What's all this with multiple lines? Is this a common US thing? I looked at
t-mobile USA and the minimum they seemed to want to sell was 4 lines. What
does the single person do?

Melting pot economics.

In the USA, you're supposed to find an immigrant wife and adopt her kids
from her ex who never gave a damn, and that's where the number came from.

There are lots of immigrant wives looking for husbands, so that's not the
problem, but with the deportations going on, they're even more desperate.

In the liberal states, you can even find a few immigrant men to "marry".
You need them to have a phone when they're working in the picking fields.

You do things different over there? 

Pretty soon, Canada and Greenland will be part of the USA so that they too
can adopt immigrant wives and their kids so as to achieve 4-line status.

If you marry an immigrant man though, I'm not sure what they pick in the
fields above and beyond. Snowballs? (What grows in Canada/Greenland?)

Who wants them anyway?