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Reminds me of Lord Vetinari's Clock:

The clock in Lord Vetinari’s anteroom didn’t tick right. Sometimes the tick was just a fraction late, sometimes the tock was early. Occasionally, one or the other didn’t happen at all. This wasn’t really noticeable until you’d been in there for five minutes, by which time small but significant parts of the brain were going crazy.

– Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, page 321

What Was ISDN? 3 years ago

The 10m long cable runs across the hallway from the living room to the children's room. What a time to be alive :D Blocking the phone connection for 1 hour to download the 10MB demo of a game.

"You currently have Netflix ON US included in your plan. Netflix recently updated their subscription tiers, you’ll now receive Netflix Standard with ads, providing more features and benefits to you. This benefit will continue to be ON US ($0). There is nothing you need to do. This change will take effect between January 25 and February 1.

For more details on your Netflix benefit, to make adjustments, or explore additional streaming options, check out your Benefits Hub at My T-Mobile or the T-Mobile App."

We are currently at the point where there are very few people whose bank accounts are canceled because a system has detected something unusual. The bank is legally obliged to investigate this, so they close the accounts and absolutely nobody seems to know the exact reason. And now let's make this completely digital. What could possibly happen?!