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Re:Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on by cutler on Monday December 12, 2022 @02:30PM (#33959037)
What on earth does this have to do with the parent post? Please enlighten me.
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Re:Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on by aussieshibe on Monday December 12, 2022 @02:42PM (#33959176)
It's a monologue from The Office which uses similarly extremely short sentence structure as seen in the GGP comment.

It's also possible GP is referencing GGPs arguably paranoid position on phones, relating it to similar paranoias held by Dwight (the character who delivers the monologue).

https://youtu.be/PlIzKaGBeHk

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Re:Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on by MengerSponge on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @02:58AM (#33966028)
Nailed it :)
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Re:Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on by lgdskhglsa on Monday December 12, 2022 @02:40PM (#33959153)
it's a reference to The Office, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlIzKaGBeHk
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Re:Tell HN: Your Android carrier can remotely turn settings on by ww520 on Monday December 12, 2022 @02:43PM (#33959186)
They're both wild tales. /s
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