Same fake troll account that gets posted here all the time. Will people ever get it–This account is NOT a real maga who ever voted for trump. Their posts are all anti-trump and never anti-dem/liberal–they just want to make it look like a magat regrets their vote so lefties can gloat and feel good.
Many flip phones also work as MP3 players (some better than others) so those 2 could be combined in one device, depending on the features you want.
Unfortunately spam texts and calls are the bane of having any kind of phone. :( “Do not disturb” settings that allow contacts only can help but don’t fully solve the problem.
They put this book in comic book form, read it to Donald while he looked at the pictures, and he’s totally on board with it.
Oh, I guess it could be a combination of that and the dystopian novel.
Why that date? Is it from the book 1984?
Every single face in that image is an abomination.
She has since jumped ship to become a director at another trendy company, PsyMed Ventures, which Newsweek described as a VC fund investing in mental and brain health. Many of the companies PsyMed invests in feature AI tools — which Ner says she still uses, albeit with a newfound sense of respect.
She hasn’t learned a thing. She should have learned she’s susceptible and needs to stay as far away from the shit as possible.
But it did achieve the actual goal, which is that it created a cloud of confusion where a lot of money was moved around and huge amounts wound up in the private pockets of oligarchs, who laughed while hundreds of thousands died.
No, I’m not saying anything about what we need, just providing some historical context around what brought feudalism to an end – and replaced it with capitalism.
OK? I was responding to your original statement “Find me one with an unlimited hotspot plan, and I’ll switch tomorrow.” since that made it sound like you didn’t have any other criteria.
It’s a Sunbeam Wireless F1 Pro.
In Europe, what ended feudalism wasn’t so much a counteracting -ism, but the bubonic plague, which in the first wave wiped out nearly a third of the population, so many people that the remaining peasants’ labor was suddenly worth a lot more, giving them much more bargaining power for better wages and working conditions.
See https://chronodigest.com/how-the-black-death-broke-feudalism/
As long as the phone has the ability to act as a hotspot (many dumphones do), the amount of data is up to the service plan you sign up for, not limited by the phone itself. I use Tello which offers unlimited data plans, but the plan I use only has 1 GB/mo (of which I use almost none). I guess you need to make sure the phone you buy is unlocked so you can shop around for the best service provider.
I didn’t have to switch because I’ve never used a smartphone to begin with. My current dumbphone has a great UI, touchscreen for easy input even though it’s a very small screen, headphone jack, SD card slot, etc. It can act as a hotspot and has maps/voice navigation and current weather + daily forecast. The Tello service plan I have (uses T-Mobile network) is about $9.40/month. That’s with 1 GB data, but you can get unlimited data if for some reason you want that.
There is also a subscription available ($3.50/mo) which gives you live updated maps, voice dictation, and hourly weather+radar but I haven’t needed those things (edit: though I’d like to have the radar). I just use the offline maps (more private anyway–you periodically download the latest map data), and I don’t need the other stuff. (edit: I have a Sunbeam Wireless phone and live in the US).
There are some inconveniences of course, like all the businesses you interact with want you to install their tracking apps, but I wouldn’t put that kind of crap on it even if I did have a smartphone. The main one that causes me issues is the grocery store that has special discounts (“digital coupons”) on some items if you use their app. I already have their damn store card which gives me the sale price on most stuff but now they also have this digital deal crap. I can work around that by going to their website ahead of time and look at what all digital coupons they have that week, and click on the ones I want so they will be on my card, which gives me the discount at checkout without needing their app–but I strongly resent having to do that. If they want to put something on sale, put it on sale for everyone! But no–it’s all about tracking you. Pigs. But I digress. Point is I get by fine without a smartphone, ymmv.
But there are no such people with nothing to hide.
I think we should just keep the floppy disk symbol at this point, because it doesn’t matter what it was originally based on or whether that exists any more–everyone knows what that symbol means, and it can’t really be confused with anything else.
There’s no point making an icon that looks like any other particular kind of storage device since those are changing all the time. So we either have to pick some real world thing like a safe or warehouse or grain silo or whatever. or invent some completely new symbol that’s not related to anything and then everyone would have to learn it. Which takes us back to just keeping the floppy disk symbol.
Same, I’ve tried lots of different things and have never found anything that works perfectly for maintaining conlang vocab. I’ve tried a spreadsheet and database but I find them too awkward to work with easily. So the best way I’ve found is just using a formatted text file with markup (emacs+org-mode which has its own markup syntax that I like, and a lot of useful functionality for working with it–like metadata, searching, and exporting).
I think a wiki is probably the best format to organize all the world building stuff, but you still have to figure out for yourself how you want to organize it all and do all the linking–that’s my weak point. (I know there’s some specialized world-building software out there but it seems to all be online subscription stuff which is definitely not for me).