On the contrary, HAM and CB radios have been popular since WWII (and somewhat before). I have a radio capable of picking up shortwave frequencies… holy shit the stuff you still hear on there.
Given that today you also need an Internet connection I’m not sure the barrier of microphone and smart device is all that different from microphone and HAM receiver.
Assuming you have already done normal maintenance (and this meme is based on any form of reality), the first thing I would check is the air intake at the throttle. It gums up at the opening and not enough air can get through at idle.
That entirely depends on how far into the process they were. If you leave AMA or ‘Against Medical Advice’ insurance will often not cover any service that has been provided to that point.
This is a problem that trickled out of some other vocations. The general consensus in my line of work for the better part of 15 years has been if you want a raise find a new job. It’s been really weird that places don’t want to keep institutional knowledge or are apparently willing to pay more for fresh faces.
That was one of my favorite parts of the 90s.
In the US we use Standard Time for three months of the year. Please don’t fuck with 9 months of my circadian rhythms.
When I was 6 our cursed VCR ate my Aladdin tape. I took apart the VCR to try to rescue the tape and ended up with a small spring tearing the cornea and iris of my right eye.
I am insanely lucky that a family friend just happened to be one of the nation’s foremost pediatric ophthalmologists and that my hometown has an excellent optometry school or I may have lost my eye. Somewhere there are case studies that were done on my eye. I ended up having to wear an eyepatch for a few weeks too which made me the coolest first grader ever.
Due to a childhood accident, I have a vastly different astigmatism in each eye so the lines and streaks are all double vision and ghostly.
Some of us just got used to it before cheap monitors could show black letters on a white background.
Yes, this list seems odd. There are also ribbons for things like Autism Awareness:
Encryption doesn’t stop them from knowing what tower you are attached to. Simply having a phone on you even with the GPS and WiFi off (or with the newer phones even the whole phone off) would still be enough to get your location to within a few hundred feet. The original iPhone used triangulation exclusively for location.
Apple does give a shit about privacy… in the same way that companies care about gay pride. Right now privacy is still a selling point for Apple compared to other companies. This is why they are still so loud about on device AI and pretty much silent when any of their features require cloud processing. But am under no illusions that will remain the case forever.
As far as “dumb phones” are concerned; they don’t exist anymore. It’s still a device with an OS, GPS (as required by the law that created the Amber Alert here in the US), and an Internet connection, that makes calls using VoLTE or similar. Most of the ones you can buy today run things like KaiOS which has an App Store and comes with Google Maps preinstalled.
If you want real privacy you need to disconnect from the Internet which pretty much means no phones at all now that everything is VoIP.
There was definitely an overlap between Art Bell listeners and Rush Limbaugh listeners but one didn’t necessarily lead to the other.