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Would an idiot do that?
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Some mini golf and it came with another golf game, shooting stuff... dabbled in some of the mixed reality stuff like painting on your own walls.
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07-03-2024, 08:30 PM | #17 | |
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07-03-2024, 09:44 PM | #18 |
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I foresee a movement of folks going back to landlines for mental health purposes in the coming years.
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07-03-2024, 09:47 PM | #19 |
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How will your wife reach you if she needs to talk to you when she’s out of the house?
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07-03-2024, 09:54 PM | #20 |
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07-03-2024, 09:56 PM | #21 |
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07-03-2024, 09:57 PM | #22 |
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I’d dump my phone in a heRtbeT but your mom would have no way of telling me what motel to meet, so gotta have my phone
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07-03-2024, 09:59 PM | #23 |
Sometimes it's black and white
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If you walk around without a cellphone (and aren't obviously homeless), won't the AI robots assume you are a terrorist?
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07-03-2024, 10:24 PM | #24 |
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07-03-2024, 10:24 PM | #25 |
In Pat We Trust
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About two years ago I purchased a new cell phone to replace my iphone 5. There was a brief, but beautiful, moment where I thought, "If this phone lasts as long as the last then it might be the last cell phone I ever own." My plan is to retire around 7 or 8 years from now.
Then I realized that my retirement goals involve living outside the US and extensive traveling and I thought, "Oh, right. If I don't keep the same number through all the travel then I will lose connection with everyone because most people can't be bothered to update phone numbers every couple of months." Still, it was a beautiful dream while it lasted. |
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07-03-2024, 10:34 PM | #26 |
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I don't really use my cell much. I have a LL at home and at the office. Both have answering machines. "Just leave me a message and maybe I'll call".
I am a cave man. I do find, although I don't care for it, texting is handy v a phone call. The problem is that a text is just a one way form. You can't confirm it was read. It does, also, create a trail which is good and bad. I could live without my phone without much trouble. I do my work research via computer. The cell is a convivence, which most of the time I really don't need. The main problem is that people today want instant commo. |
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07-03-2024, 11:07 PM | #27 |
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The ultimate freedom is to have no cell phone and no cable/internet. Maybe at most a rotary phone and an old fashioned radio.
Adding to that dream would be moving out to some acreage in either the South, Texas, the West or Alaska, stockpile guns, fly a Don't Tread on Me flag, grow your own vegetables and eat only freshly killed meat. |
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07-03-2024, 11:19 PM | #28 | |
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07-04-2024, 06:22 AM | #29 |
Fish are scared of me
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Without talking to John from the indian scam call center every 30 minutes life would get boring
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07-04-2024, 06:41 AM | #30 |
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I have a couple of part-time jobs and use Google Maps alot. Before that I didn't have a cell phone. Spouse had a cell phone for several years before I had to get mine. Like I told her, "sometimes I don't want to be just a text or call away." Work would be tough without it now for me but if you can get by without it, I say go for it.
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