Facebook tried to make me take a video of myself moving my head around making different facial expressions to prove I was a person. I was like… not even my bank requires that. This was after making a comment that was Trump-negging. So I cancelled it.

I stand with your 14 year old. Same thing happened to me (well, very similar, my message was more in that clot has just one job category).

Elon…and Vance… and pretty much the entire Trump cabinet… come on, we would line up and pay for the pleasure.

Or at least a back door some hacker can drive a semi-truck through. All the screen will show is I HAZ ALL YUR HAMBERDERS

He spoke that into his phone’s microphone. His fingers are too important and valuable to do anything but wipe his own ass.

i am very stupid when it comes to phones… how can I wipe android and install graphenous. I will buy a new chip/SIM for my last phone to test/see how it works. Reveal your magic please. I just want a basic phone (text, call, maybe even a map/weather app and like a note app). I can use cash money or bank cards for paying for stuff- don’t need an app/service for that, perfectly capable as an adult to manage paying for shit without an electronic device.

Fact is that Ayatollah was 86 and had cancer… he was going to die anyway probably in the next 5 years. We didn’t have to engineer 30K protesters murdered and 150 schoolgirls killed along with him and his wife. We could have been patient, like the Chinese. After all, it is not like Iran has a shortage of mullahs.

in 1979 the US placed Shah, who looted Iran was ousted. Now we are supposed to champion his son to rule? Some Nepo baby? This administration is straight up incompetent and globally dangerous.

I hate the regime in Iran. I have a dear friend who was victimized by it. But also hate Benji N’s Israel and D. Trump and most of the ME surrounding who have done nothing for decades to control Iran. Oh noes! We have no ideas and no strategy so lets just send the Trump family a lot of money!

Some asshole on one of the forums I frequent stated that there was questionable information about the school. I responded that there was questionable information regarding his ethics and partisanship and I not only got blocked but my response was rejected… perhaps ‘CULT’ is a trigger word?

I have been active with my local antiwar org since the 1980s. It never fucking ends. But when the stupid people elect a felon… what did we expect?

He was going to die anyway. Why spend blood and treasure to murder a man who is 86 with a cancer diagnosis? Is critical thinking absent in our Pentagon? Yeah, lets get rid of this mullah… there are over a hundred other mullahs to take over for him. This is an established regime that has been in place for 50 years. 1 in 8 citizens in Iran work for the government… over 94 million population.

Have you not learned from Iraq? There is always another mullah. Al Quida was replaced by ISIS. WTF are we involved with the ME anymore? I mean, all those ME nations bombed by Iran, who encouraged the US to enter this (besides our welfare state Israel), well where are their fucking militaries? I guess they paid the Trump family off and felt they had hired their military of the US so our sons and daughters can die for those MFs. Need I remind people we send Israel over 3.8 Billion every year from our tax dollars? so… USAID and VOA does not deserve our few millions but Benji gets the billions and more in crisis and now American deaths. For those that cite 19 fucking 79 hostages… understand, our enlisted were not even born yet. They have no memory of that. Also… most were not even born by 1983 either. And the fact is, the federal military policy allowed that shit to happen.

He was a brutal fucking bastard… however, he was also 86 and had cancer. Maybe we could have waited 6 months and saved a lot of money and a lot of lives. Dude was going to die soon anyway.

I have used Motorola for the last 5 years or so. They had superior battery life compared to the others and were inexpensive. I bought my last one for like 40 bucks on clearance. I won’t spend more than 100 bucks plus tax on a phone anymore. I use minimal apps, don’t take lots of pictures with it, mostly text and make phone calls on it. I don’t keep social media apps on it nor restaurant apps. I mostly use the Maps, the Notes, and the browser applications. I don’t like the android/google calendar interface but will use reminders/tasks. I also use book/reading/podcast apps (Librivox, Podbean, Kindle, and another one…). I had overly invested in Kindle years ago unfortunately. I don’t really watch video on the phone as it is too small, but have YT music on it. I could use advice for alternatives that are better.

What would he do differently if he wasn’t?

Delete the biometrics that provide access.

Yes, they were doing this… selectively. I think it is determined by country of origin and shade of skin.

It is not a fruit company.

My life goal is to leave the US for more than five years and to entirely avoid social media. I want to discover and embody a life without screens in a place (or places) that is not a dumpster fire. Imagine just living an analog life in some village, occasionally visiting a city… traveling by train or bus, buying a ticket when you need one at a ticket counter or vend machine… Who knows if I would be allowed back in. Who knows what the US will look like in another 5-8 years (since I can’t retire for another couple years). It may be I can’t leave and will have to find a place here as off grid as I can get. I know my kid and their spouse may also want to take a powder from this shitshow.

couldn’t a ramp be installed?