TRAPtion that most people carry around with them every second of the day. If it ain't ringing it's buzzing, if it ain't buzzing it's vibrating, and for what, to bring you breaking news that is a week old.Landlines are almost a thing of the past. I read @owasco's reply and love her take on that ever annoying con
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I'm trying to think of the last landline I had. I wouldn't put money on it but it was roughly 1995—true story.
And as much as I admire you guys' way of staying out of contact and even admit I'd love to get there, I never would've met any of you if not for this device.
Now that would have been a shame, phone on.
I met you sitting at a computer. Which is hardwired, not using wifi. Excuses excuses...
I didn't get my first cell phone until at least 2008. I started seriously not using it during The Great Confinement of 2020 - 2021 because I did not want to be contact traced.
I admit, I could be a nut job on this radiation thing, but I am alarmed by our unnatural dependence on devices that emit radiation. I think that shit is addictive, as if once on those dangerous frequencies, it is difficult to get off. And I have found it extremely important for my mental health to get as far away from radiation as possible, by going for phone free walks in the deep woods as often as possible. I live in town, so there's not much I can do there, except for not using wifi.
Sorry to go a bit preachy!
You know better than to apologize to me dammit! Apologies ain't shit here. = }
Preach, curse, rap, it's all welcome on DanDays page.
There's plenty of off-ramps in this world. They can't all be right and they can't all be wrong but there's plenty of room for all of them.
I won't tell anyone about your radiation paranoia if you don't tell them what I think of people who post content on the internet they're embarrassed to show their friends in real life.
haha my friends, my current ones anyway, would be proud of this content. I dumped the others, or rather they dumped me when I wouldn't submit to a certain experimental medical procedure.
Now that would have been a shame, phone on.
Trap is right. It sucks people right in. When I stop to ask for directions now, the person invariably says "I dunno. I just put it in my GPS." People have lost geospatial orientations skills, in addition to communication skills. I used to print out directions on the computer before I drove anywhere new, but those directions have become quite incomprehensible, because they are giving GPS directions. So, I have been collecting road maps. Besides phones diminishing our cognitive skills, holding them on our persons, in our hands, or worst of all next to our heads, is physically dangerous. Everyone knows these things and nearly everyone keeps doing it anyway, as if they have no choice. TRAP
How many people can recall the phone numbers of their own family members or closest friends, very few? I've even seen people go to their phones to recall their spouse's phone number, very sad.
I'm not going to say that we don't use our car's GPS, but Robin is a map freak. The glove box in our car is stuffed with maps. As soon as she saw all the maps that the American Homesteader store had, which I pictured in this post,
she behaved like it was Christmas morning. https://peakd.com/hive-196308/@thebigsweed/market-friday--what-took-me-so-long
Funny story, a few years ago our sons invited a few friends up to the farm. They put the directions into their GPS to get to the farm. One young man, traveling with a buddy put our address in the system, but not the correct one. After they had been on the road for 8 hours they realized they were only a hundred miles or so from the Canadian border, listening to the GPS all the while. They had traveled north by 250 miles more than they should have, realized their mistake, and traveled another 300 miles to get back to our place, never having a clue.
So many people dismiss the facts about the harmful effects of always having a phone pressed to their ear can cause.
OMG that story perfectly illustrates just how stupid all our reliance on electronics has made us. 250 miles?!!!!
I used to know phone numbers, but even I have difficulty remembering them now. That's one thing I do use my phone for - number storage. When I destroyed a phone a while back and could not get a recent version of my contacts, I was pretty much screwed. I started hardcopy (an address book, which was really hard to find in the first place) a few years ago just in case.
Robin keeps an address book which includes phone #. She uses it for sending out Christmas cards, not so much for the phone #, but it sure is a good back up.
Hashtag WhatSheSaid. Had it not been for this phone, I would've never known how guilty I am of everything you said.
aaaand there's that catch 22. There's always a catch 22. lol