CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@Gina the thing that will always amuse me about Cow & Chicken is that the Spanish-speaking Luchador character from English-language broadcasts spoke English in Spanish-language broadcasts.

@intrepidhero @ike just to chime in, yes, flip phones are absolutely the last electronic left with a battery that is intended to be user replaceable. You can just yank it when you want to. No trust involved.

I see dozens of brand new models out there with them as I type this. Back in the day, it was a feature! You could have a few charged ones and stay texting by swapping them out as the day wears on. We lost something with locking those away.

@intrepidhero @ike wasn't the stated goal _reduced surveillance_?

@ike imo the answer is to start relying on things that aren't embedded into your phone, and just switch to a flip phone that can, at best, send a text message.

It means I have to carry an mp3 player around, but honestly that has upsides too. It's genuinely nice to listen to music and not expect a focus-interrupting push notification at any moment.

@tante you know what's funny? I spent a lot of time in Pittsburgh and really got to know the people there. One of my closer Yinzer buddies was in his mid 60s and had memories of working in a steel mill.... At 8 years old. He sat on top of an assembly line and cleared machine clogs. He talked about children working in a steel mill like it was the good old days. ‍ I love Tom dearly but that one felt like a trauma response to me.