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If you have a "cell" phone, you are complying with evil...

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My phones and me have a dysfunctional relationship.

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My ideal would be to slowly try to roll back to the 80s, before cell phones and using the internet, playing outdoors no matter the weather, and gardening with my grandfather. I'm slowly trying to move toward this even though I know I can't overnight.

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The 80s were good! :)

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Dec 3, 2023
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I remember building my first three-way speakers and amplifiers. :)

Music was still music for young people!

We spent most of the days outside, not at shopping malls.

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Gives renewed meaning to the song "All along the Watchtower". https://odysee.com/@AVisionDarkly:b/Hendrixall:8

Rob Braxman has great information about the Skynet, using all of the voice responding home assistants and door bell cameras in a surveillance grid.

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OUR LIGHTS WILL BE OUT, AND OUR FOOD COMES FIRST.

SKITTLES ARE STILL ON THE RECALL LIST, AND EXCESSIVE DYE MAKES KIDS SICK.

Bidenflation's High Halloween Prices Scare Consumers

https://headlineusa.com/bidenflations-high-halloween-prices-scare-consumers/?utm_source=HUSAemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail

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I posted about the future a lot of times, but the following from the beginning of August is probably the most informative one:

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/a-shortlist-of-whats-coming

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Traded the cellphone for a stationary phone, probably 4G, from Ooma company. About 15 dollars a month, about 100 dollars for the phone. Have no idea about the safety, but at least I do not have to charge it and I do not carry it around. Would rather just have email, but it's hard to do business without a phone. If anyone knows re Ooma brand, dangers, pls let me know thanks.

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2G, to my best knowledge, is now disconnected.

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More about this in Europe https://www.avire-global.com/market-insights/2g-network-closure/

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2G and 3G are pretty useless for data transfer, considering the amount of data collected by phones, and for cell service providers, it looks like selling the data is now possibly even bigger business than the revenue from subscriptions; they have next to no incentive to maintain 2G and 3G networks.

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How can that be if Nokia keeps selling this phone https://www.nokia.com/phones/nl_nl/nokia-5310/specs?sku=16PISX01A20

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It's all-new hardware; only the looks and the external features for the user are the same as on the old one. It's playing on nostalgia and on people who think they can outsmart the system, while it is also a honey pot for those, who "don't want t be tracked" and as such, it raises a red flag for the "authorities," just like switching from Gmail to an encrypted PoP provider does...

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my work phone says 5g in its name but runs 4g, i wondered what that was about

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no cell phone for me

wanting no pest in my bag

I will not comply

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"Can you be cautious enough?"

No, it is damn near impossible. Unless you are so isolated you have made yourself irrelevant.

Hmmm, maybe something to think about? No, I will choose to stand and fight.

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There are not many choices left, and not everyone is fit for hiding in the forests or in the mountains.

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Ray, may be a good idea for a separate thread, but did you ever have recurring dreams?

You know, where it is almost, occasional minor details may change, where it is almost exactly the same every time. Begins the same, ends the same. May begin a little sooner, or later, but almost always ends exactly the same?

This essentially same dream may recur weeks apart, months, or even years. But rarely, in my case very rarely two or more nights in a row. Once maybe three times, a decade plus ago, twice a few times including twice in one night!

Originally I thought use of sedative/hypnotics like Seconal/Halcion/Ambien/Nembutal may have had an influence, but now, I would say no relationship to pharmaceuticals.

A short dream, just a few minutes each in two distinct places.

And yes, my thoughts of this was triggered by your short reply above, if you are wondering "Where the hell did that come from?"

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All I can do is reflect on your story. Talking about recurring anything, to my best knowledge, still endangers the person to be "diagnosed" with paranoia and even schizophrenia, and the last thing you want to do is find "mental ("health") professionals after you. :) Consequently discussing such events must be placed on a back burner and probably never touched.

I know that the technology can be used for implanting fake memories. The brain is allegedly/probably more impressionable, while the person is asleep, but elements of the projection must reach specific area(s) of the brain at the proper time, and the signal strength must be extremely accurate and well-timed in order to reach the desirable stimulation, so it's a high-precision operation, which is unlikely to be conducted in a civilian environment. Such experiments, however, have existed for nearly a 100 years, using various methods. Radio waves are recent.

You and I discussed details related my comment above before, so certain words of mine may have activated a (possibly reconstructed) memory for all I know. Normally, the brain constructs its dream-work from unprocessed memories, so it's not unusual to dream about the same places and the same characters, but especially about situations that generate the same stress that must be dissolved during dreaming. Endless loops also occur (the same dream over and over again), just like sometimes the same tune can play in one's head for days. I suspect that humans also affect each other, so it also matters more who is in the vicinity, although distance doesn't seem to play a major part.

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I leave mine behind quite often and just don't take it with me. I always buy the older ones at much cheaper prices. A few of my older friends still use flip phones.

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Old SIM cards are probably safe, although the graphene nanotech microcomputers have been around from about 2012.

Old phones are the safest. It's not "flip" that matters (the "4G" phone I was offered was actually a flip phone), it's the age of the phone.

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On the other hand, diesel engines can run even on vegetable oil, freshly pressed at home. :) Anti-coagulants are another thing.

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From what I saw on Twitter yesterday that would be the only useful use of vegetable oils.

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Oct 23, 2022
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There might be a few alternatives, but just about all depends on the service provider. Old phones with old SIMs should work better than new ones. Not sure about Pinephone or the Japanese-owned versions of Blackberry. It is also possible to root open cell phones to Linux, although I believe that the latest "upgrades" to Linux are probably compromised. Inundating the system with data might also work, but with the latest versions of the AI, that is unlikely. Contradictory info still confuses the AI...

5G can personally reach those, who have the graphene-based nano-computers in them.

We have nighttime choppers around here with a white dispenser container on the bottom, circling over residential areas. :)

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