My dad goes to visit Iran (a significant portion of my family is there).
Immediately revolts start.
All communication lost (still haven’t heard from him).
America is deciding to attack Iran again.
His plan was to take a two month vacation with his siblings, but at this point I’m starting to wonder if he’ll even return.
I don’t see the point of this.
A smartphone is literally a handheld computer with more capability than this. Save for game controls, there is very little that a touchscreen doesn’t completely replace with full flexibility (besides, unless it’s the size of a Gameboy, the vertical controller layout sucks).
This isn’t a new concept either, as I’m pretty sure I’ve seen two phones and one whole laptop using this exact drop-in modularity gimmick. They all failed.
That’s… Certainly a strange and oddly specific thought…
Debt is not a real resource, it’s a complete fabrication, and all the richest people have a value that doesn’t exist in real world resources, rather a perceived agreed upon value of what their assets might cost, based on the vague idea that it will appreciate in value in the future, and the debt cycle that may continue printing money for banks.
So most money isn’t based on anything. And the value of currency these days is entirely fiat.
Or more to the point; money is the problem. Currencies are useful tokens that make trade more convenient. But systems have been built around the simple concept of a trade token that a person can have power over others by just having a bigger number.
But it’s just a number. Most of the time a number that doesn’t even represent anything real or physical. Just a number of a hypothetical thing(s) that has a certain hypothetical value because someone said so.
French mustard is better.
That’s what the Portuguese and the Dutch did. By the time the British finally defeated the Dutch in… like… the seventh war, the spice trade was no longer the most profitable. It was then the Atlantic Triangle… or whatever it was called.
My car drives Arch, by the way.
He thinks he stopped 8 wars? Which 8 wars?
You really just want to read what you want, huh?
Didn’t i just answer this question?
Yes…? Crusifying people is what Romans did to those they considered criminals.
I’m guessing English isn’t your first language?
The people who build your roads, teach your children, and take care of you when you’re sick have a right to a living wage.
Taxes pay their wages.
If there is a disparity in the taxes you pay, the wages of these workers, and the rich people of your country, then it’s time to do something about it. And lo, it’ll probably end up in violence.
“Rather live oppressed than die free”.
The law can be wrong. The law is not the final say. The people are the final say, and they have the right to impeach as much of the law as they want if the law has failed in serving them.
Eeeeyyyy, the Black Panthers are still a thing?
Someone doesn’t have to jump off a cliff to personally experience how jumping off a cliff isn’t good for your health.
Or, you could put the resources that went into this thing that’ll eventually become a forgotten novelty (e-waste), and develope a Linux smartphone that is fully open source.