Thursday, July 3, 2025

At Least We Are Afforded Life Lines

Gah,
if the universe isn't telling me to get a new phone, then, my universe interpreting skills have eroded.
I can't use my full sized keyboard for some reason and, as I peck away one character at a time I rotate the phone to at least make it closer to the size of a full sized keyboard, but it doesn't rotate.
And, to top it off, the battery takes forever to charge up and discharges even with the charger plugged in if I'm watching video...
And, for some reason, this free government phone really has a hard time playing any content outside the bought and paid for mainstream media stuff.
I can watch Russell Brand 3 seconds at a time with 5 second pauses in between, same for anything being hosted on the Tucker Carlson network.
I can't log in to a rumble account, and when I did want to check out Truth Social just to see what was on there, there was some problem, uh, logging in to leave a comment, or creating an account...
On the free "lifeline" phone (a name referring to the "basic human right" of citizens to have access to 911, along with having content that they shouldn't see, as determined by an algorithm implemented by some CIA carve-out).
Authoritarianism cloaked as a life raft...
Now I've already had my fill of pecking away and haven't even gotten to the inordinately f-ed up culture we live in...
At least we are all afforded life lines.....