Yep. That’s the thing that never changes. “The man” is a total asshole killjoy.

You’ll just have to trust me, or ask an old timer from one of those cities you speak of (I’m from one of several in the area). They’re about 1/4 the amount of traffic that they used to be.

Combinations. Amazon, smart phones, how kids hang out, poverty, giant stores like target and wal mart…It’s a bunch of reasons that all hit against malls.

Malls haven’t been the only hit over the decades. “Cruisin” is no longer a thing. Teens used to spend hours on nice nights driving up and down a certain stretch of road in nearly every city somewhere.

More kids used to ride bikes around for funnies.

Drive in movie theaters used to be huge.

Things always change and it’s almost never just a single reason.

The stigma with sex work is that you’re having sex with someone because you want paid, and otherwise wouldn’t be having sex with that person.

If there was no need for money or an exchange for goods and you wanted to have sex with a bunch of different people, we already have that in today’s society. It’s a tinder user.

And making porn is stigmatized. That’s why 99% of the porn made “just for fun” is intended to never see the light of day by anyone but the people making it.

Really, I’m not directly sure what your argument/belief/whatever is here in this post.

If there’s no exchange or barter, then there’s no sex work. The stigma behind sex work is that you’re selling your body to someone for a price tag, and if you weren’t getting paid you otherwise wouldn’t be doing it with that particular person. In other words, if you aren’t getting compensation out of it, you’re just like anyone else with a tinder account.

I have cell tower priority, unlimited data, and 40GB hotspot per month.

I’m very good with electronics (repairs and care). I’m on an unlocked Note 20 ultra I bought used in early 2021 and it’s still in flawless condition. Not parting with it anytime soon and already replaced the battery in it so it would keep going.

Issue with things like mint or rocket is that you get bumped down in priority as soon as towers get a bit congested. I’m paying more, but I like having unlimited data and 40 or 50 GB of hotspot a month.

The problem is that you don’t get to have a cheaper plan whether or not you own your own phone. Same monthly cost if you get their free phone under lease, or if you bring your own phone.

Did you have it active for 2 years? I’ve never had an issue before. Only done it like twice, though.

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Yep. Or quasi installments. They usually make it where your paying like $20 a month on the phone for two years, but they’re deducting $20 a month off your monthly service at the same time. That way if you try to break contract, you have to pay for the rest of your phone that you still owe.

I’ve had a couple. The issue is that you don’t save any money on their service if you have your own. So it’s basically “you can pay us $70 a month and buy your phone yourself, or you can pay us $70 a month and have this phone under contract for two years that we’ll give you.”

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In the US, almost no one buys their phones outright. They “lease to own”. Anyone whe does buy their phone outright can just buy the unlocked ones.

So I’m not sure what this rule would actually change. You’re already not Carrier locked if you bought your phone. You’re only Carrier locked if you lease it.

The big fuck up was eliminating competition by allowing t mobile to buy sprint. Too many pieces of shit were in charge 2016 to 2020.

It’s that high to employ all the guards and construction and wardens and whatnot. A lot of hands are in that cookie jar.

They’ll just flash the computer to default to be 4th gear upon signal loss instead of 1st gear. Danger problem averted. Cost is only 30 minutes of labor.

That article you linked is utter trash, but it is correct about battery weight of a charged battery…technically…very technically…barely.

Like, a 4,000 mah lithium battery fully charged should weigh about 30 picograms more than when dead.

To put 30 picograms into perspective; a single 5 inch long human hair weighs around 0.04 grams. Well that’s 40,000,000,000 picograms.

Then they’d have to pay them more.

There’s still tons of places that police, firefighters, and EMT’s, like $35k a year starting. Everyone always talks about teachers not making enough, but forgets about the people who show up in 5 minutes in the middle of the night because you called 911 and have no idea what to do and need to get help fast. Firefighters and emts are exploited because of a love of the job and what it means to them. Police are often not of that same track. If you don’t want to just attract the guy who wants to walk around looking for trouble and have a gun, you’ll have to make it worth the money.

There just needs to be a cemented in place ban that can’t be undone for at least 20 years.

There’s nothing being made in the US for batteries because you can’t beat China in price and companies aren’t going to put six billion dollars and 5 tears of construction I to making a battery factory if they don’t believe the ban would last long enough for it to be worth it.

Possibility for private planes, but none for commercial planes. Just imagine a commercial passenger plane or cargo plane that needed a giant amount of electricity and like 12 hours of charging in between every flight.

Then, for safety reasons you’ll need to have two batteries in case one goes bad.