Watch next year’s models have LTE modems…for your convenience of course

That’s actually like $600,000 per person

And a 100,000 watt shortwave radio transmitter

Ireland isn’t in Europe? You’re about as well informed geographically as you are economically 😂

And then the adherents fought over the means and meaning, and everybody else threw their hands up

ML anxious attachment style. Banning people for comments they make on other instances is some weeeird little dog behavior.

Should be abolished

Probably because most other countries aren’t under the justified suspicion that China is for directly repressing speech it doesn’t like. It’s a conspiracy theory but it’s not at all absurd, it is plainly the most reasonable explanation for what is happening.

Yeah sometimes things don’t happen until they do, shocking

This isn’t people being unaccounted for for a few minutes. It’s people who normally doesn’t do things for sensationalism saying something controversial and then going missing, and this happening in a pattern in one country in particular.

Yes by definition it’s a conspiracy theory, but these people aren’t providing a detailed accounting of the time they were away. That should rightly raise questions, and international media is absolutely ethically in the right in wondering publicly about their wellbeing.

Didn’t Ukraine give up it’s nuclear armaments by treaty with Russia in exchange for Russia acknowledging its sovereignty?

People in China say something the government doesn’t like and aren’t heard from at all for a while, you really think they can say that something bad happened to them when they reappear?

Lol he does look like that fucking bear

Yeah I realize that now after doing more research

Did a little digging and it appears the Hezbollah pages were POCSAG/FLEX which does indeed appear to be one-way, so that’s very possibly a reason why they were picked

How do you figure? A pager is just a way dumber phone, but it’s still a client on a cellular network like any other.

I don’t recommend it, but it can definitely give you a perspective of the kind of shit people have to put up with

It might be plenty, depending on your emergency. But you never know when you might be asked to care for an ill family member, suffer a health setback yourself, or end up out of work in a soft labor market - which we are currently in. It’s a risk based decision, but as price-to-earnings of potential investments is currently incredibly high (suggesting unrealistically high future return expectations), I would hedge on the side of more savings rather than earlier investment.

Save up an emergency fund. If you can manage to keep six months to a year’s worth of expenses in a savings account, it will give you a huge psychological cushion in rough times. Beyond that, save and invest as early as you can.

Learn how to do basic maintenance on a bicycle, car, motorcycle or whatever else in your life that you depend on. That knowledge and experience will pay dividends the rest of your life.

Mavis Beacon would cry if she were around to see this