• Geodad@lemm.ee
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    21 hours ago

    IMO, the reason is because scientists haven’t found a way to punch someone in their face over the internet yet.

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      18 hours ago

      I’ve long thought that phones needed a taze button. Every telephone in the world should have the power to deliver a high power electric shock to the user, and the phone network should only allow the callee to taze the caller. So if you call someone, the person you have called can taze you.

      I don’t see any problem with the telephone network that can’t be solved by putting a 30,000 volt potential across the caller’s jaw. Make it work on call bots too, if a computer automatically calls you and you don’t want it to, put Shearon Harris on the line. Modern problems require 2nd Amendment solutions, and if you elect me as your president in 2028 it is these policies that I shall energetically enact.

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        15 hours ago

        I like to carry an air horn for when scammers and other nuisances call.

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              8 hours ago

              Dang! Some decent hardware then! How bout your own hearing? Getting tinnitus yet? What level of hearing protection are you using?

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                7 hours ago

                I’m an old Army veteran, I’ve had tinnitus for years. I’m using a Pixel.

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                  6 hours ago

                  Sorry, pardon?

                  Never even fiddled around with someone else’s Pixel, how do you like it?
                  Clearly it deals with being blasted by an air horn 3-15+ times a day, other than robust mics how is the build quality?

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                    5 hours ago

                    I’m using GrapheneOS, so I can’t speak for the stock spyware that Google puts in. I’m sure that’s horrible.

                    It’s good quality hardware for sure.