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I'd guess it will go the other way, but probably that's just wishful thinking. This year has demonstrated quite well I think that old saying "If you trade free

I'd guess it will go the other way, but probably that's just wishful thinking. This year has demonstrated quite well I think that old saying "If you trade freedom for safety, you get neither" But I guess I sort of despise my phone to begin with. For years I had a dumb phone, but they started turning off the towers. So now I have a smartphone but I never look at it and forget to take it with me most of the time when I leave the house. I'd happily downgrade back to a dumb phone if they made any in the old candy bar style. As it is, my desire to have a dumb phone is weaker than my desire not to have a flip phone.

postingawayonhn 6y ago
There's tons of 4G 'dumb phones' available.
- war1025 6y ago
  You say that, but attempting to get one that is compatible with Verizon's network is quite challenging, or at least it was a year or two ago when I looked.
  - thekyle 6y ago
    Why don't you switch to another network?
    - war1025 6y ago
      Because my family is on Verizon and we have a family plan. And also they have the best coverage for the parts of the US we end up in.
  - rascul 6y ago
    https://www.verizon.com/basic-phones/ https://www.verizon.com/basic-phones/
    - war1025 6y ago
      Except I said I don't want a flip phone, and all but one of those is a flip phone, and the other is some weird "ruggedized" model
jkachmar 6y ago
Small point to make regarding your quote, since I see it come up very frequently in these sorts of conversations. > It is a quotation that defends the authority of a legislature to govern in the interests of collective security. It means, in context, not quite the opposite of what it's almost always quoted as saying but much closer to the opposite than to the thing that people think it means. Source: https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous-liberty-safety-quote-lost-its-context-in-21st-century https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...

postingawayonhn 6y ago

There's tons of 4G 'dumb phones' available.

war1025 6y ago
You say that, but attempting to get one that is compatible with Verizon's network is quite challenging, or at least it was a year or two ago when I looked.
- thekyle 6y ago
  Why don't you switch to another network?
  - war1025 6y ago
    Because my family is on Verizon and we have a family plan. And also they have the best coverage for the parts of the US we end up in.
- rascul 6y ago
  https://www.verizon.com/basic-phones/ https://www.verizon.com/basic-phones/
  - war1025 6y ago
    Except I said I don't want a flip phone, and all but one of those is a flip phone, and the other is some weird "ruggedized" model

jkachmar 6y ago

Small point to make regarding your quote, since I see it come up very frequently in these sorts of conversations. > It is a quotation that defends the authority of a legislature to govern in the interests of collective security. It means, in context, not quite the opposite of what it's almost always quoted as saying but much closer to the opposite than to the thing that people think it means. Source: https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous-liberty-safety-quote-lost-its-context-in-21st-century https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...