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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • One thing people forget is long distance fees. Cell phones basically did away with long distance fees, and we’re better for that. However, landlines have some notable benefits:

    • self-powered, you could call in a power outage
    • high fidelity, yeah it was bandpass filtered, but everything in that filter made it through
    • freedom of usage, it was hard-fought but you could plug anything into your phone line, from more phones to answering machines to computer modems. There was a whole market around “dumb shit you plugged into your phone line” products

    We’re still way better overall with cell phones, but something was lost to get them.





  • i want to close the app and go on with my day

    That’s exactly the “problem” being portrayed here, the expected/ideal mode of interaction with social media is compulsive and perpetual. It’s the best way to maximize advertisement exposure. I’m not opposed to the slot machine of content, but it’s absolutely reasonable to expect users to want to go on with their day.