Russia was bombing civilian targets from the start.

That is about the most generic statement possible, with nearly zero knowledge of what I’m doing on yours.

So… What problem? Feel free to enlighten me.

Eh, I’d say mostly.

I have one right now that looks at data and says “Hey, this is weird, here are related things that are different when this weird thing happened. Seems like that may be the cause.”

Which is pretty well within what they are good at, especially if you are doing the training yourself.

A dumb phone and a feature phone are not the same thing, and a feature phone may connect to the internet.

I still think that’s why Vance thinks Haitians are eating cats.

The US doesn’t want that either.

Be quiet, resident of “Further North Dakota”.

I’d prefer no one change their minds. Getting it over with is good enough for me.

Which is why dumb phones and feature phones aren’t common anymore, and the people choosing them are specifically choosing it to avoid being available via WhatsApp/Signal/Slack/Discord/Teams/whatever else.

My FIL for example has a clamshell feature phone, because he doesn’t want to be reached except by phone or SMS. He doesn’t want to read email or get messages on his phone, he wants to restrict that to when he’s in front of his computer.

So yes, you would not be able to use messaging clients on a dumb phone, that’s the idea behind their use today.

Racism, basically.

Vance told an easily disproved lie about Haitian migrants eating cats, which the racists that will vote for him like hearing because they are weird and hateful.

But if I had to bet, he heard someone say Haitians are good at eating another word for cats, and since that’s not an option for that sofa cushion pushin’, he was confused.

…so you just made it up then.

No, the phone industry made up these terms.

No one has done that. The only comments I’m downvoting are the ones spreading disinformation.

So how I read that is “Anything that isn’t what I want it to say is disinformation”.

Well, enjoy your day buddy, my participation in this thread is over. Its a neat feature phone, and that’s where I’ll be leaving that.

Several decades of phone technology as it developed…

Edit: and why are you just down voting everyone replying providing you with info?

While I get your opinion, these things have definitions. Here’s a super simple version:

• A dumb phone does not connect to the internet. Its a phone. Just a dumb device.
• A feature phone is what you’re referring to here, where it may connect to the internet, but isn’t part of some larger ecosystem and is certainly not an app-first approach. Its a phone first, ancillary features are a bonus.
• Smartphones are your android and iOS devices, which connect to the internet, is part of a large ecosystem of applications, is an internet first oriented device, etc.

So yes, this is a feature phone from what I’ve read of the translation.

I played games on channel 3.

I installed dos on an IBM model 30 286 with a stack of 3.5" floppies.

The apple 2e’s in school were great for playing games.

The Mets had a good years playing baseball when I was little.

as long as you are mentally sound and store your guns safely

Yeah, that’s a pretty substantial improvement to what we have in the US.

Perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of good.

It will take a lot longer to get proper gun control in place in the US. We’ve already got the GOP and their “Well it sucks, but too bad, move on” rhetoric going.

There is no reason not to minimize risk during the time it will take, even to get to where we we were 20 years ago.

Juuuust about ideal, definitely.

Looks like this is what they have - https://www.centegix.com/crisisalert/

I’m all for gun control. As in, significant reforms, nationwide reforms. Real background checks. Limits on the types of guns. Insurance requirements. Safety training requirements. The list can keep on going…

That said, I’d still want an emergency alert system in schools. There are other threats and other situations where it could be needed, there is nothing wrong with having both.

Just wanted to mention, more information has come out.

The investigation was in May 2023. His dad bought him the gun used to kill two children and two teachers as a Christmas present, in 2023. After the visit from the FBI.

His dad has now been arrested as well.