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Interview: Solution Series: RV Living and Traveling Tips with Thom and Robin Walker

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  1. RV living segment is my next listen. I’m actually going slightly different by converting a retired lobster boat into a hybrid houseboat/floating shop that i can use to sell produce and products around our region. (I’m on an island)

    My big question is moving around jurisdictions. Within Canada is pretty easy via water, but I’m curious about other regions.

    Cheers

  2. Howdy. A comment regarding the rise in dumbphone sales.

    I would add a note or two of caution.

    First, it is my experience that whenever a story with nearly identical text appears in a myriad of mainstream places, all at the same time, that story is approved, and thus useful to the narrative in some way.

    Second, a closer look at the rise in sales doesn’t clearly indicate that Gen Z is rejecting smart tech. The following quote from one of the articles highlights that battery, durability, and affordability are the primary driving factors in demand, combined with the “cool factor” of being used by celebs.

    Article – “Finally, apart from the way feature phones allow people to go back to simpler mobile phone uses, there are three other appealing factors that these phones have. The first is that, unlike smartphones where battery life is a concern thanks mainly to apps running in the background, dumbphone battery life is generally longer. Secondly, it is hard to deny that a dumbphone is usually more durable. In the hopefully rare situation where one drops them, they are hard to break. The third one is simple: feature phones are cheaper than smartphones. One won’t break the bank upgrading or replacing phones when needed. ”

    The new dumbphones are not necessarily unplugged from the surveillance grid. They just have less features or apps, in exchange for lower cost etc.

    Your friends who are getting the threats from their cell phone providers are likely using actual old dumbphones, which don’t have current operating systems, or the bandwidth to run on current networks. The new “dumbphones” are actually not that dumb. ?

    I have a teenage son and these kids are savvy and tech loaded. They have many ways to interact, and are fair more willing to ditch a piece or style of tech then us older folks. They are digital natives, and they are inheriting this new digital world. How they adapt will be interesting.

    1. A small phone that looks like a classic dumbphone, but is still running Android, is just a smartphone with higher profit margin, comparable surveillance and less features/value for users.

      Finland’s Nokia (Symbian/Meego) and Canada’s RIM (Blackberry OS) both made their share of mistakes and corporate missteps, but there was no reason for their billion-dollar businesses to disappear entirely. At least they could have retreated into expensive niches like keyboard phones.

      One defensive approach is to use the dumbphone as an untrusted LTE+WiFi hotspot that is always assumed compromised. Connect to it from a Wi-Fi only iOS tablet or iPod touch, which has a VPN and uses an encrypted messenger like Signal or Wire. Enable iOS Lockdown mode. That closes off many attack surfaces and avoids a SIM (with government identity tracking) on the device from which messages are sent. The SIM-carrying phone becomes an untrusted pipe.

      1. Too complicated. That’s why I guess people want a ‘smart’ phone.’ Isn’t there an option with all of these features that I don’t have to know about? People are force to learn things they just don’t want to learn. Plus, as the population ages this will be futile. I saw it with my mother. She could use cell / smart phones just fine, until she couldn’t.

        1. Anyone who “wants a phone” is someone who “wants to play electronic warfare”. Electronic warfare reality is complicated. The House usually wins.

          This lesson can be learned cheaply, or at great cost in time by chasing phone fairy tales and being disappointed after burning $$ on vendor narratives.

          The simple option is a desktop computer and printer for daily schedules. Use paper. Carry no phone, or carry a phone that is turned off in a faraday bag, for emergencies only.

          1. Yes, too complicated for me. I like paper. I like to write! With fountain pens! I like pencils! I like to draw! I like the sensory experience. I don’t know why we have computers! They suck!

  3. Doctors and professors are already being replaced by algorithms and AI. That was always the plan. Online learning. Nanotech based “health care”.

    First, you get folks to lose faith in them because of Problem A, then you introduce Solution B, the reliable, honest, infinitely better tech based blah blah blah. Same for democracy.

    Baked into the technocracy cake. ?

  4. In the discussion on J&J ‘s legal battle with buyers being knowingly poisoned, I appreciated the conversation going into a positive for the U.S. Court system. While many things seem hopeless, there are glimmers of justice still occurring. On the same note of being chronically poisoned, it was announced that former Nevada City Mayor and recent CA governor candidate Reinette Senum is partnering up with a legal team including Deanna Pollard and evidence professors to go against Aerosol Spraying (chem trails) in the United States. This is long overdue. It applies to not just buyers of a product but to the soil, water, air, food, and humans and animals’ very own neurological system. May it bring the truth to a long-standing issue across the globe and clear our skies once and for all.

    1. Highly recommend Dane Wigington’s work…Geoengineeringwatch.org… for a richly detailed history and the most current information re that subject. Believe Catherine has appeared there in the past.

      1. Yes, I am aware of him and his seemingly endless amount of energy in contribution to the earths well being! Thanks for the reminder!

  5. In the discussion on Artificial Intelligence, John mentions the movie “The Terminator”. While good, I think a better reference would be the 1960’s movie “Colossus: The Forbin Project”. In it, a master computer in the U.S., Colossus, joins with a master computer in Russia, Guardian, which then dictates how the world will be run, including its creator, Dr. Forbin. Eyes and ears everywhere. Often times when I am on the internet, especially when I see references to Siri and Alexa, I remember the famous line from Colossus in the movie, “this is the voice of computer control”. While a bit far-fetched in 1968 when I was a kid, it is much more relevant today. And, yes, it is available on DVD because I borrowed it from my local public library.

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