No. The continued atrocities (rounding up and disappearing people they don’t like, Venezuela (then Greenland and Canada), and cementing themselves in power are the primary goals; distracting from the Epstein files happens as a natural side effect without much extra effort, especially since their lackey supporters (entire repub party, oligarchs, corporate & social media, etc) are busy doing that work for them.

FediFollows has a list of hand-curated accounts you can search or browse by category: https://fedi.directory/

Browsing your instance’s local timeline or the global timeline will give you plenty of posts to read.

Remember that you can also follow hashtags for things you’re interested in, so you’ll get posts that contain those hashtags in your Home timeline. That’s a good way to find people with similar interests. (when you click on a hashtag to browse, you’ll see a “Follow this hashtag” button)

There’s also FediGroups.social, a server where there are accounts for interest groups that you follow just like you would any other account. When you post on the topic of interest, you mention the group account and it will automatically boost the post so that it appears in the timeline of everyone else who follows that group account–and vice versa, you’ll see the posts from others who mention the group.

I’d start with just following some hashtags and accounts you find on FediFollows, then once you start seeing their posts and the replies, you’ll find more people.

I remember we were taught a segment on how to use an abacus and how they worked, because it demonstrated certain mathematical principles. Of course I don’t remember now how to use one, but I’m sure that visual demonstration of the mathematical concepts helped us as we were learning math. In the same way, learning about analog clocks at a young age would probably help with learning about geometry/trigonometry, angles and degrees, arcs, etc.

As atropa says, make sure it specifies that it’s a noiseless clock. Many of them don’t say if they are on the package, so better to order one online that specifies it’s “noiseless” in the description.

Good warning. Analog clocks that make noise drive me nuts. Search for “noiseless analog clock” and be sure it says that in the description before buying.

I never heard that one, but in my family if we weren’t wearing a wristwatch and someone asked the time, we’d look at our wrist and say, “It’s two hairs past the freckle.” :) Those were the days.

It would just depend on how often you actually use them, it’s just familiarity. If you had one in your house/classroom/office that you looked at whenever you wanted to know the time (as it used to be before digital), it would take only a quick glance. Your brain recognizes the shapes, just like it recognizes words in your native language immediately without figuring out the individual letters.

The second factor is that you don’t get to be a billionaire if you’re not a sociopath.

I think it’s your second factor that’s most relevant.

The little (shorter) hand points to the hour, the big (longer) hand points to the minutes. That’s pretty much it. And of course the hands move clockwise.

edit: I should also note that for reading the hour, the number the hour hand points to is the number of the hour, but for reading the minutes, each number counts as 5 minutes. There are usually dots between the numbers–each dot is 1 minute. So between the 12 and the 1 is 5 minutes, 1 to 2 is 5 more minutes, so the minute hand pointing to the 2 means 10 minutes after the hour.

It takes just a few minutes to learn how to read an analog clock. Once you’ve got the idea, you’ll be slow deciphering the time at first, but once you start doing it, very quickly you’ll be reading it immediately with just a glance.

I see analog clocks all over the place, especially waiting rooms and public buildings, and I have a very nice pretty one in my house. I think the people saying they’re not being used anymore just aren’t noticing them, they’re just background scenery to them and don’t enter their consciousness.

No one should perform there again until the abomination of that name on the building has been removed.

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If you can’t contribute anything but only take take take, then get the fuck out of the whole country while you’re at it. And stay out!

Many flip phones also work as MP3 players (some better than others) so those 2 could be combined in one device, depending on the features you want.

Unfortunately spam texts and calls are the bane of having any kind of phone. :( “Do not disturb” settings that allow contacts only can help but don’t fully solve the problem.

Thanks :)

Oh, I guess it could be a combination of that and the dystopian novel.

Why that date? Is it from the book 1984?

No, I’m not saying anything about what we need, just providing some historical context around what brought feudalism to an end – and replaced it with capitalism.

OK? I was responding to your original statement “Find me one with an unlimited hotspot plan, and I’ll switch tomorrow.” since that made it sound like you didn’t have any other criteria.