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2023-07-03 
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Arne Duncan: Biden's Unilateral Loan Transfer Justified Because the Country Is %u2018Struggling' %u2018Badly'
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Posted by Fred 2023-07-03 || || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 For any GenZ reading the Burg, that is a phone receiver she has next to her ear and the cord from it attaches to dialing device which, in turn, is attached to another wire that leads to the wall.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-07-03 08:29||   2023-07-03 08:29|| Front Page Top

#2 I love the video where teenagers are asked to make a call. One kid is pushing his finger into the number holes as hard as he can and his jaw unhinges when the older guy moves his hand away and starts dialing.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-03 08:39||   2023-07-03 08:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Had to explain what "copper to the home" and POTS were to a neighbor the other day.
Posted by Snoluting Thaing6390 2023-07-03 08:46||   2023-07-03 08:46|| Front Page Top

#4 For any GenZ reading the Burg...this is early distributed signal processing.

"Hello, this is your future calling.
Are you interested in solar?"
Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-03 09:15||   2023-07-03 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 "We're calling about your car's extended warranty"
Posted by Frank G 2023-07-03 09:38||   2023-07-03 09:38|| Front Page Top

#6  For any GenZ reading the Burg, that is a phone receiver she has next to her ear and the cord from it attaches to dialing device which, in turn, is attached to another wire that leads to the wall.

Yes and the wire in the wall goes outside to a telephone pole with a whole lot of other wires going all over the world. Don't forget the telephone poles.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-07-03 12:00||   2023-07-03 12:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Ah, yes. Infrastructure. Whenever I meet a self-described anarchist, I ask, "DO you use the toilet?" That always gets a confused look, so I repeat, "Do you use the toilet?" "Well, um, yeah..." "Do you flush it?" "Yeah." "How do you suppose that works?"
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-03 15:22||   2023-07-03 15:22|| Front Page Top

#8 How many people do you think have no idea at all what goes on when they use their cell phone for anything?
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-03 15:24||   2023-07-03 15:24|| Front Page Top

#9 ..about as many as understand what actually goes on when they flip the light switch.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-07-03 16:18||   2023-07-03 16:18|| Front Page Top

#10 And food comes from stores.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-03 16:40||   2023-07-03 16:40|| Front Page Top

#11 M. Murcek, which is why we don't need farms and ranches, which just generate too much CO2. People will do just fine, because they can always go to a store to get food./sarcasm
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2023-07-03 18:56||   2023-07-03 18:56|| Front Page Top

#12 When the SHTF, "store" will be any collection of usable goods the current owner can't hold onto when better armed foragers arrive.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-03 19:40||   2023-07-03 19:40|| Front Page Top

#13 She was very busy for many decades.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-03 19:41||   2023-07-03 19:41|| Front Page Top

#14 I loved the strange woman she played in the original Manchurian Candidate.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-03 19:42||   2023-07-03 19:42|| Front Page Top

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