• theneverfox@pawb.social
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    7 days ago

    Everyone. Damn near everyone has a phone at this point, Facebook even handed them out to keep the user numbers growing at one point

    People who live in dirt floor huts walk to churches or other gathering places to charge them. The cheapest smart phones are essentially worthless, so there’s no point stealing or selling them.

    And cell service isn’t all that expensive to run, so it’s priced to what people will pay

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        6 days ago

        Sure thing, and for the record I’m a primary source. I’ve seen this directly, going back more than a decade

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          6 days ago

          I’ve read recently that llms are starting to effect how recently discovered tribal people operate and it’s fucking up there social structures, that was interesting to