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0 pointsdotancohen2y ago0 comments

And buy a very expensive tracking device with frequent security issues?

I am lucky to live in a country in which a large religious population eschews the smartphone, so saying "I don't have one" is acceptable and common here. But I have colleagues who tell me that they are expected to have a smartphone from everything to banks to government services to simple small restaurants.

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nonrandomstring2y ago

Was also thinking, cool, where is this place, and how do I sign up?

But then I remembered, I already belong to a religion that makes the ownership of a smartphine quite unconscionable to me.

Indeed I wrote about how even a religious objection is unnecessary when there's a knock-down argument on the grounds of what is merely patently unethical.

> are expected to

I find these "expectations" come from those who didn't read Dickens.

[0] https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/06/Microsoft_is_Not_a...

RugnirViking2y ago

interesting. Where is that? I would like to know more

dotancohenOP2y ago

I live in Israel. Most of the ultra religious do not own a smartphone.

risfriend2y ago

And where is this?

dotancohenOP2y ago

I live in Israel. Most of the ultra religious do not own a smartphone.

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nonrandomstring2y ago

Was also thinking, cool, where is this place, and how do I sign up?

But then I remembered, I already belong to a religion that makes the ownership of a smartphine quite unconscionable to me.

Indeed I wrote about how even a religious objection is unnecessary when there's a knock-down argument on the grounds of what is merely patently unethical.

> are expected to

I find these "expectations" come from those who didn't read Dickens.

[0] https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/06/Microsoft_is_Not_a...

RugnirViking2y ago

interesting. Where is that? I would like to know more

dotancohenOP2y ago

I live in Israel. Most of the ultra religious do not own a smartphone.

risfriend2y ago

And where is this?

dotancohenOP2y ago

I live in Israel. Most of the ultra religious do not own a smartphone.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse