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> For anyone telling to use VPN, yeah, many people are used to using VPN because of these blocks

not to mention, imagine learning to setup a VPN (Beacuse your life depends on it) while you're buried under rubble..



Exactly. Imagine a government willfully ordering ISPs to block access to Twitter where people under wreckage are trying to reach for help using social media.


There's a very dark WikiHow article in the works here, or a SNL sketch


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"it's not too hard to do something you have no knowledge about, while being in shock and survival mode from extreme trauma both physical and mental"

use critical thinking for like 2 seconds


Radio signals do not penetrate through stone or concrete well which causes increased battery drain. You also have the issue of perhaps diminishing oxygen and cognitive impairment caused by shock and crush trauma.

It would be better for battery life for people to just text a friend or family member and say "crushed under tons of stone at home, please send help". Nobody is going to do an AMA on Twitter while buried using up the precious battery life for retweets and likes.


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Seek help.


Indeed, and less tech savvy people could just hand their phone to any teenager crushed nearby to do it for them.


Let them eat cake.

How I miss n gate.


Post reads surprisingly like an auto generated ad for NordVPN


One of the new business models enabled by AI in the next decade would work by installing a plug-in into your browser that lets ChatGPT insert organic advertisements into your post when it detects the opportunity, and you get paid depending on what the advertisers have bid and the site you are posting on.




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