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EL CHEAPO COMMUNICATION for CULTURAL CREATIVES

EL CHEAPO COMMUNICATION for CULTURAL CREATIVES

If you haven’t heard of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP), you may want to check it out. One of my dear buddies was about to throw out his iPhone 6S Plus because it stopped working correctly and gave him a lot of hassles. Being a tinkerer myself I implored him to give it to me instead which he gladly did since it would keep another electronic device and its toxic components out of the landfill. Bleeding edge technology is super cheap in consumer societies.

I strolled over to YouTube University, performed a quick search on this particular model and its symptoms and arrived at a solution. Since the fix needed special tools I strolled over to Amazon mall and spent $6.00 delivered on the special tool set which would accomplish the repair. Note: the man used a small sim card to place in the phone but any similarly sized, non-conductive piece of material will work just as well. (Nano SIM= 8.8 x 12.3 x 0.67 mm) Voila! Repair complete.

OK, back over to YouTube University for instructions on how to reset the iPhone to factory installed condition. Next, since I have two Magic Jack accounts (https://www.magicjack.com/) and their little hardware component which plugs into an Internet router I simply downloaded and installed the free Magicjack apps for my refurbished iPhone and my Android Samsung smart phones. I still have three years of service on each phone having purchased 5 year service plans at $100 for each phone. That’s $200 total for five years of service for two separate phone numbers and the call quality exceeds most land line connections. (It’s a little more at today’s price) OK, while at YouTube I finished off the iPhone preparations for use since Microsoft and Apple are notorious for customer privacy violations. I don’t need a big brother looking over my shoulder at everything I do:

The downside is that I can’t call from anywhere at any time so you won’t find me engaging in excessive screen time. Fine with me since I enjoy my privacy and am not subject to corporate tracking and surveillance and overall intrusiveness. Those tricks just won’t work on me anymore. All we need is wifi access and all of the phone’s installed apps I need work just fine. When I’ve finished relocating to the African continent I’ll be able to send and receive unlimited calling and texting to North America and may opt for one of their international calling plans to boot. Since your cell phone typically only has to send and receive wifi data 100 feet or less instead of several miles, it will consume dramatically less power and greatly extend battery life OR you can simply leave it plugged into the charger and withou need for any battery power.

Disclaimer: Magic Jack and Apple haven’t given me a penny. I just want to let you know that the resourcefulness I’ve inherited from my ancestors who were brought to America in chains has paid off in more ways than I can mention here.

INVENTION SCHOOL’S SIGNATURE SERIES

The technological progress of Africa and its diasporans was dramatically broken beginning with slavery and later through its colonization by European powers. With the arrival of the 21st century, a new era of an awakened Africa has dawned. In the graphic novel series “Invention School”, curious young African students explore their creative potential for solving everyday problems through a subset of engineering skills under the watchful and loving guidance of an expatriate African American engineering professor. Watch this uplifting graphic novel series. If you find the series and its content useful, please share widely.

GORGING YOUR LEARNING APPETITE

Powerful media giants continue feeding us steady diets of stories, games, music, and images of exploitation, mayhem, helplessness, victimization, sexism, murder, adultery, preposterous wealth, torture, drugs, deceit, vampires, zombies, thuggery, glorified gangsterism, demonic spirits, horror, war, despair, brutality, crime, vengeance, sex, addiction, psychic disorders, occultism, savagery, lust, hate, prejudicial beauty/virtue standards, and stale mind-numbing escapism. Never underestimate the power of the subliminal messaging in this media content to accustom your subconscious to your further takeover and control. The groundwork is being laid and we are being deliberately manipulated for easier subjugation. The “collusion” between Hollywood and complicit agencies like the CIA is clear. Hollywood has played a little known role as a propaganda machine for the US national security apparatus for many years. Carefully look at the proportion (you’ll be shocked) of currently available movie fare that embodies these themes rather than embodying themes that uplift, transform, and inspire. “Just coincidence”, you say? After a steady diet of this psychic fare (garbage in, garbage out), what normal person would ever be in a position or mindset to connect and collaboratively formulate creative solutions and healing to man-made problems that beset humanity, earth lifeforms, and Mother Earth herself? These incapacitating but profitable offerings by these media giants stifle any visions of progress and action we might otherwise take to deliver ourselves out of the quagmires our modern societies have created that affect the entire world. Why do these companies market and sell so much of this awful, depraved content?? Could it be: