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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Aside from the Rotary Un-Phone, there are pretty much no dumb phones anymore. Those that market themselves as dumb are just reskinned full-fat platforms.

    Even almost all flip phones are smart phones with a dumb skin, as they run either Android or KaiOS.

    The main reason why I would switch is for device security - a true dumb phone OS that operates purely out of the ROM and has no ability to install anything that could survive a reboot.

    And for something that primitive, it would be a flip phone on par with the Motorola StarTac. Simple black-on-green screen, low-res display, with a calendar and address book as the only non-phone, non-SMS functionality.









  • Nineteen people died on the ground.

    Technically 260 people died on the ground. Because that is where the plane crashed.

    However, nineteen people on the ground died.

    There is a critical difference in that word order. The former includes everyone who had reached the ground by the time they died, the latter only includes those who were on the ground to begin with, and not those who were on the plane.

    Or in other words, the first phrasing highlights destination, the second highlights source. Everyone died on the ground after the plane impacted it, but only 19 were already on the ground when the impact killed them.

    The placement of the word “died” is what makes all the difference.

    Isn’t English fun?