This, ladies & gents, is one reason I don’t have and will never have a cell phone. By the way, Twitter (or X if you prefer) still mandates a cell phone for use of their b/s. If you screw up you have to get verified by a ‘text message,’ whatever the f*&k that is. One can’t get text messages on a common landline. Ditto Walmart, who would not take my money recently online because I could not get a text message to verify who I was. Talk about bloody stupid.
Here’s Ed Snowden telling the facts. This information might not bother some of you, because you are not advocating for the overthrow of an illegitimate regime, you pay all your taxes, and you have not been testing all manner of firearms for over sixty years; but it does bother me. My old buddy J.I.L., who never owned a computer but had military intelligence connections and could match my rather extensive Internet-researched knowledge on most any subject, knew many decades ago the government was keeping track of every single telephone call made by any and all American citizens. Listen to Ed: