No phones, period. The phone will still send out signals, just that it won’t be allowed service onto networks without the SIM card. They can still trace the phone to the point it turned on and since you used it previously as a personal phone there’s probably records they can pull on it from your carrier at the time. They can probably trace it to you via the various numbers tied specifically to that phone. As much of a PITA it is, getting a small digital camera is the way to go as long as it doesn’t do any connectivity. Just be sure to scrub the meta data on all pictures if you share them or post them online.

Part of what to take away from this, do not go to organized events with your phone, leave it at home. They can easily and readily track you with it on or off.

They’ll claim self defense like Shittenhouse but few people realize rule 1 of self defense. Don’t put yourself in harm’s way.

Aren’t EVs bad in extreme weather areas, be it too hot or too cold? Unless those battery packs have hella insulation or cooling won’t they have longevity problems?

Gallons of bleach followed by gallons of ammonia down them. That or a tire fire near the inlets.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Most centrists I have interacted with have the same thought, I don’t care as long as I’m not affected by it. As long as the sense of order is maintained they will let babies starve, houses burn, and deforest our planet to maintain that stability. So you must excuse those of us on the left who have interacted with people more conservative to us for so long. We’re tired of the bullshit and we’re not going to let you live it down anymore. I have heard people talk about how centrists/moderates, whatever term you use to describe them, are the swing voters. From my personal experience in the USA with the moderate, the moderate fucking sucks.

If the moderate is who truly votes in presidents then they have failed us multiple times now with Trump. Thoroughly, absolutely. I don’t know how you can live a life seeing the horrors perpetuated for money and power to still think our system okay. If you’re not swayed by the plight of the fact we can feed everyone on the Earth, we just cannot satisfy the gluttony of the wealthy to do so. Of maintaining order while a group of people who had no choice in their birth are subjugated, beaten, rounded up and jailed just for existing, and lynched for existing. If you look at everything wrong in this world and aren’t galvanized away from moderation and right wing politics, then you’re lost.

So hating a hateful ideology and people who hold that ideology is bigotry. Damn, you need to see a chiropractor, you just twisted yourself in knots for that poor argument.