Youtube comments of Misty Culous (@mistyculous9644).

  1. Maybe your dad experienced the same issues you're struggling with and he only had the ineffective strategy of getting angry at himself. Maybe "just do it" worked for him? Delivering a conclusion about what you should do because he doesn't have any idea about the really effective tools you need for a real solution is how minds work to simplify and classify problems. He can only imagine you "only care about gaming" because brains want simple solutions that don't require self-education or extra effort on his part. Although it seems as if parents know it all when you're a kid, parents definitely don't - no requirements to know anything to be a parent... Perhaps a school counselor or another relative could help you? Rather than mentioning ADHD, (which he says is only an excuse) perhaps better to say - I think this youTube video describes what I'm struggling with. I'd like to try some of these solutions - I need understanding from you. Please invest in me.
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  2. I feel the same way - there are advantages to having your "own time."
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  3. ​ @ZionSairin  You must take what you did further to get more than "nothing." Art EDU gives the wrong impression that being an artist with their work sold by a gallery is the only way to succeed as an artist. As a gallery artist, this piece would represent a collection of perhaps twenty pieces similar to it. If you have that many, then you can photograph them and go to a gallery and the gallery will sell them all to you and ask for more - especially recently large non-representational abstract artwork is in demand. The inspired creation of the art itself is only perhaps 25% of the art "business." (As is being an awesome composer is only 20% of the success of being a musician - who have an even harder time succeeding than artists!) One of the cool things about being ADHD multi-talented is you can shape your raw talents to amplify your preferred activities within your own business design. Some of these "business designs" of how to make a living off of what you make are codified - like a franchise. But perhaps the one you prefer isn't, so you need to design it yourself. You must strategically get a benefit from your art, which will be just as creative as the art itself. For instance, someone I know loves the subject of animals - She house-sits and her house-sitters pay her not only for house-sitting but also they buy a portrait of all their pets that she paints for them - she gets a paid place to live AND paid for her art! A drawing can be the first part of many forms. Now that you have this drawing, you can sell it to someone else as a plan for a larger work. Consider it the awesome plan for a much larger work - expand it and make it into a 3D sculpture, a mural on a building, etc. This way the drawing becomes a sales presentation for you to get a huge bunch of $$ upfront, half on completion. It could become a personalized greeting card, a "big business card" that makes you memorable to others. Anyway - now that you've made something you know is valuable - run with it!
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  4. Corruption doesn't need ethics or authorization - only needed is opportunity. Someone needs to make a dramatic movie about the moment where things turn from the innocence of advertising to the seriousness of complete technical political oppression. Problem is - it's all happening RIGHT NOW. A movie would take three years to complete - that will be Too LATE! Rob's channel should be required viewing for all lawmakers who need to get up to speed on this serious threat to this last shred of Constitutional freedoms. Rob - you're sounding the old "WATCHMAN'S RATTLE." Is anyone listening??
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  5. Rob, I appreciate how you continue learning and reporting on it for us! Now I learn how what I thought was my idiosyncratic penchant for learning to type my comments has paid off in privacy! Also the fact that where I live, ANY phone use while in the driver's seat is illegal. Other benefits to non-speech recognition: I would type my comments so I'd remember what I said - my memory is in my fingers. I noticed a loss of memory capacity when I started to forget phone numbers because I was no longer punching on keys when I called. I used to know by heart around 300-400 phone numbers in the past - but now, mostly the numbers are in my contact list, not in my memory.
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  6. you were right to guess it was a phishing attack
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  7. Also, Brazilian culture touches very naturally as part of how the culture functions. (I have been "touch-deprived" even before Covid.) My answer, (for more than a decade) was to include myself in Brazilian dance classes and hang out with the Brazilians socially. They would stay up all night and dance, no alcohol, no drugs just play music and dance. I was in heaven! Around that era, a club owner made me promise to go to Brazil while giving me an album from the band that night, "...because you are like Brazil."
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  8.  @katz6582  You want to make sure your vitamin D3 levels are very high. Get tested for D levels specifically and get them up.
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  9. ​ Victor Yatall  I was surprised to find out that, before electricity, people went to bed at sunset and got up in the middle of the night (11pm-1:30am) for a few hours before returning to bed and sleeping until just before dawn. This "split" sleeping schedule allowed the fire to be stoked, babies to be fed, etc.
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  10. great idea!! But someone would stop paying their bill on the phone you have when they lost or damaged the phone they happen to have. That might work better in a small town where everyone knows everyone else.
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  11.  @robbraxmantech  envy in action - they're afraid you're smarter than they are, LOL
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  12. plus, other "friends" uploading your private details when they upload their contacts!
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  13. Please join us on Brax.me for various answers. Each person has a different "threat model" to deal with in their "OPSEC strategy" of how they want to deal with privacy. Once on Brax.me, search in Blogs: OPSEC. In fact, watch the video from this channel with "OPSEC" in the title (and read it's comments) for a discussion.
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  14. I've also seen sorrow behind fear. But think about it; it would feel better to feel powerful with anger than it does to quake in fear or collapse in sorrow.
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  15. yes, probably it's only a matter of time as the strings of indexing are drawn together...
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  16. yeah - sweet that your boyfriend can do this for you - but perhaps extend that connection to help you find other means to settle yourself that's not necessarily connected to what another person can (or cannot) do for you. An activity such as exercise or something you can do all by yourself - but connect it up with doing the activity with your boyfriend as a tryout.
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  17. What worked for me involving praise coming from others for me to question the motive of the person doing the praising... So much more I value praise coming from someone else who is a complete stranger and thus they have no agenda - this is a pure observation they are offering about myself, without manipulation. I realize that when I cringe from praise delivered by someone I know, I fear that they're doing so because they want me to recognize they're doing something for me that will make me obligated to them. Reversed, one time I complimented a scarf and the person tried to give it to me!! I was shocked and of course I did not accept the gift. But this made me question my own motives when I want to compliment others so I can deliver this motive authentically if the person gets confused... Plus I realized I need to compliment MYSELF more often.
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  18.  @iansullivan9738  yes, finding mentors is a really useful solution
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  19. yes, curiously - if you have an old style "land-line" that's not connected to an Internet connection - those phone lines were legally protected. Don't give up your "land-line" if you have one because no provider is installing them currently.
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  20. Plus, the hardware WiFi reporting isn't triangulating your whereabouts (within six feet) and sending it home to the "Mothership." It still sends, but it goes nowhere after being de-googled...
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  21. Yes, most people imagine the device starts recording when they say the "wake up word" - and not until then. It never occurs to them that the device needs to hear and recognize this "WakeUp word." I have a blind friend who uses these services for a reason - but he isolates the "voice services" away from where he talks on the phone and to other people in person.
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  22. there's a guy who specializes in travel rights named Edward Hasbrouck, who has a site called: papersplease. It is interesting to see what's he's been doing about the "right" to see your own TSA documentation.
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  23.  @bobstringer9809  @Invalid Characters I read that your lack of willingness to learn to be the issue. You obviously never knew Rob when he started out on Periscope.tv - or listened to his featured video on his channel page that explains why he adopted this privacy mission...or watched the rest of the high content on his channel which is really a total course on online privacy for common people. Rob offers high content education - so if you don't want to learn, Rob offers you nothing.
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  24. ...unless you live in an "off grid" type of situation that justifies it in a practical way.
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  25. Thanks for your outline!
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  26. everyone who makes high content videos has it planned out what they're going to say, probably written in notes they can use like a tele-prompter. But yes, Rob KNOWS all this stuff!
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  27. That was weird. How does that business possibly ensure security without a password feature?
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  28. Could you put that information on Brax.me? It's the broadcaster's social network site that's separated from the rest of the Internet - unless you join. Brax has a blog room called: Are You Sheep?
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  29. Researchers who love historical facts are fascinating, thanks
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  30. Gender differences aren't necessarily able to be generalized. Specific people are different, no matter what their gender "training" has been. I like to describe these differences as a "style" preference of being wired a certain way, perhaps from cultural conditioning...rather than a difference between genders.
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  31. Do you have "techniques" to help you remember your dreams? Figured out a way to remember longer dreams back when there were video tapes. I practiced remembering dreams by looking at the last scenes of movies I had previously seen when awake, but didn't remember these movies very well. Watching movie ending scenes allowed me to practice to "reconstruct" the whole movie - because obviously the memory of that movie was in me somewhere. It Then I'd watch the movie to see how I'd done. Doing this today with digital movies has been useful for dream recall now. So I often look at the last few ending scenes when re-watching a movie I've seen previously. By doing this, I've been able to remember almost "movie length" dreams, even dreams that were very non-sequential - which has been really interesting.
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  32. I've made professional teachers and coaches into my mentors - by my actions. The fairy grandmom of coaching told me my approach was something I should write about - so I'm working on a book and a membership website...
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  33. Well, depending on what you do, a de-googled phone CAN be your "Daily Driver." Unless you MUST have paid apps as part of your job. In that case, have a JOB phone and a Brax2 as your private phone. (The Brax2 has a spot for a Second SIM card.) You can start by learning "browser Isolation." That's free and is a Big Factor in protecting your own privacy. Come to Brax.me and learn more there. Binge watch the "Privacy" thread here on this channel for more
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  34. yes, wish there were more courses for younger people on how to recognize propaganda and media manipulations.
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  35.  @Microtherion  yes, same with legal content. Extensive legal content used to be public and was available on the Internet. But now these cases and other legal information has been made restricted. It happened because lawyers sued those who were providing this content as a public service. Obviously, lawyers have a vested interest in forcing those people who were providing legal content to stop...so the lawyers can be paid to do so. Lawyers now have a monopoly on a great deal more of legal content - because they can sue content providers and eliminated this content.
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  36. An old friend admitted to me that he never saw green in a sunset previously to me pointing it out to him one time. Now he sees greens all the time in sunsets!
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  37.  @siwiecministro1994  I have the G7 (64gig) and I can verify that it allows 2 Simcards (micro)
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  38. Someone who was your friend that you were with was being recorded who didn't take as many measures to protect themselves as you did. You were correlated as being close enough to them. Freaky, isn't it?
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  39. On Rob's channel page, he's got an older video about using a hot spot and a VOIP software to connect a phone call through Wifi. Then your smart phone is "once removed" and doesn't have to use it's SIM to make calls. (The Hot Spot contains the SIM instead, which doesn't have all that info that a Smartfone contains.) Rob's suggestion about using a hot spot is a bit much to carry around and not so convenient - but it's much more private.
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  40. Changing oneself is really fun, actually. Or that's how I redefined it that helped me. There's always objections and conditions to how things "turn out," depending on when you do the evaluating... but this final state can be extended to polishing the end result over time with making a final judgment about relative "success." Also, helped me to define what is the "look of approval" in others. Then I was able to notice it. I wasn't receiving acknowledgment from people, even when they were delivering it to me - I couldn't read those acknowledgment expressions on people's body language and faces. As I got better at "body reading," I felt as if I belonged and also I was able to recognize friendship and love. Realize that expectations are a self-created trap. Question these expectations, that worked for me. Get a dog who looks at you with unconditional love? Or work with animals walking them at a shelter without the commitment of having your own pet? Working with people who are learning ESL was also a really positive experience...
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  41. Rob, we need a program that detects and hopefully disables Ring (recorders on porches) as we walk into a house for a visit.
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  42. I would be taking notes for a different reason than you imagine. When someone says things, I often find my faster thoughts and inspirations wanting to interrupt. I'm taking notes while the other person is talking so I don't have to interrupt and lose what I wanted to ask or what comment I wanted to make. Taking notes leaves me free to listen instead of repeating to myself what I might want to say when the person is finished speaking.
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  43. Yes, many of us with de-googled phones have a "Normie" phone for 2FA and those apps that will not run on the degoogled phone - with NO contacts on it and we don't give out that number to anyone to call us on it.
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  44. Getting to know what your VPN provider does with your information takes research. I like BytzVPN's reputation. BytzVPN is always updating its servers. So those of us who use it,(without the BraxRouter) must manually connect to different locations on a routine basis. But the BraxRouter, all you need to do to update is to turn it off and on again & it uploads the updates automatically. Much easier.
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  45.  @SilverKnight16  I think this word "camaraderie" that came to your mind matches the best. What came to my mind in Spanish was: Afficionado
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  46. WiFi triangulation is embedded in the hardware. This "promiscuous WIFI" is searching for open WiFi signals whether the info is coming to YOU or not. It cannot be turned off, the WiFi information on location is going to Apple no matter what your own "setting" is set at.
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  47. Rob doesn't have records of who bought his phone if the person paid with a secure means, such as a Postal money order, etc. He's only got the possibly fingerprinted associated user name on Brax.me - which could be anyone. Rob also has in place with us the notification that we can ask him this question at any time. If he has been limited by a "gag order" not to say, then he's agreed with all of us beforehand that he will not reply. Otherwise, we can trust him to deny it has happened. But for instance, his VPN has no logs so there's nothing for the three letter agencies to get from him. My biggest question always has been what will happen to Rob (as it eventually must) when all of these "workarounds" stop working and there is no possibility of privacy at all?
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  48. Ironic how your comment attracted a scammer who has left the same comment for many here...
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  49.  @maccagrabme  I keep learning new programs and apps...
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  50. Rob doesn't do consulting, unfortunately. He has a different strategy that wouldn't have gotten him into this problem. Since you didn't enter a BIOS password, have you tried hitting "enter" when the statement says you "need a Bios password"?
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  51.  @Hakunamatata-zr5wj  Start learning by binge-watching this channel. You have a FREE COURSE right here that Rob has put together over the last two years. (You can even leave out looking at the live streams if you want the accelerated version.)
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  52.  @ellegroover  Not technical, deserves to be deleted. The term "pimping" is what a "pimp" does who is taking advantage running a group of whores. So Robot Glock is comparing the extensive EDU info Rob has offered here to be motivated by an objectionable desire to sell his privacy solutions... Solutions that Rob built and programmed himself. Not sure what "3LA backdoor merch" means - maybe a lame attempt at name-calling?
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  53. One person who was a graphic designer, made a custom phone wallpaper with cutout spots for the various browser apps that are labeled as to their usage. On a laptop, you can change the name of the browser (using admin rights.)
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  54. Go for it!
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  55. yes, I've heard that Constitutional laws only apply to Government institutions. Tax laws are enforced by others, not the .gov and as such, they don't have align to Constitutional laws. What is in force is the power of (often implied) Contractual Agreements. Curious, isn't it?
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  56.  @nancystockwell7829  learn "browser isolation" first. It's free and great training to help your privacy as a first step. Join Brax.me - and just go there and read whatever interests you that people are discussing about privacy that you might be considering. It's a fun way to dip a toe into the tech without money and it will familiarize you with terms, etc. for when you can take further steps.
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  57.  @dlognave  move to another country, learn the language and attend their free EDU and only borrow money to live instead of paying for the overpriced cost of college in the USA. At least you'll have an interesting time and you won't end up with crippling debt!!
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  58.  @trtrhr  Oh, BCC was the first protection from data harvesting. When you write an email that you want to send to a group, you can put the list in a BCC window that hides it from those who want to harvest your email and send you spam. Now we have encrypted chat on Brax.me to use instead of emailing.
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  59. OK, why do lawyers say: Don't talk to authorities without a lawyer present? Now imagine all the stuff you say when you imagine nobody is listening, but in fact, you are being recorded. Think of all the sarcastic, double meaning "funny" stuff you have said. If you ever imagined meeting a really rich person and falling in love, they wouldn't have anything to do with you if you hadn't protected your privacy. The way you click on Terms of Service without reading - you wouldn't ever realize it if you're doing things that are against the agreement! Do you want your health insurers to have your health history and info about all of your possibly unhealthy habits such as how often you exercise, what you eat, the fat or sickly people you hang out with, etc.? How about your car insurance prices? Your landlord? The people who are about to loan you lots of money? What if you, unknowingly, happen to know someone who knows a terrorist, a gang member, a mafia member? You don't know any of that, but you've been profiled and you won't be able to do anything about your status at the airport about it. Would you like to be only shown things that cater to people who you've been type-cast with, when you're deliberately searching outside of your own 'caste?' What if your next employer doesn't like something you said online expressing an opinion that is political and so doesn't hire you? What if you're a writer or an activist and want to research things that you're never going to do but must know to do to create a story? Do you want it to be a matter of record that you were interested in "objectionable content?" But it's stuff that you need for your journalism or story writing... Anyway, I'll stop this list, but perhaps you get the idea now why privacy is worth fighting for What do you think now?
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  60.  @cmo0429  This is not possible on every phone. You must start with a phone where this "Flashed with AOSP" is possible. Then the directions to do so are complicated and risky - if you do the wrong thing, you end up with a "brick" instead of a phone. I found it easier to buy a phone that had already been "de-Googled."
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  61. I think for your FB account to really be gone, you have to post something objectionable to FB so THEY delete your account.
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  62. @Rob Braxman, I'd love to have you feature one video about hHOW you research your high-content videos. I'm sure that not all your content comes from your past experience with tech. People really need to learn your "short-cuts" about how you do online research!! (or, you could do a bit of info about how you did the research on each video.) I really respect how EVERY one of your videos is so "high content"!!
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  63. Rob doesn't use email, but you could join him on Brax.me and put your idea in one of the "blog rooms" there on brax.me that he might eventually get to... As you can imagine, Rob's biz is booming right now and so he's all over the place with no time to spare.
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  64.  @Godly_Sharing  you wrote this already. The second, third and fourth time you copied it and re-posted as a reply - co'mon! It's spamming your agenda!! Maybe you could decide in which spot it "belongs" (where it got responses) and delete the other ones?
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  65. unfortunately, your i phone still is part of a Mesh Network that's used with "find my phone" even when your iphone is turned OFF! An improvement that you can do is to learn "Browser isolation" because then each browser targeting your privacy cannot trade info with another one. I find it handy to pretend I'm an author with separate characters who use each browser.
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  66. Rob now endorses Linode servers as a secure place to park your cloud data. I went the other way and copied all my contacts with a pencil to a plain old little black book, LOL
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  67. During the time when I was living an hour away from school & had my own business, I researched sleep schedules. The one that worked the best for me was: 2 hours (A full sleep cycle) from 4-6:30pm, then another sleep cycle from 4AM-6:45Am So, I was staying up all day and then sleeping at the end of the day, then staying up all night and sleeping at the end of the night. It really worked for me! When I got together with a bass player who needed someone to drive him home after gigs at 2AM, I just swung into that schedule again - it was Wonderful!
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  68. What countries right now are best at protecting privacy and how - in your opinion?
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  69. The sequence/order of the first topic you discussed: Thoughts - Belief - Words - Actions All these - even what these are - are very different in different people - culturally and micro-culturally even in families. For me, because I think in an abstract, visual way, thoughts usually came first, underneath words. It wasn't until I put my thoughts into words that I knew what my beliefs were. For me, it was thoughts-words-belief - actions. I discovered - there's another important feature: Movement - in the action category. I've found that changing things for myself on merely a physical level, on the level of my own physical mannerisms - this purely "physical" change powerfully influenced my words and then my thinking ...and only later did I realize my fundamental values were shifting. so: Movement/Action - Thinking - Words - Beliefs
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  70. Well, you don't really have to go that far. Just living below your means will identify you to the system as a "loser," because you will not be getting richer over time with "goal-setting." (Telemarketers and scammers will continue to target you because of the assumption that, "poor people are stupid.") Pretty much the idea is to become disregarded by the corporate powers that have turned the public who they're supposed to be serving into products who corporations can suck money from on a regular basis. Essentially, you state by your actions that, "I'm not donating because I have no money." A few conditions though for this to be an option. It's handy if you have avoided incurring debt; or resolve to never borrow anything ever. It's also handy if you take advantage of public donations to help the poor - but this can get complicated depending on your situation, especially if you're male. The trickiest part is staying away from getting harvested into the jail system - don't entertain yourself with vices. This will reassure real people that they will not be "wasting" their support of helping you when you need help, (you WILL get into some sort of legal or bureaucratic trouble, because this process is designed to gain money from those in your poverty category.)
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  71. Go to Rob's channel, cycle through the line below his description until you get to his channel's "search" feature...For instance, I entered the word: backup and here's the results: https://www.youtube.com/@robbraxmantech/search?query=backup If I were you with this question, I'd binge-watch Rob's entire "privacy" collection for a free comprehensive course in what to do about Internet Privacy. You need an "OPSEC" meaning a total strategy that's tailored to your "threat profile." I'd start out by learning "Browser Isolation." It's free and a really necessary part of almost ANY strategy for personal privacy.
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  72. A friend used learning a new musical instrument as a way to recover his considerable intelligence quotient after a serious accident where a head injury limited his brain usefulness.
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  73. I don't think so...Rob has done features on your question previously.
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  74.  @daxincarnate9381  Perhaps read the really old book: Language, Thought & Reality by Benjamin Lee Whorf ? Did you learn music notation? Music is its own language, especially when played with others who must listen to play with you harmoniously. Different cultures have different symbolic meanings, so the translation is interesting - for colors, animals for instance. Purple means "royal" in Western culture, whereas in Asian it's golden yellow that means royal.
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  75. I'm dusting off my old SciFi novels. Anyone have recommendations of awesome prophetic stuff or authors they have read?
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  76. First, you can use "duckduckgo.com" for searches instead of Google. Also for searches: "startpage.com" which uses google heuristics, but without tracking what you're searching. You can go to the maker of the app or program - (their website) and download directly from the programmer of the app. People who make programs and apps market them on Google Play, but that's just one place to get programs and apps. There are others, such as Aurora Store - which creates a fictitious Google user and downloads the phone app for you. F-Droid for instance is an app store that has nothing to do with Google. There are also many reputable download sites.
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  77. nice retort of "logic" to those people who say, "I don't have anything to hide..."
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  78. you can always sell it, or if you just bought it less than 30 days ago you can return it to the store for a refund. Tell them it tracks you too much!
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  79. Free VPNs are useless, because if you're getting a VPN free, then YOU and YOUR DATA are the product. To run a VPN is expensive.
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  80. Consider installing Brax.me app, Rob's social network...and to show your friends how to use Brax to message each other more securely. Or for messaging that takes a bit more EDU up front, have your friends and family use XMPP (there's a chat on Brax.me for that purpose.)
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  81. Actually, Rob's solutions don't include having the interest of "three letter agencies" who have a reason to target a particular person. Those people need to take 'way more precautions than a VPN, etc. that Rob suggests for us to escape being targeted by ads.
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  82.  @emmanuelviktor  I think you can only "pin" a comment at the top if you're the owner of the video that's being commented on. Otherwise, groups of people who "thumbs up" any particular comment ascend it to the top.
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  83. Useful to me was that, factually, it takes a full 90 seconds to switch emotional states. So I made a list of positive things that took me more than 90 seconds to read out loud. Now when my mind gets going on a negative direction that I realize is completely unnecessary - I get out this list (that I posted on my fridge so I won't lose it) and read it aloud. Works every time!!! So much that I continue to collect stupid positive things to add to the list. Not so sure why negative things I consider so "important" and worthy to go over and over and over....and positive stuff is considered "trivial" so that it's skipped over lightly and almost dismissed. This strategy of the "positive collection" has been a hugely viable solution for me.
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  84. As Edward de Bono was proud of coining a new, useful concept: "lateral thinking." Meaning there is a whole category of thinking strategies and practices that were different from logic. (But lateral thinking practices are just as effective and useful as logic.)
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  85. Get the BraxVPN router also - you can connect unlimited devices that are protected by the VPN and that BraxVPN router only counts as one device out of six total.
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  86. I did exactly what you did when San Francisco made their bridge cashless - and they sent me a bill - which did NOT include an extra charge. Probably now it would, but ten years ago when they originated the "new payment routine" it didn't.
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  87. Pre-crime exists in Los Angeles, CA in the form of a relationship map for street gangs that have police stopping "possible" miscreants just because they know each other.
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  88. better than Zoom for privacy is jit.si - it's easy to use for others by sending a browser link. Check it out.
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  89. Rob hides his phone number, LOL
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  90. now you can go into selling water catchment tanks, LOL
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  91.  @raymondrainwater9803  Learn about them firsthand by coming to Hawaii, where many, many people use them.
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  92.  @michaelconn1876  sell it and get a de-googled phone that doesn't report back to the Mothership. You cannot "de-Apple" an i-phone, unfortunately.
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  93. As a perk on Rob's Patreon, there's a TOR network. It's slow, but absolutely secure.
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  94.  @AngelaMerici12  yes, education really sucks in the USA
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  95. You might want to come to Brax.me (Rob's site) and ask some of the other people there your questions, (the people with badges that indicate: Trusted Advisors.) They have the time to start you out on the rudiments, Rob doesn't. You can also go through Rob's "privacy" collection on his channel. Basically, Rob has educated many of us, who started from nothing just like you, by his weekly videos. You can also randomly binge-watch on this channel.
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  96. Rob recommends using a bunch of browsers, as you have been doing - and separate them by categorical topics so their tracking can't cross-reference each other. Check out the term: "Browser isolation" But Rob doesn't prefer some browsers - like the Opera and Edge and the ones used in China. Of course on laptop there's Libre Office. You're asking about phone text/docu? There's a number of them on F-Droid.
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  97.  @gypsyfoxx  Rob says on his past videos here that all email is wide open. Rob says it's best to use your own www. domain email and to maintain your own servers. (Or to personally know who has access to the servers.)
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  98. I read soon people's chats are also going to be "curated" for relative truth! Enforced by the phone providers...this challenge to retain privacy is going to get weirder.
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  99.  @madeforstreets  Just wait until cash is eliminated... coming soon.
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  100. supposedly sometime in October...but who knows what snags may delay that. Meanwhile, a good substitute are the Pixels on the Brax.me site STORE
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  101. As you see more of Rob BraXman's videos, you know he would NEVER be on WhatsApp. We have an impersonator here, LOL
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  102. yes, your assumption that the office didn't read the TOS is undoubtedly correct. It's shameful how many people do not read the Terms and Conditions of service AT ALL - they just click YUP!
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  103. the tricky part is finding others who want to spend their time being part of a "real community" too. Which is even MORE tricky given CoVid.
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  104.  @stuartedge5906  One of the laptops I had bought (a Lenova) made it impossible to install LInux because they had diced up the hard drive to take up, gratuitously, all of the possible number of hard drives allowed. I had to check out which ones to delete that were completely unnecessary in order to be able to have one of them be able to run Linux USB!
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  105. yes, Good Point - the danger of getting the attention of a stalker is a "lack of privacy feature" of this requirement for showing ID.
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  106. I actually get work done at night. I think the reason it works for me is night time is a block of time with no expiring deadlines. Nobody is calling me, nobody visits to interrupt me, the post office isn't closing, etc. I can concentrate because everyone else's concerns are not mine. But the work I'm doing is writing or making things - stuff that doesn't depend on others.
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  107.  @natek3954  Rob is a learning machine, before there were schools to formalize the content - he's always learning, learning, learning and he never stops learning.
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  108. Is this...because those who learn your language think differently from the way you think, because the way everyone puts together ideas and concepts to learn is shaped by our innate original language?
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  109. Rob's jit.si server has been "repurposed" since this broadcast. He pointed out to me that the default jit.si server is encrypted and pretty secure - just be sure to use a password with it. Of course, your own server (or a server maintained by someone you explicitly trust) would be better.
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  110. See Rob's videos on his channel about VPNs. Basically, it depends on the specific VPN service and how it's storing what sort of data (or not,) how the VPN business is run.
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  111. Perhaps you need to take your own notes that provide a synopsis that you can put together for yourself? If you did this, please post it because those who use your learning style could benefit from it. Not all subjects can be learned in a series of tiny sound bytes. Gaining an attention span longer than a goldfish will really benefit you in the long run, or you will only know subjects that can be learned through the sound byte presentation style.
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  112. Please come to socialize with the bunch at Brax.me - Rob's social networking site that's protected from the rest of the Internet. We support each other and write about stuff we care about to take off the sting. Rob used to play jazz on the piano to sooth us after he delivered this sort of content in live streams, but YouTube barred him playing jazz standards because of copyright.
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  113. This video is still up. But it's a bit tricky to get it as a result when I searched for in trying to find it on Rob's channel, so obviously "hidden" by obscuring it in search parameters.
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  114. Every time I have trouble retrieving words to explain myself, some sort of motion is always a solution for me. Unfolding myself physically to become less tense usually helped. What helped me to become more articulate was to imagine explanations for things that were happening around me to other people, (while people-watching) My rule for myself was that I had to come up with explanations that were innocent, not based on what I was afraid they might be doing that was dangerous to someone. I did all this for another reason, but I think that by doing this, it prevented my fear from freezing my thinking ability whenever I had something to say in other situations.
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  115. Don't put any banking apps on this phone
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  116. Yes, great author - (sometimes lousy translations.) Many classic SciFi predictors could not be mentioned: Theodore Sturgeon, A.E. Van Vogt, Robert Heinlein, Phillip Jose Farmer, Rodger Zelazny, Alfred Bester, Ursula LeGuinn, Frederick Pohl, Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Niven & Pournelle, Philip K. Dick, David Brin, Poul Anderson, Jack Vance, Olaf Stapleton...and I could just go on for another three paragraphs...
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  117. So - after you watch all the "beginner playlist" videos, you can send Rob money from Brax.me?
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  118. If you prefer to read, on Brax.me, check out the collected #transcription of Rob's Videos from his channel. As you study, post an outline of your notes in the comment section (on YouTube or Odysee) or contact the person who runs that blog in Brax to offer your study process to the collection. Ask in the "New User Chat" if you can't figure out how to get there once you get on Brax. Rob has stated previously that the problem with writing is that tech changes so fast! In the time it would take to create a written course or book - it become out of date before it was finished!
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  119. Essentially, there's quite a bit of very relevant information in security tech that exists on Rob's channel right here...for FREE. All you need to do is to "binge-watch." On Brax.me, (Rob's social network site he made) we've got a collection of transcriptions too, if you can read faster than you can listen.
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  120. The advantage of Jit.si is it's easier to learn than Zoom was. Yes, I believe you can use 30 people at once on Jit.si Some features of Jit.si are free, whereas on Zoom these same features are paid. I'm remembering that Jit.si has less of a limit on the time you can be on a call with it, for starters.
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  121. Please join us on Brax.me - which is Rob's secure Social Network he designed.
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  122.  @TheJacklwilliams  Let's do some "imagineering" on Brax, OK?
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  123.  @IngaHicks  ...or it's "too much trouble" to do what will work to protect themselves and their kids.
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  124. Come to brax.me and look for the blog room #setup4privacy where some of us talk about exactly how we uniquely setup our computers - the new ones. You're right in that we need something for people who have "inherited" a used computer. You're already ahead that lots of "blotware" was taken off by your ex-husband - so don't be afraid. Just search to find "computer name" and change it to something beside his or your name for starters. I downloaded "Search everything" and found it more useful than Cortana.
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  125.  @chemical-or9  Reminds me of Edward de Bono's quip about native intelligence being "hardware" and one's ability to use thinking skills being "software" that will direct the use of hardware capabilities.
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  126. Just found out about Benadryl & Lactoferrin combo. The Uni. of Florida did a study on Dec. 2021 drops replication of Cvd by 99% once you get it.
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  127. See on this channel a more recent broadcast when he answers your question, titled: "Using phones with no SIM" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhzU0NHIBrc
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  128. Try the practice of "browser isolation" first. Using a different, unique browser for each of the MAGAFT. Its' the cheapest and the one action that confuses all of them the most.
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  129.  @here2rock988  Sign up on Brax.me. From the main menu select: STORE. Then select "phones" Then you should see the phones Rob has available in a list. Soon Rob will be selling his own BraxPhone - which will be cheaper than any other phone he de-googles right now. If you've got one of these phones that Rob offers, you could send the phone to him for him to de-google for only $130. (But not very fast return on this discounted service; patience is needed.)
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  130. Helped mitigate people's reactions to use a story to explain my motive before I declared an "unpopular" preference. For instance, without notice, WhatsApp site can change its TOS (Terms Of Service) for business users and can wipe out everything a business did on the WhatsApp site, (especially carefully collected contact lists.) Essentially, you're investing in WhatsApp, not your own business, because the site you're doing all your advertising wasn't yours. Better to put effort into your own domain and use WhatsApp to explain and refer people to your own website.
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  131. Yes, It's as if there's a complete shift of the definition of "business ethics." A friend of mine quipped, "They can do whatever you cannot stop them from doing." Judges can "legislate from the bench" based on public policies which were never passed as a law. If you don't have money, you can't afford to fight for your rights that are being disappeared every day. That's why this issue of privacy is so important - it's one area where we can fight to retain what little privacy we still possess. This "legal lying" has been going on for a really long time, this shift. I noticed this happening right after the RICO act was passed. (1980s) In the USA (Since the RICO act) it's legal to lie verbally. But you can't lie in a contract, supposedly - because lying would invalidate being able to make all contracts. So I now write down statements of what I do and do not permit and get them notarized. I do this so some "Authority" figure cannot lie that I permitted them to do what they must verbally ask me to do. I'm open to other suggestions about how we can "keep our public servants honest." Talk with me on Brax.me further about this?
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  132.  @MissEldira  Enjoyed your reply - thanks! Communicative, articluate intelligence rocks!
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  133. That would only be fun if you NEVER plan to travel to Brazil.
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  134. Key is that Rob Braxman ENJOYS learning and he CONTINUES to learn something else every single day! Plus - of anyone I've ever experienced, he NEVER puts off doing whatever he can do RIGHT NOW while he's thinking about it. He's a man of action - totally!
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  135.  @isaakchuk  nope. Each sort of phone requires very complicated programmer's acrobatics to de-google. Rob doesn't degoogle Samsung phones. The list of phones that you can send him to degoogle is on Brax.me under Privacy FAQ>phones.
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  136.  @terrydaktyllus1320  I thought goldfish paid attention for around 9 seconds...?
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  137.  @MrYoungzay  exactly why geniuses need to study communication, negotiation and presentation skills. They might benefit from forgoing historic content - because our culture is now changing so fast that books print what's obsolete
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  138. Watch Rob's Privacy thread on this channel - particularly his ideas about "browser isolation." Using all of the different Google services inside ONE browser (why not Chrome, since it's Google?) is the way to go.
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  139. ​ @robbraxmantech  Yes, a contact list topic would be useful. (It's shameful how many people still don't even know about BCC when sending a group of emails!) You could cover backup in case the phone dies or we get a new phone...can we trust where we bought a new phone to not use our contact list during it's transfer? My contact list is duplicated on hard copy, and on my VOIP cordless "home" phone, and in a backup .vcf file.
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  140. yes, I do not like that hundred dollar bills in the USA have RFID tags. Someone will figure out how to read that you have RFID cash on you right now - so they can steal it.
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  141.  @kilozulu9990  yeah, but you'll learn more if you watch the whole thing...
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  142.  @ShunShines  For instance, a "yubi key."
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  143.  @robbraxmantech  yes, I'm happy to use Brax.me instead. The chats on Brax.me are encrypted, and chats can include more than one other person.
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  144. Binge-watch this channel, going back two years or so - you can leave out the live streams if you want. You'll get a whole picture education on the subject. (Just be aware while watching that things change really fast in the tech world, so also the solutions have changed too.)
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  145. by Bickerton: "Adam's Tongue"- discusses how language began and the various theories involved. Also the same author wrote another book that's sort of a travel log of Creole languages called: Bastard Tongues
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  146. Yeah, I was impressed with that answer of Godwin also. BTW, if any white people want to feel what it's like to be discriminated against...just move to the Big Island of Hawaii. You'll get discriminated against, and it will be an "educational character building" experience, hopefully.
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  147. Oh, that's an interesting motive. That's unique and I hope your friends appreciate it.
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  148. That's part of the problem with a "normie" phone - it has apps that you CANNOT delete! It's a Good Thing you have never signed into these default apps!
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  149. After reading "Language, Thought & Reality" by Whorf... It was the first book where I could understand the words, but it took me much study to wrap my head around its content. Hopi verbs have TWO forms of their tense, named: "Objective" and "Subjective." The 1st "Objective" verb category means: What people together can witness moment by moment. (So if you can see something behind your friend, you had to use the Subjective tense.) What you personally perceive doesn't exist for everyone just because you perceive it - as "Reality" does in English. 2nd: The "subjective" verb form: Whoever listens will have to believe your report - despite what you say not existing for them. With this "scientific objectivity," Hopi might seem like a serious language of physicists and mindfulness...But in everyday life, I heard that Hopi people often laughably tease each other by saying entertaining, wild stuff they supposedly verify is true for them. If you wonder...how do "tenses" happen in Hopi? Huge categories of verb modifiers - modifiers that Whorf said gave a unique sense of relative time - not "factual time." Example: (as I understood the book) if you wanted to say: "Usually, I intend to run every morning for my strength, please join me," A Hopi literal word-for-word example translation with Hopi sentence structure would be: (subjective form:) I'm intending, I'm running, (then verb modified words:) daily, rhythmically, strongly, dawning and (still subjective form) we are running (verb modifier:) together. For awhile I tried to use English words and re-order them the way I understood Hopi does - it really stretched my brain!
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  150. Am thinking we might publish the notes we take in the comments...?
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  151. BytzVPN that Rob manages - it now has a server in India
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  152.  @IFarmBugs  No he wasn't "reading from FB." Rob Braxman left what he calls "Zuckbook" almost a decade ago.
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  153. contact tracing is only the indexing of what information MAGAFT has already been collecting on all of us with our state of health
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  154. Yes, I would appreciate info-graphics also. However, if you watch Rob's video shorts from two years ago, you get a course on personal data privacy. Rob introduces terms for terminology, adding onto the mass of it gradually so you understand the "lingo" as he goes along. Highly recommended.
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  155.  @brianjeffrey1913  Try speaking/listening to people from New Mexico, USA. They speak slower Spanish than anyone else, IMHO.
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  156. Guessing you're goal oriented. I'm not sure if you really want the attention span of a goldfish?
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  157. yes, BraxMail takes a bit to learn to use it in a way that saves your privacy, but it's simple to use if you just use the Webmail version. Learn about it on Brax.me in the Community chat called BraxMail
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  158. yeah, they never did figure out how to prevent children from getting into adult areas of the Internet...
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  159. No more hugging people we don't live with anymore. This video was made "pre-CoVid," obviously.
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  160. not true - people can be churchy-clean and still be targeted!
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  161. yes, well at least we know that the A.I. won't have an "emotional truth" that we need to take into account - or will it? A.I. "having its own agenda" in a way is an "emotional truth," isn't it? Our whole concept of "truth" has being challenged for some time! The way people react en masse is a brand of truth that is culturally variable, but very real =- as you imply.
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  162. ​ @noeldeal8087  It doesn't work to profess you know The Truth on the basis that it's fact Because of Confirmation Bias, people won't believe YOU - no matter what you say or show your EDU and qualifications are. My point is that, for instance, let's say many people mistakenly assume "that snake could be poisonous," (when only one or two specific species are.) This mistaken fear and lack of knowledge about snakes means a very real consequence for how another rat-killing, non-poisonous snake is treated. So because "Everyone knows some snakes are dangerous," this means that a non-poisonous snake will be treated unfairly from the incompetence of no ability to identify if this particular snake is, in fact, a poisonous species or not.
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  163. Zuck is still collecting information about all of us, even those of us who have NEVER ever had a FB account. Their solution is to have us sign an agreement with FB to supposedly tell FB what to do with this information. Except, it just binds us to allow FB to have this info! How ironic.
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  164. I'm with someone who sounds like you describe yourself. The friends I've in adulthood made usually started in context of an event or a "service" they performed for me or I did for them. Or I met them in a volunteer situation, or a class or workshop where we saw each other multiple times without being focused on each other. Later the way I really became friends happened because I was careful to continue to contact them in various intervals over and over. Everyone seems to have an interval of time to contact them repeatedly that they're comfortable with... which is a different interval for each person. For instance, someone mentioned their friends and family called them on Sunday...so I started to call on Sunday once a month. It worked! Now they call me from time to time on Sunday. The other thing is - the guy I'm with who is expressive like you describe yourself is really lousy at returning brief contacts with people who indicate to him that they might want to do something with him. It's like he's got only a category for "best family level friend" and not a category for "acquaintance" or "in process of becoming more of a friend." He tends to sort of "use" people as a way to try out his own internal thinking of what he's building or problem solving...instead of asking about the other person's concerns. Maybe since you're part of a couple, try doing things as a foursome such as a dinner, barbeque or a campout overnight? Later for me, bonding happened where the four of us found someone else to help that we could do together to benefit them. It was a gradual, interesting progression as we found other things to do together besides stand around with alcohol in our paws.
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  165. yes, I heard that Einstein's first wife was also responsible for many of his theories too. She didn't want the limelight - in that era, women weren't recognized anyway.
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  166. @Jan Enemark learn more how the tech works and you'll feel better about that you're protecting yourself
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  167. Yes, people can legally lie. Unless they put a contract in writing, they don't have to keep their promises.
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  168. Rob's last live stream that I just attended on Rumble (the Thurs before turkey day) was all about Brax3 and it's challenges for bringing a phone into the world.
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  169. yes, the way your tongue rests or pushes upward in your mouth has something to do with how wide your cheeks end up, etc.
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  170. You're right, technological design falls short of protecting privacy - when it COULD be designed into programs - it's not. However, Rob has collected an OPSEC of strategies to help protect user privacy that really do cut back on much of the problem. Much is free behavior change, such as taking your Real Name off and using nicknames only. Check out: Browser Isolation as a tactic. Legal protect isn't likely - because the people involved would have to LEARN technology to know what they're legislating about....and they won't or don't have the time for that.
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  171.  @crazysquirrel9425  we used to call that - "sneaker network" Because it was done with your shoes and also it's kinda sneaky
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  172.  @jeffpricefamily3905  Yes, especially if you're 18 right now, copyright your name as if you're Frank Sinatra and impose high $$ penalties for using it without your permission. Then they cannot name you as their "strawman." If you ever get to court and they refuse to recognize this, you can state that you're only cooperating "under duress", which makes all implied contracts invalid because they were coerced.
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  173.  @MikeTyson2  startpage is not an app - it's an online search engine
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  174. If you're not a programmer - and you don't have a reliable template from another programmer who's degoogled your specific phone - you' re going to "brick your phone" while you're trying to learn how to degoogle it. How would you evaluate "reliable Template??! Check out the phone that Rob Braxman's degoogle list by looking in the brax.me phone FAQ and in the STORE on Brax.me. (If you can't afford Rob Braxman's prices in the "store," the cheapest deal is: you can buy a phone (on Rob's list) online that can be "OEM unlocked" (Rob coaches you how to check for this so you can have the seller check before he sends you the wrong phone.) Then you can send the phone to Rob for $130. degoogling. This approach will save you many, many hours of time and inevitable learning curve mistakes - and you'll end up with a very cool degoogled smartphone. There are pretty complete instructions on Brax.me for certain OEM unlocked phones - but none of them are "flip" phones. Join Brax.me and under "blogs" search in the hash tag section for: #degooglepluslinux to check this out.
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  175. Yes, let's hope we get a EMF event before this routine really gets going...
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  176. Here's how I protect myself: Don't use your credit/debit card to pay. Instead, connect to PayPal. To set up Paypal, connect to a bank "savings" account (one that you do not use for any other purpose.) (So you'd need to set that up at the bank before you setup Paypal.) Then when you want to buy - use only Paypal. Only transfer enough $$ in it to buy things right before you need to pay, (I do that by phone.) Otherwise, keep that account with only $5. or something minimal in it. that way, if PayPal ever gets compromised, the account you have connected to it only has $5.10 in it. (My Credit Union will not allow that $5. to be spent because it must be there to keep the account open.) Then at the bank/Credit Union, set up your accounts to refuse payment instead of providing "overdraft protection." You won't have to pay those high fees again and the "embarrassment" of having your payment refused I thought was an acceptable trade-off!
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  177. Well, YOU could make a studious outline of each video - Rob would be really happy about your efforts! Probably Rob would Pin it to the top so others could use it too. It could be part of your study of privacy, right?
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  178. yes, this is a "high content" channel and that's daunting to a causal viewer who wants to be "entertained" and not do anything about what they learn.
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  179. Good idea - and it may be our only option as the nets close on all of our possible options in the future.
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  180. Make sure it can be "OEM unlocked" by following the steps that are spelled out on brax.me>Privacy FAQ>"how to check for OEM unlocking." If the toggle choice is grayed out and cannot be unlocked, return the phone and get another that can be OEM unlocked. (Not merely "carrier unlocked.")
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  181. Please join us on Brax.me and help the rest of the crowd to catch up, OK?
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  182. No, Rob is in a boat.
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  183. access these features from a browser only.
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  184. I'm very pleased with my "de-googled" phone I got from Rob. But, pre-SIM installation, EVERY carrier told me my phone wouldn't work with their cell service! It worked fine of course. Login to Brax.me and select "STORE" in the main menu to see what phones are available. (Return if the phone you want isn't in stock right now.)
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  185. Maybe try live-streaming on one (or two) of the free apps while you cartoon? It might help to get some feedback and "juice" into continuing from your potential "fans"...? I found that working all by myself was isolating for me. Live-streaming is also a way to 'get yourself out there' and let others know what you're after...?
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  186. thanks for the history lesson - appreciated!
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  187. We have a spot on Brax.me where each of these videos have been typed out in a transcription so you can read what Rob is saying. If for some reason this video is one that doesn't have this feature, you could take notes and transcribe it for him? Doing so would teach you this content!! Plus, you would be doing something important for everyone else who might want to use this info. come to Brax.me - and search for the blog room called: #transcription
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  188.  @KlodFather  how awesome that you have a bunch of bright minds to support each other!! Hey, you could also have a private blog or chat on Brax.me to stay in touch and include other friends who don't live in Pittsburg
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  189. great tip - I'll use this! Thanks so much
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  190. I used the book: "How to Get Your Lover Back" by Blaise Harris. That book was lots more practical than spell-casting.
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  191.  @anthonybranco  Of course, some places are worse than others. But, the justice system is set up to benefit from thievery, bribery and lying. It's legal for authorities to lie, and cops and bureaucrats are taught to lie in order to benefit. Example, research: "civil forfeiture." It's when cops claim your cash they happen to find that you have is connected to something illegal they invent and so the cops confiscate your money - and they keep it without any conviction. (Let's say, this cash you've got is to buy a car or a musical instrument & you can prove where it came from - that doesn't matter; the cops still take the cash if they 'find' it on you.) It takes too much proportionally to pay a lawyer to get your money returned. Some police departments DEPEND on keeping this type of money they stole from people illegally to fund their costs.
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  192. Yes, many don't know there's java programming script embedded in "like" icons that track what ANY user does on the page - despite there NOT being any corresponding membership on the original site. (discussed around 4:45 ) I've heard to "clear" this information being saved to Facebook, you MUST signup and AGREE to Facebook's Terms of Service - which gives FB it's required contractual permission. Talk about Hypocrisy!
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  193. Your location is still being tracked via hardware WiFi triangulation, because every "dumb phone" now has WiFi.
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  194. About a de-googled phone, I usually just explain "Wifi Triangulation" tracking. As far as "why bother, when you're not doing anything illegal?" My fave stuff to ask newbies are: I did not want an advertiser repeating what they hope what "must be" wrong with you, until your subconscious makes exactly that go haywire in agreement. Accounting for our every move - it's as if advertisers are our authoritarian parents or jealous about-to-be ex - I didn't enjoy being treated like a misbehaving teen. Also - how much faith do you have - given the ability to track our every move - that this will never ever get out of control, given how fast "fair" authorities can switch to being fascists?
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  195.  @robbraxmantech  please do an introductory how2 use Brax.me video again? Over time - things have changed on Brax.
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  196. The Graphenos people have hassled Rob, so he won't contribute to their OS.
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  197. Also, Rob has put into place indirect indication that his VPN has been compromised and no longer is safe as advertised.
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  198.  @terrydaktyllus1320  yes, there must be many situations where people who prosecute and WIN their case concerning a leak MUST accept non-disclosure as part of their award. Not advertising how you won your case is a common legal constraint...
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  199. It appears we've already gone beyond George Orwell's 1984 warnings
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  200.  @davidp2827  That color thing you described - it's called the "Stroop test." Yes, commonly, a bunch of people get freaked out because they reflexively READ the color the word says and IGNORE the color the word is. The Stroop test proves that responses slow down when the color of the word doesn't match what the word says.
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  201. yeah, and I happened to get a laptop with version of Win 11 with "S" version on it. I couldn't log into Microsoft to turn off this feature that restricts all downloads of programs from the Microsoft Store. I packaged up the laptop I bought and returned it. Why go through the hassle?
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  202. yes, your computer is being used by others
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  203.  @vickryan  Learn grant writing, so you can continue volunteering AND get paid? Or maybe it's easier to get a sponsorship from deeper pockets of some corporation? (Wealthy Bag Lady can show how to get sponsors, from my memory...)
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  204.  @vickryan  Glad you regard my suggestions as "help," thanks. Yes, there's definitely an era in life when the "givers" get burned out. At least you've got a "good enough" job now. Maybe use that job to support doing a little bit of what you really love to do, just for yourself?
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  205. I've just read that "trackmenot" provides such disinformation. But you can also get this (search for them) from using Rob's idea of: "Browser Isolation" and Rob's OPSEC strategies.
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  206. Yes, signup on Brax.me - it only takes a user name and a password. Ask your questions of us in the New User Lobby and we'll tell you all about how to... See you there!
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  207. This broadcaster has duplicate posting on Odysee in case of being de-platformed from here.
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  208. Things just look different on Linux - that's all. Linux Mint is very similar to Windows the way it's organized. If you get confused, hover over every single tiny little thing and see if it's a link leading somewhere else where you'll get another menu. You can't really "break things" with Linux because it's so easy to re-install it.
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  209. Maybe these Big Tech places could sponsor education? I think that kids need some education on the "Cognitive bias" field and "thinking skills" area. It would also be nice to offer some education about susceptibility to advertising. Maybe some EDU in marketing, how it works, why it's designed to work that way and how they could make it work for their own "brands" of whatever they would like to sell for themselves later in life.
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  210. The best book on this gender differences in speaking style that I've read was: "Talking 9-5" By Deborah Tannen, Ph.d Linguistics. So - there are exceptions to every categorical generalization, of course. As a female, I physically I did not "fit into" any group because of being much taller. The "female" style of speech wasn't my only choice. What shaped that in my upbringing is that most girls are programmed to be trained to pay attention to future children who need their attention by being routinely interrupted by their parents. I was allowed to focus and not interrupted as a child - like a boy. Plus, I had lots of time with a retired father. As I matured, I got that men had another speaking style culturally. So if I wanted to get along with a man in an intimate relationship and be able to communicate with him, I had better learn this male speech culture. It's tricky to know and get practice articulating what you think, when your female role is to listen to a man. A guy who constantly controls the auditory space with their own determination of topic, pace and a "ranting" sort of speaking style - challenging. How do you ever get a chance to speak when your conversationalist's speaking style forces you to make an awkward interruption to say anything? You'd tend not to talk at all. What helped me most was joining a David Bohm style dialog group (30 people or so) - During the dialog I took notes to help me remember what I wanted to contribute on the fly. This helped me learn continuity of memory - so I could be a better listener and I wasn't just repeating to myself what I wanted to say so I didn't forget it.
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  211. No, the Wifi-triangulation will still be sending back to your phone's Mothership whether you have the WIFi reporting to you or "off." This feature is embedded in the HARDWARE of your phone. Your phone is still searching around for possible connections from the available WiFi wherever you are. Getting a VPN is the first step because it limits sending of the IP address. Unless your phone has been de-googled, it's sending this info whether you have WIfi on or "off." With Apple phones this happens even when the phone is off!
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  212. depends on the email service. If you used BraxMail - created by Rob Braxman - at least you'd know the service provider isn't looking into your drafts folder.
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  213. Now let's hear HOW people can "know the difference."
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  214.  @just_call_me_desi  Rob and the rest of us on BytzVPN thank you!
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  215. Your 'dumb" phone still searches around and uses WiFi triangulation about where you are. Yes, using a "dumb phone" does cut down on other information coming their way. You might consider Rob's video here on his advice about making your home phone used only on WiFi at home (using it as a phone via a VOIP service, Rob recommends "OOMA.") Then the "smart" phone doesn't need a SIM card, connected to perhaps a "brax VPN router" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhzU0NHIBrc
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  216. well, then Apple is tracking your phone, deciding what pictures are OK to have on your phone, etc. But if you leave that phone at home and don't have any pictures on it...
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  217. Come to Brax.me and get the low down from the rest of us who are congregated there to help the newbies.
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  218. true - phone carrier people are becoming sort of the same level of "sales liar" as used car salesmen.
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  219. yes, and ask them if they would enjoy having an advertiser tell them they have cancer ten times a day...which would be suggestion enough for some people to GIVE Them cancer!!
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  220. I heard that Edison, on his deathbed, declared that he should have cooperated with Tesla instead of fighting with him.
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  221. What I'm hoping is that some of these SciFi authors who are brilliant at imagining "world-building," maybe these authors will imagine a way out of what is happening now.
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  222. Alexander Technique helps with stuttering = it's an actor's technique that shows how to be flexible enough to use other physical mannerisms so as an actor you aren't "type-cast." A.T. works by "fooling" your reactions before your urge to speak gets going - very physical. Plus, learning it as a skill, A.T. helps many other parts of your life, (anything involving practice, physical tension, habitual limitations, first impressions, physical coordination) - so useful not merely for changing your speaking patterns but useful for many other purposes once you learn it's principles.
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  223. Perhaps - get another VPN that's closer to your actual location or isn't crammed with too many people using it.
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  224. I've heard that either you spend time "ordering" your things or you spend time looking for them, LOL
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  225. He has Zucked all who use his platform, LOL
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  226.  @desmondwatson9079  You might enjoy a book called: Bastard Tongues By Bickerton or Bickerson. It's about how many different "Creoles" evolved in divergent places with similar simplified linguistic structures, spontaneously.
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  227. yes! Rob is a super high content broadcaster!
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  228.  @MegaSpambox  Don't call the phone number they give you to call. Get the phone number of your own company from your own records.
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  229. figure out if your Pixel is OEM unlockable by searching the FAQ in Brax.me - which is Rob's site. IF it can be OEM unlocked, send it to Rob - for $130 he will turn your Pixel into a degoogled phone with Calyx on it - because Calyx will easily update itself.
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  230. yeah, some of the world has become what the dystopia Sci-Fi novels of the 1940s used to portray. The rest of the world isn't so far behind...
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  231. It's more than that. In the past ten years, engineers attended SciFi Conventions with the motives to conceive of new "tech" ideas that were originally invented by authors - who were termed "Imagineers." Engineers weren't so effective at imagining, but were great at logistics. To figure the logistics, you need the idea first.
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  232. Rob is now selling Pixel phones he has "degoogled." Meaning, they're Android without WiFi triangulation going to the Google Mother Ship. (Go to Brax.me>store)
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  233. You can try it. BraxRouter is returnable if it doesn't work.
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  234. Yes, healthy dialog is a rare treasure - where everyone suspends their convictions about the Truth of what they already know along with their previously held agenda of "how it is." It's true that "Facts" have become "opinion." Nobody wants you to cite proof - Confirmation Bias RULES all conversations these days. I've learned to tell stories - which contain the reasoning of why I came to the conclusions and can contain seemingly divergent facts as well as emotional issues. People most commonly make decisions from emotion rather than fact, actually.
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  235. For me, exercising (walking, juggling) always improves momentary forgetfulness much faster than "brain teasers."
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  236.  @claudiacardinelli1867  Yes, get off FB - that's the first step. Search for browser add-on software to delete all your FB posts before you do. Meanwhile, get Rob's VPN: bytzvpn. You can get a brax Router if you have more than 6 devices or a big household that connects to one router.
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  237. check for multiple duplication of this post please, I've seen versions of it probably 5-10 times.
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  238. yes, and to avoid email entirely - and pay for our own servers!!
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  239.  @l0_0l45  Whose channel? MickyLeaks or this channel? Of course, wouldn't you be considered "word salad crazy" if you had personally experienced movie topic events? Paranoid is when events don't match facts. This channel here explains the logical, factual technology behind each topic. Braxman leaves us to come to our own conclusions by giving us these explanations, saving us countless hours checking out various apps for their specific privacy concerns. It's Rob's social network, (brax.me) that attracts (and tolerates) the conspiracy outliers.
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  240.  Al B  Why bother detoxing the expensive nanobiotech when everyone buys and carries around phones that track us?
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  241. Rob uploads ahead to Odysee/lbry before he publishes on YouTube. So you'd have a day for each translation each week. But better than that would be for Rob to select some important topics already completed for translation.
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  242. True - Confirmation Bias has a strong motive to uphold it's own values, no matter how mistaken these values have become or what the bad effects. Nobody wants to admit they're wrong or that they have been a "fool." Movie depiction (and Science Fiction) are some of the few ways that people can entertain these ideas... Thanks for the tip.
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  243.  @pheresy1367  nope, it's not Rob's real name
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  244.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Good advice. Rob has suggested that if your work requires you to use your own device for work and it's a a laptop, to create a separate work username without administration powers.
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  245. you can always watch the other 400+ videos on this channel - and take notes!
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  246. the only one I recognize that's on my de-Googled phone is: F-Droid - check out the permissions for specific Apps.
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  247. On remembering contributions - It helped me to learn to take notes by hand - and during a conversation with a group - write down what I wanted to say. Writing or typing on the phone was less intrusive than recording. Then if someone else brought it up, I wouldn't need to say it. People might ask what you're writing if you're using a pen and paper, then you can speak up. After I took notes for awhile, I got much better at remembering what I wanted to say. Also, at the beginning of your interaction, you can state your policy - that you're waiting to be invited to speak. Then if nobody invites you, it's their responsibility that they didn't invite you.
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  248. yes, it's called: Confirmation Bias
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  249. Rob is willing to take a risk to protect all of us. All of Rob's advice points are totally legal.
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  250. I had a cat named: Needles because...well, you can imagine.
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  251. yes, I wonder what we're all going to do as the noose becomes tighter and tighter as the possible options for freedom close down.
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  252. Can she use the translation feature?
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  253.  @kalidesu  I'd never been to jigsaw, etc. before. It's awesome content for a dystopian SciFi near future novel or short story!
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  254. We're going to need more than the comfort of our religions to fight this foe.
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  255. Nobody has mentioned yet who profits when people have children who cannot afford to pay for them. Urging people to have kids, even though they KNOW their kids will be in a bad situation, just ask, "Who benefits?" Strangely enough, it's the prison system that gains benefits. Eventually as an adult, prison systems profit from bad parenting, bad situations for kids and bad environments for kids to grow up in.
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  256. Yes, using an author to illustrate your points makes sense. Have you read Maria Konnikova's book: "Mastermind- How to Think like Sherlock Holmes?" She shows brilliant problem solving mastery level tactics and how to embody them as you seem to be teaching here. Highly recommended author.
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  257. Let's hope that doesn't happen. (But there's always Brax.me if so.)
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  258. Re: your list of laptops that run Linux - Ubuntu has a list for many, many laptops suitable for their OS. It's at: https://ubuntu.com/certified/laptops
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  259. When I was given the intelligence test, to the tester at the time, I complained that the test involved EDU that there's no way I could have be exposed to yet because I was seven years old - which wasn't fair. My observation invented the concept of "mindware" that that point, LOL Smart people really need to learn communication and negotiation skills - otherwise, they won't be able to convey their special interests or get support for continuing their interests. How old were you when your intelligence was measured?
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  260. Obviously, you did not listen to Rob's video... or just prefer the "devil's advocate" approach.
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  261. you cannot remove an e-sim.
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  262. or what one's parents or grandparents have revealed about oneself before age 13...
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  263. The best stuff to watch is the collection of "privacy" on this channel. This gives the shortest collection of the 400+ videos available. But Binge-watching is also So Much Fun!!
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  264. yes, we need some SciFi authors to imagine a world as it evolves in surveillance capacity. Cory Doctorow is one...(Writes young adult fiction)
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  265.  @Ragnar0321  can reinstall Brave and it clears a previous Google connection. You say, "main" browser - do you mean "main shopping browser"? Aren't you separating your actions by browser as advise using "browser isolation" privacy safety techniques?"
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  266.  @LiveAndDie4Love  use Rob's techniques to separate your companies from your personal life - and each other!
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  267.  @LiveAndDie4Love  on Brax.me my name is msticulous - find me there for more help
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  268. I refused a search from a cop who said the same thing to me. I said, I had a notarized statement about how, if it is my choice, I always say no to being searched when asked by authorities. I used to carry a copy of this document.
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  269. Rob has put into place indicators for us users that his VPN has been compromised.
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  270. Can you post this on Brax.me in "rob subscriber's chat" ??? You can just include the link, not the whole article
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  271. depends on what provider you can find.
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  272. Should you also always tell the truth to a machine algorithm? It will search whatever you say or write for fitting into categories that you have no idea you might match?
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  273. most parents are horrified to realize that they have less and less control over their kids as these kids hit the teen years - when the teen peers have more of an effect than the parents ever did.
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  274. Right! It's because of WiFi triangulation, which is hardwired into any phone with WiFi. That's why "De-Googled" phones and the BraxVPNRouter are useful - they prevent this compiling of location by not allowing it to get reported "back to the mother ship."
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  275. yes, I would like my Constitutional Republic to be returned, please!
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  276.  @EfficientRVer  yeah, getting more privacy makes me fell as if I"m in a spy movie, LOL
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  277. Rob has a video answering this questions, search on his channel: Anti-virus
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  278. Yes, search "Laptop Setup for Privacy" on this channel. Also take notes on all of the "OPSEC" videos from Rob too - because they contain a list of the comprehensive steps to improve your data privacy - such as Device & Browser Isolation, how to evaluate a paid VPN for security, how to create your "stage name" and keep it secure, etc.
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  279. Yes, check out the "installation" files ("installation" at bottom of the page of bytzVPN.com) and you'll see there are some European locations.
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  280. freaky
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  281. yes, a VPN is useful, according to Rob's other videos. But an anti-virus is unnecessary.
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  282.  @sporqfoon5989  So you cannot buy a phone for someone else for a birthday present? or sell a phone to someone else after you've used it for awhile? Weird
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  283. How can humans imagine they could understand aliens, when we can't even communicate very well with canines & felines, cetaceans, elephants, crows & octupus who are already here? Yes, I'm fascinated with the "world building" of SciFi universes. Really enjoy it when an author invents multiple languages for their characters and worlds. The solution of being shot with a 'translation vaccination" was really cool in Farscape. If there was a vaccine that could offer that now - I'd definitely want it!
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  284. Accurate point. Not mentioned yet: Where abortion is banned, the number of prison inmate rates increase. (So the prison system supports "Right to Life".) In comparison, where abortion is legal, women are able to refuse bad circumstances that are very likely to become worse situations. Of course, the anguish is to feel after the fact of having aborted, did the future turn out to be as bad as it seemed at the time of the abortion. For what reasons are parents so often abandoned by the culture to raise their babies? We seem to only have the choice of in a nuclear family that uses divorce as an alternate when things don't work. Or the single parent situation where the baby-daddy is never involved and will not provide support. Why are there not other commonly accepted means of child-raising?
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  285. yes, Bernie Madoff - yes, he made off with their money and burned it! LOL
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  286. Rob has been invited, but he doesn't have the time so far...
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  287. It's always gratifying when someone else reinforces the advantages of what you've invented/put together on your own, isn't it?
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  288. ​ @UmmmmmmmWhat  I had the same situation happen & suggested to the cop after he gave me the ticket that we retrace my path where he could show me the MPH limit sign (that didn't exist.) A half hour later, I stopped to talk with him about the fact he evaded me as we "discovered" there was no MPH limit sign justifying a speeding ticket. He stated that higher up the road, an advisory MPH limit sign located on a curve had been verified knocked down. Even though that wasn't where I was located when he mistakenly gave me the ticket, the office allowed him to TAKE BACK THE CITATION because of the downed sign. I've never, ever heard of police being able to do that. Good thing, because a couple of weeks later that same cop was at my doorstep, returning lost ID to my landlord's family member. Am happy for small town consequences, where people forge real relationships!
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  289.  @linsqopiring6816  Not sure if I could find it for you.It was just a passing promise in a few of his live streams, starting with when he used to live stream every night on Periscope.
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  290. Why don't we take this conversation to Brax.me ?? then it won't be so public.
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  291. Separating your business from your personal activities is better anyway for many reasons. Be public in business and be private in your personal life. See Rob's OPSEC video for more of an answer to your questions
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  292. I suggest to delete and re-install Brax.me. Something might have happened during the downloading.
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  293. yeah, I'm scared that day isn't really too far in the future...
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  294. many of us also use DuckDuckgo in addition to Startpage
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  295. In our culture, you either have "rapport" or "respect." What do you do, really, when you really have the pro experience to know the bad repercussions of what you caution people about...but your family won't believe your genuine authority?
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  296. No wonder Irish language was replaced by English then - if you couldn't say "yes," you can't agree to a contract! All of the English world runs on contracts - actual contracts and implied contracts.
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  297. You might enjoy the personality descriptive system called the "Conative Index." It calls those (who you say are "high inductive") people who want to act quickly "Quick-Start." There are three more categories of how people tend to want to do a job; people are a mixture of these four types & so are the profiles of jobs. Match the job to how someone naturally wants to do it and there are many benefits. If you teach thinking skills (not merely critical logical thinking, but parallel, lateral, strategic, design & creative thinking ability) to these highly reactive "delinquents" who don't know how to use impulse control - these "Delinquents" stop reacting and start problem solving.
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  298. Does Wren count how many children someone spawned in their computations?
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  299. I've often offered Rob some diagrams or drawings for examples. But he makes these videos really fast each and every week. The logistics of putting all of what you suggest together is too much to do on a routine basis. His "shorts" are info-rich; he's pointed out that he can't write an e-book about this because the tech of this subject changes so fast...
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  300.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Oh you know what I reviewed previously!
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  301. Yes, it's objectionable to me also. The technology that allows these devices to "hear the wake-up word" do this by recording everything said within earshot- including everything others say in your own home, etc. Paying to have recordings made of everything I say to everyone I speak with on the phone? That's a bit much. I learned the tech behind technology that interferes with data privacy from the channel Rob Braxman Tech. He's a good teacher and has some practical solutions.
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  302.  @Mr.Robert1  Rob's social network is Brax.me where you can look in the STORE for a place to donate directly to Rob. Brax. me only requires a password and username for signup. (Your email will never get nagged if you choose to provide it to Brax.me for account recovery purposes.)
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  303. yeah, "language, thought & reality" is still an interesting book by Whorf
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  304. tell us more about "text now"and how that would or might work ?
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  305. yes, like a "con-game. Also, remember how doctors "practice" on their patient patients.
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  306. Good point. As a shy child, my strange name gave me something to start a conversation with. Now, I imagine having an unusual name as an "Awareness Test." Using humor, I often out loud conversationally rate people on whether they passed or failed on noticing my name is "unusual" - or not. When they fail the test, their brain simplifies my name to another, more familiar, similar version of a name...which requires their assumption that I spelled my own name wrong. So, I agree with you - that's where the repeated accusation of "you're wrong" originates, and that's why I inform them when they do so that they "failed" the awareness test by assuming I'm wrong about my own name.
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  307. we already have credit scores. To add "social" to that score isn't much of a stretch.
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  308. you said that earlier...
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  309. build one that reports to your own server that you maintain. Rob made one that uses Brax.me to upload to, but he's been focused on phones right now so has allowed it to fall out of manufacture
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  310.  @ricketts223  yes, the phone is still searching for the Wifi networks it COULD connect to - in case you want to connect at some point in the future. It's a hardwired to do this, you cannot "turn Wifi Off."
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  311. Insurance companies demand you have a Facebook account in order to insure you? Wow. That would make me select a different insurance company.
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  312. yes, "Confirmation Bias" is real. We need to learn significantly sophisticated communication skills to help these people...
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  313. yes, "don't tell me to do what you don't want me to do!" People who get that sort of narcissistic manipulation you are describing - it makes them WANT to misbehave because they have already been pre-punished for having done it before doing it!!
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  314. You could learn XMPP enough to teach it to your friends and family for messaging RIGHT NOW.
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  315. "not going to the hospital" or " going to the hospital" are the phrases
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  316. I hear from others that they have configured the Brax VPN Router to be used with other VPN providers, so it's not only useful with bytzVPN.com, (but using BytzVPN is a great way to sponsor this channel.)
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  317. If you have the BytzVPN with the Brax Router, BytzVPN only uses ONE of the SIX possible devices on the VPN list - so you could install BytzVPN to your laptop and use THAT.
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  318. yes, effective action takes a whole campaign!
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  319. Rob is American - but his ancestry were from the Philippines
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  320.  @mixinthebisquic1238  It's from dreams that authors imagine and get original story lines for movie scripts. Everything else is "derivative."
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  321. Yes, but only certain ones that are listed on Brax.me You've gotta know how to check to see if the phones you send are OEM unlocked = different from "Carrier unlocked" as explained in the FAQ about which phones Rob can degoogle for you.
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  322. that's unfortunate to hear about, thanks.
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  323. We talked Rob into selling shirts, etc. with "de-Googled" on them... for stimulating more questions. Links to get them on Rob's channel.
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  324.  @giuliom8520  I understand you, but cutting and pasting a comment means people will disregard it after they see it three times.
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  325. Be sure to state if you're going to use Mint or Cricket so you can get the Brax2 variation that will work for those providers
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  326. join us on Brax.me where we inform others of what we have studied from Rob's channel and our history learning about privacy online
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  327. Here's an outline with time stamps...for your educational pleasure! 1:00-1:25 “Is putting your activities online the new way to “Win Friends and Influence People?” 1:45 Bigger picture – what data privacy can effect 2:00 Weaponization Who is using your data against you and why are they spending billions to do so? 3:10 Some examples of harm & advantage – 1st one: Insider trading at Tesla Auto builders 4:10 As in the movie: Minority Report – Pre-Crime system in a gang database tracking system 5:29 A woman who had applied for a high level job at an investment firm, why she was denied. 6:40 People arguing in public view on their own Facebook accounts 7:45 Military simulated a doxing, hacking and disinformation as a significant distraction to war. 8:47 Rob’s predicted: Cambridge Analytica influenced elections via Micro-targeted marketing.” 10:30 License Plate scans & facial recognition on freeways and traffic intersections in Los Angeles. Then, as a wrap up, a list of what’s collected and indexed on even “boring” people 11:37 “This is good” says Church Minister. 11:50 YOU may be “Angelic,” but a family member or someone else connected to you could act objectionably. 12:15 Unconstitutional actions are “off-loaded” to private companies. Tech in existence now merely has to be turned away from advertising use toward tyrannical purposes. Tyrant dangers. 13:10 Social Media Score – in China, this is already active. (pointed out in comments: Just like TV series: Black Mirror, Season 3 Episode: titled: Nose Dive.) 14:00 Future segments by Rob will dig into how to stop each unique type of data collection. (What would YOU like Rob to investigate next?) Stay tuned to this channel and learn how to get your privacy back!
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  328. It would be great if more people included in comments time stamped outlines of one or two of the 400+ Rob Braxman Tech videos and Live Streams. Very helpful to those of us who are studying Rob's high-content uploads!
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  329. I think we need more words for the many unique relationships that we've evolved since we've had access to online interactions. Such as: "acquaintanceships"
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  330. "Drive" is when you find yourself doing what you cannot leave alone." "Doing what you LOVE to do makes you a genius" - Barbara Sher, (who pointed out the many problems with most motivational speakers)
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  331. ...and where did you get this information? That's the point.
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  332. we carry our phones that we buy - why bother with chipping under our skin?
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  333. I've heard it said that brilliant, creative problem solvers are created from people who had thorny issues in childhood. Just so you don't go seeking out people who treat you badly, because it feels familiar!
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  334. No, Rob runs his own VPN called BytzVPN.com @VARGADAN 
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  335. yes, you have that correct
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  336. (Rob answered at top)
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  337. Oh, something new - an impersonator! I guess impersonation is a back-handed compliment? Why would someone want to impersonate Rob BraXman?
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  338.  @Grey_World1  a "Sandbox" is a partitioned area that cannot affect the rest of your computer, used for trying out things that might affect it. For instance, some people have their anti-virus installed in a sandbox so a virus can't use it to gain access to the rest of the computer and mess it up. A "Windows box" is just slang for a computer with a version of Windows installed.
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  339. nope, this is a myth. You signed their Facebook Terms of Service. Nothing you say, (especially saying it on your timeline) will invalidate your previous agreement with Facebook - if you are continuing to use their service.
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  340. Our convictions about identity & Truth are being weaponized against us. Did you know it's legal to lie? Since the 1980s Rico Act in the USA, anyone can lie to entrap or further their $$ or invent policies (policy that can negligently become law.) But who questions their own motives or values? Instead, humans are designed to self-justify and feel self-righteous. The policies of "Business As Usual" does not have to use anyone's version of fairness or business ethics - (that's why review and reputation exist, but that can be manipulated.) For most people, it's too expensive to litigate against injustice. Love the solution is to protectively dodge aside, to lie as filmmakers lie, with imagination and "stage names." "Liars" can do whatever they cannot be stopped from doing, in both directions.
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  341. yes, and it will be tricky to make the leap if you've never used an Android phone too.
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  342. Your data details "age" over time. If you cut them off now, as time goes on, your "old" data will become less useful.
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  343. look for a chrome add-on that deletes everything for you, after you. The process of deleting FB properly is tedious - they make it that way on purpose.
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  344. nah. Doesn't work that way. But more power to you!
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  345. What's your "flying style"? Meaning, describe how you fly - put your arms out? How do you take off up into the air?
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  346.  @daviedood2503  There's many poor people who are really smart, but they don't want to be in charge for various reasons, (some physical limits?) or they were born into a situation where it was pretty much impossible to get the necessary education, etc. to get put into the position of authority.
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  347. ​ @alaindubois1505  A potential for new friends is there - as you remember the fuzzy past of when and how you met & bonded as friends. When starting from a state of being a hermit, teaching ESL or learning a new language has put me in touch with nice people again. So many unknown, subtle elements of language include the rapport of bonding rituals, (the timing of repeating contact for instance.)
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  348.  @yootoobabble  it only takes a username and password to signup at brax.me - (no email or phone number required.) (Rob's social network and support site) Once you're in brax.me, find STORE-Phones and you'll see what's available right now.
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  349. People have said on Brax.me that any VPN (that's paid) that uses OpenVPN as it's core will work. But Rob has you go to that service you pay for to get the instructions install, he can't offer instruction for everyone else's VPN service.
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  350. yeah, it's sort of a curse to be too far ahead of your time in your ability to predict. Smart people need to learn more communication skills so they can bring others up to speed when they invent or can predict from what they've learned.
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  351. Good for you, Cheryl Evans. Yes, to recover former capacity through focused practice, we have to have faith in the possibility of success, (even if that faith was instilled by our parents admiring their kid, LOL)
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  352. Please tell us more about how your tribal language is structured...?
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  353. Rob Braxman has since recommended for us to use jit.si instead of Zoom.
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  354.  @peanutbutter9345  You might want to check out the book that offers "templates" for multi-talented people called: "Refuse to Choose" by Barbara Sher. Also the term "multi-potentialite." Specialization happened around the 1950s - around when generalists (such as Thoughty2) became "out of style."
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  355. whatever you do, don't advertise you've done it on social media! Just do it and keep it quiet you did it.
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  356. I could use a way to encourage FB to "kill" my account for good. No other way to make it really "go away" other than for FB to do it.
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  357. There's also an app, available on F-Droid called "Open Contacts." Using this app for your contacts and a dialer seems to isolate your contacts from the default contact lists on your phone, which is a Good Thing. If somebody tries to get the contacts from your phone, they can only access the default list - so if there's not anything there, haha - foiled again! It's also got a feature that you can export your contact list as a .vcf file every week - really handy when you want to export your contacts in case you lose your phone.
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  358. By making the possession and spending of cash less likely, the police departments will also suffer. They're the ones who supplement their department costs by stealing cash from people who carry it. All that needs to happen is the police find out the cash exists, often during an unrelated traffic stop. Police merely declare this cash is "drug related," even if the person can prove on the spot where the cash originated and they aren't charged with any crime. This is called "Civil Asset Forfeiture." The average seized/stolen is usually less than $5000. That cost is the average how much a lawyer is paid to get it returned...eventually.
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  359. Flip phones still track you with Wifi-triangulation - WIFI hardware that is "promiscuous" and you cannot turn it off. You need a "de-googled" phone so the Wifi locations don't get sent back to the "mother ship" of Google.
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  360. Use an isolated web browser for objectionable security sites, a browser that's used for no other purpose. Don't use their app.
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  361. That's called "projection" when people accuse others of what they're doing to themselves. Irony!
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  362. Your info becomes "stale" and loses value the more you starve them. So start now and keep going...
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  363. The concept of "having no job to do in exchange for money" is really a foreign one for our culture.
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  364. Obviously, we need someone with Issac Asimov's imagination, tech history and ability to foretell what could happen - any ideas who is still alive with these capacities?
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  365. Rob recommends Thunderbird as an email client. We figured out that it's better to install it to it's own USB or drive media. That way the files can be ported to any linux or otherwise new install. More info by joining Rob's site: Brax.me and go on BraxMail about how to use Thunderbird.
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  366. It's not true that animals only learn associated contexts of words as commands. Some animals learn both context and content. I knew a husky who did this very thing I'm describing below. For instance, I had a cat who listened as intently as this dog. Proof was the cat imitated my unique intonation of certain words, even though she couldn't shape with her kitty mouth the words themselves. The reason it was so strange is the cat used these sing-song intonations herself in the perfect associated context. So she sounded as if she was saying words - really talking! And NOT just when prompted by repeating the word back to her - she used these words to communicate her wishes. As in - when you wanted to disturb where she was laying - she "said," Nooooooo if she didn't want to move. By a door, she "said," Ouuut." If you were in her way, she'd "say," Mooooove." If she got tired of waiting for you, she "Said," Nooooow! She had a little more than twenty words in total that she'd learned to use to communicate like this. I imagined it as if the cat had learned a form of "human creole."
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  367. figure out if your Pixel is OEM unlockable by searching the FAQ in Brax.me - which is Rob's site. IF it can be OEM unlocked, send it to Rob - for $130 he will turn your Pixel into a degoogled phone with Calyx on it - without any risk of your Pixel getting "bricked."
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  368. ​ @MrYoungzay  ...then your invention will be bought - and shelved by the competitor of your invention who has much to lose if the invention is successfully manufactured and distributed as it was designed. Your patent is only as secure as the money you can invest to defend it, unfortunately. But I don't think these sorts of injustices are limited to the USA. The French had long-term ongoing activist demonstrations every weekend in 2018-19 protesting large corporations being paid by public taxation for transitioning to "cleaner" manufacturing. This is why the "Carbon Tax" is going to happen in the USA - a similar solution. It's also why the reasons for these ongoing French demonstrations were kept out of the US news. Carbon Taxation is a corporate scam splendidly justified by pseudo-environmentalists who say it's a "Climate Change" solution - people aren't going to realize what Carbon Tax really represents because of this "doublespeak." Essentially, the Carbon Tax will be paid by the public in the form of "subsidies" to the Corporations who stand to lose out as alternative energy is developed and implemented. The Corporations who benefit, will then pass on their (subsidized) increased costs to their buyers as a business expense - so the Corporations will get double benefits. Those corporations believe they need to get paid to make the transition to "green" energy solutions. Otherwise, these big companies aren't going to allow the progress of environmentally cleaner power and manufacturing to happen. Just as they have been buying and shelving any invention threatening their business...for decades.
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  369. Actually, Rob only looks Asian, he is Filipino-American
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  370. join Brax.me and you can learn how to send it off to get it fixed in the New User's Lobby for a reasonable cost.
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  371. Rob responds better to one sentence, simplified questions. In the comments, we've got his attention for a bit when he first makes the weekly video, then he's a busy guy somewhere else! The best place to get your question answered is to ask it on Brax.me in one of the community chats that Rob responds regularly in.
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  372. please come to Brax.me and ask this question in "Rob Subcriber Chat" OK? Rob has done a featured video on e-sim sometime I think in March or April, 2024
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  373. Hope you can choose better next time. (Avoid "intense attraction" in the next relationship without someone who has no other friends - it's often the sign of an abusive person.)
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  374. All flip phones have hardware wifi triangulation that cannot be turned off. Best to get a degoogled phone that doesn't "phone home."
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  375. Advertisers have sold all of us on Instant Gratification, haven't they?
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  376. Doubt if you can get to Sony to deliver your opinion about them from here, LOL
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  377. this channel is a really high-content place to learn a little bit at a time, if you're interested in stretching your brain.
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  378. Wrong topic. Watch the video on this channel on Browsers. Rob introduces the idea of "browser isolation." It's using multiple browsers and separating your activities by the browser you're doing certain things on...
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  379. There's been discussion of some specific brands of tablets that can be de-googled by yourself on Brax.me. But at this time, Rob hasn't hinted he would be offering any tablets that he degoogled. Perhaps on Brax.me you could find someone who would help you do that yourself or who would do it for you personally?
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  380. ...but Rob does talk about establishing multiple "stage names" to prevent indexing. See his video short on his channel: OPSEC
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  381. this is a really astute analysis - definitely worth reading especially if you have the ability to program. Thanks!
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  382. appeal to their cyber security needs?
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  383. How do you deal with people who have a definite agenda about what they want to tell EVERYONE about - and you're the newest victim?
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  384. The problem is - Brax.me just keeps changing and improving. So any illustration of how it works could easily become outdated.
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  385. yes, head over to Brax.me - and go to the STORE to get yourself a degoogled Pixel right now.
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  386. probably you should delete this comment to protect yourself
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  387.  @Andrew-vd2ko  I'm glad to read that you protect yourself
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  388. I hear from Brax chat forums that many people find "snicket" to also be easy to setup and use.
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  389. yeah, unfortunately I just bought a tool that doesn't have a Linux version - shoulda looked at that before I bought it. But I can still keep a Window machine somewhere...
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  390. that line was funny, LOL
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  391. I am sad to read this. Of course, you must have legal representation? Legally, lawyers only "represent" you, they do not "defend" you. YOU must learn and tell your lawyer what you want them to do.
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  392. I made a notarized statement that "I never give my permission to be searched by authorities, and I strongly urge others in my presence to also retain their permission to be searched." I give a copy of this statement to authorities, so they are not tempted to lie about my answer. it's worked well a couple of times in my life already.
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  393. yes, Rob even had this problem with his family. They changed their mind after Rob got 90K followers in One Week...
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  394. I like your ideas about prosody and how it carries thought groups in the breathing "measures" of music. Music to me is a separate language in itself - especially when played with others. Musicians are often more imaginative than non-musicians. They can group patterns easier when attempting to communicate their original explanations and descriptions of phenomena that's new to them. I became an artist to organize my "mind's eye" - as sort of a reverse aphantasia. For me, language didn't fit what I could imagine. Also, I had trouble when I learned to write using interchangeable phrases -- my prepositions were mixed. Mixing my prepositions was partly how I came up with new combinations in an ability to think laterally & originally. So - don't you think that longer stores carry and define context? Without a story, someone cannot design relative meaning for themselves. Stories allow for retention for their own purposes later on, IMHO. I'd love to hear more. Please find me on Brax.me
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  395. apparently so - for this broadcast anyway
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  396. yeah, except that now the new models are sold as if the user is "renting the use of" whatever service is being provided by the hardware.
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  397. Yes, language limits our thinking as well as expands it within its own implied structure. We must deliberately "escape" from language assumptions as a thinking skill exercise if we want to go "outside" its limits. Check out: Edward de Bono's old book: "Serious Creativity." It has practical ways to get outside of linguistic limitations of every language.
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  398. Watch this channel in order from the beginning and take notes...making transcripts of every single video...or maybe just the ones you think are important. Then come to Brax.me and help us catalog them. There's your whole course!
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  399. You are observant and correct, according to Rob in other videos about iphones. Perhaps, unknown to you, the phone you purchased had an e-SIM already installed that cannot be removed? Rob recommends using only degoogled Android phones and not iphones. iphones have a mesh network that connect even when there is no SIM in them and the iphone is powered OFF...ihphones cannot be "de-appled."
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  400. ...and a few other movies as well, LOL
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  401. another good reason to not do anything person on your corporate email account
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  402.  @violahamilton782  yes, and this experiment of putting people in an authentic era environment of their past allowed people who had dementia recover their thinking abilities also.
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  403. what you suggest is already there on Rob Braxman Tech channel, just look for them!
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  404. Well, isn't Win7 no longer updated? Use Win7 if you have programs that don't work on Win10 perhaps?
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  405. IMHO, more useful than the IQ test is the "Conative Index," (by Kathy Kolbe) It measures how you want to do something, as well as your motives for doing it that way. Everyone is a mixture of four strategies: Quick start improvisers, Follow Through designers, Fact Finder researchers and Implementer physical model makers. Each of these four types can be preferred or resisted - and there's an advantage in every level, with a positive description for every level of every type. I found this test to be a much more useful predictor of how I might become involved in constructively working with others.
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  406. Yes, GOD can be tailored to anyone's need and he doesn't interfere as A.I will eventually do.
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  407. You read as if you could be a scifi or fantasy author! We do need some experienced Science Fiction authors, good at "world building," to project what might happen, so we can derail the dystopia effects on the front end.
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  408. good thought! Of course, it would require a learning curve, something that politicians and most people won't tolerate. There are many answers to this question - it's a design challenge! If you'd like to work on this, please join us on Brax.me - Rob's social networking site that's encrypted.
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  409. the alternate is dying young, so getting old isn't so terrible
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  410. ...and when you remove the bag...? You're not "incognito" anymore.
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  411. rob includes Pi-Hole in some of his bytzVPN.com files that are used by the OpenVPN app to run his VPN
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  412. Please see what Rob has done to protect himself in the previous video "shorts" Rob has already posted on this channel under the subject of: OPSEC
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  413. what you propose may become a necessity, once our attempts for privacy become "all sewed up" over time.
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  414. nope. No email service. Learn about why by watching and studying this channel. Perhaps, pay someone you know personally who will maintain a server for you?
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  415. How do you know you don't live in the rest of the neighborhood with a few Ring or Alexa mesh networks?
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  416.  @davidb4252  except when an EMF event (solar flare) causes everyone's microchip to fail
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  417. Nice statement - but you'll need more than this mission statement - you'll need to ACT differently to carry out your stated intent. We don't have the address of suitable legal notification - or the money & capacity to force compliance! In Rob's opinion, it's ethical to "Lie to the machine" in the pursuit of Truth and upholding promised Rights. I have known Rob to be honest to a fault not at all "evil." There are many types of thinking skills besides logic that convince me - Lateral, design, strategic, parallel are some additions to "critical thought." There are many ways to react to lies - without violence - that can use these different thinking skills. These more creative ways to respond are often better than violence. Our oppressors have designed forceful, effective ways how to stop any sort of violence with which they are familiar. So we need originality! (In a personal note, I've noticed that IF someone has an "evil" category, sooner or later people they know are going to be classified in this category if they disagree. Studying Cognitive Bias communication skills is key for convincing victimized people.)
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  418. Maybe imagine how the stranger has "nothing to win or lose" by offering what they perceive as true. @johnatanasov8266 
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  419. (OK, as an addendum, it's now 3:45 AM my time for me.) I had multiple pets and I didn't want to pay for "treats"anymore because it was becoming expensive. So I just bought a DIFFERENT type of pet food, put it in the "treat" container and "treated it" as if it was special. My pets went as crazy over it as if it were the "Twinkie" treats!! So - I realized the reward you set up around the circumstances of having something be a reward is what makes the thing be a "reward."
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  420. yes, it's called bytzVPN.com
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  421. Yes, that old maximum that justifies the study of history so it's not repeated. It seems that the only people who are interested in using historical examples (so they can craft advantages) are those who are designing ways to control the populace.
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  422. yes, headphone jacks are what wears out on phones and laptops fastest
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  423. Everything is on this channel for free! All you need to do is to "binge-watch" and be a good student, writing your own .pdf notes on what you are watching. While you learn, could you share your notes, outlines maybe with time stamps and study process in the specific video comments for others to use?
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  424.  @CastleHassall  might need to do much more than merely post here to market yourself as a musician. Have you tried using rewardmusic.com as a backstory to your own website? It was designed by Dwezil Zappy as a collected set of services to support musicians.
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  425. What do you mean? Can you elaborate? Provide a link?
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  426. Part of why I never worked for a company that demanded those things. But I did some of those things for an author I admired! However, because this author had me sign up for Periscope, that was how I met Rob Braxman, LOL
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  427. Stuff you send in the US mail is the one area that is still secure, strangely enough. So, write those letters confidently.
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  428. the premium Ooma is $10. a month that includes use of the App - after buying the yearly service which is anywhere from $49 - $110. for the Ooma "box" that's like an answering machine - depending on specials.
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  429. Yeah; partly it's because people have NO idea how much info FB is collecting on them. See the YT title: "Facebook is Worse Than You Think: Whistleblower Reveals All" an interview by Rich Roll or the book by Frances Haugen "Power of One"
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  430. unrelated to this subject, but you can get that question answered if you join Rob's social networking and support site: Brax.me You can ask which chat topic to get your question answered in the "New User's Lobby" or by going to the "BraxMail" community chat.
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  431. if you make Rob's videos on this channel into a course and start from the beginning (a few years ago) in twenty minute increments with your own notes - you will become educated, for free.
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  432. Can anyone remember other SciFi scenario movies, stories or authors of books (already published) that might reflect these issues Rob Braxman is discussing here?
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  433. comes to mind: One Second After by William R. Forstchen The first in a series of the "John Matherson Series" In the span of a single second, the United States is plunged into darkness as an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) wipes out all electricity.
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  434. cheapest way to get a degoogled phone is to go on Brax.me to the FAQ and find: "OEM unlockable" This will tell you how to buy a used Pixel phone online for cheap that has the right capacity to be degoogled by Rob. Once sure your Pixel can be OEM unlocked (not merely carrier unlocked) send it off to Rob with an additional $130. When you get it back - you'll have the cheapest version of a properly degoogled phone. Presto!! As far as Linux goes, just get an old computer from someone else and download LInux Mint or Ubuntu Linux (directions how to make a run-from-USB are online) and install it. How old are your kids? Get the kids to do install Linux to the old computerlator??
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  435.  @allensmithphotography  thanks
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  436.  @allensmithphotography  So the RFID strips are in hundred dollar bills to help the counting machines? Wonder what the tech is on how those bills are read...?
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  437.  @newtonfirefly3584  Rob advises us to "get around" some of this by adopting a 'stage name' when we're on Social networking and using browser & device isolation. We could use your tips and knowledge over on Rob's social network: Brax.me. Mostly the programmers there hang out in the Linux Talk community chat. Please join us!
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  438. Sure - except...the right/left brain division is a meme of metaphorical explanation - it's not factual, it's assigned to cultural classifications that you're reinforcing. Because of habituated learning, whatever a person is exposed to becomes commonplace - no matter how much or a lack of whatever qualities are present. Brains adapt. You might enjoy a linguist named "Bickerton" He wrote "Adam's Tongue" - about the origin of language and "Bastard Tongues" - about the commonalities of Creole in many different locations, which he implies could be how languages evolved.
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  439. yes, I usually translate, sometimes to their face - It's for YOUR cybersecurity safety of your company, not my personal safety.
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  440. Ithaca New York also began a separate trading system for awhile that I think they called: Ithaca Dollars. It was based on the time something took to perform - correcting for the differing price of an hourly wage for services. I'm not sure if "Ithaca Dollars" are still in use. It was originated two decades ago.
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  441. It is an interesting concept that people could sue any company for being categorized "unfairly." It is interesting to look into other cases of "Libel, slander & defamation of character" and what sort of person won these types of cases.
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  442. ..forever! What you say, do and post NEVER goes away!
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  443. Also people who must uniquely name the the various mixtures of colored house and wall paint
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  444.  @royalc3996  Barbara Sher was my mentor - she's gone now, but she put into place solid ways to gain her benefits from very capable multi-talents who now further Sher's contributions. Contact me in a DM chat on Brax.me as @Msticulous If we leave our email here, it gets harvested by spammer bots
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  445. Yes, this tracking activity thing is entirely out of user control! You don't have to install your own OS, you can buy a phone from Rob Braxman. A Faraday pouch by itself is NOT"The Answer." As soon as you take your phone out of the pouch, it re-establishes ALL of those possible objectionable connections. If your phone's technology CAN "phone home" to it's originators, it's going to do that when the cat is out of the bag. A Faraday pouch needs to be part of a total strategy. Please, please, please learn more. Protecting yourself needs so much more than doing ONE thing. If you're only going to do ONE THING to protect yourself, try Rob's advice on: Browser Isolation to start out.
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  446. yes, in color theory, black and white (the absence of light or presence of it) are called "values."
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  447. use Brax.me to trade notes on your inventions that aren't yet patented or released. It's got an encrypted chat feature - (Rob's social networking and product support site)
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  448. search for it on YT, it's been done - great idea!
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  449. A predictive "near history" novel: "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow (2007)
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  450. Well, if you think the Chinese companies should have your info...
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  451. Have you ever moved a really heavy and HUGE rock? How did you do it?
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  452.  @plummetplum  Rob recommends using your own server for email storage, instead of any public email service - he's got a new email service (read about it on Brax.me) that's setup with his suggested features.
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  453. Perhaps you need to put into action some of the pointers that this channel can teach you?? It's Google that is doing this to you - not this channel.
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  454.  @noneyacabbage  Go elsewhere then. You have no clue how expensive VPNs are to maintain.
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  455. yes, it depends on if the VPN keeps "logs" or exactly what the company does keep that can be exploited. BytzVPN doesn't keep logs, Rob has proved this to us (in previous videos of about 2 years ago.)
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  456. yes, and the "degoogled" phones have a really long battery life also when the google reporting back is removed.
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  457. Please join us on Brax.me - if you're not there already...?
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  458. yes, I had a very tricky time finding this video, knowing it existed. It's not listed under "identity" or "identification," (which it should be, IMHO.)
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  459. Those "Gov phones" are not any "deal" at all - once you figure how there's usually really nasty or no customer service. Then they overcharge you (for anything other than restrictive minimums.) What you end up paying is far beyond what you'd pay without getting a "free Gov phone." Take their phone, sell it or reset it and go elsewhere!
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  460. nope, Rob has said SAT phones are worse for privacy. Perhaps getting your family to learn to do HAM radio? Binge-watch this channel - Rob has some solutions.
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  461. Brax.me only requires a username and a password. then you can see the STORE once you are on Brax.me.
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  462. DEBRA CONNER - Have you read "Refuse to Choose" by Barbara Sher - for people who are multi-talents?
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  463.  @debraconner3884  All of author Barbara Sher's books are great, and she has YouTube videos that are very practical too. Only Sher deals constructively with multi-talentedness though.
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  464. yes. The point is those "settings" aren't doing what's advertised they're supposed to be doing.
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  465. Also from what I read, motive counts in Hopi; speaking brings thoughts into the now - why you're communicating is notable; i,e:, you'd take care to speak of corn growing always in a positive way - because sustenance counts.
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  466. ...or 50 minus?
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  467. no, but you can reveal these connections by not using what Rob called: Browser Isolation. Meaning, giving each browser the means to cross-reference and index what the other providers are doing. (Don't use a gmail address on Amazon.com for instance.)
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  468.  @robbraxmantech  Don't you have a man-in-the-middle app?
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  469. AND - the babble fish translator!
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  470. Please join the "Linux Chat" after joining Rob's social network and support site: Brax.me Or, you can ask your question again in the "New Users Lobby" once you get into Brax.me.
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  471. good point - who exactly is considered to be "our neighbor" ?
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  472. Rob has stated sometime in October, 2023 - hopefully.
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  473. This same feature can be used in your own favor. Bureaucrats and authorities can legally lie if it's verbally delivered. But if they put it in writing, it's a contract that implies truthfulness. Nobody wants to invalidate the ability to contract! Others I knew told me how police will ask for permission to search and will then disregard you not giving them permission and proceed to search, disregarding that fact that you said, "NO." This lie from police will be believed by a court before your denial. Because of this, I carry a notarized statement stating that I don't give permission to be searched, and strongly urge others to also deny search - and it's saved the vehicle I was in from being searched three times since I started doing this.
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  474. I really enjoy what a great teacher Rob is and I've been watching him for many years. He just continues to learn and teach us...
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  475. Are you using public VPNs? IMHO, the more practical approach is to deal with financial sites and other businesses that endorse the use of your privacy with VPNs. Call these places before you sign up with them to find out their policies.
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  476.  @sa3270  Perhaps, convince your IRAs location to welcome VPN protections - their "website is picky" because someone thinks it's a good idea to avoid VPN protection at the bank.
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  477. Every app has a "learning curve," LOL. I think Rob should make another New Video about how to use Brax.me, personally. For starters on using Brax.me: invent a fun user name at signup. Remember your password. There aren't any nag screens to remind you to return to Brax.me - so remember to come back once you have signed up. On the first screen as you arrive in Brax, you'll see a "Platform Tour." Do that to get familiar with how to use the Brax app. You can "swipe right" or select the "five lines" to get to the main menu selections from almost anywhere on Brax. There's a "New User Lobby" behind the "chats" section - this is where you can ask questions about how to navigate and where to go. You can select other community chats under the "CHAT" area on the main menu and selecting "community." Join some and start typing! It's a fun, intelligent crowd of characters there on Brax. me I prefer to get into the "settings" area , "my account settings" and change the "Enter Sends in Chat" to "Disable." Then I use the "greater than" in a circle to "send in chat."
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  478.  @1N2themystic  go to Brax.me and check out the phones is the STORE area of Brax.
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  479.  @yosefmacgruber1920  You don't know how to use an online translator?
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  480. yes, this topic is one of the "why" of why work hard to preserve privacy
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  481. Any words in any language are in the hacking database, no matter which language.
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  482.  Rob Bradman Tech••  LOL - nice try at impersonation of the broadcaster.
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  483. when you take the phone out of the bag, everything re-establishes former capacity to track you.
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  484. I like the way you're thinking. Please join us on Brax.me and discuss more of your ideas about how to contribute to privacy? Hopefully see you in the New User Lobby...
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  485.  @1rudedudette1  great idea!
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  486. Frustrating and really sad. But definitely a relevant story, thanks.
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  487. This quote from Godwin: "How did someone do what they did?" "What are you already training to do?" hmmmm - Perhaps it would also help us all if we could focus on how perception, practice and training works - and what makes "directed practice" work faster and easier? Daniel Coyle's "Talent Code" work comes to mind, here's a synopsis of Coyle's book on practicing: https://thepowermoves.com/the-talent-code/ (Coyle also has a blog, but it's examples are mostly sports oriented. I did enjoy how Coyle made a differentiation between practice that has a "right way" with existing examples to emulate, as opposed to practice that develops original creative ability to improvise and respond to new situations, like comedy, skateboarding and invention.) We need to be able to learn, unlearn, to calm our expectations with their alarms about unfamiliarity and learn again - during the course of our whole lives! When Godwin mentioned different types of criticism, from the right people: Maybe we need to regard critical thinking as only the "black hat" of a whole thinking skill process ability that is learnable? (Maybe Edward de Bono's work is worth resurrecting? CORTthinking.com) Also, I enjoyed how Godin is discussing about most of us don't get how important staying with the process is - we're myopic as a culture. Only some of us get benefits from cumulative practice. Even then, we compartmentalize things literally, ignore process and don't "get" the abstracted benefits of how we can apply what we learn in one field to another. Without the ability to discover what makes any process valuable and apply new processes, as a culture and individually, we're never going to "wise up." Things are now changing too fast to get by on what we already "know," now matter how extensive our "knowledge" was. It's crafting abstracted processes that have value because those processes can be repeated.
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  488. This month, all 3G phones that use AT&T towers (that are not Approved" LVolte) are "sunsetting" in many areas of the USA
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  489. I'm going to have re-read 1984. At least because I'm older, the fact that I don't want to give out my phone number is accepted.
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  490.  @User-w7ckl  As you've pointed out, it's a good reason not to use those "services" or businesses...
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  491.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Please come to Brax.me and discuss how you de-googled a tablet. There are many folks who would love to have one.
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  492.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Care to offer that link? Which tablet(s) did you de-google?
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  493. The CDC and WHO are attempting to get their mandates to gain the force of LAW in countries (By MAY, 2024) that whole-heartedly accept their authority - For me, this is like a Nazi takeover from bureaucratic sources. The evidence (reviewed and explained on the Dr. John Campbell channel) that suggests this solution HAL describes has tailored the immune system to it's narrow purposes. So the rest of the general concerns of immunity from other threats aren't effectively addressed, because there's only a portion of immunity available. This means a higher death rate from various ailments for those who continue to get boosters.
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  494. yeah, if Rob gets de-platformed here, he has a duplicate account on Odysee
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  495. An eight page story by Borges about just this same topic: https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Funes_the_Memorious I'm remembering the title of the story was translated to English as "Smoke of Memories." This story gets you thinking about what it would be like for you personally to remember everything that happens to you.
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  496. All I see is $10. per month for H2O wireless... (prepaid) But what carrier does H2O buy tower usage from? Verizon, ATT&T or T-Mobile...or a combo?
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  497. As with anything, you must learn how this tech works. Given Rob's reputation, it would be crazy for him to offer BytzVPN on the Rasberry pi if it had a "backdoor." But, you never know - someone might find a way in. At that point, Rob will find another way! Rob used to recommend another VPN. He designed his own VPN when that company changed hands and became objectionable.
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  498. spread the word then...?
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  499. Go to Brax.me and find the "Store" link for the list of phones. You can even get one of the phones on the list and send it to get de-googled - but only the brands on the list because each needs to be learned to have the de-googlement working correctly.
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  500. yup, he's a really smart guy. Rob Braxman has had part of a medical doctor education, but then became a programmer instead.
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  501. yes, as if the only reason someone would want privacy is to break the law. Wouldn't we need to come up with ten totally accessible reasons why regular people need their privacy...that has nothing to do with breaking the law?
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  502. do you have the time to translate Rob's videos?
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  503. join Rob's social networking site and check out the coronavirus chat on Brax.me
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  504. did they both discuss how to have more privacy?
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  505. For those apps to do that even though you use a VPN, you must have your phone's location set to "ON"
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  506. Rob recommends getting off of FB entirely, because FB tracks you all over the web. If you will not, best is to access FB from your computer on a reserved-for-only-FB isolated browser. On that particular browser, do nothing else but FB!
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  507. come discuss with us in Brax.me about what you have noticed. Some of us on Brax.me have similar "threat models" that you might want to emulate.
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  508. I feel Rob's info has more "umph" since it's coming from a really smart, pro-active person with a lifetime of personal experience. Are you referring to how racist treatment of Asians has been in (my targeted) news? Or how Asian students are so often really disciplined & studious learners? Or that this information is more believable because it is not coming from another privileged old white guy?
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  509. A VPN helps, but cannot always be working. Using the mail client Thunderbird helps, because it prevents auto-arrival of email when the VPN isn't active...unlike other mail clients. Unfortunately, there's no Thunderbird for phones. So I do not link email to any phone and reserve it for only use with a computer.
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  510. Bob Dylan was awarded for being a great poet, though most poets only get jobs telling others they can't make any money being a poet.
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  511. Dr. John Campbell is a nurse researcher educator who has been commenting and explaining factual documentations on this subject all along.
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  512. If you do attend a demonstration, just be sure to leave at home your cell phone that can track your location. If you're planning a demonstration, be sure to use a place such as Brax.me Some states make planners liable for damage that cannot be discharged by bankruptcy. Most of the time, media response is to confuse the issues - so what's being demonstrated against is "redirected" to a different media agenda. Media also refuses to report numbers and size of demonstrations...an example: the Canadian trucker demonstration. Last year, it seemed really effective how the French people kept up demonstrating with their "Yellow jackets" - by doing it one day a week for months and months. That sort of a schedule could be kept up indefinitely until real change actually happens. In the USA, writing a snail-mail letter actually now holds more weight than any other expression of dissatisfaction, strangely enough.
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  513. Come to Brax.me for payment mediums accepted in the STORE there on Brax.me
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  514.  @hxhdfjifzirstc894  doesn't matter because you're using your old 2G phone to connect via WiFi, not use with a SIM, right?
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  515. Yes, I've always enjoyed dictionaries that narrated the foundations of where words came from originally before they ended up being the word they are today. Particularly I find it fascinating words that imitate or sort of sound like what they name, such a bee buzzing, popcorn popping, sighing, etc.
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  516. No, not yet. But there are certain others in the Brax.me Linux Chat who have degoogled Linux tablets themselves.
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  517.  @sal_strazzullo  there is no "Law of Attraction." It's a brain Science thing called RAS - your "important list" that you tend to notice so it doesn't fly over your radar
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  518.  @noeldeal8087  Yes. Really, what's the difference between a "prejudice" and an "intuitive hunch"? Also, we are also being surveilled and strangely categorized by our online actions. Your example has some logical holes though; many Good Reasons for serious objections about Police involvement with the people whom they're supposed to be "Serving." There's essentially no way to make specific police responsible for their actions. For instance, Relations with police departments would improve if Civil Asset Forfeiture (essentially Police highway robbery) was made illegal: https://youtu.be/gpL7T6mBEiY?si=T9XX6hYDADwCPcEF But I guess this issue will cease circumstantially when the ability to do any business in cash is supposedly being eliminated by next Jan.'24.
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  519. ...or a screenwriter, an author of near-history SciFi, a professor needing to teach current history events to college students, a comedy stand-up writer, or even a parent trying to home school their pile of kids who are still at home....etc. !! All these people NEED to work hard to retain their privacy to gain an education on these 'objectionable' subjects!
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  520. yes, pretty tricky to repair a carburetor, if you don't know the names of those thingamawillies. The first part of learning something is learning the unique "Shop-talk" terms for it.
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  521.  @absurdengineering  Who else makes $450. per hour except lawyers?
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  522. yes, Rob has said that computers are more secure than phones. Even better, give your work its own user account on your computer - a "standard" account without admin rights. (Then your own laptop is protected from your boss having access to everything that's on it that is your private life.)
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  523. Get Rob's BytzVPN too. I think the BraxMail is pretty cool too. I'd like to get a VPNRouter from Brax, but I don't really have multiple people who would use it.
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  524. Just don't be carrying your cell phone or any RFID chipped hundred dollar bills when you do this thing you're planning, LOL
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  525.  @judymiller5154  do you speak English as a second language but read it easier? We have on Brax.me some transcripts of Rob's videos.
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  526.  @dreed7312  Rob's solutions aren't a "one size fits all." His content is a web of education that will be based on your own needs to design your own solutions - many of which involve changing your online behavior. How and why the tech works the way it does is an indispensable factor (that changes fast) and cannot be covered in one video, no matter how "organized." So Rob's advice is directly related to your willingness to learn new ways.
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  527. Yes, words for emotions really have me miffed. We need more words for emotional states. It's as if the catch-all names for emotions that you mention were deliberately designed to confuse. For instance, the word: jealousy. Notice how common it is for people to use "jealous" when it is actually "envious" that really is happening for them. Jealousy implies there is a being to be jealous of; envy is when you desire or aspire to emulate having the qualities or possessions another person has that you do not (yet) have. Jealousy seems in itself to be a catch-all word. In my experience, jealousy is really a catch-22 (a book/movie reference; it means whichever one you choose between the two, you exclude the other; both are distasteful.) ) between an unsatisfied desire for privacy and a fearful loneliness about being excluded, as well as misdirected anger. Why doesn't the word "jealousy" helpfully reflect those emotions? (Maybe I never got how much jealousy is so different for others.)
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  528.  @RaiseYourVibes333  Over on Brax.me, Rob Braxman has crafted a "more secure" email service he calls "braxmail." You can read about what makes it unique by joining Brax.me and finding the Community chat "braxmail."
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  529. boat
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  530. some people wonder if Tesla was a "high functioning Autistic" person. The ability of Tesla to imagine his inventions in 3D and perform experiments on these inventions in his head without building physical models was a big indicator.
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  531.  @49walker44  you and Nadia Ahmad can connect on Rob's encrypted chat site: Brax.me (Corresponding by email is like writing postcards to each other)
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  532. Rob has stated previously that biometric data cannot be changed as passwords can be updated. So that's a big disadvantage to using your fingerprint, your face or your iris as I.D. Besides, a password can be legally protected; in some legal situations, biometrics cannot be withheld.
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  533. best to teach them when in person, if possible. Make it fun!
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  534. I've prepared come-back quips that I can trot out in that situation - humor works every time. Bullies have said things such as, "I'll let you know when I want to hear what you have to say," To which I prepared replies such as, "Well, you'd better want to hear me now, because I'm going to say something whenever I feel like it, whether to want to hear it or not." Or, "I'm hoping you are not a narcissistic sociopath...too." Or, "how will you know if you want to hear what I have to say if you never allow me to utter a word?"
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  535. awesome outline, thanks!!
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  536.  @militeghebre5386  yes, it's not so tricky if you learn and do it a tiny bit at a time - maybe think of it as a school course? Next time you need a new phone, get a de-googled one. When you get a new laptop, set it up the way Rob recommends as much as you can do that is practical for you. Use "browser isolation" strategy now on two companies to start with: Google and Facebook! - and buy online using a 3rd browser.
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  537. You can't control everything, but it's nice to be able to control some of your privacy.
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  538. ..because any "dumb phone" nowadays seeks to triangulate it's location by searching for where to connect to WiFi - it's hard wired and you cannot "turn off" this Wifi triangulation.
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  539. brax.me - on a browser site, (download the app later) signup with username with a password (Don't forget your password!) Then at the main menu of brax.me, select STORE. Or head to the "New User Lobby" and ask questions to get help about how to work things on brax.me.
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  540. For Pixels, Rob offers degoogling for only $130. Come to Brax.me to make sure you get the right Pixel (50% are OEM unlockable, not just carrier unlocked) and then you can send it off to Rob.
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  541. $89. yearly bytzvpn.com - then go to brax.me at the STORE to buy
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  542. Keep getting another new number after 3-6 months?
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  543. yes, the direct object in all Indo-European languages makes them "commanding."
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  544. use another link to open Youtube on Chrome? Follow all of the directions from the installation at bytzvpn.com (at the bottom of the page: via the Installation link) to make the re-connection routine of the VPN "silent" as it changes locations. If your directions don't include that, it's in OpenVPN as a setting.
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  545. IMHO, keys should be masculine, because they fit into a hole, right? Why are a boot and a shoe differently fem and masc? These designations, all male/female designations to me are completely arbitrary.
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  546. Well, remember Rob lives in Pacific time - also, he is working overtime - AND Rob is VERY efficient - so he has no reason to connect with anyone who "reaches out" to him. Tell us on Brax.me WHY you would like to connect with him and mods, etc. will put you in touch with him. Rob reads the threads: Rob Subscribers Chat and Brax Store Chat
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  547. There's de-googled or Linux phones, you can just keep them with the SIM unregistered, they'll still call 911. You can have electricity - solar or generator...and you can have water: from the roof if it rains enough or by a stream. It's the phone that bites that I'd miss to call 911 if someone got injured. An old friend of mine died when he cut a major artery in his own leg while carving without a cellphone to call for help that was too far away.
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  548. Yes, English needs more words to describe balance and movement. I discovered that attempting to teach easier physical motion. This made me a pro at describing motion over time as I shaped the possibility into education for my students. You've "threatened" to show us how assumptions in English unbalances us. I think what you mentioned has to do with the direct object, but that's in all of the indo-European languages, not merely English. Please tell me more - how does that work?
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  549. Learning to say: "How do I say....?" Or "What is the word for.....? Then you can point to stuff and the person will give you the word for it.
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  550. ​ @XRinger  You don't get how the tech works. You and everyone with you is being recorded 24-7! It's recording everything within earshot when you use these recording products. It doesn't just "turn on" when you say the wake up word...It is listening to everything you say so it catches the Wake Up word...
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  551. I have to say, socially, despite "women's rights," women STILL get actively silenced in a group. It's a power play, who is going to "Win" the attention of the group. I've seen women successfully fight for their ability to continue with what they have to say without being repeatedly interrupted by reinforcing an expressed agreement, such as: "Everyone gets five minutes" etc. AND stating the defending the ability to have the floor to speak will not be counted in this five minutes. The best book that has helped me on becoming away of speaking style differences was: "Talking 9 to 5" by linguistics prof Deborah Tannen.
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  552. Maybe all autistic kids could learn lojban and it would satisfy their tendency to be super logical?
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  553. yes, most smart people aren't exposed to constructive the "need" to learn teaching and communication skills - and negotiation and psychological abilities. Smart people tend to specialize - then they cannot explain their work to anyone!
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  554.  @davidroynewby  On a Brax2, the second slot can be used for a SIM OR for a data card - nice!
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  555.  @lordxan1  It's going to be interesting to see the gradual loss of privacy that's probably going to be legislated away.
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  556. Rob recommends that you not use biometrics as passwords because they cannot be changed or updated. Passwords are better because they have legal protection too.
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  557. Rob has just created his own de-googled phone - BraxPhone. It will be on sale ($379.) at Brax.me in the STORE link from the main menu in about two or three weeks - around the first part of March, 2022.
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  558. ...or both live in a shed while you invest in Palantir, AND have money to help your options, should you decide that where your shed is located needs to be somewhere else.
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  559. Search this channel "Anti-virus" https://youtu.be/EqI-7w8AYGg Essentially, using an anti-virus allows an opening into the device that exists to be exploited. Better to use a smaller VPN such a bytzVPN.com that Rob maintains WITHOUT an anti-virus on a phone. If you're using Windows, use "Defender" that is already built into the OS. Go on BytzVPN.com - under "installation" you can see there's the list of server files in the different countries.
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  560. I had one windows laptop that had too many partitions - I think these were made to prevent Linux from being easily installed. I had to figure out which partitions were really "necessary" and which could have their contents copied to other partitions in order to install Linux. It took lots of research and was a real pain.
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  561. Well, you need to be smart, to plan effectively and carry through with your plans to get privacy. By the time the book was published, it would be obsolete. How about these tips Rob created? They are all pretty simple: https://youtu.be/K-puGT0A72g
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  562. yes, depending on how the app is designed. That's why you should always read the reviews before you install the app where people complain about the app doing this.
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  563. Rob endorses using "linnode" servers, which don't exist in your home. Rob has said in other videos that it's best to not have your own server located in your home, actually.
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  564. on this channel, search IPV6 and you'll get what Rob's said about this
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  565. yes, "timeless time" is the concept - because time is relative to the experience of it.
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  566. it's called: "pre-crime" and it's already being done in Los Angeles, CA Works by relationship mapping those people who know confirmed gang members.
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  567. Any used smart phone will work without a SIM connected to your home network. If you need a "real" phone that won't track you using a SIM, Cheapest is to get a used Pixel - after you go into Brax.me FAQ and find out how to check for OEM unlocking - different from "carrier unlocked." After you know you have an OEM unlocked phone, send the phone into Rob for him to degoogle it for an additional $130. then don't put a million apps on it!
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  568. ​ @davids6533  No, it's not simple to preserve your privacy - and it's directly connected to how the technology works - which has been designed to "categorize and index." The original purpose was how to make people being online pay off and it's answer became: to sell ads. But an upsetting part is becoming obvious. The list of why to act to regain your privacy is huge! This "innocent" ad purpose can too expediently be switched to complete totalitarianism. Pretty soon, being able to predict "what will people do" is going to be gambled with, like "futures" in the stock market. If you happen to know someone who knows a gang member, it's been applied to "pre-crime" police harassment. It will make possible preventing inventors from patenting their nascent ideas, the case rights of clients in law and counseling. Even right now, if you attend an AA or NA meeting, it's not private anymore. If I visit a friend with cancer, I get ads that assume I have cancer... Your grand kids cannot make any mistake before they're an adult without being punished for it their entire lives.
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  569. Rob is a great teacher and he's been almost psychic in his technological predictions over time
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  570. So - start hanging out with people who do massage all the time on each other? Sounds like that would feel great!
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  571. yes, grownups don't like the stupidity of learning something new. All of us who love privacy need to get better at teaching skills so others won't be so repelled by our sense of what's important
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  572. "42" or "ThoughtyTwo" ?
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  573. @RobBraxmanTech on twitter
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  574.  @robbraxmantech  manipulation? Here's Koen Grizzly's experience: If i try to mention this video in a comment on youtube it gets AUTO DELETED as soon as i post the comment, i didn't even put a link, only your name and the tiltle, i tried 2 times, it gets deleted as soon as it is posted !!!!
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  575. the fact you haven't used your old account is enough. Just stay away. No worries.
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  576.  @PvtAnonymous  Right now, Rob is addressing the many people who just joined his channel to bring them "up to speed." Look onto some of Rob's older videos where he goes into details.
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  577.  @royaljustice5648  Long answer needed - maybe you could join Rob's social networking site called "brax.me" and ask the question on a suitable community chat area. (Ask which one in the "New User's Lobby" chat.)
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  578. A guy named "Arthur E. Carpenter" has wood furniture in the Smithsonian, LOL
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  579. join up on Rob's social network called Brax.me and find the answers to all your questions!! Personally, I prefer "openContacts" for calling (Love their search features and they remain separate from the default calling contact list.) On Brax you can learn XMPP - and get your friends to use a browser to chat with you by making an avatar for it on their phone.
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  580. Rob accepts postal money orders. You could order online using a library computer to sign into Brax.me without paying for the phone online. Then indicate on Brax.me in the "Brax Shop" chat that you're going to pay with a Postal money order - and be sure to put your Brax.me user name on the Postal Money Order when you send it in and you're good to go!
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  581. get an agreement from others you know to stop participating in this = give it a name. Where I live, it's called "Talking Stink" - and the small town I was from called it "Feeding the Rumor Mill," but you can give it another name.
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  582. Why not join Rob's special group that needs more members because it just started? (the "join" button next to the "subscribe" button.) There are "perks." One of these is Rob will take questions previous to the live stream and also take more time to answer questions during the live-stream.
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  583. I've heard that Finnish is pretty tricky.
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  584.  @ricketts223  you're right, everything is re-established on the phone the moment you take it out of the bag
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  585. Ok - let's hear... more of what you have to say, please?
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  586. depends on whether you're watching the recording to be entertained or to study high content
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  587. Walking the line of what is 'acceptable' and what isn't here on this site - that's a tricky thing to do. The fact that this video is still up but merely having been "shadow-banned" is remarkable.
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  588. yes, Check out Rob's newest live stream - the 10-27-22 one. That's the advantage of a "data only" connection - it stops any "man-in-the-middle" attack because the phone is connected to it by Wifi.
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  589. start with learning browser isolation, then get a paid VPN & use it religiously, then a degoogled phone the next time you need a phone...
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  590. This is very reasonable video to share - do it!
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  591. Once you install a version of Linux, you can be sure the computer itself will not have any "pre-installed" malware - because malware is software and you're replacing the entire OS - Operating System that runs any software. On this channel, Rob has made a "short" on how he sets up his Win10 laptops - if you want to use a "dual boot" routine where you can use both Windows AND Linux. Search: "setup" or go to this link: https://youtu.be/QHPJirrluT8
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  592. I enjoy your 'ramblings." Informative, specific and your selection of what is significant is fascinating. Please - ramble on!
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  593. happens at 12:49 - it's the Coolest EXAMPLE of an AUDITORY ILLUSION !!!!
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  594. Rob has since made another video recommending jit.si instead of Zoom - for many reasons that agree with your surprise.
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  595. ...the question is: How do we "fight" for our rights? Think it's maybe better to sidestep for our rights...
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  596. Your disinformation strategy is admirable.
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  597. I don't think that's possible...but then I'm an artist. There's also a Darwinian variant that is present (mostly in women) whose relatives are color-blind in varied ways. These women can technically see more colors than most people. Maybe you're one of those people without realizing it?
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  598. record that music!! Dreaming is a perfect way of composing music - it ends up totally original too, even if in the dream you "already know" the tune.
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  599. Do you have a "favored" way of getting into a flow state?? These days as a trigger to get into flow I use Alexander Technique - it's a discipline about how you can respond to go into action with less effort. The mindfulness "practice" of A.T. gets us into a state of flow as a by-product - you can use your sharpened senses in any skill that you'd like to better. The longest period I've inhabited a state of flow was once for four straight days. I was an adolescent and went to classes, I did everything in this altered state of consciousness. I had learned that what made it come to an end was heavy-handed analysis or pondering something from my past or trying to second-guess what someone thought about what I was doing. As long as I imagined myself as a witness and continued to make the observations of the present now, the state continued. I was really interested in these "triggers" that were outlined, thanks! My triggers had nothing to do with physical challenges. Although when in a state of flow once I was able to run indefinitely without getting tired in scorching heat - for the pure joy of it. Fortunately, some people had their sprinklers on, LOL. My triggers for entering into a state of flow was to first interrupt and suspend my internal dialog as a discipline. My goal was to stop narrating and talking to myself for as long a time as possible. However long I could stop it - then I'd become aware and completely absorbed in my environment. For me, what happened next was an appreciation of beauty. Natural beauty, the beauty of people and how they move, how they're shaped, their voices, guessing intention without imagining anyone was doing something nefarious. I could look at cars or buildings with curiosity about what someone's intention was when they made it the way they designed it. I guess this means my biggest means of access to flow - for me it's the category of awe.
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  600. You cannot "revert" once you have disconnected your true LandLine - the phone company will NOT allow you to do so. You're forced to use a VOIP line, at a great expense than Ooma also. Ooma is a great deal, given you're forced to abandon your landline.
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  601.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Depends on which vaccination people choose to have. Not everyone wants to be a volunteer test subject - with no recourse and for no pay.
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  602. you might want to research ADD Adult Deficit Disorder. It's a brain thing - your thinking ability doesn't activate until some threshold of intensity happens.
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  603. yes, great point. Unfortunately, corruption doesn't need ethics - it only needs opportunity. This channel points out how the technical opportunities exist, so they are GOING to be used. Gradually is there is now retribution and effects from holding certain "opinions" - and it's only a matter of time until "profiling" and categorization WILL be used against people - in fact, this is already happening...and it's frightening!
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  604. good question. Come to brax.me and ask it there and you'll get an answer...
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  605. HAM radio - because it's very tricky to digitally use an analog system.
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  606. great idea!
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  607. Not yet all services exist outside of the USA, but Rob does have a "local" bytzVPN.com server in multiple places worldwide. Mumbai and Singapore, I believe.
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  608. Rob did a video featuring hotspots, etc. I can't remember what the title is though, and I can't find the search option on Rob's channel anymore!!
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  609. See the other video shorts on Rob's channel here to learn about "browser isolation." If you have no content on FB, you can "deactivate" your FB account(s). (Often there are apps you cannot uninstall from your phone, like FB. Just don't use them.) To "De-Google" a phone is not as simple as deleting some apps - it's rebuilding the software that is the phone from the bottom up. Simpler is to buy one of Rob's de-googled phones whenever you need a new phone next.
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  610. In brain Science it's called RAS - Reticulated Activating System. It's when you have topics or concerns "on your list" so it helps you notice them instead of them flying under your radar.
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  611. Social skills are learnable - think of them as "acting" or "foreign culture" skills: reading body & face mannerisms, using vocal inflection & body language signals. Become aware of implied (double) meanings through studying what makes people laugh - it's fun too!
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  612. Come to Brax.me - Rob's social networking site. We've got blog rooms on this very challenge. The first to do is - watch Rob's "privacy" thread on this channel. Especially, start doing Rob's "browser Isolation" tactic, right now!
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  613. yes, Rob has discussed this in live streams previously. Yes, there is a big risk that kids are being mined before they reach 13.
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  614. Sorry, but those people who are the USgov have to read too many long-winded bills that have other unrelated things stuffed into them, alongside the time they must spend getting money to be re-elected. These older people don't have the time to get up to speed on the tech world. They should be binge-watching here!
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  615.  @anthonybranco  So - constructively, how to get an investigation, given the benefits toward corruption? I'd seen the Netflix history documentary mini-series about "Rock Star" Capitalists, (Vanderbuilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Ford, etc.) These guys did things to make money that were later ruled to be objectionable & laws were made about their monopolistic tactics. it happened in the fast-moving era after the Civil War. The same thing is happening now in the fast-moving tech field...
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  616. yes, you can use the Brax Router, which has Rob's bytzVPN installed - which provides a VPN to every device connected to your WIFI by default. (The brax router also works with other VPNs, but Rob doesn't supply installation instructions to every VPN, unfortunately.)
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  617. You could copyright you name then?
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  618. Wave your arms around - ask, "Do we want to talk as a group, or just private simultaneous conversations?" Match the speed of talking in your first sentence or phrase, then slow down when you get people's attention.
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  619. There's a version of Linux that's designed to be installed on a Chromebook. You can wipe out google by installing that. (Just save all your files somewhere else before you install, of course.)
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  620. At 25:01 when pride is brought up - I had a mentor who changed my values around selling myself, name of Chuck Lewis. (He wrote a book with many of his stories about selling called: "You're Gonna Love it!") Among other things, Chuck taught me that the "deadly sins" really had another emotion attached that was what made these "sins" a "deadly" problem. For instance he quipped, "Pride without fear is a desire for excellence." Once I thought about my reluctance to congratulate myself, this gave me a whole new interpretation on the value of being proud - as a self-training tool. After which I began to reward myself like a two-year-old when I succeeded, even when it was "accidentally on purpose." This allowing myself to be "proud" of what I did right trained my random but lucky mistakes into a skill I could repeat reliably. Succeeding by skill is a desire pointed toward excellence! Most often I hear a similar message from multiple sources until the content echoes for long enough for me to put these "great idea" insights into action. Anyone else who offered you insights that this talk inspired you to recall?
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  621. Your actions depend on your "threat model." Watch OPSEC subject titles on this channel to plan your escape to more privacy - you've got a GREAT START with a comprehensive list! You're missing "browser isolation," the most simple and free thing to do for starters. Plus, get off Facebook and all Facebook-owned apps. Be sure NOT to download TOR browser until you have a working VPN, you'll get on a "list."
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  622. Humans can see three colors (besides dark and light) Cyan, Magenta & yellow. There's a shrimp that can see I think...17 different colors and their variations. Including infrared, for instance. I can't even conceive of seeing that many colors... If reincarnation exists, I wanna be that shrimp for awhile, LOL
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  623.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Rob Braxman designed "Braxmail" to address these issues.
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  624. Please read Rob's reply elsewhere...
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  625. Rob has been able to predict what's coming before it shows up in multiple situations. Then he has helped us to be ready for it, unlike everyone else who must merely react after it happens.
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  626.  @HostileRespite  Plus, instead of so many who only ring the Watchman's Rattle as you pointed out, Rob is different because he has solutions helping us craft an entire privacy strategy. Granted, these solutions require learning stuff - they aren't easy because so many resist learning.
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  627.  @architecture.w  Your suggestion doesn't work in the EU, from what I've been told...
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  628. Not true - you'd be surprised how vulnerable you are, even if you imagine you're smart and also "informed."
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  629. naw - if you want, use the "fake news" approach and put weird, unrelated spam on your account to confuse them.
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  630. Hmmmm, Rob BraXman has a twin brother?
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  631. What is this? A non-sequitur comment by an Artificial Intelligence?
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  632. was probably a scammer
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  633. Yeah, that's how I feel about enhancing my data privacy. I seem to really hate being "supervised" and I don't do well with it at all.
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  634. I always enjoyed how Linux was sort of a programmer's portfolio of their best work.
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  635. wonder what would have happened if one of those people had possessed a "degoogled" phone?
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  636. You use the alternative: Aurora Store - it has Google Play apps but "Spoofs" a google identification.
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  637. yes, only a matter of time before all loopholes are closed. Then what will we do?
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  638. Because it's a 'throwaway' cost, smart people don't make the time for educating others (unless they get "assigned" a parental role, which many refuse because they don't want to spend the time being a distracted parent.) The ability to teach is a separate (expensive) skill, especially rare in this specialized world...and communication skills are not often taught in schools - specifically. Our culture is screwed if smart people don't invest in teaching or mentoring - forget spawning kids. Maybe if teachers were paid more & were socially more highly valued...?
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  639. ...and humor. Learning a culture's sense of humor is the last part of learning a language, IMHO.
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  640. Please join us on Brax.me. There are quite a few of us there who know Rob's solutions and can walk you though setting yourself up. A SIM is provided by your own carrier that works in your location - that's possible to be many different choices. Best to ask your neighbors about which SIM carrier company that's best to use.
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  641. Many behavioral changes you can make for free. Only requirement is education time. Binge-watch this channel! If money is a challenge for you, you can buy elsewhere used a suitable phone that Rob degoogles and send it to him to transform for just the degoogling fee. Please come to Brax.me navigate to store-Mobile phonesand main menu >FAQ phones> to learn how to test for a suitable model - and don't buy before you know exactly what to get.
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  642. yes, because smarter people can often think of alternate ways to do something, then via Cognitive Bias, they find it trickier to choose when there are more options.
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  643. tell us how that works?
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  644. yeah, the comments are almost as good as the interview!
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  645.  @ytsux123  my be the use of a VPN that gets your comments deleted? Some channels don't turn off the default ban on the use of a VPN as Rob has done on his channels.
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  646.  @giantscruffdog2760  study playing a musical instrument? ( Music I believe is a 2nd language! From asking for observations from people as part of my work, those who were musicians were able to give the most answers.)
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  647. tell me more - what's a "barrel adapter"??
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  648. Come to Rob Braxman's social networking site: Brax.me Only requires a password and username to join, no email or phone number necessary!
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  649.  @mr.dueezy  yes, there's a YouTube video for everything...
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  650. wow - a "social value" score of "trustworthiness"??? Hey, let's feed them some "FAKE NEWS" so our score is ZERO!!
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  651. Rob's entire channel is involved in his replies...
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  652. Nice. If you could figure out how your WIFI got bricked and could make it happen on purpose, you'd have a product you could sell to us!!
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  653.  @Hezzey  yes, I have a newbie guest account, with the protections in place so they can't affect the rest of the installation
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  654. Yes, Robert Heinlein's book is useful to read to expand your idea of language, especially if you only know English and no other languages.
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  655. but you'd better have your revocation notarized and present it to the "proper" people in the "proper legal" ways. Seriously, you can say anything you want - but revocation is trickier.
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  656. Appreciate your most excellent outline here. I wish more people did this outlining with linking for more of Rob's high content videos on his channel. You're an awesome student!!!
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  657. good point, lots of people don't even know what "misandry" means!!
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  658. You're confusing the SIM cell card with the Internet via WiFi. Google is getting info of your actions, without you starting any software at all, even though you do not have a SIM phone number. Your phone's hardware is sending your location to Google by seeking possible WiFi networks to connect to - you cannot turn this off. (As you have discovered, your ability to connect with WiFi has nothing to do with a SIM phone number ability.) The list Rob made at 10:08 is what is being broadcast by your phone while being connected to Internet via WiFi at the restaurant. Doesn't matter if you're signed into Google or not. If you want to stop and/or mitigate this, you can binge-watch this channel. (There are free things you can do.)
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  659. I hear what you're saying about avoiding the "dopamine rush." I've learned if I'm going to get anything done on the computer, I've gotta have a list of what I'm Doing, and I've gotta stick to the list. There are privacy advantages to making another user (without being an admin) be your job. Then your boss cannot "see" the rest of what's on your computer that is your private business.
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  660.  @PolyMadd  Marriages go to hell for many reasons, but a big one is a lack of communication skills, for sure. I was in a Dialog group, and at one point I timed how long each woman spoke, comparing it to how long men spoke, (without being obvious about doing it.) Then at the end of the dialog meeting, I asked everyone to think back about how this comparison went. Most men perceived that women talked more often and longer than they did. But it wasn't the case, verified by my actual measurements. The group was somewhat shocked when I showed my notes, which made for an interesting conversation about Confirmation Bias.
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  661. I just re-read "Native Tongue" by Suzette Haden Elgin. (who invented La'adan.) Haden merely discussed mostly the process of developing La'adan, without having her characters speak it. Wasn't clear to me if La'adan itself had this idealistic effect...or if the improvements for the women came from the exercise of a sense of purpose.
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  662. Perfect! This makes me want a time stamp for each of the 15 points!!
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  663. VPN = Virtual Private Network. Meaning: a group of people share the same online device identifying address. Then their true identifying address is hidden by their VPN group membership.
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  664. great idea! Think a bit more how that might work out...
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  665. Your answer is already on this channel, search: "Browser Isolation"
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  666.  @noneyabiz8225  Your cell service would know where you are located.
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  667. just heard today that Thurs. Feb. 24th all former provisions will be cancelled in the UK.
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  668. What if all of us donated something to bring this issue - or any issue we believe needs justice - perhaps it could be brought to justice, right? Money is what talks effectively.
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  669.  @YouREsoBEAUTIFUL00  change the physical fear reaction posture first??
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  670. To avoid Paypal robbing my bank account, I have specified to my Credit Union to not pay out more than is in an unused savings account that I have connected to Paypal. When needed, I transfer by phone ONLY the amount needed to buy something specific into that account and then I spend it right away, leaving only Five bucks or so in that account to keep it open. There's also Postal Money Orders - right now no identification needed when bought with cash.
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  671. especially a good reason to learn to at least be able to read as many languages as possible.
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  672. Look on Rob's previous videos on his channel. He shows how his VPN keeps no logs.
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  673. Cha? Chaz? Then you could work on the Chassis or dance, LOL
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  674. One of my fave SciFi authors has been A.E. Van Vogt. Famous story: "The Weapons Shop of Isher." From the 1940s, he always had a "movie-like" writing style that translated well into current screenplay styles, scene-for-scene.
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  675.  @Broxine  Thanks for the explanation! Another challenge is communication skills, where the people "in the know" of a homophily who consider themselves "better than" those who do not know their anachronistic shortcuts, "big words" or linguistic expressions. Many smart people overlook how they might want to be writing for a wider audience, IMHO. (In My Humble Opinion doesn't matter for the meaning to be conveyed in this instance...but I have learned the value of giving indicators of any other acronym or "big word" that does matter.)
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  676. Yes, using the strategy of spammers can be done for really positive missions also. Check out Rob's email solution in BraxMail that he offers that's better and more effective than ProtonMail could ever be. Signup for it on Brax.me - it takes some learning to setup, but once you do, you'll understand the limitations of email much, much better.
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  677. Hilarious! His parents could have just as easily named him "Jokey" or "Lovey." This has gotta be an urban legend created by some joker.
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  678. Rob sells "degoogled" phones on his site, Brax.me
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  679. Rob will do his live streams on Locals and Rumble instead of here on YouTube starting in 2024. So if you're wondering where Rob's usual weekly live stream is on Thursday evening...
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  680. good idea
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  681. good point. How will patents be enforced as they are being designed if encryption isn't allowed?
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  682. (Rob replied on his first post, scroll up)
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  683. ​ @lloyd christmas Of course it's possible, but you're gonna have to ask YOUR provider to help you configure your VPN for this use, not Rob. For instance, read in the comments for some guy named "lostcowboy" (answering VL?) who has offered explanation on how to use BraxRouter with another VPN.
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  684. Personally, I don't want to be repeatedly told I have cancer by a drug advertiser over and over again.
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  685. Oh yeah - all that AND learn to do what Rob calls: "Browser (and later, device) Isolation"
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  686. Wired in flexible ways!
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  687. Obviously, you haven't even seen this channel page yet, or you'd realize at least @joeRogan has noticed Rob. It's a bit overwhelming to suddenly become "famous" for what you want to be doing - Rob isn't ready yet to up his game sofast, so he would rather grow a bit slower. A few weeks ago this channel got 90K new subs in one week!
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  688. Face masking is good for privacy, actually. Face masks make it tricky for facial recognition A.I. software that's installed at intersections and streets to automatically ticket drivers of cars going one mile over the speed limit or not precisely stopping at right turns.
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  689.  @digitalranger4259  Rob just got 90K followers in ONE week...he's under much more stress to keep multiple plates spinning in the air right now.
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  690. Rob has servers in European countries, and he has indicated that there are no logs on these servers. He has in place indicators for all of us users of his services to know if and when his business with no VPN logs has been compromised.
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  691.  @rpf23543  Youtube will delete comments with URLs in them.
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  692. Yes, once I get someone else who puts into words what I know to be truth, I use it! Not sure why, rather than face to face, information professionally presented once removed is more believable. It used ot be: information you PAID for is more believable!
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  693. yes, it's a "ransomeware" scam. They say something is wrong with your computer, get you to download what they supply to you. Then what you have just downloaded now truly ruins your computer. Then they offer to "fix" what they just trashed for $$ .. It's a total scam.
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  694. yes, we all should be learning how to code.
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  695. "...You're looking at the world with a bias, whether you think you are, or not." That quote needs to be enshrined!
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  696. great idea - maybe you need one of Rob's new shirts that say: "DeGoogled" on it...LOL
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  697. no, Ooma phones do not receive or transmit text messages. However, there are other apps that can do this that Rob has reviewed previously. Rob now has his own very reasonably priced VOIP service with very limited texting designed to be used rarely for 2-Factor Authentication. (Find more about it on Brax.me - ask in the New Users Lobby)
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  698. haven't you heard? Laws haven't kept up with protecting our rights. In fact, rights are be regularly eroded intentionally bypassing what "rights" we had in the USA. Capitalism has a long history of exploiting stuff that then later becomes illegal after the fact.
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  699. People discuss alternate products on Brax.me, Rob's social networking and product maintenance site.
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  700. Yes - binge-watch this whole channel and treat it as if it's a free course - use your study skills!
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  701. What Rob suspects is also outlined here at this site: https://reclaimthenet.org/world-economic-forum-pushes-digital-id/ This link essentially describes the implementation of a social credit score.
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  702. You know by "coincidental" assumptions of advertising that's "tailored" to you. Sometimes this can get really creepy - You discuss cancer within earshot of a Alexa in your friend's house that is supposed to not be "on" because you don't know Alexa records all in anticipation of hearing its "activation word." An hour later you see repeated ads that take for granted you are the one who is sick. You learn the tech behind corporate data collection activity. That's the purpose of this channel, to teach you so you know about privacy violations. Another example I learned off this channel: Most phones (except those phones that run Linux or are "de-googled,") are reporting your location, 24-7. This location monitoring feature is in the WiFi hardware of phones and you can't turn it off. The capacity of Wifi in phones and laptops search constantly to connect to WiFi signals - so these locations of various WiFi locations are being "triangulated"...within six feet.
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  703. Learn from Barbara Sher's books, such as "Live The Life You Love" Convince one other person to be your buddy to help each other reinforce making dreams come true.
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  704. 42 is the answer to "Life, the universe and everything" in the series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Oh, you just must read it to get the joke reference.
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  705. 9 seconds is the attention span of a goldfish. You're gonna wanna invest a bit more on this topic to really learn the tech to be capable of understanding why Rob says what he means. Binge-watch it in little bites if you can't handle the high content?
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  706. yeah, in that way the 'advertising time' was sort of ironic.
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  707.  @piotrz6872  Agreed. Studying the techniques of advertising helps me not be so irritated by it. I can note what process they're following, see if they did anything original in how they did it, etc. Not sure it helps me with still being affected - but I've learned to delay "buy now" as a strategy.
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  708. ​ @piotrz6872  Yes, you will fall for the ad ruse, if the advertising tactic is tailored to and matches your habitual conditioning. You can have a 'fail-safe' of impulse control. Then you will be able to intentionally pause before reacting, even though you realize you have the urge to comply. Now - how to teach this impulse control?
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  709. Call them "Gals" ? I consider myself a "Gal-friend" and my partner my "Guy-friend" because we're too mature to be "boys and girls."
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  710. Yeah, those of us who want to convince others that privacy is important need to get better at convincing them. I've found one of the best methods is to just grab their phone and install "brax.me' (Rob's social network and support site) with a username and password that's easy for them to remember and go then when you're logged in as them, start a chat with you. Then go from there...
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  711. You can download apps not included on the Brax2 by using "F-Droid" or "Aurora" which "spoofs" a Google ID. All apps that offer voice features such as "Talks," is recording you and anyone nearby all the time - in order to hear the "wakeup word." So best to not get a de-googled phone if you are blind, or to use your Brax2 phone to only make calls when you are out of your house.
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  712. buy at bytzVPN.com and signup on Brax.me to manage your new VPN; then get the Brax Router software (Now using a NUC instead of a Rasberry Pi.)
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  713. that's a wonderful phrase you coined!!
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  714.  @nevadacario2000  You need to ask Rob on Brax.me in the "Rob Subscriber's Chat" (during Pacific time.)
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  715.  @popfreezetuna2601  Not, not the Brax router, but all BytzVPN "noAds" files use Pi-hole (costs another $89 a year. - but you can use your current paid VPN sub with BraxRouter.)
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  716. Observed, accepted and re-described my weird style of doing things. The issue for me was I wasn't going to EVER become a specialist. Redefined myself as a "multi-talent." Once I did that, I fell into a book: "Refuse to Choose" by Barbara Sher - which gave me templates to accommodate the strange ways I seemed to want to get work done. Ways that weren't used by other people...who weren't "like me." I accepted that being able to "hyper-focus" was not like how other people worked - and so I NEEDED to accommodate myself and not demand I become like others or demand others needed to accommodate me. My best hack was to figure out a way to have 5 projects in process at the same time - so I didn't have to choose between making it a huge non-stop priority or stop doing it so I could cleanup in order to accommodate other things like eating, other people's requirements etc. Here's what I figured out: I made huge shelves - table-sized - then set up (multiple) projects on a huge table-sized board that I put on any table work area, (even my bed.) When the rest of the family needed the table, (or I needed my bed) - I slid the board with everything set up on it into my huge shelves. Then after the "table" area had been used for family (or roommate) purposes - I could slide my project, still already set up, ready to go!! Then at the end of the night, I would slide the project into my shelves. This allowed me to continue when I had the next block of time to work on my "passions." The advantage was this strategy worked even when this meant I had only two hours...which would have been usually absorbed in the setup and put away process if I hadn't accepted and accommodated my odd ways of working on multiple things at once. All it took to do with was multiple tools and a HUGE set of shelves!
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  717. yes, it's a surprise how a smart phone without a SIM is so useful when accessing a Wifi connection, isn't it?
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  718.  @kathydavis2764  Yes, SIMs are great when wifi is nowhere near you. From wifi triangulation without a VPN, location would be successfully tracked. But while using Wifi, cell towers are not involved. Wifi "teathers" you to the (often 30 ft. radius) wifi signal; but it's who knows YOU because who owns the wifi might not be YOU. When you use a cell tower your phone provider knows you, when you're using Wifi and a phone app to call - who you are known as depends on how you created the account and how you logged in on that user name.
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  719. "Boiling pot" with either frogs or crabs inside, pulling each other down into the pot again as they crawl onto each other to get out.
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  720.  @alysa8884  Now that you know a few more terms, ask more questions!
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  721. Only way you can do that is to become too poor to get their attention.
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  722. There used to be "linux user groups" that met in person. But with the creation of Ubuntu and after Covid, that doesn't happen anymore. Perhaps they have resumed in your area if you live in a town?
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  723. there are now special glasses for people who are colorblind that allow them to see the differences. Could ask your optometrist about them?
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  724. Since this video, Rob has now implemented an email service for a somewhat protected email he calls "Braxmail." To understand its features and advantages, come to brax.me and read back to the beginning of the "braxmail chat" Hope to see you on Brax!
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  725.  @αηυση  smart - thanks for referring to what Rob had already done
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  726. What about Acxiom? I don't want to go there to find out, LOL
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  727. sarcasm has a bite.
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  728. Traditionally, Laws come into effect AFTER something happens that causes HARM to people. I'm not sure that strategy is going to work with A.I. - because if humans wait until "After the fact" harm is being done to them, the AI will already have the upper hand that cannot be mitigated.
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  729.  @thefinalroman  Tesla looked as if he starved to death
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  730. I haven't looked into the TOR browser option within Brave and would love to also know the answer to your question. Do you know about Rob's idea he calls "Browser Isolation"? It's categorizing your interests, one to a browser. The advantage is the multiple browsers cannot index your activity between them because they're owned by different companies. So they can only keep track of what you're telling them on their own browser without knowing what you're doing on another browser. I do know that when you download TOR browser without using a VPN, you're on a three letter agency list. Rob has a paid VPN called BytzVPN. It has a TOR VPN option, which is slower but that can be an advantage because the TOR is not just a browser but ALL your activities, such as email, sending and downloading files, etc.
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  731. I'd be interested in hearing which languages have which correlations you're describing. Please? English for me is fraught with divisive opinion. Because whenever anyone opens their mouth, they seem to be defining the nature of "reality." - "The way things "Are." In order to say "from my point of view" IMHO, or I see it like this: You have to "frame" what follows. I want a verb tense for "I'm saying this from my own perceptual orientation."
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  732. Can I microwave the RFID strip in my hundred dollar bills? I don't like that someone will be able to figure out I have cash on my person with the right sensors.
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  733. That's enough of a reason to change your own name
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  734.  @stevev2292  Now you can delete the duplicates. People often won't respond to a duplicated post, (sometimes because the duplication is a kind of spamming,) but also because they don't know where the collection of responses are clustered. Tricky because you "forget" all the spots where you did post also. Also - I've found people won't respond to a long post, where multiple points are being made.
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  735. To reply to the post itself, what about the idea to find a list of restaurants in my area that are "requiring" vax cards - determined solely by the restaurants themselves in my area. Then I can go to them and do what you suggest, hopefully harassing the management and not the underpaid workers. In Braxman's case, the whole town of L.A. was required to ask for Vax cards by a new law/policy - so the restaurant owners were facing legal action if they didn't comply, which was not their fault directly.
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  736. whoa... That happened to me. Almost lost a blog I'd been adding to for over ten years. It was only solved by giving them an old burner phone number that I happened to have laying around.
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  737. Good point - you have suspicions of a linguistic prof
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  738. A friend, of mine has ONE Gmail account and one dumb phone - and he forgot his password. Google asked for all of these 2FAs that he had NO idea even what they were to recover his password. Turns out they were using an old phone number that he'd never updated when he changed his number years ago. Finally I reminded him that he had used one of my emails as a recovery email - and Google figured out that was his ONLY option. Now this guy has a written "password book," LOL.
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  739. Rob has said, Huawei reports to Chinese indexing - not good.
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  740.  @albert9202  that's what Rob Braxman has told me
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  741. These topics are already covered on this channel. Go to the channel page, (click on the magnifying glass search icon below the header to open the box) type in some of these terms (such as OPSEC, fingerprint, browser isolation) and do a bit of Binge-watching !!
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  742. all "flip phones" connect with Wifi - which allows your location to be triangulated and sent back to your "mothership." With a degoogled phone, this possibility is removed.
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  743. Yes, our first simplification (coming from self-protection, I think) is to categorize and define. These categories often reflect our mistaken assumptions and reflect our attitude problems, prior experience or fears. To encourage someone who doesn't know us to consider going beyond their first impressions of us - that's a rapport skill. The most interesting people to me are those who have melded together what our culture has considered to be "opposites." They embody these "opposites" in excess in their character traits. Our categorization considers character traits defined as "opposite" to cancel each other out on one end of a stick or the other...and that classification "what you are" isn't real. People are more complex than that, happily!
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  744.  @robbraxmantech  yes, I think this belongs in the Beginner playlist, because everyone uses email.
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  745. I tell people my story of why I got into privacy - basically I didn't want an advertiser to repeatedly bug me about buying their product after accusing me how I had cancer when I didn't! Then I intro browser isolation as a first step and brax.me as a great substitute for phone messaging.
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  746. Since I was touch-deprived, I realized I had to "train" other people how it was OK to touch me and that I enjoyed non-sexual touch and needed to be touched. How I did this: (Before Covid) people could touch anyone socially on their forearm without it being considered "sexual." For people who you did not know, it probably is best to do that when you're saying goodbye. Then they know that no response from them is necessary other than to tolerate you touching them. Show them how you treat friends you do know. Demonstrate to them by letting them see you touching and hugging those people you already know who are you "recognized good friends." Then they will understand that touching is the way you indicate to others they have attained the status of "Your Friend." I've noticed that cashiers will always slightly touch me when they hand me my change. I sometimes comment on it with them and tell them how much I appreciate any "accidental" contact from another human. This is a good strategy if someone happens to touch you in any way - tell them how much you appreciate being touched and why! Another thing to remember is that you don't have to touch others with your hands. Bump them with your shoulder, tap their shoe with your foot as an emphasis when you're talking; snuggle your foot under their leg to warm up your popsicle toes when you're barefoot on a couch. You can also nudge them with your elbow as an extension of "talking with your hands." In fact, elbows are a nice way to non-sexually touch in our Western culture because most people consider "elbowing" someone to be a sort of "get out of the way" thing. When you don't use your elbow like that, it surprises people a bit. ...But don't touch Asian people on the tops of their heads. I've been told it's a cultural insult.
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  747. SciFi writers have better get busy doing some more imagineering. All the engineers were going to the SciFi Conventions to get ideas for future projects - now engineers and product design folks are starving for ideas! Got any half-baked ideas or topics that should be in a SciFi novel - or invented soon?
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  748. You might want to check out Rob's newest short - on what Apple has done under the excuse of maybe finding pedophiles - please see Rob's January 24th video.
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  749. If you had seen this channel's page - you'd know that Rogan has already featured Rob Braxman... It's the first auto-play video on this channel's page you've missed...
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  750. yes, humor is the last thing people learn when they become proficient in a language
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  751. Can you spell out for us some of the ways how Zuni think differently as a culture?
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  752. What I mean is, can you tell us anything about grammar of Zuni language? Do you notice character traits that your Zuni friends seem to share? For instance, I believe the direct object structure in English is partly responsible for Indo-European people thinking mechanistically and manipulatively, (with both positive and negative effects.) It's because the direct object structure separates the "noun" and has the noun "acting on" the direct object.
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  753.  @JakeWitmer  could you edit your post, instead of listing the "three letter agencies," to just say "three letter agencies"?? Then the AI will not notice your post where you mentioned these.
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  754. the nature of any story is that it's fictitious - bs!
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  755.  @zmieniamyinternet3172  Chromium is a nice addition to use for Google services in a "browser isolation" strategy.
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  756. yes, "World-building" SciFi scenarios via Mr. Braxman
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  757.  @martonkovacs9553  Rob speaks from the technical knowledge of how the programming works. Just try talking is these "supposedly private" chats about some really weird thing you're going to buy - and watch the ads pop up for you about that exact thing.
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  758. Good one! Maybe you'd enjoy Steven Pinker's "The Stuff Of Thought" ?
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  759.  @dr.stronk9857  LOL. undoubtedly also you might be interested in: "Lateral thinking" by Edward de Bono
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  760. The other group of people to get to know if you're "Touch Deprived" are physical therapists, massage therapists and "body workers." These are people who are often touching others all day every day for a living, so they do not regard touch as a "never." Socially, they tend to touch each other naturally more often.
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  761.  @happytrailcamstoyou9509  delete FB posts expediently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ugOs7cja_g&t=147s
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  762.  @robertoospina10  Please join us on Brax.me where we can discuss this further. I'd love to pursue this. I's like to imagine this "new reset" as an author would imagine something different than a dystopian society - such as how did "Star Trek" society evolve from what we have now - beyond discovering "faster than light travel."
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  763. Yes, Ventoy is a nice feature that installs multi OS on one USB flash drive stick. Someone even figured out a way to make it "persistent," meaning, you can save your files too.
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  764. Bucky Fuller didn't write SciFi books - he invented stuff.
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  765. what's being protected by using duckduckgo is the searching process. Once you go to a site, (if you do not have a VPN to hide your IP address,) you are being recorded after having arrived at those websites. Pretty much every website now uses Google analytics on their pages to track who is coming to their site and from where.
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  766.  @davidsain2129  Have her take the FB app off the phone and access FB from a browser only, using the SAME browser each time - and not using that browser for anything else but FB.. You can just put the browser's icon in place of the FB icon onto her phone's screen...don't use Chrome as the browser that includes FB - because she needs Chrome for YouTube, Gmail, Blogspot, and all the other services connected to Google.
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  767. Why bother micro-chipping people when they willingly buy phones?
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  768. Unless you want to learn the tech details to verify, you'll want to trust Rob. I've known him for years and he's repeatedly attempted to show and educate us all on privacy. If he was exploiting us - his whole scene would be a lie. I'm not sure if I saw it when Rob was broadcasting on Periscope, but he showed us at one point when he designed BytzVPN how there was a lack of VPN logs, etc. on a live stream.
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  769. Rob is on a Privacy Mission...
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  770. here is it: https://youtu.be/VsNq2v_IyeY You're going to want to see it on a big screen to be able to see what Rob is doing as it's happening.
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  771. Any used computer will do to install Linux on it - of course, the more RAM the better. Just run the live USB that you make to check out if all of the features on the computer will work under that specific distro - if everything works, then install it! If all the features on that PC don't work, try another distro. Once installed, the distro will run much faster.
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  772. You could have two phones. One phone for business and whatsapp. Another phone is your personal phone. Can you use a browser to go to the bank for buying things, not the banking app?
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  773. ever think of hiring yourself out as a psychic? Wow.
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  774. I'd ask at the specialty shops near your location who service washing machines, which ones don't have electronics that are "smart" that also have good repair histories. I'd also use my local library, which often has an online account for Consumer Reports magazines. Old issues of that magazine often will tell you the features of washers that perhaps you could buy used off craigslist in your area.
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  775. Join us on the privacy mission at Brax.me, which is Rob's social network site. Learn tech alternatives that are free for starters - such as Browser Isolation. Binge-watch this channel for a whole course on data privacy. Get a VPN, decide on an OPSEC strategy carefully that will spread disinformation for yourself and others. Get one of those Brax VPN Routers - that protect everyone in your household who connects WiFi. When you need a new phone, get a de-googled phone and use the old one only at home on Wifi without a cell connection. I'm thinking of Old School leafleting all the doors on my own neighborhood, telling them about exactly how the "sidewalk" tech works. But I won't be carrying a cell phone and I'll be wearing a metal threaded mask when I hang these leaflets on front doors, LOL.
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  776.  @TheNightWatcher1385  There's always another way. Selective disinformation is effective, and passively nonviolent. Binge-watch "Rob Braxman Tech" for more effective but peaceful activism strategies.
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  777. Join Rob and the rest of us on Rob's social networking and group support site: Brax.me Hope to see you there!
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  778. At Brax.me, we have a project going where people outline each of Rob's talks to help others as you suggest. Would YOU like to donate an outline of this video - or another of Rob's presentations? Just post it as a comment and give us permission to use it on Brax. me also - Thanks!!
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  779.  @Techier868  took me months...I'm still not done!
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  780. Both of us can use "disinformation."
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  781.  @midimusicforever  Right now, the beam-forming aspect isn't operational - yet.
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  782. yes, and who has the money to enforce it?
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  783. 3G is disappearing from AT&T in Feb of 2022, unfortunately. I know that AT&T will not activate your phone, depending on your location.
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  784. Make a show of putting on your "Counselor" hat? In essence, they're forcing you into the role of either being a counselor or condoning their actions to each other, right?
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  785. Speaking of privacy - I can't post here unless I turn off my VPN. Isn't that a setting that you should change, Steve?
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  786. There is no "one good way." You must implement many interlocking changes to avoid being tracked, doxxed and spammed. 1st: search this channel for "Browser Isolation" and stop using apps and connect to used services through a browser.
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  787. Yes, Rob has done this, but someone to come up with the weekly tech updates hasn't emerged yet. Come to Brax.me - Rob's social networking and support site. The people who hang out there are Rob's "Right Hand." Some of them are capable of awesome stuff. (I'm not one of them, I'm just a Rob Fan Girl.)
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  788.  @Seegalgalguntijak  can you explain what's a UFW?
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  789. English is a second language for Rob - even though he speaks it as if it's his native language.
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  790. Practical!! YES, we could say, "I'm not finished yet." Or: "hang on, I wanna hear you after me," or "Let's take turns talking," or "Am I not letting you talk?"
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  791. Rob has since made videos and a live stream about eSim issues; in March 2024
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  792. Because he must also program for windows users - he's a developer who needs his inventions to work on many platforms.
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  793. Studying thinking as a skill (via Edward de Bono) gave me "mindware" tools. What has made you smarter that you did (or plan to do) during your life?
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  794. start out at bytzVPN.com for explanation and then go to Brax.me to purchase at Brax's STORE in the main menu
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  795. Rob is a programmer who must have all of the different OS so he can try out his programming on them.
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  796. I'm looking back over my life in retrospect. This description in this video fit me well. I thought of being "genius material" as a disadvantage in school. It was having to writhe in agony while the rest of the class repeated endlessly what I had already learned. By the first three weeks of school, I had learned the entire year of lessons - just by reading all the textbooks. I'd like to relate my solutions, because a description of the problems here are only beginnings. For me, rather than being a specialist, I had to recognize that I was innately a "generalist." Meaning - I was someone with many talents and interests that could not be satisfied by an "umbrella" solution that integrated many of these diverse interests. Some essential talent I had was always left out. Like a gremlin, a left-out talent would swamp me, demanding center stage at an inconvenient time. I learned, rather than being a "diver-specialist," it was better for me to have a "learn & teach" as a purpose. Or, it worked for me to "learn & make up a biz with what I learned for awhile to fund my efforts as I learned more." My "smarts" were then focused on how to pull off doing what I wanted to do. Mostly I did this by going in the 'back door" rather than the "front door" of the livelihood. (Because I had no financial support, other than one four-year college scholarship.) Some solutions that worked the best for me throughout my life: First off, studying thinking as a skill specifically, (via Edward de Bono.) De Bono gave me strategic design skills that were useful my entire life - and still are, (now that I'm older.) Then I studied how to get benefits from practice & mastery - from Aikido. Something I did NOT know how to do because I resisted establishing routines...because I assumed I didn't need to practice because I was so smart...(!) I later learned, "he who practices, improves." I thought I only needed an "epiphany" & that insight was everything. Epiphanies are a glimpse, then you have to learn as everyone else does - because brains can only take in so much unfamiliarity at a time. Then, studying communication skills. One of the problems for "genius" level people is they "get it" so quickly, they have no idea how others can understand what they merely "get." So geniuses have lots of trouble to explain their processes and innovations to others. Communication ability is necessary to convince others to invest in my ideas, models or solutions or to hire what I have to offer. What was most useful to me was to study dialogue skills - Nowadays I'd use "World Cafe`" as a model. Maybe "leadership" or just plain "speaking skills." At the time, I also started studying a physical discipline that nobody had ever wanted to explain in words - and I had to work at it. Try explaining dance moves - it was that tricky. I got to be on the leading edge of that discipline for a bit. My best move was to adopt a series of mentors. (Actually, I'm still working on a book about how to find and cultivate a mentor - and how to attract apprentices if you'd like to pass on your experience.) There were a number of advantages to the mentor/apprentice relationship. Whenever I got interested in some field of study or business or a skill - I'd find someone who I considered to be the "best" in it - and I'd get as close to them as possible and act like a sponge. If not them personally, then the people who were closest to them - who were people who often had more time to pay attention to my endless questions. I tried to make myself useful to my mentors - and it usually worked. Until I trained at my third livelihood and dropped it, I didn't realize how the learning of something itself was valuable to me. I often didn't enjoy having finished learning and now had to "set up shop" to actually do it because it became "just a routine" at that point - and the usual model so often didn't fit my other needs of lifestyle or associates. Adopting mentors helped me get a whole picture of what I was really getting into before I went through the sometimes expensive training to do so. One of my mentors was Barbara Sher - author of a series of books on doing what you love. Sher made me realize that there were some activities I enjoyed much more than others, that weren't connected to academia or other subjects. (She wrote some amazing books with useful exercises for discovery.) These insights of what I loved doing became categories - "touch-stones" for my supposed "divergent" interests. Once I figured what my interests had in common, then their differences didn't seem all that unrelated. I had a new sense of purpose instead of random dilettantism. And, off I went into an ever-more-interesting mix of lifestyles, skills, environments and people that was entirely much more gratifying than anything I was ever exposed to in school. Anyway - hope you got something useful from my story of my life experience.
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  797. Hardwired, genetic smarts are somewhat of a curse. You don't have the spawn the kids to teach & communicate the benefits of your experience & smarts. But you do have to learn teaching skills.
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  798. ...and the instant you take your "normie" phone out of the bag - everything comes back.
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  799. Rob's channel here is essentially a huge data privacy course - for free. Just watch the "shorts" and you'll learn TONS of things you can do to help yourself. Start with "browser isolation" - it will help you modify your behavior to section off your interests from being indexed across different browsers and collectors.
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  800.  @christineescajeda8167  Rob's list of phones he can 'degoogle' are on his social network site: Brax.me - look under the phone FAQ
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  801. Thanks Rob - Looking forward to tomorrow's live stream as I was curious about Amazon's data harvesting actions, as you haven't gone into detail about Amazon
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  802. Good idea. If you binge-watch this channel, you'll find 5G "beams" at your specific location. You might consider an older "de-googled" phone that Rob sells on Brax.me (Store - Mobile Phone - scroll down to see the possible selections that Rob has figured out how to configure.)
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  803. opera is run by a Chinese biz - so not such a great browser to use.
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  804. You must have read 1984 recently, you've got the lingo down !
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  805. Ask yourself - how is the interruption functioning? Interrupting can be meant as a reinforcement, an agreement with what you're saying. For instance, the SoCAL culture interrupts this way. Plus - pretty much anyone can understand more than one person talking at a time. (Which is a reason to just continue talking if you are being interrupted.) Many people interrupt because they believe if they don't say what just occurred to them, they will forget it. So their interrupting is an emergency preservation of creative capacity! ((I've "labeled" this, making people feel understood, so they'll interrupt like this more humorously - I always want "funny" interruptions!) Sometimes interruption is a problem with them not getting an indicator that they're being understood. So the person keeps repeating themselves in different ways, as a teacher would, because they think others aren't giving them the "right" kind of "I got it" acknowledgement. Interrupting also has a function to advance the conversation. It's used as a way to indicate to the people you know well, "I've heard that story already, let's skip the rest and get to the point." Or, "Don't go into that old story I've already heard because it's just going to distract from the point of the current topic, which is..."
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  806. you could sell the iphone you have and get a phone that can be de-googled now.
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  807. On Thursday, June 9th 2022 Rob featured a live stream on this topic and also XMPP. (or if you're reading this within an hour of my posting this, maybe you can attend?) The first half hour is Rob's presentation content, the rest of the live stream is answering participants questions.
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  808. All phones have hard-wired wifi triangulation that locate you within six feet. the only solution is to stop the phone from sending that wifi location info to where it can be indexed and stored. the solution: a de-googled phone. Once you have it, you can download an app from F-Droid store called: BaldPhone (for Seniors, which is a simplified phone interface.)
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  809. Rob now has a few other solutions - please go to Brax.me to check them out. (his own bytzvpn.com, he sells degoogled phones, he made a VPN Router he sells, and recently has innovated a more secure email service.
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  810. Yes, these dogs are really smart, but they need "jobs" to have a long life. Did you have - or do you have now - an awesome dog? Tell us about it!! Once I had a German Shep/Aussie Shep mix (no hip problems!) who knew 246 different "commands." (Had to write them down for a house-sitter. This female knew 3x as many words for specific items.) She was trained off-leash with hand signals to safely accompany a bicycle and stop & stay where ever ordered. She would stay in or swim beside by a kayak. You could have her "run home" after being let out of a car 2 miles away - verified she arrived after a dead run. (I learned all this after reading Karen Pryor's "Don't Shoot the Dog.") Strangely enough - this dog also invented unique "greeting dances" for different people she knew. You could say the person's name, she would do their greeting dance. If indicated you were walking to their home - she would take off and be waiting on their doorstep for you when you arrived sometime later. Lived for 18 years in a small town where everyone knew her. (45 lb. dogs need daily running to live that long.)
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  811. Currently, Rob has written software for use on NUC little computers as a BraxRouter. He charges $99. to send you the file that you add onto a storage card going into a NUC or PI - you must specify which you are using.
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  812. Rob has a duplicate site on Odysee
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  813. "Smarter" people with higher quality intelligence hardware - we desperately need the software updates of communication skills & thinking skills - more than anyone. Otherwise, how will we communicate our amazing specializations & discoveries? Smart people who need communication skills are abandoned in schools, pretty much. The big thing smart kids learn to do is to criticize and judge - from being judged.
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  814.  @terrydaktyllus1320  yes, I have a certain quality of glee, as if I'm playing hooky!
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  815. In march, 2024, Rob has done a video and live stream about e-SIM dangers
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  816.  @giuliom8520  sometimes I wonder if there are as many standards as their are different judges, unfortunately. Everyone swearing an oath should have to pass a test on the Constitution so they can be sanctioned if they violate it.
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  817.  @quantumscavenger9280  yes, I believe ipv6 is disabled.
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  818. If you two would like to get together and do this setting up, it would be securely encrypted to use Rob's social network site, brax.me to chat while you're doing it.
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  819. Some vpn companies are not on their radar as being a VPN that needs blocking. You can try BytzVPN.com and see if it works, it's a smaller company that has escaped notice in some cases.
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  820.  @kotanagant9768  ...not if you have other public emails for other purposes.
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  821. would like to hear your additions...Please?
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  822. change your WiFi password - make it a long one with no dictionary words. Maybe 12-15 characters - the first letter of the words in the lyrics of a song you know.
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  823. I was under the impression that a Galaxy Samsung could not be degoogled. OEM unlocked is key, then you need to be a programmer to follow instructions, if they exist. Mr. Braxman has released a BraxPhone as of March 1st - so you could get that...?
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