Bernie Sanders
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(10,622 posts)to the screens (they were smaller with very few apps, mostly things like calculators and such). They were used, at least around here as just phones - around 2005 2006. Not the permanent hand fixtures they are now.
Hell that wasn't very long ago but back then ignoring someone to take a call was considered rude, one would usually just hit the green button and say, "let me call you back, I'm in the middle of talking to someone right now".
These days it is almost the opposite, like, "you are being rude trying to speak to me, can't you see I'm in the middle of angry birds" or somesuch.
Depressing fact known only until now by the husband of the artist, when I asked her why she didn't draw a third conveyor belt to carry the war dead to a pit or something, she replied very uncharacteristically (being the cheery optimist that she was), " the "neoconbobulator", as she called it, "doesn't need one, all the dead it produces with it's meaningless war machine matrix uses the bodies as fuel and the blood as lubricant, all that is left over is the transformed remaining joyless people and the grey cloud of smoke projecting into the future from the burning of it's fuel".
It was not like anything I had ever heard her say, so I remember it most clearly and her eyes were swelling with tears as she said it, look closer at the drawing, you will see the smoke and where it is going.