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With 5G melting our brain, it's hard to imagine someone can still stay oblivious to what's going on around them. But they do. Whether they choose to disconnect themselves or not, there are people who live off the grid and seriously fall behind the world. To us strangers, the most interesting part of their detachment is probably its end. The sudden mind blow that sweeps across their entire perception of reality.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Damn. I wish there was somewhere she and people in a similar situation (like that former prisoner, for example) could ask for help

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Nathan Pogorzala
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They had to bring his former commanding officer over to convince him the war was over. He did not believe people when they told him. He thought it was American tricks.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

HAHAHAH OOPS! the things that happen when you go on vacation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poor guy :( They should keep prisoners informed at least about basic things in the outside world so they can prepare them. This is so infuriating

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

'turned on their phones to a changed world'. hmmmm..... there weren't smart phones in2001. they barely had texting.

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Yeah, you heard
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

9.11 was a terrible tragedy... but it did not change the world. Maybe it changed America, I don't know, but not the world. E.g life in Thailand, Guinea, Indonesia, Switzerland, and Bolivia went on as normal, to name a few.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It changed how airline security worked in the majority of the world, so there was some impact outside America

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Anne Wilkes
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Text messages were ridiculous then, and cost a lot of money. BS. Total BS.

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Anne Wilkes
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mmmm... i dunno bout this one. They BOTH had cellular devices? With service? Idk. I watched the plane hit the pentagon with my own eyes... cellular service was totally unreliable and most people didn't have phones. Idk. They probably stopped for gas, a newspaper and a big mac before they turned their phones on and "got the news".

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry to be That Person, but smart phones were almost unknown in 2001, and accessing the internet via your phone was not part of the USA at the time. So "turning in their phones" would tell them nothing at all.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had just started an outdoor-based graduate program that week. We were scheduled cross the border to go backcountry in Canada on Sept 12. So we did. It was a bit tricky getting back into the US 10 days later, but a different part of our program was already backcountry in the Colorado Rockies on 9/11 and spent several days hearing insane (and mostly wrong) rumors as they hiked out. All of us missed the visuals of the day - I still skip retrospective TV specials on the topic. The still pictures in the Bellingham newspaper were enough.

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Lonnie Facchina
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This same thing happened to friends of mine. When they stopped at a gas station and went in for snacks, the attendant told them they may not be able to get back into Canada... they didn't have a clue.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every day there's tens of thousands out camping/ on trails/ off-grid in similar ways. So it's not really a rare case.

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GV Martinez-Williams
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Service area for cell phones wasn't great. Forget about getting service anywhere outside a metro area.

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Stijn Kraft
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Turned on their phones"? This is when phones were phones. They did exactly what they did before 9-11

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Joe Edwards
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Turned on their phones? What would those bits of paper-weight do ?

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Justacrow
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My parents were on their anniversary trip and didn't turn on the news. They walked into a store and everyone was watch the TV, they had to ask what happened.

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Gabby M
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so sad. I was 4 when 9/11 happened so I don't remember much of what the U.S. was like before it happened.

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Night Owl
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That must've been a big shock. I imagine their phones exploding with messages after they turned them on. They were away for only TWO WEEKS!

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Changed USA you should've said, in my country we have our problems, not yours.

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Anne Wilkes
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Y'all are thinking life wasn't normal before cell phones or 9/11. Feel bad for you.

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Calling BS. Phones were not surfing the web in 2001. Flip phones were still the new thing

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Vicky Z
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You don't need to surf the web to learn the news! Probably they had missed calls and texts from their family

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Turned on their phones to a changed world, eh? Riiight.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great time to learn how to work the internet I suppose...

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone posted asking if he was assassinated but got downvoted and removed their comment. Not everyone is familiar with US politics from the 1970’s, so others may have a similar question. Richard Nixon was not assassinated but resigned due to withholding information about individuals who were stealing political information from the other party. He knew he would likely be impeached, so he resigned instead. His name has come up frequently in the last four years as many drew a parallel between him and the 45th US President and the difference in how they handled similar charges. If this is interesting, check out information on Nixon and the Watergate scandal, but hopefully I saved some people from having to do a Google search.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Me too. Went camping in Europe and completely missed the collapse of the USSR!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I bet he wanted to continue his solo journey, forever

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can you do that again for the Israel-Palestina war? Please? It's worth a shot (umm... pun not intended)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember I was at a meeting when 9/11 happened. I'm an English teacher in Europe, and this happened in literally my first month of teaching at a school with primarily Muslim kids. Let's just say that the first two weeks were mostly talking. The kids were incredibly scared that they'd be blamed ...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh God and they are from Lombardy one of the areas in Italy that was hit the most from the virus!

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