When I set up a contact, I change the ringtone for them. Then, I ignore calls from non-contacts, which are currently dominated by offers of help with my non-existent student loans (it used to be the warranty on my 20 year old car).
How do we think health workers and sanitation workers and police/fire and other vital workers should get to work? Not everyone has 24-hour public transportation available.
I think it goes without saying that emergency services are an exception. There's no need to take my argument to the absurd. I'm assuming the OP meant he was a regular worker (not an emergency or law enforcement worker). In any case, don't emergency services provide transportation for their employees?
> Not everyone has 24-hour public transportation available.
I don't think public transportation is the safest choice at this moment either. In fact, everyone should avoid it if at all possible (in some cases and parts of the world, it's not possible at the moment).
Emergency services don't provide transportation to their workers. Most of them drive their own cars to work just like everyone else. Some law enforcement agencies do allow officers to drive squad cars home when they have extras available.
Some do, some don't. But you took issue with the less important part of my answer, I assume because you agree with the rest: that what is fine for emergency workers is not necessarily fine for ordinary citizens.
That app has great potential, but it's not really ready for prime time. Its rating in Google Play is 3.1 based on over 3,500 votes.
Today, they are apologizing for a problem wherein the app reported a 6.1 quake as being located somewhere in the United States, which is not very helpful.
Other reviewers have complained that the app is a power hog that drains a phone's battery pretty quickly.
> "Other reviewers have complained that the app is a power hog that drains a phone's battery pretty quickly."
I've seen it suggested before, but if this app or one like it only worked while the phone was plugged in, that would eliminate power consumption concerns and also provide cleaner data (a phone plugged in is usually sitting flat on a table, counter, etc, and is thus in a better position to collect seismic data than if it were in somebody's pocket.)
I use a browser extension on Chrome called PixelBlock to (hopefully) kill those email tracking pixels. The extension displays a small icon on emails where blocking occurred.
This is the description supplied for the extension:
"PixelBlock is a Gmail extension that blocks people from tracking when you open their emails."
Nobody has mentioned StartPage.com. I believe that uses Google Search in the background, while not sending your personal data or returning a bunch of advertising garbage.
So you have your paycheck direct-deposited, and you pay all your bills on this account, so Google now knows your income, your rent, your indebtedness, where you have all of your accouts (mortgage, auto loan, credit cards).
I wouldn't be surprised if they already know most of those things. They can be gleaned from things who I get email from in Gmail, things I Google, etc.
