LPNH needs to take a step back and take a deep breath. Political opponents are not “enemies”.
Pat Jones
May 29, 2025
The letters are too small for me to read. I might explore “accessibility” features designed for the elderly or sight impaired on my “phone” device if I remember later and if I decide it’s worth it. Generally, I end up deciding it’s not worth it if they don’t bother to type in a font that’s large enough for someone like me to read without a magnifying glass. I tend to conclude I must therefore not be part of the intended audience. I might need to start keeping a magnifying glass, but then I’d need to remember where I would keep it.
While exploring “accessibility” options on the “phone” is possible, I have to weigh it against the significant chance that I might screw up some phone settings in a way that I can’t fix without either going to town and spending money (after having guessed what hours the relevant businesses are open, stopping to ask folks, most likely repeatedly, for names of and directions to such entrepreneurs, and operating on my fading memory of how to get around without phone based map navigation while doing all this, while I can’t even make a call in the meantime) or begging relatives/friends/neighbors to come over and do it without charge whilst laughing at me during and well after the fact in lieu of financial compensation.
Or you can do what I did a couple of weeks ago: buy a bigger phone.
Jim
May 31, 2025
Or you can do what I do: use a desktop with a decent sized monitor. And if even larger is still needed, simultaneously pressing “CTRL” and “+” should work for most browsers.
People who choose to use smartphones or laptops for their work or web browsing for any reason other than the necessity of being mobile are low-productivity masochists.
Pat Jones
May 31, 2025
Sorry for going off topic. I hope it’s approved, but I won’t continue in this vein past this point.
Thanks for your suggestions, Jim and Mr. Flood. I intentionally got rid of all computer and computerlike devices other than my one and only “phone” for many reasons, one of those many being precisely that I do not want excessive attachment to any such devices from in any way keeping, precluding, or even minimally discouraging me from being as maximally mobile at all times as possible.
For that very same reason I no longer have an actual landline telephone or television. I do have the ability to watch television programs on my “phone”, as well as listen to radio, which is also available in some of my (still as of now running) vehicles. Partly because I watch t.v. and listen to the radio on my phone, as well as use it as an actual phone to make old fashioned phone calls, I do not watch political videos, except on very rare occasions when they are very short and entertaining.
Jim’s suggestion seems to make assumptions about what kind of work folks do that are not accurate in my case. I don’t want to get into too much detail here about myself, but let’s just say most of my work and recreation involves being mobile and frequently being outdoors as well as in a wide variety of various indoor locations. I mentioned previously having been a teenager in 1964, and I think I mentioned having been old enough to travel and gather ballot access signatures in several states but not old enough to vote (then 21) in 1967-8. For those of you who are decent at arithmetic, you can take some reasonable guesses as to what I may or may not need to be productive at given my age; you may or may not guess correctly.
There are also a variety of other reasons I don’t and won’t own or maintain any desktop or laptop computers, tablets (that meant pills for most of my life), pods, pads, I-anything’s, walkmen, et tedious cetera. If I have any other communication devices at all, they might be walkie talkies or perhaps cb or ham radios. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility I might own a megaphone.
Since the whole purpose of decluttering my communication devices was to have it fit comfortably in my shirt pocket or other similar location – for instance, clipped to my belt if I’m the kind of person who wears a belt, or to my brassiere if I’m a woman (I don’t want to tell you which one I am), etc – my current 5.2 inch screen is the biggest I would want to have going forward. If I get something in another size, it will be smaller, not larger.
I don’t see any ctrl button or key on my phone, although there is a + sign on the virtual keyboard.
After reading the letter from Ben, I scrolled the LPNH feed and noticed multiple tweets & retweets of blatantly racist statements. I can only assume that either the LPNH social media team literally did not get the memo, or the memo is meaningless.
If Ben Weir doesn’t want to be called a racist, Ben Weir should stop promoting racism.
Jim
May 28, 2025
The proposal should be rejected, or at least, amended. It only prohibits the use of racial slurs against other party members while leaving LPNH free to use them against everyone else. That wording was obviously deliberate.
LPNH needs to take a step back and take a deep breath. Political opponents are not “enemies”.
The letters are too small for me to read. I might explore “accessibility” features designed for the elderly or sight impaired on my “phone” device if I remember later and if I decide it’s worth it. Generally, I end up deciding it’s not worth it if they don’t bother to type in a font that’s large enough for someone like me to read without a magnifying glass. I tend to conclude I must therefore not be part of the intended audience. I might need to start keeping a magnifying glass, but then I’d need to remember where I would keep it.
While exploring “accessibility” options on the “phone” is possible, I have to weigh it against the significant chance that I might screw up some phone settings in a way that I can’t fix without either going to town and spending money (after having guessed what hours the relevant businesses are open, stopping to ask folks, most likely repeatedly, for names of and directions to such entrepreneurs, and operating on my fading memory of how to get around without phone based map navigation while doing all this, while I can’t even make a call in the meantime) or begging relatives/friends/neighbors to come over and do it without charge whilst laughing at me during and well after the fact in lieu of financial compensation.
Or you can do what I did a couple of weeks ago: buy a bigger phone.
Or you can do what I do: use a desktop with a decent sized monitor. And if even larger is still needed, simultaneously pressing “CTRL” and “+” should work for most browsers.
People who choose to use smartphones or laptops for their work or web browsing for any reason other than the necessity of being mobile are low-productivity masochists.
Sorry for going off topic. I hope it’s approved, but I won’t continue in this vein past this point.
Thanks for your suggestions, Jim and Mr. Flood. I intentionally got rid of all computer and computerlike devices other than my one and only “phone” for many reasons, one of those many being precisely that I do not want excessive attachment to any such devices from in any way keeping, precluding, or even minimally discouraging me from being as maximally mobile at all times as possible.
For that very same reason I no longer have an actual landline telephone or television. I do have the ability to watch television programs on my “phone”, as well as listen to radio, which is also available in some of my (still as of now running) vehicles. Partly because I watch t.v. and listen to the radio on my phone, as well as use it as an actual phone to make old fashioned phone calls, I do not watch political videos, except on very rare occasions when they are very short and entertaining.
Jim’s suggestion seems to make assumptions about what kind of work folks do that are not accurate in my case. I don’t want to get into too much detail here about myself, but let’s just say most of my work and recreation involves being mobile and frequently being outdoors as well as in a wide variety of various indoor locations. I mentioned previously having been a teenager in 1964, and I think I mentioned having been old enough to travel and gather ballot access signatures in several states but not old enough to vote (then 21) in 1967-8. For those of you who are decent at arithmetic, you can take some reasonable guesses as to what I may or may not need to be productive at given my age; you may or may not guess correctly.
There are also a variety of other reasons I don’t and won’t own or maintain any desktop or laptop computers, tablets (that meant pills for most of my life), pods, pads, I-anything’s, walkmen, et tedious cetera. If I have any other communication devices at all, they might be walkie talkies or perhaps cb or ham radios. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility I might own a megaphone.
Since the whole purpose of decluttering my communication devices was to have it fit comfortably in my shirt pocket or other similar location – for instance, clipped to my belt if I’m the kind of person who wears a belt, or to my brassiere if I’m a woman (I don’t want to tell you which one I am), etc – my current 5.2 inch screen is the biggest I would want to have going forward. If I get something in another size, it will be smaller, not larger.
I don’t see any ctrl button or key on my phone, although there is a + sign on the virtual keyboard.
After reading the letter from Ben, I scrolled the LPNH feed and noticed multiple tweets & retweets of blatantly racist statements. I can only assume that either the LPNH social media team literally did not get the memo, or the memo is meaningless.
If Ben Weir doesn’t want to be called a racist, Ben Weir should stop promoting racism.
The proposal should be rejected, or at least, amended. It only prohibits the use of racial slurs against other party members while leaving LPNH free to use them against everyone else. That wording was obviously deliberate.