But a dumbphone surely has no encryption. Texts and calls over GSM can be readily read by the carrier and government. You would have to be extremely diligent not to slip any information that would identify you, but even if you dont you are still creating an alternate persona for data gathering entities.

How have you chosen to prepare for this?

It takes practice, like anything else. Doing something makes you better at something and not doing something will make you worse at it. In this case you have been conditioning your brain to need ambient noise. There is a line between it being a small help on some days and it being a crutch you’ve built your life around. Sounds lile you are in the latter camp.

This happened to me but in the student drawers we had in primary school. I was not a particularly ambitious kid so i never used that drawer. It wasn’t until the end of the year that I realized that the rotting smell in the classroom had come from my drawer where someone at some point (might also have been me) put a dead crab.

Any tips for how to not end up doing this?

Awful article, its truly hard to read. Why is the entire backstory of the victim relevant? We shouldn’t need to be told to have empathy for an innocent victim, that should be automatic. The driver deserves a sentence for second degree murder.

Its the principle for me