• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 months ago

      They literally do not exist at all in many places. Why wouldnt you question their existence? Sure its easy to figure out whether they were real, but people on social media constantly ask questions without doing any research for themselves.

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      4 months ago

      Some people never grow into object permanence or conspiracy theory media beats it out of them. Moon landing? I didn’t see it happen, therefore it didn’t happen. Pay phones? Helen Keller? Spherical Earth? Vaccinations? Dinosaurs? I’ve not directly observed them, thus they must be wholly fake.

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      4 months ago

      Don’t have to be stupid to think things they never saw in real life weren’t as common as they are in movies. I have a kid in high school who never saw a working public phone that I’m aware of. When I pointed out a place where one used to be mounted outside shesaid “Oh, so it is like in the movies.”

      Movies do often exaggerated things, so asking is reasonable if someone is young enough.

    • arudesalad@piefed.ca
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      4 months ago

      Payphones have not been around/in good condition for a very long time in the uk. Hollywood has created more mundane shit before, why wouldn’t they do the same for payphones?