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Curosity takes energy. If life is going to shit, and that phonecall is your lifeline, you usually have no mental bandwidth left for someone screwing around.

• protocolture 1y ago
  If your laptop stalls out you turn it off and on again. If you rock up to a pedestrian crossing, and you dont know if the button has been pressed, you give it a good tap to make sure its been done. If theres 2 handsets you havent even examined, without humans, and a line behind human A using a phone you can be reasonably expected to go jingle the handset of one of the unused ones. And the repeatable result is still both interesting and novel to me.
  • shakna 1y ago
    No. Someone who is at the end of their rope does none of those things. They break the laptop. They throw it out the window. They cross the road without looking. And confronted with a kid messing around, they punch them in the face. People have limits. Don't risk yourself by finding what everyone else's is.
    • protocolture 1y ago
      People are responsible for their own actions. Just like Dell has never been held morally accountable for some kid getting punched in the face, neither is the state of a payphone handset. I get it, this is a fun game redditors play to turn normal people into monsters using therapy words. But dont expect me to play along.
      • shakna 1y ago
        People are responsible, yes. But that still does not stop the consequences happening. Like the consequences for you enjoying being a dick to everyone around you. I'm not the only one who has given you warnings here. Some self reflection would not go amiss.
        • protocolture 1y ago
          You dont want me to self reflect, you want me to come to your conclusion. I have reflected, and I would do the same thing again today. Wrap it up however you like.
          • shakna 1y ago
            You will be responsible for your actions, then, I suppose.