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[deleted] t1_iybaqdh wrote

Everyone with a telephone has been experiencing this, my dude. Has nothing to do with NH... Plain old telephone service goes back a century. Its design flaws have been exploited for decades now (phreaking). Now we have the internet and VOIP and it's all a giant mess. I hope I live to see the day we (intentionally) pull the plug on all that ancient fucking garbage and just run it over the internet instead.

Spammers spoof phone numbers to match your area code, so you think it might be a job opportunity or whatever. That's the whole point...

If it's someone important, they'll leave a voicemail or text you. Just ignore the unknown calls. It's never that important. I think we should bring back the old norms around the answering machine... This idea that everyone must always be available 24/7 is so pathological. We need to start pretending that the legacy phone app is often unavailable again.

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