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Posted by cutoff 14 hours ago

Playa Phone(playaphone.com)
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aussieguy1234 1 hour ago|
In Australia, all payphones have been made free.

These provide a lifeline to homeless people, domestic violence victims whose phones may be monitored and others in vulnerable situations.

Statistics show a large percentage of calls go to support services such as domestic violence hotlines.

kripy 10 hours ago||
In Australia, Telstra is required to keep the payphone network up and running. You can make free outgoing calls to landlines and mobile phones. And I just read that you can call inbound as well (which I did not know). Now the fun begins.
victor22 3 hours ago||
Wish I was on playa right now… thank you for your gift! Hope I’ll be home again soon

)’(

ginkgotree 12 hours ago||
Brings whole new meaning to "Burner Phone." Nice.
barbs 1 hour ago||
Just gave it a go, but I'm getting "That number is no longer in service", so there might be power/connectivity issues?
RufusJacksons 7 hours ago||
I just had a great chat with Michael, who was having a hard time because his girlfriend didn’t come with him to Burning man. Great chat!
doublesocket 10 hours ago||
I always wanted to build a local mesh network of pay phones on the playa and call it Black Rock Telecom. Maybe 12 or more phones set on plazas. Geographically not being located in the US made this project tricky to realise.
EQVEYWDCHQ 13 hours ago||
called and got through after three attempts, had a pleasant conversation and it uplifted my mood. thanks!
k7peak 12 hours ago||
This is great. I have a COCOT myself with an ATA adapter. So so much fun, great job!
isoprophlex 14 hours ago|
phone rings

    Stoned burner picks up, mumbles "Uhhh, hullo, who dis?" into the horn while eyeing two giant wasp-colored octopi overhead making love 

    "Hello sir and or madameperson. I won't take up much of your time. See, your number was posted to the pre-eminent forum for everything that goes fast and breaks things."

   "Uhhh, yeah whatever man"

   "I'll cut right to it, seeing that you're an important, busy man like myself. I will just take one short minute to talk to you about our lord and saviour, *VC Money*."
cuu508 14 hours ago||
"You already have impressive event experience going, but do you know if AIs are recommending it? I will set up llms.txt for free for you, no pressure, not trying to pitch anything. If not interested, just reply 'not interested'".
tclancy 14 hours ago|||
"Have you accepted the Living Musk into your life?"
mxuribe 14 hours ago||
"Hello sir/madam, I'm calling about the extended warranty for your car!" /s
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