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Idk I don't mind that the very poor that don't have phones still have an option to make phone calls. I know a lot of victims of abuse use them as a way to make phone calls that aren't monitored by their abusive partner. The homeless can use them, or maybe your phone died. I don't recall seeing ads on them but I'm not exactly looking out for payphones.

Plus I'd hardly can a phone call "ageing technology". I mean yes it's an old technology, but still very relevant especially for those that don't have other means of contact

I think they are still around because the government told them they can't remove them. They are considered a public resource. Remember, Telstra used to be a government entity before it was privatised.

If they offer wifi I’m guessing the phones are VOIP?

The Telstra pay phone boxes near me now all have massive ridiculously bright screens displaying advertisements. For sure that is their primary purpose now.

Telephone booths were still pretty common until the early 90's

As in, frame perfect execution of some kind of set of inputs, like a speed runner would have to pull off?

No, not in the Matrix canon I can recall off the top of my head.

They're more focused on an... unwavering belief, or faith, in something.

Not any kind of technical, machine-like ability to execute a complex task, with high precision.

The point is being incredibly human in a way that is not machine-like, that's the way(s) out, not in trying to out machine a machine.

EDIT:

As the Architect says to Neo in Matrix 2:

Humph. Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.

They cannot fully account for, figure out a way to fully contain what you might call the human spirit, or irrational faith of some kind.

Neo's particular variant of this kind of irrational drive... is his love of Trinity.

... its rather sappy, actually, lol.

4 more or less inverts this, it is Trinity's love of Neo that ultimately saves/reawakens him.

I can’t believe there was never a scandal about the short that suggests you can leave “The Matrix” by jumping to your death.

tetris11 got it, the sprinter from World Record.

Essentially, he's such a top tier athlete, so determined, that he... breaks through the veil of 'reality', in his pursuit of greatness.

Whereas the kid... has an incredibly certain sense of belief in ... more or less, the idea of Neo as a transcended individual, as a kind of means of attaining his own transendence.

... MxO went into more of these methods of either escaping or becoming aware of the Matrix, independently, as basically class build archetypes...

But I have absolutely no idea what the 'canon' status of any of it is, at this point.

Probably just 'not canon', I don't know.

Its also doubly confusing because back when MxO was running... different server shards actually experienced different 'storylines', due to there being a ... roughly every 3 or 6 month ... sort of faction competition for which variant of a major plot point would play out in which way.

So... these different shards all experienced kind of fundentally opposed 'canons'.

... but nobody remembers any of that, these days.

But at the same time....we are our choices and our memories.

Its also possible that... MxO, or a sequel to it was the video game that Neo was working on in Matrix 4.

So... who knows, really, hahah!

I think the word for this is co-opt.

You don't 'debunk' it.

You put your people either in control of, or position them as massively influential figures within it, or coax such people over to your flavor of that kind of messaging.

Right. I have this conspiracy theory that the media and the government encourage UFO conspiracy theories so they can make them look nuts and crazy, so they are easily dismissed by the mainstream population. Same with the JFK assassination and a bunch of other stuff.