phones should have the concept of purgatory/archived contacts. never suggest them, never tell me when it's their birthday, never expose them to 3rd party apps, but ultimately keep them on file and match their number to their name if they do ever call or text again
@scarlet heist contacts: you never talk to them normally, and if they're calling then the situation is definitionally exceptional and they're assembling the A-Team
@timezone see this is most of my VIP contacts folder. that list breaks through do not disturb for calls because if someone on that list is calling, someone either has died, will die, or there are millions of US dollars on the line
@scarlet @timezone I like how it's explicitly us dollars. Millions of pounds on the line? Meh, that's unimportant
@scarlet @timezone and the ring tone is the imperial march? (we had that for a loooong time, currently not set up actually, should change that, maybe some new evil empire song though)