I was once on a Greyhound bus where a guy was loudly talking on his phone, but not on speaker. The issue was he was just repeatedly saying:
“Listen… Listen… Listen… Listen… Lemme tell you… Listen… Listen … Listen lemme… Lemme tell you … listen”
For half an hour.
Finally a hero yelled out: “Listen! Lemme tell you to shut the fuck up!”
He said “lemme call you back later” hung up and shrunk down on his seat as the whole bus clapped.
I was in the surgery waiting room for 12 hours while my mom had spinal surgery and some piece of shit Boomer kept watching political commentary videos on his phone and would very aggressively say to people “This isn’t bothering you, is it?” And when we let him know it was, he’d just move a few seats away - not far enough to make any real difference. I wanted to beat the asshole to a bloody pulp, but I was equally as mad at the hospital who didn’t put an end to it.
Same with fuckers in restaurants watching sports on their phones, or on speakerphone calls, or kids playing their fucking preschool games with their volume turned up. If we can’t kill these motherfuckers then we should at least be allowed to smash their phones out of their hands.
i love how cory doctorow is consistently right about literally everything
i imagine he’d be first to warn you that is insane thinking
He spends his entire life curating information sources. Selecting the absolute best and burning the rest with holy fire.
He’s a living spam filter.
Basically you take what’s left after the bullshit filter and you end up with a lot of his writing.
It’s truly a gift.
Seconded.
A lot of people blame this on people losing their social skills during COVID, but I remember people doing it when I was in high school in the mid-2010s.
This is why the removal of 3.5mm jacks is bullshit.
I can’t just forcibly attach headphones to someone’s phone and silence them anymore.
I don’t get why anyone who rides public transportation doesn’t wear headphones themselves. Big obvious ones are best so people don’t talk to you.
I do find that the more righteous I feel about someone’s actions the more annoying it becomes to me. Despite how rude it is, and you’re absolutely right about that, try to not give a fuck. It really helps to consider their obliviousness as a disorder. They’re pathetic.
If nothing else, hopefully it’ll keep you from actually pulling the trigger one day.
I almost never wear headphones in public. I prefer the situational awareness and being able to hear “This train is skipping union square” announcements.
I’m also a guy so I don’t need the “don’t talk to me” signal they provide.
Not everyone can wear headphones all the time.
Me, for example. I can wear headphones for maybe 45 minutes before the pain gets too intense and I need to take a 10 minute break.
Not who you replied to but I’m sure you don’t blast music or other audio on transit when you need the break.
I don’t. But I have to listen to others doing it.
I misread, I thought they said anyone listening while on transit not just anyone period. Makes more sense now.
There are bone headphones. You don’t need to insert them.
Let me know which bones which aren’t affected by the trigeminal nerve being near them that I can put those headphones on.
I looked it up trying to be helpful. Supposedly, bone conductive can overstimulate the nerve clusters - resulting in an attack of sorts. Most likely because they press on and vibrate the temples.
That really blows. I’d rather lose a finger. Sorry to learn of it.
In the spirit of the request, I would suggest beanie headphones. Assuming it’s cool enough out, and you can tolerate a beanie, they may fit the bill.
Thankfully it’s not an issue these days, but I’d be willing to try it if it becomes one again. Thanks.
Oh. This fucker is also goes to teeth? Then no idea.
Righteous anger is one of the main things keeping drag from pulling the trigger.
Shooting them is a kindness. They could be reported to the RIAA for violating public performance copyright.
I think most people are opposed to torture on moral grounds.
Yea, sometimes when I’m out in public, I like to listen to music on speakers. Sorry if it’s a mild inconvenience you have to HEAR something as we pass by each other. God forbid, yall need to lighten up.
I get being aggravated about people blasting music on a bose speaker in a bus or train (I used public transit in L.A. for years). But just enjoying my day sitting somewhere or going on a walk I might put it on a speaker, eat my ass if that annoys you.
Why not use headphones/IEMs like a normal person? You’ll get far superior sound quality without annoying others.
I will not mourn when someone harms you for your anti social actions.
I had to listen to someone blast Tiktok and parts of some yelling bro-y podcast in the dentist’s office.
I am already on edge whenever I go there, but this put me on a different level, as I was ridiculously overstimulated by the time I was in the chair. They almost did not continue because my blood pressure was alarmingly high.
Can we have a special level for those who blast conspiracy theory videos? That was my last trip, and even with my headphones, I could still hear them droning on about some ignorant hot take divorced from any semblance of reality.
Let’s not shoot them. I prefer public censure.
People around where we live mount Bluetooth speakers to their bicycle and ride around on nature trails sharing their music with everyone because who the hell goes out in nature to experience nature?
There’s a guy in my area that does that… He told me one day that it’s to help give people and animals a heads-up that he’s coming, which is helpful when overtaking people from behind, or around blind corners.
Sounded like an excuse at first, but it actually did help some of the time when I saw him after that. I have begrudgingly changed my mind about it.
I’ve got a bell on my handlebars for that.
I’m a cyclist and I’ve noticed an uptick in this shit lately. At least with a cyclist doing it they’re past you pretty quickly, I suppose.
That’s horrible. Think of all the blood someone else has to clean. For that reason I suggest strangle.
“You haven’t thought about the smell, you bitch!” vibes.
(from always sunny)
Automotive Keel-hauling is better, keeps the mess outside and feeds carnivorous wildlife.
Meanwhile, Google’s like, “We’re removing the ability to silently check your notifications using your Pixel Buds. You have to use the voice command now. No, we don’t care that you primarily use them in public spaces. And we really don’t care that our voice recognition has a 15% success rate.”
That’s shitty but I fail to see how the course of action there would be to start using the voice commands instead of just, you know, silently pulling out the phone and checking the notifications with your eyes.
Wow bummed for you on that
Someone raised the question of whether Google might have had a security concern. Since you can pick up
unpairedheadphones and listen to notifications from a locked phone. Though Apple does have a similar feature with AirPods: Announce Notifications.Edit: not “unpaired”
I feel like I’d rather give hackers free access to all my devices than jump through all the security hurdles that are put in place to stop them.
I might not go that far but I feel that sentiment.
Ooh they could announce 2FA/MFA codes… maybe that could be toggleable
To be fair touching them also has about a 15% success rate to do what I intended it to do.
I dunno, I didn’t have much of a problem with them unless my hands were wet. Occasionally couldn’t make the triple-tap work, and maybe some issues with accidentally adjusting the volume. I found the “push and hold to play notifications” function to be super reliable, though.
90% of the time it triggers some random function for me when I am just trying to push it back into my ear (pause, skip forward, some sort of tutorial crap, notifications,…)
If more people acted like Everett True, we’d live in a much nicer world. We’ve given assholes far too much free reign.
Um.
Does Ev have an Iron Cross on his hand?
Edit: questions bad?
Its the x mark from where he back handed the guy, the dotted line shows that
Everett true began in the early 1900s as in 1900-1909.
Nobody had decided to co-opt it for their shitty ideals yet.
The cross pattée has many heraldic uses, but this is more like an “x marks the spot” like on a treasure map.
We don’t just give them free reign, for the most part the world promotes being selfish.
Damn near everything we ever hear takes no one else into account. Living wage is less and less common, billionaires have all the money in the world and zero accountability, healthcare (Mostly US specific) is an overpriced scam with no guardrails, food costs whatever the fuck the people who control it tell us it costs regardless of production costs, housing costs way too fucking much, fake news is more and more prevalent and conning more and more fools.
Its easy to see why people focus on no one but themselves anymore, its just the way of the world, toxicity is winning.
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Being massive assholes to people you feel are being assholes. No contradictions there.
The paradox of tolerance shows us that, indeed, there is no contradiction.
I’ve been stuck on a train with a girl wearing headphones and singing along to Savage Garden. We all suffered.
She was even shutting her eyes tight and doing these ones…
If you’ve ever listened to just the vocals of a song without music, it was that, but also awfully off-key because she, of course, could not hear herself. Obnoxiously, I think she thought she was putting on a performance we were all impressed by. No one was impressed.
You just unlocked a repressed childhood memory from when I was 10 and we spent our lunchtimes playing MTG outside the school hall. Every day for months one year a group of girls decided to rehearse a dance they were choreographing to Animals by savage garden so we had to listen to it being constantly played, rewound, played again, stopped, repeated, ad nauseam. It made me hate savage garden for years after with an unrequited fury. I don’t think I ever fully recovered.
I wanna stand with you on a mountain
I wanna bathe with you in the brie
I wanna slay like this forever
Following the sudden and catastrophic collapse of their bodily edifice, the faint crack of a sniper shot cut through the relatively short moment of peace and serenity only to resume forthwith.
Ungh my manager at my last job did that shit all the time. Infuriating, because I wasn’t allowed to have headphones (inbound tech support), and it was really distracting when I was on a call.
And just like, so incredibly rude, who the fuck does that??
She’s just trying to get discovered
That’s exactly how it felt. Like her imagination had daydreamed the scene long enough, it was time to put it out to the universe and be approached by all those agents and producers crammed in the commuter carriage of the inner south line.
