If more people acted like Everett True, we'd live in a much nicer world. We've given assholes far too much free reign.
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.
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??
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)
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?
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.
I don't think urinating on people in public transport is a good idea. But otherwise, spot on.
When else are you supposed to urinate on people?
In the privacy of your home? Like a civilized person.
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.
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."
Wow bummed for you on that
Someone raised the question of whether Google might have had a security concern. Since you can pick up ~~unpaired~~ headphones 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.
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.
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.
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.
i love how cory doctorow is consistently right about literally everything
i imagine he'd be first to warn you that is insane thinking
i can of course draw no conclusions about the future from the fact that he's been right about everything he's ever said thus far -- he could be wrong about something tomorrow and i'd look like a fool -- but he is a pretty righteous dude
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.
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 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.
Was his name "Navi" and he looked like a small glowing light?
I'm so old I remember when you'd get thrown out of restaurant if you used a cellphone
Abso-friggin-lutely. Shoot them twice to be sure.
It’s such an annoying, disrespectful thing to do in public. If you do it, you’re either a giant asshat or too dumb to keep around.
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.
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.
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.
What if it's quiet piano music so my infant won't cry? (he is scared of buses)
I'll take piano music over a crying child any day of the week
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.
I like to loudly say to my children: "Isn't it sad that some people can't afford headphones"
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
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