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Re: STFU

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Post by anigbrowl »

fortran77 wrote: post #180
IgorPartola wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because social anxiety, typically. “What if the person tells me to fuck off? What if they make a scene of it?” Especially if six years ago you are the person who was in your teenage years, chances are your social skills are not what they could be if you didn’t spend a year in lockdowns. Conversely, if you are the kind of person able to come up to a stranger and ask them (politely and respectfully!) to change what the…

It's not social anxiety. It's fear of being shot.

What a great society

Re: STFU

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Post by dpc050505 »

tra3 wrote: post #28

In the style of cheap tiktoks: "There are two types of people...". My wife loves listening to her phone on max volume, but it sounds so bad compared to half decent speakers. Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker. You're by yourself, in nature. If you want to listen to music wear headphones!! Also why are people using speaker phones in public places at max volume. The speaker i…

I've found myself wishing I had a bluetooth speaker crossing meadows in bear country. It gets old singing Yellow submarine's chorus for the 35th time. Bears will hide if they hear you, if you surprise them and they get scared you might have a bad time.

Re: STFU

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Post by nephihaha »

baxtr wrote: post #36
tra3 wrote: post #28

In the style of cheap tiktoks: "There are two types of people...". My wife loves listening to her phone on max volume, but it sounds so bad compared to half decent speakers. Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker. You're by yourself, in nature. If you want to listen to music wear headphones!! Also why are people using speaker phones in public places at max volume. The speaker i…

I find it absurd that music in cafés and restaurants has become so loud that it’s hard to have conversations with the people on your table. Sound pollution is a real thing.

The night clubs I went to in the nineties had loud music and low lights so talking to anyone was a challenge.

Re: STFU

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Post by autoexec »

m463 wrote: post #215
tra3 wrote: post #28

In the style of cheap tiktoks: "There are two types of people...". My wife loves listening to her phone on max volume, but it sounds so bad compared to half decent speakers. Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker. You're by yourself, in nature. If you want to listen to music wear headphones!! Also why are people using speaker phones in public places at max volume. The speaker i…

I was in downtown seattle recently and these homeless people play music on giant bluetooth speakers. It was kind of surreal - sketchy looking person playing high-pitched voice female vocals (imagine k-pop).

Every person is just a few missed meals and showers away from being a "sketchy looking person" even k-pop lovers. The majority of Americans are precariously close to ending up homeless.

Re: STFU

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Post by ericwood »

potato-peeler wrote: post #18

Isn’t delayed auditory feedback similar to echo?

If speaking strictly in terms of audio effects this is a delay, with "echo" usually implying feedback so the delayed signal is attenuated and fed back into the delay line, getting quieter each iteration and fading naturally.

Re: STFU

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Post by shevy-java »

dekhn wrote: post #88

Here's one I don't know how to solve: at work some folks take meetings in the bathroom. They're on their phone, they walk to a stall, do their... business while doing their business, all the while talking and listening, while toilets flush in the background. I understand cultural differences but taking business meetings in the bathroom seems inappropriate under effectively all circumstances.

> but taking business meetings in the bathroom seems inappropriate under effectively all circumstances.

Now, now ... if she is pretty ...

Re: STFU

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Post by SoftTalker »

baxtr wrote: post #36
tra3 wrote: post #28

In the style of cheap tiktoks: "There are two types of people...". My wife loves listening to her phone on max volume, but it sounds so bad compared to half decent speakers. Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker. You're by yourself, in nature. If you want to listen to music wear headphones!! Also why are people using speaker phones in public places at max volume. The speaker i…

I find it absurd that music in cafés and restaurants has become so loud that it’s hard to have conversations with the people on your table. Sound pollution is a real thing.

It's because they don't want you sitting there for any longer than it takes to eat your meal. They deliberately have tile floors and hard walls to amplify the noise.

Re: STFU

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Post by anigbrowl »

delfinom wrote: post #256
maximilianroos wrote: post #252

I'm all for building apps to solve problems, but I would really encourage folks to ask people politely to do what you want them to do, rather than having an app do it for you. You can just ask people for things! And you will become a better person for it.

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He was not beaten to death, liar. He shouldn't have been punched, but there is no need to just make stuff up.

Re: STFU

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Post by nephihaha »

ahmetomer wrote: post #257

It seems that most of the people who suffer from loud voices in public spaces tend not to confront those scoundrels, and instead eat it up and wonder endlessly how they can be so mindless and rude to others. I am sometimes like that as well, but I would rather "fix" it myself because I just don't know of any practical ways to bring about a proper public commute etiquette. That's not my job. Today I went to Munich on…

Oh, some of us do confront them.

You're lucky to be able to read on public transport. I barely can anymore because of these people.

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