City people have fucked priorities. I moved to a large city from a small rural town, and it’s nothing but noise 24/7.
People yelling, construction happening, people watching TV with the window open, babies crying, dogs barking, birds calling, cars constantly rumbling by and hitting potholes so loudly it sounds like an explosion, acs running, radio from businesses, crowd noises, hundreds of thousands of little bits of metal and plastic clinging and clanging and pinging and popping, shoes on concrete clicking and clacking, airplanes, conversations going on, gunshots and concerts and car alarms and sirens and parties and car radios all the way up and… Even in the dead of night when it’s all died down, there is this constant low hum coming from the city.
But specifically fuck the people who play music on their phone i guess.
Cities aren’t neccesarily loud. Cars are loud. 90% of the background noise would dissappear without cars.
The lack of noise during covid confirms this…evenings were super quiet. It was amazing. Now if only we can shut the city’s power off a night so we can see the starts again.
also, when there’s a snowstorm, it gets so quiet… I love it. although I’m sure its because of the lack of cars on the road AND snow piling up that absorbs sound instead of bouncing it around everywhere
Most of the things they named weren’t caused by cars.
I don’t know how people even live there. Like do they view a flat, open the window, be greeted by a cacophony of engines and sirens and helicopters and go “OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING! SARAH COME OVER HERE AND LISTEN TO THIS! I CAN BARELY HEAR MYSELF THINK! I’LL GIVE YOU TWO THOUSAND POUNDS A MONTH FOR IT!”
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I wanna stand with you on a mountain
She’s just trying to get discovered
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??
The problem with public transit isn’t the transit, it’s the public.
If more people acted like Everett True, we’d live in a much nicer world. We’ve given assholes far too much free reign.
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.
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.
😵💫✨🤛🎩😤
What if it’s quiet piano music so my infant won’t cry? (he is scared of buses)
Put headphones on the infant?
I’ll take piano music over a crying child any day of the week
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?
When they ask politely at home, after supper
Asparagus supper
;)
In the privacy of your home? Like a civilized person.
This person should text-to-speech this tweet on public transport
Seems reasonable.
This man is incapable of having a bad take.
More merciful than I would be if I got to pick the punishment.
The typical offender here is the well-to-do Canadian kid blasting gangsta rap in the back of the bus as though he’s hard. He also has that early Justin Bieber accent down to a science. Hailing from the Detroit area myself and having spent nearly a decade in this province, I don’t think this kid has ever met a gangsta in his life.
It feels like this is getting worse every year. If you’re going to do this, at least get a quality boombox with good music like Radio Raheem.
