Curated Tumblr

you are a festering polyp on the anus of society

pure poetry 👌

If someone starts filming you because you told them off, you gotta go "Wait are you filming already? Nooo, you gotta wait for me to be ready! Ahem... CANT BELIEVE you're blasting music on the train with no headphones and other people around, you cot no consideratie for other people on the train, ope I said train too many times lemme go again..." And then it just looks like a set up bit that nobody will believe was real.

Big "and then everybody in class clapped" energy here.

Needs text alternative.

Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:

• usability
  • we can't quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
  • text search is unavailable
  • the system can't
    • reflow text to varied screen sizes
    • vary presentation (size, contrast)
    • vary modality (audio, braille)
• accessibility
  • lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
  • some users can't read this due to lack of alt text
  • users can't adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
  • systems can't read the text to them or send it to braille devices
• web connectivity
  • we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
  • we can't explore wider context of the original message
• authenticity: we don't know the image hasn't been tampered
• searchability: the "text" isn't indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
• fault tolerance: no text fallback if
  • image breaks
  • image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.

Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.

I like the solution of setting a nearby phone to play back their noise pollution with a delay or loop to make their shit unlistenable. Others can join to compound the cacophony & turn it into a communal activity.

I’ve never had the balls but I always wanted to play my own music, turn it up max. Then point the speaker at them.

Maybe, just maybe, they’d get the passive aggressive hint.

It has nothing to do with the possibility of someone nearby enjoying your podcast, tiktok, loud speaker phone convo, etc. It’s because you’re a lazy, inconsiderate ass that couldn’t be bothered to use some kind of headphone. That’s all. Doesn't matter why, forgot them, lost them, whatever, but nonetheless it’s more convenient ro ignore the public setting and blast away.

ah, middle aged women telling you to mind your own business after politely bringing up something that is directly affecting you, and thus is in fact your business.

nothing like it.

I never understand how people can walk around with massive speakers, blasting music in public without being embarrassed.

I'm always mortified if I accidentally play something before my earbuds connect.

I can kind of see some people, especially with face time or something, using it for safety purposes. Like if they are out walking or something.

Kind of like making noises on a trail to avoid bears.

But when you're with the herd, you're probably safer than you think.

Man, I use headphones around my own house when I'm listening to something while cooking or cleaning or something like that in a shared space.

Like not if I'm watching the TV or gaming on the TV as I'm in the designated space to make some noise, so long as it's not carrying across the house. If you don't care to listen to my show or whatever, go to another room. Or if I'm home alone, I'll play my music, video, podcast or whatever openly on my phone because it isn't annoying anyone.

But as soon as I'm just trying to do my own thing in a shared space with others around trying to do their own thing, even at home, I ALWAYS put headphones in out of respect. I don't often get the same courtesy... but then, I can just drown out their bullshit with headphones if I want to, so not worth the argument. My wireless earbuds case is in my pocket at all times for this reason.

I also always have headphones in while shopping. It's a polite attempt to project "Fuck off" to everyone in line of sight. I'm not trying to have small talk with every stranger or acquaintance. I'm trying to do a chore while enjoying listening to Dungeons and Daddies or a YouTube/Dropout video or something. If we're friends I'll pause and pop out a bud. Otherwise, you'll get a nod and a polite smile and you'll be grateful for it. Now fuck off.

Edit: I just realized that I may have given the impression that I'm a teenager living with parents and siblings or something. I'm not. I'm a 36 year old man in my own home with my wife, daughter and a house guest. And despite it being my house, I still give others this courtesy. Just to be clear.

There is a DIRECT correlation between this shit and removing the headphone jack.

When you can get earphones for $2 at the local servo, it's easy. When you're looking at $300 earbuds or six week shipping for cheap chinese knockoffs, you just use the speaker

i just play some nerd shit super loud on mine and they generally get the hint and then i turn mine off after

I had an epihany recently.

I saw some folks of mine mimic mannerisms I happened to see cable news.

...I mean, it seems obvious, but if you turn on Fox News or a YouTube/Twitter feed, the average influencer acts like a enraged asshole. Each a unique asshole; it's not even about politics or anything.

---

I know the old person sentiment; yes, people have always been jerks.

...But is this where people are losing social skills? Like, they watch this shit and think that's normal public behavior, even if their many years of prior living doesn't resemble that.

Probably wouldn't hurt if all the phone manufacturers hadn't decided to remove the input for the most widely used and cheapest style of headphone connector

We failed when acting like an asshole changed from being rudeness and the implied lack of civilisation and instead became a sign of dominance, like in a wildlife documentary.

Yesterday on the subway I really thought about going and standing next to the man playing videos on his phone, with my own phone playing some video at top volume positioned right next to his head. And then, when he looked up at me, looking back at him and saying, "Kind of irritating? Isn't it?"

Maybe I am cowardly because I decided not to. I thought about it for a while though.

We all hate these people.

Its the same people driving dodge rams and not putting their cart away.

And I dare say, I bet a lot of them are republicans.

I firmly believe that COVID lockdowns have broken us. The social distancing, the lack of negative social feedback for abhorrent behaviour, even for a short period of time, has emboldened the worst of humanity to stop giving even that tiny fuck they previously gave.

Yes, tons of people today are now so self-absorbed that they can't even fathom thinking of others even for a millisecond. Everything is about "what about me?", and even the mere suggestion that they consider others just for a moment angers them.

We really failed as a society when we stopped telling these fuckers to fuck off.

It's incredibly frustrating how many people can't go a few minutes without obnoxiously loud sound. It's even worse if you're in an apartment or other close quarters because people assume playing something loud enough to hear on the opposite side of the building is their God-given right.

I've been daydreaming about making a low-stimulus housing community lately, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with my sensory processing disorder not being compatible with existence in a modern world

I don't even make calls in public off of speakerphone. The fact that anyone has the balls to do this is astounding to me

I love the dirtbags who hold their phone like a slice of pizza, then shout in the mic because the speakerphone is so loud it ducks the level all the time. It's hard to use a phone worse if you tried.

There's no reality TV cameras, Phaleeshya. Use your phone like a phone.

I can't think of a single item of media that would be so goddamn urgent I had to play it aloud in public, except maybe news announcements of things that will be in history books.

I blame the Nextel phone circa 2001 or so, and then when it extended to boost mobile and a wider audience for conditioning people to get used to this type of thing.

For the younger crowd it was a cell phone with a “walkie talkie” feature. Initially marketed towards contractors and such as a phone that was easier to use on job sites because the walkie talkie feature allowed instant communication rather than waiting for a cell phone call that had ringing and waiting for an answer.

Unlike normal walkie talkies it was backed by cellular networks so the range was basically infinite, the feature worked as long as you had compatible hardware so even if you weren’t on the same plan you could “beep” people, and it gained popularity quickly because this was the McMansion era where contractors were hired en masse by development companies that built the suburbia hell we have now, who in turn were encouraged to buy these phones and also tended to buy them for their families so they could “beep” them too. It gained even further popularity because the “beep” feature often didn’t count as phone usage in an era where unlimited plans did not exist and metered phone and texting plans were the norm. Lots of elder millennials can tell you about the time they got a $1200+ cell phone bill in 2006 talking/texting with their friends or crush, dark times.

I am so glad they died out. It was a scourge. I was in high school at the time and worked in restaurants throughout. In a short time it went from the etiquette being people being mad about cell phone ringers going off constantly to this nightmare scenario of “chirp chirp HEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING” because again these acted as walkie talkies so there was no ringing, it was just a loud ass speakerphone with a person talking, immediately. When boost mobile came around they capitalized on this and marketed it as the “where you at” phone. Terrible