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.
Shooting them is a kindness. They could be reported to the RIAA for violating public performance copyright.
I loved the film Do The Right Thing as a kid. It was one of my favorite Spike Lee joints.
Radio Raheem was an icon to me. The sound of hip hop in the street. It makes me sad how many people no longer want to interact with others in public.
I don’t mind interacting with others in public, but I very much dislike inconsiderate people who decide to monopolize public spaces at the expense of others being able to enjoy them in their own way. I don’t care about someone listening to the radio with their friends at a reasonable volume while they chill and talk. The reality is more often rival clusters of people with massive speakers, each turning their stuff higher because they can’t hear their crappy music over the other people doing the same thing up and down the block. Me being unable to sleep at 4AM on a Wednesday because I can hear your terrible choice in Dembow and Rap that you choose to accompany your domino games and hookah sessions from my apartment on the seventh floor isn’t us having an interaction, it’s you being a nuisance.
I hear you. I agree with you, it’s just hard for me to condemn the loud music and domino games because, from my perspective its people practicing their culture.
I understand that it’s inconsiderate and a nuisance to most. I just have really good memories of that kind of culture at that volume. I’m bias.
its people practicing their culture.
Personally, I hate this line, because I only ever hear it trotted out to excuse bad behavior that people know they shouldn’t. Saying that being a loud nuisance in public is people practicing their culture is just as absurd as saying Irish men getting drunk and beating their wives is practicing Irish culture. It might be a negative cultural stereotype some of them actually live up to, be it doesn’t mean it should be tolerated.
Even if you want to accept that it’s a valid argument, one’s right to practice their culture ends where it limits the rights of others to do the same. People don’t get carte blanche to make everyone else change their lives to accommodate a culture with no sense of appropriate volume or consideration for others.
It’s incredibly rare that I’ve had positive interactions with random people. Sure there’s a “thanks” for opening the door or whatever but I wouldn’t count that. I mean prolonged engagement though even short conversations can turn on fight or flight. Especially at night, or at a liquor store gas station. “Hey brother…” “Yeah nope”
On the street you can walk away if you’re not into it. Being a captive audience makes it suck
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.
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.
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!”
Cities aren’t neccesarily loud. Cars are loud. 90% of the background noise would dissappear without cars.
Most of the things they named weren’t caused by cars.
A lot of the things they name aren’t inherently city noises, either, though. I don’t live near any concert venues or airports, so I don’t hear noise from either of those sources. You could live in the middle of nowhere, but if you live above the local bar, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it’s loud on Friday and Saturday nights. Dogs and birds aren’t exactly uniquely urban phenomena, and the sound of peoples’ shoes on the sidewalk being a major source of noise just strikes me as absurd.
90% of the things they named weren’t cars but in practice if you actually compare cities with tons of cars vs ones with few you’ll find that removing cars removes 90% of the noise.
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
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?
The problem with public transit isn’t the transit, it’s the public.
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 unpaired headphones and listen to notifications from a locked phone. Though Apple does have a similar feature with AirPods: Announce Notifications.
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.
That’s horrible. Think of all the blood someone else has to clean. For that reason I suggest strangle.
Automotive Keel-hauling is better, keeps the mess outside and feeds carnivorous wildlife.
“You haven’t thought about the smell, you bitch!” vibes.
(from always sunny)
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.
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
This person should text-to-speech this tweet on public transport
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??
She’s just trying to get discovered
I wanna stand with you on a mountain
More merciful than I would be if I got to pick the punishment.
