The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail.
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@cstross @grayabbott The dude (Stephan Stern) completely misses the point. The ear buds are the symptom, not the problem.
Get rid of open-plan offices, allow work from home when possible, and impose strict noise and emissions limits on vehicles - including stereo systems. More public transportation/less traffic. More parks.
*edit to add author name*
@bubbajet @cstross @grayabbott
Ear buds, ANR headsets, aren't even the symptom. They are tools for coping.
That you're supposed to pay for those with your taxed money to be able to function in the workplace is horrendous. Why is this accepted?
How about making the work place a place where you can, well, work?
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@cstross You missed out the word 'privileged' among the other 'p' words to describe him.
@SimonLandmine He's definitely one of the P7, though—the Pale Patriarchal Putocratic Protestant Penis People of Power
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The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail. Ambient noise can hit 90dB at pavement level: noise-cancelling earbuds are a survival tool.
Not to mention that folks on the spectrum are prone to noise pollution induced meltdowns.
TLDR: this guy is a pompous prescriptive ass who needs to be fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill.
"From the author of 'Shit on a Stick, and Other Best Management Practices' and 'The Cowards Guide Mansplaining'. His latest book is 'Fairly Obvious: Why Everyone Should Cater to Me!'"
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@bubbajet @cstross @grayabbott
Ear buds, ANR headsets, aren't even the symptom. They are tools for coping.
That you're supposed to pay for those with your taxed money to be able to function in the workplace is horrendous. Why is this accepted?
How about making the work place a place where you can, well, work?
@rollbear @bubbajet @grayabbott Separate offices with sound insulation for employees (even 2-3 people per office) are (a) costly (they use far more floor space than open plan accommodation) and (b) block the boss's line of sight, hurting their poor widdle ego (because they can't watch thir peons toiling in the fields and experience a warm glow of superiority)
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@cstross
"Er, excuse me. Hello? I’m sorry, but would you mind taking your … I SAID, WOULD YOU MIND TAKING THOSE EARPHONES OUT FOR A SECOND, PLEASE?"Said the creep to the woman at the gym.
and unwanted, on the train, at the coffee shop, etc.
"i *deserve* your attention so listen to me!"
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@rollbear @bubbajet @grayabbott Separate offices with sound insulation for employees (even 2-3 people per office) are (a) costly (they use far more floor space than open plan accommodation) and (b) block the boss's line of sight, hurting their poor widdle ego (because they can't watch thir peons toiling in the fields and experience a warm glow of superiority)
@cstross @bubbajet @grayabbott
I'm old enough to have actually worked in such places. It was awesome. We could get work done, on working hours, on the premises. It was fabulous.
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The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail. Ambient noise can hit 90dB at pavement level: noise-cancelling earbuds are a survival tool.
Not to mention that folks on the spectrum are prone to noise pollution induced meltdowns.
TLDR: this guy is a pompous prescriptive ass who needs to be fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill.
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The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail. Ambient noise can hit 90dB at pavement level: noise-cancelling earbuds are a survival tool.
Not to mention that folks on the spectrum are prone to noise pollution induced meltdowns.
TLDR: this guy is a pompous prescriptive ass who needs to be fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill.
@cstross To be fair, some of this "The hill I will die on" series is really bizarre - this is not the weirdest by far. I know Mr Brightside is a staple of nights out and so on, but making it mandatory for weddings is patently ridiculous.
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@cstross He mentions the spectrum though. Briefly, but the article really isn't that long.
@UltrasonicMadness @cstross in the most grudging terms possible.
frankly, he manages to come across in the article as the kind of person who would demand proof that someone was autistic before leaving them alone.
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The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail. Ambient noise can hit 90dB at pavement level: noise-cancelling earbuds are a survival tool.
Not to mention that folks on the spectrum are prone to noise pollution induced meltdowns.
TLDR: this guy is a pompous prescriptive ass who needs to be fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill.
re LB:
I try, in the main, to be a live-and-let-live kind of person. Patient. Considerate. But this patience is being tested to breaking point by the proliferation, the epidemic, of people doing something that has no effect on me whatsoever.
... yeaaaah. fuck off you arsehat
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@cstross Weird hill to die on, but if he dies at least he'll stop bothering other people.
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The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail. Ambient noise can hit 90dB at pavement level: noise-cancelling earbuds are a survival tool.
Not to mention that folks on the spectrum are prone to noise pollution induced meltdowns.
TLDR: this guy is a pompous prescriptive ass who needs to be fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill.
I just love listening to people explain that other people should stop doing things because . . .
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The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail. Ambient noise can hit 90dB at pavement level: noise-cancelling earbuds are a survival tool.
Not to mention that folks on the spectrum are prone to noise pollution induced meltdowns.
TLDR: this guy is a pompous prescriptive ass who needs to be fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill.
@cstross yeah fuck this guy
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@cstross Fucking idiot as well as pompous prescriptive ass. Earbuds are frequently used as essentially lower-cost BT hearing aids. The amount of control they give you over your sonic environment is incredible, from amplifying speech to adding a little white noise to (counterintuitively) cut tinnitus, to cranking tunes to drown out some knob busily dying on a hill of his own bullshit.
[edit: "hearing" aids]
@eedly @cstross
Seconded. I recently got a pair of Apple AirPods Pro 3rd gen, and they stay in my ears all day. Very much improved pass-through amplification per my audiogram, over the 2nd gen, 8 hour battery life and fast initial charge, and very good noise cancellation. I spend several hours a week on paralift transit buses with loud engines and louder aircon, but I can still listen to music, which saves at least part of my sanity. -
The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail. Ambient noise can hit 90dB at pavement level: noise-cancelling earbuds are a survival tool.
Not to mention that folks on the spectrum are prone to noise pollution induced meltdowns.
TLDR: this guy is a pompous prescriptive ass who needs to be fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill.
@cstross this kind of person is exactly the reason why I wear headphones in the street
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@SimonLandmine He's definitely one of the P7, though—the Pale Patriarchal Putocratic Protestant Penis People of Power
@cstross Ooh, that's a good one!
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'fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill'
With a 6ft something scottish bagpiper blowing all he can in the bagpipe, I suppose?
@ParadeGrotesque @cstross Surely it's the squeezing that makes the difference, not the blowing?
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I came here to say this
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The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail. Ambient noise can hit 90dB at pavement level: noise-cancelling earbuds are a survival tool.
Not to mention that folks on the spectrum are prone to noise pollution induced meltdowns.
TLDR: this guy is a pompous prescriptive ass who needs to be fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill.
@cstross you can take my headphones out of my cold dead ears.
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The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail. Ambient noise can hit 90dB at pavement level: noise-cancelling earbuds are a survival tool.
Not to mention that folks on the spectrum are prone to noise pollution induced meltdowns.
TLDR: this guy is a pompous prescriptive ass who needs to be fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill.
@cstross Although on trains etc I would rather prefer people don't put in earphones that are leaky as hell, like the Apple ones.
