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(DIR) Post #ArufGueYAaB52hZoCu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-10T13:30:19Z
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Guy on my subway watching TV on his phone: volume up: we are all in *his* livingroom. I’m annoyed. But, say nothing (you never know what someone is going through. Don’t wanna go through “it” with them? don’t step on stage. Anyway.) I’m right next to him. The show is loud. I start, sort of, unintentionally watching over his shoulder. It was like “Bones” or “CSI” (horrible dialogue. “You always saw him as a father figure.” blech!)He *notices* I’m watching? Gets annoyed! Lmao turns it off. 😉
(DIR) Post #Arufm9OZPNKJk3ztiq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-10T13:35:56Z
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On a longer ride I could have asked him to angle the screen better. Taken our some popcorn. Asked what he thought about the stilted dialogue. No one just explains their feelings like that. It’s so unrealistic. But the prop they used for that skeleton was cool. We’re watching TV together now? OK.
(DIR) Post #ArufqR4ZcrNrj4ggU4 by BradRubenstein@infosec.exchange
2025-03-10T13:36:40Z
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Well played.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #Arug2B6AqLEFer2F3A by 401matthall@mastodon.xyz
2025-03-10T13:38:46Z
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@futurebird "Oh, I'm sorry... WAS I INTRUDING ON YOUR PEACEFUL SHOW WATCHING IN PUBLIC?!"
(DIR) Post #Arug4CuV4ul3r8XhLc by 401matthall@mastodon.xyz
2025-03-10T13:39:01Z
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@futurebird You're a better person than I am. <3
(DIR) Post #ArugC7G3yd9iduOpzE by troublewithwords@wandering.shop
2025-03-10T13:40:29Z
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@futurebird This seems fair. He dragged you into this, you're going to make the best of it.
(DIR) Post #ArugEk52bkBtcvUpw8 by emjonaitis@mathstodon.xyz
2025-03-10T13:40:51Z
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@futurebird I’ve seen this kind of thing in action before — sometimes, just nonverbally reminding someone they’re being observed is enough to get them to act right. It’s a nice little hack.
(DIR) Post #ArugmwthScNdDxVEEC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-10T13:47:17Z
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@401matthall I think he didn’t have any awareness of how obnoxious he was being. All the rolling eyes and long sighs from the packed train car of people going to work (he was clearly coming home-and I get it you have no down time and you didn’t charge your earbuds. And you probably work nights. Or your life is so off the rails you are just out of synch with the whole city and that’s not fun. But, this is not the way.) I don’t think I was the only one just watching the show.
(DIR) Post #ArugtxYTPis1I5uv2G by 401matthall@mastodon.xyz
2025-03-10T13:48:29Z
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@futurebird I have _moment_ of empathy like you're describing here but I dunno that I'd have it in that context.In case no one's said it recently: You're good people.
(DIR) Post #AruhKqaDRXlZUEYLgm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-10T13:53:25Z
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@401matthall Most people do not want to be the subject of someone’s online story about a weird guy on the train. Most, but not all. That’s why saying anything is dangerous. Some people wake up and go out to fight with the whole world everyday. But I don’t think he was one of those. Just a tired guy who didn’t think about what he was doing. And I get a funny story to tell.
(DIR) Post #AruhwxmJ8mUYo1Ns6S by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-10T14:00:13Z
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@CptSuperlative I know! You have decided that everyone on the train needs to watch this show, so let’s watch it. I’m not going to pretend you are in a magical isolation bubble for your comfort. Let’s discuss the plot and the symbolism. It is ON, brother.
(DIR) Post #AruiNjgLeq4GuFMYHQ by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-10T14:04:53Z
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@futurebird @401matthall I wonder if there are saints out there that just walk around all day with an unopened packet of emergency earbuds in their pocket, on the chance they might meet someone whose wireless audio battery died, and thereby save the whole bus/train by handing them over.
(DIR) Post #ArukqZW2jaIXgNQ7oe by rlstone4dems@mastodon.social
2025-03-10T14:32:45Z
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@futurebird In the future, I’m gonna take a page from you, myrmepropagandist! If I ever encounter someone playing something loud on their phone, I’ll do the same. And I will make sure they know that I’m watching… And I will have a scorned look on my face.
(DIR) Post #ArumF97W6qFd0nEKqu by Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net
2025-03-10T14:48:23Z
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@futurebird Sometimes I wonder if the people I see doing this are so used to wearing earbuds all the time that they don't notice when they cut out and their phone is now a broadcasting station (though, other times I know for certain they're aware 🙃)
(DIR) Post #ArupgaOl67rNIK4SQa by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-10T14:33:34Z
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@Knitronomicon @futurebird @401matthall This is what we lost when Apple ditched the TRS barrel phono jack.
(DIR) Post #ArupgbpNmckbjBXEZ6 by 401matthall@mastodon.xyz
2025-03-10T14:34:31Z
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@log Don't get me wrong, I quite enjoy not being tangled in wires (because I _always_ was) but I would've appreciated the choice.
(DIR) Post #Arupgd7904YJiYqvtA by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-10T14:38:47Z
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@401matthall The design choices are such that the cheapest plug-in headphones for Apple devices use the physical connection to power a Bluetooth wireless audio chip, because it's cheaper than licensing the proprietary Apple connector. To me, this is an outward symptom of a deep anti-consumer sickness. De gustibus non est disputandum: people are free to like what they like.
(DIR) Post #ArupiwjN2N698WpypE by mls14@social.vivaldi.net
2025-03-10T15:27:27Z
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@futurebird OMG this is amazing. He has no problem annoying everybody on the train, but if one person is “freeloading” by watching it with him, he gets mad? LOL the best of humanity.
(DIR) Post #Aruq9rxaslAM9xKPD6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-10T15:32:20Z
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@log @401matthall So it’s as dodgy and annoying as cheap bluetooth but you are still tethered by a wire? That’s *disgusting*. It viscerally grosses me out. For some reason it makes me think of the expensive but cheaply made electronic devices for prisons. They are always transparent (because of contraband) and designed to be hostile to the person using the device — but what matters most? The manufacturers have a monopoly and captive customers.
(DIR) Post #Arur3pXL4zygrNjR2m by emily_s@mastodon.me.uk
2025-03-10T15:42:23Z
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@futurebird oh no, I had a guy doing that on the train the other day. Realised he actually had ear buds in but the sound was still coming out his phone so he hadn't noticed. Blooming Bluetooth. Unfortunately he wasn't facing the same way so I couldn't enjoy his show 😂
(DIR) Post #ArurU01CjPdCtiBBmi by Pineywoozle@masto.ai
2025-03-10T15:47:09Z
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@futurebird 🤣 🤣 🤣 @CptSuperlative
(DIR) Post #ArusWOvbBmiagdGaum by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-10T15:58:29Z
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@futurebird @401matthall I don't like thinking about it, either. But Apple has always done this, and never been punished for it--the so-called "Apple tax". The EU was correct to forcibly standardize on USB-C for charging.
(DIR) Post #AruwKuEjMHWI87zPyC by bransonturner@mastodon.social
2025-03-10T16:41:32Z
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@futurebird i enjoy nodding in agreement (and occasionally giving a frowny head shake) with people loudly talking on their phones
(DIR) Post #Aruxgfi29RY7Oode76 by adrake@sfba.social
2025-03-10T16:56:40Z
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@futurebird I had this happen on a crowded bus, a guy sat down right next to me and started watching something loud on his phone. At some point I guess he noticed me unavoidably glancing at his screen (I was looking at my own) and gave me some angry words and a hard shove as if I was rudely invading his personal space by having sat there first.For better or for worse, I now just actively avoid people who are behaving overtly anti-socially, since I can't tell in advance which of them will abruptly escalate 😞.
(DIR) Post #Aruy8hutXOWgM01SSG by catmisgivings@stranger.social
2025-03-10T17:01:44Z
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@futurebird ahahahaha this is going in the playbook
(DIR) Post #Arv6wP4cfYHg1dmSJc by clayfoot@mastodon.social
2025-03-10T18:40:22Z
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@futurebird Maybe that skeleton is an actor, still getting cast in a few parts after passing. That's a good agent.