Post B2r0DI7cuAzJ0p496O by oantolin@mathstodon.xyz
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(DIR) Post #B2qz7IsJ5pFpeiTtXE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-31T19:26:59Z
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My most toxic trait is that I like 1.5x playback speed. On everything. Ya'll talk too slow.
(DIR) Post #B2qzFTtE1YEu8NoHr6 by moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
2026-01-31T19:28:26Z
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@futurebird 1.35 for me. :D
(DIR) Post #B2qzKiMVdyBAT20FU0 by NYSloth@mastodon.online
2026-01-31T19:29:22Z
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@futurebird You must find it really challenging to converse with people raised below the Mason Dixon line.
(DIR) Post #B2qzLYPq6pjxuPxdtQ by depereo@mastodon.social
2026-01-31T19:29:29Z
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@futurebird I had to move to podcast and video playback tools that allow 3x to cover all my bases :D
(DIR) Post #B2qzMdmVe4gUq85C1w by jwcph@helvede.net
2026-01-31T19:29:40Z
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@futurebird I've been wondering why there's a speed control on Netflix; who watches anything in high-speed? Turns out it's for your benefit 😂
(DIR) Post #B2qzN3W5xj0GekbS3U by StephanieMoore@mastodon.online
2026-01-31T19:29:48Z
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@futurebird lol. This reminds me of one of my trips to NYC. I went in to a deli and could not understand the guy because he was talking so fast!
(DIR) Post #B2qzOHt616YlW5wtSS by Catfish_Man@mastodon.social
2026-01-31T19:29:59Z
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@futurebird my mom’s college besties were from Louisiana and New Jersey respectively, they initially couldn’t understand each other at all 😂
(DIR) Post #B2qzXSBV6QmG3evc0G by CuriousMagpie@beige.party
2026-01-31T19:31:40Z
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@futurebird the older I get, the more often I have to slow down to .75 speed when listening to audiobooks so I have time to process. 👵🏻
(DIR) Post #B2r0DI7cuAzJ0p496O by oantolin@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-31T19:39:14Z
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@futurebird I do 2x, except for certain accents which force me down to 1.5x. One thing I've noticed is that for complicated stuff, like a video of a math reseach seminar, listening at 2x forces me to pay attention whereas at 1x I often get distracted and have to rewind a bit.
(DIR) Post #B2r0Slzg7n2s0AjLzk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-31T19:42:04Z
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@oantolin Flies have very fast eyes and reaction times, so one concept I have for a little SF story is that every fly is, in fact, a genius. However the world simply moves so slowly they keep getting distracted before they can find anything out and develop advance technology.
(DIR) Post #B2r0bmq6LmX5ELY6Ay by gneilyo@mastodon.online
2026-01-31T19:43:39Z
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@futurebird I like .75x. Makes everyone sound like they just finished their third martini.
(DIR) Post #B2r1xMMVZZulRBYdUW by cpgsaw@mastodon.social
2026-01-31T19:58:46Z
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@futurebird once you start speeding everything up, it’s so hard to go back. Russ from Retro Game Corps sounds drunk to me at regular speed
(DIR) Post #B2r26f41PQyE2wLWHg by oantolin@mathstodon.xyz
2026-01-31T19:59:51Z
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@futurebird That sounds like a great idea! I'm looking forward to reading that story when you write it.And that reminds of a Mexican sci-fi-ish novel I've often wondered if you've read, it sounds right up your alley. It's by Rafael Bernal and is called Su nombre era Muerte (His name was Death). I'll give a plot summary from memory but bear in mind I read it like 20 years ago. The protagonist is a man who comes down with some tropical illness in the jungles of Chiapas and while bed-ridden realizes the buzzing of mosquitos is actually a language and he surprises them by learning it. It turns out that mosquitos have a complex society, and consider themselves the dominant species of the planet, and have always tolerated humans because we didn't harm them in large numbers (mosquitos in the book never care about individual mosquito deaths, they're concerned with large colonies). But with the advent of industrial insecticides they've decided that enough is enough and they will enslave the human race. They offer to spare the protagonist in exchange for his translation services and he agrees. Mosquito society plans far, far in advance of all possible situations, including a human learning their language, and the mosquito central council issues numbered decrees, each of which is memorized constantly repeated by some mosquitos who form a living archive of the councils decision (and are immediately replaced by others upon their death). Everything the mosquitos do in the novel was decided by the council at some point in the past.
(DIR) Post #B2r2BIS2uRiZMYnG4m by australopithecus@mastodon.social
2026-01-31T20:01:10Z
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@futurebird 1.5x for music1.75x for audio books1.5~2x for video 🫡
(DIR) Post #B2r2PsOm3UF2uCDPU0 by Frantasaur@mastodon.ie
2026-01-31T20:03:55Z
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@futurebird same. Sometimes I even got to 2x for those podcast discussions.
(DIR) Post #B2rLc59gLng94bgpUm by adrake@sfba.social
2026-01-31T23:39:02Z
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@futurebird yeah, I avoid videos as a source of information as much as possible, but when I have no other choice the playback speed setting is a godsend. 2x is usually my default but I do sometimes have to dial it back to 1.5x, not sure I've ever had to go to 1x. Highest I've ever had to go was 3x (they were a professor, I have no idea how their students don't go insane in lecture).Still can't process speech as fast as I can read, but at least I can max out the speech processing to narrow the gap!
(DIR) Post #B2uslLX0iHcUQnVSgC by glasspusher@beige.party
2026-02-02T16:34:35Z
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@futurebird if I had a podcast you wouldn’t have to do that. Even my friends in NJ where I grew up said I talked too fast
(DIR) Post #B2utKmhbgUVypsMRiS by saltywizard@beige.party
2026-02-02T16:41:00Z
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@futurebird In my latest session with him, my neurofeedback therapist asked me if he was talking too fast. I responded with a hearty chortle, "lol, no."P.S. If you haven't tried neurofeedback therapy, IT IS WILD.