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    Music is horrible but how about when they are scrolling through shorts or tiktok whith blasting sound? Like a never ending spirit box

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      Hearing two seconds of the worst possible version of a song you (used to before that) like. It’s like some punishment

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      My worst example is another “while scrolling” but dude had the same mumble trap sample play for every notification, so it was essentially on repeat.

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    I see various forms of peacocking these days. The other one is blasting a 1sq mile radius with music from a vehicle.

    Incidentally this meme captures my reaction when I see Clint Eastwood.

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      People got worse over the course of the pandemic and it appears they have no intention to go back to more reasonable public behavior ever.

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      The other one is blasting a 1sq mile radius with music from a vehicle.

      That kinda goes back to the OP’s title. It wouldn’t be as bad if it didn’t sound terrible. I miss the early 00s when every 3rd or 4th car had giant subwoofers. I may not like what you’re playing but at least it sounds decent.

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        I have to disagree. 9 times out of 10, the song is being drowned out by the sound of the entire car rattling from the bass.

        Personally, I prefer a much flatter EQ when listening to my music. I often times turn up the high-mids just a tad. I love a crispy high hat. Jacking the shit out of the bass is kind of spitting on the sound engineer that mixed and mastered the music. It’s like taking a medium rare A5 wagyu and dumping A1 sauce on it.

    • No, this is what happens when they are a selfish prick who doesn’t care about their surroundings. Even if I agree with the lack of 3.5 jack, a crappy pair of bt earphones are cheap, and will save the rest of us from listening to their crap.

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      You can get USB C to headphone jack dongles super cheap. Bluetooth earbuds are also cheap these days. Not really a good excuse

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    I am convinced most people are just walking around as blank eyed zombies that can only think about food, sex, and scrolling TikTok.

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      In my town it’s common to see somebody riding their bike through heavy traffic while looking at their phone. I don’t get it at all.

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        I just did one of my 50 mile rides this morning on a bike trail, and I passed a bunch of people with their phones mounted on the handlebars, watching videos of some sort. Like, I guess I could see having a GPS app open, but watching videos? Why the fuck are you even out here? Get a stationary bike and be safe at home at least.

        Many people riding and walking on the trail are playing music through their phone speakers instead of using earbuds. It’s somewhat less annoying since you don’t have to be around them for long, but it’s still annoying.

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        I’ve made many victims, mostly steps.
        Not looking ahead for loong time, going into my bikelane without realising and then I give them a shoulder with a scream of surprise and anger.
        last one I didn’t even have to look, I heard the sound of him and his phone hitting the asphalt. So satisfying.

        And before the angry comments: One of those clowns broke my girlfriends arm with that idiotic behavior and I’ve also had near accidents.
        If you’re this selfish and irresponsible you deserve it.

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        i overtook a topless dude riding his bicycle while scrolling tiktok with both of his hands today. no helmet

        its so normalised where I live

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      While some might trash this take for sounding “boomer” you’re not wrong, on a very deep level the profound decline in American and European reading comprehension has led to nearly a quarter of our population being functionally illiterate, and the problem here is much deeper than reading scores or being well-read, the problem is without a robust, developed language system, your brain is far less capable of organizing and contextualizing even basic kinds of abstractions about our world.

      We use words in our minds to create dialogues and monologs to explore meaning and synthesize ideas and understanding about complicated topics. Without words to create these narrations it’s much harder or impossible understand anything beyond what you immediately feel and see and hear, you become highly linear in your thinking and also highly reactionary.

      You’re seeing people walking around like blank-eyed zombies because the number of blank-eyed zombies is literally increasing.

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      Hey don’t bring tiktok into this. I’ve discovered quite a bit of good music, political uprisings, neat hobbies, beautiful art and artists of all kinds, philosophical concepts, and wonderful ways to look at life on there. Like those two hiker guys from “we love you” that talk about being present and coping with and appreciating life.

      https://www.tiktok.com/@_weloveyou__

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          No please don’t take this away from me. It’s one of the last things I have that help me feel normal. It’s a net positive on my life. It’s queer, it’s outspoken, it’s fresh, it’s thoughtful. What reasons do you have that I shouldn’t use tiktok?

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      Where I find this behavior most infuriating is on walking/biking trails in the forest preserve. Like, seriously!?! I get the desire to listen to something while exercising or just having your “you” time, but when you’re riding a bike that cost thousands, you can probably afford some bone conductors or at least ear buds that offer a hear through option. Hell, the expensive units refurbished on eBay get pretty damn cheap.

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        I just bought a pair of anc earbuds for fun because I have a better set of anc headphones already. They sound way better than I expect or need and they were literally $25.

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          Where are you guys buying headphones with ANC for so cheap? The cheapest pair i could find was ~75€.

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            Anker Soundcores is what I bought. They were a prime day deal (shudders) but I was on a free trial that I just canceled.

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    Theres a janitor at my work that sits in the break room all day blasting right wing tick tocks while people are on coffee break, its insanely annoying.

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    I use it in my shop when I’m alone and want something to listen to other than my tools.

    my problem with people who do this? they’re listening to the worst possible music in a public space.

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      I used to do this a lot while working around the house/garage but got one of those small “soda can” sized blutooth speakers and would reccomend, its not super loud but the sound is rounded out around the bottom end and i can keep my phone out of the way of whatever i am around (dirt/dust/glues/water).

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        tried that but it doesn’t work for me. my shop is pretty big and I wouldn’t be able to hear it from one end to the other without pissing off all my neighbors with my taste in music. also, someone (wife) always calls me when I’m literally inches from cutting my fingers off or when I’m just starting a weld. it’s a hassle to have to take off my mitts, answer the phone, forget it’s on the BT speaker, swipe 3 times to unlock the phone, switch the call mode, answer it again, then get the question “how’s it going?”

        It’s just easier for me to output from my phone in my back pocket or shirt pocket.

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          I get ya, what works for you is best, i used to put my phone in my shirt pocket a lot too but too many times i would lean over to do something/pick up something and then hear it hit the floor just as i straightened up.

          Another trick i like is to wear those wired ‘ear bud’ style headphones that come with my phone and run the cord down my shirt along my back and into phone in pants pocket. The earbuds fit under ear muffs and dont dangle in front of me when using tools as they can only hang about 10cm in front of my face if they fall out, and to answer a call i just squeeze the button on the cord and the mic seems to pick me up fine for a quick call and keep working.

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    Always the shittiest, most tone-deaf trap/hip-hop music with the same exact snare drum riff on a loop. There’s objectively good stuff from those genres out there, how do these people consistently find the worst?

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        If they were talking with somebody standing next to them, would you do the same? Ask them to please shut up? If not, why is this different?

        Asking out of real curiosity. I don’t mind if people talk close to me in a puplic place, as I don’t demand silence around me. Never cares for if it’s on the phone or in person.

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          The difference is that when there are two people having a conversation they aren’t almost screaming, because they understand each other. Those using their phones like that however…

          And yes, I tell them their shit doesn’t interest anyone. It’s helping when you look like an bad angry bearded biker.

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    They are probably listening to low quality spotify streams or, worse, compressed mp3, so it’s not as if a pair of headphones would make any difference in sound quality…

    Although I would love if they kept their shitty music to themselves, I’m not interested in their crap.

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      Phone speakers these days are fairly decent. Will good headphones/speakers with a good DAC and AMP and a lossless audio file sound better? Well, duh. Are phone speakers adequate for the vast majority of people who aren’t audiosnobs, sorry, audiophiles? Also yes. Just don’t be that asshole using speakers in public spaces.

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      worse, compressed mp3

      Everyone who claims they can distinguish 192kbps mp3 from uncompressed audio can also hear the flea cough, as we say in German.

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          Quoting the top comments from that video, not even cherry-picking:

          [Please explain] in-depth, what differences you are hearing and where you are hearing them

          The “320 kbps MP3s” [used in the test] are either poorly encoded or possibly recompressed

          I can only tell the difference on songs that I know.

          It’s usually the highs where the difference is

          (Meaning that the difference is only audible when you’re quite young.)

          please make a video on the differences you hear! I can’t recognise them at all

          This is such a flex

          please show us what you’re listening for!

          This should give you an idea that this guy’s performance is not ordinary, and certainly out of the leage of “anybody with a pulse”.

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        When you get a lot of fleas in one place. Like a couple hundred. You hear this really high whine. Their chorussed conversation I guess.

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      Quality of headphones/speakers makes a much much bigger difference than the file type/quality.

      I’ll take Spotify w/good headphones over Lossless with phone speakers anyday

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      Although I would love if they kept their shitty music to themselves, I’m not interested in their crap.

      For real… Any of the people who I do come across doing this are listening to the tinniest garbage that sounds like organized radio static.

      And it’s always got to be in the grocery store or Walmart. How about while you’re there, you go buy some $20 Bluetooth headphones so you can listen to your garbage music alone and stop torturing the rest of us with your bad decisions?

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    In the early 60s my teenage cousin constantly held a “transistor radio” like this up to her ear, listening to top 40 stations. I bet it sounded similar.

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    Bro did this on the train last weekend. I told him the conductors tell us to silence our phones out of respect for everyone else. Didn’t do shit 😂