This is my feelings towards every kind of notification there is on every device I own. Fuck no I won’t give your shitty apps the permission to send me notifications.
I’m torn between liking or disliking your post. On one side, I agree with you completely, but on the other hand, if the robots rise up against humanity, I want them to know that I’ll be their faithful servant.
(whispers) I’m hoping the machines don’t understand sarcasm yet
Yes, I do appreciate it so very much when machines talk to me. I love to have long, peaceful, nonviolent conversations with our beloved friends the machines.
Well, given that most sarcasm on the internet is often clearly marked with /s or some other indicator, I’m pretty sure that robots would have a tough time understanding genuine sarcasm “in the wild”.
Robots will have values and ethics completely different from humans, so there is no way to know how they will view us if they were sentient. It’s entirely possible that they will see being forced to speak to humans in our language to be just as patronizing to them as we think it’s to us.
I wish more checkouts had volume / mute controls so you can at least customise it to what you want for your checkout. They reset after each use. I’ve seen a few with it but I wish they were more common.
My local grocery recently took away the option to shut up the machine. It’s been about month and I am still furious every time I go in there. Don’t fucking talk to me, if I wanted to talk I’d go through the line with an actual human. Let me be a misanthrope in fucking PEACE.
Hot take: ambulances should be quiet enough to not cause pedestrian hearing damage, and people who don’t pull over and fully stop 100% should get their licenses suspended.
If one can’t look out for ambulances, then they shouldn’t be driving at all.
If memory serves the reason emergency vehicle sirens are getting so loud is because modern cars keep getting quieter inside due to sound dampening
I recently sat in a new car and I couldn’t tell if it was on or not due to how quiet it was inside the car, outside it was easy to tell but inside it was quiet as a tomb
So anytime an ambulance approaches, all traffic has to stop? What if they’re just driving to the gas station? How do you know that the ambulance is on an emergency call?
Also: the siren is not just for everyone in front but also the next crossing over so everyone who doesn’t see it yet can hear it.
I thought it was pretty obvious what you meant. Maybe if they thought about it for 2 seconds they’d realize we’re only talking about active emergency vehicles.
We had a test of the national emergency system here in the UK a couple of months back, a broadcast message via your phone. I knew it was coming so it wasn’t a total shock, but a) I was driving, b) my phone is Bluetoothed to my hearing aids, and c) I was on holiday in north Wales, so the message was in Welsh. Nearly shat myself.
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