tiramichu @ tiramichu @sh.itjust.works

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Audio and subtitles are complementary.

If you're having a conversation, or doing some other task that makes sound, or scrolling social media and a video starts playing, there could be a noise that momentarily covers up the audio and you miss something. If there are subs then you can quickly glance to see what was going on.

Listening to spoken dialog allows you to look away, but subs let you catch back up if you miss something. They cover for each other.

From the UK here and I could only identify two of four for green.

I frequently take a huge L on answers which are US-specific

I don't disagree with that.

OP noted they posted this in response to this other post in memes which says "The majority of Milennials and Gen Z watch TV with subtitles on" - the point of this Tom Scott post being to say it's not actually a generational issue, it's about volume normalisation (or the lack of)

I also agree it's likely mostly about volume normalisation, and my point is only that there are other factors at play also. We can't definitively say "volume problems are the whole reason people with normal hearing are using subtitles" because that dismisses a load of other contributing elements or ways the world has changed in the last few decades, as I mentioned in my previous comment.

People aren't the same as they were 20 years ago and the world isn't the same either, with different behaviours, habits and preferences. There are lots of factors for subtitle use in hearing people, not just the (admittedly awful) volume.

You being lucky doesn't necessarily imply that other people will be equally lucky, though.

Plus, what we may not have thought about is that the triggers for a financial institution to review your account will happen due to a change in circumstance. Address move, insurance change, employment change.

Since you left 25 years ago, there have presumably been essentially zero changes to your personal status as far as the bank is concerned. They aren't hearing about it because you don't live or work in the country anymore.

So your account is just sitting there, quietly unnoticed and unbothered.

To make them want to close it, something would need to happen to make them review it in the first place.

Yeah exactly, I don't get it either.

With "Toxic Masculinity" it's pretty clear how masculinity - which is not a problem in itself - can become over-applied to the point where it's damaging both to oneself and to others.

But toxic empathy? Is it really possible to care about others too much? To try and see things from someone else's perspective too much? I feel like it really isn't, because there can never be enough of that in the world.

Which means "toxic empathy" is genuinely nothing more than a nonsense phrase for people who don't wish to see or hear about any viewpoint except their own.

Dynamic range and loudness normalisation are surely the main reason people are using subtitles, but habits are undeniably also changing too, as is the way people consume media in general.

People don't just look at the TV for an hour straight - they are doing other things, or second-screening, or having conversations, and multiple methods being available to pick up on the show dialog is helpful.

Let's not forget simple reasons like accessibility, either. My friend here in the UK is Hungarian, and despite being completely fluent in English he always likes to watch shows with subtitles as it helps with understanding some British accents which can be tricky for non-natives.

And people just process information in different ways. We've all heard by now that some individuals can be visually oriented, while other people are aural. If you get a choice, why not take it?

Not to mention that subs on streaming services are much better visual quality and timing than subs on broadcast TV used to be, which felt nasty and mis-timed, and very second-class. Clearly 'good enough' for hard of hearing individuals but not very pleasant.

I don't think it's a hot take to say that as accessibility features get better and more available, more people will use them. And accessibility is for everyone.

I still have some of these too! Fun times. I didn't recognise the name "Magnetix" because mine are called GeoMag, so I looked it up. According to Wikipedia, GeoMag was the original, of which Magnetix was designed to be a cheaper-to-manufacture spin off.

The Magnetix recall apparently happened because of a design flaw where the magnet could become detached. That didn't affect GeoMag, so GeoMag was never recalled.

For anyone who doesn't own this and is wondering, the magnetic part is the bars, not the balls!

Looking on Amazon now it seems that GeoMag is still sold, but they have lengthened the bars to make them less swallowable. And there's a bunch of clones being sold too.

So if you want to play with fun magnet toys, you still can! :)

We make plans because we recognise from a logical perspective that it's a good thing for our wellbeing to maintain social relationships, to have friends, to leave the house, and to do things.

But then when the time comes for the actual thing to happen, we are dreading it and don't want to do it. This may be because we are sad, tired, depressed, weary, socially anxious, or any number of things.

If forced to do the thing, we will generally feel afterwards that it was worth doing, and happy about going, and proud that we did it, but also probably exhausted from social stress.

We won't cancel events ourselves - again because we recognise logically that it's a good thing to do and we should do it - But if it gets cancelled by the other party it feels like an absolute blessing. Now the day has suddenly been freed from all stress, and we don't have to worry anymore - and we aren't the ones to blame!

TV producers and showrunners are too fucking greedy.

They all act as if it's still the year 1995 and they're dropping cliffhangers like crazy as if they're gonna run for 8, 9, 10 seasons - despite knowing full well that most of the shows out there these days are never making it past season 1 or 2.

Compare this to almost every popular book series. Books works on the basis that although it's a series, each individual book holds up as a satisfying experience with a beginning, middle and end. Every book leaves you wanting more, but yet, still happy with what you're read.

The Jack Reacher TV series works wonderfully in this way because - surprise surprise - it's an adaptation of the books. Every season is its own crime, and every season wraps that case up nicely.

More of that please - I want to watch shows which respect me as a viewer, not shows which mess me around.

Yeah.

I'm sure there are a lot of people who are apathetc and think it's not "worth it" to boycott, because "nobody else is doing it" and it "won't have any effect"

Maybe that's sometimes true, but for me it's not even about that. It's about having principles, sticking to them, and being proud of what I believe in.

Even if it achieves nothing, I'm still doing it.

Let's be real, cats are also capable of great destruction.

Gaying instrument

For me it's a necessary compromise.

I'm a Linux user on my other devices and I'd love to have a fully libre and open phone, but the most important thing for getting my life tasks done is that apps work, so I'm somewhat hostage to where the apps are available and will run.

Graphene is me trying to achieve that in the least-bad way I can.

GrapheneOS is at least better than Google android.

That's a legitimate security benefit, fair enough.

I do get actual businesses sending me SMS notifications with links, and they aren't in my contacts either, but it's a valid decision for Apple to have made in terms of weighing off reducing scams vs creating inconvenience when genuine messages aren't clickable.

On a personal level I'm happy for everything to be clickable on my phone, because I trust myself to be cautious about scams and think carefully about the legitimacy of a message before I click anything.

People will always do risky things if they can get away with it. The solution to that problem wasn't "bigger truck" - the solution was better and more enforced safety standards.

More seating isn't an excuse - it's just a symptom of the problem.

Trucks were supposed to be practical work vehicles, but they've just become glorified masculine SUVs.

I thought Season 1 was good, and Season 2 was (unfortunately) absolute crap.

My favourite story about the Sistine chapel relates to the wall fresco above the altar, The Last Judgment, which Michaelangelo also painted.

The fresco shows the final judgement of humanity, when souls are all sent to either heaven or hell.

The Vatican master of ceremonies Biagio da Cesena disliked the amount of nudity in the fresco and criticised Michaelangelo for it, also badmouthing him to the Pope. In response, Michaelangelo painted a likeness of Biagio da Cesena into the painting as King Minos in Hell - with donkey ears, naked, and with a snake biting him on the dick.

Cesena complained to the Pope, but the Pope brushed him off and told him basically "If it was Heaven I could maybe do something, but Hell isn't my area."

My favourite story about the Sistine chapel relates to the wall fresco above the altar, The Last Judgment, which Michaelangelo also painted.

The fresco shows the final judgement of humanity, when souls are all sent to either heaven or hell.

The Vatican master of ceremonies Biagio da Cesena disliked the amount of nudity in the fresco and criticised Michaelangelo for it, also badmouthing him to the Pope. In response, Michaelangelo painted a likeness of Cesena into the painting as King Minos in Hell - with donkey ears, naked, and with a snake biting him on the dick.

Cesena complained to the Pope, but the Pope brushed him off and told him basically "If it was Heaven I could maybe do something, but Hell isn't my area."