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  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Idk i feel like most beaches this is pretty acceptable. In my experience if you walk further from the parking lot you get more seclusion and peace. IMO a reasonable volume on a speaker isn’t any more disturbing than kids playing which is expected at the beach.

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    • autriyo@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Often there’s people (esp. groups) who can’t be bothered with “reasonable”.

      I’ve probably been guilty of that in the past…

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    • huey_m@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I really wonder if there is any place outside of a concert venue that these folks find music on speakers acceptable? I kind of get it if they’re solo, just use headphones, but… hanging out in a group and listening to music together at the beach is about the most normal use of a beach trip I can think of.

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      • QualifiedKitten@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think it depends on the beach. If it’s somewhere with lots of other people, somewhere super accessible, then I kinda expect it. But if it’s a less populated beach, maybe one that’s more difficult to get to, I probably chose it in hopes of listening to nature.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      the difference is the “i need silence” folk just want to get away from all the sound of humanity. which, cool, but you need to actually get away from humans to do that. don’t expect everyone to accommodate you in public. it belongs to me just as much as it belongs to you, and you ain’t accommodated shit for me.

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      • punkfungus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We literally never stop accommodating you. Are you being physically confronted over your music in public all the time? I doubt it.

        We live in a populous world and the “I need loud music at all times” folk have absolutely no boundaries. There is nowhere to go where there is no chance of disturbance. Which is why it would be nice if some people would back off of blasting music in places of respite.

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    • MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I just got back from a beach vacation in a house we rented. Unfortunately I had to rely on a relatives speaker, so I could relax watching for no kids to drown.

      Mostly played soft R&B, Blues, or anything downbeat at a lower level I could hear it over the sound of the waves. But I was sitting right next to it and not blasting it from 100 meters away.

      We’d also setup way early with no one around. I’d have the speaker rolling and the beach wasn’t packed. Yet people still setup really close to me on both sides.

      At that point I figured they weren’t bothered. They would hopefully had said something because we talked to each other about the kids playing together.

      So yeah there are situations, like everything else.

      Probably only person I bothered was my Mother-in-law, because she is kinda racist and doesn’t like music made by darker skin people, but that I really didn’t give a shit about.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        yeah, you pretty much get ten feet from the speaker and can’t hear it.

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  • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have come to understand that there is a subset of people that have never spared a thought for anyone else. They probably have never even considered the fact that I don’t want to listen to their stupid bullshit. The thought never crossed their mind, not even once.

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    • okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have come to understand that there is a subset of people that have never spared a thought for anyone else. They probably have never even considered the fact that I don’t want to listen to their stupid bullshit. The thought never crossed their mind, not even once.

      Now with all of the unnecessary words helpfully marked.

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      • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Aw that’s not fair - they think about themselves all the time! They spend so much time thinking about themselves, in fact, that they don’t have the extra brain power to spare for the rest of us.

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    • StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mean while, I’m over here turning down my radio at stop signs and red-lights so no one takes more than a passing notice of my existence.

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      • FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        One of the shittest cars I ever owned (Ford Fusion) turned the volume way down when stopped automatically. Should be standard but I’ve never seen it any other car.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Subset makes it sound like a small population. I get the sense it’s a large slice whenever I brave the public domain

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh it’s crossed my mind. It’s also crossed my mind that public space does not belong to you in particular. If you want silence, go find it.

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      • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Run me over… on the beach?

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  • VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Where I live both are acceptable, but it depends on where you go

    If you go to the “main beach” that’s where you bring music. You show off your body, you listen to loud music, you cruise, etc…

    But if you go the “locals beach”, you show up looking like shit, keep your music down, and lots of people drink illegally but they do so low-key so while we all know they’re doing it, nobody cares

    To me, both are acceptable. It kind of sucks to think there is no place at the beach where you can party

    But it also kind of sucks to think that there is no place at the beach where you can actually enjoy the ocean

    SO we have both, you just need to know where to go

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Very wise

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  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s like people have none sense of why they go places.

    A few years back, I did a lantern-lit tour of Mammoth Cave. I’ve done them in the past, and the ambiance, sound, smell, and flicker of firelight gives a very close yet mysterious feeling to the tour. This time though, as soon as we got into the cave, half the dipshits on the tour had their harsh white cellphone flashlights going everywhere, completely ruining the experience that they (and other people) had just fucking paid for. They really need to have a “movie theater” cellphone policy for those kinds of tours.

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    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Music concert - everyone recording with their phone out.

      Fireworks display - everyone recording with their phone out.

      Bride comes down the aisle - everyone recording with their phone out.

      It’s just pointless. You ruin your own experience of the event because you’re watching it on a screen instead of experiencing it directly, and you ruin other people’s experience too.

      And the wedding one I’ve seen far too many times.

      What do you think the official wedding photographer is there for? When the bride and groom watch their wedding video back they want to see a room of their happy family and friends, but instead they’ll get a video with aisles of people staring at their own little rectangles and pointing them at her as she comes down the aisle.

      So yourself a favour and live in the moment sometimes, please.

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      • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Phone cameras are a godsend when I need to remember.

        They are a curse when I want to remember.

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      • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I would say pretty much wedding I have been to in the past 10 or so years has had a no phone/camera policy during the ceremony. Before the ceremony starts, the officiant comes to the mic and reminds everybody and let’s them know their is a professional photographer and everybody will get to see the photos online later.

        The rest of the wedding? Go wild. We actually had some app with a QR code that guests could scan when they arrived. Then between 5pm and 10pm (or whatever the time of the wedding was) - any photo they took was uploaded, and we got to see all of the photos everybody took plotted on a time line. If you didn’t want to use it, fine with me, I know how people are with privacy. But I thought it was cool.

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    • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I went to see the leatherback sea turtles nesting a few years ago. They guide themselves by the light of the full moon and we were explicitly told not to use flash photography, as it disorients the turtles. As I’m sure will not surprise you, as the turtle ladies crawled up onto the beach, about 100 blinding flashes went off right in their faces.

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      • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh fuck thay makes me mad. If I was running that operation, I’d have those people removed from the beach immediately. And probably fined, depending on the situation.

        Or better yet, ban people from bringing cameras with flashes.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just walk 100m along the beach and can’t hear them anymore. Most people are too lazy to walk more than that distance from the car park. A fact that is very obvious when I kayak past the coast here and can use the dense clusters of people on the beach as landmarks with almost no one between them. First cluster is the lifeboat station, second and third are cafes, fourth has ice cream.

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    • starik@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Its not laziness. It’s because they’re carrying a bunch of stuff for an extended hangout.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You do realise I can see them right? Many have not. You don’t really need to bring that much with you anyway.

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    • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I live close to the beach and this is the way. Car is parked, peeps want to lay down IMMEDIATELY NOW. Take 5 minutes to walk down the beach and the crowd thins significantly.

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      • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This applies not just to beach. It applies to everything. Everyone congregates near entrances/exits, landmarks, close to the door in a parking lot, etc.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        5 mins? 15 seconds of walking out in either direction is enough for it to start noticeably thinning out.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    JOKE’S ON YOU ASSHOLE, I DON’T LISTEN TO THIS PLAYLIST ANYWHERE ELSE, BECAUSE I MADE IT JUST FOR THIS BEACH TRIP!

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  • Flower@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They had a guy like that at a work site. In the end somebody ground down some of the graphite part of a pencil and sprinkled that down the openings of his boom box. It short-circuited when he tried to switch it on the next time and there was silence after that.

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  • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah let’s go for a semi-relaxing float down the river…oh look 2 dipshit trashy rednecks blasting their shitty country/hip-hop playlist over a cheap Walmart amp-sized speaker with the sound quality of a flip phone.

    I swear the next time I go on one of those I need an air pistol that only shoots small darts. Fire one at the float carrying that speaker and just float on happy.

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    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Chugs can of Bud Light. Tosses can in water.

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      • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Maybe bud light before they acknowledged a trans person existed. Now these cousin-fuckers exclusively drink Busch Light

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    • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Jokes on you, my speaker floats on its own.

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  • Gates9@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is this fucking guy at my local park that sets up a full DJ system with giant speakers and “spins” electronic music, by himself, with no audience, loud as FUCK, at least one day every goddamn weekend for multiple hours. Everyone loathes him, but he doesn’t seem to care.

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    • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A nice pair of electrically-insulated cable cutters may be a good investment.

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      • Gates9@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nah I’m not like that, not calling the cops on him or anything either, but if someone whips his ass I won’t feel bad.

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      • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I like McMaster-Carr, it’s the greatest catalog of industrial supplies.

        Also the markup on the first cutters that showed up is insane. $90 on McMaster, only $57 at home deopt

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Man, I went to a coffee shop with a girl once. This coffee shop sat maybe 24 people, okay? It’s a shallow, wide building. There’s the counter with two baristas working, in front of the counter along the front wall of the building are those narrow “table for two” booths, like 2 or 3 of them. Both the counter and those booths run to the right wall of the building. To the left is a small more open area with maybe 4 four-seat tables.

      There was this guy. This male homo sapiens. Who brought an acoustic-electric guitar. A microphone. And two, count them in the eyes of sweet zombie Jesus TWO. 60+ watt amplifiers. Because this was the artistic opportunity of this existing organism’s life. This creature, this placental mammal, was going to REACH his audience on this night. Through all the noise of a commercial AC unit and the single digit number of people that I ever saw in the building, his Green Day covers would be HEARD!

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not the sort of thing I normally condone, but I think if there was ever a good use for a Bluetooth jamming device - Flipper Zero, etc - this is it.

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    • IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      esp32 bluejammer

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  • theparadox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be fair, I also hate to be left alone with my own thoughts for even 1 minute… I’m just considerate enough to use headphones.

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    • lost_faith@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Some idiot decided that headphone jacks are not as good as… buying earbuds that cost 3x or more what I “paid” for the ear buds with a wire and are so easy to misplace, I’m no audiophile I just want to hear someone talk. So I only listen to stuff if there is no one close and lower the volume if people get close to me so as not to disturb them

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      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        TBH I’m way more likely to break headphone wires than to misplace wireless earbuds.

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  • Sunshine@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not like people bringing loud music to the beach is something new and different.

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  • Kenny2999@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use a hifi cushion. You can barely hear anything beyond 2 meters at a reasonable volume. A lovely invention, too bad it didn’t catch on.

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    • OS2Warp@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A what?

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      • Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Guessing a speaker with a pillow from the name.

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      • Kenny2999@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Exactly. Heres an old review. I dont think its sold anymore.

        soundandvision.com/…/humu-augmented-audio-cushion…

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  • dismay3915@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “De bwootooth dewice is readey to paih”

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  • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It really makes me puke when I’m trying to enjoy the outdoors and someone plays a stream with FUCKING ADS because it’s just a sacrilege to pervert nature’s harmony with advertisements that I didn’t consent to hearing.

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  • AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I believe that they do for the attention, they must notice the nasty looks, they must know most people find that annoying in a place like that

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    • Flower@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Reminds me of the study with loud cars .

      “We found that it was sadism and psychopathy predicting who wants to modify their mufflers, who feels more connected to their vehicle, and [who thinks] loud cars are really cool,” Schermer told CBC News.

      “It seems to be this callous disregard for other people’s feelings and their reactions. That’s the psychopathy coming out and it’s also they probably get a kick out of enjoying watching people get startled.”

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      • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I guess at least they didn’t become CEOs

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  • dil@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Music vs 10 ppl trying to loudly talk over each other

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  • forgetfulmeat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s a point where its way too obnoxious but I think it’s fine as long as you find your own space. We all kind of silently claim spots in public spaces like the beach so just claim somewhere that is not too close to other people.

    When I want the serenity I go off to the side where no one is. I don’t think it’s a big deal.

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  • Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wonder if there’s a database of ways to get a bluetooth speaker to crash with a few malformed requests…

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    • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You don’t need a database of exploits, just broadcast a lot of noise on 2.4 ghz.

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have long wanted a directed EM projector that could destroy electronics from 10 meters away. A cellphone death ray, as it were.

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  • holy_scroller@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Someone blasted their playlist during a citywide fireworks display…why would I want to hear the explosions.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i’ve been in the band that plays during the fireworks, so to your point:

      some people like music.

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      • holy_scroller@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I should have mentioned this was at a public park with hundreds of people, no one asked or hired the dude to be there, and he was playing shitty music loud enough that you could not here the explosions. If you did that, you are also terrible.

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      • Mesophar@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, I just hate it when I go to a concert and it’s all fireworks covering up the music I went to see. Would suck if the opposite happened…

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  • bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did everyone forget that Bluetooth speakers are not secure and you can just disconnect them and play any thing that you want instead (such as silence or the ocean waves)

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How do you take it over without putting it in pairing mode?

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      • bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh look at this lovely buffer of nulls, hopefully it doesn’t overflow…

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  • anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably road their loud ass motorcycle to get there.

    This just screams I beg for attention! Look at me !

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  • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Any time I see all caps I just think it’s orange taco

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Music hater

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  • WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    THANK YOU FOR USING ALL CAPS AS DUE TO MY HANDS BEING WAY TOO LONG I ALWAYS STRUGGLE TO READ SMALL TEXT ON THE SMALL PHONE SCREEN

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    • ddplf@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      SPOKEN LIKE A REAL MFER AROOOOOOOOO

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Move somewhere else. Its a public space. Nobody is going to make everyone happy 100% of the time. Or go in the slower/more calming hours. Or get your own private beach.

    This just reads as bitching.

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey you’re welcome. I really enjoy my Bluetooth speaker at the beach. I play it just loud enough so when I’m sitting in my area in my little tent that I can hear it. If you’re sitting close enough to me to be able to hear your music then you can fuck off.

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  • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What if my music is a driving rhythm made to amplify ones enjoyment and celebration of being alive with others that’s just what we’ve been doing in nature since before the United States showed up with a bunch of indoors people?

    I mean, I’ve had to listen to some pretty shitty, country music before, definitely not something that fits my idea if music or a good time, but I just move, or swim out 100’, or hike, and bam, nature sounds.

    99.9% of the outdoors is not full of these people. You can just go there. If you can’t just go there, maybe you have to put up with the other people who also can’t go there.

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    • cogman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you are having a party with lots of people, fine by me, I’ll avoid your group.

      This is a much bigger problem when you are at a crowded location with strangers and you choose to play music. In that case, get some headphones.

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      • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How are you in any way “enjoying nature” in a manicured location next to a parking lot, that is packed with people? I dunno, ‘I want to experience outside around tons of people but don’t want the things that come with tons of people’ is just a really weird niche to expect everyone else to conform to.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some people get to go to the beach all the time and enjoy having fun there and being social. Not quietly listening to the waves. You want a public beach to be your way, go buy a private beach.

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    • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nobody wants to listen to your shitty music.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        walk ten feet. the ocean is loud. i can tell you’ve never been

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      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t care that you don’t.

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    • FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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