Time for me to be the contrarian in this debate. All great points, just a rant is all. Just a little funny unhinged post is all, yet at the same time… i apologize to no one because no one got hurt. Also, I reject the idea of not telling people they are being annoying. I would rather tell you straight to your face that you’re being annoying in a nice way or at least a straight forward banner, instead of holding it in and developing some weird, passive aggressive feeling towards the person. Also, if we are being honest, playing music or videos loudly enough for everyone to hear is essentially a form of expression, and you should be prepared for when people express you in return that they don’t like it. In my opinion, it’s 2026 and we should make it part of the social contract that headphones be mandatory or you risk public scrutiny and being tarred nd feathered. 🤣🤣🤣 anyways I hope you enjoyed my sarcasm

This is the answer.

We only have control over ourselves. If environmental noise bothers you, then you need to do something to block the noise, and/or change your mind set that precipitates the rage. You'll never get relief by raging at other people to change.

Public transportation: doubly so.

When I stopped framing this as a moral issue and more as an adaptation pressure it got way easier: sound muffs. The investment is worth your mental health. Then the only trouble becomes in Summer with the competing pressures of heat + noise. In-ear plugs don't give the same dB reduction as the bigguns as far as I've found.

Lol I switched teams at work for administrative reasons only. I don't interact with 98% of the work my team does but rather everything I do is just on me...

And the new team is wonderful but they were like "We gotta add you to the email list."

I used to only get emails relevant to me. Like thirty to fifty emails a week. Now I get about 200 to 300 a day. Of course I configured my inbox so I basically don't see them, but I still get new emails from people outside the company added to the list.

All very good people, heed you, better than my last team in most ways, but also determined to fill my inbox.

Yea it is pretty annoying

I work in a cubicle with a "closed" office next to me. Recently someone moved into the office and she consistently joins meetings with her volume at max. Even with the door shut I can clearly hear everything.

I don't want to hear her meetings. I could at least tolerate it if she was the one speaking, but there is no reason I should be hearing anything from her laptop speakers. Ever.

This doesn't even address the worst offenders of all - the ones that are talking loudly and are on speakerphone with the phone up by their face for all to hear.

That's god awful man Jesus

My dad's not a phone!

Maybe they need the wake up call lol jk

That's honestly pretty brave, people are super attached to their phones. It's almost like waking a sleepwalker back to reality.

You should just be like, "Hey, that's cool let me see that" then bash their phone on the floor

It's OK, it's only going to get worse (with climate change).

Runs

Love the hoodies. I wear the thigh high winter boots with leggings and like maybe a long sleeve peplum top (mostly black) with a scarf. Id be crazy doing that in the summer lol

I agree on the fashion! I love wearing hoodies and can’t wear or find any for sale during the summer. What’s your fashion that’s only available outside of summer?

I can’t even imagine what makeup is like in this heat 😆

Lol 🤣 ME FUCKIN TOO ! Lol I hate summer bc it's uncomfortable. Not only that, the fashion sucks and my make up always melts off. Winter is so much better in comparison.

Make up stays put and the fashion is just to die for ❤️

I disagree. And no, I'm not going to elaborate.

Yep. I just make silly stupid funny videos lol

Yes their ads are atrocious and getting worse by the day!

What kind of videos do you do?

So are their fucking ads, but don't get me started on that lol Thats cool you do videos, so do I

Have you tried commenting anything negative about Trump, Musk, Russia, Israel etc. recently? At least 50% of my comments have been removed in the last few years… I’ve given up posting now, so YouTube comments are now a far right echo chamber. I wish there was genuine competition.

To say it’s out of control doesn’t seem accurate. Seems like youtube has it well under control.