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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Some people get downright feral when their noise machines are even brought up. It's competitive aggression against other competitive aggressors and it's supposed to go without criticism, or else. frothingfash

[–] HunkyBrewster@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is precisely why I don’t say anything when it happens. It doesn’t seem to bother others — for some odd reason — and I don’t want to get my ass beat if they end up being unreasonable.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

That's also why I just have to put up with the floorboards shaking at 3 in the morning because a very divorced grillman needs to tell the neighborhood about his divorce while doing figure eights in the nearby parking lot.