Please_Do_Not @ Please_Do_Not @lemm.ee

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Lol it's pretty shocking. Thank you for confirming there's at least one person on Lemmy who also goes outside.

Lol never said you were right, but if you're as observant and thoughtful as you clearly think you are, you'll find clues in my above comments. Enjoy your angst-riddled yet superiorly enlightened existence. I'll just have to get by with my inferior, happy, social, fulfilling, question-filled life. Good to know someone out there knows everything though, including where I live I guess.

You have a pretty thin skin and unrealistic expectations about the real world, so I just guess you come from the Internet.

Well enjoy experiencing life that way. I deeply enjoy my own and have a feeling that people in your camp feel differently. If no one ever talked to strangers in real life, it would be a pretty sad, cultureless existence.

Well then consider me even further evidence that it's gonna happen either way. You might get a bloody nose for telling someone to bugger off in those same countries, so take your chances or learn to live with it.

You're not gonna control how others act, so you might as well try to control how you do.

Perhaps counterintuitively, getting out of the house more often may make experiences like this less aggravating. Choosing isolation makes interacting with non-internet strangers much more difficult the few times you do it. Being exposed often to the many non-weirdos out there who want to hear your bad jokes and stories and/or share their own makes being in public and having interactions much easier, and reduces the apparent size/significance of a relatively minor interaction like this one.

You go in public, people are going to talk to you, and they'll do it about whatever is on their minds. That's sorta something you gotta accept and find a way to deal with if you're not going to become a complete hermit, which it sounds like this guy is well on his way to doing if this was his only trip out of the house in a week. That's not healthy.

Doesn't sound like it was such a solid relationship. He should have been way more loyal to his CEO.

Images stitched together in order capture the amount of time that passed, yeah. They're just not from the right years for that.

"None of us can get cast in anything else, so scheduling shoots should be easy."

Yes, trust AI, that's what Ryan Gosling looked like 14 years ago.

The late, great Hannibal Lecter

"I'm sorry, our couch donuts aren't glazed."

JD Vance, tugging on his suddenly sweaty shirt collar: "Oh I think I can help out there."

Going to a legit optometrist that either cuts their own lenses or tells you where to get good ones rather than trying to find the cheapest option online is probably the biggest thing. They tend to recommend or automatically go for the other top tips, like avoiding any coating that will ripple/peel/fade over time, using high-index materials for high prescriptions (expensive, but drastically reduced the necessary thickness and curvature + distortion of the crystal), and spacing the lens centers to your personal measurements.

Shit in, shit out. But at least I know when to blame the producers this way!

Same exact situation here (incredibly luckily), so I guess I mean "support" not in the sense that my wife isn't excited for me when I find something worth getting, but more that I wish her excitement came from a similar place as mine, a selfish excitement to use whatever is on the way herself, rather than a much sweeter excitement about me being excited lol. And excellent meme, wil certainlyl be sending it along.

I disagree personally. I don't think they need to be side by side to appreciate the difference, so long as you've ever experienced both. I miss the things that I know I'd get with better speakers when I listen on a different setup, and I still enjoy the experience, but it doesn't move me as deeply when I feel something missing. And I don't think it's (all/entirely) placebo. A subwoofer that reaches 10hz lower, moves more air, and fires faster gives you a lot more to hear/feel/appreciate, and to me really changes my physical and emotional reaction to music.

Yeah that's my biggest bummer, too, both in wanting to share the experience and wanting support in dropping some cash on a pair of headphones or something lol.

Yeah this is pretty similar to my experience. My wife supports upgrades because she knows they make a difference to me and she can actually recognize it often, but it's clear she'd be pretty indifferent if she was making audio decisions just for her.

That said, we've spent about 2 years with a nice Yamaha power amp, Elac floorstanders, and SVS sub, full setup around $5k, and she really appreciates it for our focused listening now. Passive listening might as well be out of phone speakers for her, but when we put a record on over Sunday coffee, she always remarks how grateful she is that we invested in the setup.