Edit: Thanks everyone. I’ve heard your comments loud and clear. I will not wear headphones while driving.

  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al
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    12 days ago

    Lol did you have to Google that. My wife is deaf, half my friends group are deaf. We are laughing at this.

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      12 days ago

      Im sure they are. All just standing around laughing at my link showing something exist that you claimed didn’t, that’s very funny after all.

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        12 days ago

        Just my wife and I. We are having breakfast and I showed her your comment, nearly spit her food out. Good times all round.

        Technology can be made to assist every disability just about. Have you seen or heard of anyone using this technology in the wild? What was that? Did you say no? Right, thats the same as us. Because apart from edge cases, pilot schemes or the-guy-on-the-internet-trying-to-win-internet-points, it isn’t being used.

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          12 days ago

          Your wife spit her food at out the idea of someone providing the requested example of accessibility tools used by deaf or hard of hearing? Im hearing impaired by the way. Maybe you should show your totally real wife this study suggesting low penetration due to stigma attached using them. Maybe you should ask your wife how she’s feels about people using her disability as an excuse for being irresponsible while driving; though Im super worried she’ll just laugh at me again. Most of my partners haven’t seen or heard of most of the devices I use for hearing loss until they dated me. Guess that means they don’t exist by your definition.

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            12 days ago

            Please keep going. Tell me what sort of accessories you use whilst driving your car

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              12 days ago

              Im good, it’s clear you’re not actually interested. Id hate for your real wife and all your deaf friends to laugh at me again for providing examples of said tools while you unironically claim Im “just trying to win an internet argument”.

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                12 days ago

                Dude, it wasn’t even the thing about the deaf that we were laughing at. He was just the fact that people on the internet always start their next sentence with “wrong”, and then continue with a really silly comment and that just made us laugh. It was just so laughable can’t explain it. Sorry.

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      9 days ago

      Just coming in later, would you please ask your laughing wife how she knows when she’ll need to pull out of the way when an ambulance is approaching, and has she ever had one sneak up on her/catch her off guard?

      I bet she notices the lights and also other cars moving over, right?

      Because I’ve seen an ambulance get fucking stuck behind an asshole who was driving with headphones on. Lights and siren, but he was too fucking distracted to even notice. The cars on the other side of the double yellow squeezed over enough for the ambulance to get around, because they were paying attention. Like your wife does, I assume.

      Because what’s in her ears is quietude, and that’s not as distracting as whatever the headphones are playing.