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The dark arts (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In boomer times, phone calls were expensive and were transferred over landlines. It had an impact on the quality of the conversation.

Today people call you with 1% battery while at the register of the supermarket and instantly launch into a monologue about how they know it's not a good time to call, and they might even cut off any moment, and they know you're usually busy at 10am on a work day, but they really need to know if they can call you "later" to discuss something really important. And before you can tell them anything, they cut off. At least it's over!

10 minutes later they call you from their car and it takes them a couple of minutes to get the audio working so they can repeat everything they said earlier. It's what you have to do if a call was cut off! Then they drive into a tunnel.

Dealing with this shit is a dark art fr

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Its never been easier to be lazy and unplanning about things and use other peoples time to try and cure your own boredom.