Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bruce Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Tragedy averted Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 03:05:03 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:05:18 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="09a9e0e585f0d3ec0445102b1d459bee"; logging-data="3244781"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ib6SDEqg7U7LpvpAcNbul" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:gXM6DMfUSJOmsUEc4RKjeKAkOO8= Bytes: 2499 On Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:02:55 GMT, flood of sins wrote: >On 2025-03-28, Dave Smith wrote: >> On 2025-03-28 2:36 a.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote: >>> On 2025-03-28, dsi1 wrote: > >>> How many pedestrians, do you suppose, have been killed by rocking out to >>> music/podcasts with their new-ears engaged, when a car hit them? I'm not >>> talking about using iPods as hearing aides, just dangerous for >>> distorting an extremely important sense, outdoors. That goes for all >>> audio devices that do other than enhance your hearing. Indoors is >>> optimal. > >> About once a year we lose a local teen who is illegally walking along >> the railway and listening to loud music through ear buds. I see a lot of >> cyclists using them too. You really need to be able to hear properly >> when riding or walking, and not just by roads. > >that falls under the natural selection umbrella and i approve. >i'd rather not see these kind of people polluting the gene pool. Ah, you've joined America's conversion to fascism. -- Bruce