alt Hacker NewsPretty sure on planes this is more ignorance than malice. It’s self absorbed people that are too selfish to consider someone else might not want to hear what they’re watching, rather than some deliberate anti society thing.
Regardless, no punishment is too harsh, this should be considered the equivalent of lighting up a cigarette on a plane.
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e40 • yesterday at 6:39 PM
The idea someone doesn’t know they bothering everyone around them is absurd. It is 100% malice.
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dataflow • yesterday at 8:00 PM
> no punishment is too harsh, this should be considered the equivalent of lighting up a cigarette on a plane.
Okay this is ridiculous. One is a fire hazard and the other is not. Do you really need the hyperbole here?
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Another angle is kids who have been given a tablet as a pacifier. Their parents are often on autopilot, having checked out months or years earlier.
On topic (and discussed already on HN): https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu