What it feels like when someone calls instead of texts…
Thanks for the participating post OP. Sorry for the first commenter’s vitriol and angst. I hope you continue to share with us. This is social media, not peer review of a white paper. Those with bad social skills are the ultimate failure here. Thanks again for being social digital neighbor.
Wow, if thats vitriol to you I wish you good luck out there. I just didn’t agree it fits the theme here, thats all.
I was not responding from emotions, but instead from logical empathy. Personally, immediate and/or sharp negativity in response to posts is the main reason I do not post regularly.
When a person is motivated to try to make a post, and then faces the frustration of not knowing what community it fits within, they have already overcome climbing two large hills of resistance. They have invested the effort required. At this point, as they summit the achievement, any negativity is effectively training a neural pathway. We are all only chemistry. Stealing the reward of dopamine they deserve is training them that this pathway is defective. That mechanism is not optional; only a matter of scope of self awareness. The momentum is important too. The more immediate the positive feedback, the more it reinforces the behavior. When the immediate reaction is negative, or fails to reflect the magnitude of invested effort, the potential reward scope is greatly limited.
I noticed it and simply tried to offset how it would impact me while validating the frustration I would have felt if I was the op. It was not intended for you, or even as an insult. I am just as guilty of unintended negativity at times and in certain contexts. Everyone is a bad neighbor at times. It is not an excuse, just an observation. I’d still give you a ride, or share a cup of sugar if you asked neighbor.
I am physically disabled and in social isolation. I just want a place to be neighbors and hang out with real people. This type of text allows me to collect my thoughts despite the pain. It is the only place where I still exist in my voice. That is why I care.
I’m a dick, and if that bothers you than fuck you!
This is the sort of shit that AI is robbing us of. I look at this and my immediate reaction is “yeah this isnt real”.
Other people are saying its an old photo and they’ve seen it before and im choosing to believe them, but still. This world is so full of such cool shit, and I’m not going to believe any of it any more.
I already don’t believe dogs today can skateboard and I saw them before YouTube even existed.
I haven’t seen a payphone in a hot minute.
I… Actually can’t remember the last time I saw a payphone…
That looks like what the 1980’s thought public telephones would look like. Pops up from the ground perfectly lit.
It’s likely a Japanese pay phone. So it’s more accurate than you think.
Looks like Japan. I hear they get crazy snow in the mountains.
Maybe if you got rid of that old yee-yee ass haircut you got you’d get some bitches on your
dickphoneOh, better yet, maybe Bell’ll call your dog-ass if he ever stop fuckin’ with that brain surgeon or lawyer he fucking with. 🎵 phonebooth 🎵
“WHAT!”
Cold call
Freakin amazing photo.
Appa, Yip! Yip!
Whats the no context here? It snowed hard and someone probably removed the snow at some point to keep the phone accessible. Seen this pic already like a decade ago. I remember it was somewhere in Japan, likely Hokkaido.
It’s an interesting pic that’s not AI, enjoy.
Yeah. Not disputing that it is interesting either, as I said it has been around for a while. I think it is pretty cool to look at. Just not a no context pic in my opinion. But turns out I am alone with that opinion and thats fine. What is not fine is others accusing me of being “mean spirited”.
The fediverse is full of grumpy assholes. Just gotta ignore them and the downvotes and keep on keeping on.
Also blocklists are your friends. I tend to block the most egregious grumps on here because I value my mental well being.
You are absolutely being mean spirited though
It has no context provided. Nothing in the rules requires that it be a mystery.
Yes they removed the snow and carefully placed on top of the phone booth. Very considerate.
*Since some people seem to need it: /s
That’s how things look when you dig them out but not the top. I’ve seen people drive their cars with giant pillows of snow on top. This pic wouldn’t be all that hard to set up. Just dig the phonebooth out near the beginning of the storm and then wait. It’ll look like this.
Around here that’s called Snow luggage
Except here you can see the snow on top pretty much perfectly matches what’s not around the phone booth.
I’m not sure I understand. The snow on top looks like the snow on bottom but most snow looks alike. You can tell someone dug it out since the snow around the booth is less.
To me it looks like someone dug it out, ignored the top, and then waited a few hours and took the picture.
The top of the booth caught the snow that would have gone around the booth. Notice the overhang on top and the narrowness around the booth.
Yes, that’s what happens when you dig something out in a snowstorm. You’ll get that overhang. Snow is pretty sticky and has pretty good structural strength until you disturb it. In nature that formation is called a cornice. You get them on mountains that blow snow over a ridge.
I admire your persistence.
Sigh. One last attempt. Magically remove the booth. You’ll notice that the volume of snow on top of the booth perfectly fills the gap of the now removed booth AND the gap around it. As in: No one dug it out. The top caught the snow that would have gone around the booth.
Btw this is not a cornice.
Wait, are you suggesting someone actually placed the snow on top of a phone booth?
Thank you, that explains a lot.
