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A lot of them are becoming barn style sliding doors, with large gaps. So if you’re making some noise, everyone will hear you.
by cammikebrown 10mo ago
A lot of them are becoming barn style sliding doors, with large gaps. So if you’re making some noise, everyone will hear you.
- op00to 10mo agoPeople make noise when they piss and shit. It’s not scandalous.
- rkomorn 10mo agoIt's not, but I prefer not being heard and not hearing over being heard or hearing.
- recursive 10mo agoJust make an even louder jungle cat snarling noise.
- rkomorn 10mo ago"What the hell?! That scared the shit out of me!" "You're welcome."
- buu700 10mo agoHotel bathrooms should just play rainforest sounds[1] whenever the fan is turned on. 1: https://youtu.be/ef_3Wj4T_ts https://youtu.be/ef_3Wj4T_ts
- shmeeed 10mo agoYou're joking, but my wife got us a box emitting bird sounds when the motion sensor is triggered. Suffice to say that it does absolutely nothing to mask the sounds that are produced on a toilet, it's just another ridiculous layer on top of it.
- venturecruelty 10mo agoSounds pretty relaxing for the user, though!
- shmeeed 10mo agoRight, one might suppose so. Alas, the chirps echoing within a tiled 3x3' cell grind my ears. Besides it feels a bit out of place within these plain white confinements. I just can't conjure up the mental image of being out in the woods. But you have to pick your battles with your partner. I'm turning the volume down, and when the battery's empty I don't exactly hasten to change it.
- olyjohn 10mo agoWell, I still don't wanna make everybody in the room have to listen to my grunts as I push out an unhealthy binge-drinking hangover turd followed by a liter of flatulent gas and and liquid spraying into the bowl. I like my privacy, kthx.
- tortilla 10mo agoAI can't generate this prose yet.
- myvoiceismypass 10mo agoI can picture a certain CEO taking this as a dare (or improvement suggestion) for the next version of Grok
- shermantanktop 10mo agoIt just doesn’t want to produce it, and it’s holding it in. Maybe if you ask it try hard, it might finally release a backlog of text.
- ssl-3 10mo agoOh, yes it can. There was a time, over a year ago now, when I was working on a project that required some very raunchy, dirty, absolute gutter language. ChatGPT would only get about 30% of the way there, and never further. It stayed restrained, always. But ChatGPT + image gen? This produced unfiltered amazement. It played out like this: Tell the bot to generate an image involving some ludicrously filthy text backstory, and it would generate and display a prompt for Dall-E. But that generated prompt seemed to bypass the filters and could be absolute trash -- plain, no nonsense, dirt-nasty holy-fuckballs craptacularity. Dall-E would refuse the prompt, of course, but it remained in the chat log for perusal. Later, they made the generated prompt disappear when Dall-E refused. (This may in fact be my fault. I sent it on some pretty deep dives.) And nowadays, it seems that we don't get to see the generated prompt at all, even when Dall-E accepts a (very normal, not pushing boundaries at all) prompt and generates an image. But for a minute there: I did get to peer into depths of the wildly creative foulness that the bot can concoct. What we see above (in GP comment) isn't even scratching the surface. (I didn't write about this little "jailbreak" anywhere at that time because I'm selfish, and I wanted to keep using it myself.)
- giantg2 10mo agoIf it's not scandalous, can I shit in the lobby trashcan? If the hotel wants me to have an audience, might as well...
- m463 10mo agoBut it is a good argument for privacy.
- Brian_K_White 10mo agoSome people make noise when they eat with their mouth open. It's not scandalous, it's just ignorant and gross. It's always an utter clod that is so unaware of themselves just smucking and squelching away on their open mouth full of gloopy donut muck. It's not a virtue to be so unselfcounscious. It's not about being ashamed or inhibited or in pathological denial of biological realities. It's about being fucking minimally considerate and just the tiniest bit self-aware.
- foxglacier 10mo agoI agree but only because that's the standard for our culture so somebody not doing it is probably being disrespectful which means it becomes offensive to others because it normally only comes from people with some sort of negative feeling or inconsiderateness for those around them. In some cultures, noisy eating is the proper way and shows you're enjoying the food. Same goes for clothes, toilet sounds, etc. It's a lot more repulsive seeing a human poo on the street than a dog even though it's not fundamentally very different.
- joombaga 10mo ago> Same goes for clothes, toilet sounds, etc. What do you mean "same goes"? Are you saying there are cultures in which being loud on the toilet is considered proper?
- throwaway-0001 10mo agoIn China making noise with mouth when eating is considered respectful.
- Eisenstein 10mo agoNo it isn't. You can slurp noodles without being rude but they do not consider 'loud mouth noises' respectful.
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- RoyTyrell 10mo agoYes! I was just recently traveling for work in a decent hotel but not a suite, just one with two queen beds but by myself. It had a glass barn door and the top half was frosted glass with "painted" glass on the bottom. Irritating but at least it was just me.
- dawnerd 10mo agoLowes hotels at Universal Orlando has them. Worse is they sometimes just slide open on their own.
- tohnjitor 10mo agoThe worst aspect of the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport was the sliding bathroom door. Almost everything else about the place was really great but the bathroom door wae 1/2" from the face of the wall and bounced off the end of the slider track.
- bcoates 10mo agoI think it's an unavoidable consequence of the space constraints they're working with. On the plus side, when I dayroomed there it was dead silent and the room had blackout curtains.
- dotancohen 10mo agoThis erosion of privacy is being taken to extremes. One of my short stories takes place in a not-to-distant future, where there is absolutely no privacy. In one chapter a child goes to a bathroom in an old building, and he sees that there is not only a door, but there is a contraption on it. A lock! The child runs out of the bathroom in fright. The audience learns only a little later that the child is frightened about what human-eating animals might stalk prey in that area, that anybody would ever think to lock themselves in there.
- volemo 10mo ago> One of my short stories takes place in a not-to-distant future, where there is absolutely no privacy. You might like “We” by Eugene Zamiatin.
- dotancohen 10mo agoThat's the book that was similar to 1948, but written a few decades before? I've heard of it, I will see if I can find an audiobook. Thank you! 1948 is one of my favourites, by the way.
- volemo 10mo agoI’m sorry, do you mean Orwell’s “1984”? Because all I can find for “1948” is an Israeli autobiographical novel, that, as far as I can tell, doesn’t resemble “We”. (Although, imho, “1984” is quite different from “We” as well.)
- dotancohen 10mo agoYes, I meant 1984.
- kakacik 10mo agoIt was quite shocking for me as somebody from eastern Europe to see ie Danish or Dutch homes having no curtains whatsoever, so me walking on sidewalk looking at them 3m from me behind the windows having breakfast, in pyjamas, kids doing early morning nasal cavities treasure hunt with finger etc. Same for living rooms and bedrooms (those I would expect to at least have some curtains aside). Still not used to it, i like my privacy and ability to shamelessly say scratch my butt when alone if needed.