Sure ok.

IDK how things roll in the US. In Australia I think most jobs can find a Union.

Even if you don’t formally unionise, talking and negotiation is the way to resolve this. If all the drivers express their misgivings to their supervisor in unison they’re likely to be heard.

It takes some self awareness to acknowledge that.

You might want to get it looked at.

Amazing.

I’ve been driving for 25 years.

I honestly can’t remember a time when a horn has alerted me to something I needed to be aware of.

Sirens here definitely aren’t used in that way. Besides which you can see the stroving lights reflecting off things. You don’t need line of sight.

If headphones were such an impediment to safe driving they would be illegal. They’re not.

Not really.

Here emergency vehicles only put their sirens on for a few seconds when they’re stuck behind some oblivious idiot who hasn’t seen them coming and pulled over.

How’s are rarely used to alert you to something you need to be aware of.

Even so, noise cancelling headphones suck at blocking that type of sound. It mitigates ongoing noises like engine sound, but not something with changing pitch like a horn or siren.

You seem kinda despairing and dismissive of the obvious answer… talking to your union.

You have no power over your employer, but your union does.

Additionally, and this is kinda wild but, have you spoken to your supervisor? What did they say? Did you explain what it is about it that’s so annoying?

I’ve worked as a consultant for companies that use this type of thing and most disable the verbal warnings and stuff because they’re not helpful in any way.

Fuck drivers that rely on hearing to drive safely.

I’ve been 20 for most of my 43 years.

However, we had twins recently. They’re 18 months old and we all co-sleep. I don’t want to be a prudish family where kids aren’t allowed to see a bum or whatever, but I also don’t want to feel weird about snuggling up together.

So… I’ve been wearing pyjamas just to avoid any awkwardness.

Tricky one. I think most wars purportedly fought on religious grounds are in fact about power and money. Regardless any combatants that believe they’re fighting at the behest of their deity are idiots. That’s hardly a real world application, it’s just a way to manipulate people.

I don’t really accept the premise that creating a life is either good or bad for the created life. Rather, of every n lives created, what portion would prefer never to have existed? Every parent has rolled that dice and bears the consequences of harming an entity who preferred not to exist.

If I believe in numerology and as a result decide to pat myself on the head 12 times before bed that is not evidence that numerology is not a nutty woo woo theory and has real world applications.

what is it a question of

As I said, prospective parents need to accept the risk that their child might resent them for being born. I’m happy to consider that in the unlikely circumstance that I encounter it

Aiding and abetting a genocide is depraved.

Agreed.

Going on national TV and lying about seeing “pictures of 40 beheaded babies” is depraved.

Agreed.

He deserves much worse.

Agreed.

Celebrating when a war criminal gets prostate cancer? Not depraved at all in my opinion.

Hard disagree.

You can acknowledge that he’s an awful person while refraining from celebrating his misfortune.

If someone deserves punishment, celebrating that punishment is basically just hatred. I might want to get that looked at.

I don’t really care what the hard antinatalism position is in the same way I don’t care what the hard flat earth position is.

You’re talking about it as though it’s a credible ideology when in reality it is, at best, a nutty thought experiment with no real world application.

It’s not a question of whether being brought into existence is good.

As a parent, I acknowledged and accepted the risk that a potential child might not have wanted to be born. That’s it. Presently, I don’t know how I will navigate that if it turns out to be the case, the same way I don’t know how I will navigate my daughter dating or my son watching porn, but I do know I’m going to try my best to figure those things out when I encounter them.

Every parent since the dawn of time has made up solutions as problems have arisen, some better than others. No parent seriously considered whether their unconceived child consented.

Yeah the comments ITT are pretty awful. I’m no fan of Biden, but some of the comments here are depraved.

I feel you.

I’m in Australia. If we turned fascist I would want to move but the logistics of doing that are very challenging.

I’ve never encountered the problem of being told I should have children, nor intimidation, coercion, or violence.

Come on mate. Just to point out the obvious here…

The ability of a yet-to-be-conceived entity to consent to being conceived is not temporary, given that its not possible to consent to something retrospectively.

I have kids, and being told that I’ve mistreated them by having them is kind of offensive.

Someone passed out at a party will wake up sooner or later. Their lack of ability to consent is temporary.

The ability to pro-create is a fundamental element of “life”. I’m not going to engage with an argument that it’s unethical, sorry.

nobody got my consent to bring me here

I think every child tries this once. Parent says “I brought you in to this world and I raised you up so I deserve a little respect” or similar. Yes demanding respect like this is a dick move and a great example of toxic parenting, but it’s the style of parenting most millennials encountered. Child responds “well I never asked to be born”.

The obvious problem is… it’s not possible to ask someone whether they would like to be conceived prior to conception.

How much more stupid can it get?

Well, if adults are trying this “I never asked to be born” shit I guess it can’t get much stupider.

Pretty strong here on Lemmy too.

I get why people might choose not to have children, but to assert that others shouldn’t is a whole other thing.

Just in the last few days there was a post about how climate change is going to effect children born today - comments were pretty wild.