• potoooooooo ☑️@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    This is one of those runaway climate change effects they warned us about. I worry it’s too late to stop it. Next year, it’ll start in August, then June, etc.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    Not a bad song, but playing it for 2 months straight every year is way too much.

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      I have an annoying neighbour. This annoying neighbour plays loud music throughout the day and sometimes the night too.

      This annoying neighbour also happens to have a wireless charging stand with a built in BT speaker. A BT speaker that requires no authentication, no pairing, no nothing. You can just connect to it.

      This annoying neighbour has been suffering from random bouts of Mariah Carey at the most inopportune times - such as 3am - at max volume. I’ve even programmed a Bluetooth controller to keep connecting to it and playing the song at random intervals if it gets paused or the volume reduced. And most recently I’ve been working on figuring out a way to detect when the neighbour plays loud music so I can finally connect the two events in a very obvious way so they finally stop.

      You think hearing it for two months is bad? Try being my annoying neighbour. Doesn’t matter if it’s July, or February, or September, if it’s morning, evening, or barely past midnight, he’s getting his Mariah fix, Careyd over the soundwaves.

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        2 hours ago

        I love you

        Your neighbour probably thinks they’re being haunted by a very festive ghost

        You should set it to play an air raid siren/klaxon with a made up emergency news broadcast, like the purge.

  • cosmicpancake@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    This is hilarious and terrifying at the same time. The artist behind “All I Want For Christmas Is You” hitting big streams in October is funny, but the punchline about global warming actually stings. Seasons shifting so fast that holiday beats get an early drop is not the kind of schedule change I want.

    Laugh, then get mad enough to do something. Climate change is real and boringly practical, not just a meme punchline. Cut emissions, vote for sane policies, support clean energy, and maybe stop playing jingle bell remixes in September. Otherwise next year Halloween playlists will include sleigh bells.

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    4 hours ago

    Is it just a load of stores/shops immediately switching to generic xmas playlists after Halloween? To me that’s the only reason I could see there to being a sudden spike. This song is bound to be in most of them. But we’d also need to track other popular xmas tracks.

    (I know there used to be significant music licensing issues about what music could be played in a store, to the public. Don’t know if there is some special Spotify business account now?)