l0k1 on Nostr: I find this expression "muting" very weird. When I first became familiar with the ...

I find this expression "muting" very weird.

When I first became familiar with the expression, it was a button on TV remote controls to silence the sound.

Any time I was watching TV, and there was a remote, I was on that mute button every time, and I liked to look away and talk to the human beings around me. In fact, that was part of the point of it, when it was muted, the deeply interested persons in the room were ok with me talking.

To me, muting isn't stopping something, it's just diminishing its sensory impact.

You all people have got so used to actually PAYING for your advertising with cable TV that it seems logical that muting doesn't often actually cause the irritating crap to be removed from the display.

Just as muting the TV doesn't stop the irritating visuals.

Of course, just like the people who were sitting watching their ad-riddled "Pay TV" they didn't get why I didn't like it.

The most common term for it is hyperacuity. A genetic feature (not a bug) that I inherited from my mother.

Advertising was like a smack in the face every time, because they either deliberately made the program quieter, or, as they were forced to do later by "laws", they used compression filters on the audio. The same nerve-exhausting effect that makes listening to most popular music these days absolute torture.

I'm not here for the advertising, nor the trolls and GMs and GNs. I'm especially not interested in people telling me that there's something wrong with me because I am not "normal". GFY. Why do you all think that expression is popular in the Bitcoin online culture? Ah yeah, because most of us are sensitive, and I don't mean by that irritable dominators, but meek, and simply wanting some peace and reasonableness in our existence, while all around us is noise and haste and insanity and violence.