{"id":39943,"date":"2014-09-22T22:21:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T02:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39943"},"modified":"2020-07-13T22:21:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T02:21:59","slug":"its-good-to-know-who-to-blame-when-these-are-all-over-marta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39943","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s good to know who to blame when these are all over MARTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-39944 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jambanz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jambanz.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/jambanz-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Introducing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs46.com\/story\/26369500\/atlanta-dad-creates-safer-alternative-to-ear-buds?autostart=true\">JAMBANZ<\/a>.\u00a0 50% slap bracelet, 50% Bluetooth speaker.\u00a0 100% bullshit.\u00a0 Made in Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Dad here kind of misses the point of earbuds and headphones.\u00a0 They exist so that people can privately listen to their music without disturbing other people.\u00a0 And under the guise of safety and awareness, he basically creates something completely counterproductive to the idea of private audio enjoyment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">All the time, we hear about how bicycles are vehicles too, and they have the same rights to the road as people in cars do.\u00a0 Well for people in cars, it\u2019s technically illegal to have earbuds on while driving, so why shouldn\u2019t the same apply to those riding bicycles, regardless of their age?\u00a0 If Dad doesn\u2019t want his daughter or her friend getting run over, perhaps they\u00a0<em>shouldn\u2019t be wearing earbuds while riding their bicycles in the first place<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">As for the Jambanz themselves, this is an invention just begging to fall into the wrong hands.\u00a0 Namely, anyone who has ever ridden public transportation, or has simply been anywhere within the city limits, where large numbers of people tend to conglomerate.\u00a0 It\u2019s bad enough we have people who don\u2019t actually wear their earbuds or headphones, and have them alternatively draped on their person, but naturally still have their music blasting, so that the whole world can hear their snake-charmer beats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Just imagine how much worse it\u2019s going to be when they\u2019re given an option where there are no cumbersome wires to tangle up in, and they can sync their Jambanz with their wireless devices, to pump out their crappy music while being more comfortable in the first place.\u00a0 And then when one Jambanz user\u2019s crappy music intertwines with another Jambanz user\u2019s crappy music, it\u2019s either going to be Bone Thugs \u2018n Harmony, or more likely than not, it\u2019s going to be a World Star Hip Hop fight video break out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The bottom line is that Jambanz, although not the worst idea in the world, is basically inviting people to be more publicly inconsiderate of others, by being a device that forces the user\u2019s music onto all audibly surrounding people.\u00a0 And that\u2019s not cool at all.\u00a0 If Dad\u2019s so concerned about his children\u2019s safety, perhaps he and they need to be better educated on preventative matters, as opposed to \u201cinventing\u201d something that\u2019s just begging to be obnoxious to a larger majority of the world\u2019s populous.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing\u00a0JAMBANZ.\u00a0 50% slap bracelet, 50% Bluetooth speaker.\u00a0 100% bullshit.\u00a0 Made in Atlanta. Dad here kind of misses the point of earbuds and headphones.\u00a0 They exist so that people can privately listen to their music without disturbing other people.\u00a0 And under the guise of safety and awareness, he basically creates something completely counterproductive to the idea &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39943\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It\u2019s good to know who to blame when these are all over MARTA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118,15,143,124],"class_list":["post-39943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-marta","tag-og","tag-ohatlanta","tag-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39945,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39943\/revisions\/39945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}