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Deaf people don't have to deal with this shit. Maybe they will repopulate the earth after everyone else has been scammed.

by smgit 2y ago

geocrasher 2y ago
Are you implying that deaf people only give birth to deaf children?
- Dylan16807 2y ago
  I don't see how "repopulate the earth" implies that.
  - Jerrrry 2y ago
    It implies that - or that all deaf people will spawn non-scamming progeny simultaneously, coincidentally as the non-deaf get selected against by lethal scamming simultaneously (then all scam themselves).
    - Dylan16807 2y ago
      1. Why "simultaneously"? You could have all the hearing die over 10 years, and the deaf can work on repopulation over the following decades (and arguably those time periods can overlap too). 2. The scenario is that the deaf will repopulate, not that they will specifically repopulate with "non-scamming progeny".
- denkmoon 2y ago
  I can see hereditary deafness giving an evolutionary advantage of not having to listen to the noise inflicted on our world, so why not.
  - yencabulator 2y ago
    It's See (2019) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7949218/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7949218/) but different & opposite. Almost everyone is deaf and the society has adjusted. Rare few people are gifted with the ability to hear and are now better fighters because they can hear the others accidentally making loud noises.
AnimalMuppet 2y ago
Deaf people still make phone calls, through a relay service[1]. Scammers still call them. Worse, the deaf people can't hear any clues from the inflection of the scammer's voice. [1] It works like this: Their "telephone" is an IP device with a camera that connects to their TV. When they make a phone call, they do sign language into the camera. This gets routed to a call center with a sign language interpreter, who makes a voice call to the person that the caller is trying to talk to. When the hearing person replies, the audio goes back to the call center, where the interpreter does sign language into a camera in their cubicle. That sign language displays on the deaf person's TV. Scammers like this arrangement. At least one interpreting company (VRS) had to fight with the FCC about whether their interpreters could let the deaf person know that the call was a scam. The FCC's position was that this was supposed to be a faithful translation of the communication. But that was very hard on the interpreters, who were watching this person get scammed, helping this person get scammed, and couldn't do anything about it. Eventually the FCC relented, and now the interpreters can let the deaf person know it's a scam call.

Deaf people don't have to deal with this shit. Maybe they will repopulate the earth after everyone else has been scammed.

by smgit 2y ago

Deaf people don't have to deal with this shit. Maybe they will repopulate the earth after everyone else has been scammed.

geocrasher 2y ago

Are you implying that deaf people only give birth to deaf children?

Dylan16807 2y ago
I don't see how "repopulate the earth" implies that.
- Jerrrry 2y ago
  It implies that - or that all deaf people will spawn non-scamming progeny simultaneously, coincidentally as the non-deaf get selected against by lethal scamming simultaneously (then all scam themselves).
  - Dylan16807 2y ago
    1. Why "simultaneously"? You could have all the hearing die over 10 years, and the deaf can work on repopulation over the following decades (and arguably those time periods can overlap too). 2. The scenario is that the deaf will repopulate, not that they will specifically repopulate with "non-scamming progeny".
denkmoon 2y ago
I can see hereditary deafness giving an evolutionary advantage of not having to listen to the noise inflicted on our world, so why not.
- yencabulator 2y ago
  It's See (2019) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7949218/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7949218/) but different & opposite. Almost everyone is deaf and the society has adjusted. Rare few people are gifted with the ability to hear and are now better fighters because they can hear the others accidentally making loud noises.

AnimalMuppet 2y ago

Deaf people still make phone calls, through a relay service[1]. Scammers still call them. Worse, the deaf people can't hear any clues from the inflection of the scammer's voice. [1] It works like this: Their "telephone" is an IP device with a camera that connects to their TV. When they make a phone call, they do sign language into the camera. This gets routed to a call center with a sign language interpreter, who makes a voice call to the person that the caller is trying to talk to. When the hearing person replies, the audio goes back to the call center, where the interpreter does sign language into a camera in their cubicle. That sign language displays on the deaf person's TV. Scammers like this arrangement. At least one interpreting company (VRS) had to fight with the FCC about whether their interpreters could let the deaf person know that the call was a scam. The FCC's position was that this was supposed to be a faithful translation of the communication. But that was very hard on the interpreters, who were watching this person get scammed, helping this person get scammed, and couldn't do anything about it. Eventually the FCC relented, and now the interpreters can let the deaf person know it's a scam call.