But the most significant change in modern science is not just about the amount of noise, but how we experience it. Noise is no longer understood solely as a problem that affects hearing, it is also recognised as a systemic environmental pollutant. Transport noise is now one of the leading environmental cause of illness in Europe, second only to air pollution.
I’ve had seedlings of this idea earlier this year so I’m happy to see this. It’s my fault for letting it rile me up so much, but neighborhood security cameras that make fuckass noises or yell “HI UR ON CAMERA” anger me to a likely unhealthy degree. They take a peaceful enough morning dog walk through a relatively low traffic noise neighborhood and shatter my peace of mind absorbing what little nature sounds I can. I’ve already made peace with myself that everyone now is too big a paranoid piss baby that they have to have their doorbell cams and other cams hoovering up my image into the panopticon against my will and consent. But then to have them fucking talk at me is beyond the pale.
I’ll pencil that one in right below healthcare and education.
But keep having obnoxious back up sirens for no reason, forcing deliveries at 5AM with loading dock doors slamming and lift gates whirring, etc
The US just said that clean drinking water isn’t a right, so good luck with getting peace and quiet recognised as a right…
I get so stressed from too much noise and there’s nothing I can do about it. If anything it’s so much worse since starting hormones
Noise cancelling earbuds? Even the $30 ones are pretty good.
I despise leaf blowers with all of my being, dear Lord how I loathe them.
Is raking that hard? So hard that every house within a mile should listen to your leaf blower, instead? WHEEEEERRRRR WHEEEEEERR I’M BLOWIN’ MY LEAFS WHEEEEEEEEEEEERRRR
… the worst part is, it’s 100% unnecessary, there’s no need to blow leaves. They’re supposed to be there, they don’t hurt a thing. Morons
They don’t bother me, even the loud gas-powered ones.
My HOA includes landscaping and they come around once on month on Monday and that saves me from raking. It only takes a few minutes and they move on to the next house.
Purposely loud motorcycles and cars, on the other hand…
I don’t hate my neighbours enough to buy a leaf blower.
Gas leaf blowers genate a fuckton of pollution. The stats are horrific for their outsoded carbon footprint. Like on the order of 30 minutes of a leaf blower is about the same as a truck driving from texas to Alaska. They should be banned for both noise and airborne gas pollutions.
I’ve been prepping my driveway for the last week to seal coat it, and I feel bad when I need to run the electric blower for like ten minutes max.
I keep the garage door shut when I run the air compressor and run the hose out under it, which works very well to suppress the noise.
I also share the opinion that regular leaf cleanup is stupid. like just leave 'em be, the bugs will use them and they’ll feed the lawn. raking is usually easier than blowing anyways, in my experience. maybe that’s just because I’ve never cut my grass weekly and don’t have a golf course for a yard
I hate grass and I hate all the stupid shit it takes to maintain it. Mowers, blowers, weed whackers. All that fucking stupid waste to cut grass and put it in a landfill.
Grass consumes so many resources only to end up in the dump. Most of my neighbors bag it up and put it in the trash. Water, useless fertilizer, pesticides, weed killer and other stuff, it is nontrivial.
Omfg, at least compost it! Fucking morons and their grass. I cut mine like every three weeks and clean up none of it. It can just lay there. If I didn’t live in a bullshit hoa neighborhood, I would just let it turn into a meadow. Ive seeded microclover, but it’s slow to take over. Working on it a little more each year.
gonna print this out and tape it to my upstairs neighbors door
I live near(30-50 meters? ) an intertown road and my windows are looking on landing strip of the international airport(1-2 km). My most irritating source of noise are my imbecilic neighbors who can’t bother to let their degenerative kids on street and I’m not even sure if they go to school. So the kids (~10 years old) just scream and stomp on my ceiling. I suspect they’re too dumb to learn anything in school anyway.
Cars are ok. Airport is even more ok.
Cars are ok.
If that’s your take, then you should stop moaning about kids playing indoors.
