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I am talking about apps like Facebook, Instagram suddenly playing sound of a video at full blast when it scrolls into view in a feed.
God I hate these apps and this thing called smartphone that has taken over our lives.
Fuck all this modern shit. We should have never come out of the caves.
Anecdata but I recently got headphones with noise cancelling and my quality of life shot through the roof. According to my smartwatch, my heart rate is lower and stress levels are down. Unfortunately, I have to take my headphones off to go to sleep and I'm immediately reminded of the shoddy fridge in my apartment, vent noises, and my neighbor who doesn't realize it's 11:30 PM.
I have yet to find noise cancelling headphones that don't give me 'stuffy ear' feeling.
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I had this "conversation" with my neighbor (it was more like me being yelled at) It kind of blew my mind they didnt care about noise interruptions at all hours and told me its my problem. Like maybe if you got a full night of sleep you wouldn't be so angry? I guess this study supports that. The noise in my current apartment is endless, car alarms, screaming and crying kids along with their loud toys, idling cars, the…
I can’t speak about puerto rico, but in another latin american country i’ve spent a lot of time in it’s very common for every small store to have a loudspeaker and blast (imo shitty) music from 10 to 5. That isn’t even bad compared to the many discos right next to each other than play music as loud as possible to not be dwarfed by their neighbor. Whenever I’m in a Western city I’m grateful for how much more quiet it…
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Cities aren't loud, cars (and trucks) are loud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8 Video discusses this thoroughly. There ARE quiet cities amazingly enough. And suburbs are a HUGE source of the noise IN the cities they surround because it's the car traffic from suburbs into the cities that makes much of the noise. Cities ARE loud, but they don't HAVE to be.
How about the non-stop construction and non-stop road work? How about clubs and bars with outdoor speakers? Helicopters, industrial cooling/HVAC. I could go on. It's far more than just cars. What are these quiet cities that magically have none of these things?
I can't think of an exception to this in any city I've been in, honestly. Which cities have lots of clubs and bars with loud speakers out the front? Is that common in the states?
Why do we still have the beep, beep, beep when trucks back up? We have backup cameras now. Everyone within half a mile is continually alerted that there's a truck backing up or a piece of construction equipment moving.
I don't know what to do about airplanes, but I want to see cities be designed to rely much less on motor vehicles. "Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8 "The Suburban Traffic Contradiction" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqQw05Mr63E
It was lovely and I remember being so surprised you could actually hear the birds like in the woods! Any other day it was so loud it could be difficult to even talk to each other (not to mention the stench)
And yet it was a major struggle to keep this happening every year with people and counselors fighting the event organizers every single year because how are we ever going to survive without our cars for 12h on a weekend once a year?
Same city where I couldn’t get anyone to do anything about the garbage trucks picking up and loudly banging metal trash containers at 3am. Fuck this noise (literally), I’m never living in a city again.
It definitely stresses me out and an important factor for where I'll live next.
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Earplugs can help if you want something less bulky when you sleep
My quality of sleep shot through the roof when I started sleeping with earplugs many years ago. Much deeper sleep. Now, I can't fall asleep without them. I have an unproven theory in my head that shutting off my hearing while I sleep, quiets my subconscious and even when I'm asleep, my ears are still working so this helps another part of my brain rest as well.
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How about the non-stop construction and non-stop road work? How about clubs and bars with outdoor speakers? Helicopters, industrial cooling/HVAC. I could go on. It's far more than just cars. What are these quiet cities that magically have none of these things?
I never noticed, walking around the nicer European cities, that any of those things made nearly the same level of noise as the cars. Seriously, walk through Paris or something and tell me that clubs and bars and helicopters and AC are even nearly as loud as the cars when you walk next to a busy road. I can't think of an exception to this in any city I've been in, honestly. Which cities have lots of clubs and bars wit…
> One of the few countries I've been to that takes noise pollution seriously is Switzerland Not in my experience. From my rented flat overlooking Geneva, when I was working there as a consultant, I used to get the (happy) screams of the kids in the school next door, the thump of heavy metal from the next flat, the whine of aircraft coming in to the airport and the clank of rubbish going down the waste disposal system…
But yes car noise is a big problem here in my opinion, not to mention gas leaf blowers.
And cigarette smoke. Everywhere. That’s such a shame for a country where we think “mountain pure air” which has in reality an ashtray smell everywhere you go.