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Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by saila »

oauea wrote: post #119
bogota wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They may be louder but do you have a dump truck waking you up at 4am several times a week? I really don’t know what to do anymore. Obviously they need to pick up trash that early to beat the traffic and save a few bucks /s. But the city doesn’t care and I’m constantly told that condos/apartments are a more sustainable way of living. Thats great but I’m about done with this nonsense and about to move out to the burbs…

Do yourself a favor and get some earplugs

Earplugs do essentially nothing to stop low frequency sounds. I can block out a lot of noise with white/pink/brown noise, but the only thing that will stop sounds you can feel, whether it’s an idling truck or a sound system cranked up, is substantial mass and/or decoupling from the source.

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by gretch »

reidjs wrote: post #165
jmugan wrote: post #61

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.

This is one noise that I’m absolutely ok with them keeping for safety reasons.

But like is it actually keeping anyone safe? If we disabled that noise across the board, would ppl actually die from being backed into by big trucks?

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by afiori »

agumonkey wrote: post #176
quadrangle wrote: post #136

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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.

And electric vehicles are a lot less so. Everytime I get passed by an e-bike my brain has a little pleasure seizure from not having to suffer the expected rawkus.

vehicles are make noise with the engine and wheels, so light electric vehicles are super quiet, but heavy vehicles tend to be loud regardless when moving fast

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by ajuc »

bogomipz wrote: post #169
bigDinosaur wrote: post #164

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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…

Miami, NYC, LA to name a few. And it's far more prevalent now since covid as most places have some outdoor seating now and they've seemingly all installed speakers.

It's banned in all Polish cities I've been to. And for a good reason.

Half the problems with America seems to be lack of regulation and the assumption that it can't be changed :)

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by Sinidir »

drstewart wrote: post #2

This is one of the things I struggle with the most in life. I feel like most people don't seem to care about noise pollution and zero care is put into designing living spaces or cities to minimize it. I've moved into apartments and nearly cried because I realized that there was some noise pollution that wasn't apparent when I visited it (e.g. a water boiler that ran constantly at night, road noise during the day, etc…

My dream is to build some kind of app to actually give a resonable noise estimate of a place and warn against potential problems.

I also struggle a lot with noise pollution. Shity neighbours, random building noises in the dead of night, Buses that accelerate right in front of my window at 6 in the morning, etc.

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by agumonkey »

afiori wrote: post #183
agumonkey wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And electric vehicles are a lot less so. Everytime I get passed by an e-bike my brain has a little pleasure seizure from not having to suffer the expected rawkus.

vehicles are make noise with the engine and wheels, so light electric vehicles are super quiet, but heavy vehicles tend to be loud regardless when moving fast

Fair point

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by shpongled »

seattle_spring wrote: post #29
drstewart wrote: post #2

This is one of the things I struggle with the most in life. I feel like most people don't seem to care about noise pollution and zero care is put into designing living spaces or cities to minimize it. I've moved into apartments and nearly cried because I realized that there was some noise pollution that wasn't apparent when I visited it (e.g. a water boiler that ran constantly at night, road noise during the day, etc…

People are so unbelievably disrespectful with noise in the US. Peaceful hike? Here's Katy Perry crackling out of my iPhone at full blast! Luxury apartment at $4k a month? No insulation between units, and the guy above you comes home at 2am and never takes his shoes off. Small country street? Here comes Chad with his straight-piped civic with the muffler removed!

Hiking is what gets me the most. I go outside to be in nature, not hear music. Not to mention that everyone owns earbuds these days...

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by javert »

exikyut wrote: post #135
bogota wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They may be louder but do you have a dump truck waking you up at 4am several times a week? I really don’t know what to do anymore. Obviously they need to pick up trash that early to beat the traffic and save a few bucks /s. But the city doesn’t care and I’m constantly told that condos/apartments are a more sustainable way of living. Thats great but I’m about done with this nonsense and about to move out to the burbs…

"Normal" suggestions: earmuffs or earplugs; soundproof your bedroom (IIUC certain types of window roller shutters can mitigate noise); move :/ Insane suggestion: record the dump trucks every night (using good microphones - maybe even hire some), build up a compendium of recordings, get a really good speaker and amp setup (absolutely no buzzing/hissing/hum etc), then play the recordings in a loop progressively increas…

sounds like literal torture. i don't think you are joking, but it's hard to be sure.

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by hans1729 »

thisistheend123 wrote: post #161

No one here has mentioned the most horrific noise that has come into existence only a few years ago. 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.

Then just don’t use those apps? I don’t, and nobody above 30 in my circle does. No need stay in caves, just adapt some culture.

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by javert »

saila wrote: post #181
oauea wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do yourself a favor and get some earplugs

Earplugs do essentially nothing to stop low frequency sounds. I can block out a lot of noise with white/pink/brown noise, but the only thing that will stop sounds you can feel , whether it’s an idling truck or a sound system cranked up, is substantial mass and/or decoupling from the source.

i got these Bose QuietComfort noise cancelling earbuds, and they are like magic, cancelling out bass noise from nearby outdoor stereos. i can't believe how well they work. I live by the beach where people play loud music---the concrete walls do OK for the midrange and treble noises, but not the bass.
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