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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 globular-toast »

beebeepka wrote: post #248

Cars, and now when it's warmer, motorcycles. It's incredible how nothing is being done to motherfuckes emitting 10 times the noise of a packed bus. In fact, it's celebrated. How is it fair to allow a single piece of shit to emit orders of magnitude more noise than hundreds of people combined. I complain about it all the time but almost nobody else seems to care. I love motorcycles but I do loathe the majority of ride…

I went on a nice walk in the Peak District in England a few weeks ago when we had nice weather. The worst thing was the sound of cars and motorcycles everywhere. And not just the occasional one passing by. They would pollute an entire valley with their noise for hours at a time. I reckon everyone within a 10 mile radius would be affected.

I'm just trying to enjoy what's left of nature and it's like I'm at a race track.

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Post by ihateolives »

dan-robertson wrote: post #221
kdmccormick wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> instruments being practiced As a musician... although I understand that, in the end, instrument practice is still noise, it hurts to see this listed among the rest of your items. Last year, I had to move out of an apartment complex because our neighbors would not tolerate even 30 minutes of practice a day (in spite of the ~2 daily hours of lawn care racket, but whatever) and complained to building management. I get…

One thing I really liked about university was catching faint snippets of music being played as I walked around. But maybe this is due to not being bothered by people practicing scales in dedicated insulated basement music practice rooms, so I would only infrequently hear ~full pieces being practised.

I loved walking by musical school every now and then when they had windows open. Sorta added to summery feeling. But I hated every minute of my upstairs neighbour having their go at piano.

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Post by brobinson »

tropdrop wrote: post #76
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…

It was strange the article focused so much on airport noise when there is another kind of noise pollution for city residents so much more widespread – ambulances/emergency vehicles. I've lived in San Francisco for awhile (and still come back to live there some of the time), and this is the thing that I notice increases my heart rate every time I come back. In SF, they're so loud! Even late in the evening! I didn't pa…

I wonder why they don't exclusively use the alternate low-band siren at night. I've heard it a few times in the Bay Area, but it was always in conjunction with the standard siren tone.

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Post by greggman3 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #299
greggman3 wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> guy above you comes home at 2am and never takes his shoes off He shouldn't have to IMO. Building codes should require buildings to be sound proof between units. Yea, I know that's dreaming but I've lived in such units. I once lived in an apartment in LA. It was the first apartment in my life that had an in-unit washer and dryer. I asked the guy showing me the apartment "I'll bet I shouldn't run that after 10pm". He…

> It runs 24/7 even though no one has been in the building during COVID. With modern buildings, where all windows and walls are completely airtight and there is no natural draft any more because of energy efficiency, the buildings would start to mold if you turned off the ventilation.

Could they maybe turn it down from 10pm to 7am? Or put some lube on the device?

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Post by dunefox »

zachrip wrote: post #242
vishnugupta wrote: post #207

This is obvious to those (like me) who get stressed out with excessive noise. Despite having born and brought up in India I could never get used to constant white noise. It stresses me out like crazy. I realised the value of silence the first night in Netherlands. I could physically feel heart go down and mental peace. They take noise levels seriously and it shows! Edit: Details.

I moved to Amsterdam last year, it's been great for a lot of reasons except one: When we moved, it was during lockdown. We checked out the place and we knew it was in a touristy place but it's not too bad. One thing we didn't realize is the small, unassuming cafe turns into a night club Thursday-Sunday and plays extremely loud music until 4am. When we initially moved, they couldn't because of lockdown. We asked the m…

Try good nc headphones, they might help.

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Post by poisonarena »

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!

heh.. wait to you live anywhere in south america

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Post by [deleted] »

wildrhythms wrote: post #109
ab-dm wrote: post #88

I recently worked through a bout of stress induced sleep onset insomnia, which my sleep psych suspects was triggered by a series of sleep interruptions over 3 years from horrendous neighbors in the last few years (a party that started at 3 am apparently was what broke the camels back) It took me a month of CBT to break the back of it, and everything is (mostly) back to normal now, but it just blows my mind how insens…

Call me an authoritarian, but 'bad apartment etiquette' is one area where I wish there was a social credit score to impact.

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Post by smallerfish »

mechanical_bear wrote: post #90
gonehome wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find by far the biggest disruption in US suburbs is lawn equipment. Suburbs are louder than cities imo because there is always a leaf blower, lawn mower, and weedwacker going at all times during the day within 100 yards of you. Often for hours. Moving from Palo Alto to SF things got way quieter.

I fucking loathe leaf blowers. I can tell what day of the week it is by which neighbor is going for an hour or two straight with the leaf blower. Get a damn rake!

> I fucking loathe leaf blowers...Get a damn rake!

I fucking loathe chain saws...Get a damn axe!

I fucking loathe lawn mowers...Get a damn scythe!

I fucking loathe loud diesel trucks...Get a damn wagon train!

I fucking loathe cellphone ringers...Get a damn semaphore!

Seriously, until you've done a full day's landscape maintenance yourself, you're not qualified to talk about leaf blowers. Luckily battery powered leaf blowers are getting better, and will be up to most households' maintenance needs soon, hopefully. I believe we're still a ways off from battery blowers being good enough for commercial crews though.

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Post by sampo »

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…

> Switzerland. A beautifully peaceful and quiet country.

I visited a research institute in Garmish, Southern Germany. The building was next to a cow pasture, and all cows had really loud cowbells, constant noise even with windows closed. Does this happen in Switzerland, too?

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