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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 nicolas_t »

angled wrote: post #93
nicolas_t wrote: post #35

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It's a bit similar in HK, what we do though is research the different buildings a few months before our lease is over. That allows us to visit units in those buildings without being pressured to make an offer and once we're seriously looking we have a much better idea of the market.

In HK, the further south you go the better it seems to be… bar TST of course! I agree about the lack of double glazing here, if we ever buy, that will be one of the first things I’d try to change. I imagine Penny’s Bay is quiet!

Yes, we moved to Tai Hang which is quite nice in terms of noise (much much better than Kennedy Town where we used to live). We actually get bird chirping at night and early mornings and barely any traffic noise.

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

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Post by colanderman »

smallerfish wrote: post #309
mechanical_bear wrote: post #90

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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…

50% of the time my neighbor's maintenance company spends with leaf blowers is chasing individual leaves across the yard and through shrubbery (not exaggerating). They'd save themselves time if they just bent down and picked up the damn leaves with their hands. Or -- novel idea -- left the last couple leaves anyway, because just as many more will accumulate 30 minutes after they leave.

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

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Post by ndsipa_pomu »

ajuc wrote: post #229
adhesive_wombat wrote: post #219

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America fascinates me because half of the time things are functionally unregulated, and the other half of the time there's a law about Kinder Eggs and the exact height your lawn must be.

We're playing Call of Cthulhu pen&paper RPG campaign set in modern USA. Our DM has to check the laws in each state often, and usually it derails the session by how completely absurd it is. Like our party was able to carry a bazooka around openly in one state :)

Was that Old Man Henderson? https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDGreentext/comments/2hpuvq/old_ma...

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

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Post by Teever »

moduspol wrote: post #353
sicromoft wrote: post #201

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Leaf blowers are the worst. Several cities in CA have banned them. I don't know why more haven't followed suit. There's a myth that groundskeeping is more costly without them, but the city of LA reported that costs didn't significantly increase after banning them.[1] [1] https://www.dailybreeze.com/2018/08/21/redondo-beach-bans-le...

> There's a myth that groundskeeping is more costly without them A... myth? Have you ever used a rake, and a leaf blower? How about for many hours? If there's no change in costs when switching between the two, it's getting hidden or absorbed somewhere. It takes substantially less time and effort to use a leaf blower than a rake for the vast majority of tasks that call for either.

Maybe you don't need to track down and collect every single leaf?

Like it's okay if things have a slighty not perfectectly tended to appearance.

There's beauty in chaos.

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

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Post by grvdrm »

goodpoint wrote: post #298
kfarr wrote: post #17

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Yes, and same with modified exhaust systems and mufflers.

I heard that in US some people pollute more on purpose and call it "coal rolling". Is it the same crowd with modified exhaust? Are they increasing the noise on purpose?

Coal rolling is the most disgusting and obnoxious behavior

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Post by moduspol »

Teever wrote: post #384
moduspol wrote: post #353

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> There's a myth that groundskeeping is more costly without them A... myth? Have you ever used a rake, and a leaf blower? How about for many hours? If there's no change in costs when switching between the two, it's getting hidden or absorbed somewhere. It takes substantially less time and effort to use a leaf blower than a rake for the vast majority of tasks that call for either.

Maybe you don't need to track down and collect every single leaf? Like it's okay if things have a slighty not perfectectly tended to appearance. There's beauty in chaos.

Yep. That falls under costs being "hidden or absorbed somewhere."

Arguably there could be even more beauty in not even raking them! That doesn't mean leaf blowers and rakes are comparably cost effective, though (as implied by the claim I replied to).

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Post by KineticLensman »

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

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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!

(UK here) I have a large lawn (longest diagonal is 40m) and many mature trees and I also hate leaf blowers with a passion. I now have some proper rakes designed for leaf sweeping - approx 75cm wide. I can clear the whole area in about 90 minutes (approx once per week). I have a tall collection sack and a set of the large plastic grabs that let me pick up huge amounts in a single go. The speed trick is to avoid pickups for as long as possible, working a 'wave' of leaves across the lawn. I pick up piles from the leaf-side of the front line and don't ever try for a complete pick-up, so the ones left behind simply get raked a bit later. The collected leaves are dumped, unbagged, in a massive pile that grows throughout the collection season. In the summer I mix my grass cuttings in and in autumn (a year after the first leaves were added) I have some superb weed-free mulch. The raking also helps keep the lawn in good condition.

Every few months my old petrol leaf blower is used for about 30 mins to clear debris off a gravel path that has proven impossible to rake, and when this blower dies I'll get a battery one.

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Post by kiliantics »

Gigachad wrote: post #28
throw__away7391 wrote: post #21

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It's because almost all the noise in the modern world is caused by cars and motorcycles, and in the United States are prioritized over all other life forms.

Imo it should become regulation that all cars have to have some audio transparency tech like headphones have. Then we would be able to lower the volume of emergency sirens which are obscenely loud to penetrate cars.

this would also help stop people hooting unnecessarily, if they had to hear it themselves

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

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Post by newbamboo »

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…

“would have to deal with it for a year.”

Who can afford to move every year with rent inflation at 25 yoy? Clearly you aren’t living in the gilded state with its luxurious rent control provisions.

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