Our dorm was next to a playground in college. It was impossible to sleep in. They were literally just screaming at the top of their lungs for hours at a time. I guess it's different when it's someone else's day you're ruining.
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#112I was just writing two days ago about how ADHD is overdiagnosed and our system is just set up to try to coerce kids to be convenient for the system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490274 There I put forward some proposals at the end
I have under-diagnosed ADHD because my father was a Fox News disciple, science-hating, arrogant bigot who believed ADHD was a "conspiracy" of anti-male leftists.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Planes are horrible without noise cancelling headphones for me, which incidentally solves the screaming kid problem too.
I got some earplugs designed for people who deal with sensory issues and they have completely transformed being on a flight from actively annoying to passively acceptable. Fell asleep for the first time on a plane and I'm never going back.
Earplugs are a godsend on flights. I've found one more trick. No caffeine on days when I fly. That way, I fall asleep easily all day long.
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There are native white populations in the US? And just when I thought I understood how Americans defined the category "white"…
American white supremacists can't figure out a definition of "white". I doubt anyone will ever get a handle on it.
(e.g. do you include Italians? Jewish people? What about Turks or Armenians? Eastern Europeans? There's all sorts of disagreements about what "white" is in the most racist groups out there... because the whole concept is fucking stupid).
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#115We seem less tolerant of kids these days, and more tolerant of dogs.
The other day an unleashed dog ran into my yard from the adjacent park and the woman escorting it informed me that I should build a fence!
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#116For years our neighborhood had an ice cream truck or two turn up a few days a week during summer, which we used to enjoy. This year, not a single one. I saw one of the trucks at a school fete and asked about it. The guy said one person had complained about the noise so the local council banned them after 7pm! With most of their sales falling between 6-9pm, they decided it wasn't worth it for one hour and moved on to…
Ice cream trucks are specifically obnoxious especially in a neighborhood or a park. I would also complain. They would fit in fine at a carnival or similar. I've always found it odd that most people would complain if someone sprayed water all over them, but are surprised when people complain the same way about obnoxious noise. I do live next to an elementary school and enjoy listening to the children playing. Like the…
I agree; I wondered how HN would manage to make the article controversial, and this was the answer, equating the sound of playing children with the sound of intrusive commercial marketing aimed at children.
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#117Kids are mildly annoying but generally there's a time and a place. I have kids. I love a loud house with quiet time. Loud children above age 2ish in the movie theater or restaurant are to be behaved because of the proximity of others. Babies on airplanes get a pass because iykyk
> Babies on airplanes get a pass because iykyk I think broadly if you’re doing something you just need to do, then a kid being a kid (particularly babies) is fine. Even if it’s annoying, that’s just life. Beyond that you need to pick your place - I’m happy taking my young kids to dinner where there’s other kids and noise, I’d not take them to a quiet tasting menu place. Having said that, someone with an upset baby is…
I generally understand dealing with an upset kid in public is hard and I sympathize. But I once had a red-eye flight where the kid was screaming for its daddy, who we later determined was on the flight just in a different row. We saw no indication the mother was actually trying to soothe the child, nor did she go get the father. We were not happy to start a vacation with such little sleep...
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Complaining about an ice cream truck you can hear in the back of your house while wearing noise cancelling headphones isn’t Karen culture.
It absolutely is. Gettin an ice cream truck banned from your neighborhood because you heard it drive by is the epitome of Karen behavior.
Blasting sound out of your vehicle into a residential area for hours just because you want to sell something is selfish.
So is defending the behavior and imposing it on everyone around you just because it's sometimes convenient for you to walk 10 meters for some ice cream once a month.
Like TFA says, we have to decide as a society what kind of noise we think is worthwhile. The sound of kids playing seems essential for a culture to stay friendly to family development.
But broadcasting an advertisement jingle to neighborhoods because you want to make money, perhaps not.
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#119A few months back, my wife and I had our windows open and heard some neighbors' kids playing drums and guitar in their garage. They were TERRIBLE.
We're sad we haven't heard them again recently. I was hoping to follow along as they got better.
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You don't think carpentry falls into the category of "professions that make loud noise outdoors"?
Sure, and if OP had said that, perhaps we'd be having a different conversation. Or none at all? EDIT: Ah, maybe you're responding to my remark of it having "nothing to do"? If so, yeah, that's hyperbole. There are similarities if you want to look for them. But I don't think they're meaningful connections for the point of the story and OP's reaction, in my opinion.
The point of the story is that someone tried to strike up a conversation with OP and he responded by effectively saying "your job is loud and obnoxious", and it's presented as if it's a win. It doesn't really seem like one to me.