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Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by sejje »

sevensor wrote: post #200
sejje wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People should just make better fires. A good fire doesn't release much, if any smoke. It burns it up instead. A good woodstove is worth the money.

People have romantic ideas about heating with fire and burn the most awful green wood in their fireplaces, stinking up the whole neighborhood. I understand burning bad wood because you have no options -- I witnessed a chimney fire or two as a kid that resulted from burning too much wet pine -- but I cannot fathom the mindset of someone who does it recreationally.

Meanwhile my neighbor is burning wood he stacked eight years ago.

Some of it precious, too. Like black walnut.

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by troad »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #173
tantalor wrote: post #45

> We had interference somehow. Our remotes were set up to operate at the same frequency. Each remote controlled both devices. That's not "interference" in the technical sense. Interference actually causes signal degradation, distortion, or loss. This is the system "working as expected" technically. It was just set up wrong.

> That's not "interference" in the technical sense. But it is "interference" in the sense that that is what the word "interfere" means.

Interestingly, the -fere in interfere comes from the Latin ferīre, meaning 'to hit', 'to strike', etc. My first guess would have been something like facere/fāre or -fer, but that quickly falls apart on reflection (to do across? between-bearer?).

Inter + ferire = to strike one another. Makes sense.

Bonus point: the aforementioned -fer ('bearer', like conifer or aquifer) is distantly related to ferīre, as it is to English to bear, Greek phérō ('to carry'), Slavic brat ('to take'), Sanskrit bhárati ('to carry'), etc. I suppose ferīre itself must be the result of semantic drift along the lines of 'to carry/bear' -> 'to bring forth [blows]' -> 'to strike/hit'.

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by defrost »

its_ubuntu wrote: post #254
tqi wrote: post #83

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Yes, that is the same because second degree kid noises also cause cancer.

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  A full range of scientific evidence, extending from the molecular level to whole populations, supports the conclusion that secondhand smoke causes disease. The scope of this evidence is enormous, and encompasses not only the literature on secondhand smoke but also relevant findings on active smoking and on the toxicity of individual tobacco smoke components.
* The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44321/

356 links to supporting studies and works

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by sejje »

technothrasher wrote: post #233
sejje wrote: post #146

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Five miles from pavement, and my air quality is perfect 365 days per year. I hear some gunshots during hunting season, echoing across the valley, but they'd be drowned out by the frogs singing--they're way louder. Wait until these guys start telling you you don't need a truck.

> I hear some gunshots during hunting season I don't mind the gunshots near my house during hunting season, because I have good neighbors. Those shots mean my freezer is getting stocked with venison.

I live far enough out that the gunshots are usually people hunting NFS land.

A huge swath of it borders my property, as I'm the last house up the road on my mountain.

I don't mind 'em at all, though. I think it's locals, just folks I haven't met. They keep it clean and they go up far enough I can't hear anything besides the rifle crack.

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by matheusmoreira »

its_ubuntu wrote: post #260
matheusmoreira wrote: post #257

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I don't drink coffee. And even if I did, caffeine is not a drug that spreads to others in the air they breathe.

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I don't disagree with your general intent. Let's not put cocaine and amphetamines on the same level as caffeine though. Some drugs are orders of magnitude more harmful than others. Alcohol would have to be erased from human society before caffeine ever entered our crosshairs.

Also, you should remember my comment was about the route of administration. A drug you take is your choice. An airborne drug works its way into your system whether you want it or not.

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by dh2022 »

varispeed wrote: post #140
shibel wrote: post #31

Reminds of a neighbor I had back when I was renting in a big city. He didn’t seem to understand what’s wrong with keeping his TV on for very long periods broadcasting the sleaziest (at least at the time) reality show on full volume. I tried talking to him multiple times to no avail. He’d basically say “yeah I’ll pay attention no problem” but nothing changed for weeks. Coincidentally at that time I was working morning…

From childhood I remember there was a guy who was blasting loud music whole day. He wouldn't stop, so one neighbour got so angry he took an axe, demolished this guy's door, took his stereo and launched it through the window, through the glass. Fortunately it landed in the garden on the other side. Then he said next time he will chop him up and throw through the window. That was the end of nuisance. Police came, but a…

I do not know in what country you live, but in the countries I lived in if you chop somebody's property you will go to jail.

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by gcanyon »

I have a Concept 2 rowing machine. I've measured: it's about 65db when I'm rowing easy, 70, maybe a bit more, when I'm rowing hard.

Most times when I row, it's for half an hour or so, but it can be up to 45 minutes to an hour, or sometimes up to an hour 40, or rarely 3.5 hours (I row a marathon once or twice a year).

There are two components to the noise it makes: there's the whirr of the gear as I pull on the chain, and the rush of wind from the fan it spins.

I think the whirr is more prominent/annoying. I've carefully crafted a box to fit over the section of the rower where the gears are. That dampens the noise a great deal. There's still the opening where the chain goes in, so if anyone has ideas for that I'm happy to hear them.

I also have foam pads for the thing to rest on, in case it vibrates at the feet (I don't think it does).

At my old high-rise apartment I'd row until midnight, and no one ever complained. Now I'm in a brownstone, so I'm keeping it to before 10pm. Hopefully that's enough that I'm not a bad neighbor.

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by tolerance »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #263
tolerance wrote: post #235

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> If anything they should be glad the punishment was as civilized as this. There are many places in this world where it could easily escalate to actual violence. Agreed. But there’s a reason that guy apparently felt no worries about closing the door in OP’s face. Perhaps the likelihood of it escalating was slim. And there’s a reason why OP didn’t knock again. In the resolution you propose in another comment, deviance…

> Perhaps the likelihood of it escalating was slim. Not as slim as he had hoped. People feel free to close the door on others because they are used to a life without violence. Their implicit thinking is "I'm not even gonna consider what this other person wants because what's he gonna do about it? Nothing." They think there is no way they will be held accountable for their actions. That's magical thinking. People real…

Who hurt you?

Re: Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

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Post by kmoser »

When I lived in a NYC studio apartment, the neighbor directly above me was a DJ and used to mix club dance music at full volume. Around then I discovered the fuse boxes for several adjacent floors were located just down the hall from me in an unlocked utility closet.
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