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This post and your comment has me thinking about STFU, posted here a couple weeks ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649142 Is it feasible to capture and directionally pipe audio back to a rude neighbor? Seems like it could be effective.
Been around for awhile: https://www.holosonics.com
ah, so this is what they used in embassy attacks
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> 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…
I guess, but I don't really think of interfering as a mutual thing. I see interfere more like intervene or interpose, where the subject of the verb inserts himself between two other things. (As, in the example above, "my" neighbor places himself into the middle of the relationship between me and my television.)
If I'm interfering with you, it is not necessarily the case that you are also interfering with me. And it certainly couldn't be said that "we are interfering [end of sentence]" in the same way that it could be said "we are fighting".
The use of with to mark an indirect object does tend to suggest that the sense of the verb was more mutual at an earlier point, though.
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I wish there was an easy solution like this for smoking "neighbours". Some sort of detection device that instantly closes my windows automatically and then "explodes" a nasty "stinking bomb" outside (e.g. automatic opening of a container with butyric acid or similar), so it smells worse than their smoke. Eventually their brains would connect smoking with nasty stinking and stop doing it. But I wouldn't know where to…
What about a really loud fire alarm outside your house, that goes off whenever it detects even a slight amount of smoke?
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> a full 1/3 of lifelong smokers never develop any kind of cancer, That's "true" in the sense that it's the CVD (Cardiovascular disease) and COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) that are way more likely to take them out first. Lifetime Smoking History and Cause-Specific Mortality in a Cohort Study with 43 Years of Follow-Up https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4824471/ Sure, you absolutely can be 98 years…
Naturally, in response I propped those speakers to the same wall and played whale calls at a low volume any time I wasn't home.
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Usually people who are that inconsiderate don’t change. Or they quickly change and then quickly change back.
Morning people are often inconsiderate to night people and let alone change they simply judge night people for not getting up at fuck you o’clock. Usually morning people don’t change and are inconsiderate their whole lives.
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I never claimed to be polite, although I definitely temper my writing because I've been reprimanded by the mods before. You didn't write anything to argue about. You wrote that you like the smell of weed. Well I think most people don't when they're not enjoying it, but that's only my experience with people, I haven't run a poll on the subject. I would certainly be bothered by it if it was constant. Then you started t…
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> a full 1/3 of lifelong smokers never develop any kind of cancer, That's "true" in the sense that it's the CVD (Cardiovascular disease) and COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) that are way more likely to take them out first. Lifetime Smoking History and Cause-Specific Mortality in a Cohort Study with 43 Years of Follow-Up https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4824471/ Sure, you absolutely can be 98 years…
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40 Years of Living, Then Death (with simulated smoking) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGxDVXGRQpY
Life is a MLM: Death, Death, Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxoODPQ4CTM
Ugh, this reminds me of a neighbor of a family member. They have a backyard, and sometimes, it is pleasurable to sit, grill, bbq, etc. in a backyard, particularly in the summer months. You know, normal suburban stuff. The neighbor has some sort of device that emits extremely loud, extremely high-pitched (but not ultrasonic; or at least, not exclusively ultrasonic) noise. The family member thinks its some sort of anti…