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It is possible for the human species to exist without cigarette smoke, and doubtless for at least part of our history it did not exist. It is not possible for the human species (or any form of mortal biological life) to exist without children. If you want to try to define the latter observation of reality as “abnormal”, fill your boots.
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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.
Baseless accusations, because what bothers night people in the morning, bothers morning people in the night. The only real difference is how much you care about how your actions impact the environment and people around you. I wake up early, because I work early, I don't make any sound, my flatmate (I rent a room from the company) works late and always stays up late, they make so much noise that they keep waking me up…
In a similar vein, many years ago I helped someone with a similar problem with a neighbour who had the volume too loud. As the aerial cable was accessible, I suggested he stick a pin through the neighbour's cable whenever the volume got too loud, and pull it out when the volume went down. Sure enough, after a while the neighbour learnt their TV only worked if they kept the volume down in the evening.
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…
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I have no electricity except solar. It works well for all my needs, technology has solved this depending on your needs and how much money you have. I have no water except the one I bring when I buy food weekly/every two weeks. I'm still renovating/building so I'll have a well in the future. I heat my home with wood that I cut on my own property, I enjoy this very much. It's a workout that also produces something of v…
Before your last sentence I thought, "wow this person is some kind of space alien." But as soon as you said "this is in Sweden," I understood you completely. I don't know what that says about me or Sweden. But it all clicked into place.
The HTC One smartphone came with a programmable IR port. All you had to do was determine the TV brand (easy if you can see it), then point the top of the phone at the TV pushing the "power" button until it went off. Then you knew you had the right configuration. I mostly used it for turning volume down in waiting rooms or at bars, but a bar was also where I figured out most of their TVs tend to be set to the same con…
Used to do that at school with an old palm pilot. Good times.
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I can relate to this very much. A city guy, no one could understand my (also) 20 years of complaining about neighbors with loud music, slamming doors, making noise after midnight, etc etc. I lived on top floors, and I even spent a fortune living in a luxury building that was newly built, hoping sound insulation was higher end. The problem is that bass music travels through everything. I suffered from being woken up i…
> - Younger people are less sensitive to noise, go out more, and generally don't understand how distressful it can be Nonsense. This has 100% to do with manners and how your parents taught you. When I grew up making a noise in an apartment was a grave offense, because you make a nuisance for your parents and neighbors. > - Some people are light sleepers as well as get cognitively overloaded, needing relatively quiet…
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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…
No smokers in my neighborhood, but people use their goddamn fireplaces too much and it’s kinda impossible to get fresh air in winter evenings and often during the day. Not sure how to train them. And unfortunately, there are too many. Burning wood should be forbidden in residential areas. It’s similar to smoking in restaurants, except you can’t escape them.
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The stink remains even for efficient fires. Smoke is often correlated of course. I'm in Christchurch, New Zealand which gets winter smog,. The city council enforces rules and woodburners need to meet strict emission standards. They regularly tighten the rules so that if you want a woodburner you need to replace it every 15 years or so. But they do still smell. The rules have radically improved the air quality here an…
>They regularly tighten the rules so that if you want a woodburner you need to replace it every 15 years or so. What's that supposed to achieve? Also what do you do if you build your own woodburner/fireplace?