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Post by lostlogin »

nailer wrote: post #371
jcbe wrote: post #340

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of a funny day to post this (WMATA just released data showing crime rates at a 25-year low)

I have do idea about DC but I don't trust crime rate stats - a lot might be unreported. In NYC last year someone burnt someone else to death while they sat, relaxed and watched, and in a seperate incident a person died died and someone else had sex with them afterwards. It could that be crime is lower or it could be that insane brutality has become normalized.

Crimes stats famously get massaged. However murders are hard to downgrade.

Re: STFU

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Post by evilduck »

prmoustache wrote: post #398
sneak wrote: post #183

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Secondhand smoke is toxic and physically damages your body and enters your bloodstream. Someone playing music is annoying and does not physically harm you in any way. These are not remotely the same thing. There is a clear bright line between them.

Unwanted noise affect stress level which has an impact in health. It is not just harmless annoyance and not everyone is equal in that regard.

C'mon now.

" affect stress level which has an impact in health [so do what I want]"

What _can't_ you use that argument for?

Re: STFU

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Post by lostlogin »

ArnoVW wrote: post #289
m463 wrote: post #228

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lol. that's like harley riders with unmuffled motors "for safety". On the other hand, I remember being in japan and watching some construction vehicles in tokyo. They were surprisingly quiet. After a while I realized what it was - in the united states all construction vehicles have these annoying "beep-beep-beep" sounds while they're working (for safety). I wonder if one day they can play those only when someone walk…

In France I see (and hear) more and more use of a special type of warning device, "le cri de lynx" that reduces sonic pollution by building sites. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BljL3XO0fyg&pp=0gcJCTIBo7VqN5t...

Sadly I don’t speak French and Searching for whatever this is isn’t working.

If it’s noise cancelling it sounds amazing.

Can you further expand?

Re: STFU

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Post by lostlogin »

cons0le wrote: post #426
mrexroad wrote: post #335

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> Maybe go without headphones and pay attention to your surroundings instead. This. Even when you are seemingly quiet on a trail, 90% of wildlife are hiding from you. It’s amazing what happens when you stop and sit in complete silence for 5-10 minutes — a whole hidden world comes alive around you. 10/10, highly recommend. > I have zero patience for such excuses from people who choose to impose their preferences on ot…

To play devils advocate, telling other people to turn off thier music is also "imposing preferences on other people". I do agree with what they're saying though.

If they aren’t a dick they can have their music, through headphones.

Re: STFU

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Post by lostlogin »

frankus wrote: post #156
pixl97 wrote: post #76

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Yea, with you on that one. Headphones are great at the house where I have a controlled environment. When I'm out and listening to things I'll typically only use one at a time because it's easy to miss very important, possibly deadly things.

They're obviously not the most affordable things around, but if you have an iPhone and spending ~US$250 on a pair of wireless earbuds won't unduly stress your budget, the transparency mode on AirPods Pro is great for this.

They are great. But… I tried them on a plane. It may have been full sound cancelling rather than transparency, and it works, and goes silent but it’s a weird silence. It sort of feels heavy, or loud.

Re: STFU

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Post by CapsAdmin »

I moved from a very quiet culture to a very noisy one.

Here people watch tik tok on full blast, people let their kids run amok in concrete cafes, constantly honk at each other, blast karaoke for all neighbors to hear, etc.

These people have some ability to sift through noise. For example being able to talk to someone on the phone with a loudspeaker in a loud environment while both seem to understand each other well.

But for some reason, the majority of people don't care, and so in some weird way, the concept of sound pollution don't exist.

When sound pollution don't exist as a concept, there is nothing to get annoyed about.

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Post by lostlogin »

BeetleB wrote: post #208
latexr wrote: post #171

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https://shokz.com There you go. Quite comfortable, don’t have to stick them inside your ears, and still allows you to perceive the sounds around you. In the spirit of fairness, I’ll also share the cons from my experience: First is battery life isn’t as good as headphones. That’s somewhat obvious as they’re much smaller, but they will still last you the whole day so not really an issue for hiking. Second one is that b…

Whether they realize it or not, most of the population can't afford this. Cheap Bluetooth speakers are, well, cheap!

> Cheap Bluetooth speakers are, well, cheap!

And so are cheap headphones.

Re: STFU

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Post by strangattractor »

normie3000 wrote: post #349
strangattractor wrote: post #329

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We now know why he served only one term:)

Why? It sounds like he was a number two term president.

It was somewhat of a joke;) He completed Kennedy's term and and was only only elected once. He refused to run for a 3rd. Given the immense ego's of these guys one might assume it was because he was unlikely to win. Peeing on people is unlikely to win you a lot of friends.

Re: STFU

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Post by cheema33 »

connorgurney wrote: post #31

I might be in a minority saying this - and particularly so here on HN - but I struggle to understand why you'd be willing to use a tool like this, as OP did, but not to politely ask someone to keep it down?

I was at a Bills game in Buffalo last year. 5 rows ahead of me was big tall dude, who stood up and would not sit down. This was blocking the view of everybody behind him. People grumbled, but nobody said or did anything for about 20 minutes. I was quite peeved. Then an old lady right behind him gently tapped him on his shoulder and reminded him that he was blocking the view of several people behind him. The dude shrugged his shoulder and said, "not my problem, you can stand up too if you want". I am a mega-nerd, but I lost my cool right there and then and started screaming at the guy. My girlfriend, who didn't want to see me get beat up, pulled me away from the scene.

Many people are just massive assholes. Asking nicely does not work. Particularly big drunk dudes at an American football game. That was my first and last visit to a football stadium.

Re: STFU

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Post by _vqpz »

fernandotakai wrote: post #370
_vqpz wrote: post #160

The idea that 12 lines of vibe coded JavaScript prompted because someone was too scared to talk to someone disturbing him (but not enough to take a creep shot and blast him on Twitter) could make it to the top post of this website is quite sad.

i've seen people get beat up because they asked an anti-social c-words to turn the volume down. some people just cannot be reasoned and the amount of people like this is growing HARD.

I don't know what makes you think passively aggressively playing the sound back at a person like that would illicit any better a response.
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