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How is that different than two people talking in person? Do you interrupt them as well?
A half conversation is a lot more disruptive because your brain try to fill in the gap of information.
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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?
Actual cri du lynx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtsdVQWGibQ
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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?
It's the noise you hear at about the one minute mark when the digger is reversing: https://youtu.be/BljL3XO0fyg?t=59 Actual cri du lynx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtsdVQWGibQ
We don’t want people run over by reversing vehicles, but also, if I had to listen to that every day, I’d leap in front of them.
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So, people playing music around them is bad, and people playing music just to themselves is also bad?
Yes, but they're different kinds of bad. People playing music publicly are being obnoxious to everyone else, while people playing music privately are putting themselves at risk. (Not so much when hiking, but IMHO wearing headphones while cycling in traffic is suicidal.)
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I've heard many people say the cannot stand they way earbuds feel. Just like many people said they could not breath wearing a mask.
I found some good bone-conduction headphones... very comfy, only $35, Shokz-style. Full-day battery.
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We had a friend who would play Metal when the ice cream store he worked at was closed but the customers were lingering too long. It generally worked, as he was immune.
I introduced my local restaurant owner to Mongolian Techno and the late night bar flies and some of the kitchen staff have never forgiven me. He won't admit if he plays it for himself, or because of them :)
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There was a coffee shop ages ago in SF that would every few hours play a cacophony (e.g. multiple songs at once). I assume it was to drive away people camping on their laptops to rotate tables. Understand but super annoying to people like me who had a timer to but food or drink no less than hourly to be a good citizen
We had a friend who would play Metal when the ice cream store he worked at was closed but the customers were lingering too long. It generally worked, as he was immune.
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People talking to each other in person tend to modulate their voices to match the context. People talking on speakerphone tend to crank the volume and shout.
Plus devices are tinny and grate. Watching a video on the phone of someone speaking is much more annoying than someone speaking in person, even at the same volume.
The sound from a phone speaker is annoying, more so, than a typical in person talking. To me the solution lies somewhere in fixing that to make it sound more natural.
Everyone else claiming that some how having “loud” conversation is rude, feels like they’ve fallen into some anti-social hole… we are literally the only animal to have developed complex spoken language… it’s part of our humanity.
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There was a coffee shop ages ago in SF that would every few hours play a cacophony (e.g. multiple songs at once). I assume it was to drive away people camping on their laptops to rotate tables. Understand but super annoying to people like me who had a timer to but food or drink no less than hourly to be a good citizen
We had a friend who would play Metal when the ice cream store he worked at was closed but the customers were lingering too long. It generally worked, as he was immune.