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Noise pollution and how comfortable people feel contributing to it. I’m mostly talking about people playing videos and listening to music in public (bars, restaurants, etc), but also the new “stereos” on motorcycles that are essentially just PA systems. Sometimes it feels like nowhere’s quiet anymore.
Tangentially related, light pollution. Not just the damn city preventing me from seeing Nishimura, but also inside your own home. How many electronics do you have that put out constant light? I should not be able to cast a shadow on my wall while my TV is off.
Does anyone know where I can get a large, dim, red alarm clock? It always seems like I have to choose one of those, two if I'm lucky.
It seems like people are scared of silence after being raised on constant stimulation. They go everywhere with airpods and then blast the music when those aren't enough. Even nature trails aren't enough anymore because there's always some asshole blasting their music.
Some people get downright feral when their noise machines are even brought up. It's competitive aggression against other competitive aggressors and it's supposed to go without criticism, or else.
This is precisely why I don’t say anything when it happens. It doesn’t seem to bother others — for some odd reason — and I don’t want to get my ass beat if they end up being unreasonable.
That's also why I just have to put up with the floorboards shaking at 3 in the morning because a very divorced
needs to tell the neighborhood about his divorce while doing figure eights in the nearby parking lot.
God I was walking to the store on Saturday and some douche was driving around blasting one of the SHITTIEST red hot chili pepper songs ever and he fucking circled the block a couple times so me and everyone walking down the sidewalks had to endure this fucking god awful song at full fucking volume.
Fucking inconsiderate as hell.
Fuck cars
yeah the whole dang teenagers and their bluetooth boxes always struck me as odd. I mean not that it's not dick behaviour but considering we allow sports cars to annoy everyone in like a 1 mile radius when the owner decides to compensate for whatever it feels odd that there's this focus on people listening to music
and lawn equipment
Fuck lawns
On a related note, speakerphone calls in public spaces.
You are not the main character.