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#noisepollution
This noise pollution needs to be illegal.
There’s a new affordable housing apartment building in Concord directly across the street from Sam’s Club.
I briefly thought of applying for a place there until I realized that if I get put in the front of the building I’m going to have to listen to the ads that play on the gas pumps and I will go insane. (Idk if Sam’s plays ads on their gas pumps but they’re everywhere I go except my mechanic’s so I just assume everyone does this.)
There’s also a really rundown building on Manchester Street that used to be a dance club that they turned into apartments. I don’t know what they cost now but back in 2018 they actually had $450 a month studio apartments.
My Social Security income was not 3 1/2 times $450 so I wouldn’t have qualified, but they are directly behind Dunkin’ Donuts and the thought of having to hear the drive-through speaker 24 hours a day made me decide that being homeless would be better than that.
The #HomeDepot next to my house has an anti #homeless alarm that is driving me crazy. : r/legaladvice https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1khj7sk/the_home_depot_next_to_my_house_has_an_anti/
@britt May I recommend the film, Noise, if you haven't yet seen it. :) https://youtu.be/87pHHFMtVE4 #Movie #NoisePollution
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I finally went out on my balcony to see what all the noise was about.
Okay, that explains a few things.
I'm trying to go to bed early because my wake up time is 4:30AM tomorrow morning. I'm having sensory overload difficulties from awfully loud aircraft #NoisePollution. It used to occur much less often. There are loud aircraft fly-bys far too often now - multiple times a week. Some are so disturbingly loud that I can feel the energy through the house. I really hate this kind of noise pollution. Makes it hard to get to sleep.
Trying again to get the 
How our noisy world is seriously damaging our health
James Gallagher, March 15, 2025
Excerpt: "Dr Natalie Mueller, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, takes me for a walk around the city centre. We start on a busy road – my sound meter clocks in at over 80 decibels – and we head to a quiet tree-lined avenue where the noise is down to the 50s.
"But there is something different about this street – it used to be a busy road, but the space was given over to pedestrians, cafes and gardens. I can see the ghost of an old cross roads by the shape of the flowerbeds. Vehicles can still come down here, just slowly.
"Remember earlier in the lab, we found that some sounds can soothe the body.
"'It is not completely silent, but it's a different perception of sound and noise,' Dr Mueller says."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmjdm2m4yjo
#NoisePollution #MoreGreenSpace #SolarPunkSunday #NatureWalks #GreenSpace #UrbanGreenSpace
They are on 6pm-6am. So far, they had a group meeting, all the fellows in high-vis tops, probably about how they could make the most noise.
I think they decided that the best idea was not to turn off the beeping noise off the reversing vehicles.
I was lucky enough to grow up in remote places with few anthropogenic sounds. In other words, there weren't any sounds of cars, machines, electrical transformers, airplanes, etc. I grew up in dark sky zones where I could readily identify all sorts of constellations and see the glaucous spray of the Milky Way. I didn't realize what I had until I no longer had it.
The last time I had an incredible view of the Milky Way was when I was in the Amazon jungle about ten years ago. It was glorious.
Where I live now is in the most densely-populated region of Canada, and I'm lucky if I can make out the stars of the Big Dipper or the belt of Orion, and even then, I can't see them from my yard. I have to walk out into the woods, and the light pollution still makes it a challenge.
There aren't many places in the region where I can be free of anthropogenic sound. I found a couple of hiking trails where, if I'm lucky, I might not hear it for a few minutes at best.
I feel sorry for the birds who get lost because of light pollution while migrating. I feel the stress of the constant racket of humans. In a few mythologies, the reason there was a great flood was because god couldn't stand all the racket people were making. I kinda get it.
#AnthropogenicSound #NoisePollution #LightPollution #Habitat #stars #MilkyWay #DarkSky
Hey train companies
How about you make quiet carriage signage a bit more visible
And why don't all you noisy fuckers sit literally anywhere else
One guy was on his phone half an hour
Woman just on train has had two phone calls in ten minutes.
Dude behind me couldn't keep quiet when he took one either
Fuck the fuck off, the lot of you
Pointless thing no one monitors or adheres to at all anymore.
#trains #travelByTrain #noise #NoisePollution
My new home is in an area that is all managed by a homeowners association. I’m not here to judge the pros and cons or efficacy or anything else about this type of organization, but what I will say is that I am at the old home right now and there are probably four leaf blowers in operation at 6 o’clock in the evening. At my new home they all stop at 5 o’clock because the ground crews quit work. That justifies the expense of the HOA to me - that single fact. #noisepollution #Leafblowerssuck
I'm at the hospital #today because my uncle just had another surgery. I took my breakfast from the cafe out into the courtyard to eat.
It could have been a peaceful, quiet moment, but instead, there were two landscapers with big beefy leaf-blowers walking back and forth across the courtyard attacking mostly invisible leaves with gusto the entire time I was outside.
Have I mentioned recently how much I fucking hate leaf-blowers?
#LeafBlowers #NoisePollution #LeaveTheLeaves
@muskanity If the original text is by Azriel ReShel as seen here https://www.paradigmpurehealth.com/library/the-importance-of-silence-for-our-brains then it refers to this study by Gary W. Evans et al. 2018 in Psychological Science https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797617741894 which doesn't directly acknowledge the role of noise or silence in our lives. But the same lead author has a book chapter here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119241072.ch4 on "Environmental stress" which discusses i.e., "Chronic noise produces physiological stress".
I too want to believe that silence is absolutely necessary for good health but I don't find the statements in the blog post well supported by these studies. This other work by the same lead author, Gary W. Evans, on "Childhood Origins of Young Adult Environmental Behavior" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797617741894 does provide interesting data on the need for a stress-free, noise-free childhood or else face the consequences of a subsequently altered adult behaviour.
'The Death Trap' Dangerous Jet #CombatTraining Dramatically Increases Over #TohonoOodham Nation
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Oct. 17, 2024
SELLS, Arizona -- "The #USMilitary has dramatically increased its dangerous jet combat fighting over the heart of the Tohono O'odham Nation, with combat jets, a private #corporation and a plane labeled as "the death trap," due to safety violations.
"Tohono O'odham who live below say the #SonicBlasts are breaking the plaster in their traditional homes. Dangerous flares endanger all life below, including the #EndangeredSpecies of #SonoranPronghorn and more. With the risk of deadly crashes, Tohono O'odham are at risk below, including those in the community of #Pisinemo this week.
"The U.S. Air Force now plans to expand its dangerous use of the #airspace over Tohono O'odham, #Apache and #Yaqui communities in #Arizona. #SacredPlaces including #BaboquivariPeak on the Tohono O'odham Nation are among those at risk.
"The enormous #Goldwater#ange -- 1.9 million acres in the #SonoranDesert west of the Tohono O'odham Nation -- was set aside for U.S. military training, yet the military is consistently using Tohono O'odham Nation airspace.
The #USAirForce wants to authorize more #supersonic blasts training at lower altitudes. The dangerous expansion includes airspace over #NativeAmericanNations, and scenic regions of Arizona and western #NewMexico."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-death-trap-dangerous-jet-combat.html
After hearing a deafeningly loud penis boat go by on the river, I fondly remember seeing some guys launch one, fire up the giant motor with huge chrome exhaust and no muffler. They got out towards the middle and it stalled. Then spending a nice hour or so until it drifted with the current out of sight.
I realized right then that I needed to enjoy this because this type of karma is not often seen
#noise #Sensory #NoisePollution #autism
A website showing incredible #visualizations of #noise in #NewYork, using #OpenStreetMap and #ESRI data alongside Open Data from #NewYorkCity. A website showing incredible visualizations of noise in New York, using Open Street Map and ESRI data alongside Open Data from New York City. #pollution #environment #ecology #wildlife #birds #transportation #cars #NoisePollution https://livemaps360.com/DigitalTwin/NYCNoise/ #nature #biodiversity
I got some airpod pros recently after the hearing aid announcement (I have $$$ hearing aids that suck and don't use much) but the really nice part is the noise cancellation. Just walked out of the Polyclinic at Madison and 7th in #Seattle and it was so loud due to I-5 and off ramp traffic. Put airpods in and it's a distant rumble. #NoisePollution
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In the middle of the fields in Viikki, the light pollution recedes just enough to make out constellations. My 7x35 binoculars manage to persuade me I can see the Double Cluster between Cassiopeia and Perseus, but without binoculars the sky is all a bit washed out.
I startle rodents in the fields as I pass. There’s a lapwing still squeaking somewhere in the middle distance, and beyond that, the surprisingly loud din of Kehä I.
A place like this should be a truly dark and quiet oasis in the middle of the city, but the noise and light pollution are sadly ever present.