How our noisy world is seriously damaging our health
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Had to move deep into rural country, giving up all prospects of a decent job, and yet even here there's plenty of noise from dogs, motorbikes etc.
Shitty time to be alive.
In reality it didn't freeze but regulation and certification costs rose and it no longer became viable to build new engines for such a small market. The old ones retain their certification even though they don't meet the new rules.
The ultralight sports category has much less regulation and they do have modern gasoline and diesel engines like Rotax.
There's a few aftermarket turbodiesel options for GA aircraft but they're usually not manufacturer approved, and they need a complete replacement every few years instead of just an overhaul.
Anyway this is why the stupid lead is still around. Us pilots all hate it because we breathe it too and we get it on our skin during fuel inspections.
The first time I met my upstairs neighbor he apologized for the fact he has two kids who will sometimes run through the apartment banging their feet on the floor. I told him that I never even noticed that. There's clearly more of an awareness here that you shouldn't bother your neighbors with noise.
Of course not every place here is going to be like that, there's going to be plenty of noisy areas in a metropolis like Tokyo. But you don't have to move out into the wilderness just for some peace and quiet if we're all just a bit more considerate of our neighbors.
Though nature doesn't care about the rules, so there is one source of noise I'll have to get used to: the deafening noise of cicadas in summer.
My perception of what what is patriotic is that we borrow what is most useful from the places our citizens come from.
Only problem is that sometimes it's important to actually hear traffic etc. But I look out better when I have them in.
I like the sound of small airplanes but I can imagine that up close it's not so great.
Whenever they un-mute their microphones in a Teams meeting there is an instant cacophony.
At first I was asking if they were working from a cafe table on a street corner or something, but no… invariably the answer is that they’re indoors at home!
Most apps on my phone are on a "one strike" policy, and some don't use notification categories (like the Amazon shopping app) and thus don't get to make any noise and I rely on my mail receiver to email me when they accept a package instead of the Amazon push notifications
Pretty sure this is entirely intentional. It is indeed super annoying.
By the way, I've lived in the suburbs, and the situation with leaf blowers is just as maddening.
Weirdly they are banning old cars from my city but not mopeds which pollute way more (because they burn grease, they're all two stroke)
Though I don't deny that we live in very loud environments, our senses, and particularly hearing, habituate to the noise around us. Though the study suggests there could be a link, we can't ignore the relationship between T2D and socio-economics. Diet and exercise clearly have an impact, but if noise pollution was a factor, wouldn't we also see non-metabolic factors in T2D, which I don't believe we are seeing as a general society. But I guess this has not been studied yet.
I am concerned about the lack of noise, and environmental queues that people get because they constantly have earbuds pumping noise directly into their ear, yet without the environmental inputs, echos, etc.
* 6 incidents of loud beeping trucks
* 6 incidents of loud car honking (all seemed to be automatic honks, like when someone gets in or out of their car, most right outside my windows)
All of that totally gratuitous added noise pollution. In addition to all the other, more necessary, noise.
This is a Sunday afternoon, in a very expensive residential neighborhood, in a college town.
You wouldn't believe what a typical weekday is like. I could start to tell you, and you'd be incredulous, then horrified, and then I'd have more to tell you, about how it's 10x worse than that. (Yes, I've been working with city officials, and will also move when I can.)
I've also lived in a quiet mountain village, and been woken up by chirping owls or bats, the odd cluck from a chicken, or a train passing all the way on the other side of the mountain. The baseline is lower, but you hear way way more.
I also really didn't like the tiny little twist lock, it's hard to turn and hard to see if it's locked or not.
They're really uncommon here though. But guess what, most kids still slam the doors because they're lazy lol. What does help is the cheap paper doors we have here.