• tibi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    The ones I hate the most are on public beaches. At least in Romania where I live, when you go to the beach in summer, there is always some shitty bar that blasts music you can hear 500m away and occupy a lot of public beach space with their beach chairs for rent.

  • oo1@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    -1 not unopular.

    But it’s not the worst form of noise pollution; unneccesary motor vehicles, and phones on public transport are worse.

    Measure the noise level outside the edge of their property, if it is lower than a car driving by, it’s hard to complain too much. If it’s directed off their property directly onto a public street then yes.

  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I don’t know of this is necessarily an unpopular opinion, but I am forced to disagree, particularly with restaurants. I have fairly severe misophonia, and that music is the only thing that allows me to eat in public, or generally be in many public spaces.

    If the sounds that people make while eating (or a lot of the sounds people make at all) aren’t covered up, it isn’t just a shudder like “nails on a chalkboard” for me. I will literally go into fight or flight mode and sprint out of the area.

    So I, for one appreciate the constant noise.

    • RBG@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Look, I completely sympathise, but your point of view here is “because I am inconvenienced, everyone needs to adjust for me”. How many people are affected by this?

      If you are in need of masking other people sounds while eating, you can surely bring your own music and headphones and whatever to support you.

      So, sorry, but I am with OP here. Loud music in public places such as restaurants is annoying.

      • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        6 days ago

        No, I never suggested that everyone has to adjust to me. That’s just my perspective on things. I just said that I appreciate the music. I don’t disagree that most people don’t like it. And that’s why this is likely far from an unpopular opinion.

  • 4lan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Go check out downtown Nashville, it sounds like someone gave 500 toddlers musical instruments and red bull. When it all mixes together it just sounds like noise

  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Completely agree.

    But the main culprit by far is fast cars or vehicles with loud engines.

    In 99% of places, urban, suburban they are the loudest noise.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
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      6 days ago

      In European cities, the worst noise over capacity ratio is motor scooters and those large motorbike that are designed for noise (such as Harley-Davidson).

  • WashedOver@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Same for those taking bluetooth speakers or using their phone speakers into public parks blaring their shitty music. We would prefer to only listen to our shitty music at home or in the car not in the park where we can go to get a break from it.

    • unmagical@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      6 days ago

      In Denver most of the big box stores have remote police surveillance boxes erected in the parking lot that alternate between playing classical music and announcing that the parking lot is being recorded. In downtown some establishments (especially if they’re near warm air vents) will play the sounds of crying babies or screaming women.

      These are attempts to keep people experiencing homelessness away from there.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        6 days ago

        In downtown some establishments (especially if they’re near warm air vents) will play the sounds of crying babies or screaming women.

        That’s just fucking evil. Better than using some barely audible tone that hooks into the primal parts of our brains to make us uncomfortable and anxious (those supposedly exist), but even what you’ve said is just literally psychological warfare tactics.

        Seriously, the CIA (or the equivalent) during the Korean War used to fly over vietkong areas blasting that sort of shit to disrupt sleep and demoralize them.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgMEnglish
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    6 days ago

    To add onto that: If others can hear your crappy music booming out of your car, then you should get a ticket. If your exhaust sounds like a literal giant asshole blasting farts and is audible beyond 50 meters, you should get a ticket.