• @gAlienLifeform
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    3 months ago

    Synthesis: everyone should have a well constructed residence with ample sound dampening where late night fireworks and early morning traffic noise wouldn’t be a problem. Capitalist real estate developers minimizing their costs and maximizing their profits have us fighting each other when they’re the real problem.

    e; I was actually thinking microphones would pick up and retransmit sounds after running it through some reverb and flanging to get a cozy underwater effect, but damping external sounds makes a lot more sense

    • Bezier
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      123 months ago

      Dampening means making something damp (wet). The word you’re probably looking for is “damping.”

      • @gAlienLifeform
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        63 months ago

        Ah, you’re totally right,thank you, I’d been using those interchangeably without thinking about it much

    • Iron Lynx
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      43 months ago

      That edit deserves extra kudos

    • Dragon Rider (drag)
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      -13 months ago

      Drag doesn’t think we need to build better insulation in order to stop traffic noise. All we need to do is ban explosion powered cars. However, we should install better insulation anyway to save electricity and reduce carbon use even further.

      • @shroomato
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        83 months ago

        Unfortunately most noise from cars at speeds above 30km/h is due to tires hitting the road surface, not engines.

        • capital
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          43 months ago

          That’s more bearable than the fuckers with loud exhaust.

          • Cadeillac
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            23 months ago

            That doesn’t stop anyone in the states

            • Dragon Rider (drag)
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              33 months ago

              It stops people in the Netherlands, because the Netherlands narrowed their streets and installed traffic calming. We shouldn’t be thinking of speed limits as a sign and a law. We should be thinking of speed limits as a psychological result of our infrastructure’s design.

      • Cadeillac
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        43 months ago

        All of this can be true

      • Iron Lynx
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        13 months ago

        That only helps quiet down cars below 30 km/h. Above that speed, most noise is either rolling noise or wind noise.