• Capt. Wolf
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    186 months ago

    You forgot the sound of a Sunchips bag. My not even conceived children are going to be deaf because I opened one back in the 90s.

  • @[email protected]
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    146 months ago

    Shampoo bottle falling in the shower while your toddler is trying to sleep directly on the other side of the wall. Might as well be an earthquake.

    • @[email protected]
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      96 months ago

      I’m generally great at traversing my house quietly, unless my fiance or child are asleep, and then I’m a fucking cave beast making as much noise as humanly possible, seemingly.

    • @[email protected]
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      46 months ago

      There’s a way to turn off the beep entirely on most microwaves. I don’t remember which button it is and I’m not going to look it up right now.

      I turned it off on my microwave and one of my roommates promptly turned it back on. D:

    • @x4740N
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      16 months ago

      They are still Lound when they are microwaving

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    96 months ago

    I hate decibels. Such needless confusion over whether they’re an absolute or relative scale, what the reference volume is, what the underlying SI units are. Are these all measured at a uniform distance? Why would you take a shower at the library?

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      46 months ago

      I imagine the measurement is something like “perception of sound to the human ear”. A rock concert is generally very loud and whether you’re 5 feet back or 30 feet back from the stage won’t make a huge difference

      • @[email protected]
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        66 months ago

        A rock concert emanating from a point will sound considerably louder at 5 feet vs 30 feet and will make just as much of a difference as 50 feet vs 300.

        Of course, accoustics in a concert hall are designed to minimize this difference. Doesn’t explain jet fighters though.

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    96 months ago

    Scrolling through this meme was weirdly timed, because the shampoo bottle I left too near to the edge just fell off in my bathroom.

  • @[email protected]
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    76 months ago

    Are you rustling a single leaf, for it to be less than a library?
    Or does the library have a windy exterior full of trees with rustling leaves, for it to be at 40?

  • @moshtradamus666
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    56 months ago

    Never thought about that, it really does sound like a disaster just happened

  • @hakunawazo
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    56 months ago

    My old wooden stairs as I try to sneak above in the middle of the night.

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    36 months ago

    And this gives you a scale on which you can’t even compare opening a plastic bottle of water in the night