South Park completely nailed the "removeds" episode. That was one for the ages. Aww c'mon, are we really worse than Reddit when it comes to censorship? Goddammit... Seems the "removeds" won.

Fucking good. I so hate Harleys.

Hopefully the incel crowd will succeed in branding them as 'too woke' or whatever and once the boomers are all dead, that's it

You're misunderstanding those numbers. The current older generation is boomers which got their name from the baby boom. People don't have kids like that anymore so everyone including retail stores will see drops in body count. If anything will kill them off its going to be their pricing. It is SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper to go with nearly any other brand.

Thank you for your service

Sugar in the gas tank doesn't do anything. You gotta put in the oil fill cap.

Several traffic cameras in the Netherlands have been upgraded with decibel meters as part of a test. I hope this becomes the norm for all the cameras.

I wish police would simply enforce noise ordinances

I live next to a catholic church/school and sometimes on the weekend or near sunset a local kid rides his motocross bike all around the church yard. Annoying as fuck and it chews up the yard and everything. I've called the cops three or four times but they've never bothered to send an officer out. I called the church and all they did was install a bunch of super-bright LED lights which are on 24 hours a day. Kid still rides his bike there and now I can't sit outside at night anymore because of the fucking lights.

I wish police would simply enforce noise ordinances

Easier said than done, unfortunately. They need sound meters to do anything reliably, and then there's the issue of catching them. Even slow, inefficient bikes tend to be much faster and more maneuverable than patrol cars, so motorcyclists are quite a bit more likely to run. Especially the ones that are already violating noise ordinances.

We basically have this in Japan. People will put their bike back to factory for the inspection and then change it out. They get caught rarely, but not often. loud-assed 暴走族 (bousouzoku) groups love to ride around in the countryside where I live and I can hear them from quite far. I really wish the police would do something about them.

I'm fine with bikes being noisy. Bikes can be hard to see, sometimes I hear them before I see them.

I'm not fine with douchenozzles intentionally revving them up in otherwise quiet subdivisions as the OP describes.

Because she either a sadist, a psychopath, and/or a narcissist.

Send her this article: Who Wants a Loud Car? [Psychology Today]

Tell her to get help.

I'm driving an EV and I would like to prove you wrong.

I was making tea in a teapot, when I poured in the boiled water and closed the lid, the hot air inside expanding and making the tea overflowing through the spout. In a panic, I quickly used my finger to plug the spout in an attempt to stop the overflowing, and thus burned my finger.

My best friend of 20 years was sitting there and witnessed the whole thing. It has been years since and he's still bringing it up occasionally.

the future's gonna be fun, watching these idiots lose their entire identity - vroom vroom - to the inescapable fact that they're killing themselves and our environment with their bullshit.

the temper tantrums are going to be hilarious, and more than a few will die to hold on to their noisemaking smog machines, because to them, that's freedom.

It's probably a typo. The n key is right above the spacebar. I make the same mistake quite often.

Its a bad word to some.

Okay, but just to be clear, assless chaps are still super hetero, right?

Right?

He added the extra suspension on the wrong end.

I'd like it if they would enforce noise ordinances at all.

A dirt bag is a very useful part of the vacuum cleaner, clearly it’s a compliment.

There was a guy who used to rev his obnoxiously loud bike super early and super late round my way, it was so loud it would leave your ears ringing even inside with the windows shut.

He died in a bike accident and everyone was happy, so many neighbour's I've barely spoken to shared a quiet comment about it.

We do though get a ride through every year from the chapter of the gang he was in because he died 'a heros death' according to them as he had been fighting a different group of manchildren on motorbikes earlier that day and they were possibly chasing him at the time.

The family have a shrine to him by the road (not where he died, just near their house) with empty beer cans, burnt out candles, biker patches, cheap plastic skulls, and slogans about how tough or cool bikers are. It's a fascinating testament to how we form groups and make our own reality, I think he and they really believe that when we saw him on that stupidly loud bike we wished we could be as cool as him rather than everyone viewing him as nothing but an annoyance.

Set the bike on fire.

Literally eh

Other folks will probably reply with "Cities aren't loud, cars are loud" but sirens and helicopters will still be there even if there aren't cars.

Plus if the city is quiet suddenly I'm all anxious because I don't want to bother anyone with my noise. Social anxiety and cities do not mix.

I'm in DC and NYC a lot, and the places I stay are almost always pretty quiet areas (cause I'm not staying in the hotbed touristy/party-y areas)

Even in cities, most people have average boring 9 to 5 jobs and need to sleep at night. When you get away from those particular areas (of course Times Square isnt indicative of the "norm," right?) its all pretty mundane actually.

Most people suggesting we should densify are targeting suburbs, not rural areas. Suburbs are incredibly expensive and environmentally wasteful per square inch. They have all the utility of a city but spread out with more asphalt, cement, power, sewer, water, gas, cheap inefficient homes that leach heat/ac at an alarming rate, etc.

In rural areas the infrastructure isn't always as expensive because some residents have their own septic and well, live on a dirt road, heat with a wood furnace, etc. A few of those things are also more renewable. Additionally, rural areas are still required for our way of living (farming, logging, mining, fishing), while suburbs have negative societal value (they take more than they put back into the system).

Then they would all drive diesel trucks with modified exhaust and floor it between stop signs

From what I have observed, any sane car is like that: the loudest noise is from the tires, with the engine only being louder when at low speeds or accelerating very aggressively.

EVs for the win! They also usually have a futuristic whirring noise when reversing, just like KITT

The safety isn't about lane filtering so much as just intersections, but yeah it's a rubbish argument and any biker making it should shut the fuck up if they don't wear hi-vis on every ride

Unfortunately, the user usually needs to approve new bluetooth devices. May I ask why blast that song in particular though?

I have someone who lives nearby with some obnoxious Mustang. And yeah, it sounds like a cow fart when going 30km/h in a residential area. Like bro, is it really a sports car if the engine is working hard going 30!?

Hu?

Where’d you hear curtains could harm you and in what way?

Blackout curtains have different levels. From your comment it seems to me you probably tried 100% blackout curtains. Those are quite overkill.

You should try 80% blackout curtains, they block almost all of night lights and have a warm yellowish haze during the day.

500 people surveyed? 29% variance? This is click bait for the real narcissist: the author.

Firstly, the study starts off with the researcher complaining about noise pollution around the university area. They then proceed to only study young adults in the university area. 529 business students to be exact.

The sample, 529 students, isn't a bad size for a pilot study, but isn't large enough to draw worthwhile conclusions. There is an adequate gender distribution to support their claims, but the age distribution is exclusively focused around younger populations. As the average age is 18 among a university population, there is likely very little age distribution. The study is only focusing on a very specific age population and results cannot be extended to other age groups.

Second, the choice of questions asked to the participants is just horrendously biased. The researcher specifically asks about participants own cars. Given that this is a university sample, there are likely many students who do not have a car. Those students without a car would have inherently scored lower, thus biasing the results.

Overall, the researcher did a poor job with their sampling distribution as well as their choice in questioning. The results cannot be extended to more general audiences and are applicable to first and second year university students at the Ontario Western University.

Around here, people pay a lot of money to make their cars/trucks/bikes sound loud and shitty. Yeah, you do occasionally see a clapped out beater being loud too, but they are the rare exception now.

Especially with an EV. They’ll say the noise == power, and I’ll be amused as my EV silently and effortlessly leaves them behind.

To me the silence is a big part of it, not just all the low end torque. The silence makes it seem effortless

While I do appreciate the engineering required, the hundreds of moving parts, the exotic alloys and precision machining to have all the parts clattering and clanking to move a car forward ….. in the same way I appreciate the engineering of steam engines. Lesly’s get this legacy engineering in the museums and steampunk festivals where it belongs

Your comment is a bit hard to follow, but in my experience, the expensive cars are much louder than the one falling apart.