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Noise exposure is linked to chronic stress and heart disease. It’s time to make peace and quiet a public health right (theconversation.com)
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But the most significant change in modern science is not just about the amount of noise, but how we experience it. Noise is no longer understood solely as a problem that affects hearing, it is also recognised as a systemic environmental pollutant. Transport noise is now one of the leading environmental cause of illness in Europe, second only to air pollution.

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[–] 60 points 1 day ago* (12 children)

I despise leaf blowers with all of my being, dear Lord how I loathe them.

Is raking that hard? So hard that every house within a mile should listen to your leaf blower, instead? WHEEEEERRRRR WHEEEEEERR I'M BLOWIN' MY LEAFS WHEEEEEEEEEEEERRRR

... the worst part is, it's 100% unnecessary, there's no need to blow leaves. They're supposed to be there, they don't hurt a thing. Morons

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago* (1 child)

    Depending on the quantity of leaves, it could kill your grass / ground covering, so they will likely need to be dealt with somehow.

    In nature that's fine, but for your yard, not as much.

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  • [–] 9 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    Gas leaf blowers genate a fuckton of pollution. The stats are horrific for their outsoded carbon footprint. Like on the order of 30 minutes of a leaf blower is about the same as a truck driving from texas to Alaska. They should be banned for both noise and airborne gas pollutions.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    I have a hard time believing this, purely based on how small a leaf blower tank is vs a truck tank, and that the truck will take several days of run time and several tanks of gas compared to what, a large shot glass for running the blower?

    Now maybe we can find some pollutant like CO that gets filtered / catalytic-converted in modern trucks but not in blowers, but I'd argue those are way less of an issue than the pure numbers.

    They're still fucking annoying.

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  • [–] 11 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

    I've been prepping my driveway for the last week to seal coat it, and I feel bad when I need to run the electric blower for like ten minutes max.

    I keep the garage door shut when I run the air compressor and run the hose out under it, which works very well to suppress the noise.

    I also share the opinion that regular leaf cleanup is stupid. like just leave 'em be, the bugs will use them and they'll feed the lawn. raking is usually easier than blowing anyways, in my experience. maybe that's just because I've never cut my grass weekly and don't have a golf course for a yard

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  • [–] 11 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    I hate grass and I hate all the stupid shit it takes to maintain it. Mowers, blowers, weed whackers. All that fucking stupid waste to cut grass and put it in a landfill.

    Grass consumes so many resources only to end up in the dump. Most of my neighbors bag it up and put it in the trash. Water, useless fertilizer, pesticides, weed killer and other stuff, it is nontrivial.

    Omfg, at least compost it! Fucking morons and their grass. I cut mine like every three weeks and clean up none of it. It can just lay there. If I didn't live in a bullshit hoa neighborhood, I would just let it turn into a meadow. Ive seeded microclover, but it's slow to take over. Working on it a little more each year.

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  • [–] 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    Most of my neighbors bag it up and put it in the trash.

    We throw ours in a ditch which I think is technically illegal for some stupid reason but I'll be damned if I'm using a plastic bag for organic waste that I could just kinda.. leave there.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    Composting isn't bad, but most ditches exist to manage water. I've dealt with the fallout of shifting water tables and clogged culverts. Maybe find a better place to dump the clippings. Or just start a compost pile. They're not tough, just water and stir it every so often.

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  • [–] 2 points 19 hours ago

    They don't bother me, even the loud gas-powered ones.

    My HOA includes landscaping and they come around once on month on Monday and that saves me from raking. It only takes a few minutes and they move on to the next house.

    Purposely loud motorcycles and cars, on the other hand...

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