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are you often surrounded by loud sounds that make you angry? cop some over-ear noise cancelling headphones, put them on with some ear plugs in and pipe some white noise into them. Someone could be screaming in your face and you can’t hear them. it’s like walking around with your head in an invisible air conditioner.-
Sep 20, 2022
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these specific ear plugs. ear plugs are a huge part of my life and it’s got to be these, i’ll explain why. i can only really relax and turn off if i have these in. if you squeeze them hard and get them pretty deep in the ear canal they will expand and create a 33db block of all sound, which for me is the absolute height of mediation and calm. must be specifically these and not just any old ear plug because a lot of other brands remove the harmful frequencies, but still let too much in. i sleep with them every night, and wear them throughout the day if i need to feel removed. what’s most interesting to me about having this range blocked out is that i feel it’s almost impossible to access anger with these in.
Mar 11, 2024
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(Loop is the brand) They’re very subtle when you’re wearing them and they work well at concerts at least. Different size tips for different size ears make them comfortable.
NY Times recommends Soundcore Space One and Earfun Air Pro 4 if you want to try noise cancelling gear on a budget. If you have the money for Bose or Sony, go for those.
I recommend playing white noise with them to help mask sounds.
Jan 26, 2025
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These have saved me from losing sleep on my travels so many times. First, finding myself in a hotel nextdoor to a synagogue that hosted loud children in their yard at 7am singing dreidel songs at full volume. And now, this moment, finding myself at a boarding school where my dorm mate is a 55-year old woman from Norway, our beds two feet apart. I adore her, we squeeze hands goodnight before bed, but she listens to loud podcasts while she sleeps and snores abundantly. I almost stopped loving her. But then, I just click on the noise-cancel feature and everything disappears.
Aug 15, 2023
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basically its an old video mixer they used for public television church broadcasts and stuff like that, but for some reason Roland added a bunch of janky effect options, a few of which are actually legit. It blends two video inputs, so if one of them is a camcorder pointed at the screen and set to luminosity key blend, you get some decent feedback trails. I haven’t watched a movie without ediroling it to shit since I got one.
Sep 20, 2022
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kava is a mystical root from the pacific islands that brings you closer to gaia and aligns your chakras as a defensive wall against the pain farming demiurge. jk its just a drug and is bad for you, don’t believe anyone that tries to tell you otherwise. that said, it’s a solid alternative to alcohol- it makes me more social and relaxed but doesn’t lead me to crashing my car or cheating on my girlfriend. also it tastes like sour wood shavings because that’s what it is.
Sep 20, 2022