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Heh. I just wanted to alert you to this article in the Washington Post. Then again, that article apparently is mainly a re-telling of the...

I apologize. I intended to say "there may be a solution." I understand the problem. My Peltor X5As don't really work when I'm wearing my...

I'm not sure this is unavoidable. I'm wearing electronic earmuffs (these) outside our apartment and they work quite well. Things sound nearly...

Unfortunately I will be able to participate in this thread: I tested positive for COVID-19 on December 25, which is an inconvenient time to...

First day of Paxlovid. Bummer. After 3 years of wearing industrial-grade PPE in public, I caught it from a family member who didn't do that.

I would like to know what you think about the following statement: If microsuction could damage hearing, we would have more than 50 million with...

Not anymore. I have not experienced any of the specific scenarios you describe, but various days or evenings when I thought: "I barely hear any...

You are distorting the facts when you imply that the Democrats were merely "not saving" McCarthy. They voted to remove him from his post, which is...

I'm not sure this is a laughing matter. For anyone not familiar with the most recent developments: Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) introduced a...

Why idiots? You think that GOP voters don't actually want fascism?

"The Suicide Squad" (2021) with Margot Robbie, Idris Elba and John Cena. With 90% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it stands heads and...

In 1990 IIRC, I have seen, and briefly talked to, a rock star named John Searle. [ATTACH]

Not "might." I think there is a wide consensus that sound power is not proportional to the perceived loudness, but varies with frequency (google...

I am not sure you understood the point @Quintus tried to bring across. Look at this (click to enlarge): [ATTACH] The blue graph shows the...

This may be a fallacy. I think you overlook indirect use. The average guy needs goods and services that are delivered with the help of those...

Why not. Although it reminds me of the (apocryphally purportedly Einstein) quote that "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and...

To be honest, I'm quite reluctant to publicly accuse anyone of misconduct that I cannot prove. Where I live, this would mean inviting a lawsuit...

The future of AI: Google autocompleted "girl enc" into "girl encourages boyfriend to kill himself" after I browsed the Suicide thread here.

That's the problem right there. The ENTs get away with their perfunctory and vestigial diagnostics because patients have no point of reference,...

Oops. Sorry, I had a pavlovian reaction to the word sequence "Bose high quality speaker," with the assumption that you want high audio quality,...

I don't want to start a religious war here, but I'm not sure you are aware that Bose speakers have a somewhat mixed reputation for quality, to put...

I insert a dummy plug (see photo) into my ANC headphones' audio input socket. This prevents the headphone from trying to establish a Bluetooth...

That made me quit as well. I wonder whether one should try the Japanese underground rock band Les Rallizes Dénudés instead. They sound basically...

Interesting. Instinctively (i.e. without ever having read these instructions), I tried basically the same method, just not with piano sounds but...

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Please link peer reviewed, conclusive research that confirms your unproven assertion.

Interesting. Your link points to an article with a different headline: "Nato and EU sound alarm over risk of Ukraine weapons smuggling"...

Was always too miserly to spend 100+ EUR on the GOT saga, but now found seasons 1-6 for 30-ish quid on Amazon.co.uk :D

I don't remember my last day of silence, if there ever was such a thing. I believe I have always had some kind of low background noise that was...

Pure sine tones are to your ears what laser beams are to your eyes. Don't play with them unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Clever :D I'm not sure whether this is an invitation to clarify. The New Toy is a teleconverter, pictured inside the blue frame. [ATTACH]

Brilliant idea. I'm sure they would be thrilled to have a 60-year-old weakling in their ranks who never came near any weapon in his whole life,...

First experiments with a new toy :) [ATTACH]

Sounds unlikely to me. I'm not a doctor, though. I had a Cipro course in the summer last year. The received wisdom seems to be that Cipro ear...

I don't see @Damocles's comment as hostile, just exasperated. Likely coming from somebody who does not want to say "told ya so" when it's too...

Oops. I was just about to alert you to that very article :oops:

There are solutions to that problem. What you want is a device called "limiter", a.k.a. "brickwall limiter" or "audio limiter". These things are...

I'd think that's like going to the gym with a broken bone. Not a good idea, because the fracture will never heal as long as you do that.

America's problem is that Trump lost the election, but Biden didn't win either in any meaningful sense. And of course the voters blame Biden for...

Some people's suffering seems to get aggravated by a vicious cycle in which anxiety and tinnitus loudness reinforce each other. It seems...

Did you ever wonder what's up with that song's protagonist who is eyeing little girls with bad intent...?

If you make a habit of that, a half pint of neat whiskey before bedtime will make your liver go away, along with other things that you might want...

For me, it unfortunately is not uncommon. Usually after I had a day that was not so bad, like 2 out of 5. I'd drift into sleep while thinking:...

No. If you want to die badly enough, you may be tempted to try to kill yourself without proper planning. But that does not equate "finding a way."...

Here's how far I came today with my new Linux box: Case: Supermicro 743AC-668B Motherboard: Supermicro X12SAE CPU: Xeon W-1290P, 10 cores,...

Sorry for asking the obvious, but what's wrong with earplugs, like e.g. Moldex Spark Plugs? The way you describe your family, it won't affect...

Except it wasn't developed in the US by Pfizer, but in Germany by Turkish immigrants:

The last time I drank Ethanol was 2016. Until then, I had monitored my intake with an Excel spreadsheet, which is probably a good strategy if...

T-Bone Burnett is riotously funny here. [MEDIA]

I'm afraid I don't have any sourced information about this. Nonetheless: I attached a picture of NAC, which is sold as cough medicine where I...

I wouldn't do that. When pharmaceutical companies individually seal their NAC tablets into aluminum foil, it's probably not because they love...

Depends on your health insurance. In Germany there are two classes of health insurers, private or statutory. Patients with statutory insurance are...

Thanks. To the best of my knowledge this was on the French Riviera, either Cannes or Nice. P.S., what made you switch from Venus to Stonehenge?

At least a decade old. Alright, alright, alright :D This is me when you were minus 14 years old :eek: [ATTACH]

I don't know that. However, I don't doubt that you know how to look maximally attractive, and a crew cut is not it :)

BTW, that's me after the first test run of the clipper mentioned in my previous post. I was 42 at the time and don't look anything like that...

With male privilege of course. :D Seriously, a 5mm stubble looked good on Natalie Portman too, in the second half of "V for Vendetta." That...

2nd dose of BioNTech/Pfizer on Monday. Disappointingly the noises are still there :(

It's difficult not to get agitated with these people. In that situation I was under the impression she made that 120 dB figure up on the spot....