Same for those taking bluetooth speakers or using their phone speakers into public parks blaring their shitty music. We would prefer to only listen to our shitty music at home or in the car not in the park where we can go to get a break from it.

To add onto that: If others can hear your crappy music booming out of your car, then you should get a ticket. If your exhaust sounds like a literal giant asshole blasting farts and is audible beyond 50 meters, you should get a ticket.

If you drive a big truck and jake brake in a residential neighborhood, believe it or not, straight to jail.

The world is too loud. And too bright. And it stinks as well. I've never understood it until I learned that I'm a bit on the autistic side of the spectrum. But for real. A lot of our modern pollutions are man made and could be so easily avoided.

Completely agree.

But the main culprit by far is fast cars or vehicles with loud engines.

In 99% of places, urban, suburban they are the loudest noise.

Go check out downtown Nashville, it sounds like someone gave 500 toddlers musical instruments and red bull. When it all mixes together it just sounds like noise

I never understand this. Most of the time when I see this it's a low-throughput business like a pawn shop trying to entice people to come inside. But why would I get any closer to your loud-as-fuck speaker that you've propped the door open with blaring shitty trap music?

This is a common thing where you live?

-1 not unopular.

But it's not the worst form of noise pollution; unneccesary motor vehicles, and phones on public transport are worse.

Measure the noise level outside the edge of their property, if it is lower than a car driving by, it's hard to complain too much. If it's directed off their property directly onto a public street then yes.

I always wear earplugs as soon as I step outside my home.

You should move to a central European country. Waaaay better

The city I live in has music pumped in all through the downtown through outdoor speakers.

I don't know if this is necessarily an unpopular opinion, but I am forced to disagree, particularly with restaurants. I have fairly severe misophonia, and that music is the only thing that allows me to eat in public, or generally be in many public spaces.

If the sounds that people make while eating (or a lot of the sounds people make at all) aren't covered up, it isn't just a shudder like "nails on a chalkboard" for me. I will literally go into fight or flight mode and sprint out of the area.

So I, for one appreciate the constant noise.

The ones I hate the most are on public beaches. At least in Romania where I live, when you go to the beach in summer, there is always some shitty bar that blasts music you can hear 500m away and occupy a lot of public beach space with their beach chairs for rent.

I hâte noise pollution.

Wrong sub.

Give it a bit more time. Soon we'll have those directional speaker. Linus from Linus techtips showed them a few weeks ago. They will be able to blast you hundreds of meters away with directional noise that only people hear who they want it to hear.