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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Is this a suburban thing I’m too urban to understand?

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Many leaf blowers are powered by angry little single cylinder 2-stroke gas engines. Those obscenely loud and annoying machines are carefully engineered to emit sounds that are perfectly within the most intolerable frequency ranges of the human hearing spectrum.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 7 points 17 hours ago

Probably, there needs to be trees and lawns around for this to be an issue.

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world -2 points 14 hours ago

People who live in the suburbs live in very quiet environments. I live next to a busy street and personally I would like to the inventor of the subwoofer eliminated.