dragonagitator

dragonagitator t1_jbyiojy wrote

Reply to Racism in Washington by darkDarkTrunks

If your instincts are telling you that a white person is racist even though they haven't said anything overtly racist to your face, and that you're being discriminated against, you should trust your instincts. There's a lot of covert racists here.

I'm white and other white people often say super racist shit when there's only white people around that they never say in mixed company or to a non-white person's face. They just assume that because I'm white that I must agree with their white supremacist viewpoints, which makes me suspect that the majority of white people they've said that shit to in the past were indeed fine with it.

I call shit out when I can but sometimes I'm just stunned or it's a delicate situation like in the workplace with a client etc. Me getting mad at other white people's racist remarks has been enough of a recurring problem in my life that I'm now relieved whenever my direct supervisor at work isn't white because I don't have to worry about my boss casually making white supremacist remarks to me at work.

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dragonagitator t1_ja4w57q wrote

Reply to [LPT Request] I have a vocally loud family and sometimes I can often hear them when in my room when I need silence. is there anything I can do to dampen their sound in my room? by MarsTalks

Most of the noise likely gets in through cracks around the door so a draft stopper and then maybe hanging a blanket over the doorway to cover the other cracks will help.

If there are vents running throughout the house that carry noise then closing/covering the vents when you need silence will help.

If a lot of noise is still getting in even after covering the door and vents, try to figure out which wall it is coming from and rearrange your furniture so that your desk or bed (wherever you need silence) is as far from that wall as possible, then put a layer of stuff against that wall, e.g., bookcases, hang thick blankets, etc.

If the noise is coming from below, thick carpets help.

If the noise is coming from above, although you can't affix anything to the ceiling you can make a little structure around your bed or desk, e.g., two cheap bookcases on either side with a piece of plywood across the top, then fill the gap between the plywood with packaging foam, cushions, pillows, folded blankets, whatever you can get free/cheap. I used the bookcases-and-plywood fort method when I lived below a stomper and it helped a LOT.

You can cover up residual noise with a colored noise generator. Different colors/pitches of noise are better at covering up different outside sounds, e.g., I've personally found brown noise to be better for traffic and white noise to be better for conversation, so experiment and see which works best for blocking out your family.

There are also earplugs and noise cancelling headphones but those can become painful to wear for too many hours in a row.

Googling home recording studio DIY soundproofing tips will get you a lot more ideas of different things to try.

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