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I think they vary their flight paths over tri valley. Sometimes they seem to be coming in loud and low for a while, then most of the time they are further away. In Santa Cruz, you mostly hear helicopters and small craft. You can see the big ones high mostly going north south. Once in a while, some military jet might scream by. I can't otherwise discern any particular variations.

I think this started pre-covid, but...

https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=118812&page=1

HeadSet says

Eric Holder says

Airplanes became so quiet I'm starting to miss the sound. Especially the sound of turboprops.

Will you miss the ear busting sound of Harleys when motorcycles go all electric?

Nobody would miss that.

RWSGFY says

Will you miss the ear busting sound of Harleys when motorcycles go all electric?

Nobody would miss that.

I got triggered again. https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/rclnjb/south-park-insanely-good-sense

"Bike-Curious," LOL.

WookieMan says

They're still loud. I'm a bit west of a 9 approach and some of the business jets are rather loud still at probably 1-2k' AGL. No airlines fly in, but get the occasional 737 that the mechanics work on or testing for other stuff without doxing myself.

Sounds like the commercial Jets you do occasionally get, are older loud engines. The Ft Lauderdale airport expanded with in the last 10 years. There was huge legal battle that tried to stop them. I think the quiet Jets were one of the concessions. All of the jets that fly out of here are all newer jets. I mean you can hear them some, but they aren't any louder than the roar of the traffic on i95 that is about a mile from me. And honestly most planes are much quieter than that. It's the rice burner motorcycles on i95 that are the new "let's pause our conversation while this thing passes".
They literally sound like they are ripping through my yard. I can hear them one or two exits south of me, and for one or two exits north.
Especially when there's not much traffic latter at night, and one is ripping 90mph or more.
I just heard one flew over, it's about as loud as a brisk breeze blowing through a window screen of an open window for about 20 seconds.

Motorcycles are shit. I know too many people injured or dead from them. They're loud, unsafe pieces of shit.

I bought a decibel meter because of one cock sucking neighbor. Running 100+dbl over 100' away. Just idling. I chewed his ass out bigly. He started killing the bike and walking it from the end of the block. Mind you he was doing this shit at 6am during summer weather when we have our windows open. So I'm not some Karen and am pretty reasonable. But bull shit is bull shit. He listened. I may or may not have threatened to kill him if I'm being honest.

My outbursts are legendary. Only 2 speeding tickets and 2 underage drinking tickets. Otherwise clean as can be. No arrests. My one benefit was having a dad as a lawyer. I knew the law more than cops were trained for. The book of my life is basically here, but I might write something and try to publish it. It would be an intriguing story. I have 2 hour stretches of my life I could write 20 pages on.

Fucking kids activities get in the way and insomnia writing is going to be a proof readers nightmare. And this is why I should write something. I can easily get on Oprah's book club as I know a person. Not joking. Even if I ghost write it the shit I'd write would be obvious is the only concern. Think Hunter S Thompson except too much shit about family and friends.

Wookie tangent as usual. Contemplating doing it though. There would be a chapter about this place though that's for sure.

Motorcycles should be required to meet the same pollution and noise standards as cars. They are lighter and smaller than cars, so it should be easy. Light trucks that are used as cars should also have to meet the same standards as well.

Aren’t Harleys noisy less to be aholes than to be heard and safer on the highway?

goofus says

Aren’t Harleys noisy less to be aholes than to be heard and safer on the highway?

No. It's ass holiness.

There is a Harley rider that comes down my (busy) street, pulls his clutch, and cracks his throttle. He's trying to get my neighbors car alarm to go off, often successfully.

WookieMan says

RWSGFY says

Will you miss the ear busting sound of Harleys when motorcycles go all electric?

Nobody would miss that.

I got triggered again. https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/rclnjb/south-park-insanely-good-sense

"Loud pipes save lives" should be thrown in the trash bin and burned along with "The Covid Vaccine is safe and effective."

WookieMan says

So I'm not some Karen and am pretty reasonable.

We've got to stop demonizing people doing the right thing and calling on order, peace and decorum.

A Liberal screaming from the top of her lungs about the Patriarchy and cis gender this and that are the Karen's.. See how the establishment media has twisted it to mean the victims of trespassing thugs pissing in their pool calling the cops?

stereotomy says

"Loud pipes save lives" should be thrown in the trash bin and burned along with "The Covid Vaccine is safe and effective."

Correct. The Honda Golden Wing riders seem to do just fine on their large quiet bikes.

I miss the sounds of the 9-cylinder Radial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGFYfapCKZA

HeadSet says

stereotomy says

"Loud pipes save lives" should be thrown in the trash bin and burned along with "The Covid Vaccine is safe and effective."

Correct. The Honda Golden Wing riders seem to do just fine on their large quiet bikes.

I haven't died on mopeds fucking around. The volume is 100% illegal on most Harley's. Maybe and that's a big maybe there's a stock Harley out there. Harley themselves put out illegal bikes. No one gives a shit. Unless you get after them they just get louder and louder. So I go after them. It's worked.

People that ride bikes on major non-highways roads can eat shit as I run them over. Quiet and/or loud 2 wheel vehicles. You deserve to die. Not joking.

WookieMan says

People that ride bikes on major non-highways roads can eat shit as I run them over. Quiet and/or loud 2 wheel vehicles. You deserve to die.

Do you mean that?

WookieMan says

Quiet and/or loud 2 wheel vehicles.

Why are you upset at the quiet ones?

B.A.C.A.H. says

Do you mean that?

HeadSet says

Why are you upset at the quiet ones?

Lose family members and friends. Motorcycles are the dumbest thing ever. So are riding bicycles on roads with cars. It's not debatable. It's absolute retardation.

Sit at a wedding and watch the phone call with one of your best friends learning his niece died in a motorcycle accident. Father in law almost died from one and my wife was at a conference. Fact is they were selfish. No different than those cliff jumpers or mountain climbers. I don't care if you thought it was fun. What's not fun is going to a funeral for your stupid "hobby."

I'm not saying I'd ever intentionally ride over them BACAH. It happens though because it's dumb. We have a lot of deer here in the fall. I'm not swerving to miss it and kill myself potentially is kind of what I'm getting at. No different than a biker you can barely see. You lower your life expectancy 10 fold by riding 2 wheel vehicles. It's safer to fly a plane drunk.

WookieMan says

So are riding bicycles on roads with cars.

I do a lot of bike riding, but I keep to back roads and bike trails. I do not ride on main roads because I don't want to get killed and I do not want to be that guy that holds up traffic. For example, we have lots of bike trails in my area and more are being built. One such bike trail is the VIrginia Capital Trail that runs from Jamestown to Richmond, about 50 miles:



This trail parallels VA Route 5, a two-lane road you can see to the right. Despite this excellent trail, I have come upon cyclists while driving on this Rt 5 who are on the highway and not the trail only about 20 feet away. The road is a scenic rural type with no side path so the cyclist rides on the edge white stripe and holds up traffic until the driver behind him is clear to pass. This type of cyclist is usually in a spandex superhero suit and thinks drivers do not mind being held up as they admire him for being on a bike.

HeadSet says

This type of cyclist is usually in a spandex superhero suit and thinks drivers do not mind being held up as they admire him for being on a bike.

A lot of those pedal by our house on a major bike route. We call them "jesters" with their brightly colored spandex and helmets.

Patrick says

How much did it cost back then?

Patrick says

Good news, everyone: Dimon thinks the 70s are coming back!

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon is concerned the US economy could be in for a repeat of the problems that hampered the country during the 1970s.

"Yes, I think there’s a chance that can happen again," he said during an appearance Tuesday at the Economic Club of New York.

The economy in that troubled decade was constrained by stagflation, a combination of low growth and high inflation, and Dimon said such a risk exists again.

"I worry that it looks more like the seventies than we've seen before," he added during a question-and-answer session with Marie-Josee Kravis, chair of the Museum of Modern Art and wife of KKR co-founder Henry Kravis.

"There are circumstances in which it'll look more like the seventies than what we've had for the last 20 years.

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Eric Holder says

"There are circumstances in which it'll look more like the seventies than what we've had for the last 20 years.

Like where we fund the MIC by participating in undeclared foreign wars, enriching those connected, and impoverishing taxpayers?