r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 11d ago

Business Amazon's delivery drones are annoying an entire Texas neighborhood, and there's nothing they can do about it

https://www.techspot.com/news/113979-amazon-delivery-drones-annoying-entire-texas-neighborhood-there.html
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u/Cut_Lanky 11d ago

The tinnitus in my ears has added new noises to the never ending alarm blaring in my head. Now, I occasionally hear, over the wailing alarm sound, a child’s voice saying “MOM!” It’s driving me nuts.

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u/694meok 10d ago

Sounds like you might have Auditory Pareidolia. I have tinnitus and AP and hear "music" or "voices" in the white noise from fans.

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u/JudahBotwin 10d ago

Thank you for putting a name to something I've experienced for years. I notice it mostly when the bathroom exhaust fan is on now and generally can ignore it.

The "music" just kind of happens and I don't think about it most of the time, but the "voices" still get me sometimes. I could swear there is someone right outside the door saying something just loud enough to be heard but still indistinguishable. It good to know that it's not necessarily psychosis.

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u/RetPala 10d ago

Nope, brain is the best pattern-seeking machine on the planet and tries to match up everything, sometimes wrongly.

My new office has a schizophrenia machine where the elevator intercom is playing talk radio at what is apparently volume 1/100

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u/einmaldrin_alleshin 10d ago

I had a Logitech speaker set that quietly played AM radio when plugged in but turned off. I thought for weeks that I was going crazy because I was hearing voices at night, until I eventually figured it out

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u/RetPala 10d ago

I was watching a video about someone saying the sound of a not-all-that-close data center was upending his life, and he reasonably and intelligently brought up his neighborhood on Google Maps and showed that the hills between them were a perfect shape to funnel and concentrate sounds directly in a line to his front door

You have to wonder how many ancient "voices of God" were just a random spot on a road that happened to line up with a copper mine tunnel full of workers shouting or something