How about setting up a sound level meter of some sort . Professional ones are expensive but there are android and presumably iOS apps that you could set up on a tablet and leave going all the time . <| sep |> People are stupid . I remember when , mostly Tumblr , wanted Andrew Garfields SpiderMan to be gay . He responded with Yeah , sure , why not ? WHY NOT ? Well , he has been straight since . ever . I ' m all for creating new characters that involve the LGBTcommunity , and embracing the already LGBTcharacters . But retconning exciting characters is plain stupid and annoying . <| sep |> You ' re whiter than Wisconsin . <| sep |> There is truth to this if one lives in the U . S . There were large benefits to growing up and working in a time when the America was the dominant industrial machine on the planet . Either the other industrial nations had been bombed to rubble during WW II and were in the process of rebuilding , or they hadn ' t become industrialized yet . This , followed by the cold war , which fueled a massive military industrial complex which existed without the efficiency of low cost computing power . Pretty amazing and most likely never to be repeated .