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There are lots of district-level heating plants. They need some electricity to function.

That was hilarious, thank you

Or shortly after

Cannot find any “Sun filled” products for Philips. Are you sure they’re called that?

My mistake, it's GE. They make a daylight and a soft white, I like the soft white. It's very close to incandescent light.

Sun filled is GE: https://www.gelighting.com/sunlight-light-bulbs

Nationalize the printing inkustrial complex

May it be that trained workers are more important than a production building?

But likely, 2 planes hit the factory, and one missed. Only the miss that hit residential area is reported by government. I see this type of news all the time in Ukraine: "russian rocket hits a maternity hospital", while there is a huge factory in 300 meters that gets hit regularly, with no reporting about it.

I have misophonia too, related to chewing sounds. It actually developed in offices. I don’t really go to offices anymore. But the thing that definitely helped was listening to violent noises: wind storm in the forest, sound of jet engine, etc. Naturespace app for phones have some really high quality recordings. Well, that and psychotherapy. My mental health directly allows me to spend mental resources resisting all these emotions.

My son (11yo) has had this as well for the last 2.5 years. Seeing an Audiologist for treatment.

Can you elaborate a little on "listening to violent noises" approach? When do you do this, for how long? Is it graduated in intensity, like exposure therapy?

Thanks!

It is just listening to noises that would distort other unpleasant sounds in a way that they stop being distinguishable/audible. Not a therapy, just masking them temporarily. I know when the risk of disturbing noises is high, and turn on the noise beforehand, or right after it starts. Like, there is a kindergarten near my house, it is noisy, but predictable. So every day I close the window and turn on headphones during the time children are outside.

The therapy, unrelated to this coping approach, was focused on figuring out why I got sensitive to some noises in the first place during childhood. Very individual, but to give an example, appearance of stepfather in my life, whose eating habits were conflicting with the way I was raised before.

Thanks for taking the time to add these details. Will add to the arsenal of tools. Best of luck!

In Ukraine last year we had scheduled blackouts. Let me tell you about the joy of waking up every other night to reset temperature alarm of the fridge. It could not be disabled, and it would beep for hours. My neighbors were not pleased when I was not at home for a week.

And that cheap beeping sound of every appliance is just so obnoxious. You want to wash laundry overnight to lessen load on electricity generation during blackouts? It would beep for 30 minutes when it is done. No way to disable it but to wake up and turn the button. When everyone does it, the whole apartment complex is filled with beeping sounds all night.

I prefer the sound of air alarm now.

Author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications book. It is such a well-written book, reading it right now, and cannot recommend enough.