u/WasabiCrush

Misophonia has complicated my life. I'm not complaining - it ain't cancer - but ANC has become very important to me.

I see that the Space A40 buds are on sale for $45, which is a great price point, but I'm wanting to see what your experiences are with their ANC.

My primary concerns are wind noise while walking, (I have the Anker P30i's - they're terrible in the wind), and issues like barking neighborhood dogs, foot-tapping coworkers, etc. I know I can't filter this stuff out completely, but I do have a pair of aging/failing Jabra Elite 4's that have done an acceptable job of knocking the edge off.

Does anyone have any input on this? I don't expect to draft a miracle on a $45 dollar investment, but if I can get a solid year out of something that gets the job done, that's good enough for me.

Thank you!

I’m particular about what gets added. It’s a slow process, but I do add to it.

I get that these little electric bikes (motorcycles) are a blast - I’d have loved to have ridden one in my youth - but there are definitely some parents rolling the dice, here.

These kids, and I’m talking young, simply don’t have the reaction time or experience needed to control something at these speeds. But, they’re driving right out into traffic anyway. And they’re such a small/low presence.

I’m paying attention and I know other motorists are paying attention, but all it’ll take is one of your unmonitored children pulling out in front of some lifted pickup with a driver glued to a cell phone to make a tragedy out of a good time.

I have to assume anyone who’s gotten to a point they they’re letting a 10yo zip around on the city streets is beyond reach - it’s a terrible decision out the gate and no amount of warnings or stats will get through - but I’m pushing the issue anyway.

I’ll surprised if we don’t see an e-bike vs auto fatality this year.

We taxpayers are on the hook for $165,000. Do you think it’s justified?

Saw a kid this evening flying up Fantan on the sidewalk. Little black motorcycle on that pedestrian-busy stretch by the Skyview baseball field. Zero concern for his surroundings.

Watched another one on what looked like an e-bike pull out in front of a car by Ben Steele. Zipping along with no helmet.

It’s no skin off my back either way - the medical field levels up with practice - but I’d imagine the transition from raising a feral son to watching him drive a sip-and-puff wheelchair is going to feel fairly aggressive.

I’m in a Winter-heavy state and the trails are getting busy again.

I just got back from a ride, and spent most of it marveling at how many e-bikes I was dealing with. I’m in a semi-rural area with path access across some fairly desolate but beautiful land, and have spent the last couple years enjoying a little solitude there. This year the difference is jarring, and it got me wondering if the e-bike industry is absolutely cooking to the point the machines are more accessible. Maybe, too, it’s just word getting out, and I’m fantasizing an unrealistic amount of advancements over the last six months.

They’re a little frustrating to deal with, either way.

I have no issue with the things generally and am happy just to see people get off their couches and look around for a couple hours. The problem I do have is that so many of them feel like they were air-dropped in having zero actual bike experience prior to their purchase. These ones lack awareness, etiquette, and a basic understanding of traffic laws. Not that there aren’t terrible bicyclists out there, too, but the ratio of good-to-bad with e-bikes, at least in my experience, feels different.

It’ll be interesting, (speaking only of my neck of the woods), to see if things eventually get to a point where e-people suffer the pain of “you forced my hand” ordinances aimed at their machines. They will shriek.

Zero point to any of this and I know the topic’s been pounded into the subfloor, but I felt like yammering about what I saw. It’s a trip out there.

In the right world there would be no need to question a proposed tax increase for more funding where it concerns things like public safety, parks, etc., because these are all important targets, but I'm not sure that's the world we live in anymore. Sucks to say, but I have lost so much faith in the people pushing me to widen their access to my wallet. Will what they've taken be managed responsibly? Has it ever been managed responsibly?

I'm at a point now where I want obvious tracking, honest auditing, open reporting, and actual accountability out of the folks demanding more out of me. An accessible, automated portal outlining all of the City's daily spending, department-to-department, would be even better. Let us have eyes on the machine we've been blindly feeding money into. I'd love to have a system where a citizen's skeptical inquiry about specific spending initiates a required explanation from the department that created the cost.

I know I'm fantasizing wildly here, ("venting uselessly" is probably a better description), but it's our money and a person can dream.