Much ado about not much?

I'll preface this by stating I do not live in a 'nice' part of town.

Every day, especially as the warmer months come upon the land, I am besieged by noise. Lots of noise. Coming from cars, as well as the open doors of my neighbors. They like to sit outside and hold their own little concerts for the entire neighborhood to hear.

Whatever happened to respecting one's neighbors and fellow Human Beings? Whatever happened to the 'Peaceful use and enjoyment' of my dwelling that was promised in the lease I signed? I consider that part of the contract (which is what a Lease is.) .

Are these people stupid? Either they must not understand that sound travels or they grossly oversimplify the musical tastes of the population they are 'enriching'.

Are these people assholes? If they are not stupid, knowing full well that sound does travel and that nobody else wants to hear their noise, then by being so loud they must be stating to all those within earshot "Hey! Here I come! I'm an asshole!"

If you're guilty of being loud enough to be heard through the walls of another person's house and what I have stated offends you in some fashion, then, rather than insulting me in a neanderthal manner, I implore you to take some time and do the following:

Tell me why.

• What is your valid and well thought out reason to play your music so loud? I do not seek your opinions. 'I like to because I like to' is not a logical answer to such a question. It is, in fact, the opposite of Logic.

• What benefits are there, to yourself, personally, as well as the world around you, by such volumes of sound?

• Why do you risk your own hearing loss just to annoy other people?

Please feel free to share this as you like. If you wish to give any sort of negative feedback, think about your reasons. Answer the questions above in your reply, then tell me why I'm wrong. Convince me.

Posts made without proper capitalization, spelling or punctuation will be ignored as a 'yes' answer to my argument that you those guilty of being loud are stupid.

TL/DR: Go back and read it or just leave.

Once more unto the breach.

A very dear friend of mine was attacked today.
I'm not sure what to think about this because I'm so mad that I would like nothing less than to repay this person in kind and in full. And in spades.

Even if a shovel would be more efficient.

My friend, who I'll call 'Dot', was in a relationship for nearly a year. Dot is a person with an astonishing mind. The beauty of a fractal, able to be understood by the Mathematician and the Artist yet able to mystify and dazzle with the elegance of the math to the Artist and the colours and textures to the mathematician.
Dot's relationship was with one I'll call 'Brown' The love of Dot's life, and she's had a rough one at that. Dot was beginning to emotionally and mentally recover from a lifetime of pain and abuse (These are not my stories to tell but do take it from someone that knew her in person that what I said just above is not a trite exaggeration. I can't express what I came to understand without the regrettable use of 'wangst' language and for that I must apologize.)

Then along comes someone I'll call 'Mary Sue' (Yes, Dot is a lesbian. If this offends you, you have the right to be offended and I have the right to tell you to get away from my page and don't bother telling me about it. Now that we understand each other the rest of us can continue: ) Mary Sue also benefited from Dot's love and wisdom, but, well watch this for a moment and then I'll continue:



Dot was the one holding the feather. Mary Sue, of course, is the cat. When she noticed Dot was behind something that was helping her better herself, she accused Dot of manipulating her. Also Brown was ill, and still is (It's permanent) which makes what Mary Sue did even more deplorable. She turned around and manipulated everyone in Dot's life toward hating Dot. Mary Sue is not clever but she is brilliant and it did work. Suffice it to say Dot is the sort of person you either admire or despise. Dot is an expert profiler and uses what she learns to guide people toward their potential.

This is a frightening prospect to most, you'll agree, but the results do not lie. I've seen what happens for those she finds worth the love and support., those that can get past the fear and the knee-jerk responses.

Anyway, this had happened after I had physically parted ways with Dot. She had been a room mate for some time. I found her by chance six months ago or so and she was still trying to recover from the shitstorm that Mary Sue created. There's entire physical cities Dot will not visit and there's entire interest groups that she can't join because Mary Sue will slander her even today. Brown, being ill, was easily convinced of Dot's so called treachery. She'll go to her grave thinking that the person that ripped her love away from her really cares, while honestly I feel that Brown is nothing more than a trophy to Mary Sue, who only wanted to hurt Dot. Because Dot would readily see that very fact.

Do we understand the serious depth of this bullshit yet?

So it's been a full year almost to the day.
A Year.
A year after Mary Sue's pyrrhic victory, an IP that Dot recognized immediately was the origin of an attack on Dot's Facebook and Google accounts. Dot's heart and soul, her blog (If you could profile people as easily as Dot you probably wouldn't want to go out too often: Too much ugliness inside of too many people, too easy to see.) which was a major source of safe social contact for her, was utterly deleted.

Such wonderful thoughts and feelings just taken away. Google's not doing a fucking thing to help, either. Someone exploited their weakness and they're not even batting an eye.

I digress. These attacks were of course carried out by Mary Sue.
Fucking petty nonsense. Petty but hurtful as any glandular blunt-force trauma. Damaging in ways that Mary Sue knew all too well.
She can profile too, you see.

She knew right where to hit Dot to hurt her the most.

Never fear, though. Dot is recovering and well on her way to bigger and better things.

Thank you for letting me rant about my broken self and my broken friends.