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That description is lackluster.

A train horn is 130, okay, we've all been too close to a train horn, and it's unpleasant. But everything else in that reply is hypothetical, with not even serious, realistic, testable anecdotes to support the claims.

Without supporting evidence all it says is:

  150 db is bad. 
  160 db is bad.
  170 db is bad.
  194 db is bad.
  185 db is bad. (tornados)
  220 db is bad. (bombs)
  250 db is bad. (bombs)
  310 db is bad. (volcanos)
  325 db is bad. (stratovolcano)
  500 db is bad.

Lots of "*beavis, that would be cool!" and not much else.

  MIT Technology Review Magazine

Better than your average clickbait, but yeah cliffhanger-as-headline is a cheesey tactic.

I still enjoy this site, as a serious indicator of regional, population-center-oriented indicator of air quality: https://plumelabs.com

The weird part, though, is that I can't find any articles about how such sounds might affect other things.

Like, what if a team of SCUBA divers had these high powered megawatt level infra-sound transducers aimed directly at them, and felt the brunt of such a wavefront at close range?

Would they even hear it, or maybe just feel it? Would they get a concussion? Would it shake them so violently that maybe they suffer massive full-body bruising, and even hemorrhaging or worse?

This is the part that seems unclear. How do these noises compare to something like the shockwave of a depth charge, in terms of energy imparted on other objects suspended in proximity? What happens to, oh I dunno, fine structured ballistics gel replicas of sensitive organs?

Uh, no thanks!

I'd like to avoid solutions that facilliate an implicit assent to the collection of biometric data.

The plan you've outlined still has large organizations building massive libraries of immutable identity data. (they'll still have the fingerprints, however mixed and matched and re-ordered, and they'll still have the scanned faces)

At the end of the day, we'd still be letting them, asking them, begging them to store our finger prints and recognize our faces. Putting bald data in the hands of amoral, faceless, collective entities like corporations and governments.

  On a related note, when a 10^19 or 
  above event hits a densely populated 
  area, there's a decent sized ionization 
  column near the center of the shower 
  that could likely lead to cancer. 
  Theres probably 100 to 1000 or so 
  events like that in an area the size 
  of the Bay Area.

Ha! Oh man. That'd be the best alert a smart phone could ever show me.

  *beep* 
    You've just been irradiated by powerful 
    cosmic rays from outer space. Your risk 
    factor for certain forms of cancer has 
    increased by 0.013%.

I really would want to know if I was suddenly showered by cosmic rays, and my location within the crowd-sourced area-of-effect, but I wonder if an app could transmit it's sensor noise to a central server, and receive accurate results aggregated from all other app instances very quickly. I figure there'd be a lag of maybe a couple of hours or more.

Reminds me of this other site, which provides air quality stats:

https://plumelabs.com

Well... I tried.

So, this is the first time I've had a chance to translate what he was saying for that line, and I could only ever make out fragments of what I thought I understood.

And, if I'm translating (or transliterating) correctly, it's something like:

  In the Name of God, just look at 
  these motherfucking shitty slutty 
  brothel whore assholes.

  0. nom de dieu = name of god
  1. putain      = whore
  2. bordel      = brothel
  3. merde       = shit
  4. saloperies  = sluts
  5. connards    = assholes
  6. enculé      = motherfucker
  7. ta mire     = one's sight

Does that properly capture the spirit of his curse words, or am I not quite getting it right?

Knowing corporate org charts for what they tend to be, reporting and analytics initiatives, and any server statistics therein, are considered revenue generating information (leads), and thus subject to agreements for the exchange mutually beneficial data sets.

Across my various jobs, I've had to write reports for departments, and open up permissions to internal people, to give read access for things they'd have no natural reason to care about.

If data is being collected at all, weird people will be looking at it. If not today, maybe tomorrow. But, no matter when, it's there for the looking whenever some internal lookie-loo decides it might be interesting.