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by far, the biggest, most insane cheating scandal in the ivy league is the Replication Crisis by the professors.

It depends. If you hired a chess coach, and they hired an opening coach for you just for openings, and that coach had you write a weekly 12 page report about why d4 was popular, and include a section about the methodology you used, you could both care about your chess education, and decide to cheat and have ai write that opening paper for you every week.

the problem is that there's oversensitive people and you actually do impact their lives by being a nurse that comes home at 3 am.

if you cook some dishes, and some oversensitive person doesn't like the smell, then you're impacting them.

it becomes not so simple, especially when you are a building manager and two people have a problem with each other. it's not always easy to figure it out.

Then you have cases like a once per year loud birthday party. That's annoying. Are you really the problem if you do that once a year?

I can hear my neighbors televisions regularly. It's annoying yet I never thought they were a problem. However, another person in the building DOES think they are a problem. Partly because they don't understand that they need to compromise because the walls are so thin. Since the sounds are annoying, do they get to stomp around all night and get revenge with machines and devices? at that point, the petty revenge is probably the problem.

and for a building manager, it's not always easy to figure out which person is the unreasonable one.

it might not be anything, but the neighbor simply yielding to every little rule in the head of another neighbor.

we haven't established that the neighbor knows whether or not someone is screwing with him.

when my building had a person like that, who played these games all day for decades, some either just ignored all of it, while others simply moved out when they could.

i see both sides, having lived with both super sensitive and petty neighbors, and also inconsiderate, loud neighbors.

There are definitely sensitive people who have either misophonia rage, or PTSD from something, and they can't handle normal levels of city noise.

on top of that, some apartments simply allow smoking inside. If they always use the balcony, they're really doing you a favor.

if you are worried about emissions, you really have to think about cars and refineries and jets, and even restaurants. These are incredibly out of control when it comes to pollution and disease.

in my experience, if you're buying machines and building devices, and your target refuses to play that game, then it's clear who the adult is, and who the child is.

it's impossible to tell who is normal in these stories.

for example, the guy can start smoking inside, and it will always smell like smoke.

or, the guy can get his own buzzer.

i've had oversensitive neighbors sit there and bang on pots all night because fireworks or construction noise.

like another comment mentioned, apartments are just built really badly. you can hear anything. which leads to friends of mine complaining about stompers, but to me, they're clearly not stomping. they're just tip-toeing around as quietly as possible. when you get people actually harassing you daily, then you figure out the difference.

if you have to set up a machine or device, then you might be the bad neighbor. this is especially true if they don't set up a machine back at you. that means they're just taking in your harassment and not escalating.

people aren't total idiots. they figure someone is messing with them for their level 15 volume and keep it lower. For anyone with a TV, try putting your volume to 15. Is is unreasonable volume? It's very hard to say who is the psychotic neighbor. I've been on both sides: neighbors that were loud but normal (maybe they had bad hearing, or worked at night), and neighbors that were oversensitive, who were petty and bought machines and devices and sprays to really hurt all of the people who lived around them.

back in the day, during a talk about Westinghouse, we were all admiring Rand's striking and iconic Westinghouse Logo, the theory and precision behind it.

A little boy pointed at it and said "That logo is dumb."

And it was at that instant that we all suddenly realized that it was a pretty bad logo. We moved on to the next topic quickly after that.