• Maticzpl@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Unlike with darkness or silence I don’t think you can ever escape smell. It’s all a matter of adaptation to a smell. In your house you don’t smell anything sometimes but when you return from a road trip or whatever you suddenly realise you can smell something that you previously became so adapted to that you thought it didn’t smell at all.
    Simmilar to being at a hospital / dentists and going outside afterwards, suddenly the air doesn’t smell like nothing but stinks because you became adapted to the cleaner air inside.

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      1 year ago

      I get your general point, especially when coming home from vacation, but where do you live that the air outside stinks? You need to move lol

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        1 year ago

        Where do you live that it doesn’t stink? Relative to very clean air at a dentist ie. I doubt your air wouldn’t stink afterwards

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          1 year ago

          Near the west coast of Canada, in a river valley. I guess the river carries clean mountain air in and pushes our stank out to sea? Or maybe my nose just isn’t very sensitive.

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            1 year ago

            Sounds real nice I’m basically living in Silesia in Poland which had a lot of industrial stuff going on back in the days. Bad air quality is quite normal here and I forgot rural areas are a thing lol