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that's the point: i can't tell and that is uneasing

I don't understand why yet. Why is it important to you to know whether someone is listening to music or not? Why do you need to be able to tell at all?

It indicates whether you would be interrupting if you tried to talk to them.

...or be heard

it's just fucking with social interaction; maybe that's the point

Interrupting what, music? I sometimes wear headphones without listening to music because I don't want my train of thought to be interrupted.

music, a telecon, who knows...

> I sometimes wear headphones without listening to music because I don't want my train of thought to be interrupted.

totally understandable as the "right to be left alone" or privacy is essential but undeniably curtailed when in public.

i hope you can appreciate the collective imperative here and acknowledge that it would be super fucked up if everyone would be wearing headphones in public.

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