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> Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker.

Boy, that one really gets to me when I'm on the trail. Both hikers and mountain bikers are guilty of that. Also, the people with their AirPods in oblivious to anything going on around them...

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So, people playing music around them is bad, and people playing music just to themselves is also bad?

Yes, but they're different kinds of bad. People playing music publicly are being obnoxious to everyone else, while people playing music privately are putting themselves at risk. (Not so much when hiking, but IMHO wearing headphones while cycling in traffic is suicidal.)

At least AirPods have an excellent transparency mode

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