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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?

• recursive 2y ago
  It indicates whether you would be interrupting if you tried to talk to them.
  • sambazi 2y ago
    ...or be heard it's just fucking with social interaction; maybe that's the point
  • philsnow 2y ago
    Interrupting what, music? I sometimes wear headphones without listening to music because I don't want my train of thought to be interrupted.
    • cozzyd 2y ago
      music, a telecon, who knows...
    • sambazi 2y ago
      > 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.