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> in general it's completely normal to assume someone wearing earbuds is listening to you

Just because you emphatically state that something is normal, that does not make it normal

I think it's a little disingenuous for you to take what I said out of the context I said it in, but you're right as far as it's in my anecdotal experience. Which is why I said "around here", but I guess I could've made it even clearer.

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