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Having earpods in while talking is an entirely new and worse social stigma than wearing hearing aids.

> you have a type of (casual) plausible deniability about why you're wearing them

"He doesnt even give enough of a shit about talking to me to remove his earbuds" isn't a good thing.

> They won't draw people's attention in the way that hearing aids (because they're different/unique) do.

They won't draw peoples attention in the same way because normal humans only begrudgingly interact with people wearing earbuds in conversations and only for a bare minimum.

I really can't stand this website sometimes. But at least you all got the AirPods™ branding right instead of just calling them earbuds.



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