I’m depressed and I wanna listen to music… 🥲

Its just fearmongering right?

I don’t max the volume, just turn it high enough to hear it, if I used speakers, I’d also turn it so that my ears detect the “same volume” so I don’t get why headphones is worse? Literally the same volume.

Also privacy, I don’t want others to know what I’m listening, the fuck lol.

  • underscores@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    I’ll teach you a trick: if something really is as bad as someone says then why does everyone do it? I would say like the majority of young people on public transportation are using earbuds for their daily commute and they’re obviously not deaf

    Anyways I’ve played guitar and used earbuds since like 12 and my ears are certainly not in a good place.

    Listen to music at comfortable levels and don’t max it out even if it feels like you want to.

    I’m far from deaf though.

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      3 hours ago

      if something really is as bad as someone says then why does everyone do it?

      Remember when everyone smoked and we were taught that it was good for our health?

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      3 hours ago

      That’s absolutely insane logic. “Everyone’s doing it, it must be fine, right?” You know how many incredibly cancerous and harmful materials were once in common use by everyone?

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        1 hour ago

        you’re right now that I think about it doesn’t make sense to say that, consult experts is better advice

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        2 hours ago

        Bad logic, yes, but it stands in this case because the harm is immediate, not in some future decade. Given such widespread use, headphones must be OK or doctors would have been sounding the alarm decades ago after seeing young people with blown out ears.