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How did people survive before noise cancelling headphones? Like god damn, I would've murdered someone by now if I had no way to suppress all the noise. (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 5 points 3 weeks ago

It was quieter in a lot of ways. Or, I guess more specifically to my issues, there weren't likely as many conflicting sounds playing at once. You might get some asshole with a boombox on the bus or whatever, but that was rare. I also spent most of my time until uni in the countryside (and moved rural again last year).

I don know if I would have survived phones with my sanity in tact. I guess Gameboys were a thing at some point in my youth (and gamegear and game-and-watch before that), but most people were not playing them with volume in social situations. Hell I still remember when using a cellphone in public was considered dickish if you didn't excuse yourself to outside or something.