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> Put your phone away, don't wear your airpods and live in real life- or continue with your airpods and your neck cranked down into your phone- you don't need friends anymore, AI will be your friend.

I have had decent conversations with strangers on planes and trains while my headphones were in. I paused the music to talk for a bit.

It doesn’t have to be either-or. Headphones don’t make you antisocial - being antisocial makes you antisocial.

“Life finds a way”



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