Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?

underscores@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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  • underscores@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      consult experts is better advice

      Boom! Take THAT, anti-vaxxers!

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    there was a kids toy with ACTUAL radioactive material in it. Might have been uranium or maybe plutonium.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The harm in OP’s example is immediate.

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I was under the impression that hearing loss is usually a gradual thing.

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