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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Not all noise is the same. White noise is easy to ignore but hearing half a conversation will stress out almost anyone.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hearing-just-one-half-of-a-conversation-is-really-really-annoying-2657804/

That's just how the brain is. A lot of city noise doesn't register as important (and it isn't), but overhearing half a conversation or random snippets of YouTube is annoying on a pretty deep level.