A better result would perhaps be a definition for nvm, since that's the likely reason someone would put it alone in a search form.

Mindless entrancement always looks weird to others.

Since speed is of the essence, the poll probably gets very honest answers, even if a person isn't so sure about something.

True, it isn't likely going to go away. My hearing aids help immensely, but mostly with tolerance, and not occurrence. It is pretty much background noise to me nowadays, although some things can really set it off. It doesn't drive me batty anymore, at least!

I have severe tinnitus. First, I had a minor variant for many years. But what I didn't realize is that I was slowly losing my hearing in one side. Then I had surgery (tympanomastoidectomy) to remove the cyst that grew to the point it dissolved my stapes altogether, and now I have a severe variant, and significantly less hearing in that side. My tinnitus ramped up to a whole new level after that surgery.

I tried a phone app where you would play a tone that approximates the current tinnitus tone, or white noise lacking just that frequency area. In every case, all it would do is change the tone my tinnitus was making. Sometimes it made it worse than it ever gets on its own.

Likewise, in the summertime my tinnitus is regularly set off by the sound of cicadas. That tinnitus sounds so similar that at times I have to do an ear-plug test to see if it is just cicadas, or if is just in my head. No joke! I hate it big time.

Having said that, I now wear hearing aids (including for my ear that wasn't operated on, just to round out the age-related hearing loss), and this surprisingly makes it WAY more manageable. When I've been wearing them, I still always have tinnitus, but it is relegated to background noise. When I don't wear them for a long time, I'm usually punished for it. It takes days of proper hearing before the tinnitus goes back to background noise level sometimes.

BTW: I also get other types of tinnitus, which makes it worse. For example, on waking it is a really low sound that sounds like an idling diesel motor. I can even feel that one. I got that really bad after surgery, and I get it now when I'm ill. All of this was really debilitating for a couple years post-surgery, but I've come to grips with it now.

Just about anything can set it off. Cicadas, as I mentioned, but also rapid temperature changes, exertion (although weirdly I never notice it at the gym. It's just noisy enough there to mask the squealing I guess.), hearing something unexpected at a really high pitch, and being tired pretty much guarantee a hell of a racket in my head.

Now there are so many satellites at all moments of the day and night that this little bit of joy is completely gone.

Back then, spotting the glint from a satellite was a fun and rare treat. Now depending on where the sun is, you can pretty much guess when a good time to see them comes up, and then you'll trail several of them across the entire sky until you get bored and go back to bed. No reason to concern yourself with mere flares anymore, sadly. (Even though sometimes those were exceptionally bright!)

This makes me wonder if they sense the movement of the music and confuse it for rain.

Then there is the endless stream of AI spam, GOP and foreign propaganda, tracking and advertising. It would be nice if the ads weren't nearly all fake products and snake oil. It seems the real product advertisers don't want any part of it either.

People are given ample incentives to leave it all behind and focus more on real life instead.

This isn't an area of competition I thought I'd ever see.

Ends up the reason was even simpler than that.

The later in my life, I recognized it in the Microsoft vs. Apple thing.

Soon we're gonna be there with the top 2 AI companies. I hope it's the one in my portfolio!

Memory of this cartoon keeps popping up throughout my lifetime. Everything eventually becomes us vs. them.