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I've been using them for decades without issue, FWIW.
You are either a scientific anomaly or a single data point. Or both.
Me too, 20 years without a single ear infection and without a single day without ear plugs
I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
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lol, my husband does the same thing… I told him I can’t see the door at night and sometimes walk into it, so we leave it open at night, solves the problem.
Motion activated (night) light - even a little battery powered one - and the same in the bathroom. Not enough light to stir you awake but enough to find your way without turning on lights or fumbling in the dark.
naa, that would re-introduce the problem of sound from door being pushed before turning the doorknob.
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#213This is amazing. I wish I had this when I was struggling with sleep. I tried a lot of things and stacked them:
Mouth taping (stopped snoring immediately), magnesium glycinate before bed, no screens an hour before sleep, keeping the room cold, not eating dinner so late and regular sauna sessions. Individually they helped.
Together they made a real difference, loud cars and city noise don't wake me up anymore.
I know it sounds like biohacker stuff, but it works. This tool makes it possible to actually find the root cause instead of just guessing. Love it!
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I've been using them for decades without issue, FWIW.
You are either a scientific anomaly or a single data point. Or both.
I have found it depends on how comfortable the earplugs are. If I feel they are uncomfortable in the ear, there is a good chance I'll get an infection/inflammation in the next few days.
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Is there such a flourishing black market for subtracted cats that would prompt burglars to steal these pets?
Yeah they just finished their series A funding yesterday. Sorry to hear you missed out
It's alright, I'll just hide my cats along with my kids and wife.
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I don't think it will work out. Dwarf fortress got it right. Cats own you, not vice versa.
Which is the infinite money glitch. You're worth X. You have 1 cat who owns you, total value X. Get 10 black market cats for free, now 11 cats own you for a total net worth of 11X. That's even before considering the compound effect of each cat owning a human worth 11 X, which means you can divest from 1 cat for 11 X, and still be worth 110*X. The system basically works like xAI shares. Don't look too close into it.
That's seems like a shady business, I'll have a thousand shares
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#217One observation: If you're often waking up around 3am, it is a strong indicator for histamine/MCAS issues. This is fairly new research, so most people dont know about it, I haven't had a single doctor yet who was familiar with this.
The mechanism: mast cells (the immune cells that release histamine among other things) have their own circadian clock. The CLOCK gene controls their IgE receptor expression in a time-of-day manner, and both plasma histamine and tryptase peak during the night. In healthy people this is fine. In MCAS or histamine intolerance, this nightly mediator release is excessive, and it happens right in the window where cortisol (which normally suppresses histamine release) bottoms out around 2-4am. Histamine is itself a wake-promoting neurotransmitter, so you get woken up, often by something minor like a noise, reflux, or a temperature shift that wouldn't otherwise register. Signs it might be worth looking into: 3am waking with a racing heart, sweating, flushing, itching, or reflux/throat tightness. A good in-depth resource: https://health.programmerlife.org/en/
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#218> a flash of lightning following the boom That’s not how lightning and thunder work.
^f lightning ;)
Honestly, feels more like a bit. I sometimes say I need to cross my i's and dot my t's to suss out who's still paying attention in a meeting...
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#219All that work and you could have just bought a white noise machine on amazon for 25 bucks and been done, why?!
Kind of sucks to have to sleep with a white noise machine?
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#220I know what is waking me up at night...my neighbour is going out to smoke weed at 0:30am and 3:00am and the smoke wafts into my room (it is warm enough to leave one window slightly open). He's also listening to some podcast w/o earphones and also coughing a lot because of smoking the weed.