I mean, you can do that too if you're into it. But I'm rooting for my own team here.
Not sure about noticeability, but yes, Asian people have different earwax consistency to whiteys like me. :P
We've had standard stuff (injustices et. al), we've had edgy if understandable stuff (god/gods/religion/whatevs), so I think I'll instead go with an unhinged take that I (mostly) only say for the memes:
Dolphins. They're fucking assholes. And like. They are assholes in much the same way we humans are: They aren't thoughtless critters just following basic survival rules. They are higher-brained creatures that are intelligent enough to be capable of choosing between kindness and cruelty, and they are absolutely cruel in a lot of occasions.
Now you may be wondering "does that mean you also think humans should go", to which I say no, because I happen to be human. So of course I'm rooting for my own team. Dolphins are competition for the spot of "intelligent species that engages in cruelty" and so they gotta go.
Mechanical damage would require a major freak accident or you to be an idiot about it.
The real issue (according to my doctor, who has a lot more patience than most doctors and actually educated my stubborn ass on this) isn't just the cotton residue you mentioned (though that is very much a factor) but also the fact that for every [small unit of measurement] of wax the QTip pulls OUT, it is also pushing IN about [small unit of measurement] of it.
This can mean infections, as you mentioned. As you push foreign content AND the wax (which is itself full of trapped bacteria) closer to your sensitive bits. It can also accelerate blockages depending on the consistency of your wax. If you have that issue that your ears get wax blockage periodically, q-tips ensure it happens even faster.
Playing in a party with just casters is a fun time.
Our entire party can deal room-wiping damage in a turn or two.
Our entire party goes down in like two or three hits.
The tankiest party member is a Magus, and even he hardly pulls tank numbers.
All of us are constantly cowed by friendly fire being a constant threat.
Our party's main healer is a raging atheist and has a feat that says that if any divine healing spells are used on someone, he can't attempt surgery on them for 24 hours, much to the chagrin of our party's SECONDARY healer (though mostly a DPS) who is a divine caster.
Every combat is hectic and I love it.
Honestly?
A fidget cube.
Fidget toys got a bad rep, especially after Fidget Spinners became trendy for the younger generation.
But just having a little thing I can toy around with has been great for my pens and game controllers, as in the before times my grabby hands would fiddle with them whenever I was thinking about shit and it was bad for their durability.
For less than a dollar? (ay, currency exchange rates) Yeah, one of the best things I bought.
Oh yes. People forget that all the time.
Freud is a quack when you consider modern psychology research.
Freud was revolutionary back then because he, gods forbid, actually talked to his patients and tried to figure out what the fuck was going on instead of immediately going "Your uterus is making you do bad things, here, I'll stab into your brain with a knife and that'll make you okay"
Spell grows a pp, doesn't know what to do about the vagina. Leaves it there.
Futanari transgender Orc lady.
My computer was trash. I migrated out of necessity. It took 40 minutes to boot into Windows XP. Old-timey Lubuntu kept that computer alive for another 5 years.
When I got a real computer, I found that using Windows was unpleasant -- So when Proton started to mature, I switched back to Linux (cuz hey, vidya gaems).
... Then I became an adult and the political radicalisation began.
I'm not "obssessed" so much as I am politically motivated, so I guess I'm an evangelist in a way. If there were ten other mature open source operating systems I'd shill all of them. As it is there's Linux and BSD. So those are the ones I shill.
Generally I'll pester anyone willing to listen to get as far from Big Tech's walled gardens as their life necessities allow them.
I'm not a tech person, I think most Linux people are? Instead I'm just someone who studied basic sociology and history, and can see the kind of power that walled-garden tech can (and HAS, in recent times) give to very few people.
They know, but like all technocrats they think they can will the utopian version of their invention into existance by just saying the words "THE FUTURE" a lot.
99% of science-fiction is increasingly flowery takes on the sentence "inventing cool new shit while maintaining the same incentives that make society suck will make neo-society suck in neo ways" but these guys read sci-fi and just go "ooh, cool new shit to invent" and forget to read the rest of it.
That.
That I can accept.
I apologise, to you anyway, not to the other weirdos. This whole thread has made me deeply depressed and I lashed out at 1(one) person that didn't deserve it.
If only common artists could enjoy 1/100th of the protection megacorps get...