• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Little homies up in there cleaning things and living their best lives. I ain’t mad at that.

    Besides, all the yeast and bacteria maken good company for them, so it’s all good.

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      1 month ago

      Just make sure you wash your face still, otherwise they build up and cause problems

  • perishthethought@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex

    My fave parts (edited for brevity):

    The adult mites are 0.3–0.4 mm (3⁄256–1⁄64 in) long. Each has a semitransparent, elongated body that consists of two fused parts. Eight short, segmented legs are attached to the first body segment. The body is covered with scales for anchoring itself in the hair follicle, and the mite has pin-like mouthparts for eating skin cells and oils that accumulate in the hair follicles.

    … and …

    The mites are transferred between hosts through contact with hair, eyebrows, and the sebaceous glands of the face.

    Ohhh good.

    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz
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      1 month ago

      This is why it’s okay to make out with randos at parties and such. You get mono for 6 months plus accretion of zillions of new friends.

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      1 month ago

      Wait, 0.3mm is huge, you should be able to see that. I don’t think this is right.

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        Agreed. 1/64th of an inch is .016". An average human hair is .003" in diameter, that would be as long as five hairs wide. You wouldn’t even need a magnifier to see the largest ones.

    • Classy@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      3⁄256

      Please don’t let the Amish at my work know that such small increments of size exist. They’ll ask me to cut my trim to that level of tolerance

  • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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    Found out about these when I was a kid. I was thrilled. When I was very little, my mom owned a grooming shop, and I basically had 1 million pets. Then she closed down, and we just had our dog and a cat. Weird little 5 year old me loved the idea that I had thousands of little pets that’s slept on my face and came out to play while I slept

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        1 month ago

        I will admit that since I’ve started wearing glasses, my eyes often burn really badly (I don’t know if they’re related or just weird timing), and I sometimes wonder if my little friends are pissed about the change and getting into my eyes. Lol

        • Juniper (she/her) 🫐@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          You may be allergic to the metal (IIRC nickel) in normal metal glasses if that’s what you have. For people with that, which is common, titanium is the only metal kind that will work.

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            That’s interesting. I hadn’t really considered that. It really only happens towards the end of the day, I just assumed it was a buildup of oils/skin cells/daily detritus that isn’t getting either blown away by air, because the lenses are blocking it, or dried out for the same reason. They’re Zenni frames and lenses

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              Do you wear a belt? Do you develop a rash on your underbelly where it touches the buckle?

              Can you guess how I learned I was allergic to nickel?

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          I figure you’d also have a rash if it was a sensitivity strong enough to make your eyes burn, but the only other things I could think of I feel you’d already have figured out… Not blinking enough cause no wind on your eyes to help trigger blinking, eyelashes getting in your eye, or eye fatigue from the correction and not taking breaks to look at something far away…

          • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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            1 month ago

            I wonder if the lenses are off gassing? They’re a type of plastic. But most likely I think I just have a face that the US would try to deliver democracy to if they found out about lmao

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      1 month ago

      You into throwback ad hominem politics or just general misogyny? Why not both? Check out… I won’t even say the name. Fuck you.