I like mine. I have tinnitus and its important to me to be able to dial down loud music and movies, without the sound getting muffled and unintelligible. Mine are custom molded with removable 20db etymotics filters; they came with solid filters too that you can switch when you just want to block sound and don’t care about fidelity.

Before these I had some etymotics 30$ musician’s earplugs and they never worked very well. With them in I couldn’t make out the words a singer was singing, and always felt like I was missing out on the music.

My GF has a pair of 20$ musicians plugs she likes just fine (“downbeats”), and she doesn’t feel like they ruin the sound. So maybe custom molded isn’t as important as a good filter?

For sleeping, shooting, or settings where hearing isn’t important, the foam ones are fine.

I went back to work once (programming) after a couple of beers at the bar. Turns out not a job I can do while drinking.

Good movie! Anora the stripper and the bodyguard are two sides of the same coin - competent yet powerless underlings warped by their relationship with the powerful rich.

So I guess ‘Nicole’ is a bot or something? Feeling FOMO

that looks just like me lol

Make a drain hole at the bottom of a lake, that comes out above it. Put in a water wheel, free energy.

Its talking about spiderman’s secret identity