The idea of suggesting the word “noodles” doesn’t come from a racial point-of-view. I’m using “noodles” to describe the mess of dotfiles, which is like saying “spaghetti code” for poorly written code.

I guess you can argue it has a race association as the only reason we are coming up with a new word is because the old word is racist.

Noodles - it’s a mess of dotfiles

Yes. The color of the mucus is informative for Chinese medicine. I don’t have the full details of it, but if it’s transparent, that means you are dealing with “cold” infection, and you should use herbs that are “hot”. Oppositely, yellow means “hot” infection, and you should use “cold” herbs.

If you use the wrong herbs and fail to balance it out, the infection gets worse.