I bit my nails my whole life. One day I tasted lime. I hadn't eaten anything with lime for 3 days. I had wiped my ass maybe 10 minutes prior. That experience yucked me out of biting for good. Been over 2 years now since I've so much as nibbled.
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If we weren't addicted to scrolling social media and were esthetically blind, most of us wouldn't immediately realize it if we were transported back in time.
I don't know about that. We didn't even have a public radio station in the US until 1920. Television didn't come around until 1925. Frozen food in 1929.
The simple act of driving to the store to get shopping done for dinner would be quite different.
This just makes me sad because until today my only association with Baraboo was whimsical childhood memories of the circus there.
I find this opinion hard to reconcile with Lemmy users' general stance that Reddit/Google are in the wrong for using comments to train AI without asking permission.
That's interesting, do you happen to have a source? I'm coming up empty.
Good for him, glad he's found what makes him happy and that he has the freedom to do it.
I mean, whether they are natural or not shouldn't matter. The "shallow decision making and poor choices" are just as accessible to a leftist woman. It feels kind of yucky to be setting standards for how you think it is acceptable for women to present themselves, regardless of whether they are on the same side of the political aisle.
"We can shame women for how they choose to present themselves as long as they disagree with us about Palestine" is a weird take when you examine it for what it is.
I don't know, there's nothing morally wrong with her makeup and face. If she happened to be a leftist but otherwise looked the same, I doubt we'd be rushing to the comments to mock her style. This is alienating to women who are like minded to us but have a similar sense of fashion to Boebert.
Hitler's mustache is now so closely associated with nazis and fascism that we would rightly mock anyone who unironically kept their facial hair that way. Lauren Boebert's eyebrows don't feel like they deserve the same treatment, since it is very normal for many women with leftist values to keep up their appearance in a similar way. The eyebrows are not the problem; her beliefs are.
We both think that she's an idiot. Why does she have to look stupid? If some right wingers were talking about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this way we would find that repugnant.
Respectfully, I think there are plenty of legitimate criticisms we can make without resorting to making fun of her appearance.
Edit for clarity:
Imagine if you were a woman who disagreed wholeheartedly with Lauren Boebert, and found her a wretched human being, but happened to look a lot like her. Then you see others who think like you do attacking her appearance.
Why would we create an environment that alienates people on anything other than ideological or moral grounds? The only people our criticisms should repel are people with dangerous ideologies that we don't want to be associated with.
Hollow Knight and Celeste are the two that come to mind for me.