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In the recent years there’s been a boom in kids using skin care - often products though that aren’t meant for them. And with kids I mean pre-teens. Some have even become influencers themselves.

However, there’s also been a rise in reports in kids damaging their skin by using these products in the first place or using them wrongly (vitamin A and AHA are amazing but they are very tricky to handle and can easily lead to chemical burns / retinol burns …).

I don’t think there’s any good reason to let kids handle those on their own. And stuff like retinol is starting to get regulated for “everyone” anyway.

I had the same issue but switching to reader view “fixed it“ :)

The nice thing about those standards is that you can choose which one you want to use.

The website works fine for me - searching e.g. Céline shows 126 products.

Question out of curiosity: I’m German so I don’t know the US law that well but don’t you for example have laws that forbid being noisy after a certain hour of the day?

If my neighbours were throwing a loud party past 10pm I could simply call the police/ Ordnungsamt (police light) and they’d tell them to quiet down.

AFAIK Jennifer Lawrence doesn’t have any public social media accounts either.

“While nearly all such publi- cations detail their system’s impressive scalability, few directly evaluate their absolute performance against reasonable benchmarks. To what degree are these systems truly improving performance, as opposed to parallelizing overheads that they themselves introduce?”

That’s one of the things that stuck with me after haven taken a class in high performance computing. What matters is the absolute performance, less the speed up one achieves by parallelisation.

Kleidermacher is in my understanding the (current) male version which was historically the gender/ sex inclusive word. Interestingly Bäcker (the male term) used to be inclusive too (a long time ago) because the ending -er simply implied that there‘s a person who does something. For Bäcker that means that that’s someone who bakes.

Because it works seamlessly on all of my devices and has done so for years. Never encountered any issues and syncing happens within seconds.

I’d like to add that this also sometimes goes along with either being in denial of having experienced trauma or convincing oneself that the experience “was not that bad after all”.

To chime in here and elaborate a bit further:

Generally we have 2 “traditional” choices for menstruation products: tampons and sanitary pads. Reusable options for both are the menstruation cups (as already mentioned) and washable thus reusable sanitary pads. As far as I know there are also reusable tampons but I don’t know anyone who uses them and they aren’t that widespread.

Menstruation cups are - especially when starting to use them - a bit messy. One has to empty them when they are full and ideally you should at least rinse it after every use. This is a bit uncomfortable and bloody in public bathrooms. Secondly, finding the correct size can be quite tricky especially since the cups are a bit more pricey. Thirdly, when a woman gets an IUD doctors generally recommend against using cups in the first few weeks/ months after insertion. And lastly, they’re simply not comfortable to wear for everyone.

Reusable sanitary pads are a bit different but in my experience don’t replace the traditional pads. Particularly during heavy flow days those simply don’t have the capacity to “catch everything”. Further, if you have to change the pad in public you will have to carry around the used one.

So yes, I agree with you, there are simpler ways to start taking care of one’s rubbish production :)