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Comment · 2 years ago
I think that's what I tried to express, just with less words and more clumsily.

Fellow women should feel encouraged to reject this pressure.

Comment · 2 years ago
The pure fact that there is an asymmetry between men and women w.r.t. makeup renders your argument void.
Comment · 2 years ago
If guys do that to adhere to societal norms, then thats equally sad.
Comment · 2 years ago
There are parts of my body which, if not cleaned daily, will stink uncomfortably. Harvard webpage or not.

I'd equate perfuming it over to make-up, not showering..

It's also quite sad that a statement "we should put less make-up on" is immediately drifting into a discussion about not showering. Way to ridicule a viewpoint.

Comment · 2 years ago
Guys who equate stopping to spend 30+ minutes a day painting your face with stopping to shower are part of the problem.

It's exactly those unnatural expectations of looks that are put on women, starting at a really young age, that are the issue here. Not boys, just girls. It skews expectations and boom, everybody feels like they have to do it. It's very sad. I'm not saying don't shower, don't cut or even brush your hair, etc. All fine. But the full-on makeup you see walking through a random city in the morning, geez, what are we doing to ourselves. And what are the guys doing? Nothing close to it, but spend a lot of time justifying it.

Comment · 2 years ago
ICE from Hamburg to Munich is about 5 hours. That's basically the other end of the country. Not sure where 9 hours come from.

And your 2 hour flight easily goes to 4-5 hours if you add the security theatre and the extra overhead that transport to/from the airport entails. They are far outside the city whereas central stations are usually in the city center.

Comment · 2 years ago
But when it's inaccurate then it's usualy blatantly obvious. For example if you are out on an easy jog and it shows 188 bpm then that's your cadence, not your heart, unless something is going down really badly and then you don't need the watch to tell you that.

It's not like it will show 147 when the actual value is 134.

Comment · 2 years ago
I wouldn't call a 7 minutes delay "terrible".
Comment · 2 years ago
Congrats, now you just need to be on board when tax money is used for that infra. I bet that latest there your opposition starts.
Comment · 2 years ago
There is a big reporting bias though. You won't see in the news "of the 40,000 railway connections today, most were on time". You only read about some train having had an AC issue or the like.

I have family in Germany and they never go by train but tell me regularly about how bad the train has become. They have literally not been in one for 15+ years. But they watch the news every day.

Comment · 2 years ago
Airtravel is also subsidised by the German tax payer. Much more than the 49 EUR ticket. No matter if you are a tourist or not. (Arguably mostly for tourists actually.)
Comment · 2 years ago
It's a cultural difference. As a foreigner, the American way of exaggerating everything has always amazed me. They don't even notice themselves, so expect more of these "what's odd about it?" reactions.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's a work of fiction. If you were entertained, how does it matter whether it was a human or a machine who wrote it? And does the degree matter?
Comment · 2 years ago
So if an Airbnb host steals your laptop, Airbnb should be responsible?

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