[–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I love how you can see the fingers digging into his face. I never thought about how excruciating it would be to birth someone from your forehead.... Awesome work!!

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Yes, there is a difference between staring and looking, in so far as those terms are commonly used in american english:

    From Oxford Languages via Google: Stare: look fixedly or vacantly at someone or something with one's eyes wide open Look: direct one's gaze toward someone or something or in a specified direction So "staring" means looking fixedly or vacantly. This takes "looking" to a different place because it implies your thoughts are lingering on the thing you are staring at, which in the case of cleavage would be sexually suggestive (and therefore could make someone uncomfortable). It's not too far off from catcalling in my opinion. It is much less sexually suggestive to stare at someone's shoes or a cool hat, so clearly the context of staring is important as to whether it is offensive.

    Also, you seem to have missed an important part of my earlier response:

    It is also important to think about how choices over what one wears are driven by many factors, not just a desire to have people look at you. I think many women (especially younger women) have been made to feel that they must wear revealing clothing to fit in or be cool, so it isn't really so simple as just an invitation for men to stare.

    This is why I don't think that it is accurate to say:

    So if women want to wear clothes showing off their breasts then I am quite certain they want people to look at those breasts.

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    There is a difference between looking/noticing and staring in my opinion.

    It is also important to think about how choices over what one wears are driven by many factors, not just a desire to have people look at you. I think many women (especially younger women) have been made to feel that they must wear revealing clothing to fit in or be cool, so it isn't really so simple as just an invitation for men to stare.

    As for why men should not stare, it is because the male gaze (everyone's gaze really) has power and affects people's emotions, and it is worthwhile to care about how other people feel and not do something that would make a large portion of people feel uncomfortable such as staring at someone's cleavage. Basically, it is impolite.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Try a deodorant that aims to control the population of bacteria on your armpits. Bacteria are what actually produce the chemicals that smell bad. Since switching to a scentless bacteria controlling deodorant, I still sweat but my stink is gone. Same for my partner. And it's much healthier for you in my opinion.

    Here is one such product (the one that I use):

    https://superdeodorant.com/

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It would not make a chain reaction because the nuclei of typical atoms are unlikely to split when irradiated (that is to say, hit by the pieces of the original atom that split) and will more likely ionize (have an electron knocked off) or transmute (turn into a different element by changing the number of protons).

    In nuclear weapons or reactors the uranium must be "enriched" because regular uranium atoms are too stable to sustain a fission reaction. We must have a high amount of rare uranium-235 (the easily splittable isotope) compared to U-238 (the more common stabler isotope) which is why uranium needs to be enriched. Most of the atoms in your salad are stable isotopes, so there will likely not be any cascading fission reactions even if your teeth were somehow able to trigger one (or even 1000) every single time you took a bite.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    In my opinion there may be a better option for you (unless you have a clinically bad case of extra sweat, which obviously is another thing). Try a deodorant that aims to control the population of bacteria on your armpits. Bacteria are what actually produce the chemicals that smell bad. Since switching to a scentless bacteria controlling deodorant, I still sweat but my stink is gone. Same for my partner. And it's much healthier for you in my opinion.

    https://superdeodorant.com/

    This was for real life changing for us.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'm confused - are you trying to argue that we should not try to stop the spread of hateful propaganda? Or just that it doesn't matter to have it in schools? Maybe you are trying to argue that exposing children to hateful rhetoric will not have an impact on their developing brains?

    What you are saying does not make sense to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    From my perspective it is worth pointing out because it shows how Kirk's murder was NOT a good thing, and is NOT something that should be looked back upon with glee. Rather than being the end of Charlie Kirk's vision for Turning Point, his death invigorated it and has now potentially set up an entire generation to be propagandized.

    It would have been better for the world for Kirk to have kept living and continue embarrassing himself (which he did on a daily basis) and come to a more typical end for these far right influencers - jailed/disgraced. Not to mention that noone deserves to be executed, especially without a trial.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I would personally recommend picking up some amanos if you haven't already.

    I spent loads of effort balancing my aquarium and it did eventually help some, but then adding amanos really reduced new growth of hair algae. I think they eat it when it is just starting so that it can't grow mature enough to become resistant/unpalatable to algae eaters.

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    I have been working on a design for a stand for my 20 gallon aquarium to sit on. Each side of a square is 2 inches long in my diagrams. Pocket hole joints are indicated by double arrows, while the lil box thingies are L brackets. I plan to attach the top to the legs using figure 8 brackets.

    Are there obvious ways I could improve my design? This will be my first serious woodworking project.

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