[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 62 points 7 months ago

The bigger issue is that the US still alows Blinkers to be the same color as break lights. Just weird to me.

[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

Biology isn’t binary. I would stop looking for labels and just be you.

[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You got a lot of good advice already. I just wanted to add: Do not share your Apple ID with someone. Always leads tk trouble, lost data and things that people see that shouldn’t have seen it.

If they are 10, use family sharing and create a Children Account for them. All the benefits, non of the issues.

Here’s how this works: https://www.apple.com/family-sharing/

[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

And the 1 century death cult is better in what way exactly? Just wanna remind you that those modesty rules where prevalent in Christianity as well as. Maybe not always to the same degree but the church had very interesting thoughts about woman wearing pants or showing their ankles.

If you are religious, no matter the denomination, you‘d better not be poking fun at other religions for their quirks. Yours is just as silly and baseless as the others.

Also, not all muslims follow those strict rules just as very few christians would still shun you for eating shrimp or living with someone before marriage.

[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Tradition, mostly.

Dickens used Merry Christmas in his Christmas Carol and the US used the greeting since the 19th century.

In the UK however, happy christmas is more common as the royals used that phrase.

There’s apparently no big thing behind it. Just the way language evolved with different influences in different regions.

[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

I mean to be fair you could just show the Screenshot and then link the image to the tweet (or whatever it is called now…). Best of both worlds (but more work)

[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

I’m pretty sure alot of languages just imported marshmallow.

I come from the german speaking part of Switzerland and I don’t think I ever heard someone actually use the word “Mäusespeck” although it certainly would he understood I think. Everybody around me calls them marshmallows.

[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

This public „thanks for your service“ thing is so weird to me.. Here in Switzerland you have actual soldiers sitting next to imyou in the trains at the beginning and end kf the week. Most of them haven’t joined voluntarily and even the ones who did, no one would ever think about thanking them for thei service. It’s a job like any other, or a mandate for most. Same for surrounding countries who don’t have mandatory military duties.

I find it particularly weird in the US where the most common reason for someone to join the military is to pay of debt or because they pay for your education. My responds to that would be “Stop thanking me and maybe vote for people who wanna change the system so I don’t have to put my life at risk to be able to study.”

[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago

Total agree with prostitution, Drugs on the other hand are tricky. I like Portugals approach. Decriminalize it for individuals, prosecute the distributors and get those addicted help to get off of it. Seems to work quite good for them.

[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Apps have a few advantages not the least of which are Push notifications, individualised UIs, additional functionality like swipe to upvote etc. Webapps are ok, native Applications in General just have greater flexibility and access to more features of your Smartphone.

[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

The whole concept of “tough love” is nonsense and usually an excuse for child abuse. It’s of no value. Not saying this instance was abusive but it doesn’t really help either from what we know about child development.

[-] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

I’m certainly no grammar freak and English also isn’t my native language but this deives me insane… Same with your vs you’re… it’s soooo easy…

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A little parody on Gloria Gayners "I will survive" that I just had in my feed. Love it xD

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