juliebean
@juliebean@lemm.ee
- Comment on Protip: 1 week ago:
have you considered a hand towel? they work equally well with feet.
- Comment on Protip: 1 week ago:
yeah, that was my issue at the time, my shoes had finally completely fallen apart on me and i needed a new pair for something. they fortunately let me finish my task when i explained my predicament.
- Comment on Protip: 1 week ago:
some barefooters like not washing their feet. personally, i don’t get that. if my feet are dirty when i get home, i just wash them in the sink real quick. don’t need any special tools; hands, water, a bit of soap, and maybe a washcloth will be plenty.
- Comment on Protip: 1 week ago:
ugh, i hate that woo-woo “grounding” bullshit. gives the rest of the barefooters a bad name. honestly there’s so many good reasons to go unshod without bringing in magical nonsense.
- Comment on Protip: 1 week ago:
unless you’re in a place where human shit flows freely, that is not much of a concern. stores are usually not such places.
- Comment on Protip: 1 week ago:
it is!
my understanding is the the american discrimination against bare feet and the still shockingly common ‘no shoes, no shirt, no service’ signs, started as a way to more discreetly target black folk after the civil rights act, as they were more likely to be poor enough to not have shoes. barefootedness had already had an association with poverty for quite a while at that time, and thanks to the legacy of slavery, poverty has always had an association with black people in america.
the anti-barefoot crowd gained more steam through the sixties and seventies as a reaction by conservative business owners against the hippie movement.
so basically, the US’s negative attitudes against bare feet have their roots in racism and reactionary anti-counterculture sentiments.
here’s an article about this history i found, if you wanna read more.
- Comment on Protip: 1 week ago:
i’ve been accosted and kicked out of places so many times for being barefoot: grocery stores, restaurants, a bar, book shops, even a shoe store. i’ve basically been bullied by society at this point into wearing shoes whenever i go out, despite my own preferences. it’s not illegal, basically anywhere, but you’ve been quite lucky to not have gotten any shit anyways.
- Comment on Time has to be a flat circle there is no other explanation 2 weeks ago:
you’ve been Educated Stupid
earth day is simultaneous 4 corner square days making 4-day simultaneous time cube. FLAT CIRCLE TIME is LIES against obvious truth of Time Cube Truth.
/s - Comment on OK so which is it? 3 weeks ago:
well that’s a relief.
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 3 weeks ago:
hexbear is fun and all, but i’d rather just visit. too many other places defederate from ya’ll, for reasons which are quite beyond my ken.
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 3 weeks ago:
that sounds interesting, though i can’t seem to find where to see their blocklist
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 3 weeks ago:
definitely not what i’m looking for, but thanks for the suggestion
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- Comment on Remember, kids! Unregulated capitalism is not your friend! 4 weeks ago:
except, the ground is outside in the freezing london winter, during an age with draconian ‘move along’ laws that mean you’d be hassled by cops all night. ground would be more comfortable, that’s why the coffin costs 4 pennies.
- Comment on Sleep well 4 weeks ago:
ya’ll ever hear about “Mike the Headless Chicken”? survived 18 months after a botched beheading left him his brain stem.
- Comment on Finally a map to show me 1 month ago:
that is probably because for some reason, in america, people think of DD as being enormous, when in reality american bra sizing just sucks and places seldom stock larger than that.
- Comment on i broke 1 month ago:
i mean, what did you want them to do? slice your head open and dig around manually until they find the Bad Thoughts?
- Comment on Peak evolution (after crabs) 1 month ago:
i’ve read that lobsters are sorta immortal. the problem is they keep growing, and eventually they can’t get themselves out of their shells when they molt, and they also have trouble getting enough food and avoiding predators when they get too big. if they had society, i bet lobster kings would be enormous and ancient.
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 1 month ago:
i had never heard that definition of factoid before this thread, personally, so i figured folks might appreciate a source. *shrugs*
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 2 months ago:
it’s fun, but alas, false.
- Comment on I can't see images from lemmy.world instance because my country has banned lemmy.world, is there any effort going on to solve this issue? 2 months ago:
your country banned it? that’s f-in wild. i had no idea governments anywhere gave enough of a shit about lemmy to censor it. you could try petitioning your state, or using a vpn, but i doubt there’s anything lemm.ee can do about it.
- Comment on History never repeats itself but it rhymes 2 months ago:
same for the others honestly. ‘i was just following orders’ is just what one says when you get called out for doing heinous shit so you can pass the buck to someone else in your organization.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 months ago:
i’m in my mid 30s, live in the US, and get one or two points. i am pretty sure i’ve never recorded music off the radio onto a tape. i am not sure if i’ve ever sent or received a fax. i did record songs off of the radio directly onto my first mp3 player though.
- Comment on Definitely wasn't late to work making this 2 months ago:
i’m actually curious what they think the third color is, cause, at least where i am, grocery stores almost always have green, red, yellow, and orange.
- Comment on Be honest and tell us what you see 2 months ago:
clown orgy
- Comment on When you sleep, there are no bad times. Just dreams. 3 months ago:
actually there’s this new thing they just came up with called ‘bad dreams’. it’s literally bad times, in dreams!
- Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it 3 months ago:
it’s a plant, but rather than photosynthesizing, it is what’s called a mycoheterotroph, which means it gets its nutrients by siphoning stuff from fungal networks in the soil, so, sorta?
- Comment on Never in my life has it been harder to control my spending impulse than this moment 4 months ago:
no, i didn’t, there’s a fair few communities there i’m in, and it’d be a shame to lose them.
- Comment on Never in my life has it been harder to control my spending impulse than this moment 4 months ago:
oh no! i hope they can get back up somewhere. anyone know what’s going on, if their admin is posting about this elsewhere or something?
- Comment on The Last of Us totally blew me away 4 months ago:
i really loved both games and the show so far. top notch stuff. i haven’t actually played part 2 yet, but i watched my partner play through the whole thing, which pretty much counts. idk if i’ve ever known a game that’s quite so, idk, cinematic. anyways, looking forward to whenever season 2 drops.