This is dope.

81 points

Jesus these comments scream basement dweller. You don’t have to like what someone does with their own body to accept it. It doesn’t hurt you so don’t worry about it. God forbid people have some self expression

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It doesn’t hurt you so don’t worry about it

Eh, not so sure. Beauty standards propagate, and pressure to conform to those standards is real.
That’s just how fashion works. In this case fashion requires disabling a functional part of your body. It’s at least a bit icky.

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It’s not though. It’s got advantages, but typing isn’t one of them. I can open stuff peel based way better etc.

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I really only need like 2 or 3 mm of extra nail on one thumb to open oranges and grapefruits perfectly fine. Anything longer than that and it becomes unwieldy and unhygienic.

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God forbid people have some self expression

They do indeed forbid it.

10 "If you go to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your control, you may take some prisoners captive. 11 If you see among the prisoners a beautiful woman and you desire her, then you may take her as your wife. 12 Bring her to your house, but shave her head and trim her nails

Deuteronomy 21

Oh man, religions are batshit crazy.

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if the LORD your God delivers them into your control

AKA feel free to murder someone then fuck their wife (assuming you’re Jewish, of course)

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Great job insulting people for having a differing opinion.

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I accept that people sometimes keep their nails long. That acceptance comes with a caveat that I will not be eating anything handled by hands with long nails.

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I’ll snort the blow off their nail, though. I’m not a hater.

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❤️

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A solution to a self inflicted problem.

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Ergonomic chairs are also a solution to an often self-inflicted problem. Mainly doing all kinds of things to your body when you’re young that you don’t realize you’ll regret when you’re older.

Are ergonomic chairs a bad thing?

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Man, I wish I could just trim my bursitis.

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And? Nearly everything is a self inflicted problem. You could just lay down and stop bothering, so why don’t you do that?

Do I like long nails? Hell no. Does it affect me if somebody buys this keyboard to type and have long nails? Also hell no.

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There actually is an easier solution for this kind of problem: Nail clippers.

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exactly. the only kind of self expression anyone needs is going on lemmy and making smug comments.

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as someone, who could have been a professional classical guitar player, I am insulted.

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?

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(Classic guitar players have long nails)

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Someone didn’t read the article. She addresses exactly this.

I can already hear the trolls making jokes about women being concerned about breaking a nail. If it’s so inconvenient, why not just have short nails? Well, I’m not out here wearing long nails for fun. Being a reviewer often means acting as a part-time hand model for whatever gadget I’m testing. The Internet Nail Police has repeatedly shown up in my comments over the years if my polish is chipped or, god forbid, there’s a smudge of dirt under my natural nail.

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Someone didn’t read the article. She addresses exactly this.

I read the article. It still is the better solution.

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You can’t have a solution if you ignore half of the problem statement. It’s completely unhelpful.

Problem: I want to be able to type better while having long nails.

Your solution: Don’t have long nails.

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Typing with long nails is the embodiment of “beauty is pain.”

The pain is real, but the beauty is subjective.

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To me long nails are ick

The longer the more ick

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I will never forget when I had to help a coworker with her laptop, she had long nails that had worn grooves in her keyboard keys.

She typed on her nails, the sound it made was terrible.

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Ew. Most people I’ve seen w/ long nails type with the pads of their fingers, with absolutely terrible typing posture.

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It’ was a status thing. Those with manual labor jobs usually can’t have long nails, so long nails means they’re above manual labor. So the rich in the past did that, and now everybody wants to do that so and it becomes a beauty thing.

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Everybody definitely doesn’t.

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it’s all in the article, with a paragraph dedicated to you. and it’s free to read!

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