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  • masterspace@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 days ago

    Fair enough, this is what my parents did in high school, I just kind of feel like you shouldn’t have to appease people like that so I’m torn.

    For me in high school, in one situation we had already been sleeping over at her house with her mom’s full knowledge, so by the time we asked my parents to sleep at my house, they talked to her mom and it was pretty brief and easy.

    In the other, her parents wouldn’t let us be in a room alone together, so when we asked my parents about sleeping over and they said they would have to call, we stopped them, said forget about it, and just had a lot more day-time, risky, might-get-walked-in-on sex.

    In neither situation did the call seem particularly productive towards anyone’s goals, but on the other hand, my parents never had drama with other parents so maybe I just need to think on that more.


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    This feels somewhat toxicly parental rights to me.

    When I was in high school I had a friend who ran away from an abusive home and ended up living with another friend.

    The parent is not always right, so I have a hard time accepting that you should always side with the parent if they’re under 18.




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    Mostly agree, but don’t know if agree about talking to her parents.

    They’re 17, they’re old enough to make their own choices around whether or not they want to fuck, and whether or not you let them fuck in the comfort of a home isn’t going to stop them.

    Talking to her parents seems honorable, until you find out her parents are nut jobs who flip out when they find out she’s even talked to a boy alone.

    Though I don’t know if it’s different if you’re in the US with crazy sex laws.








  • masterspace@lemmy.catoMemes@lemmy.mlDaily dose of tech nostalgia
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    1 month ago

    Depends on the type of plastic. PLA is what I have and it’s the most commonly used materially, and it will definitely degrade in UV light.

    ASA is the most common, seriously UV resistant plastic, but it is inherently opaque (and printing it releases styrene which is toxic and requires special ventilation).

    PETG is relatively easy to print, can be printed even more transparently than PLA, and has some UV reistance, so would probably be your best bet.

    It will still eventually yellow or structurally degrade over time from sunlight though. I also suspect some of that phone case yellowing might not be UV exposure but absorbing oil from your skin.






  • I quite frankly don’t know how to put this in a completely un-critical way, but I genuinely think it’s an example of Americans’ quite frankly, overall crappy public education system, and how insular and self focused it is.

    Most other countries spend more time on world history, as opposed to their own national history for instance in school. If you only ever covered American history, and world war two up until the point that “We Won!” then you would never really cover the history of the middle east leading up to the world wars, or the rippling aftermath of what displacing the local people to create a Jewish state would look like.

    American conservatives also tend to be a group that cannot deal with any guilt or shame whatsoever, so don’t like covering any parts of history that makes them look bad, and given how lock step America has been with Israel, and some of the atrocities that Israel has committed, that results in them not talking about or criticizing Israel or Israelis, which means they don’t ever need to distinguish between Israelis at large and those who oppose the state of Israel or its ethnostate policies.


  • I live in Canada, less than 100km from the US, and it’s a pretty commonly used term. I’ve heard it come up in the beer league hockey dressing room in casual conversation multiple times.

    I first started hearing the term occasionally in high school history class, then heard it more at university in political discussion contexts, then again a ton more in the past decade or so given what’s been happening leading up to the current war.

    It is not a propaganda term, it is literally the term for people who believe that Jewish people have a right to an ethnostate around historic Jerusalem.

    This is a category of people that include some Jews, but not all Jews, and not exclusively Jews, it includes some Israelis, but not all Israelis, and not exclusively Israelis.

    Some people wear the term proudly, and some people view it as the devil incarnate, so it’s a term that can be used hatefully or non-hatefully, but it’s not specific to Lemmy.

    You’re probably seeing it be used more in general these days because people critical of Israel are trying to be specific in their choice of language and just criticize the supporters of the idea of the Israeli ethnostate rather than Jewish people more broadly (obviously anti-Semitic), or even Israelis more broadly (which sweeps up many Arab-Iseaelis and other citizens who don’t support their state), and misses the non Jewish / Israeli people who also fund and support the state of Israel for various reasons.