This is dope.

  • @[email protected]
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    -15 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      65 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        104 days ago

        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.

        • erin (she/her)
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          23 days ago

          On the contrary, since growing my nails out my nails have been way more clean. There is an awkward period between no nails and long nails where stuff gets caught underneath, but once you grow them out (only two weeks or so), they’re perfectly clean because there’s just more space underneath and nowhere for gunk to get caught as the angle is wider.

          my nails, for reference (sorry my power is out