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That moment when your relatives or family friends gift you Russian chocolate candy like it's a special treat but you just really don't want to put it in your mouth

As someone without a car but with a child let me tell you, cars significantly reduce our living standard.

Most places we go I need to constantly tell my toddler not to walk too much to the left or right or run or slow down, I have to control her like a slave, or suppress her emerging wish for independence by holding her by the hand all the time, or even worse, put her in a stroller. Hell there are so many cars parked here (even on corners) that I often cannot leave the sidewalk safely with a stroller or cross the street safely (so that I would see a coming car or a coming car would see me).

I'd happily be less of a "germophobe" and have my kid run around with dirty hands, pick up dirt, etc. But car dirt is definitely not the "healthy dirt" so no, no dirt for you. Don't touch, don't play.

I want my child to grow up in a city that embraces her existence. I want her to feel like a welcomed member of society. But instead I have to keep telling her so many negative things, this is dangerous, don't go there, don't do this. She still loves being downtown and prefers this often to the playground or nature (which we try to encourage). She loves the tram and trains. But there are so many restrictions of free movement it breaks my heart.

And I am in a privileged position living in a German city. I can't even begin to imagine how devastating it would be in an even more car centric society.

Nono, the radical left invented transism just a couple of years ago, what are you talking about smh

For just about all former soviet states, the N word is the term used to describe black people, because the word imported from Europe to describe Africans. It doesn't have the connotations or baggage that westerners attach to it. Diddo for blackface and sambo imagery, it's usually used more out of ignorance than malice.

Oh dear God, let me tell you, I feel my bones tickling when I read this. All these flashbacks of my parents meeting other Russian people and, all of the sudden, casually dropping the n word in conversations in public and me just freezing and praying no one overheard them. I mean it was with no mean intent (as you wrote, more like ignorance paired with custom) but if someone heard them, then they didn't understand the context and only heard them say n*ger.

Just to be clear, I brought the toddler, they didn't provide the toddler

For real, fuck ICE. My fully booked evening train got cancelled after we had already boarded, the next two that day were fully booked as well, I had to find an airbnb with a toddler and travel the next day, and they replaced just half of the ticket price because I cOuLD HaVe tAKeN AnOtHer TrAiN

On the other hand their child merch is cute af

The funny thing is as long as you have a small kid with you - doesn't even have to be a baby, just stroller-age - you can bring anything. I'm not even talking about a sealed bottle of water - which, to me, would kind of make sense with the regulations - but all of the sudden your normal 500ml bottle with water, juice, or whatever, is fine. A thermo can with boiling hot water inside? Sure, no problem.

That's an interesting take, wanna tell me more? (I'm sick right now and my brain cells don't function well enough to think for myself but that's unironically an interesting take)

Plus, it's middle school. These kids don't really have themselves figured out yet, so constantly parroting popular memes can gain them some acceptance from their peers.

Oh crap by the time our daughter is in middle school these will be boomer memes

Some kids are already "terminally online".

I say my kid is speaking Meme. It sounds a bit nicer than terminally online. But then again she's 2 and that's her third language. I'm just not so sure I can call it English when she mostly says It Is Wednesday My Dudes, Yeah Boiiii or It's the Selcuk Turks.

I agree so much with this. Vegans are right, period. It doesn't matter whether they mind their own business or are annoying about it. It doesn't matter whether they are preachy because they preach the obviously right thing. They are right.

I'm also not a vegan and I know that I am a hypocrite every time I eat meat or have milk. I would never defend my non-vegan choices. There is absolutely no good reason for me to have steak or milk or eggs. Not in this place and time when alternatives are available everywhere.

Du kannst darauf achten, dass sie bestimmte filter nicht enthält. Dass uva und uvb abgedeckt sind. Es gibt hinweise darauf, dass zinkoxid - ein wundervoller physikalischer filter - sich nicht mit chemischen filtern verträgt, aber auch titandioxid steht mittlerweile in kritik. Beides gibt es auch als potentiell die hautbarriere durchdringende nano variante, die dafür keinen so weißen schatten hinterlässt. Chemische filter gibts es sehr viele, sie sind meistens eher auf bestimmte spektrennbegrenzt, weshalb du mehrere filter brauchst, um einen breiten schutz zu gewährleisten. Die in kritik stehenden filter werden eigentlich sehr schnell vom hersteller vom markt genommen (octocrylene). Du musst dir also bei den gängigen drogeriemarken keine sorgen machen. Coral reef friendly und mikroplastikfrei wäre natürlich auch schön.

An sich ist eine reine zinkoxid sonnencreme - die übrigens sowohl uva als auch uvb ideal abdeckt - ökologisch die beste wahl, für sensible/zu allergien neigende haut geeignet, und erscheint mir auch am logischsten - anstatt dass du die photonen über hitze ableitest, lässt ein physikalischer filter wie ein minispiegel das licht einfach abprallen.

Großes aber: die beste wahl ist immer die sonnencreme, die du auch verwendest, und zwar regelmäßig und in großen mengen, die wirklich schutz garantieren. Ich habe mich durch viele zinkcremes durchprobiert und da einfach irgendwann aufgegeben. Es gab ganz gute koreanische, die ich nicht mehr finden kann und die auch viel kosten (30-50€ für 50 ml sind normal. Das kann man sich nur fürs Gesicht leisten). Die in Deutschland sind echt auch ok, aber für mich mit Makeup und mit einem Kleinkind, dass Eincremen hasst und dann dabei oder beim Tränen die Creme im Auge hat, einfach nicht praktikabel. Meistens sind sie sehr hart zu verreiben. Oder super fettig. Daher sind wir mittlerweile zurück zur chemischen. Die sind mit 2-6€/200 ml auch deutlich erschwinglicher. Und dann darf auch gekleckst und nicht gegeizt werden.