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himit24 karma

this app makes it easier for women there to leave their homes without being accompanied by a male relative

This seems like a good thing in that it will soon become socially acceptable for women to be seen alone in public (as men will assume they have permission and no longer default to 'argh! Woman!'). Once that hurdle is down others should follow?

himit17 karma

There are some alarm apps which monitor your sleep and wake you up during a light cycle (e.g. You set the alarm for 630 but the app sense you shifting cycles at 6.10 so it wakes you then).

That really helped me to wake up and not feel like death.

As for the 3:30-itis, a healthy lunch, physical exercise during lunch, and cutting back on caffeine will help a lot. or, alternatively, dosing the fuck up on caffeine come 3 o'clock 😂

himit17 karma

Ooh, I'm one of those. I started off in the deep South, then moved to Yorkshire, then Texas, then London, then Australia, then Asia, and now I'm in Malta.

I always thought my London accent was the strongest but Londoners say I have a weird accent, and a friend from primary school says I always did. God knows what I sound like now.

I know I tend to fall right into it if I'm talking to someone from the places I've lived.

himit12 karma

That makes a lot of sense. The rules of the language dictate how we describe something, and those descriptions colour our perception. I suppose it's an interesting example of how language and culture are intertwined.

himit6 karma

Indochina

Isn't that Vietnam?