I've got to assume from the context you mean 'high-heeled shoes'?

We use words like sneakers, shorts, wonderbra, jeans, hoodie,... often there is no Dutch alternative even.

Some people vastly over compensate and that’s really no fun either.

I'm not wearing a Red Hat, but I am running one.

Which reminds me of a prank I pulled a few years ago. I was working at a startup that had been acquired by a BigCo. (Alas, I joined after the acquisition.)

One of the founders decided to put his newfound wealth to a good purpose: fighting white supremacy. This was during the pandemic, so we had a going-away party on Zoom and shared little video tributes to him.

When it was my turn, I told him, "I want you to know exactly how I feel about your new project. I didn't have time to order an embroidered hat, so I mocked it up with my printer and an old baseball cap. It's a MAKA hat."

I deliberately slurred the pronunciation so it almost sounded like that other acronym.

I held up the hat with my finger covering the spot where "Great" would be, and put it on my head. And then I moved my hand away for the reveal.

The word was "Kind": Make America Kind Again.

Everyone loved it!

If I were a girl I wouldn't wear them I'm sure.

I'm sure this product works just as well for anyone who does like having long nails, whatever their reasons and regardless of sex, but it sounds like you and I simply aren't the target customer.

I asked my female identifying friends and most of them said that they don't like to wear them but they think they look good so they do it anyway :) And one said she loves them because she can sharpen them so she can scratch people (she's a dominatrix :). So yeah, reasons can vary.

I was annoyed once when I stumbled upon an advice column named "Ask a Chinese Girl", and someone had written in asking what that one long nail was about, and the official answer was "What? That sounds dirty, it's definitely not something Chinese people would do."

You can easily observe that they do do it by walking around outside. So weak support, I guess, for the drugs theory, but I still tend to suspect it's a cultural thing.

Anyone know?

> 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.

Sounds like it was made for MBP with a second gen Touch Bar after they brought back the Esc key

Long nails have more serious problems.

Is that a new record? Anyone know a site that's in 4 digits yet?

If you look into the cookie settings, they claim that 517 partners need access to the "strictly necessary cookies". I suspect that their idea of "strictly necessary cookies" might not actually hold up in court.

People are wonderful beings with an infinite individual variety, one cannot claim to truly understand it.

People aren’t creating these problems for themselves, society is. Think of it this way, you might have decided that you want to focus your carriers on Rust, but your workplace has put you on a task that requires C++, and you can whine and complain all you want, but that’s the requirement. Then you dig in, get the job done post a smart solution you made to make work on HN, and the first post is a Rust programmer calling you out for choosing C++ and making life difficult for yourself.

And sure, you could just quit your job, but that’s a high consequence move. So to act like you chose this all on your own in a vacuum is just insulting.

I too cannot fathom what goes on in many people's heads and do not claim to truly understand them, but so far it's not been because they've created problems for themselves out of thin air and insisted on keeping these problems as pets.

Yes, I refer to a more general situation. It seems to me, that the author of the article explains her choice as a way to try products and to write reviews that would be useful for people with long manicured nails. I can accept this explanation and to understand that. But it means that there are other people who choose long nails for other reasons, aren't they?

Let people have long nails if they want.

This seems like a fine niche product if it works and is comfortable.

Broadly, yes. But in this case, she explained the decision tree pretty clearly.

But I can say I felt the decision tree explanation in the article was unconvincing. Reviewers need long nails because photos? Because to some demographic long nails "look better". (Personally I think long nails look bad, but that's maybe just me.)

I felt like the author like long nails. They're clearly invested in long nails. That should be enough to like or dislike the product. They should have to justify their desire for long nails. (Justifing it suggests they know it has disadvantages.)

I concur that conforming to beauty standards in a world that both presents them as standards, then designs away from those standards consumes more energy than I have to expend.

(I break mine off short but I've destroyed the keycaps of the home keys and space bar on every keyboard i own. Rowing is better in short nails you need to be hands together enough in the return to catch you cut your hand on a long thumbnail)

I frequently have long nails because I don't like clipping them. I once had a girl complain to me that she couldn't get her nails to grow as long, if she tried, as I grew mine through neglect.

Typing barely registers. The only difference is that you get more clicking sounds than otherwise. The most annoying thing, by far, is that you need to approach a phone touchscreen with the side of your finger instead of the tip. The second most annoying thing is that sometimes something goes wrong and a part of the environment will encounter and tear or break your nail.

For those caught in between :

https://www.tiktok.com/@glamnetic/video/6946266618020318469?...

Run away. Far away.