Instead of clear glass you should use a dark tinted glass, like the kind beer bottles are made from.

The dark glass minimises the amount of light hitting the water - reducing the algae growth.

I have a lot of Devils Ivy cutting growing in brown glass bottles, never had an issue with algae; clear glass though has been an issue.

Mine shows up fine too.

I waited for the 14 release to see what colours they’d have. Wasn’t into hem, so settled for a 13PM in green. I love it.

Again, I feel like you’re being deliberately ignorant to what is being proposed.

No, advertising unhealthy food and fast cars wouldn’t be seen as encouraging self-harm.

Assisted suicide is not self-harm. That’s assisted dying at the choice of the person. Now if you were sitting there actively encouraging a person to kill themselves who has previously expressed no desire to di by assisted suicide then that could be seen as encouraging self-harm.

The law is often nuisances in the way it is applied. A judge often looks at a scenario and asks “would a reasonable person think advertising McDonalds is encouraging self-harm?”

In the case of this proposed law, it is clearly targeted at bullying and people who encourage others to harm themselves and to take their own life. In many cases when a child takes their own life it often because of a single group of people at school who are making their lives absolute hell.

My niece has a very happy and healthy home life but for a 6 month period a few years ago she was being tormented by a group of girls at her school. It was a relentless and never-ending stream of abuse 24 hours a day.

She would often be in tears at dinner because of the things these awful girls would say. I saw some of the messages she would receive on Instagram or Snapchat. Things like “you’re a disgusting pig. Nobody will ever love you. I don’t know why your parents didn’t abort you. You should abort yourself now” and “everybody at school hates you. You’re so dumb you should be in the slow class. You don’t even count as person” having shit like that constantly thrown at you will wear any person down over time. These girls were the only source of discontent in my nieces life.

My niece had, on more than one occasion, through heavy tears and discomfort expressed a desire to die to my sister and brother-in-law. Thankfully she didn’t go through with it and is much happy now that school is finished. But had she killed herself I would want those shitty girls to be held accountable for the words they said.

So yes, one person or a group of people can be the primary and only source of antagonism in a persons life. Plenty of kids with happy home lives kill themselves because of external pressures.

>> Is self-harm a criminal act? Can you be punished for self-harm?

No, it isn’t and you wouldn’t be punished for harming yourself. I feel like you’re being deliberately ignorant to what is being proposed.

The law isn’t looking to criminalise self-harm - it’s looking to eliminate encouragement of self-harm.

If you torment someone for such a length of time and continuously tell them to kill themselves there is (very likely) going to be a point that they break and try to kill themselves. Providing them with images of self-harm is further encouragement.

If you’re the primary source of antagonism in that persons life then you should be held accountable.

You encouraging someone to smoke is not the same as encouraging someone to kill themselves. One cigarette isn’t going to kill a person (immediately) but one attempt at suicide very well could.

I think a single angry “fuck you, go kill yourself” because someone killed you in COD would be treated differently to a consistent, targeted attack of “you’re worthless, nobody would miss you, go kill yourself”

The law isn’t black and white. There are nuances that would be considered when prosecuting a case.

Given this is a law for the UK I would expect it to be more sensibly applied than the typically heavy handed approach of US laws

Interesting. I wonder how much a persons personal biology plays into the degradation of ink in conjunction with external environmental factors.

>> The raised itchy lines are very common though. I don’t know if anyone with significant coverage that doesn’t have the issue.

I’m like a 30% covered and have been fortunate enough to have no raised skin reaction to any of my tattoos.

My partner though - has one tattoo and it looks like it’s all scar tissue.

As someone who has fair skin and many tattoos I can confirm sun exposure contributes to tattoo degredation.

I have a black tattoo around my wrist, around 13 years old, and it has turned a kind of blue-black colour. I’d say my wrist is frequently exposed to sunlight and the most commonly missed part of my body when applying sunscreen. All of my other black tattoos have remained black over the years. They’re in locations which are either covered by clothing or protected by sunscreen.

I also live in Australia - the sun is pretty intense here.