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It’s an interesting glimpse into the future of batteries, because there are exactly the same incentives involved with batteries and modern razors:

The GGP poster has never in their life ever seen the traditional interchangeable standard double blades and razor, can’t even conceive that it was and is an option.

Many people in the future will never in their life ever see interchangeable AA/AAA/C/D cells, and won’t be able to conceive it was and is an option.

I don’t have the Henson razor so I can’t directly compare, but I do have a Rockwell, and also a stubby Mekur. Someone gave me the Rockwell as a gift thinking safety razors somehow wear out, so I have two.

So I took a close look at the Henson website with the product photos, and today before shaving I took a close look at both the Rockwell and Mekur, and also used the Mekur for the first time in years just because of this.

As far as I can tell, every thing about all these safety razors is very similar. There’s no huge innovation going on in this area, and while I don’t know if other safety razors are built super crappy, at least the two I have are still good: Mekur still works the same after 20 years and Rockwell close to 10.

Comparing photos to the Rockwell, it looks almost the exact same: it screws down the same, holds the blade with the two side holes plus centre screw, curves the blade the same way, open channels on the back to flush hair out easily, etc. Rockwell even has a bonus compared to Henson: the plate you can flip over to go from 3 (30% angle?) to 1 (10% angle?) while the Henson is fixed.

Comparing the Mekur to the Rockwell (and at this point I’m assuming Henson), you can feel more of what the blade is doing with the Mekur, I think it has to do with the lighter weight. The Rockwell shaves a bit smoother over the skin, but this gives slightly more irritation after the shave - but not much. I can tell the angle of the Rockwell on 3 is more aggressive and shaves closer, but I’m fine with it and have never bothered to try on 1 and as said haven’t used the Mekur in a while either.

Anyway I have a gut feeling that Henson has advertised more, or more recently, based on other comments saying they saw it on YouTube, so I think that whatever high quality safety razor of the day/year/decade will be what most get, and what you will most likely hear about, even though there is nothing really new or better for a while now.

Interesting thought: the Mekur may be the better “safety” razor design just because you open and close it from the end of the handle, vs having to hold the head with your fingers near the blade to screw it down when changing blades on Henson and Rockwell.

Also, it’s interesting that both Henson and Rockwell are both Canadian.

I did some digging around in an old jailbroken iPhone (iOS 12) to try to figure out how to stop broadcast alerts from the cell towers and there is a database on the device itself with various parameters from cell carriers around the world. So there are least some settings that are “hard-coded” in each OS release which don’t have to be sent from the carrier - the iPhone will do X based on the SIM in the phone or the network it’s roaming on.

Not sure if tethering is one of the parameters , but there were quite a few.

Some people do, based on what I hear from my parents. It could be that seniors have more free time and are more astounded by higher food prices that the spend their time shopping at multiple supermarkets to get everything they want at low(er) cost.

Of course the time it takes to do this makes it all but impossible to actually save money, so it has to be a small portion of their customers.

I have heard that only something like 10% of customers actually give a shit about prices at all, and it is them who keep the prices in check for everyone else. i.e. with razor margins, the retailers can’t afford to lose that 10% customer base

There was a website a few years back that posted the prices of Brewers Retail (aka The Beer Store, single buyer of beer in Ontario) in a nicer, spreadsheet like format where you could sort by total price, price per mL, price per case size, etc etc (can’t recall the name of it at the moment). It was great. And transparent, and just data.

And were shut down by a threat of a lawsuit. Apparently you can’t do that in Canada. They had some stupid fine print that said the data was theirs and you can’t use it.

And I seem to recall similar fine print in grocery flyers.

This is the most laughable part, it means Costco has to be in on it too. And I can show they’re not, easily: the prices at Costco are more than the grocery chains!

They are colluding... to keep prices low

Best offer your $64 and see if you get it. My bet is no and the eBay seller knows a bit more about what it’s worth

Same AirPods, after a couple years the left one’s speaker sounds like it’s blown: any louder sounds played have a crackle and if I turn on the NC just brushing it with a finger makes it crackle like crazy.

And this is why I will never buy a pomegranate. I can get eight oranges instead

He does make detailed posts on where he got his information^ and as a Canadian who saw it live on YouTube (and not the CBC), and knows multiple Canadians who where there in the freezing cold (and not truckers either, the majority of protesters weren’t), calling it terrorizing is laughable. The one place in the entire country that deserves it, got it.

^ https://world.hey.com/dhh/go-truck-yourself-a14306d9

There is another brand that works like you want it to, Breville smart toaster. It generally gets the toast to a consistent toastiness, but if you want a bit more you just twist one of the two wheels on it

A lot of us wouldn’t even be here to have health without alcohol; it helped build our civilization.

I wonder if news is worse for your health than red wine too.

I actually loled when I went to CNN with Little Snitch on, there were over one hundred different third-party domains it wanted to connect to

Mac users can get a very nice front end to mpv with https://iina.io

Bonus trivia: Plex Media Player uses mpv as the video player

Re getting old, 90s teenager here as well. I remember being able to get two high-quality footlong sandwiches plus sub stamps (member those? ) for a bonus 10% for about an hour’s work at “crappy” minimum wages. Now? Maybe one lousy quality sandwich.

You got a lot more working crappy jobs back then vs working crappy jobs now.

And then you have the people who say that language changes based on usage. Get enough people calling it property, theft, stealing, irregardless, etc. and then you can change the dictionary.

I thought it was, they would have to have some sort of evidence of your name, dob, ssn, blood type, etc. But in the end it was just your information used fraudulently; you the person did not authorize the loan and therefore it really isn’t your loan.

I never really understood why the onus is on any person to prove they didn’t do something. Shouldn’t the shaggy defence be sufficient?

e.g. You get hauled into court for a lawsuit demanding the loan repayment, for a loan someone else used your name to get?

- It wasn’t me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_defense

iPhone has this accessibility feature ‘Reachability’ that can help. On the SE you double tap (but not click) the home button, I think on others you swipe up and down quickly from the bottom centre.

If it was a financial transaction between two people, then Apple couldn’t possibly take any cut of it.

Yeah I was bored and checked - in the opening dream sequence there is blue sky and clouds, when they go to Miller’s planet it is overcast and grey skies.

Oh I see what you mean now. I guess I’m in the old-school scene release download it yourself pirate mindset, preserving the best possible original release of the work in the best format available. But I forgot all about those reuploads to video hosting sites and even YouTube which kind of makes sense now.

Are you implying that some pirate release out there took the time to actually edit the film to change the opening scene?

I thought about it but it’s not really an option if you need certain apps / push notifications. If the options are Android without google play services vs iPhone, the realistic option is iPhone.

Did not work for me with an old Nexus 4. This is a bad idea, but everyone gets to find out for themselves if they do it

Funny you mentioned the Czech Republic: there is a concerted effort by their hockey federation to be called Czechia and we’re getting blasted with it by Bell Media in Canada for the past few years

But Kodi is available for the fire stick while you have to jump some hoops with third party signing services to keep it on Apple TV.

It’s certainly better in other ways but this thread doesn’t follow

There was a similar scenario in the recent film Leave the World Behind

Imho this is going to be the killer app for Vision headset type devices when they get cheap and available: An AI powered uBlock Origin that can recognize logos and advertising and blank them out.

I use HACK on iOS and I didn’t even know there was a version for Android.

It really is a more streamlined interface to HN comments, but I was used to it by using 3rd party apps on Reddit 100% of the time.