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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

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

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.