I found a gif that visualizes it pretty decently. You twist the bottom of the handle and the top butterflies open so you can put a blade in.
Mine also has another part you can twist at the top of the handle that adjusts the distance of the blade from the razor body to determine shaving “depth”.
I also have a Leaf razor handle with some single edge blades. The $5 pack of 100 Derby blades also fit my unbranded straight razor I got for like $15 20 years ago. They both work really well for specific things so long as that specific thing isn’t getting through airport security.
My grandfather was a barber and he gave me one of his 1960s era Gillette Safety razors. It’s a pretty cool mechanism on how you load and adjust the razor.
Form community and work to assist that community. Thinking every individual has to provide for themselves and their family is a libertarian fantasy that depends on having money to spend at a nonexistent store on nonexistent bags of seed to grow with well water you excavated by hand that you will defend with a gun you load with nonexistent ammunition bought at that same nonexistent store with no money just so you can shoot your hungry neighbor who wants food.
If landlords demand payment when no one has a job, oust the landlords and protect your neighbors who are being threatened with eviction. If police try to protect the landlord’s position, oust the police and protect your neighbors who are being violently targeted.
If people in your community are hungry, use existing farmland and existing logistics to provide enough for everyone. Sure, these workers won’t be paid if there’s no money to pay with, but if the choice is between “work hard and help my community from starving” and “sit on my ass as everyone starves”, it seems clear what logistics workers and farmers would choose. And your goal should be to assist them or assist some other facet of maintaining your community.
Maybe you could try streaming your singleplayer games to discord and your friends can join and watch if they’d like? Sometimes I do that just to trick my ADHD brain into treating it like an event rather than something to pass the time.
[edit] and just to be clear, my friends would rarely watch, but it’s just enough of a push to reframe it in my head.
One lie will be replaced by another.
Door dash will become more expensive as a “reaction” to this (reaction being an excuse their executives use)
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Suddenly the former affordability mayor is replaced by an anti-immigrant pro-cop mayor that preaches all about the plight of the white person’s pocketbook and who’s to blame for rising prices, but in a more New Yorker-acceptable tone.
what do you make with it if you don’t mind me asking?
A bunch of trash 😅 but if you’re interested, I made a bunch of stuff earlier this year when I was less busy (essentially, the challenge was to make a whole song every week of the year, which I failed to keep up with haha)
A lot of it is with software synths, but I did use my hardware synths like the minilogue, Dirtywave M8, and Roland SC-88 on a few songs.
Generally, you can find me on streaming services and Bandcamp under Jentu if you like any of it. I mostly just make music for myself without really caring much how it is received.
Do you make music too?
I have a Wobkey Rainy 75 and it’s by far the best keyboard I’ve ever bought/used. That being said, don’t go out of your way to buy one since they have gotten far more expensive than when I bought mine AND support for it has been very difficult. Yeah this was one of the many Kickstarter keyboards that was sent to a bunch of keyboard reviewers and they hyped it up massively, which I got swept up in. I’m just glad my keyboard was actually delivered at the end of the day.
I had a used keychron for a long time and loved it except for the non-swappable clicky switches. Highly recommend them.
Korg minilogue has been a favorite of mine for years (since I can’t reasonably afford a Moog).
The day-of, I just remember my teacher being out in the hallway on the phone for like 30 minutes, then an announcement was made over the intercom that parents would be picking us up. I didn’t know what happened until I got home. Then we just watched news replay the towers getting hit over and over for a few days.
A few years later, I remember being instructed on coloring in an outline of the country of Afghanistan (joke here about Americans only learn geography from war) and the teacher told us if we wanted to draw a bomb or something in the air above it, that’d be okay. Shit was absolutely fucked. I remember having a mock vote for Kerry v Bush and I was the only kid who didn’t vote Bush and the principal called my parents to collect me from school for the day.
Just wait until you find out about the Supreme Court and how long their terms last.
Rockbox
I desperately wish my Rockbox consistently worked without crashing or freezing once a week.
Just to piggyback off this comment a bit (since I’m not sure I’ve ever rented anywhere with MERV 13+ filters). Try making a Corsi–Rosenthal Box with a box fan and 4 air filters. This might be beyond your price range since MERV13 filters aren’t the cheapest in the world when you have to buy 4 of them, but I’ve been using mine for years and they work REALLY well. My PM2.5 sensor is consistently on “0” unless I’m cooking.
Why would people who want socialism vote for people maintaining capitalism? Why would you equate participating in bourgeois elections as an indicator of motivation of all political action?
There’s ~40-50% of US potential voters who don’t vote for various reasons- Living in a state where the results are almost guaranteed, being alienated from politics in general because of the distrust in our government as a whole, leftists who don’t vote but are politically active in other ways, etc. There’s also people who do vote because they feel like they have to vote against the worse choice. If only all this alienation and lesser-evilism and feeling ineffective politically could be siphoned into a mass movement that helps all of us. Capitalism cannot be “fixed” if a group of people who don’t vote suddenly start voting. That’s pure fantasy. But it seems people who believe this would rather hope for a fantasy situation than actually looking at reality and adjusting their strategy to make things better. Otherwise, you’ll just delay necessary change and feel resentment toward people who couldn’t convince you fast enough.
Or when “corporatism” doesn’t work, they’ll just make up words like “leveragism”
“I swear, we’re just really really really really obsessed with Roman aesthetics. Pay no attention to the fasces literally everywhere”
(iPhone) Depending on the framing of dumbing down, an alternative camera app could be suggested. I use Halide to get rid of all the photo processing Apple does by default (which ruins night photos imo).
Yeah sorry, I wasn’t trying to equate the two words, just the arguments to defend using them. I can agree that the words hold very different weights.
There’s an argument to be made, even though “fellate” might be something that is done by a wide variety of sexualities, it has history and that history is as a homophobic insult. Sure, words can be reclaimed by the gay community, but the metaphor of sucking dick as a subservient action is so fucking pervasive (especially in discussions about politics for some reason) and it points towards unexamined patterns of language that are very harmful. Add on the borderline ableism at the end and it comes across as bad faith at the start, so it’s no wonder a mod responds like this.
This sounds like the exact same argument my ex high school friends used to use when overusing the word “r*ped” when playing video games because it’s apparently “just a metaphor for a power dynamic”.
Your life is nice because of the death and destruction of those who your system deems to be lesser. If you can’t be motivated to change things because you can’t see the issue with the cost of your comfort, you’re going to learn some very hard lessons once people you thought were on your side start fighting you.
Alphasmart keyboard to type notes when I’m out and about then transfer it to a VimWiki journal entry when I get home with a single button
iPod video modded with things like USB C and more storage
Retro “inspired” tv. Essentially, my old CRT didn’t survive a move and I replaced it with a replacement iPad 3 screen, a 3D printed body, and an analogue scaler so I can still plug my ps2 into it. It’s not really the same but it was a fun project.
Original gameboy with LSDJ so I can make chiptunes (though at this point, I’ve replaced it with the Dirtywave M8 entirely)
Tech of the non-electric variety:
Inkle loom, rigid heddle loom, and floor loom for various weaving
Spinning yarn on a spinning wheel and drop spindles (also have a 3D printed DIY e-spinner because the spinning wheel is so temperamental)