When I first picked up the straight razor I ran into the weird areas and contorting my wrist as you mentioned.

I just tried different grips and shaving patterns until I found a pattern without weird wrist positions, it took about 10 shaves to really get comfortable.

I don’t know the terminology, but if the common wrist position you see people straight razor shave with can be called “wrist up” I actually shave about half of my face and most of my neck with my wrist “down” gripping the razor kind of like a paint brush. I don’t know if that’s the correct way to do it, but a few months in and I can complete a shave nearly as quickly as I could with a safety razor.

The only weird spots left to figure out are the sideburn on my non-dominant side (which I do by feel with decent success), and my brow lines.

I think you nailed it, moving from a cartridge razor to a safety razor requires a large jump in technique. With a cartridge you can just whip around your face and get an acceptable shave without really caring (unless you have sensitive skin). But with a safety razor you have to pay attention to the direction of hair growth, handle angle, and to a smaller extent the tautness of your skin.

I have VERY sensitive skin and cartridge razors were killing me, so switching to a safety razor and getting past the skill curve saved my face.

After 20 years of safety razor use I recently switched to a straight razor which accepts replaceable safety razor blades, which I saw my barber using. I’ve found the skill gap between a competent safety razor user and a straight razor was very small. Within 2 weeks I was getting better shaves with the straight razor! It’s closer, easier on my skin (fewer passes), and I can detail around my mustache and eyebrows way better.

YMMV

I was influenced greatly by Robert Axelrod’s short essay about the Prisoner’s Dilemma titled “The Prisoner’s Dilemma Computer Tournaments and the Evolution of Cooperation” (link PDF warning)

tl;dr The essay explores an iterative game of Prisoner’s Dilemma, and demonstrates how cooperation can emerge from a group of self interested participants. It has implications for the statistical emergence of morality, and even remarks on politics.

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Not the most recent incident, but where I live we observe daylight savings time (which is dumb). I have a large wall clock in the main room of my house in a very visible location, but up high enough that I have to use a ladder to fiddle with it.

Daylight savings ended and I put off changing the clock. Months went by and it eventually got closer to daylight savings coming back so I told myself I’d just wait it out until the clock was right again. 24 hours after daylight savings kicked in (the clock is correct again, I lazied my way into a win!) the battery died and I had to get the ladder out anyway (shit!).

A typical weekend involves golf, grilling, and a few cocktails. If the weather is nice (which it almost always is) maybe we head down to the beach, or a pub with outdoor seating.

You’re not wrong, but in this specific case he was in ICE custody for less than 12 hours.

I agree this is total fuckery, but at least the dude was released hours later.

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All of the wine being discussed in this thread comes from the blue counties just north of San Francisco.

Harris won Sonoma county 72% to 25% Trump

Harris won Napa county 64% to 33% Trump

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California as a whole voted for Harris 58% to 38% Trump. The wine producing counties actually voted more blue than the average in a DEEP blue state.

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Luddites.

AI might not be producing the best content, and it will change the nature of how humans work (or don’t), in good and (many) bad ways. But every culture which has resisted the inexorable march of technology has lost in convincing fashion.

I may not like it, but the current gen of AI is one tiny fraction of a step in a direction which cannot be stopped. Instead of fearing the machines we need to figure out how to best use them.

Reduce the natural resource consumption, and put the thinking rocks to work so humans can focus on what’s valuable and important to us. If people are freaking out that their memes aren’t drawn by hand, they’d probably be better served by not wasting their time on memes at all.

When it first happened the USGS site had it rated as a 6.0 and I immediately called bullshit. The house creaked a bit, but my wife who was on a conference call didn’t even notice it. I probably only caught it because of my phone’s advanced warning alert.

I think in parts of the world where we frequently experience quakes and our infrastructure is built to handle them we need another word for these little shakers, instead of calling them full on earthquakes. This is like calling a light drizzle a deluge.

Crips, which have been given the backronym “Community Resistance In Progress”.

But it doesn’t take much research to show they do not stand for the types of values you’re referring to.

I went out as a single, but the course is far too busy to allow people to play alone at 7am, so I was grouped with 3 other singles. It was a fun group, two of them discreetly smoked a bit of cannabis (this being in Southern California), we all had beers at the turn (before 9am on a Friday), and everyone played well relative to their skill levels. We got around in just under 4 hours, which is rare at that course.

I’m still left wondering what I would have shot if I’d hit just 50% of fairways with driver instead of none. I’m headed to the range today to attempt to sort it out.

For my daily drivers I have a pair of Kinesis Advantage 2’s, purchased in 2007, still kicking.

A couple of years ago I hit up their email support with what I thought was a stuck key. They (correctly) diagnosed it as a failing switch, helped me identify another that was failing, they figured out that I’m handy with a soldering iron, and mailed me a handful of new switches and other swag free of charge.

$370/ea 18 years ago, and I’m pretty sure they MSRP for the same price today.

Nearly all of the labels have worn off of the keys. I never mounted the fabric palm pads, and the plastic palm areas are now mirror polished from use. I also modded them both with a Thinkpad style nub mouse.

Things I’d change, but given I’m pretty good at modding and haven’t done them they are relatively minor:

• Less clicky switches for the one I take to work. I already tend to pound the keys, and I make a noticable racket on the rare occasions I’m in the office.
• USB-C connections, including PD on the built in hub
• Qi2 wireless charging in the blank gap in the middle
• A smarter programmable controller like the the nice!nanos on my corne

I’m seriously considering a DataHand-like keeb like the Svalboard

I don’t expose anything to the internet other than the WireGuard endpoint.

This is the way

Segregated facilities are already illegal, including language about them in contracts is redundant, because contracts which compel illegal behavior are unenforceable.

This is being coordinated and cheered on by users on enormous online platforms. If there was one or two fires in a single city or even state then I’d agree the FBI probably wouldn’t even take a look.

However given the very public and national nature of these targeted events, they’re going to have a plausible excuse to investigate this as domestic terrorism.

I’m not endorsing the FBI, or calling this terrorism, just stating how it’s being handled by law enforcement.

That said, folks should know that even a small platform like Lemmy is crawling with glowies, be careful.

Tacos 3 ways: carne asada, pork al pastor, chorizo. Served on scratch corn tortillas with house fermented salsa.

The first three drives in our group found the fairway. The last guy topped it, it actually hit the ground 3 inches after the tee and rolled directly into the bushes 😂

Morning: Work out, shower, coffee, protein shake, make breakfast for my wife, hop on the laptop.

Night: Cook dinner, kiss my wife when she gets home. Hit a few golf balls on the simulator. Watch an episode from an anime series if there’s something new. Maybe have a cocktail with the neighbor.

Shower, scroll for about 30 minutes, sleep.

I feel very lucky, and try not to take each day for granted.