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Cake day: November 15th, 2023

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  • mercur 33c is a tight shave. Take it easy with that one.

    Don’t press hard. Watch your angles. I was going to say consider a badger brush, but it looks like synthetics have come a long way in the last 15 years or so. At any rate, lather is key - it doesn’t have to be huge, but it has to be well-worked into your whiskers. You want your skin and the entire length of each whisker well-coated, so work it in.

    edit: Also, don’t take anyone else’s blade recommendations as gospel. The blade you need depends on your razor, your technique, your beard, your prep, your comfort, your skin, and some amount of random magic. Try a bunch. Maybe get a sampler.






  • It’s not the battery (although it does take an uncommon battery, a 14500), it’s the disassembly.

    You need to soak the base in hot water to soften the plastic clip, then use the charging stand to break the seal and open it up. Once open, there’s a delicate metal brackets to unclip and remove. At that point, you need to desolder the battery and the motor, and then start to work on the plastic brackets. This is less than halfway through the process, and it’s likely broken.

    Some things are extremely repair-hostile. I’m not happy about it, but I’m not going to spend half a day attempting a very unlikely repair.








  • Smith doesn’t need a mandate to fuck over Alberta. It’s fascinating that she didn’t hold a referendum oh publicly funding charter and private schools, or on introducing two-tier for-profit healthcare. No, she just decided that she wanted to flaunt Alberta’s hatred of Ottawa and brown people. Because let’s be honest, anti-immigration sentiment is all about people who look and dress differently. Nobody’s going bat an eyelash at Aussies coming over to work the ski hills, unless they’re pointed to as the “See, I’m not racist” example.