there have clearly been major improvements

🙃

Wow

Ah, I see. https://thesciencepost.com/local-cherry-orchard-only-hires-anti-vaccers-production-increases-by-340/

March 14, 2025

• Brush: Zenith 508A XL/Bristle (B35) (MOAR BOAR) 31mm
• Razor: Chiseled Face - Legacy Raw Titanium (#69)
• Blade: Personna 74 (42)
• Lather: Fanzine Saponifications – Test… Test… 123 – Soap
• Post Shave: Noble Otter - Hamami - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Dove Men+Care Ultra-Hydra Cream

The weather has been warming up a bit. Having a friend over later to grill dinner with the kids while our respective wives go to a ZZ Ward concert together.

Me either, but assuming it’s a real screenshot, the date is 2018. I didn’t do much digging, but 2018 saw an increase in cherry crops according to this source https://upnorthlive.com/news/local/usda-2018-cherry-crop-production-up-from-last-year.

An overall increase of 60% is pretty big! If this specific farm had an especially bad year in 2017, a 340% increase isn’t out of the question.

Wow, interesting results for sure.

4:56 on a computer.

I try to avoid Amazon when possible. I’ve had this happen, too. I paid a couple extra dollars on eBay in order to avoid Amazon, and the item came from Amazon anyway.

You can take whatever you want seriously or not seriously. It might get deleted depending on where you post it.

12:13

I’m not here to tell them how to run their comm

And yet here you are. I took a brief look at their sidebar rules and it’s pretty clear that you broke one or two of their rules. I don’t think that’s a power trip. That’s moderation. The Tankie Triad are also very heavily moderated.

Unbelievable levels of ingenuity.

March 13, 2025

• Brush: Stirling 24mm Synthetic
• Blade: Personna Twin Pivot Plus Refills, Atra (8)
• Lather: Spearhead Shaving - Seaforth! Leather - Soap
• Post Shave: Old Spice - Original - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral

Oh joy! I recently discovered that by installing the Collaboro app on my phone, I can much more easily use my SOTD spreadsheet from NextCloud. It’s very buggy in a phone browser, but this works as expected and is a great replacement for Google Sheets.

Thus, my journey of self-hosting things takes a step in the right direction.

Speaking of which, we have a Nixplay digital frame that shows pictures of our kid. The grandparents also have one. Starting April 21st, it won’t show pictures from Google Photos anymore (without a subscription). This is classic enshitification.

Fortunately for me, I have a Raspberry Pi hooked to an old computer monitor that shows pictures from Immich (a Google Photos replacement). Unfortunately for the grandparents, they’ll have to pay $20/yr. for the privilege.

Let’s hope Dennis doesn’t get eliminated over the next week! (Surely he won’t)

Here’s a link to buy it https://bookshop.org/p/books/careless-people-a-cautionary-tale-of-power-greed-and-lost-idealism/22213433

Giggity

March 12, 2025

• Brush: Wolf Whiskers – “Gianmaria” w/Maggard 26mm Synthetic
• Razor: Chiseled Face - Legacy Raw Titanium (#69)
• Blade: Personna 74 (41)
• Lather: Tester
• Post Shave: Pinaud - Clubman Special Reserve - Aftershave
• Post Shave: Goodfellow & Co. - Face Lotion - Kelp & Sea Mineral

Great shave.

If I’ve learned anything from the Lockpicking Lawyer, it’s that most locks are pretty easy to defeat. Bike locks are just increase how long it takes to steal a bike.

About 16 years ago my bicycle got stolen from the bike rack at my apartment, lock and all.

6 or 7 months passed and one day something caught my eye as I was getting home. It was my bike, returned to the same rack. The lock was missing, but otherwise it was in good shape.

You’re probably on to something. Metal is pretty strong stuff unless it’s very thin like the edge of a fresh blade (or a freshly honed straight razor). Once it has reached the thickness where an encounter with a whisker means nothing to it, it makes sense that it could carry on and on and on.