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.
Yes tethering is absolutely one of the parameters - including whether it’s enabled at all and whether it goes over its own separate APN (which is how the carrier can limit it or throttle it separately from the main data plan) or is sent in-band over the main APN used by the system (alongside other params like the number of client devices connected to the hotspot if I remember correctly). Android has a similar “carrier settings” database, although I haven’t looked too deep into what kind of settings are available.
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.
As is the will of people, since Canada is a democracy, and that's what democracies do. Not like those terrible communist governments. Everyone should well know what they do (and how your friendly local neighborhood democracy is so much better, you see), you can read about it in your newspaper quite literally every single day for the last several years/decades.
Threads like these are diamonds in the rough, I love collecting them.
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!
I'm not sure your proof works. In the absence of collusion, you'd expect vendors selling the same thing to ultimately end up with the exact same prices. After all, why would the customer keep buying from Player B if Player A is selling the exact same thing for less? The only way Player B has any chance of finding any customers and dividing the market, without some other differentiating factor, is to sell at the same price as Player A.
If anything, Costco's higher prices is more likely to suggest collusion (but still does not imply it).
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.
He does make detailed posts on where he got his information^ and as a Canadian who saw it live on YouTube (and not the CBC), and knows multiple Canadians who where there in the freezing cold (and not truckers either, the majority of protesters weren’t), calling it terrorizing is laughable. The one place in the entire country that deserves it, got it.
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.