I use a safety razor because the blades are much cheaper. Cartridge razors are fine too, but double edged blades are like 10-20¢ each if you get them in bulk.

The other advice I’ve seen here is good. Prep the skin with heat and moisture, pull the skin taught, and use minimal pressure. Avoid using dull blades.

The main thing is be aware of the grain. Hair has a grain, it grows along the surface in a direction with some variation. Generally beard hair grows down and away from the center, but yours may be different. Take some time to observe what grain pattern your hair follows.

The first pass should be with the grain. Shave the entire area with the grain, then go back for one or multiple passes in different directions. I usually do a three pass shave on my face, pass 1 with the grain, pass 2 across the grain, pass 3 against the grain. Shaving against the grain on the first pass is virtually guaranteed to result in cuts.

I’m writing this from the perspective of someone with fair skin, european ancestry, and largely straight beard hair. Hair is highly variable, make sure any hair related advice comes from those with similar hair to yours.

Its a shame that no true no true scottsman fallacy has ever been tried.

It didn’t make it. It was rejected by the supreme court at a preliminary stage. The case was not heard by the court.

Anyone with a federal appellate ruling can appeal to the supreme court. That appeal is just a request. The supreme court refuses the vast majority of them.

All this says about the country is that one horrible woman can afford a lawyer, and refuses to take no for an answer.

On reflection, RISC-V should have been included. Framework gave two computers to them.

There are two universities, one youth education non-profit, and the rest are conferences. Its very different to give money to a software project to support development costs, and a conference. Paying for an event is different, especially when they are paying for a booth, which makes it more of a marketing expense.

There are only 4 software projects with ongoing support. That’s the concern. I think few would have an issue with framework’s sponsorships if their support of hyperland was a one time donation. The document shows continued ongoing support of €600 per month.

They published a list of all of the projects they sponsor, including the forms of support and amounts.

They sponsor and have booths at many events. They have 4 software projects that are listed as getting ongoing support. They are listed with different time periods and currencies but I converted the numbers to $/year for ease of comparison.

Per year sponsorship:

$5,000 Linux Foundation $8,325 Hyperland $10,000 LVFS $12,000 GNOME

I think there’s reason to be concerned about these donations. They sponsor far too few projects for the inclusion of hyperland to not read as an explicit endorsement. Hard to follow the “big tent” excuse when their tent covers 4 members.

I don’t follow their other communication channels, so I can’t speak to them. But this nonpology brief foray into transparency is not enough to move the needle for me.

Despite all this, I still consider the framework to be one of the least bad laptop companies.

Hurray!!! That’s wonderful news! Odd to see this posted with a call to action today.

From the article:

Nvidia declined 7%, Oracle, and AMD dropped 8.8%, Meta and Microsoft dropped around 4%.

These are amounts that stocks often fluctuate. Percentages are what matter. Phrasing it as a big dollar value was lost is always manipulative framing.

The market is big. There are more than a few shares. A small change becomes a big number when multiplied by the size of the entire market. $800 billion is basically meaningless.

The numbers are fake anyway. Market cap is the value if all existing shares were sold at the current price. Nonsense. Selling all the shares would change the price in some way.

Why are you posting this 4 days after the election? Is NJ having a special election soon?

The best possible world is one in which all political parties support our rights. Its not a mark against one’s character to try to make the worse party less bad.

I hold no ire for gay republicans or socialist democrats. The two party duopoly is an oppressive system. Engaging with that system in some way is largely unavoidable.

No, at least not beyond a certain point.

Entertainers increase guest happiness. Happiness is part of the rating, so entertainers do cause an increase. Most increases are capped, so you can only get so many points for happiness.

Lost guests lowers the rating directly. As I recall the lost guest penalty is uncapped. Blocking the entrance usually results in a park rating of 0 in the fullness of time, regardless of the park.

There are strange manipulations that allow guests to be trapped without the game realizing, which avoids the penalty. But as a normal player there’s no action that overcomes the lost guest penalty.

Doing so will cause a decrease in your park rating, When guests are trying to leave but unable to find the exit, it lowers the rating significantly. There’s a reason every guest goal scenario has a park rating requirement as well.

It is effective up to a point. It takes time before the guests realize they’re trapped and kill your rating. You have to time it right. The guest spawn rate calculations include the rating, so a low rating also reduces the number of guests who spawn. Trap the guests too soon and you’ll never get enough.

Trapping guests with no entry signs or removing the route to the exit will ruin your park in time. It can be effective in some specific circumstances but not many.

I agree. Remove the rainbow crosswalks and replace them with rainbow pedestrian safety bollards.

Rainbows should be a solid barrier to physically protect the vulnerable. No this is not metaphor.

Location context for those reading from elsewhere:

Onondaga county is in New York. It is located near the geographic centre of the state of New York, and has a population of around 500 thousand people. Syracuse both the county seat and only city in the county.

Walmart and many other companies underpay workers enough that they have to rely on food stamps. They use food stamps to subsidize their labor costs to avoid paying their workers enough to buy food.

You seem naive believing that corporations in other countries operate with restraint.

I agree with you that both modern tech and china are bad. However, these things are not related. You seem blinded by anti chinese prejudice, which is leading you to conflate these two issues.

If china imploded and stopped existing, modern tech would still have all the issues we discussed.

If Canada were able to implement a perfect data security law that was fully effective in banning all of these technological bad practices we discussed, it would not change china’s position in the market.

That has been my point this whole time. These issues are unrelated. If you disagree, please address my point directly.

Korea is a major world player with aspirations to dominate the world economy. That’s kind of the premise behind capitalism. Samsung isn’t content being a small company, they are a megacorporation involved in pretty much every part of Korean society, from heavy machinery, to insurance, to medicine, electronics, capital investments, construction and more. Your assertion that only china wants to dominate international markets is patently untrue. Capitalism is defined by endless greed. No corporation would turn down domination if it has the means.

Corporations are not democratic. Korean citizens do not get to vote for the samsung president. Corporations are the ones doing these things, not democratic institutions.

Security and privacy are issues that matter. Violating privacy and making devices less secure isn’t only a problem when china does it.

Yes? And what is uniquely chinese about this issue? Samsung, the korean company pushed ads in an update to their smart fridges. That channel could just as easily be used to brick the fridges, by the manufacturer or another malicious actor.

Nothing about any of this is china specific. None of these issues can be solved by sanctioning one country. There need to be laws to prevent any company from selling products with these problems. That is the only possible solution.

Mozilla did a study on cars and data collection. They found it was an industry wide problem. Every manufacturer tested collected tons of personal data and didn’t keep it secure or private. Their writeup does not mention EVs, and it implicated brands like subaru which does not sell an EV in Canada or the US at time of writing.

This is not an EV problem.

Most cars have an internet connection. Many have a cellular modem built in. Modern infotainment systems use the internet and upload the data that way. Many cars also store data internally that is only accessible to authorized service centers through a proprietary tool, which will upload the data when serviced by a dealer. Data is valuable. Companies don’t just refuse to exploit that value on principle.

I don’t trust the laws as they currently exist, which is why I am advocating they be changed to stop this data collection.

All cars have this problem. EVs are not the issue. But not just cars, any device with a computer and an internet connection does this exact same thing. You can’t play whack a mole banning countries in specific industries and do anything. The only solution is broad data protection laws.

The OTA updates thing is mostly the result of tesla’s ineptitude and willingness to ship a defective product in the hopes they can fix it with a patch. They are not the only cars with internet connections.

Chinese social credit scores are a myth. The sesame credit thing was a study run by one company temporarily and then stopped. It was never implemented widely and does not exist now.

Every country seems bad if you cherry pick the single worst thing you can find and attribute it to the entire country. Which is where the idea of chinese social credit came from. Its a myth.

American social credit scores encourage engagement with capitalism. They lower your score for not having debt or paying it off. The goal is to shape behavior. If you want to own a home or rent an apartment you have to buy things you don’t need.

then why bring up data at all? Or EVs? Proper data protection laws will protect Canadians regardless of the state of the market.

China dominating the world’s market can be a bad thing on its own merits. There’s no need to conflate these issues.