lizkat
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A pending lesson on how exactly to phrase an effective complaint... š¤£
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Thomas Veil
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Normally I love Costco, but when I went there the other day to stock up on razor blade refills, a card of 20 was $40. Two dollars per refill.
Thatās highway robbery, and unusual for Costco. When I got home I saw I can get them cheaper from Amazon, so thatās what Iām going to do from now on.
The other thing that irks me is Gilletteās packaging: a large (probably 10āx12ā) paper and plastic card that holds five little trays of refills. The refills comprise about 40% of the blister packās surface. The other 60% is waste.
Really, Gillette?
Thatās highway robbery, and unusual for Costco. When I got home I saw I can get them cheaper from Amazon, so thatās what Iām going to do from now on.
The other thing that irks me is Gilletteās packaging: a large (probably 10āx12ā) paper and plastic card that holds five little trays of refills. The refills comprise about 40% of the blister packās surface. The other 60% is waste.
Really, Gillette?
This is why I switched my goatee to a full beard with a clean shaven head. For head shaving, these blades are horrible. Electric razor died on me on Tue in the middle of a shave so I used a brand new blade. The result was a linear bleeding cut over my head.... bit the bullet and bought a new electric razor.
Though I might go back to full shaving at one point....In academia, one can look smart by having great achievements...or by having modest achievements at a young age. So one life hack is to look younger than you are. A clean shave can definitely help achieve that...š
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On reflection, the enormous card is probably a manifestation of stores' never-ending battle with "shrinkage". It's a lot harder to pilfer such a huge card than it is a small box containing the equivalent amount of blades. Once again, the light-fingered jackasses have to make it worse for the rest of us.
Still, you'd hope there would be a better solution than that wasteful packaging.
Still, you'd hope there would be a better solution than that wasteful packaging.
I'll say that the concept of the disposable blade has always been the symbol of western wastefulness. I still remember after the fall of the Iron Courtain, the first Gillette commercials popping up...I still know the jingle: Gillette, so masculinely pe-e-e-errfect!.
There might be hundreds of razor blades in your walls
Razor slots in bathrooms were invented to be safe way to dispose of double-edged safety razors, which were introduced by Gilette in 1903. They've since become less common.
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Thatās crazy!
On the subject of the waste of disposable blades: thatās actually why I went to a razor with a replaceable head in the first place.
For many years I used fully disposable razors, until I thought about all those razor handles I was sending to a landfill and said to myself, āThis is ridiculous.ā
On the subject of the waste of disposable blades: thatās actually why I went to a razor with a replaceable head in the first place.
For many years I used fully disposable razors, until I thought about all those razor handles I was sending to a landfill and said to myself, āThis is ridiculous.ā
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Since I had to change my Gmail password a few days ago, Google has made it as difficult as possible for me to sign in with my new one. It keeps wanting me to authenticate in one of two ways. First, wants me to respond in the Gmail app. I don't have it and don't want it, but I have downloaded it several times, and it keeps going in circles. Pressing "Yes it's me" simply brings up the same screen again. Or, I can authenticate it on my phone...except that option is grayed out, despite the fact that it appears to have my legit phone number. I finally got it, but this is one more reason why I hate Google.
lizkat
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I actually lost access to one of my gmail setups for a long time just by having fat fingers or being inattentive when adding some existing accounts manually to the Apple Mail app on a new device. I hit the wrong choice instead of gmail from the standard setup category offerings in the Apple Mail account addition module, and then Google promptly locked me out of the actual gmail setup with that username. Ugh!!!
I tried everything to regain access periodically, following the Google instructions, providing the original auth code, supplying the recovery email address info, waiting a few days or weeks before a re-try, trying from other devices with that locked setup and those recovery email setups already on them etcā¦ until one day about 18 months later it inexplicably let me back in on one of my attempts from a laptop with that setup, and it was a laptop on which I had kept making unsuccessful attempts to recover the setup about every sixty days. It didnāt help that my ISP assigns my DSL net access to any of a number of servers in my region, so my IP address and server location are not static when I boot the modem-router.
I finally and reluctantly then added a mobile number as extra gmail recovery info, but Iām not sure even that would have saved me on that occasion. I loathe Google for that experience but the prospect of changing a veritable raft of setups to some other email provider seems even worse.
lizkat
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Either get up and write them down or else maybe start taking an audiobook upstairs...
I sometimes play an audiobook on an old iPhone, some book I've already listened to on a laptop while fully conscious, that way I can drift off and not bother to rewind the one on the phone next time around.
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The problem I described earlier, I had the same issue with Google Drive. But I think I found the problem. I use Safari on my devices. I tried to log in with Firefox, and the aforementioned problems didn't occur. On my iPhone and Mac at least, Google does not ā¤ļø Safari.
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That part's very important. It can't be a book, podcast or whatever that you've never heard before. Your brain automatically wants to keep listening because you're interested.
If the material is a rerun, however, you already know what's coming, so your mind relaxes.
lizkat
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Pet peeve department... when a friend texts a veritable stream of assorted trivia and you finally send back something like "Let's talk on the Saturday, trying to finish up some stuff here before the weekend" ...
... and she texts back six or seven more equivalents of "OK but just look at this, for a minute, isn't it cute?"
Yeah, no, so I'm sitting on the urge to text a favorite conversation stopper... but I'm just going to mute message notifications from her for awhile.
... and she texts back six or seven more equivalents of "OK but just look at this, for a minute, isn't it cute?"
Yeah, no, so I'm sitting on the urge to text a favorite conversation stopper... but I'm just going to mute message notifications from her for awhile.
lizkat
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Ha ha! Yeah! I'm done with my chores for today by now, so this is definitely cute. š¤£š
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I had to do that with a cousin recently. I was away from social media for 4-5 days and saw about a dozen shares on IG/FB/TW and simply ignored or deleted them without reading.
lizkat
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I've decided that thing is the feline equivalent of the early Apple Macintosh era's wonderful critter Clarus the dogcow, probably better known over time by its alleged vocalization, which was Moof.... a combo of Moo and Woof. Its creation and naming evolved from a number of inside jokes back in the early days of a team that at least some of the time were having a lot of fun on the job. Not sure what a "catcow" would say but anyone trying to milk the thing would probably just be yelling "ouch" after the first attempt.
Dogcow - Wikipedia
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Iām a huge fan, but this personās an even bigger fan:I've decided that thing is the feline equivalent of the early Apple Macintosh era's wonderful critter Clarus the dogcow, probably better known over time by its alleged vocalization, which was Moof.... a combo of Moo and Woof. Its creation and naming evolved from a number of inside jokes back in the early days of a team that at least some of the time were having a lot of fun on the job. Not sure what a "catcow" would say but anyone trying to milk the thing would probably just be yelling "ouch" after the first attempt.
Dogcow - Wikipedia
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