Oh, look, the unhappiness could be solved by better pay and benefits

I also shave with a safety razor/shavette and spend about twice as long for a close shave as only the first pass. Also being the type worried for time, I’ve clocked myself and typically end up at just under 4 minutes including warm-up, post-shave creams, brushing, and oiling.

You go once with the grain, once across it (90 degrees) and then once against it but with a lower angle than the others (so you don’t cut/irritate unnecessarily). Lather before each pass as per usual. The time to get everything set up and work up the first lather is longer than going another two passes.

Edit to add: I shave like this about every other day, but let it go over weekends, or other times I resent my worksona. I have chosen shaving gear to make it fun though, with a nice brush & bowl, a nice smelling shaving soap, etc. My best trick was to find a better suited razor blade, Dorco Platinum, makes it easy, fun and lasts me two weeks before having to change. I’m sure other brands are great too, that’s just the best one I have available.

I’m trying to grow out a beard, so I don’t trim it down, but shape it once a week with some scissors and a comb.

Back when I couldn’t be bothered, I mostly grew it wild, brushed and shaped it 1-2 times/week, and trimmed it down in length every few months. Nowadays we have barbershops around and I can have a professional style it while I get a haircut.

How is it messy for the employer to keep wages at market prices?

You don’t have to match anything or contend with mass quitting if you just pay the going rate to start with.

Sounds like great news, no?

Just as we had a time before fungus digesting plant matter, we’ve now had a time before fungus digesting plastics.

“Soon” we’ll get bacteria and insects doing the same, and all our plastic buildings will need to be protected just as the wood ones.

But, but… Dragging things out forever in court is his only move?

Could be what you describe. But all those things are also hallmarks of a superstitious mind, especially if under duress or long indoctrination.

Not being allowed to question or reconcile things causes internal stress, not being allowed to express certain emotions and thoughts also adds to it. It doesn’t help that many of them are radicalised into driving an agenda.

I’m not expecting to live long enough for that kind of drama, so I simply blocked them. If they’re abusive, please report them before blocking, they might be dragging all of Lemmy down and not just this thread.

I agree, but a lot of parties try to co-opt the word to mean other things, which I find less useful.

A quick look at their posting history shows that they’re indistinguishably close to a troll. Their response as well.

And how do you know that? Through magic?

If you have issue with me using only 12 - 18 centuries old definitions, I welcome you to have this talk in pre-christian times, although I might be busy then.

I do agree. I was trying to match the poetic language of OP and convey that we have no proof of supernatural or imagined claims, and thus the narrow sliver of naturalistic reality is where we must investigate phenomena. But you know, in a way a symbolic minded troll would understand.

Because magic has in common verbiage typically been used to describe phenomena we don’t know the mechanism behind.

And all those other things we do understand the mechanism behind. Along the way to understand how we figured out standards that elevate physical phenomena from imagined ones, and slowly we found that there’s very little room left for the unknowable to affect our reality.

So if the word magic is to have any distinct meaning, there’s only left “that which isn’t real enough to affect us”.

But you’re of course free to redefine words as feels useful to you. I find flying, quantum teleportation, and cognition magical, but that more describes the wonder and awe of the inner workings of my world, rather than if it’s real or not.

Written with ChatGPT no doubt

Nothing to show and a day closer do death, as the song goes.

I am sure, I can download the gif from the source and play it fine.

Good point, I’m editing now

I’ve gotten sets with nigiri and maki in several cities around Japan. I guess my experience and yours differ.

In my European country you’ll order sushi as nigiri at any cornershop sushi place.

It’s most often sold as a set, where there’s typically 4 pieces of some roll with three ingredients and nori on the outside (but variations are not uncommon).

It’s quite close to what I’ve had in Japan. Although fish quality is very different.

Yeah, and although greedy, maybe not enough to ruffle feathers over.

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