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Blakey [he/him]

@ Blakey @hexbear.net

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  • Scammed by Small Razor?

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  • The blades vary massively in quality. I use astra, which are fancy German blades that run me like... 10 Aussie bucks for a hundred iirc (they're way, way cheaper online than in stores) and they're great. Feather I find even sharper but "grabby" and uncomfortable to use. My first buy was actually a sampler with a bunch of different brands but that was about a decade ago now, so I couldn't give you much advice.

    Try both adjusting the razor and different blades. That said, most people use cartridge razors just fine. I feel like safety razors, straight razors, and shavettes (my choice these days) are mostly about ritual, although if you're lazy about shaving like me straight razors and shavettes don't clog up BUT you run a higher risk of cutting yourself. Personally although I do a good job sharpening knives I wouldn't get a straight razor as they sound like a bugger to maintain and are expensive for a good one.

  • Maybe half the reason so many people are burnt out now is because the "no one is going to help you" mentality of our society encourages masking?

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  • I'm not convinced it's safe to assume it's worse. Lead exposure is SO widespread, and the neurological damage lead causes is really severe. I think it could go either way.

  • Hey man, I know our corrupt capitalist system is falling apart, but have you stopped to consider CHINA?!? queue scary Asian music sting

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  • No, but in this image you can see someone proposing that it is the case.

  • If you want a picture of the future, imagine a food delivery robot avoiding a hungry person sleeping on the sidewalk forever.

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  • Presumably they have cameras on board.

  • Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa”

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  • Penis is so good we don't NEED penis 2!

  • Hey man, I know our corrupt capitalist system is falling apart, but have you stopped to consider CHINA?!? queue scary Asian music sting

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  • No, we're pointing out yet another way the reality of China (executes child predators) conflicts with liberal fantasies about China (assumes that CSA is very common and goes unpunished even more often than in the USA)

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  • They'll put your info into a big excel that every chapter in the country can access.

    Fucking hell.

  • (CW: harassment, sexism) Men are recording women secretly with meta glasses

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  • my subtitles are up here

  • Technology Connections has a full lib crashout at the end of his latest video. Respect.

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  • )-:<

  • King shit 👑

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  • Still a low bar but he isn't being applauded for avoiding the pedo parties. If he'd just said "no thanks" no one would be cheering for the guy. It's the expression of rage and desire to use force that's getting him cheered for. And yeah that is still a pathetically low bar, because any decent human being should at least feel a violent impulse in response to that invitation. But the fact remains that the response isn't about simply saying no.

  • The sheer historical revisionism that the anti-communist left does whenever the Black Panthers are mentioned!

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  • Black Panthers supported community defense, being a community defense group themselves, and that's not exactly on brand for Tankies.

    It's almost like it's a snarl word that doesn't actually mean anything and so can be deployed and retracted as required. Eldridge Cleaver explicitly described the Panthers as a vanguard in "on the ideology of the black panther party", and I put it to you that if you read that, or any of the other literature written by highly ranked members of the BPP, it would never occur to you that they are anything but "tankies". Unless of course you already knew it was by the BPP, who unfortunately now fall into Lenin's category of great revolutionaries who were slandered in their lifetime but who are now canonized and their ideas bastardised to mollify the masses.

  • The sheer historical revisionism that the anti-communist left does whenever the Black Panthers are mentioned!

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  • So it's a meaningless term. Good to know.

  • Technology Connections has a full lib crashout at the end of his latest video. Respect.

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  • miniminuteman i also agree on, he's a deboonker that seems like he could really thrive in an org.

    You're not wrong there, I feel like with a bit of political education he could be a real asset. Despite what I said he's quite charismatic and a great communicator, that episode he did recently where he did a little roleplay as a traveller inviting the viewer to share a meal with him was really, really well done.

  • Technology Connections has a full lib crashout at the end of his latest video. Respect.

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  • I think what MMM has going for him is that he's young, passionate, and angry, that he's a recent graduate, and that his degree was, if not in the humanities, at least humanities-adjacent (modern archaeology is far more about the everyday people of the past than it used to be). All those things I think make people more open to radicalization. I also think that as a student of history he is perhaps more aware that nothing lasts forever, he's aware of just how many seemingly invincible empires have risen and then fell.

    TC is a little bit older and, despite his sympathies with workers and what seems to be a genuinely good nature (he strikes me as an honestly good and decent human being), also a bit of a STEMlord. He is, I think, very stuck on "end of history"-type thinking. I wish I had more hope for the guy, and if class consciousness really starts to spread it could well spread to him, but I can't imagine him ever being ahead of the curve on this.

  • The sheer historical revisionism that the anti-communist left does whenever the Black Panthers are mentioned!

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  • If the black panther party weren't tankies, the term is truly meaningless. They were explicitly, openly Marxist-Leninist, an ideology you may know as "Stalinism".

  • Parenti haters are coping hard after their pro US state Anarchist professor got caught in the didler's list.

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  • I mean, I guess you probably would? Epstein was explicitly targeting people with wealth and power to bring into his gross "parties", so if you had "tankies" with wealth and power, he'd have been targeting them and it's not unbelievable that some of them might have gone for it - if you gain the kind of wealth and power the people Epstein was courting have, you probably don't have any real moral principles.

    I wonder why tankies never seem to have that wealth and power. Could it be that in order to become the kind of wealthy socialite Epstein was doing, you would have to abandon your communist principles entirely? No, it's the children that are wrong...

  • Technology Connections has a full lib crashout at the end of his latest video. Respect.

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  • fuck of ! ! !

  • New Hampshire Republicans want to raise taxes on homes with solar

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  • A lot of the rest of us are no better:/

  • Technology Connections has a full lib crashout at the end of his latest video. Respect.

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  • Nah, he apparently goes all in on the pro-democrat rhetoric which is totally incompatible with being politically cool. He simply doesn't have a good or consistent understanding of politics, which is a shame. He gets so close with the "everything is political" stuff but doesn't actually understand what that means or appreciate that politics can extend beyond Republicans versus democrats.

    The YouTuber I have noticed having some cool political ideas is, of all people, miniminuteman, whose channel is mostly debunking pseudo archaeology and being the world's most obnoxious zoomer - a definite guilty pleasure of mine. I've noticed he'll occasionally let slip some cool stuff about class etc. I'm sure he's a baby radlib and not a full-blown socialist but he seems to at least be on the right track.