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Arsenic Lupin posted:Ooh, I like "hand money" as a back-formation. I shave with a safety razor. It's about 10 cents a shave. The ad copy for wet shaving is unbelievably contemptuous, but then so is the ad copy for pretty much any beauty products, just in a different way.
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Mozi posted:It's a combination of other options being wildly overpriced and hoping that people forget to cancel their subscription. Halloween Jack posted:I always wondered how they can really deliver shaving supplies that cheaply. Also, obvious to most of you but it's common to run at a loss and get users etc. with the plan that you can run at a profit when you scale up. Obviously if there is no feasible way to do THAT then yeah, dumb... though I guess if you cash out to the tune of (some portion of) a billion dollars then maybe it's a con job but it's not just normal crap-your-pants dumb.
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Shifty Pony posted:That said I'd love to see a commercial based on the joy of getting into a bed with freshly washed sheets after shaving your legs. Goddamn is that the best feeling ever.
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Pro-tip, if you want the Dollar Shave club blades without doing their stupid subscription model, you can look up Dorco USA, which is their supplier. Cheap rear end but decent quality blades in the Gilette style (4 blade, 5 blade, etc). I spend like $30 on razor blades and they last me like 9 months.
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Jul 20, 2016 15:06
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pangstrom posted:I could be way out of touch but wet shaving seems like very much a "thing", whereas part of the appeal of the Dollar Shave club was to make shaving less of a "thing". I'm sure it's possible to wet shave more cheaply but I would also guess that's true only if your time is worth $0.
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I once had to shave all of my body hair (legs + arms + torso, just not the beard) as part of a dare, and crawling into freshly washed sheets was a goddamn life-changing moment for me. Then the leg and arm hairs grew to an eighth of an inch and the itching started. 
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Halloween Jack posted:Straight razor shaving is for exactly the kind of shaving nerd who would say, in all seriousness, "A classic wet shave takes you on an aesthetic journey back to the root of your male essence." People who are so boring, they can talk about shaving for hours. Because they're obsessed with some fedora-wearing idea of masculinity, but philately is too exciting for them. I think most of the benefit to wet shaving is in the soap and brush i.e. not the part which saves you money and not in the razor. You really get a closer shave with less irritation with the newer multi-blade razors, and you don't have to obsess over technique like with the old-fashioned safety razor.
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Jul 20, 2016 16:36
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Halloween Jack posted:Straight razor shaving is for exactly the kind of shaving nerd who would say, in all seriousness, "A classic wet shave takes you on an aesthetic journey back to the root of your male essence." People who are so boring, they can talk about shaving for hours. Because they're obsessed with some fedora-wearing idea of masculinity, but philately is too exciting for them.
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Jul 20, 2016 18:17
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How the hell does tumblr and twitter make any money? I never see any ads. Then again my ad blocker is on 90% of the time.
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Halloween Jack posted:Straight razor shaving is for exactly the kind of shaving nerd who would say, in all seriousness, "A classic wet shave takes you on an aesthetic journey back to the root of your male essence." People who are so boring, they can talk about shaving for hours. Because they're obsessed with some fedora-wearing idea of masculinity, but philately is too exciting for them. I wanted to try a straight razor because I hoped I could just shave my beard straight off with it. But loving hell you can't buy a working straight razor that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. I had enough trouble finding a half decent safety razor that took wristcutter blades. Everything's the drat multi blade things that cost a fortune to replace and blunt after one use. loving shaving hipsters can gently caress off, I just want a thing to get my drat beard off my face quickly and without being expensive.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:How the hell does tumblr and twitter make any money? I never see any ads. Then again my ad blocker is on 90% of the time. they don't 
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OwlFancier posted:I wanted to try a straight razor because I hoped I could just shave my beard straight off with it. But loving hell you can't buy a working straight razor that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. gently caress a bunch of stropping a straight razor for 10 minutes each time before being able to use it ugh just get a nice heavyass merkur safety razor and a sharps container
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cheese posted:Is it really any different than getting into woodworking or baking gluten free muffins or growing 14 different kinds of dwarf chili's on your urban balcony garden? silence_kit posted:I think most of the benefit to wet shaving is in the soap and brush i.e. not the part which saves you money and not in the razor. You really get a closer shave with less irritation with the newer multi-blade razors, and you don't have to obsess over technique like with the old-fashioned safety razor.
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Jul 20, 2016 18:57
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:gently caress a bunch of stropping a straight razor for 10 minutes each time before being able to use it I got one of those and it's alright, still have to trim the beard before I can shave it though. Definitely cheaper to buy the old blades than the proprietary ones though. Though I keep cutting my face up using it, whatever, skin grows back, money doesn't.
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Jul 20, 2016 18:58
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So did anyone here land that dog chef job? I think my recipe for 'aliments pour chiens avec de l'eau' must have been rejected by that drat dog butler.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:How the hell does tumblr and twitter make any money? I never see any ads. Then again my ad blocker is on 90% of the time. They have tons of ads, including recently some audio ones on tumblr. However, most people are like you.
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silence_kit posted:I think most of the benefit to wet shaving is in the soap and brush i.e. not the part which saves you money and not in the razor. You really get a closer shave with less irritation with the newer multi-blade razors, and you don't have to obsess over technique like with the old-fashioned safety razor. I've never found that mastering technique requires much of an obsession with a safety razor. You just drag it across your face at an angle. I mean, I guess with a multi-blade razor you can just jam it into your face carelessly, but the difference in skill levels required is pretty minimal. There's not really any difference in time required, either. If you don't want to use a brush, you can just use shaving cream. Or use nothing and do it in the shower! I have never understood the popularity of cartridge razors. Just looking at Amazon, you can buy almost 60 decent quality razor blades for the price of a single Gillette fusion blade.
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/airb...=0qWMF-mn-5C7k1quote:It should be said upfront that these models don’t favor the left or right. In fact, #BlackLivesMatter and Airbnb have built movements using essentially the same tactics that have made the NRA so effective. Understanding the mechanics behind today’s most successful movements is not only important for each of us as citizens or organizers, but also as entrepreneurs, marketers and executives. #airbnbmatters
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:How the hell does tumblr and twitter make any money? I never see any ads. Then again my ad blocker is on 90% of the time. neonnoodle posted:they don't H.P. Hovercraft posted:just get a nice heavyass merkur safety razor and a sharps container
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WampaLord posted:Pro-tip, if you want the Dollar Shave club blades without doing their stupid subscription model, you can look up Dorco USA, which is their supplier. Cheap rear end but decent quality blades in the Gilette style (4 blade, 5 blade, etc). Why does anyone bother with this dollar shave club bullshit anyway? 100 shark blades are like 9 bucks... https://www.amazon.com/SHARK-Super-Stainless-Double-Blades/dp/B00306PJD4/ref=sr_1_2_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1469038660&sr=8-2&keywords=shark+blades Buy a safety razor and a good soap and you're good for quite a while. Razor: https://www.amazon.com/Merkur-Long-...ds=safety+razor
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cheese posted:Is it really any different than getting into woodworking or baking gluten free muffins or growing 14 different kinds of dwarf chili's on your urban balcony garden? All things that you can feel free to make into a hobby, and all things that no one else wants to hear you talk about for 20 minutes at a party. There is an extra element of romanticized rugged manliness being sold to pasty, soft handed tech workers, but then again, selling products with clever advertising is as American as apple pie. No, it's more like making a hobby out of brushing your teeth or flossing
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Halloween Jack posted:No, but that's point. If I'm buying gluten-free muffins, the last thing I want to see on glutenfreemuffins.com is a screed about how gluten is the devil and meat is murder. If I'm buying peppers to grow in my container garden, I don't want pages and pages of Alex Jones style GMO paranoia. I do not want be lumped in with a subculture of sad idiots when I buy a product. Stinky_Pete posted:No, it's more like making a hobby out of brushing your teeth or flossing
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lest we forgetquote:You know when you were a kid and your dad was shaving and you'd pretend-shave beside him because you thought it made you look grown-up? Everything redditors do is that same talismanic grasping at symbols of adulthood and sophistication tinged with an air of desperately overthinking it while completely missing the point.
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Stinky_Pete posted:No, it's more like making a hobby out of brushing your teeth or flossing
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I use an artisnal, hand carved piece of birch like the old times
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nothing so gauche as USB my sonicare diamondclean charges via induction when i plop it inside of its glass cup
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Halloween Jack posted:I don't understand how you can make money from website ads. Shouldn't everyone be using ad blockers now? But then again, I don't know why anyone would buy something through spam email, but apparently enough people are doing it to make those businesses profitable. The money is in mobile web and more specifically free to play app installs. The payoff of landing a single whale who dumps hundreds or thousands of dollars into the game is so great that spending $1-4 per confirmed install is worth it. Until Apple changed it in iOS 9 apps used to be able to see what other apps were installed on a phone and both Facebook and Twitter scraped that data to target ads. Have Clash of Clans and/or Game of War installed and you'll get deluged with other free to play game ads. As far as I know that sort of snooping was never blocked in Android so I expect it to still be going on.
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Halloween Jack posted:I'll concede the possibility that the high-quality multi-blade razors shave closer and with no more irritation, as well as being easier. That's if you throw them away after using them once. But practically speaking, they're loving expensive, so people are reusing blunted blades with bits of hair and dead skin trapped in them. Ones where they can't actually see or control the edge of the blade like you can with a safety razor. No way, the cartridges don't go bad nearly as quickly as the double-edged razor blades. The cartridges are still good and are superior to even a fresh razor blade for many uses. The razor blades go bad really quickly--the Feathers I used to use would become noticeably blunt after one use and start irritating my skin. It is probably still more economical to use the old fashioned razor blades though. litany of gulps posted:I've never found that mastering technique requires much of an obsession with a safety razor. I strongly disagree--I've used both (I used an old fashioned safety razor for a couple of years since I had read on the internet that it was so great--I've since switched back to normal safety razors) and strongly prefer the cartridges. Shaving even using an old cartridge is easier, less irritating, and faster than the old fashioned safety razor. The brush and soap are better than the gels or creams IMO. I think a lot of people who sing the praises of shaving like we are still in the 1950's wrongly attribute the effect of the soap and brush to the safety razor.
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silence_kit posted:No way, the cartridges don't go bad nearly as quickly as the double-edged razor blades. The cartridges are still good and are superior to even a fresh razor blade for many uses. The razor blades go bad really quickly--the Feathers I used to use would become noticeably blunt after one use and start irritating my skin. It is probably still more economical to use the old fashioned razor blades though.
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There is a thread for shaving here it's a good thread, I read and post in it on occasion. This is not the thread for shaving, generally speaking.
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ShadowHawk posted:You can spend 200 dollars on a fancy electric toothbrush these days. It charges via USB! Might as well buy a cheapo battery powered one, they're all going to have a slurry made of toothpaste, saliva and plaque seep into them over the course of a year, even with proper cleaning and regular head replacement, so might as well get the cheapest option.
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Unguided posted:Might as well buy a cheapo battery powered one, they're all going to have a slurry made of toothpaste, saliva and plaque seep into them over the course of a year, even with proper cleaning and regular head replacement, so might as well get the cheapest option.
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How do you think Elizabeth Holmes shaves?
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:How the hell does tumblr and twitter make any money? I never see any ads. Then again my ad blocker is on 90% of the time. The Twitter model (that Pinterest copies) is promoted content. The idea is: 1) People tweet authentic junk about brand X on Twitter 2) Twitter notices that a specific tweet about brand X is doing well / could do much better with a little push 3) Twitter gets company X to pay them to promote the tweet (it goes at the top of news feeds, gets bit more visibility, and potentially spreads) It's not advertising in the traditional sense, but it's there. It's also way more automated than this general outline.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:How do you think Elizabeth Holmes shaves? With Hattori hanzo steel
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Emacs Headroom posted:The Twitter model (that Pinterest copies) is promoted content. The idea is: Those tweets are typically wholesale created by the brand prior to the launch of the advertising. Only extremely rarely would a non planned for promotion tweet recieve money once put into the market. Twitters revenue is pretty much all variations of promoted tweets with slight modifications such as unique ad types, their loving laughable emoji system, and Twitter moments.
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namaste faggots posted:With Hattori hanzo steel Folded over 9000 times?
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Folded over 9000 times? Into the abdomen, once, with violent sideways motion while she stares at her net worth report.
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9001 times, you mean.
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