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  • If it’s the best soap you’ve ever used, that would negate the claim that soap is soap.

    Disagree, the difference is that there is stuff in it that isn’t soap… in the case of that powder soap being superior, it is the added borax that acts as a great detergent, but probably not something you want to use on your skin regularly. And sure, there can be different ratios of water to fats in soap or different fats (lard, tallow, olive oil, beeswax, etc) that do not saponify fully (no soap should be 100% saponified or it would be possible that there is still lye in it that was not used up in the chemical reaction) and give the product different qualities, but the soap in it is still just soap. Or it could be sodium hydroxide lye vs potassium hydroxide lye to make solid vs liquid soap, respectively.

    My comments are not really meant to be about hobbies but BS products marketed from massive corporations that are just adding more to our mountain sized landfills.


  • Soap is soap. I make my own soap from only 3 ingredients: lard (that I process from bacon grease, instead of throwing it out, and no it doesn’t smell like bacon once it’s been processed into pure lard), lye, and water; no fragarance or colors, and it’s one of the best soaps I have ever used (except for an old homemade powder soap that had borax in it, that stuff works miracles for cutting away the grease, dirt, and oil on my hands after working on the car. I wish I had the recipe). I make a years supply in one batch.

    BUT enjoy what you like, there’s nothing wrong with enjoying stuff. Mixing up fancy potions in a bowl with a brush sounds fun, but in wet shaving spaces online, people seem to lose their minds acting like this is what you NEED to do just to shave hair off your face



  • I just dry shave with a saftey razor and it’s still a closer and more comfortable shave than all this hyper-marketed plastic garbage with multiple shit quality blades. The razor was already perfected long ago, but quarterly growth demands landfills filled with trash.

    PS: there’s no reason for a saftey razor to be an expensive upfront cost unless you’re buying a huge bulk of blades upfront. Any cheap stainless steel handle will do, for practically the same cost as you’ll end up spending after the first time replacing this price-gouged plastic. A stainless steel saftey razor is priced at $10-$20 and will outlive you.

    PPS: it drives me up the WALL every time I see a Gillette “Labs” (🙄🙄🙄) commercial, as if there’s supposed to be some team of scientists and engineers in a laboratory experimenting with new ways to shape a piece of plastic. Who are they fooling??? They’re just a marketing company with a razor department.

    PPPS: all the “wet shaving” creams and lotions and balms and oils and lathering brushes and special towels and aftershave and who knows what are ALSO just marketing insanity. If you have an issue with razor burn, just apply a small amount of 100% aloe vera, which is soothing and naturally antibacterial (razor burn is just your immune system going to town on all the bacteria introduced to your skin by your likely dirty razor), after shaving. You can use a patch of denim from an old pair of jeans to sharpen a saftey razor if it feels rough on your skin.



  • in the past.

    Yep.

    that might be enough to vote for the Democrat

    You should ask yourself why you’re trying to get away with not delivering things that progressives want, or why you’re trying to deliver just enough things to coax their votes, but nothing more. Like, do you hear yourself?

    instead of the Republican who offers nothing?

    You think this is actually occurring in real life? They’re just not voting. And Republicans vote in enough numbers to beat the Democrat base every single time.

    “We can win without a progressive candidate, but the only Democrat candidate who has won in recent history is Biden, who was actually pretty progressive” Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…

    I mean if Biden is pretty progressive then I’d argue Obama’s 2008 campaign was too on the same scale, so… seems like the only time Democrats have won since basically the cold war was with progressive candidates… 🤷



  • The one-time $1400 payments following covid and a child tax credit is UBI? Oh, so you’re just being disingenuous…

    I think what you need to realize is that the Democrats genuinely need progressive votes in order to win, period. You do not have the numbers, otherwise. The progressives do not need Democrats in order to continue losing, they already are losing either way in a first-past-the-post voting system. That is just reality. You can forsake them and instead try to embrace “centrists”, but you’ll just lose, like 2016 and 2024.

    are fanatically loyal to the GOP. There is no question whether they will vote GOP in 2028 or 2032 or 2036.

    You’re also describing the “centrists” that Democrats waste their time courting…








  • none of them voted in the primaries this year

    … dude. The primary between Biden, the magic crystals lady, and some no name executive?? I did vote in it, and I also knew it was a total sham. What primary did Kamala Harris win? Oh right, not a single one… how can we possibly act surprised that a candidate did not win in a general election when they never even won a primary in their own party?

    The Democrat party has not held a valid and legitimate primary since 2008. Super-delegates that are literally pre-pledged to the elites’ chosen candidate is not valid democracy. Holding a primary in stages where specific states go first and sway and influence other states that go later is not valid democracy. You’re not going to win at democracy if you don’t even do democracy.

    🤡