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Yes, modern razors are a scam; they have AMAZING marketing teams. You still can buy old-style razors and blades cheap from Amazon because there's still a health

Yes, modern razors are a scam; they have AMAZING marketing teams. You still can buy old-style razors and blades cheap from Amazon because there's still a healthy demand. As for the rest of the article: > Cooking equipment: essentially indestructible Cast Iron skillets transition into teflon pans. The newer pans perform worse, and must be replaced on a shockingly regular basis. They also seem to be poisonous. No, no, and no. Teflon pans perform wonderfully, are replaced maybe every 10-20 years depending on workmanship if you don't scratch them up with metal utensils, and are not poisonous unless you're eating the flakes from your scratched up pans. > Nespresso machines, and other coffee pod brands, replace many styles of coffee brewing. Provide much worse coffee, at a higher price but are superficially convenient. They produce good coffee in many styles that would normally require a lot of work, and are MASSIVELY convenient. Press a button and a couple of minutes later, your cup of coffee is ready to drink. > Televisions moving from being screens which accept input, to self contained 'smart' devices that require software updates and thus have a shortened useful lifespan. Their lifespan is unchanged. You can continue to use them as "dumb" screens using HDMI input and plug in an external device. You can also buy a smart TV and never connect it to the internet. > In many inner city shops it is now hard to buy an individual piece of fruit. For some fruit maybe, but if the point is saving money, why are you buying individually? > Subscription services like Hello Fresh, where you can pay well over the odds to have some vegetables delivered to you. So buy them from the market like we've been doing forever. If you're lazy and rich, use these delivery services. You have choice.

tehwebguy 5y ago
> > In many inner city shops it is now hard to buy an individual piece of fruit. > For some fruit maybe, but if the point is saving money, why are you buying individually? Because fruit rots.
- kstenerud 5y ago
  It takes a week or more depending on the fruit. If that's happening, eat more or buy less. This is such a first-world problem.
  - notreallyserio 5y ago
    How do you buy less than one piece of fruit? Isn't that what you're arguing against?
  - tehwebguy 4y ago
    I don’t know what you are trying to say, but for clarity: people want to buy the amount of fruit / vegetables they will actually use between the time they buy it and the next time they plan to shop. Not everything they plan to eat / make will necessarily call for the same produce. Plenty of produce doesn’t last a week from when you buy it and this varies based on where and when you buy it. As an example, a few apples might last for over a week. A package of raspberries might last 4 days. An avocado that is ripe may last 2 days.
jl6 5y ago
> not poisonous unless you're eating the flakes from your scratched up pans If you do happen to scratch the pan, surely the resulting flake is very likely to go into the food, and you’re then very likely to eat it?
- kstenerud 5y ago
  Maybe I'm an outlier, but I have never ever ever ever ever scratched a teflon pan. But then again I use wooden and silicone utensils.
- flaviut 5y ago
  OP is incorrect, eating flakes is perfectly safe. The whole point of Teflon is that the bonds are so strong that it will not react chemically with anything else, including your insides. Scratching it up is just you damaging your stuff, not a safety risk. The safety problem with Teflon is when it is overheated. Don't heat a pan without anything in them, because then the Teflon will decompose into some really toxic chemicals. Good news is that water boils at 100C, an even the highest smoke-point oils decompose at 250C. Teflon only begins to deteriorate at 260C, and only full-on decomposes at 350C.
dragonwriter 5y ago
> Their lifespan is unchanged. No, even aside from the smart thing, modern panels don't last nearly as long as CRTs. They are so much better in every other way, though.
- kstenerud 5y ago
  I'm still using a 15 year old Philips panel TV in the bedroom. Works as well as the day I bought it. I've had CRTs go out of alignment faster than that (RCA and Panasonic were particularly bad with that).
- LorenPechtel 5y ago
  I'm reading this on a panel that's at a *minimum* 17 years old. I think it's older than that. The newer panels are nicer but since this is a 19" and they don't make nice 19" panels anymore I can't upgrade them. (I also have a 27" Dell Ultrasharp--it's superior, but it doesn't come in 19" and 19" has the largest pixels--nice for older eyes.)
turtledove 5y ago
Teflon pans are awful. I've moved back to cast iron and steel pans and life has gotten so much better.
jchw 5y ago
> Their lifespan is unchanged. You can continue to use them as "dumb" screens using HDMI input and plug in an external device. You can also buy a smart TV and never connect it to the internet. That does not mean that the smart features will not work tirelessly against your attempt to use the device as a dumb display. Menus you don’t want, EULA prompts that cover almost the entire UI, and weird spottiness in the CEC support that one can only assume is designed to fuck with you. And it’s buggy! It’s really buggy. On one of my TVs, I have to hold the power button down to entirely reboot it frequently for it to see the HDMI signal on one of my outputs. Otherwise.. it just sits on a gray screen. Sometimes I also get a loading spinner (!?) or, despite it having been set up for about a year, a “detecting device, please wait” message. I have manually set the type of device to PC on both of the TWO HDMI ports (yes, two, hope you have your own HDMI switch.) Of course, there’s no convenient way to hook up speakers to these modern marvels of technology. At least not the speakers you already own. If you want to stick to what the manufacturer wants, you need an HDMI ARC port and a soundbar: a worse speaker that sounds like shit and costs more and sometimes might only fully work with some TVs. It eats an entire HDMI port, though some of them provide it back to you less conveniently. I see your optimism, and I raise my burning inferno of rage towards smart TVs.
- kstenerud 5y ago
  I once bought a TV that tried to work against me (Samsung). I returned it after a few days and bought one that didn't (Sharp). This one's great! It has all the IO ports, starts quickly, and reopens the last input you selected (my Android TV box). I can even control the whole shebang from just my old Amazon Fire TV controller (it's a mix of bluetooth and IR). Take the time to test your devices, and return them if they don't meet your needs. I've also had CRTs in the past that disappointed and I had to return. Fortunately, these modern TVs are light enough for one person to move.
  - jchw 5y ago
    No CRT has tried to work against me; they just, at worst, suck. I do have a trinitron in my basement that has Zero of these problems, of course! Now of course I can return my Samsung TVs, but I do test my devices somewhat, and Samsung seems to have the best overall TVs, looking at aspects like value, panel quality, latency in game mode, etc. Other models I’ve tried (Vizeo, whatever the hell Best Buy sells generically) have been very disappointing. Sony screens are probably much better, but cost an absolute FORTUNE.

tehwebguy 5y ago

> > In many inner city shops it is now hard to buy an individual piece of fruit. > For some fruit maybe, but if the point is saving money, why are you buying individually? Because fruit rots.

kstenerud 5y ago
It takes a week or more depending on the fruit. If that's happening, eat more or buy less. This is such a first-world problem.
- notreallyserio 5y ago
  How do you buy less than one piece of fruit? Isn't that what you're arguing against?
- tehwebguy 4y ago
  I don’t know what you are trying to say, but for clarity: people want to buy the amount of fruit / vegetables they will actually use between the time they buy it and the next time they plan to shop. Not everything they plan to eat / make will necessarily call for the same produce. Plenty of produce doesn’t last a week from when you buy it and this varies based on where and when you buy it. As an example, a few apples might last for over a week. A package of raspberries might last 4 days. An avocado that is ripe may last 2 days.

jl6 5y ago

> not poisonous unless you're eating the flakes from your scratched up pans If you do happen to scratch the pan, surely the resulting flake is very likely to go into the food, and you’re then very likely to eat it?

kstenerud 5y ago
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I have never ever ever ever ever scratched a teflon pan. But then again I use wooden and silicone utensils.
flaviut 5y ago
OP is incorrect, eating flakes is perfectly safe. The whole point of Teflon is that the bonds are so strong that it will not react chemically with anything else, including your insides. Scratching it up is just you damaging your stuff, not a safety risk. The safety problem with Teflon is when it is overheated. Don't heat a pan without anything in them, because then the Teflon will decompose into some really toxic chemicals. Good news is that water boils at 100C, an even the highest smoke-point oils decompose at 250C. Teflon only begins to deteriorate at 260C, and only full-on decomposes at 350C.

dragonwriter 5y ago

> Their lifespan is unchanged. No, even aside from the smart thing, modern panels don't last nearly as long as CRTs. They are so much better in every other way, though.

kstenerud 5y ago
I'm still using a 15 year old Philips panel TV in the bedroom. Works as well as the day I bought it. I've had CRTs go out of alignment faster than that (RCA and Panasonic were particularly bad with that).
LorenPechtel 5y ago
I'm reading this on a panel that's at a *minimum* 17 years old. I think it's older than that. The newer panels are nicer but since this is a 19" and they don't make nice 19" panels anymore I can't upgrade them. (I also have a 27" Dell Ultrasharp--it's superior, but it doesn't come in 19" and 19" has the largest pixels--nice for older eyes.)

turtledove 5y ago

Teflon pans are awful. I've moved back to cast iron and steel pans and life has gotten so much better.

jchw 5y ago

> Their lifespan is unchanged. You can continue to use them as "dumb" screens using HDMI input and plug in an external device. You can also buy a smart TV and never connect it to the internet. That does not mean that the smart features will not work tirelessly against your attempt to use the device as a dumb display. Menus you don’t want, EULA prompts that cover almost the entire UI, and weird spottiness in the CEC support that one can only assume is designed to fuck with you. And it’s buggy! It’s really buggy. On one of my TVs, I have to hold the power button down to entirely reboot it frequently for it to see the HDMI signal on one of my outputs. Otherwise.. it just sits on a gray screen. Sometimes I also get a loading spinner (!?) or, despite it having been set up for about a year, a “detecting device, please wait” message. I have manually set the type of device to PC on both of the TWO HDMI ports (yes, two, hope you have your own HDMI switch.) Of course, there’s no convenient way to hook up speakers to these modern marvels of technology. At least not the speakers you already own. If you want to stick to what the manufacturer wants, you need an HDMI ARC port and a soundbar: a worse speaker that sounds like shit and costs more and sometimes might only fully work with some TVs. It eats an entire HDMI port, though some of them provide it back to you less conveniently. I see your optimism, and I raise my burning inferno of rage towards smart TVs.

kstenerud 5y ago
I once bought a TV that tried to work against me (Samsung). I returned it after a few days and bought one that didn't (Sharp). This one's great! It has all the IO ports, starts quickly, and reopens the last input you selected (my Android TV box). I can even control the whole shebang from just my old Amazon Fire TV controller (it's a mix of bluetooth and IR). Take the time to test your devices, and return them if they don't meet your needs. I've also had CRTs in the past that disappointed and I had to return. Fortunately, these modern TVs are light enough for one person to move.
- jchw 5y ago
  No CRT has tried to work against me; they just, at worst, suck. I do have a trinitron in my basement that has Zero of these problems, of course! Now of course I can return my Samsung TVs, but I do test my devices somewhat, and Samsung seems to have the best overall TVs, looking at aspects like value, panel quality, latency in game mode, etc. Other models I’ve tried (Vizeo, whatever the hell Best Buy sells generically) have been very disappointing. Sony screens are probably much better, but cost an absolute FORTUNE.