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Inventor Builds Functioning Haircutting Robot - Nerdist:
We all have a special relationship with our personal barber or hairstylist. There's a certain level of trust and intimacy required to let someone consistently operate sharp instruments near our head and face. However, a global pandemic made us realize they are truly among the most important people in our lives. We need them. We. Need. Them. And one man's ingenious invention has proven just how true that is. He built an impressive, complicated machine that gives haircuts. But the insane amount of work required to build one isn't the main reason it's inferior to an actual human. Nor is it the obvious safety issues and incomplete haircut it provides. It's not even the fact that it's basically an advanced Flowbee.
It's the impersonal small talk.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday July 27 2020, @01:59PM
Yes, absolutely, but out there in the real world rather than this scruffy corner of the internet, to quote the bard: "vanity, vanity, all is vanity".
If I turn left at the end of my street, I'm greeted with a shoe shop, a trinkets shop (pure bling), a furs shop, an accessories shop (more bling), and a generic fashion shop, and I'm still not at the next junction. Care about ones appearance is one of the most important signals that hoi polloi like to fuss about.
Me, I'm a fucking scumbag, I haven't had a haircut in over 25 years, and haven't even been bothered to trim my split ends in about the last 15. But my partner of 22 years likes it, and I like it, so if it's a problem for anyone, it's only their problem, and they're welcome to it.
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