Yes, but i save things far more often than i comment.

This seems ideal.

My comment has no substance because I just want to find this post easily later.

The concept of wooden things with LEDs and simple devices is cool, but the absolute last thing you want in a wooden object is about two liters of water.

If you aren’t aware of them, look into scleral contacts. They’re large lenses you fill with saline before putting in, so they bypass your cornea entirely. They’re not cheap, but they last for years and give you vision that’s much better than normal lenses.

I doubt and double check every belief I hold, I was taught marketing early so I avoid it at all costs, I haven’t watched TV since 2005, and I put no value in perceived authority, so I can’t fall for podcasted bullshit.

There are some valid reasons I can entertain that 9-11 was either planned by the US, or at least allowed to happen without interference. I don’t have a strong belief either way, but I’m open to conversation.

I will not, however, engage with someone who brings up jet fuel melting beams. You sound like a dolt, and the exact mechanism of destruction doesn’t factor into the matter.

Looks like a binding of Isaac boss

Cross out “of PC gaming” and you got it.

Remember kids, you can’t be a good communist if you don’t have any skills. We already have people well practised at arguing on the internet.

I’m pretty sure Tool wrote something about that

While I loath windows, I would still put it above Mac if only for the ability to put windows on whatever you want. Even if Mac is more polished, the fact that it only works reasonably on vastly overpriced, mostly unrepairable hardware kills any appeal it would have. Add in apple’s tendency to gimp devices as if a three year old machine is at deaths door, and I’ll go to a customized windows os every time.

Also the gaming thing. It’s not pinnacle, but it’s also not trivial.

An organized protest to demand target make a statement? Is this the new guerilla marketing? It seems like there are a few more important things going on than what target thinks. Brands are the enemy of humanity. They will support corporate fascism over anything else. Best case scenario here is they lie about it.

I have a hypothesis that the chat client hasn’t updated, and sending the message forces it to check, and finds out the person disconnected before you sent the message.

Either that or you’re whack as fuck and nobody wants to deal with it.

His Sonion

My computer has been torn down for a while due to a move and renovations, but as soon as I set it up again, the first order of business is to migrate it to mint.

I’m the bad guy here, I’m aware. No one is doing as good of a job as they think. Everything is falling apart and everyone is getting dumber and every service and product is gettting worse, and everyone responsible for the decline seems to think imposter syndrome applies to them. I am a licensed proper professional, with a constant urge to learn more and better myself. It’s so rare to meet someone in my industry who isn’t faking it or going through the motions that I’ve made a point to stay in contact with anyone I meet who actually knows what the fuck they’re talking about.

That’s four people. In 11 years.

Companies send reps to my offices that can’t answer basic questions. Customer service for any company can’t help with anything. Websites for multibillion dollar companies have broken and missing links, and their tech support has no idea what the words I say to them even mean. Companies will try to set up meetings with me to buy their 100k machines or bring their new tech into my offices, and they can’t even tell me what it fucking does outside of promontory buzzwords that have no real meaning.

Classes I have to take to get CE credits every year are full of braindead dipshits with no hope of ever advancing their accreditation who don’t realize this isn’t high school and you’re not going to be given a multiple choice exam you can bluff your way through when you’re actively defending your right to have the title to the fucking board.

I rip these people apart when they try to do business with me. If you want to be seen as a professional, be a fucking professional.

Imposter syndrome is real, but the majority claiming they have it aren’t good enough to be an imposter. Someone in this world needs to know what the fuck they’re talking about, and i guess I have to be the one to expose anyone who doesn’t. So I’m the bad guy, the person the imposters are afraid of meeting.

Being polite would be a disservice to anyone who has to deal with the problems their incompetence will cause.

It’s not that optical pros are idiots, it’s that there are so few of them you’ll likely never meet one, and only a true professional can tell they’re full of shit. I can give advice if you’d like. I may be a rando saying Trust Me, but you’re not one of my patients, and we’ll never meet, so I have no reason to mislead.

Most nearsighted presbyopes can read without their glasses. Presbyopia isn’t losing the ability to see up close, it’s losing the ability to change your focal length. The point of a bifocal or progressive is so you don’t have to put on and take off your glasses to see things. You just wear them and can see everywhere.

The DMV only tests your distance vision. Reading starts going at 38, is noticable by 40, and becomes a problem at 42. Your ability to focus at different lengths dissipates as your lens hardens from years of growth. If you can read just fine at 44, your distance isn’t as good as you think. If you’re distance vision is fine, you’re the guy holding his menu at arms length in a restaurant.

You’ll notice when something is up when:

-your phone is hard to see unless you hold it out further.

-you ever find yourself complaining about fine print.

-driving at dusk or in the rain is uncomfortable.

-you get tension headaches at the base of your skull from squinting out your astigmatism.

If you have access to an itemized receipt, I can troubleshoot for you if you DM me. Worth noting, an add jump from 75 to 175 will make you swerve for a week, but it can be lessened by good measurments and high end lenses.

There’s not really any true low and medium level products. They’re just older products. The mid grade was the top of the line 15 years ago. The basic progressive at most places is probably a Shoreview, ovation, or adaptar. They were great lenses, in 1993. But every few years there’s a new breakthrough, and the high end lenses at most places are the newest tech. Don’t want to have trouble with computers? You need a lens designed after everyone started working on one. Feel like your phone gets distorted? You need a lens designed after smartphones became commonplace.