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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I refused blue light filter on my glasses, and the eye spectacle shop was shocked

    I just ordered new specs and the opto was the same way. But, they were happy with the two pairs of presbyopic myopic astigmatic wtf-priced lenses I got - one tuned ‘near’ for terminal work - and sent me on my way with a valid PD … which I’m gonna have checked before sending it off to Zenni for the super-high-index daily-drivers with those sweet-sweet Mongolia-made lenses we all know the regular optos are using anyway.






  • I hope the max dies.

    Not because of the risks. The issues with it are important and any plane with those problems needs to go.

    Specifically the max8 and max9, though. The option for that plane to make it the most cramped, uncomfortable, unhealthy plane in existence - the only option seemingly chosen by purchasers - means it has to go.

    For Christ’s sake, I needed to use the rear loo and the separation between my shoes in the loo and the Stew’s shoes in the galley was … A restroom partition with no bottom. No shit; well, full disclosure, much data was released. And they had to suffer it and then deliver snacks to passengers. It was embarrassing, horrible, unsafe; it was barbaric because I wasn’t well. I could see their shoes not a foot from mine, and there was no visual or audio barrier between us; certainly no air barrier.

    Those planes need to go. The person who dreamt up that configuration and offered it must be humiliated by the Hague.

    Okay. Rant over.







  • I wouldn’t be suprised if it was a feature of tribalism[:] Imagining [scenarios] in an attempt to prepare for them.

    Tribalism or just humanity: we are almost set apart by our ability to imagine scenarios and “pre-game” our response. If this was a mechanism to cope with fear of new things or wariness around a risky situation, it’d totally make sense.