Like I know legality has no meaning anymore, but isn’t that like, really a lot more illegal in a way that there are standards that can’t be ignored? Retaliation against a whistleblower?

Anyone in Texas know how to etch brass?

Piefedophiles

I appreciate the consistency of the PA controller, but I can not for the life of me remember which side is square and circle. Been fuckin me up since 2002

The Xbox layaout should be the standard. Nintendo changes their controllers drastically every generation, so they have no standard, and even on the GameCube, A was the “default” button. The Xbox controller hasn’t changed the four main buttons in 24 years, and PC followed suit. It’s already the standard, and anyone who would be bothered by a set standard only hurts unification, and will get over it eventually.

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.

By avoiding the companies that made everything confusing and filled the world with misinformation and buzz words. No chain stores, no online retailers, no budget places.

Find a local optometry office, and get your script and lenses from the same place. Don’t fall for branding, and understand you’re getting a prosthetic. You’re going to wear these every day for a long time, and you’re picking how well you’ll see.

Online and budget retailers have made billions by convincing the average person glasses are a scam, and that they’re all the same. Insurance companies save a lot of money by propagating the same misinformation.

The big players and chains, luxottica, marchon, warby, vsp, etc. Refuse to let anyone know the real technology they use in their lenses, because if you only know their branded buzzy term, you can’t ask for the correct product from a competitor. You can’t find out that they buy their designs, and don’t actually produce anything.

Anyone with a c suite of people to pay has to cut costs somewhere to pay out million dollar bonuses. They hike up costs and cut quality, and want to make sure you think oakley and rayban are high quality when they’re just marketing.

Years ago, some optometrists started something akin to a union to fight back against luxottica buying everything. That group was called vision source, and then, as the biggest fuck you in the history of optics, luxottica fucking bought vision source a few years ago.

On the other side, Anyone advertising two pairs for 89$ can’t afford professionals. You’ll never get the kind of optician referred to above from somewhere like that. With my knowledge base, if my offices went under right now, I would have every office around beating down my door to get me in, so why would I ever agree to put up with corporate bullshit, or working commision? But they stay in business by making sure everyone thinks all glasses are the same, so you’d be wasting your money if you went anywhere else.

There’s a few points to note

-there are 1500 different progressive lenses, and a lot of stire are still selling 35 yeae old lenses. You get what you pay for, and avoid chains.

-the eyeglass industry is full of reps who think they’re professionals, but don’t actually know fuck all about how they work. What the other person said about measurements is way more obvious with a progressive. Because of this, online progressives are dogshit.

-if you’re a hyperope, it takes more time to get used to the lenses. Plus prescriptions add more distortion, so it takes longer to adapt.

-the age you got the first progressive makes a huge difference. If you get one at 42, you’ll have a much easier time than if you wait until 60, because the reading addition keeps getting stronger and causes more distortion. Side note, if you’re over 42, you should be wearing a progressive. Stop lying to me and yourself.

-it takes about two weeks to feel natural, but you have to wear the glasses, and not switch back to an older pair. If you don’t put in the effort, you’ll be the old person with lines. If you wear them for two weeks and don’t get used to them, theres something wrong with the lens.

• get a premium, dual sided antireflective. Plus power lenses have more space between the surfaces, and double the effects of glare on the lens.

-don’t take advice from anyone you know, youtube, or especially reddit. Nobody knows any of the actual science behind optics, they just keep parroting things that sound legit. Even supposed professionals in my industry are goddamn idiots, including most licensed opticians i know. The only sources of info that can be trusted are lifelong lab managers, and the people designing the products and systems of manufacture. Everyone else spouts buzzwords like they know what they’re saying, or they saw a video once.

I’m an advanced optician running three offices and a lab, working towards my masters designation, and i’m infuriated to be one of the last professionals in this industry.

ER used proper medical science most of the time, Greys anatomy was just saying medical terms and making shit up.

Honestly, fine, if it gets it through. He’s not gonna make it much longer anyway, and he’s doing it either way.

Sounds like a problem with minimum wage then

Mine is not based on my history as I run eOS and don’t allow any form of tracking, including through the three different keyboards I run, none of which are any good.

Someday I’ll find the one, but until then I’ll either mistype, get bad autocorrects, or have to hunt for what I thought were basic symbols.

I just want whatever my old moto had damnit

My keyboard autocorrected it twice, so I gave up and let it spell it wrong, assuming my point would stand either way, since it holds no bearing on the rest of the comment.

I run three offices, and I can tell you we don’t get any of that money. In fact we pay out the ass for whatever bullshit tech company was forced on us by insurance lobbyists to make you see those ads, while they also make the questionaires unreasonably long and uneditable so they can data harvest and make another dollar after tech fees, Ad revenue, service charges, and insurance payments.

But we can’t just not use them, because every new regulation is a 60,000$ fine, and they send ghost patients at least once a quarter to try and catch violations to rules they lobbied to make as difficult as possible to conform to.

My EHR system is 1700$ per month per office, and it has only made everything much slower and less personal, while forcing me to constantly do tech support for half of our patients.

Hippa is supposed to protect us from the data harvesting, but since the insurance companies own the tech, device, ad, and service companies, as well as most offices, they don’t have to sell your data, because they’re the ones who want it.

Only on expensives items or antiques. I don’t like it, but it seems to be expected on marketplace. I’m so used to people haggling I post everything 25% higher than the amount I actually want or expect.

That being said, I always think it’s funny when someone posts obo on their item. If the price is 700 obo, why the hell would I offer you 700?

Amother organism or person needs to be predictable to be trusted.someone or something acting in an unpredictable manner means it may suddenly decide you’re a threat. We evolved in a world before science and medicine, where any injury could mean death. Even the most unstoppable animals, bears, elephants, moose, will bluff charge a threat rather than immediately attack, because fighting risks injury, regardless of how unbalanced the fight is. I can’t win a fight against any of those animals, but I can bite it while it’s killing me. A full thickness bite wound is all but guaranteed to cause an infection, which may kill or disable.

Humans are also social creatures, and we run on cultural norms that make it easier to trust that the person next to you in a restaurant won’t suddenly stab you, even though he is holding a knife.

A major cultural difference can make others seem dangerous in a primal way. We know through interaction that other cultures are not more dangerous, but that primal unease of being surrounded by people from a different tribe is still in there somewhere.

In my opinion, this is why racism is so hard to root out. A lot of it is taught by others, but it’s not a negligible amount tied to fear of anything different.

Ochre