Good point!

Nope, some game called “IfSunSets” that I’m not going to try 🤷

My only regret.

Maybe that’s what they want.

But I do like to have choices (even if my ADHD does mean it takes me FOREVER to actually make a decision)

Welcome to my boat, my inattentive brother!*

Yeah, I was actually looking at Zenni Optical already. I’ve managed most of the prep, including setting up my virtual try-on and finding out how wide my glasses need to be (my overall head size including my fivehead is “gigantic” but apparently My face with is only “large” 😁) so now I just have super technical stuff to find out. So technical that I’d need to ask my optician.

How exactly am I gonna get someone who’s evidently paid partly on commission to give me the data I need to buy somewhere else? 🤔

*by which I mean that we’re in the same boat and I too have enormous trouble choosing things. Hell, I’m pretty sure I got the wrong prescription the last time because the uncertainty of my ADHD/anxiety combo made me so uncertain which image was clearer some of the time 😂

Pretty sure that it’s exposure. The question is “to be or not to be”

Escar go where, though?

Yeah, sounds like the lens situation is vastly different because Australia. I’m gonna look into seeing if I can’t find a much cheaper supplier online for my next and/or reserve pair in spite of my pain in the ass …

As for frame selection, that doesn’t really bother me as much since the one I got costs basically nothing compared to the lenses and looks good on me.

I just mentioned it to point out that the glasses weren’t so expensive because I’d foolishly gone for one of the name brand/designer frames 😁

The thing is that when you buy high quality boots, or knives, or whatever, they last a lifetime. When you buy low quality instead, you have to replace the item every couple of years and it ends up costing you considerably more overall.

I’m aware. It’s the Sam Vimes Boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness, named after a character in a Discworld novel who explains the concept even better than you just did.

Take your time, and build up a collection of high quality items that will last you forever.

That’s just it, though, I can’t. The socioeconomic unfairness part of the Boots theory is that poor people never have enough money available at once to buy the more expensive item that costs less in the long run.

To be able to save money by buying the good stuff that lasts a long time, you need a lot of money. Being poor means not having a lot of money and thus we have to to pay what’s known by some as the poverty tax by buying the cheap crap that ends up costing more in the long run.

It’s pronounced escrow

glasses don’t have to be expensive

Someone’s lucky enough to only need single strength lenses and/or have choices of lens suppliers.

My previous pair was single strength, cost me $60.

The ones I recently got are different strength in each eye and a reading field since I’m both near sighted and 41.

The new ones cost me almost 10 times as much WITH a Black Week discount. These aren’t designer glasses or anything. They’re the cheapest rims that could accommodate big enough lenses from the cheapest optician using the ONLY lens supplier available in Europe.

It’s a huge fucking scam and the only way to avoid being taken advantage of would have been continuing to have truly atrocious vision.

That’s quite an extensive list. Must be nice to be rich enough to afford the expensive version of so many things.

Always eerie how the llm outputs are literally indistinguishable from his usual rambling!

I wasn’t talking about llama AI, I was referring to the fact that Mark Zuckerberg isn’t a human.

Yeah, but he DOES have the necessary experience to know and he’s pointing out that there IS a flaw, so your hypothetical doesn’t apply to the actual case here.

They’re trying to use his license being temporarily lapsed to keep him from embarrassing them with the knowledge he’s had the entire time.

Let an AI speak on your behalf

No thanks. It’s bad enough that Zuckerberg is trying to take my data and spy on me, I’m not gonna make him my spokesperson too.

This random person from the internet agrees.

Entrenchment is an innately conservative attitude, though, and politically conservative people are a lot more likely to punish you for speaking truth to power.

Outside of your job though, the company you work for has no obligation to protect you as you aren’t acting as an agent of that company on your own time

They can and will fire you for posting things they don’t like on social media on your own time, whether you’re right or wrong, though. With the justification that you ARE acting as a representative of the company.

If I had a dollar for every time someone got fired for saying anything remotely supportive about Palestine or criticizing cops for being bastards, I’d have enough to buy Boston.