I like that the article consistently refers to Meta as what it is, an adtech giant that also runs social media platforms rather than the other way around.

Except in this version, Dr Jekyll is less a severely irresponsible chemist and more of a medical doctor who likes baking and doesn’t let bananas go to waste.

Biting the corrupt lord is the win condition

Just like real life!

Except for the Brother printer everyone has.

This is Deep Gnome erasure

Far from it, dude.

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 😁

Thank you! ❤️

What is this from? After seeing the “both’s good” gif a billion times and now this, I HAVE to know!

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.

Hybrid is not electric, it’s not ICE either, that’s why it’s called Hybrid!

Hybrid means “both this and that”, not “neither this nor that”. I’m pretty sure kids learn that in elementary school, middle school at the very latest 🤦

You’re also wrong about the rest but I don’t care enough about your nonsense to go into further detail.

P1: Nat 20!

P2: Initiative roll and you have a negative modifier

A Koeniggsegg handles much better and is well-built, though. It’s meant for the track and it does that well.

In contrast, a Tesla Model S is an unnecessarily quick and overpriced family car with a dubious safety record due in part to having the build quality of a Yugo.

I’m saying that there’s being open minded, which is a good thing, and then there’s wasting your time trying to talk sense into people blinded by hero worship/follower identify to the point of being unreachable and/or arguing in bad faith.

The latter is a bad thing that I’m trying to become better at avoiding but am doing right now with you and was doing before with Definitely Not A Fan Boy Nuh-uh.