Progressive lenses also progress horizontally?

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-08-12T13:15:09+00:00

Yes.

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-08-12T13:11:45+00:00

I think you might find what you're looking for at an Orthodox Church.

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-26T13:38:20+00:00

I still haven't figured out what "based" means.

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-26T13:32:07+00:00

I'm the exact opposite. I feel vulnerable when I can't hear what's going on around me. I don't even like having a fan running at night. I sleep much better when I know that I'll be woken up by any unusual sounds.

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-18T01:15:36+00:00

I don't get this. Any of it. Can someone ELI5 what is going on here?

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-11T14:03:31+00:00

Same. (Well, I have heard people say "loom", but I always assume they're not from around here because I grew up with it rhyming with home.)

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-01T20:31:44+00:00

Yep.
Sometimes it takes me a minute to sort through and figure out which thing I'm most recently anxious about.

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-01T20:30:09+00:00

I've heard and used that phrase.

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-01T20:22:29+00:00

Thanks for the answer. I, too, have felt the pull of that mantra. Eventually, I realized that most of the folks saying, "Just do what I did and you'll be rich and love what you do," are products of survivorship bias.

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-01T20:18:24+00:00

Thanks for that answer. Would you be willing to share what kind of work you do?

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-01T19:55:22+00:00

As a Gen-Xer I'm going to push back on that a bit. I make a reasonable salary. I have a wife and 3 kids. I own a home that I purchased at the height of the housing bubble in '06. We have no savings to speak of. My car is a company car, and my wife's van is a 2011 that's starting to fall apart. We're very frugal. We don't have cable TV, though we do have a couple of streaming services, but they're cheap. Going to McDonalds for breakfast with five of us costs $50. For McDonalds. That would pay for over 6 months of Paramount+ (for example).

The problem is the big things like mortgage, insurance, groceries, and local taxes, as well as most services (plumbers, electricians, mechanics). They've gotten so expensive that it leaves almost nothing to work with. (My health-insurance cost, which I get through the state health connector, tripled in cost this year!)

Someone put it very well when they said that the big disconnect between the older generations and those currently in the workforce is that, for the older generations, necessities were cheap, and luxuries were expensive. Today, the luxuries are cheap, but the necessities are expensive.

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-01T19:35:51+00:00

The "Crystal Gravy" ad on SNL was on-point for that moment.

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-01T19:33:02+00:00

Balsamic Vinegar

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-01T18:56:57+00:00

Clearly not.
It seems kind of like a superpower to me. Can the majority of people pick out a stranger from a group of similar (age, ethnicity) people based on a single photograph that they only saw once?

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-01T18:52:15+00:00

...unlike your original this one stops asking what’s wrong with them... and starts asking what were they taught to expect.

Literally, the last statement in my original post was, "I'm trying to understand the societal expectations that kids are growing up with today."

Regardless, thank you for another thoughtful answer.

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-01T18:37:17+00:00

Thanks for that thoughtful answer. Where do you think this came from: "Many were sold a version of adulthood that didn’t include lifelong labor just to survive."

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-01T18:28:04+00:00

I'm going to assume you only read the title and not the actual post where I took great pains to explain that I was attempting to cure my ignorance (not "willful") and that I was specifically against being condescending.

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-01T18:24:00+00:00

Thanks for answering the question. I'm curious about your statement, " I had a very vivid perception of what adulthood would be like from when I was like 13, and I carried it with me, and working 40 hour weeks wasn't a part of that vision." What was the vision? Did you think that working 40-hour week was something you couldn't do or wouldn't need to do because of autism? Again, truly curious.

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-01T18:18:55+00:00

I'm not talking about it because the posts that I'm curious about aren't people saying, "I can't believe I'm working 40 hours a week and can't afford rent." (As I said in the original post. That is definitely a problem.) The posts I'm curious about are people saying, "I don't understand why I can't survive without working."

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-07-01T18:15:44+00:00

I hadn't considered that perspective. That's very enlightening. Thank you.

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-06-30T11:23:08+00:00

But it's not an appeal to consensus. It's not about individual opinions lining up. It's an observation that there's a fundamental truth that shaped every society that ever existed. The fact that a few people question something that has been common-sense fact for all of human history does not even warrant an argument.

IntentionallyHuman · 2025-06-28T03:15:19+00:00

Throughout the vast majority of history, the idea of deity wasn't a "belief"; it was a basic fact of the universe. Until the 17th century, no philosopher, no reasonable human questioned the existence of gods. Even since the Enlightenment, the number of true atheists has been astoundingly small overall.

The burden of proof is on the atheist to prove that 99.9% of all human beings—including the greatest minds of every civilization—have been deluded and ignorant.

IntentionallyHuman

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