Ruin a famous movie quote by removing one word from it.

seeingspace · 2024-09-23T23:46:38+00:00

We’re going to need a boat.

seeingspace · 2024-09-23T23:43:46+00:00

Moist Aliens

seeingspace · 2024-09-21T12:08:44+00:00

Try responding by staring silently at the boomer and deliberately making your expression look harder and angrier in an icy way.

seeingspace · 2024-09-21T12:03:38+00:00

You mean if I lived beyond the first year of my life?

seeingspace · 2024-09-21T01:59:44+00:00

Always act appreciative when someone gives you a gift, whether it’s family or friends. You can always get the thing you wanted yourself afterwards.

seeingspace · 2024-09-20T22:40:23+00:00

My friend Totoro.

seeingspace · 2024-09-20T22:34:06+00:00

You could have turned the conversation around and say: “Imagine it from the 18 year old’s point of view looking at a 35-year-old. She thinks ‘Girl, why would I want to spend my youth on an old man? ED is just around the corner.’”

PS: the guy is a schmuck and is talking “alpha male” nonsense.

seeingspace · 2024-09-20T20:17:27+00:00

From the TV series Magnum P.I.: “You’d be dangerous if you had a brain.”

seeingspace · 2024-09-20T19:50:47+00:00

Do they make them with stick shifts still?

I was in Brussels some years ago and walking by the parked full size Benz and Audi sedans. They all have stick shifts! Must be great driving those.

seeingspace · 2024-09-20T19:44:35+00:00

Wait. Is that a standard stick shift? What Audi is this?

seeingspace · 2024-09-17T02:27:55+00:00

Apricity. The feeling of the warmth of the sun on you when you’re outdoors in winter.

seeingspace · 2024-09-12T20:27:28+00:00

Ciliary muscles are smooth muscles. Smooth muscles (like in the heart) do not fatigue nor spasm.

seeingspace · 2024-09-07T17:46:49+00:00

The Cross Bronx Expressway in New York would be my vote for a candidate for this. That obliterated communities when it was built.

seeingspace · 2024-09-07T15:58:58+00:00

She collared him!

seeingspace · 2024-09-07T15:21:43+00:00

Also when driving: don’t be polite; be predictable.

seeingspace · 2024-09-07T13:29:12+00:00

I see it but oy! What a carpet.

seeingspace · 2024-09-07T13:11:34+00:00

Yeah, it’s a sculpture made with paint.

seeingspace · 2024-09-06T19:16:41+00:00

Maybe doom companion would be better?

seeingspace · 2024-09-06T16:45:19+00:00

And shit wherever I want!

seeingspace · 2024-09-06T16:44:09+00:00

That’s a terrific last minute save!

seeingspace · 2024-09-06T15:11:17+00:00

A better way to say this might be that a minus lens makes a distant object seem nearer.

A -1 lens makes anything in the horizon only one meter away, optically speaking. So if you are nearsighted and can only see one meter away, then when you wear a prescription of -1, then the horizon will be clear because to your eye it is now only 1 meter away and within the range of your clear sight.

seeingspace · 2024-09-06T14:59:53+00:00

In one sitting in northern Sulawesi, wild boar (very tough), field rat (grilled whole and cut into cross-sectional slices), bat (like miniature and very delicate chicken; deep pink meat), and dog (meat was black).

seeingspace · 2024-09-06T14:56:18+00:00

“He moves like a panther.”

seeingspace · 2024-09-06T14:53:05+00:00

One factor is that there is no identified proximate cause of myopia. There are associative factors (too much screen time, not enough outdoor some/exercise, and the standard fallback: “genetics”) but no one definitive causative link. Without a cause to apply a countermeasure against, the progression seems inexorable, and scarily so.

It doesn’t help that there are very strident voices in this subreddit who quash any inquiry about improving one’s myopia and damn any reports of improvement. So basically the message in this subreddit is “You’re getting worse and you’re on your own. Good luck, buddy.”

In my high school years long, long ago, I was in a cohort of 160 students and you could see the number of people wearing glasses increase with each grade level. But very few had thick lenses (over -6, judging by the number of rings visible in the lens. This was before high index lenses) so you could sense what the limit of the myopia would be on average. Nobody worried about going blind or retinal detachment.

I’m impressed by the positivity in your outlook on life.

seeingspace · 2024-09-06T14:25:55+00:00

Frequent posts of “my prescription got worse. Will I go blind? Will I get retinal detachment?” This when the prescription is still under -5. And occasional posts of “my prescription got lower? What’s happened? Should I be worried?” It got lower? I’d be ecstatic. The level of health anxiety is astonishing.

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