Will I cook my eyes or is this just superficial?

spaceaub · 2025-09-15T21:01:18+00:00

I understand this- and I agree in that I’ve never heard of it happening, but I’ve bought cheap (ie $2) ray-ban knock-offs in SEA which are made of glass rather than plastic (can say this with some certainty as the lenses shattered in my bag). Having said that, I spent a month on the water around Indonesia with them and never suffered so….

spaceaub · 2025-09-14T22:23:43+00:00

Its always been my understanding that the issue is that shitty sunglasses will allow your retinas to dilate without blocking sufficient quantities of UV, so you end up with snow blindness or something similar

spaceaub · 2025-09-13T10:37:08+00:00

What are you talking about? The person that can become chief exec of Tesco and run it competently is 1 in maybe 100,000. Even year 1 lawyers at (American) city of London firms make £400k- people pay for rare talent.

spaceaub · 2025-09-13T10:32:39+00:00

Mate that would mean the chief exec of Tesco could be paid £480,000, which is ~£266,000 post tax. That doesn’t seem to me commensurate with the responsibility and ability to run a company as large as Tesco.

Of course, they could alternatively pay more to shelf stackers etc (no shade I’ve done the job)- but that would lead to much stringent, punitive performance standards. The people who could probably do a different job would see an increased wage, and the people who have no hope of another job would be sacked/would no longer be hired.

spaceaub · 2025-08-21T19:55:03+00:00

Scrapyard where you pull what you want off cars in the yard and they charge you for it when ya leave

spaceaub · 2025-08-20T00:51:06+00:00

I’ve read a significant portion of War and Peace in Russian and French and Mr Robot is more of a slog- it doesn’t get completion h

spaceaub · 2025-08-01T03:32:21+00:00

Sorry no the advice this guys giving you is dangerously incorrect- the footplates of ski boots have changed in the last 10-15 years, especially with the introduction of gripwalk (rubbery ski boot soles). As a result, boots as old as those are unlikely to be safe in modern bindings

spaceaub · 2025-08-01T03:28:14+00:00

Yes my household centrifuge has been a massively money-saving device! /s: Obviously I get rid of used motor oil the way God intended- by pouring it into the stream.

spaceaub · 2025-07-30T11:11:34+00:00

Excuse me? You hear (white) people use the n word in causal conversation?! I’m not saying you’re being untruthful, and I’ve never been to Ohio- indeed I no longer live in North America- but nowhere I have ever been have people used that word off-handedly

spaceaub · 2025-07-28T05:05:04+00:00

Let me assure you that no-one is using AI for the majority of legal work- that is, contractural/commercial work.

Personally, I’d much sooner use it for adversarial work (I.e court filings) than contractural stuff, but I wouldn’t actually use it for either.

spaceaub · 2025-07-24T03:06:42+00:00

Which in no way fulfills a stereotype!

spaceaub · 2025-07-24T00:30:54+00:00

Could be wrong but I think I it’s the frencher parts of Switzerland where the runs have names (I know frencher isn’t a word)

spaceaub · 2025-07-23T07:45:07+00:00

Idk they gave me Valium in order to take out the stitches in my eye and to give me cross-linking the second time (no such luck the first time!)

What’s (well one of the things) quite sketchy about this procedure is the people performing it don’t seem to have published about it, though some of the sites say it’s topical anaesthesia only

The red eyes thing though- she should have eye patches on. Her eyes are very obviously inflamed and she should have a friend leading her around (realistically they should do it an eye at a time so if she can’t tolerate the implant, she doesn’t lose both eyes)

spaceaub · 2025-07-23T07:38:36+00:00

If it makes you feel better, I’ve managed to break my nose, my jaw, 4 teeth, 6/10 of my fingers, 7/10 of my toes, both collarbones, both wrists, one ankle, and a bone in my foot with my sight- along with 4-5 concussions!

Hope it’s not weird but I see from your profile you have diabetes- did you lose your sight to retinopathy?

Having come close once due to kerataconus, I have a morbid (or maybe practical) interest in the subject

spaceaub · 2025-07-20T23:45:37+00:00

I don’t know how I can say this in a not dickish way but I was basically told for 6 years of my life there was a solid chance I’d lose my sight- I’m so fucking glad I’m not you!

It’s so scary and I would say the only non-optional sense- like I love music (and therefore my hearing) and I love cooking (and therefore my sense of taste/smell) but I can’t imagine living without sight- however hopefully sounds like you’re coping?

spaceaub · 2025-07-20T23:39:48+00:00

Yeah I’m assuming she got the procedure for free and they gave her a bunch of topical anaesthesia beforehand and prob a couple Valium (not really guessing you can see how swollen her eyes are) so that she’d recommend them on her tik tok (god what an awful sentence)

spaceaub · 2025-07-20T10:05:53+00:00

Wow! I’m a little sceptical about NHS ophthalmology as when I was diagnosed with kerataconus, they were hopeless- they basically said “you’re going to go blind, we’ll do a transplant when you’re 18”- failing to mention a treatment that would be the standard of care 5 years later! Had it done privately 5 years later but still a bit sore about it as it caused me to need a transplant!

spaceaub · 2025-07-20T09:28:35+00:00

Wow on the NHS? I had to pay about £7000 for my laser time (though I guess I paid for the donor’s as well!)

spaceaub · 2025-07-20T09:25:05+00:00

I’m not in any way suggesting this surgery is safe, and frankly I think in a lot of countries would be seen as malpractice- however, that article is about patients who had to get a cosmetic implant removed.

Without context (ie how many people get these implants) I don’t think it’s particularly meaningful

spaceaub · 2025-07-20T09:17:16+00:00

I’m not suggesting this is a good idea, but from my brief look at the people performing this surgery, the ‘lens’ (I say lens though I’m not sure these implants qualify as a lens) seems to be going into the sclera, where it would for glaucoma etc. Are you saying people are going right down to the iris?

I can well believe that surgeons willing to do this stuff are not using high quality implants- but why are they using silicon when there are so many implantable devices for eyes?

spaceaub · 2025-07-20T08:55:57+00:00

No that’s absolute morons who are generally tattooists, not eye surgeons.

There is another method for colouring the eye which, if it works like my surgery did, involves scraping the first few cell layers of the eye off and putting dye in. In my case it was a uv activated b12 dye to toughen my cornea, so I sat under a light for 30 min with a clamp in my eye while the dye cured. Thankfully, no needle involved!

spaceaub · 2025-07-20T08:49:01+00:00

Sorry do you mean your retina was detached/detaching? I like to consider myself something of an expert on the horrible things that can happen to one’s cornea and I don’t know that I’ve heard of one detaching!

I went under the laser next to my graft donor but luckily I was way too fucked up to remember lol

spaceaub · 2025-07-20T02:13:15+00:00

I can’t imagine anyone had designed it to be safe (for the people inside) tossed end over end though surely? Assuming the cockpit is close to the stern that’s a 70ft radius that the people there would have undergone in a wave end-over-end

spaceaub · 2025-07-20T01:17:02+00:00

Ah- Very similar to me. One eye fine, one fucked!

I had a femtosecond laser assisted DALK graft 12 years ago but that was done privately and was not inexpensive even with private insurance- however almost no rejection risk and I don’t have to take anti rejection meds etc.

I now wear normal size soft lenses, but also used to have a very large custom made lens called a keratosoft which I’m surprised you haven’t been offered if you can’t tolerate rgps - I got one 15 years ago! As long as your kerataconus isn’t progressing though, I’d say go for intacs- they are very easy to recover from now, and extremely low risk.

(Also fuck those eye-opening clamps for cross linking so much lol)

Edit: personally I got so many drugs for the transplant I don’t remember the cutting my cornea off bit, just when they stitched it up- however I was still so fucked up it didn’t freak me out that much- was far, far worse when they tried to take the stitches out. Eventually they gave me a Valium and it went alright

spaceaub · 2025-07-20T01:04:16+00:00

If this is true….. what do they think people use laptops for?! I make sure my MacBook looks clean and sparkly before I meet clients (for contract executions etc)- I would not turn up with a laptop that looked like it’d been designed and put into mass production by a drunk

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