• ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I assume you are joking but just in case you aren’t: no, regular sunglasses are never sufficient for protecting your eyes from an eclipse.

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    3 days ago

    my socks also lack video recording or generative AI integration. perhaps i should sell them to eBay

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    3 days ago

    I have a pair of prescription, self darkening lenses in cheap frames that look like the DDG ones, and no one has ever given me a second glance when I wear them in public places.

    • janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      On an only semi-related note, photochromics are super dope and are definitely one of those technologies that make me feel like I’m living in the cool future we were promised.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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        I thought that too for a while, but the shine has worn off of photochromics for me because all the ones I’ve owned have lasted grand total of about a year or in some cases less before they’ve worn out and no longer darken in the sun. The longest lasting chunk of the stuff I’ve ever managed to own was the visor on my motorcycle helmet, a Bell Qualifier DLX, but that also had the tradeoff of never actually getting dark enough to be useful so I had to wear normal sunglasses under it anyway which really rather defeats the purpose.

        Instead when I’m feeling particularly cyberpunk these days I bust out my old pair of CTRL shades. They have their own inherent drawback though, in that even though I managed to score my pair free through my job at the time I’m still afraid to do anything heavy duty while wearing them lest I break the damn things. That’s because it’d cost me $300 for another pair.

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        While we’re talking about glasses technology, it seems like oil resistant coatings have finally gotten really good. My eyebrows are pretty oily and would smear on the top middle corners of my glasses all the time. But my latest pair just has a tiny bit of smudging there. I can press them against my face and wiggle my eyebrows right against them and it’s still only a bit smudged.

  • danielfm123@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Dump people compensate with smart devices, they buy garbage trying to look smart.

    Any one with a smartwatch looks dumber to me…

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      People will constantly cry about the fact that I’m not putting on sunscreen while they’re going out in the sun without sunglasses.

      People are dumb. I could technically remove a cancerous mole myself, I can’t remove eye cancer myself. Or somehow unfuck my eyes once they’re damaged.

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          technically

          If I cut the arm that has the cancerous mole on it off - the skin cancer is gone. Granted, I was thinking more carving it out - you know, the way doctors do.

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            look up „metastasis“ if your cancer does this, you cant just remove an visible „mole“. Its a bad idea anyway but with metastasis its impossible

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            No. Do not do this. This is how you end up with terrible cancer that spreads. Doctors don’t just start hacking away to carve out skin cancer. You are absolutely delusional or terribly misinformed like the person above said if you think you can just cut off the cancer at home.

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              It quite literally is just hacking away you moron - my uncle has had hundreds of cancerous moles removed, they literally cut away more flesh than just the mole to ensure the cancer doesn’t spread.

              Fucks sake

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                This is you:

                I could technically remove a cancerous mole myself.

                Since you’re the smart one, and we’re all morons, I’ll defer to your expertise. You should totally just hack away at your suspected cancerous moles at home. Probably you should use a dull kitchen knife or whatever. Good luck!

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                  And you’re sitting here suggesting that I’m wrong about cutting your fucking arm off to get rid of cancer.

                  Of course I’m not advocating that someone back alley ripper docs the fucking cancer out you trog

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    I took the time to read the fine print, and these glasses appear to sense the vector of reflected light and specifically filter out waves with a horizontal orientation. The processimg power needed to do this will mean these must have an uncomfortably large battery or require frequent charging.