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Most of the wrinkles you'd prevent with poo poo like this are just going to be wiped out by all the wrinkles you're getting from worrying about whether using a drinking straw is making you look old  
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Salvor_Hardin posted:That Bahn Mi does look and sound pretty fuckin good though. For fourteen loving dollars it better.
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Nov 28, 2022 07:14
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https://twitter.com/Qban_Linx/status/1597139721570103296
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Didn't Canada end up in an awful situation where people have started using medical euthanasia to escape debt? Like, you don't end up in financial ruin from medical bills but you still get wrecked from not being able to work or pay rent while you're unwell.
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Nov 28, 2022 13:46
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No that's ridiculous. Just homelessness.
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Nov 28, 2022 13:53
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McCracAttack posted:Didn't Canada end up in an awful situation where people have started using medical euthanasia to escape debt? Like, you don't end up in financial ruin from medical bills but you still get wrecked from not being able to work or pay rent while you're unwell. no. what is happening is that disabled people can’t get enough money to live from the government (shelter, food, medical expenses) so they’re opting for euthanasia.
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COPE 27 posted:No that's ridiculous. Arivia posted:no. what is happening is that disabled people can’t get enough money to live from the government (shelter, food, medical expenses) so they’re opting for euthanasia. Yeah I was misunderstanding the particulars but this feels like the same root problem.
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McCracAttack posted:Yeah I was misunderstanding the particulars but this feels like the same root problem. I think we all know what the root problem is.
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PerniciousKnid posted:I think we all know what the root problem is. capitalism!
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Arivia posted:capitalism! poo poo I was thinking of The Jews but that makes way more sense.
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throw capitalism down the well so my country can be free
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PerniciousKnid posted:poo poo I was thinking of The Jews but that makes way more sense. International Bankers or (((International Bankers)))
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PerniciousKnid posted:poo poo I was thinking of The Jews but that makes way more sense. Canada’s big industries of global note are mining, logging, farming, oil and gas, and banking. Canada’s banks are incredibly strong, not very competitive with each other at all, and white as gently caress (not very jewish). no it’s capitalism for sure here.
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Throw the Westons down the well So my country can be free
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one problematic assumption of free market ideology is the idea of “rational actors”, that consumers, through some suspiciously unexamined mechanism, have access to perfect information about the real material value of goods and services which informs their buying preferences etc, etc. I’m looking into buying new glasses since mine are like 8 years old and totally scratched to hell. it’s been so long that there are some novel options available for lenses now (novel to me at least, or I just never noticed them before), one of which being “anti fatigue” lenses. Warby Parker says they’re the bees knees, but they’re not cheap and obviously I’m not going to just take their spiel at face value, so I google do anti fatigue lenses work. long story short, aside from the obligatory Reddit thread (which wasn’t particularly useful), and a research paper that sounds positive but is too technical for me to really parse, literally **every single result** seems to be for an online store selling glasses. perfect information, indeed! my google-fu could just be weak, i suppose. anyways I found that amusing. also, anyone know if anti fatigue lenses are bullshit or not? Orbis Tertius has issued a correction as of 17:49 on Dec 4, 2022 |
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Literally any company selling anything is gaming the Algorithm, leading to any googling of Products being straight up sales bullshit. I mean, except Google, they aren't so much gaming the Algorithm as tailoring it to their needs.
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BonHair posted:Literally any company selling anything is gaming the Algorithm, leading to any googling of Products being straight up sales bullshit. yeah I figure I’ll just have to talk to an optometrist. I just found the nearly complete absence of non-retailer search results amusing. online glasses retailers are apparently legion and they all have the same pitch (I know many are just fronts/rebrandings, still funny to me). has it always been this bad? Orbis Tertius has issued a correction as of 18:15 on Dec 4, 2022 |
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Are they just glasses that cut out the blue part of the spectrum? Cuz as far as I know all the research on that is very inconclusive and it's mostly just bullshit marketing.
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that's what i thought but it looks like they're just bifocals
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Orbis Tertius posted:yeah I figure I’ll just have to talk to an optometrist. I just found the complete absence of non-retailer search results amusing. online glasses retailers are apparently legion and they all have the same pitch (I know many are just fronts/rebrandings, still funny to me). has it always been this bad? Good luck trusting that the optometrist is not being influenced by lens manufacturers, either with straight kickbacks, industry events with fancy dinners or just falling for the same poo poo you're reading.
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Shame Boy posted:Are they just glasses that cut out the blue part of the spectrum? Cuz as far as I know all the research on that is very inconclusive and it's mostly just bullshit marketing. different thing but same idea. I was able to find actual articles on blue light lenses that weren’t trying to sell me on them, though.
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aren't all 700 glasses brands owned by the same company now or something?
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Weatherman posted:aren't all 700 glasses brands owned by the same company now or something? Yes, the same company that owns the store, and the lenses, and the optometrist's practice also, including most of the non chain stores.
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:that's what i thought but it looks like they're just bifocals not saying you’re wrong, and they might ultimately be the same practically speaking, but this paper (one of the only non-retailer sources I was able to find) makes me think the tech is new, at least, assuming it’s talking about the lenses in question.
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BonHair posted:Good luck trusting that the optometrist is not being influenced by lens manufacturers, either with straight kickbacks, industry events with fancy dinners or just falling for the same poo poo you're reading. COPE 27 posted:Yes, the same company that owns the store, and the lenses, and the optometrist's practice also, including most of the non chain stores. just to bring things full circle, this is why the notion of ‘rational action’ in an economic context, and all that Chicago school nonsense generally speaking, is bullshit. it ignores the materiality of how information propagates in capitalism (for obvious ideological reasons). end result is I have no loving clue whether getting some fancy new lenses is worth the money or not. feature not a bug, etc
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Shame Boy posted:Are they just glasses that cut out the blue part of the spectrum? Cuz as far as I know all the research on that is very inconclusive and it's mostly just bullshit marketing. According to my wife the anti-blue ones give an ugly yellow cast to my eyes. Oh drat that’s the one pair I can’t find….
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well yeah, the "anti-blue" thing is just a yellow coating. it's dumb af
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Orbis Tertius posted:just to bring things full circle, this is why the notion of ‘rational action’ in an economic context, and all that Chicago school nonsense generally speaking, is bullshit. it ignores the materiality of how information propagates in capitalism (for obvious ideological reasons). No but you see, accounting for information flow complicates the models tremendously, making it impossible to math out what's good for people. Anyway, just but whatever is most expensive, it will logically be the best.
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Weatherman posted:aren't all 700 glasses brands owned by the same company now or something? Not Wiley X or any of the brands they own. Family, veteran owned company out of California. I've been wearing Wiley X sunglasses for about 18 years now, I'm only on my second frame and replacement lenses are $25~ for the pair I have currently (Romer 3s). Pretty sure they have a prescription line, too. They haven't been snapped up my Luxottica yet, probably because of their US military contracts.
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Veteran owned is such a dumb selling point though. Worshipping the military has rotted the American brain.
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Eh, if it keeps him from selling out to Luxottica, I could care less. E: I think my current frames are a decade old at this point, and they were $90~ glasses when I bought them. A comparable set of Oakleys would be double that and don't exist anyhow because Luxottica wants you to break their poo poo in two years so you can spend more on their trash. CRUSTY MINGE has issued a correction as of 20:02 on Dec 4, 2022 |
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BonHair posted:Veteran owned is such a dumb selling point though. Worshipping the military has rotted the American brain. it’s messed up that veterans get discounts off the backs of the taxpayers who funded their PlayStations in Iraq
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Eh, if it keeps him from selling out to Luxottica, I could care less. Yeah, the rest sounds good, I'm just finding the part I can complain about.
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mawarannahr posted:it’s messed up that veterans get discounts off the backs of the taxpayers who funded their PlayStations in Iraq If the government didn't declare a dumb rear end war in Iraq, they wouldn't have gotten those playstations in Iraq, but Germany, Japan, Korea, or CONUS instead. Thanks for paying your taxes.
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You can get prescription glasses from Chinese companies for like ... $30. You just send upload your prescription and pupillary distance. The markup from the U.S. companies is preposterous.
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PostNouveau posted:You can get prescription glasses from Chinese companies for like ... $30. You just send upload your prescription and pupillary distance. The markup from the U.S. companies is preposterous. President Xi saving Americans once again
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PostNouveau posted:You can get prescription glasses from Chinese companies for like ... $30. You just send upload your prescription and pupillary distance. The markup from the U.S. companies is preposterous. 
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