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  • I wrote about George Santos. He called me and said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face"

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  • Santos is now offering 55% off his Cameo videos, meaning for $150, he will record himself saying just about anything.

    I wonder if you could pay him $150 to admit he threatened a reporter.

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    Ken Paxton wants to cancel a queer pool party over trans restrooms. Organizers aren't backing down. The organizers called Paxton’s lawsuit a “frivolous … waste of taxpayers’ time and money.”

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  • Uptight Europeans are too focused on their own shitting to offer a nice how-do-you-do to the person in the next stall!

    Americans aren't so privacy obsessed that we wouldn't be working to offer someone a handshake while on the shitter. Maybe a little bit of footsie under the stall walls. It's all just being friendly.

  • What cities have bad vibes or just feel "off"?

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  • California Passes Backdoor Bill to Control the 3D Printing Hobby and Spy on Small Designers, Prototypers, and Hobbyists

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  • California Passes Backdoor Bill to Control the 3D Printing Hobby and Spy on Small Designers, Prototypers, and Hobbyists

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  • You'll hurt your eyes!

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  • Unless the system is automatically adjusting lenses in the headset based on what point in virtual space the user is focusing on to make sure the lenses in their eyes are focused where the binocular vision is saying they are looking, they'd have the same trouble.

  • You'll hurt your eyes!

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  • Interesting.

    One of the things my wife did was vision training. She had a computer with VR glasses that people would use to exercise their binocular vision to help them keep their eyes aligned correctly.

    Now, that's not fixing the myopia, but if the muscles that point your eyes aren't working well, they'll spasm, and you won't be able to focus.

    That is another point my wife mentioned when we were talking about it. People think they can't see because they can't focus, but they really can't focus because they are working so hard to keep their eyes aligned properly that the muscles spasm. So, she could "fix the myopia" by fixing the binocular vision problem.

    It wouldn't surprise me to hear that a doctor said it wasn't possible, because my wife would encounter patients on both ends of the spectrum: some who were told VT didn't work and they had to buy glasses, and others who were told VT was the solution and they had to do dozens of sessions costing many hundreds of dollars.

    My wife would charge them for a couple training sessions in person so they knew what to do, then let them do the exercises at home (obviously not using VR at home).

    Part of my wife's problem is she was ethical. In the last full year she worked before going on disability, her total take home (as the owner) was around $6k.

  • You'll hurt your eyes!

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  • Different people will have different degrees of trouble.

  • You'll hurt your eyes!

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  • My guess is that you'd have problems when you tried to see in the real world.

    Edit: I checked in with the wife while I was making my lunch. She says yes, if you put the time and effort into training yourself to see "properly" with VR, you'll have trouble seeing in the real world.

  • You'll hurt your eyes!

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  • VR headsets, 3D TVs, and 3D movies all have the same issue as far as strain is concerned.

    Our brains expect our eyes to focus on what they're pointing at. If your eyes are pointing at something nearby, we focus near. If we're pointing at something far away, we focus far.

    All the various 3D solutions have a fixed distance and fake the 3D by having each eye get a slightly different angle on the image. The mismatch between where our eyes are pointing and where they are focused can cause problems.

    Until 3D reaches the level of a Star Trek Holodeck, it's going to cause trouble. Ok for a short time, but you wouldn't want to spend all day doing it.

    (this is all me paraphrasing what my eye doctor wife told me, so don't expect me to know any more about it)

  • Impressive

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  • We appear to be working on proving Schopenhauer's theory.

  • What is a hobby you'd love to get into but cant for what ever reason

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  • I have LGB trains from my youth.

    I always dreamed of setting up a garden railway. When I bought my house, I expected to do it.

    We've been here 29 years. No railway. No time.

    If I can ever retire...

  • Any Other Guys wish they were short/shorter

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  • I'm not always the tallest in the room when everyone is standing, but once we're all sitting down, I'm the only one sticking up above everybody.

    Normally when I'm sitting in a theater, I do everything I can to avoid blocking someone's view (slouching, sliding down in the chair, leaning, etc). It ends up being incredibly uncomfortable.

    One time a friend gave me and my wife tickets to a show (live musical theater). There were a couple drunk, obnoxious women behind us talking through the show. It pissed me off so much I sat up straight in my seat and stayed that way for the rest of the show. It's the only time I've ever done that.

    They started complaining about me blocking their view, and left during intermission to complain to someone (what did they expect the theater manager to do? "Excuse me, me sir, but you're blocking these 'ladies' view. Would you mind removing your head?'). They eventually returned to their seats.

    By the time the show ended and people stood up to leave, I was pretty angry. I turned around. I don't know what I was planning to do. It's not like I'm going to beat some drunken idiots to death in a crowded theater. However, I know I was considering stepping over my seat to get into their row.

    The older woman was too drunk to notice, but the younger one was sober enough to see the look on my face. She hustled them out.

    My wife has told me that I've terrified people even when she confirmed I was being perfectly calm. I can't imagine how frightening it is when I'm actually enraged.

  • Any Other Guys wish they were short/shorter

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  • most companies just make the shirts wider, as opposed to longer

    No doubt. I've got a bunch of 3XL shirts that are at least 10 inches wider than I need them to be to get 1-2 inches of extra length.

    I think there's also an assumption that if you're tall it's because your legs (and arms) are long, like a giraffe. I'm not built like that. I'm just big.

  • Optimism may lower dementia risk. What have you been optimistic or grateful about recently?

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  • Sounds like I'm not going to remember how shitty life is, so I guess I can be optimistic about that.

  • Any Other Guys wish they were short/shorter

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  • 6'4" here.

    I wouldn't say I'd want to be shorter, but I have definitely experienced a lot of what you describe.

    In addition to being intimidating because I'm big, I also have real bad resting murder face. It used to bother me, but my wife is 5'1" (on a good day), and we've used it to her advantage.

    She's often dismissed or not taken seriously. When she is being disrespected or expects to be, she brings me along. Everyone always treats her with respect when I'm standing behind her.

    I don't like taking the train because my knees are pushed up against the seat in front of me. I'm also uncomfortable in most cars. I'm long in the torso, so even in an SUV I have to lean the seat way back to fit in. I currently drive a 2nd generation Honda Ridgeline, and it's the first time in decades where I have space above my head.

    Clothing is difficult. I buy my clothing online because I can never find more than one or two options that fit in a store. I used to go to a outlet store because they had such a massive inventory, I could actually find things in my size. My shirts tend to be like tents because I usually can't find the extra tall sizes, so I end up getting a regular 3x so the shirt reaches down to my waist.

    There's another downside to being tall that you didn't mention. Years ago my son (taller than me) noticed that you don't see many tall, elderly people. I had to break the news to him that, statistically speaking, being taller means dying earlier.

    Bigger people have more cells in their body. More cells means more chances for cancer. More cancer means shorter life.

    So, if you're miserable being tall, take some consolation from the knowledge that it won't last long.

  • Federal court blocks new Republican-friendly voting map in Alabama

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  • Oops, did Alabama forget to add "totally not to disenfranchise brown people" to their bill?

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    Does anyone remember the days of the zombie apocalypse's popularity?

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  • If you haven't caught it, I thought All of Us Are Dead was really good.

    High school drama, bullying, young loves, all mixed with a zombie outbreak.

  • What is the most painful thing someone has told you?

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  • Covered under "in sickness and in health"