"I'm sick of being under the thumb of this population that is destroying our country by imposing its actions.

I don't want to die as a Muslim in an Islamized France.

The ritual and sacrifice of lambs is cruelty.

Feminism isn't my thing, I like men."

Brigitte Bardot

Sorry to hijack but what is your opinion on the myopia control lenses for children? Is there any real benefit to them or is it just a marketing scam?

So I guess the next question is: if my eyesight trajectory is set in stone does eye strain not matter then? I was raised to not read in dim light for example, but is that only relevant for kids with developing sight? If not, what is the difference between eye strain/atrophy related to your prescription and other forms of eye strain?

So regarding your last sentence, yes we are incentivised ofc but this is where I defend optometry

Your eye development is mostly complete when you’re 8 years old and there is still some change until you’re 18 or so. So no matter what you do really, the trajectory of your vision is essentially set in stone

Furthermore glasses aren’t like a drug or a crutch.

They aren’t like a drug because the prescription itself does not reflect the quality of your vision. It reflects the quality of your vision vs what’s considered the standard but…—> fundamentally your quality of vision is what you can see with the sharpest prescription given to you —> some people could have a small prescription and terrible vision with or without glasses. For example a blind person’s best vision may be achieved with simply +1.00 but the issue is the health at the back of his eye to where the light is being bent —> Glasses are like a telescope, they bend light onto the part of your eye that is most sensitive to seeing, this is called your macula and it’s the quality of this that’s important. This is basically all determined genetically

They aren’t like a crutch because there’s not a large amount of muscle needed to see. It’s mostly due to the shape and liquids of the eye and once you’re older than 40, the few muscles involved start to wane more and more anyways. You wouldn’t miscorrect a telescope to protect the magnification inside and likewise you should wear a fully corrected prescription. The potential protecting of muscle is negligible.

Also some people think glasses make their vision worse but they may not have realised how bad it was before they got them. Even though this sounds salesy I fully stand by it and everything else

The degradation of your near vision in your 40s is called presbyopia.

Some people in their 40s don’t need any glasses because their eyes are NATURALLY a bit short sighted but only a bit so that they don’t need glasses for far away. There are a few other minor exceptions. But once everyone turns 60 and the presbyopia gets worse, basically everyone needs them

What do you think about pumping the brakes on an advancing prescription? Every time I get new glasses I have to ask my optometrist not to give me 20/10 vision because I don't want my eyes to atrophy and be useless without glasses (I can still see well enough to run/hike/read without). Do aggressive prescriptions reduce eye strain or encourage atrophy? The incentives aren't aligned if the same people who test my eyes also sell me the glasses, you know?

Optometrist here 👋 🇮🇪

Frames are made of terrible quality nowadays and essentially have built in obsolescence to last 4 year years max, and most shops recommending changing frames every 2 years

You use to be able to have frames made that would last your whole life and be constantly tailored but they no longer exist. You’d update the lenses when there was a significant change in the prescription

The quality of lenses themselves have probably improved though. Varifocals are much better than bifocals for example

That's very interesting to know! Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏

You should post about this!

Light bulb cartel all over again. 🤦‍♂️

Very relatable, my current pair is not great quality, and they get more expensive all the time.

What's your view on the (UV and other) filters put on glasses? Learning more about UV and it's health effects I was curious about the effect of regular glasses in relation to normal doses of sunlight.

PS: So when can I order a pair with you? 🙃

Any bitcoiner optometrists out there? Why we should have one:

- Prescription glasses industry is a scam, monopolistic, overpriced. So easy to compete when making a quality product.

- A machine to make the glasses can be bought for a couple thousand $ second-hand.

- It's a product you can ship worldwide.

#GlassMiner

What’s your favorite Christmas tradition?

I really can’t get over the anti-redmeat sentiment that seems to permeate society. So many colleagues and friends love a rib-eye but are still fully bought into the “saturated fat is bad” narrative. Yet the doughnuts and coke are just fine and elicit zero comments, whilst a plate of red meat and eggs has everyone lecturing me on my consumption. Main stream media believers. #carnivore

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Stack those sats 🤙

I know a guy that has spent his entire adult life in academia, never had a job, not even a part time job, because his father paid for his tuition.

I knew him when we were both in our 20's, and now, 10 years later, he rings me up out of the blue and asks if I want to go for a drink, I say sure.

He's still in college, as stated earlier, but I'm not really interested in browbeating him about that, so I just keep the conversation light, catch up, see what he's been up to.

This man keeps dragging the conversation back to his father.

His father rented his son's room out to a tenant. This is the room in the house that the man in question grew up in, and bear in mind that this man is in his 30's now.

He keeps addressing the father in this condescending language - boomer bitch etc

He's practically frothing at the mouth, and the level of vitriol that he has for his father is very unsettling.

I try my best to steer the conversation away from his father, as it seems obsessive, but try as I might, it always ends up back there, so I decide, fuck it, and ask questions about the father for a while.

As it turns out, the father had kept his son's room, perfectly preserved as it was when he first left for college, throughout the man's entire 10+ years in academia. In those 10+ years, the man barely visited his family home, and when he did, it was to mooch off them and get his laundry done.

As I press further in my questioning, the man reveals to me, to my horror, that the only reason that the man's father has rented the room out is that his wife has passed away. She was his father's lifelong companion and was one of the only people that the man's father really talked to.

It's blindly obvious that the man's father is unbearably lonely, sitting in an empty house, and simply wants some company.

He makes a rational decision to rent the room, that his 30 year old son never uses anyway, in an attempt to stave off his loneliness,

Instead of being there for his father through a desperate time of need, his 30 year old man child son is having hissy fits about his father to anybody who will listen, because he rented his room out.

I finished my drink, told the man how utterly despicable he was, and that if he hasn't grown up these last 10 years, he's not likely to do it at all, wished him all the best and never spoke to him again after that.

Last I heard he's doing something with Antifa now.

I’m down all the way in Kenya 🇰🇪 :)

Yh I can read the subtext too a chara.

Inbound for sure.

Although we already got ours in Dublin a while ago.

Is this the comedian guy?

Did you see how he turned up to court?

make sure your having fun, otherwise you won't stick around for very long

Fairly certain OG is a rap term, either the bloods or the crips

#turf #ireland #proofofwork #blockchain

July 2025

What's the range on Bitchat, surely it wouldn't go very far?

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I keep training simple and stress free by focusing on the four areas:

- Starting Strength - maintain strength.

- ATG - maximize mobility.

- Sprinting - maximize agility.

- Climbing - focused fun.

These are the areas I can't remove without affecting my physical health, each one brings its own benefits, and so they remain and keep getting attention.

Just signed up to 8 weeks of Cuban salsa

This is what doomer prepping your move to El Salvador involves 😎😎😎🇸🇻🇸🇻🇸🇻

Here you have the Bitcoin Core mempool on the left and the Bitcoin Knots mempool on the right.

85,000 transactions vs. 1,640, which means that 98% of transactions are spam or would have been in the past until Core changed the criteria and deliberately broke the spam filters.

It was already evident then, and it became even more evident when they never repaired them again since version 25 (if I remember correctly).

But don't be confused, it's not about filters or spam, it's about the core team being totally corrupt. I think now in version 30 it's more than evident, and therefore it's about the core developers never facing changes to improve privacy.

And privacy is the most important thing.

Gm

There’s no way you will raise a no coiner son