Many fall in the face of chaos, but not this one, not today
As these companies become larger and larger, they start behaving more and more like Soviet central planners.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. We’ve become a centralized economy through weak monopoly enforcement.
Combine that with everyone $500k poorer because the billionaires acquired it. A recipe for depressed, anxious, angry, feed-addicted rats in a cage.
makes me think of 
a sleep paralysis demon looking spooky in the shadows at the end of the bed, in the style of an old Renaissance painting, like a Raphael portrait, a person frozen in the bed looking terrifed and unable to move eyes wide
Make love not war
🎵 nothing at all, nothing at all
Good points. So roughly 10% chance of needing to get glasses or surgery again, which gets higher the worse your vision is to start.
There’s a lot of folks in the comments who are pretty cavalier about the safety, yet the CEO who produces Lasik machines refuses to get the procedure and just wears glasses.
Obviously there’s a lot of folks happy with it.
However, many people end up needing glasses within ten years. “Relating to the legal requirements in Germany, sufficient visual acuity was found in 76.7 % of the LASIK group, in 73.9 % of the Ortho-K users and in 85.7 % of the reference group (72.7 % in the adult group, 100 % in the juvenile group).” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23508754/
“Nearly 5% of subjects were dissatisfied with their vision after Lasik… eyes feeling irritated (50%), glare (43%), halos (41%), and [trouble] seeing in dim light (35.2%).” Source: Mamalis N. Laser vision correction among physicians: “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2014 Mar;40(3):343-4.
“Lasik Suicide” is a real thing, most of the folks who have been affected don’t take the time to say much about the excruciating pain, they just commit suicide.
https://www.lasikcomplications.com/suicide.htm
Definitely think very carefully, your eyes are something you can’t fix if you get this surgery. For some people enough nerves are damaged to cause persistent pain that doesn’t go away.
I almost got the surgery a few years ago, if it worked 100% of the time I would have taken the risk. But vision is so important that I didn’t want to take the risk. Several of my family members did get it and still have dry eyes and halos ten years later, and two now need glasses again anyway.
“I’m not brainwashed, my worldview just happens to perfectly align with conservative news! Anyway, so that’s why we have to kill or deport everyone who disagrees.” <- a real thing I’ve been told
In Costa Rica elections are a whole thing, like everyone’s out with flags on cars and megaphones yelling about one of the 20+ political parties.
Also Semana Santa is a week long Catholic holiday.
Despite all my rage, I’m still just a rat in a cage
Ooooof I’m still mad about this. I paid damn good money for those folks to basically just wave their hands and say “oh, you all know what conditionals are!”
That was my first thought, I don’t think it’s the one in Santa Fe though
Yesss, Lugaru so great!
I’ve not heard of this before, and a search finds a lot about Minecraft?
A few favorites:
Gotta go with the bad rocking horse. It’s living rent free in my head
Sweet merciful crap that’s terrifying, I love it
COME PLAY TODAY!