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  • wtg, please tell me how to post a screenshot

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    wtgW
    Sorry, I’m afraid I don’t have an answer. I’m a phone noob. Anybody else?
  • A message from the past

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    JodiJ
    Wow.
  • Legos as orthopedic equipment

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  • The snake and the heron

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  • 50 years ago

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  • Make the Vatican great again?

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  • Autofocus prescription glasses

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    ShiroKuroS
    Thanks for the link @wtg interesting stuff… also the possible research use cases (not discussed in the article) are interesting. Some of my colleagues do research thst uses eye tracking and you can only do it in a lab because you need big equipment. If you could do it just with a pair of glasses (and say, a smart phone app to record it) you could expand your research in so many ways! Back to the article… currently the thinking is that these will be priced not like bifocals (which you can buy in shops for under $10), but like consumer electronics, comparable with “a high-end iPhone” at first. My progressive lenses are already expensive enough, I want the same vision quality for less, not more! The use case, they say, is to make it easier for different segments of bad-vision consumers: for those who need to have glasses to see up close and far away, to have only one pair of glasses instead of carrying multiple pairs of glasses; for those who already use varifocals but have found those progressive lenses clumsy to use and wear; and, it seems, even for those who have in the past opted for laser eye surgery to correct their vision. I am one of those people who needs to have two pairs of glasses: one pair with progressive lenses for general use and one pair with mid-distance single vision lenses for piano and computer. It’s a pain in the rear. But I can’t use progressive lenses at the piano, or at the computer for that matter, because the view area is too small. At the piano, my progressive lenses make it look like the keyboard is curving… and at the computer, my progressives require me to move my head up and down and it’s awful. So the single vision lenses are great for vision, but if I’m on my computer in my office and someone comes to my door, I have to change my glasses…. Or if I’m at the piano, like in the recital last week, and I look up, I can’t really see the people in the audience clearly. So that’s annoying. I suppose those cases make me a good candidate for some kind of autofocus lens, but I’m skeptical for now…
  • Tesla board opened search for new CEO

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    He didn't found that company. He only took credit for it. He is a con man. He's a serial liar. He's an idiot. His real and only claim to fame is the fact his father owned emerald mines. He grew up with servants, is an actual Nazi along with his father, and grew up reaping the benefits of slave labor. He's a horrible human being and a complete fraud.
  • Whelp, I'm Out

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    NinaN
    Oh, no. As others have said, you're leaving with your values intact, but what a loss for all of us. I'm so sorry this happened to you.
  • Election in Canada

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    Piano*DadP
    I had fun wearing this to class on Monday ... [image: 1746062537396-img_5444-resized.jpeg]
  • Valerie has been rescued!

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    When dogs get lost, they often go feral within minutes. Their primitive instincts for survival are still very much present, despite their relatively luxurious existences these days. A lap dog becomes a wolf again in just about no time. I learned all about this when I lost my dog.
  • Physicists weigh in on cacio e pepe

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    wtgW
    I've been flipping for decades. Learned watching Julia on one of her shows.
  • Something I'm trying

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    MikM
    @RealPlayer said in Something I'm trying: Would have to download MSN app to read. https://www.mensfitness.com/news/andrew-huberman-mindset-morning-routine
  • Happy birthday, WTF!

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    ShiroKuroS
  • No self-respecting cat would use this

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    Looks like fun!
  • TIME interview (edit: added interview with ABC)

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    wtgW
    Can't say I blame you, @Steve-Miller. Another one for you to skip... Lengthy interview with Terry Moran of ABC. Transcript: https://abcnews.go.com/US/full-transcript-trumps-exclusive-100-days-broadcast-interview/story?id=121291672 I don't know what's worse, listening to him talk or reading what he said. Either way I keep thinking that he has severe cognitive deficits. Biden had a better grasp on reality than this guy does.
  • Judge arrested

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    wtgW
    A Wisconsin judge charged with helping a man in her court briefly evade immigration authorities has added prominent conservative lawyer and leading U.S. Supreme Court advocate Paul Clement to her defense team. Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, was charged on Friday with obstructing a government proceeding and concealing an individual to prevent arrest. Sign up here. Clement did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mastantuono Coffee & Thomas, a Wisconsin-based firm representing Dugan, confirmed Clement's addition to the legal team on Tuesday. Clement, a U.S. solicitor general during the Republican administration of George W. Bush who has argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court, has clashed with the Trump administration in other cases. He is representing WilmerHale in its lawsuit challenging an executive order President Donald Trump signed last month targeting the U.S. law firm's business with federal contractors and restricting its access to government officials and buildings. Clement also opposed the administration's bid to withdraw the federal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams with the potential to refile charges. A judge earlier this month dismissed the case permanently after Clement, acting as a court-appointed adviser, said it would otherwise hang over Adams like a "sword of Damocles." https://archive.is/rGqY6 The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities. The FBI took Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan into custody on Friday morning at the county courthouse. She faces federal charges of concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest and obstructing or impeding a proceeding. In its two-page order, the state Supreme Court said it was acting on its own initiative and not responding to a request from anyone. Liberal justices control the court 4-3. "In the exercise of that constitutional authority and in order to uphold the public's confidence in the courts of this state during the pendency of the criminal proceedings against Judge Dugan, we conclude, in our own motion, that it is in the public interest that she be temporarily relieved of her official duties," the court ruled. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wisconsin-judge-hannah-dugan-suspended-state-high-court-immigration-case-arrest/
  • 50 years ago - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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  • I was 19...

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    AdagioMA
    That’s inspiring.
  • 100 Days

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