Similar basis, but not as powerful; it’s hard to squint down tight enough to match the effect of a small pinhole.
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LOL didn’t work for me. I can see things are less blurry, but they’re still impossibly blurred.
I’ve heard a case where this was used unethically in optometry. A woman with eyesight worse than mine got laser surgery. She’d been promised she wouldn’t need glasses anymore. In reality her prescription was improved, but she still needed glasses.
So the laser surgery place have her eyedrops to contact her pupils and make her vision seem more sharp.
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Meh. Once for a show I did without my normal glasses and switched to some glasses made out of black opaque plastic with many pinholes. Unfortunately, I didn’t do any extensive rehearsing with the pinhole glasses. Opening night, I could see more or less, but it was very disorienting. I fell right down some steps, not really because I couldn’t see them, I could have navigated the basic room blindfolded, but just due to the befuddlement caused by the glasses.
At least I didn’t spill my drink.
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It works well for my left eye, but not at all for my right. I suspect that’s because my right eye has a very high degree of astigmatism.
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More on slime molds: the blob mentioned above is the usual kind, but there are also smaller cellular slime molds, which start out as individual amoebae and then come together to make spore-forming structures. Recently there was this fascinating video of them signalling each other:
I also learned that some carry edible bacteria with them to new places, in a sort of proto-agriculture; there’s a copy of the paper at https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/userdoc/480_1.pdf. So apparently it’s not just complex people and ants who can do that sort of thing, but just about anything that has figured out to cooperate in large groups.
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Yup! Cos survival = cooperation, not competition!
We have too many brain cells, which cause us to form thoughts, unlike (well, I’m guessing here, lol) than those li’l slime molds.
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Do they hatch these:
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This website feels like it’s been machine translated from something else.
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Without glasses, only kind of the big grey bottom line. With glasses, 3rd line down. With curled up fingers, 6th line down. Neat trick to know!
Would for sure come in handy to find my glasses when I drop them, or find a backup pair when I lose them.
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BATS ARE NOT BLIND!!! When is it going to ennnnnnnd? (moans!)
I have 20/600 vision and an astigmatism in one eye, but I can never remember which one. I can’t wait till we’re able to get replaceable optic sensors a la The $6M Man!
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The HST National Historic Site FB page is incredibly well-done; they manage to have a sense of humor whilst maintaining total respect for Harry.
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No Kiss, though. I’m disappointed.
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Truman’s temporary filling-in for Peter Criss during the 1977 Budokan shows needs to be far better known.
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Must have been before his short-lived stint with Spinal Tap.
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We’ve lost so many ex-presidents that way…
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UNFORTUNATELY not the current one.
And HST played the piano. He once considered, though I don’t know how seriously, playing piano in a “bawdy house”. Put THAT on yer resume and smoke it!
Also, another fun fact: On his last day of being a timekeeper for the railroad (don’t remember which one off hand, too lazy to look up), one of the guys the others respected slapped him on his back and said, “Harry’s all right from his asshole out in every direction!”; it was his first publicly-made commendation. What other POTUS has had that said about him?
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He died in 1972. He did inspire a song by Chicago, though:
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He said his sentence ended when his heart stopped during a medical emergency four years ago, even though he was revived.
But judges said Schreiber’s bid - while original - was “unpersuasive”.
They said that it was “unlikely” to be dead, as he had signed his own legal documents in the case.
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Marja-safe unless they insert ads, which my version didn’t have.
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