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WCDT 4461-4465 (the 15th through 19th of February, 2021)
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 15 Feb 2021, 16:21 ---Last time I was at the eye doctor, she told me that my vision had actually improved... but she said it's common for nearsighted people in their thirties, and is a sign you'll need bifocals in the future as your near sight decays. So there's that.
As for lasering, I'm an atomic physicist who works with lasers all the time and you can keep those things the hell away from my eyes.
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Thankfully my near-sightedness has stayed relatively stable thus far. Granted, I've been told that my right eye compensates just enough for my left that I can avoid bifocals. So I'm probably doomed to get them anyways.
At least my color vision is still insanely good for my age[1]. I miss being able to so far into infrared and ultraviolet sometimes[2].
[1]currently on par with a 14/15 year old's despite being 35.
[2] except when dealing with LEDs. Those make me wish I were colorblind.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: DaiJB on 15 Feb 2021, 18:48 ---That last expression on Clinton :laugh:
Faye hasn't changed has she? Regardless of how good her advice may be, she just can't resist that last-panel (deliberately) tasteless reply! :-D
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That's absolutely got to be one of the new avatar options.
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: Farideh on 15 Feb 2021, 12:01 ---Gosh, I'd love to get my eyes lasered. Alas for a lack of funds!
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I had LASIK some 20 years ago.
It was really, really scary, and I had a hard time not squirming around the whole time. They were literally cutting my eyes open.
For about 10 years, I had perfect vision without glasses. This was a huge improvement over the ~20/500 vision I had before. Eventually, I developed myopia again, and I'm back to wearing glasses constantly. It was still worth it, since my current -1.25 (about 20/50) is much better than before, and means I can make out quite a lot without glasses if I need to.
These days I have to deal with presbyopia, with is an entirely different PITA.
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 15 Feb 2021, 15:17 ---Lasering your eyes might be useful when you are reasonably young, but when you get old, the bigger problem is lack of accommodation, which it can do nothing about.
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This is no longer true. But the solution's really, really drastic.
Presbyopia - which I have, since I'm 56 - happens because your lenses are no longer as flexible. When you get cataract surgery, they remove the lens entirely, and replace it with an artificial lens. The replacement lenses don't flex at all, but you can now get lenses that are essentially like progressive lenses for eyeglasses. They have a smoothly varying range of focal distances based on the angle.
This means to change focal distance, you need to subtly change where you're looking. I have a hard time visualizing how this works, honestly. I have progressive lenses, but those work by changing which part of the lens you're looking through. Look straight ahead, you're looking through the distance part of the lens. Look down, and you're looking through the near-focus part of the lens. The multifocal Interocular Lenses (IOLs) move with your eyes, so you have to, what, look away from what you're trying to see?
I imagine there are also weird optical effects. Progressive lenses have all sorts of weird distortions at the corners that are quite distracting when you first start wearing them. After a while your brain re-adjusts how it processes what's coming from the eyes. Now everything appears normal to me, no distortions at all, which means my brain is now correcting everything at some pre-conscious level.
Gus_Smedstad:
To return to the comic:
I've never really understood what straight women and gay men find appealing about diiiiiicks. I know Clinton is probably thinking "way to ruin the mood by being crass," but I tend to filter that as "ugh, I'm going to be on the receiving end of a dick, gross." I feel like I'm un-deservedly lucky that women want anything to do with my male body.
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