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  • I couldn’t tell ya 🤷🏾‍♂️ it’s entirely possible that the risk of the lenses splitting was exaggerated to justify their requirement of buying the more expensive lenses with the half frames.

    Unrelated, but when I was buying my glasses, I’d fallen in love with these half frames, but disappointedly told the tech I’d have to pick a different pair when she told me about the increased expense. (It wasn’t that much more, relatively speaking, but I already couldn’t afford the glasses, and had explained earlier that I was trying to do things as cheaply as possible). When she saw how upset I was over not being able to get the frames I really liked over an ultimately negligible amount of money, she gave me the glass lenses for the plastic lense price.


  • you can get actual glass glasses, but typically only for unusual prescriptions.

    It might vary by vendor, but you can definitely get real glass glasses for a normal prescription, if you pay for them. I think it’s sold as kind of a premium option.

    At the place I got my last pair from, if you got half-frames (ie the ones that only have a solid frame around the top of the lenses) they made you get glass lenses, because the wire that goes along the bottom of the lense causes the plastic ones to split over time.






  • papalonian@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #2932: Driving PSA
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    1 year ago

    Alright, bow out if you must.

    Cringe, and implies you’re trying to win an argument rather than have a conversation.

    Also, I’m sorry, but you’re totally wrong. I know what kind of intersection you’re talking about, this definitely is not it. Maybe it’s a regional thing, but XKCD is an American webcomic, these intersections are all over the place and you definitely are not supposed to stop in them.

    Intersection

    This is the kind of intersection you’re talking about. You’ll notice that the center area where the car turns is much longer than the area in the original post, in addition to having clear lane indications.

    If someone were to stop in the intersection in the OP, they would have to be stopped at an awkward angle not parallel to either lane, and if someone were to follow them into the intersection, the second person would have nowhere to go.

    Long story short, there’s two different kinds of intersections being discussed here, regardless of whether or not you acknowledge it or which one you believe is being depicted. One of them makes the comic make sense, while the other does not. Which one do you think the artist intended to draw?


  • Others have already given you good answers so I’ll weigh in on the emunand / not getting banned thing.

    I spent a long time trying to get the emunand set up and working on my switch but kept hitting some sort of error (it was almost a year ago so I don’t remember specifically what the issue was). After a while of trying I realized that I was trying to avoid getting banned from an online service I never once used and never planned to use, and now I just use the switch in airplane mode. I’ve read that the system keeps a log of what’s been done and will upload it to Nintendo if it ever reconnects, at which point I very well may be banned, but I don’t really care enough. Being in airplane mode makes sure the switch can’t try to auto update itself as well.