Interesting Links for 27-03-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Dogs getting on the bus for doggy daycare

(tags:dogs cute video )

2. "I Saw the Face of God in a TSMC Semiconductor Factory"

(tags:Taiwan education economics technology processor )

3. Kwasi Kwarteng tells fake firm he could help arrange meeting with 'great guy' Boris Johnson

(tags:conservatives corruption )

4. AI image of Pope Francis in a puffer jacket fooled the internet and experts fear there's worse to come

(tags:ai Pope fraud photos )

5. A short list of Jewish fantasy novels

(tags:Jews fantasy )

6. This is why I've never had laser eye surgery. Even 1:1000 isn't worth the risk to my sight

(tags:eyesight lasers safety )

Comments

[andrewducker]

If your eyes aren't doing their job then surgery to improve that seems a reasonable risk. And it doesn't sound like it should make things worse.

My mother has AMD, but the medication they have her on has halted it. Would you like me to find out what it is?

[channelpenguin]

I am trying multifocal contact lenses as a simulation, just got them today. I can sort of read, distance is tricky. The thing is that I'm used to using the left for far and right for near and these swap it. I'll try for the 2-3 weeks and see if my brain can work it out. Right now I would not at all be happy with this as permanent - my distance vision is dreadful and computer use is not great at all. But it took a week or so to get used to multifocal glasses so maybe.

My mother had all the treatments, injections in the eye. But they did not halt it, it went wet in both eyes and there was nothing more to do. :-(.

I'm on the recommended vitamin supplements already. And I don't have high blood pressure, or cholesterol issues(afaik) so I'm not taking the statins either. I also wear sunglasses (which my mother never did, having brown eyes). All the things that make it worse. I show no signs-but at age you don't, apparently.