If anyone else is also curious on why “putting mold on infections” is more good than crumple zones:
They [molds] also play important roles in biotechnology and food science in the production of various pigments, foods, beverages, antibiotics, pharmaceuticals and enzymes. - Wikipedia
My beef with the placement of that item is that it isn’t even further down the “actually a good idea” axis. Penicillin – perhaps https://oxsci.org/how-penicillin-has-influenced-modern-medicine/ – rated less “actually good” than mere laser eye surgery and fecal transplants?! C’mon, Randall!
Yesterday I heard a conspiracy theory that the reason lead was added to gasoline was to keep the Pouge carburetor from becoming viable because it allegedly used pre-heated gas vapor to achieve 100-200mpg efficiency, but the lead clogged it up instead.
Here’s my own counter-conspiracy on that… if everything we read says that it didn’t actually work, why did Breen Motor Company claim it worked when THEY tried it? And why did Pouge suddenly disappear?
Yeah, if you want to electrocute some poor linesman outside. If you have considered purchasing a generator for emergencies, get the transfer switch installed and be prepared so when you do it, you do it safely.
Obviously you shut off the main breaker so as not to backfeed. Didn’t think anyone would be pedantic enough to make me say it. I wasn’t writing out a tutorial.
Point being, there exists a purpose for the allegedly purposeless thing.
I work from home in an office garden. The walk from the house to house to the office was enough to transition the lenses and then you’re wearing sunglasses for 5 mins and they slowly change back. Definitely takes longer than 1 minute.
Transitions are game changing. Sounds like someone who doesn’t wear glasses all the time. I even had transition sunglasses before I needed glasses - got tired of taking them off going in/out all day.
Not sure who created this (I kkow, XKCD), but it’s mediocre.
Double-ended extension cords belongs in the top left right corner. Sounds bad and is bad.
Double-ended extension cords belongs in the top left right corner. Sounds bad and is bad.
Remember, you’re probably more technical than the average person. Double ended extension chords sound fine if you haven’t heard of them before until you think about it for five seconds.
It might just be a joke. I use transitions in my cycling glasses, where I might be in shade or when it starts to get dark (but I’ll still have something protecting my eyes). I use regular sunglasses in the car, as transitions generally won’t work there.
I’ve worn glasses my entire adult life and I had to get rid of them because being half blind every time I transition from outside to inside was interfering with my job.
This. I worked in a hardware store as a floater (I’m good at things, they ask me to do random) and often found myself irritated at how often I need to go outside for a minute to meet a customer or something, and then come back in and all the fucking lights are off.
people with certain medical issues in their bowels can be cured of them by a fecal transplant from someone who is a good donor. It usually means a family member. The purpose is to treat bowel infections. Pretty neat shit.
It’s about the microbiome, lots of critters living in your bowels breaking down stuff for you. Some conditions or treatments (e.g. chemo) can fuck with that severely up to completely obliterate everything so you need a donor to get it started up again.
Most of your body’s mass does not have a human genome, it represents other living things existing in symbiosis with your body. And your digestive tract is nearly 100% reliant on these microbiota to break down food and provide it to the small intestine. If you don’t have the right mix/balance or you have too many of the wrong species, you can suffer extremely deleterious health effects. If you have none at all, you starve pretty quickly regardless of how much food you eat.
Fun facts:
Almost all of your excrement that isn’t visible remnants of unchewed food are the remains of gut bacteria that died.
Scientists have recently confirmed that your appendix acts as a “safe room” for your good, beneficial gut biome to retreat to when the rest of the intestinal tract is suffering from catastrophic environmental issues or another bug is running rampant and dominating in a destructive manner. Once things calm down, the intestines are re-colonized by good bacteria from the appendix.
It’s not the shape, it’s just the transitions themselves. Aesthetically, sunglasses have a handful of popular styles. Whatever frames you have for your regular vision correction, most likely aren’t one of those styles.
They work based on UV light. So they will not transition inside cars. They also will not transition in cold weather, so you’ll walk in snow with clear glasses and have dark ones for 5 minutes once you go inside.
Never had them not work in cold. They change even during heavy snowfall when it’s well below freezing and well, no sun, heavy clouds. It’s great because they help with the glare from snow.
It’s because they are not practical. They do not work inside cars, they transition super slow in winter, they are clear when you need sun glasses and dark when you need to see.
They worked pretty well when I was in high school marching band. I didn’t drive yet so I didn’t need road vision, they darkened while out at practice and were clear elsewhen. Got an actual pair of prescription sunglasses in flight school though.
They transition just fine in winter, even down to 10f or lower.
They have a version that works in cars now. But that’s an issue with the car windshield blocking UV. So leave a magnetic “clip on” shades in the car. They look exactly like your frames, with them attached you can’t tell they just stick on from the front - they look just like your glasses.
Then just use the clip-ons all the time and not pay for mediocre sunglasses? I’m not a fan, I’ve tried them and hated them. Super slow to go back to clear and unreliable. I don’t want my lenses deciding when I need tinted lenses or not when I can just carry around either clip-ons or a complete second pair of prescription sunglasses. IMO Transitions are a bad solution to the problem.
Because I don’t have to carry the sunglasses with me all the time?
98% of my time I’m not in a car, and my not mediocre sunglasses work better than the clipons, since I prefer the color, they already block UV and aren’t too dark.
Why should I carry something else?
As it is, I put my glasses on when I wake up, and most days only take them off to clean them or go to bed. They’re almost hassle free, unlike carrying around sunglasses, putting them on, taking them off, yada yada , like I did for 10 years before I got transitions.
Why do you carry a smartphone, instead of a laptop, tablet, feature phone, GPS, mobile access point, multiple credit cards, rolodex, checkbook, etc?
It’s funny you trying to tell me that I’m wrong to choose what works for me.
So the scenario is A) you have transitions that work 90% of the time and a pair of prescription sunglasses for the times they don’t Or B) you have regular glasses, and still have prescription sunglasses.
Option a means 90% of the time you don’t need to carry an additional pair of glasses with you.
I used transition lenses for a decade, they are great.
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