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[-] orenj@leminal.space 8 points 1 day ago

Bullying works, now scale it up for rich people above consequences

I've worn split wireframe glasses since I was in middle school. I've never worn thick plastic rimmed glasses. For most of my life, I didn't know this is why, but it is now.

[-] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Works out for you and no shade I'm happy for you :)

I've worn wires, but I'm a rough guy. They don't hold up for me. I will stress for ME.

I also like the look of heavy frames, military they called them "BC's". Call me old, er old school but its my jam.

Birth Control Glasses. Spectacles so ugly you can't get laid wearing them. +2 perception, -11 charisma.

I've got a scar across the bridge of my nose because of my wireframes. I was working as both an instructor and company mechanic at a small flight school, I needed to take some precision measurement of something on the engine, so I went to the toolbox, got a pair of calipers, and I was setting them up as I was walking to the plane, I ran slam into the trailing edge of the wing at eye level. Knocked my ass to the floor, and as I got up I realized I had blood running down my nose, because the wing had pushed my glasses into my face so hard the wire frame cut me.

Do you know what a static wick is? See, airplanes are prone to gathering static electricity, which will build up around the airplane and cause Saint Elmo's Fire. Which wasn't a problem back in the days of tall ships, it is a problem in the days of modern avionics. So airplanes will often have these antenna or frayed wire-like structures attached to their trailing edges to bleed off static electricity. And judging by the scratch I left on that wing flap, my eye socket missed one by about 5 inches.

[-] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Jesus, glad you didn't lose an eye! That it, I'm sticking w/ my BC's!

And funny you bring up static wicks, I worked an antenna farm years ago w/ a TV tower. We had salt wells and static wicks all over the place!

[-] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 93 points 2 days ago
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[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Nice to see no one learned anything from Google Glass. This is why we're fucked as a species.

[-] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I got the first invites and I soul searched and bowed out, I offered my code to a few close friends and they saw what I was talking about and moved on.

Its late and I'm full on run on sentences.

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 days ago

Thank fucking god.

Wearing those should allow anybody to punch your face without law-based repercussions

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

Can we just recycle “glasshole”?

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

Why not both?

[-] Zier@fedia.io 18 points 2 days ago

Meta. The largest portal for all your stalking needs.

[-] 20cello@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

As they should be, fucking perverts

[-] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

(Although TBH, I would really love to have a wearable computer that was fully open source and local. Unfortunately, big tech going full Orwell has ruined the idea permanently.)

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