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My glasses (lemmings.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 213 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Hindsight is 20/20.

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    • [–] 145 points 8 months ago (15 children)

    They obviously don't wear glasses.

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  • [–] 134 points 8 months ago (14 children)

    That's also Dr. Glaucomflecken a semi-famous optometrist.

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  • [–] 54 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    Ophthalmologist

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  • [–] 35 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    I'm not sure what he can find to be optimistic about in this economy.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    I think you’ve confused his job. The study of birds is a very interesting field of study.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    No, you're thinking of an ornithologist. An opthalmologist is someone who practices dark arts.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    That's an occultist.

    An opthalmologist is an appointed official who investigates complaints by taxpayers against government departments.

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    • [–] 63 points 8 months ago

    Damn, it took me a while, haha 😂

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    [–] 46 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    Might depend on the material. I have -3.5dpt on both sides and my glasses have half the width and glare. Or are those some random units again?

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  • [–] 44 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I assumed he'd estimated it based on how distorted the face appears behind the glasses. I do that all the time.

    At this angle it's hard for me to do that, since I usually use the edges of the face to estimate it. negative glasses pull the line inwards, positive outwards. I can reliably tell when someone is wearing fake glasses (0 strength) for example, and probably estimate strength within 30% of the actual value.

    If the image was higher res maybe I could estimate this case too. Or this professional optometrist is just a lot better at it than I am.

    Strong negative glasses: (Note the faces contours in the glasses appearing well inside the faces contours around the glassed)

    Fake glasses:

    Positive glasses:

    PS: Searching for generic terms yields 100% fake glasses, so I took a specific person I remember having strong glasses for myopia.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    This is so cool. Thank you for sharing how to do that.

    At this angle it's hard for me to do that, since I usually use the edges of the face to estimate it

    This is a screenshot of a photo, but you can still see the left side offset if you zoom in. The original photo likely has much better quality to see it with.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    It's measuring in Imperial Corrective Units (ICU).

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Let me guess... It counts how many visits to the ICU it took to get such bad eye sight?

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Going for "I see you" with a plausible but bullshit unit name but yours works too. Maybe they keep getting into accidents and landing in the ICU because of poor eyesight.

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    • [–] 45 points 8 months ago

    Bruh you leave my funny YouTube doctor alone!! 😡

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    [–] 19 points 8 months ago

    So given Dr. Glaucomflecken is an opthalmologist, I'm at least 37.3% sure he meant her eyeglass prescription in diopters. Isn't that right, Johnathan?

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    [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Take shitposts seriously and get into fights with strangers

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    • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I'm putting on my needs context hat and standing next to the needs context sign.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    Comment refers to the girl's eyeglass prescription, not a ranking of her attractiveness.

    Based on the distortion visible in her glasses, her prescription is approximately -1.00 to -1.50 diopters. Severely nearsighted prescriptions would cause the wearer to appear to have much smaller eyes; farsighted prescription would cause the eyes to appear larger.

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    • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    The color coding of the scores is so completely fucked.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    White? Or is it the background for the time left in the quarter you meant? The scores appear to be white on blue and white on black. Not sure why they did the WNBA logo to be on orange though. The shot clock being on red makes sense to me as it is the "imminent danger". (Probably could just do black on white for it though)

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    • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Surely that was on purpose.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Diopter was my first reading too, and my account isn't even "Dr. Glaucomflecken".

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Guy is a social media actor shorts comedian and is pretty based. So not only would he not say something like shitty that, he wouldn't say it publicly. On yt he has 1.27m subscribers.

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    • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This interaction truly tickled me in a way that I had to comment lol, even if it's not furthering the convo. Great post!

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    • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    ethan is the weeb.

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    • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    My misogynistic brain: she's not that bad looking.

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    [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    she does look a lot like Paige from The Americans tho, i gemuinely thought it was her

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    [+] -31 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    Great response, given that the alternative was to double down and take the lifelong commitment to the path of misogyny

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  • [–] 59 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    i think he is referring to the strength of her prescription. a -1 or -1.5 diopter prescription is mild - i.e. her glasses aren’t strong enough for the person she offered them to. misogyny was not intended

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    What? I think you missed what he is saying like the reply to him. He was talking about her glasses not her looks. If he doubled down it would have just been him explaining what he meant and that would be that.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    It is fair to be confused and not know that he's really talking about the prescription if you don't know what that is and you don't know Dr. Glaucomflecken is an actual ophthalmologist from his comedy Youtube shorts.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    I'm assuming you are talking about Ethan but I'm not sure how misogyny or shitting on someone talking about glasses are the only 2 options?

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Oh dear I should really be more careful with irony in written text or else feel the wrath of the mob! 😅 I meant that calling her a -1 can be interpreted as pretty offensive and Ethan pointed that out. Now the other guy saw the issue and corrected his comment with a follow up. I just meant that he did that in a really good way. He could have also chosen to never admit a mistake and just become a misogynist now.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    -1 was obviously about her glasses. The screenshot is basically going "look at this idiot who didn't realize that" nobody did anything misogynistic in the screenshot and being heavyhanded in labels like that make it easier for actual examples of misogyny to be dismissed.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I think what Jeff is pointing out is that it isn't uncommon for someone to be misinterpreted as a misogynist and, when called out, decide to lean into the misogyny rather than away, even if it wasn't their original intention. In this instance, it's a miscommunication that the OP handled in a way that made me laugh out loud, but I think Jeff is right, that there are also people who, in the same situation would have responded something to the effect of "I was talking about her vision. Maybe if you women weren't all so [insert twitter-typical misogyny here]", etc etc. Obviously that isn't what happened here, but it has been known to.

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    • [–] -4 points 8 months ago

    She's pretty normal. The glasses are ugly af.

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