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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Oct 2019
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    Years ago I got sick of obviously wrong eyeglass 👓 prescriptions, and wide variance between different opticians’ numbers, and started writing my own. It’s time to make this a movement! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21156637 …

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      2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Oct 2019
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        There’s a thousand dumb little cartelized professions like optometry that have no accountability and no incentive to do their job properly and just charge for mandatory gatekeeping. Fortunately, you can bypass some of them...https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/high-street-opticians-giving-shocking-eye-tests-and-incorrect-prescriptions-report-reveals_uk_59e5ccf5e4b02a215b32b068?guccounter=1 …

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Oct 2019
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        David Chapman Retweeted David Chapman

        You are not annoyed enough about your slightly blurry vision to pressure your government to do something about it for everyone’s sake, but you can do something about it for yourself:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1180186893167677440 …

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        The basic trick is to buy a kit with all the lenses, which costs about $200. (Share cost with a friend?) Then you can just try them out until it’s right. And then order glasses with the prescription online. I use Zenni; they cost ~$50-100.
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      4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Oct 2019
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        Optometrists also do glaucoma and retinopathy tests (or are supposed to), which is genuinely useful. Realistically if this function were transferred to your primary care nurse, they’d charge twice as much for it. So I do that periodically and throw away the free Rx they throw in

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      2. Full MeTAL linguiste‏ @TyphonBaalAmmon 4 Oct 2019
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        Here in France we don't have the same problems. The guy who writes the prescription for glasses is a doctor, doesn't sell glasses and therefore isn't afraid you're going to go to a competing online optician.

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Oct 2019
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        Everything about American healthcare is more screwed up than anything else in the planet

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      2. Jscott‏ @DailySuicide 4 Oct 2019
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        Finally! Using your therapy light write-ups with great affect, I'm gonna dig into this. I have yet to find glasses that are an improvement. I'm near blind in my right eye and I still go without glasses for years at a time.

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 4 Oct 2019
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        The basic trick is to buy a kit with all the lenses, which costs about $200. (Share cost with a friend?) Then you can just try them out until it’s right. And then order glasses with the prescription online. I use Zenni; they cost ~$50-100.

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      1. @no identd‏ @no_identd 5 Oct 2019
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        Please, for the love of everything, DM me. We gotta talk. You've only discovered the tip of a GIGANTIC iceberg.

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      1. Ivan Kozik‏ @ivankozik 4 Oct 2019
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        I went through several optometrists until I found one who cared about getting the numbers exactly right and not underprescribing He retired but I've gone through so many glasses now that I can guess the new RX from my current optical distortions

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      1. kang‏ @7og1k 4 Oct 2019
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        Rock on

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