As I age I am becoming more and more far-sighted. I cannot read most menus or restaurant bills without magnifying glasses. Sometimes I forget to bring them and the solution to paying a bill I cannot read has been to take a photo and blow it up.

enframed wrote: Sun Oct 16, 2022 10:53 am As I age I am becoming more and more far-sighted. I cannot read most menus or restaurant bills without magnifying glasses. Sometimes I forget to bring them and the solution to paying a bill I cannot read has been to take a photo and blow it up.

Oh Hai!!

(me too)

For engine building work I have a pair of *ladies* 5 dollar magnifying reading glasses I perch on the end of my nose for looking over for non detail work. They're purple. I look very fetching.

I'm owning being 50 like a boss ovah here.

Tram is late

speedie wrote: Mon Oct 17, 2022 2:25 am

enframed wrote: Sun Oct 16, 2022 10:53 am As I age I am becoming more and more far-sighted. I cannot read most menus or restaurant bills without magnifying glasses. Sometimes I forget to bring them and the solution to paying a bill I cannot read has been to take a photo and blow it up.

Oh Hai!!

(me too)

For engine building work I have a pair of *ladies* 5 dollar magnifying reading glasses I perch on the end of my nose for looking over for non detail work. They're purple. I look very fetching.

I'm owning being 50 like a boss ovah here.

Ha. I turned 50 in July.

I too have magnifiers that I get on the cheap, Dollar Tree, they cost $1.25. I have four pair. One for the car, one for working when home, one for each work bag. Mine get compliments as they are very colorful: pink, sky blue, animal patterns. I have an actual nice prescription pair for reading books and magazines at home and those do not generally leave the house.

enframed wrote: Mon Oct 17, 2022 12:53 pm

speedie wrote: Mon Oct 17, 2022 2:25 am

enframed wrote: Sun Oct 16, 2022 10:53 am As I age I am becoming more and more far-sighted. I cannot read most menus or restaurant bills without magnifying glasses. Sometimes I forget to bring them and the solution to paying a bill I cannot read has been to take a photo and blow it up.

Oh Hai!!

(me too)

For engine building work I have a pair of *ladies* 5 dollar magnifying reading glasses I perch on the end of my nose for looking over for non detail work. They're purple. I look very fetching.

I'm owning being 50 like a boss ovah here.

Ha. I turned 50 in July.

I too have magnifiers that I get on the cheap, Dollar Tree, they cost $1.25. I have four pair. One for the car, one for working when home, one for each work bag. Mine get compliments as they are very colorful: pink, sky blue, animal patterns. I have an actual nice prescription pair for reading books and magazines at home and those do not generally leave the house.

I’ve got Dollar Tree readers all over the place- in the car, on my desk, in my bag, on my nightstand, etc. I recently got some progressive lenses, and I only need to wear the readers when I’m wearing contacts. 51 in December.

On the way to work this morning I found a $10 bill on the empty bus seat next to mine.

One of my apples is "corked." I've been noticing more and more corked fruits and vegetables lately.

enframed wrote: Sun Oct 16, 2022 10:53 am As I age I am becoming more and more far-sighted. I cannot read most menus or restaurant bills without magnifying glasses. Sometimes I forget to bring them and the solution to paying a bill I cannot read has been to take a photo and blow it up.

Me too but in my case I have to take my glasses OFF to see things close up these days, whereas previously I could see things close up through my regular glasses.

kokorodoko wrote: Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius

Looking forward to the day when the Illuminati are exposed and they all turn out to be like this.

The number of people who still think Elon Musk is some kind of genius... none less than Elon Musk himself. Just silly boys with money. He never struck me as particularly smart or insightful. Ehh ehh EEEHHH, but he's the world's richest man so he MUST be so much smarter than YOU mister critic. Oh yes Elon, tell us again about your muddled understanding of Boltzmann brains, you towering intellectual.

Currently flying 30-some-thousand feet over Nebraska, on way to SF Bay area.

Waving to the cows. Hi cows.

Reading the Stanford page on Carl Schmitt. What a truly unpleasant mode of thought.

Noteworthy that his is the antithesis of the Jewish ethic. In the Nazi imagination, the Jews are precisely those inhabitants who do not wish to identify with the polity and therefore are to be regarded as internal enemies or the external aggressor who, because of their superior political cohesion, will overpower the effete liberal state. What is forgotten is that while it is true that with the Jewish people there is a clear distinction of who belongs and who doesn't, there is also "love thy neighbour". The implication being that the neighbour/enemy can well be someone who technically belongs to the community. As well as of course meaning that people identifying with different groups, as well as people identifying with neither, can inhabit the same territory and nonetheless get along.

I recommend reading the section on international law because holy shit if this isn't a potential emerging consensus today.

During the Nazi-period, Schmitt applied this view to a justification of Nazi aggression, by portraying Nazi-Germany as a local hegemon willing to support a global territorial division based on a principle of non-intervention. Schmitt hoped, for a while at least, that America would reveal itself to be Germany’s ‘real enemy’ and that it would be willing to engage in a mutual division of spheres of influence. In this vein, Schmitt interpreted the Monroe-doctrine as the first act of hegemonic appropriation of a sphere of interest that might come to form part of a new global order, if only America were willing let Germany impose its own Monroe-doctrine on continental Europe. For as long as they were militarily successful, Schmitt celebrated the Nazi wars as the birth pangs of a new ‘nomos of the earth.’

I guess the joke is on me that I have now been provided with an existential enemy to fight.