I can well believe that.

Whoever it was, it wasn’t Dubya, anymore than any of the shit Trump is doing was his idea: both are much too dumb to come up with any of this.

I left the US 24 years ago. I saw all this coming when Dubya shat out the USA Patriot Act.

The US has been a fascist country for decades. Just ask any Gitmo detainee… Now it’s official.

I have some cheap hi power magnifiers for close work.

We have those at work. Really useful. But the double-glasses thing is more for when I have to thread a need at home, stuff like that. And I always have a pair of folding glasses in my backpack, because you never know.

Have you tried some of the online shops like Zenni? They were half the cost of going to an optical shop, with the same features.

No, I went to my local optician, for one reason: I only had the lenses made to order, and the instructions for making them were rather precise because they’re mounted in 3D-printed frames I designed myself. Also, I wanted Trivex lenses made specifically by Hoya and nobody else.

So my local opticial took care of ordering the blanks from them (you can’t order direct from lens manufacturers, sadly) then having the blanks edged with my template tool and explaining to the shop how to use it. It’s not that any of this is super complicated, but if anything went wrong, they were on the hook, not me.

I have progressives but they’re getting a bit insufficient in the near vision zone. But they’re still good 95% of the time, and considering the price of progressive lenses, every once in a while I don reading glasses over my regular glasses for precise work on tiny things.

Except he doesn’t give a fuck. Haven’t you noticed?

I think that ship has sailed.
The country has been quite comprehensively fucked over at this point.

It’s okay. Yes, the megarich will become even richer, but it’s worth the sacrifice because the price of eggs will come down eventually.
Any minute now…

I would do it, but I now refuse to post anything political or historical in any tankie instance / community that contradicts the tankies’ alternative reality. If you so much as hint that you’re not fully onboard with their mad theories, you’re very quickly banned, and I’d rather retain the ability to post in non-controversial communities I’m interested in that are unfortunately hosted on tankie instances.

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It would be more entertaining if you posted that on the tankie instances.

That’s the exact kind of messy migration I want to avoid.

Agreed. I wish I could transfer my SDF communities over here but it’s not possible, sadly.

Whatever they once were, they suck now.

Whatever it is, as a SDF member, I curse the day I decided to support them. I paid SDF because I believe in paying for what I use, and it turns out to be the worst service I use by a long shot. Why I didn’t open my first Lemmy account on a more reliable instance for free, I’ll never know…

A lot of Nazis who weren’t rich enough to escape denazification in Germany did very well in the US instead.

All dictators need declared enemies of the nation. Those unfortunate souls are Trump’s.

Nah. It’s gonna get ugly when they’re all interned in concentration camps with no due process of law for indefinite amounts of time and brought there by trainloads.

It really isn’t.

If Trump really did deport tens of millions of migrants this way, like he promised he would, it would bankrupt the country. Fortunately, it’s another one of his promises that will never materialize.

No, but he’s dumb enough to deport them to the USA apparently.

You mean New America, surely.