I have monofixation syndrome without amblyopia, discovered only after age 40 when an ophthalmologist who actually knew what they were doing did their job. My understanding is there no durable or neuroplastic adaptation to double vision, amblyopia, or monofixation syndrome after youth because it is permanently wired that way in the ocular-vestibular systems. Corrective eyewear, eye surgery, and/or weaker eye training at early ages may help, but show no evidence of correction in later years. Monofixation syndrome is a neurological adaptation of the brain to minimize the experience of double vision.
I have double vision from strabismus. There are quite a number of eye therapy exercises that you can do to improve the condition. The older you get, the more of it that it takes. I have made improvements, but before I made this discovery and started the therapy I was too far gone and too old to fully cure. But... I can get decent life improvements if I put in the effort.
If you look hard enough you may find an optometrist that specializes in eye therapy for strabismus and similar vision issues. Expect to be the only adult in the waiting room that is not a parent, most patients will be early-grade-school-age kids.
1. Taking breaks more often.
2. Using bigger monitor with bigger fonts, so I could sit further away.
3. Using Apple Vision Pro as a monitor replacement as it gives you 4-5 feet focal distance.
The last one lets me work at my computer all day without getting double vision, but it's not very comfortable and you start to feel the weight after 2 hours or less. Plus the friction on putting it on, connecting, etc.
I only ever heard about seeing double after some sort of accident. Do you know what causes yours? The sibling comments seem to assume it is from looking at screens for too long, is that it or does that make it worse?
Can anyone else simply not even comprehend the existence of trillions of giant floating balls of gas that are just in a constant state of explosion, floating through space!? Like... how???
They are suggesting the blade retracted, broke the saw, in a situation in which there was no risk to the finger. Maybe there was a literally hotdog in the wood.
> If you're ripping a wet piece of wood, no thumb risk at all
Most people would rather go bankrupt than lose a finger. Fingers are kind of important. If I can choose to keep my house or my finger, I’m definitely choosing the finger.
So just divide the average net worth of a saw operator by the cost of a saw to get how many saws a finger is worth.
Exactly, homeless people living on the street should really be called familyless.
If I went bankrupt and lost everything I have a social safety net of family members who would put a roof over my head until I got on my feet again. Only people without that safety net end up on the streets. Or they have addictions that mean their family can’t take care of them anymore.
The guys I've seen lose fingers were all sleep-deprived and working flat out. The biggest risk to site safety is sleep deprivation and physical exhaustion.
FYI Evolutionary pressure is mostly failure to reproduce. There needs to be enough damage or death before reproduction. Women past menopause can only affect evolution by preventing their children from reproducing.
Slightly damaged eyesight would hardly affect evolution.
We are a very compassionate society. There are dating and matchmaking services for people with virtually every kind of disability, including those who absolutely can not care for themselves, and modern health infrastructure affords the mentally disabled and other selective pressures (narrow birth canal and many other issues) to carry to term.
The same evolutionary pressures don't apply to humans at the moment with regard to sex. Not while civilization is a thing, anyway.
It isn’t exactly intuitive that when the sun’s light appears to be blocked it is nevertheless dangerous to stare at the eclipse because of invisible UV rays. This is something you specifically have to learn and is only relevant for a very rare event. Seems kind of harsh to consider people stupid for not knowing that.
Then there are also ineffective counterfeit eclipse glasses that people unknowingly bought…
> It isn’t exactly intuitive that when the sun’s light appears to be blocked it is nevertheless dangerous to stare at the eclipse because of invisible UV rays.
If you’re claiming it’s unsafe to view totality without protection, NASA disagrees with you:
> You can view the eclipse directly without proper eye protection only when the Moon completely obscures the Sun’s bright face – during the brief and spectacular period known as totality.
But what value is credit score, really? Like, the most mundane thing credit score might affect is that you have to put a deposit down to get a fancy phone, or an internet service.
No one's buying houses, no one needs to buy a car on credit, etc. Credit score is highly overrated, no?
Credit checks and score can also affect insurance rates. A bad score can also prevent job candidates from being hired for some jobs in some industries.
>No one's buying houses,
Even in scenarios of not buying a house... e.g. Getting a new loan on a primary home via re-financing an existing mortgage or taking a 2nd mortgage requires a good credit score.
Even if one is not getting a home mortgage, renters can be denied from leasing apartments because of credit score.
No. Really no. Some employers do credit checks. It can also impact your ability to just rent an apartment. Way back in the early 2000s I had a poor credit score and it meant 1) having to put down onerous deposits for services* and 2) being declined a few times when I tried to rent an apartment.
I was able to rent an apartment, but it cost me a few non-refundable application fees first and had to take a less-desirable apartment.
A poor credit score will also cost you when it's time to buy a car. You need to buy a new car? Unless you can pay cash, borrowing money is going to cost you more because you have a bad credit score.
* One of the many ways that being broke is a self-perpetuating cycle. You have little money, so you have to cough up deposits and tie up what little money you do have trying to secure services and a place to live. Some of that money you will get back - eventually - some of it (rental deposits) there's a good chance you'll never see again or only see some of. (Obligatory mention of Vimes' Boots theory...)
a credit score locks people out of an entire tier of purchases that could reasonably be paid off over time if they weren't entirely opt-ed out by credit, it isn't just fancy phones and internet services.
i've known home-owners that can't get financed for things like air conditioners because of medical debt -- and they were home owners -- and large appliances like that constitute large purchases espescially for those on fixed incomes; this essentially means there is a group of people that own homes, , likely retired so they're working on a fixed income and could surely use the flexibility of finance options, need to finance the repairs, and can't because of unrelated medical debt.
You made a good point I hadn't thought of: it's precisely the people with bad credit scores that most often need to take out loans for those things that people with great credit scores probably don't worry about.
At least in Canada, your credit score affects your ability to get a loan, and at what interest rate that loan will be. So it greatly affects your ability to buy a car and house. Is that not also the case in the US?
I think the point is that people who have so much medical debt that they’re not even able to make payments on it are not in a position to buy a house or a car either.
And more realistically, more people than ever will never be able to afford to own a home.
Many many people are never going to buy houses. I've never owned a house. Probably never will. I've never owned a new car, either, and I'm older than dirt. Some commenters had good counter examples, but those seemed to me like the main reasons to "need" a good credit score.
Whether the measurements are accurate enough is not clear, but they are certainly precise enough. I (and all my friends) can easily see huge differences in HRV on nights of drinking, it's pretty amazing.
