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  • The U.S. was never given independence.

    The Declaration of Independence wasn’t asking for it. It was stating it as established fact:

    “We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.”

    It would have been different if Britain had won the war, but they didn’t.

    It would have been nice if we managed to do better with the independence we have, but that doesn’t change the reality.









  • Interesting.

    One of the things my wife did was vision training. She had a computer with VR glasses that people would use to exercise their binocular vision to help them keep their eyes aligned correctly.

    Now, that’s not fixing the myopia, but if the muscles that point your eyes aren’t working well, they’ll spasm, and you won’t be able to focus.

    That is another point my wife mentioned when we were talking about it. People think they can’t see because they can’t focus, but they really can’t focus because they are working so hard to keep their eyes aligned properly that the muscles spasm. So, she could “fix the myopia” by fixing the binocular vision problem.

    It wouldn’t surprise me to hear that a doctor said it wasn’t possible, because my wife would encounter patients on both ends of the spectrum: some who were told VT didn’t work and they had to buy glasses, and others who were told VT was the solution and they had to do dozens of sessions costing many hundreds of dollars.

    My wife would charge them for a couple training sessions in person so they knew what to do, then let them do the exercises at home (obviously not using VR at home).

    Part of my wife’s problem is she was ethical. In the last full year she worked before going on disability, her total take home (as the owner) was around $6k.




  • NABDad@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldYou'll hurt your eyes!
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    VR headsets, 3D TVs, and 3D movies all have the same issue as far as strain is concerned.

    Our brains expect our eyes to focus on what they’re pointing at. If your eyes are pointing at something nearby, we focus near. If we’re pointing at something far away, we focus far.

    All the various 3D solutions have a fixed distance and fake the 3D by having each eye get a slightly different angle on the image. The mismatch between where our eyes are pointing and where they are focused can cause problems.

    Until 3D reaches the level of a Star Trek Holodeck, it’s going to cause trouble. Ok for a short time, but you wouldn’t want to spend all day doing it.

    (this is all me paraphrasing what my eye doctor wife told me, so don’t expect me to know any more about it)