Comment on If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked?

• UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Still owes me 20 bucks, just sayin

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  • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Rather short sighted of him to let interest build up over thousands of years!

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    • UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I see what you did there.

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• Railison@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  True but the rates of myopia were minuscule compared to today. Bad phrasing: not a thing insofar as it barely affected anyone.

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  • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Alternative theory. It impacted a similar proportion of the population, but people in general were vastly less likely to be in situations where it impacted their life in an overly negative way

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