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Robin Williams: It doesn’t scare me that Dubya waved at Stevie Wonder; that’s okay. Stevie’s only been blind since birth! He’s like, ‘Stevie!’ and Stevie’s going, ‘Is that muthaf***a waving at me? Goddamn! Does he think I’m lookin for him? Goddamn!’

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eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
IIRC, Stevie Wonder wasn’t 100% blind. He was capable of the vague discernment of light and dark and extremely vague shapes. But he was, functionally, blind, for all practical purposes.

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- nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  2 big things.
  
  Stevie Wonder is still alive.
  
  He went blind from being born prematurely and his retinas never developed properly. He might be able to detect light or shadow. But he’s really blind. And has a history of having fun messing with people about it too.
  
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- FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If my eyesight was that bad, i probably wouldn’t take pictures to begin with. Tgis totally brought back some memories that i fell into a rabbit hole of stevie wonder conspiracy theories. I remember that they had some good points, but with every point there was a lot of: what a weird thing to lie about for all that time
  
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  - eurodyne@piefed.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    If my eyesight was that bad, i probably wouldn’t take pictures to begin with.
    
    Not to nitpick, but only under such conditions could anyone trust the recordings to be purely objective.
    
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