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Yeah, they were. However, getting grinding sparks in your eye and letting them sit there for 24 hours because you thought it was just a bit of arc eye is a little more permanent, and you get told off by the nurse at the eye hospital while she’s picking rust off your eyeball.

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Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is false, you can go permanently blind from exposure to high intensity ionizing radiation, which is produced by welding equipment.

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- DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You’d have to be staring right at it for a protracted length of time. By the same token you can go blind staring at the sun.
  
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  - Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    By the same token you can go blind staring at the sun.
    
    Which is why nobody does it…
    
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    xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    On the contrary: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungazing#:~:text=Sungazi….
    
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MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Infrared light of welding can permanently damage the retina, UV the lens.

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