Polaris always got my back
My friends are by my side
Submitted 3 days ago by GreenDust@lemmings.world to [deleted]
https://lemmings.world/pictrs/image/7b70ba08-9347-42ff-9e9e-a4d759a75ae3.jpeg
Comments
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Widdershins@lemmy.world 2 days ago
did you know that there’s a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
If only we encouraged kids to do Spirograph a bit more.
whitecollarcry@lemmy.world 2 days ago
which Trent Reznor aptly critiqued on that one appropriately titled album
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No
rock_hand@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Mine are so bad, eye wish there was a way to reset.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I had a detached retina which involved (spoiler for those that don’t like to read about eyes)
Tap for spoiler
Having the fluid removed and replace with gas. My eye was out of action for months, going through all the stages of gradually refilling itself. I had to stay mostly lying down for a week. For a while I had an effect like looking over the surface of water. Later, a big bubble that distorted vision. Oh also, I was forbidden to go to high altitude because the pressure change could cause damage. But after all that, just a few occasional floaters. My other eye still had lots of “tethered” floaters that seem to still be attached like seaweed strands. So it can be done but you would go through a lot to get there. I’ve heard that people do get that done just for the floater problem.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 days ago
My dad had this done and his knees don’t hurt from gout anymore. His diet changed dramatically too. Zero meats. It’s been a while so I am allowed this one gag about my dad! He was such a great guy and I miss him very much. IE he is D I D dead, so he is in a sense vegan like myself.
All seriousness aside, he did get detached retinas and the vitrious liquid in his eyeball replaced. We could see the bubble and his eyes changed from brown to green. My coworker too had a lens op where they also replaced the stuff in the eye.
null@piefed.nullspace.lol 2 days ago
I see what you did there.
Kaffeefriese@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Can someone explain?
GreenDust@lemmings.world 2 days ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep…
Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD) is a non-psychotic disorder in which a person experiences lasting or persistent visual hallucinations or perceptual distortions after using drugs.[1] This includes after psychedelics, dissociatives, entactogens, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and SSRIs.[2][3] Despite being a hallucinogen-specific disorder, the specific contributory role of psychedelic drugs is unknown. Symptoms may include visual snow, trails and after images (palinopsia), light fractals on flat surfaces, intensified colors, altered motion perception, pareidolia, micropsia, and macropsia.[3] Floaters and visual snow may occur in other conditions.[4][5]
papalonian@lemmy.world 2 days ago
All these comments about eye floaters and I’m wondering who has floaters in the form of sacred geometry
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
If you look at the sky or something bright and uniform in colour, you can often see floaters in the inside of your eyeball. They also move as you try to look at them.
I would suggest not looking though, because once you know there their some people get bothered by it.
papalonian@lemmy.world 2 days ago
once you know there their
You’re mocking us, aren’t you
Beacon@fedia.io 2 days ago
Many people don't get them till they start approaching middle age. Like everything else that relates to the body, enjoy the good quality vision while you can
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 2 days ago
Do you not notice the gunk that floats inside the fluid within your eye? There’s no possibility that the cells in your eyes never shed.
It makes sense to me why there are so many obliviously ignorant people in this world; you have this shit inside your eyes, impossible to miss, access to the sum of all human knowledge in your hand, and yet you still must ask for someone to fucking spoon-feed you the information to you.
Kaffeefriese@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Well now I Know what it means…but in my Eyes they look quite different and the Terminus “always” is not the one i would chose. But its fine i undestand now.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 days ago
You know that ‘access to the sum of all knowledge’?
Maybe you could use that and learn that not everyone gets them and it’s by no means a universal experience. Even people who do have them may not ever notice them due to the size, so by definition will be impossible to miss for some people.
You could also read sites on how not to be irrationally angry while you’re at it.
MunkyNutts@feddit.online 2 days ago
My first thought was fractal visiuals from mushrooms.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 days ago
Bro has the power of the Tessaract and the Tetragrammaton on his side.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 days ago
Oh hey it’s my old buddy Squiggly! I hope it’s doing okay.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Is that the Crystalline Entity?
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh good it’s not just me right? Right?…
sploder@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Me with my HPPD lmfao
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 2 days ago
Looks like mushi.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
I read some studies a while back that showed taking a bromelain (pineapple enzyme) supplement on an empty stomach consistently each day will eventually reduce floaters fairly significantly by dissolving them.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 days ago
This is absolutely true!
I had a detached cornea that I had to get lasered back together, which is a “fun” story in and of itself. But after I had this really bad “curtain” is the best I can describe it. Had it for years. Got on a pineapple kick for a little while and it disappeared!
I honestly can’t tell you how long it took. I’m actually only just now noticing that I haven’t had it in months!
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 2 days ago
… this sounds absurd to me, at least as stated wrt the enzymes “dissolving” the floaters. Your body does not like foreign proteases floating around. I am also skeptical that the enzymes would survive denaturing and pepsin et al. in the stomach and duodenum (empty stomach or not), get absorbed intact, and somehow not get inactivated by the immune system (again, rogue protease = bad). Not to say that your floaters weren’t reduced or even that the supplement wasn’t responsible; who knows what the metabolites do. Just, action of an intact enzyme itself seems unlikely. Corrections welcome; I’m not a biologist.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
I haven’t tried it yet, I was just mentioning the studies I’d come across. You can read this one here, which found that taking 3 pills a day reduced floaters in patients by 70%, with a B-scan ocular ultrasound seeming to confirm the results.
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Buying supplements for this harmless a phenomenon is kinda crazy.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Floaters can drastically vary from barely noticeable (like in the meme), to extremely distracting (large black or gray dots floating around in the vision even when reading a book or using a computer), to even limiting eyesight almost like cataracts.
In the study below, one patient’s eyesight improved from 6/60 to 30/60 due to how severely the floaters obstructed vision.
And bear in mind, one of the physical alternatives to eliminating the floaters has a 7% chance of permanent blindness, whereas a cheap $16 bottle of concentrated pineapple enzyme can drastically reduce them with little to no side effects, and no chance of long-term harm.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I googled and there’s evidence of this working so I will try this out.