I swear, once I get a job

[conuly]

(and we've dug ourselves out of this hole) I'm putting as much as I can every paycheck towards eye surgery. I don't even want eye surgery, it sounds scarier than dental work, but at 43 I think I have to accept reality: I am never going to learn to reliably put my glasses somewhere they won't break and I won't lose them.

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A weird ice that may form on alien planets has finally been observed

Most Prosthetics Blend In. Her ‘Fun’ Eyes Stand Out. (Do look at the comments, sorted by "Reader Picks"!)

Mummy mystery solved: ‘air-dried’ priest was embalmed via rectum

For years, many of Apple’s most consumer-unfriendly decisions have felt like an extension of a revenue-optimization strategy at constant risk of backfiring. Thanks to a bracing legal decision, now it has.

A man let snakes bite him 202 times. His blood helped create a new antivenom

The surprisingly tricky art of seed banking

Peace in exchange for land? For many Ukrainians, it's too painful to contemplate (Not just painful, but stupid - who thinks Putin would honor that deal? Appeasement didn't work in the 1930s and it won't work today.)

A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students

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