OmegaWhat's a relatively minor thing to most people that you WISH you could have?
Singletona082Normal vision.
dandelionwas trying to figure out what the stats are on vision impairment, and found this:
nih.gov/…/study-finds-most-americans-have-good-vi…
A National Institutes of Health (NIH) study has found that although 94 percent of Americans aged 12 and older have good vision, the remaining six percent, or 14 million, are visually impaired.
So 6% of Americans are visually impaired, and of those, 3/4 can be corrected with glasses.
that is a fairly blunt assessment. ‘Correction’ is not a binary after all.
After cateracts surgery I’ve got 20/80 vision in my better eye. Technically both eyes.
HOWEVER.
I have no useable depth perception. The retina on my left eye is swiss cheesed with holes and scarring from birth defects. My right retina has a major deflection in it and I ‘won’ the lottery in having it detatch post cateracts surgery (a nominally single digit percentage chance of happening) and thus needed further surgeries to correct.
My eye sight is so bad I can only see 15cm in front of me correctly, and I can’t enlist in the army.
Mine is bad due to my genes, but not that bad. Sorry to hear it.
Hey, I can’t enlist in the army! That’s a good thing!
A very good thing, and one that’s getting better with each election, truly.
Admiral PatrickA measurable attention span.
Oh but it CAN be measured.
It is simply that value is too short for what you need it to be.
Wait, what were we talking about? /jk
the trick is long attention span. the longer, the more you can measure
I feel like long attention spans would also help out in other facets of life.
SibshopsEat dairy products
KingJalopy Paying the price for that today myself. Are a big ass bowl of cereal last night while sleep walking. My sleeping self didn’t know to take lactaid… 🤢
Man here I thought I had it bad when I ended up waking up on the couch and a brand new bag of barbeque chips was gone.
sleepwalking me needs to stop pigging out.
Try eating cereal with Fairlife instead. Tastes almost the same as milk with no side effects. I didn’t know how much I missed cereal in milk until I had it
grasshopper_mouseSaaame. A sip of milk is like poison for me, 20 minutes later and I’m stuck in the bathroom for the next 4 hours.
I have minor lactose intolerance, and I drink coffee regularly.
I shit out diarrhea if I mix it with milk with lactose of any kind.
undefinedBut why? The dairy industry does some truly evil shit.
A full set of functioning organs
Same here, I’ll take a fully functioning skeleton while we’re at it.
People existing in society in good faith. People who just want the world to be a better place to live, and aren’t willing to shove people down below them in order to get an edge.
pelespiritI hope you have a good weekend, my friend.
The sad reality is that I’m going to be fine. I’m going to survive the turmoil and probably make money in the process, because I’ve been lucky before now. I worry for people that haven’t been lucky. I worry for people that have been lucky but happen to be the “wrong” race. The US has always had problems, sure, but nothing like this.
Oh look, a mirror
Sorry, should I be donating more than 20% of my paycheck to charity? Should I be volunteering for more than 12 hours/week?
What are you doing for your neighbors, you dumb cunt?
What the fuck?
I’m saying that your situation appears to be just like mine.
What crawled up your ass and died this evening?
I think people are misunderstanding your comment. There’s a saying “look in the mirror” which is used negatively when someone isn’t being self-aware. People are most likely taking your comment as a play of this idiom and it sounds like you are yelling at someone to be self reflective. It’s miscommunication
I’ve used that phrase many times before, and this is the first time I’ve ever gotten such a bizarre reaction.
It’s not always English speaking first here haha don’t feel too badly you meant well
Touche
Honestly, I thought you were using it rudely as well. Like,“Look in the mirror, ya dipshit” Your explanation cleared it up, and then going back and rereading it, I see what you meant, but don’t get too bent about the person taking you the wrong way. I probably would have done the same at first.
100% why I stopped engaging in activism.
You make a mistake and people always assume malice. It was too bad.
Nah, because it’s communism /s
Boomer Humor DoomergodBeing alone.
Everyone’s talking about a loneliness epidemic and I’m here wishing I had fewer people around me.
Most of them I love, for sure, but the freedom and relaxation of not having anyone around is addicting and I haven’t had a good hit since 2020
Not to brag, but god I love waking up to a clean, quiet, empty house with my dogs every day. I don’t understand why people want a spouse or kids.
There was a solid 18 months where I woke up to a kitty cuddled in my arms and no alarm, no kids, no SO. Just work at some time in a few hours and a purring kitty.
I miss it. Even though I could see my breath in my own bedroom.
Peace is criminally underrated.
phoenixariseMe, neither. The peace and quiet is worth more than anything.
IronKrillYou trade me some of your friends and I’ll give you some of my alone time, dealio?
I Cast FistGood relation with family
funkajunkHoly fuck this.
My parents haven’t seen their only grandchild in like 6 years and it seems like they couldn’t care less.
gonads that produce the correct sex hormones
I wish I had enough rhythm to dance, not like some amazing dancer, I’m talking even just a little bit. I dance like Elaine on Seinfeld.
I went from “no ability to dance” to swing dance instructor in about a year in my 20’s. No one is unteachable - and rhythm can be taught.
I was terrible at swing! I can’t lead in dancing. I can run a bunch of troopies to set up some comms in the bush and no one will ever hear me as us kids were raised “dad works night shifts so be quiet” kind of quiet. But if a game plan while dancing is a learned skill, I never hit proficiency at it and I think it’s just not for me.
Well done, you. You learned a skill I can only envy, and in under a year!
It helped that back then i had that kind of time haha but I appreciate the kind words. I don’t do it as much anymore and I certainly miss it, but when I bust it out I’m so grateful I have it!
That’s very impressive! We had a swing dance club in my high school and they always looked like they were having a good time. I think the closest thing I’ve done to dancing is marching in formation in the Army, which does take rhythm and coordination. But there’s a certain “fluidness” to some people that my body just doesn’t have.
You don’t have it because you haven’t practiced!
I’m actually somewhat sympathetic to your description - half the reason I was able to pick it up as fast as I did was because I was in marching band and could keep time. When you don’t have to to think about keeping time, it’s very easy to focus on what your body and feet are doing. You have a bigger advantage than you think.
It also doesn’t have to be swing :)
That’s a good way to put it, I can definitely keep time. But yes, practice makes perfect!
Sasha [They/Them]Hypothyroid?
Nah fibromyalgia, life is hell
Two things, I have horrible vision, wear -9 glasses.
And I am autistic and have a very difficult time navigating many social interactions, I would love to not have to deal with either of these.
The D Quuuuuilla functioning democracy
Hah, that’s hard to come by for MOST people! I’m not even sure Norway is actually a democracy!
the trick is long politicians. the longer, the bigger the snap
I feel like long politians would also help out in other facets of life.
ZorsithA body that isn’t rapidly degrading before I’m even 30.
I had a couple more grocery store stops to make tonight but decided to go home instead because my body hurts and i wanted to stop moving for a while.
Granted, I am fat and sedentary