I think similarly whenever my airways casually close up.
Waking up when the weather changes:
You’re nostrils do that as you sleep to keep the one closest to the bed/ground closed. Since people roll from side to side over the course of a night your nostrils swap which one’s closed
imagine being an absolute beta and not mouthbreathing
Look up how to clear / flush / drain your sinuses. I do it from time to time and it works wonder for multiple days
That won’t help with asthma sadly :(
Natural selection hasn’t really applied to humans for thousands of years. We beat nature when we created civilizations. Which is partly why some of these less than ideal genetic traits go unchecked now in the population.
It doesn’t have to do with civilisation, but with group compassion. In fact, civilizations tend to care less if somebody starves to death on the streets because their eyes are not performing well enough to earn money…
That’s really not true at all though. Look up “Food Pantries in my area” and see how many places offer food in your area. The blind man would qualify for lifetime disability checks. Food stamps are a thing, charities and churches do this kind of work as well. My city has an emergency rent program and there are, of course, homeless shelters and soup kitchens as well. It’s really that society’s mechanism for meeting the needs of the hungry are part voluntary (charity) and part automatic with entitlements (not a bad word!) and sometimes people fall through the cracks.
This is why getting people connected to resources is such a big deal.
I can’t imagine having to live with my natural sight 24/7.
I definitely would not be driving. Probably not walking much either, might not see the bus coming.
its not like they had cars to drive before glasses were a thing
I was more imagining the current world, but corrective lenses were never invented.
on the bright side we would probably have much better public transit
If you had lived at an earlier point, there’s a good chance your eyesight would have been better. Not just because of natural selection for genes or whatever. The modern spread of nearsightedness is primarily attributed to greater time spent indoors, looking at things close to you like books, and particularly during childhood. It is largely nurture instead of nature.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220927-can-you-prevent-short-sightedness-in-kids
I don’t need it to be night to realise that. I have -13 on both eyes, near-sightedness (not sure about the correct terminology in English). I see clearly for about one centimetre right by the tip of my nose, everything closer or further than that is a blurry and fuzzy mess. To use my phone without glasses I have to press it against my nose and can only see about half of the screen width clearly.
I think they just meant night time is when people remove glasses, so that’s when you notice the difference 😎
Some species members care for each other. Humans obviously (some anyways), even lions I think have been known to provide food when another has broken teeth or something.
Apes feed and care for their elderly. When the old ape decides it’s time, it will go off alone into the jungle to die
you know whats even weirder? Some dude somewhere realized that lenses were a thing, and realized that your eyes were also just a glorified lense. And that theoretically you could just put a lense over a lense to fix the bad lensing of the lense. And it fucking worked.
Natural selection my ass.
Legend has it that it started with an old drunk man that decided to hold beer bottles to his eyes.
i dont know about that one to be honest.
Would be pretty funny though.
I remember maybe a decade or more ago some enterprising gent made a glasses design with some kind of resin in the lens, so the wearer could adjust the lens thickness to fit their needs. Nobody would back his invention so he created a non-profit to fund these glasses for the developing world. I’d love to know what happened to it because its still something I care about supporting.
Wow, that is a very cool concept. I, too, would like to back this.
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Yeah, I always get a warning message from zenni when I order glasses. It thinks my script is wrong cause it’s such a weird one.
I know I’m half blind! Don’t make me feel bad about it too!
As someone with bad sight, all my other senses are tingling. So, while blind people might’ve been unable to hunt, they would have made great night guards, which is a boon for social groups wary of nocturnal predators.
God made you that way, and she doesn’t make mistakes. Think about it.
He seems to have left a test foreskin on the deployment build.
That’s tamper resistant packaging. You’re supposed to remove that before use.
Not that this would be the only thing I would be selected out for…
Being seriously evaluated for Sjogren’s Syndrome currently. Went to a rheumatologist for joint pain and found out that my chronic eye pain and dry eyes is a big indicator of a problem. I thought it is because my eyesight is shit and I look at screens constantly
Do you have recurrent corneal erosions?
Not yet. But my eyes are definitely getting worse in regards to the dryness and pain. I thought it was just eye strain, but the doctor was like, “no. There’s definitely something wrong with you.”
I have loads of symptoms that indicate auto-immune disease. My thyroid is also larger than it should be, which has the doctor concerned. She could physically feel how big it is.
Every time I have a migraine (or when I take my daily preventative. or whenever I notice the anti-migraine coating on my glasses) I consider how long it’ll take someone to put me out of my misery once the apocalypse shows up. Can’t say I’ll be super useful whenever I’m forced to be in a dark/quiet room for a day or so before I can function again.
Would I even know how blind I am if glasses didn’t exist?
Just make the world think they are blind too. Just like anything else.
