Well … it’s 2024. And ole Vander Jakenhausenberger is still posting these updates for you.
Elon says we live in a simulation.
So am I just sitting in a coffee shop, posting people’s eyeball gains, like some sort of side quest in a video game? Do you actually exist, out there, reading these? Is it an entirely fruitless activity, for the past literal decade posting vision improvement reports from people on the Interwebs?
I don’t think you can even find us on Google. Not that I’ve tried or not that we do any kind of “SEO” stuff. Whatever, to be honest. This is fringe.
Here’s some fringe for you:
Speaking of Elon and Twitter and simulations …
Do you follow all the war profiteering back stories and election deep state fun and vaccine ‘discoveries’? Maybe it’s just because I’m rarely online in general, and never got into social media, and just scan Twitter for 10 minutes in the morning. Do you get the vibe the the curtain between us and the general bullshit being perpetrated, is slowly falling off its rails?
Maybe not. Maybe I was just always especially clueless.
For example I did always believe that optometry was just this weird random outlier, where the ‘doctors’ wouldn’t engage at all if I showed them their own industry peer reviewed science studies. Where very clearly their treatment would just amount to a subscription, fixing nothing. I was always talking about how weird it was and how it made no sense.
Well …. isn’t Jakey the dummy. It’s just par for the course, isn’t it. From the giant scheme that is selling insulin, or name-the-medical-subscription-treatment, to Apple not ever letting you change the battery in your own phone, to your country filling up with questionable characters you never invited or agreed to host. Or every possibly company out there ‘owning’ your data in their terms of service you have to agree to. Come on.
At every turn there’s some giant corporation taking a cut out of our lives.
Ok ok ok. Let’s not be all terribly dull and negative. A lot of this stuff is fixable, preventable, avoidable, and at the very least our own doing. Like eyesight. You don’t need to peer out at the world from behind smudgy, image compressing lenses. You really don’t.
And just like your least favorite old Jake has to drag himself to the gym, to picking up the new guitar project several times a day for practice, to having that third language keyboard turned on in the setting, pecking around for some very alien looking characters. Life’s largely a challenge – with the occasional payoff.
Pay off your glasses subscription, kitteh. Get rid of one of these stupid bits of unnecessary baggage. One at a time. Freedom may be fleeting and illusory, but what else are we going to do.
Go make some 20/20 gains.
Cheers,
-Jake
