Monero is built as a privacy first crypto. Essentially it’s like cash in many ways. You spend it in the shop and nobody knows where the cash you’re handing over came from. When you get your change at the till you know nothing about who had the cash before you that you just got handed. It’s just money.

This is all handled by a bunch of very complex cryptography. If it comes to it there are ways to prove you sent the money etc but only you have that capability to decide to share.

You will not believe this but when I emailed for my prescription earlier I was told I’m well overdue (2021 was my last test) and I said “time flies”. She took the time to write “OUT OF DATE” twice on the scan.

Thanks for the timeline.

Just wanted to come back and say thanks. I emailed my optician for my prescription and bought a pair of glasses off this site for €17 delivered (about $19 USD). Do you mind me asking how long yours took to arrive? I’m in one of the “standard delivery” countries.

Ah! I knew there was a place someone had mentioned to me before that they were happy with and couldn’t remember the name. It was Zenni. I ended up buying from that site linked above for very cheap and I’m going to do some experimenting with these scratched ones when the new ones get here.

Yeah one of the recommended things I saw was furniture polish or car wax to fill them in. Both would only be temporary. Based on the replies so far I may give this a whirl as I don’t see it being damaging.

Ah unfortunately they’ve taken a bit of abuse over the years. Nothing major so the scratches are really tiny but enough of them have built up from rough and tumble with the kids etc. that they’re a constant annoyance now. :(

I do actually do the dishsoap / warm water thing myself and find it great.

These were my backup pair on a 2 for 1 offer so I didn’t get any lens coating / thinner lens thing on them.

Thanks. Just had a look and that is incredibly cheap. They also do free standard shipping to my country so I will seriously consider this.

two days, per lens

HOLY MOLY! Fair play to you for the perseverance though.

You know, this is so blindingly obvious I never thought of it. Haha! Great idea.

edit: I actually can’t believe I didn’t think of this. Chuckling away to myself here.

edit 2: I looked up the opticians I bought from and they have a page about scratches that says they can’t unfortunately. :( It recommends new lenses. Not sure if that’s profit motive or not though.

No, that was Liz Truss, the British prime minister and it was a lettuce.

This is an old one, but:

The Mission, scored by Ennio Morricone.

Car charger that does the OnePlus specific fast charge thing. Cost me $12 delivered on AliExpress. Adds about 2% per minute to my phone battery. I love it so much.

It also has a second port which does “normal” fast charge for any passengers.

It’s trickle down economics in action.

I dont have a dog in this fight.

Of course you do. Allowing borders to be redrawn by force isn’t good for stability anywhere.

Agreed. I think a huge part of it is down to how many kids are vaping here too. Saw an interview with the Taoiseach (prime minister) and he said 13% of 12-17 year olds had vaped in the last 30 days. Pretty crazy number.

Well I am delighted. €13.1B + the 1.2 in interest represents what will be a bump of 16% of total tax revenue compared to 2023 (€88B total). There are lots of things that money can be used for.

Are you using a VPN maybe?

Apparently they were googling “time in moscow” when following up on an invoice per Ryan McBeth so they are guilty as fuck.

We don’t really have that whole active shooter thing here tbh.

He doesn’t strike me as violent, just a self important cunt.