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Yep and if you wear them for too long your body will grow new blood vessels to supply your oxygen-starved eyes with what they need. These new blood vessels can cover your retina and can lead to blindness.

Learned that one by sleeping in daily disposable contacts for a while and losing a significant portion of my peripheral vision.

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Why do you think payment processors are restricting their policy to exclude pornographic content?

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If you read Project 2025 you would find that literally on Page 1 they equate pornography with "the spread of transgenderism and drag queens" and claim that all of the above are "invading their school libraries" so all further references to combating "pornography" in the text also means transgender people.

You can read it for yourself here and I strongly advise you to do so to stay informed. The enemy has laid bare every single one of their tactics and remaining ignorant to it is irresponsible.

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Last year, San Francisco authorized Waymo to pick up and drop off passengers on a car-free street. Now, private drivers think they, too, can travel on the street

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Just ran into something similar with a new business I was doing contract work with before they were open to public. I would drive down a back alley behind the building, park in employee only parking, and enter through the back door. Now Google Maps thinks the back lot is public parking and the back door is the entrance. I've tried to correct it multiple times now and it still directs people down the alley and to the rear of the building.

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An unusually wide adoption of rooftop solar in Aleppo, Syria.

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That may be correct, I always thought that was the date the imagery was taken, but I typically go to Earth first because you can easily scrub back and forth along the timeline. Interestingly, if you go back to the 2023 images you can see that 2024 was a big year for solar already. That pace continuing into 2025 and 2026 could definitely result in the area looking like the image in the OP. Wish we had location data from the original so we could see when and where it was taken as I'm super curious now. And its a slow day at work so I have time to dig around lol

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TIL the DCIM directory stands for "Digital Camera Images"

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Powertoys should be installed by default. Its a testament to how out of touch MS is that they leave all these great features as a little known optional install. Almost every single thing in power tools should be in windows outright.

I use it on any machine that I have to use windows on, and tell everyone I can about it. Just feels like such a miss to leave those features out of the OS