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  • This setup requires the magnifier to be closest to the eye, otherwise you won’t be seeing anything through it.

    Hm. If it works it works, I won’t try and say that you’re doing it wrong, but pictures of the combo you have on the company’s website primarily shows the magnifier after the optic, which is how these are typically mounted. You’d think it would at least be possible.

    I know when setting mine up it took a lot of finagling to get the two perfectly in-line with each other. That could be why it only works in the one way. But again, I supposed if it works, no harm no foul.






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    I’m just explaining where the presented argument was misunderstood. I for one think the joke is funny and works in either direction, but I tend to have a more “everyone is fair game” approach to comedy than “you can only make a joke if you, member of subclass A, are ranked below the target subject, subclass B, and societal context approves of your message”. “Punching up/ down” only really matters IMO when all someone seems to know how to do is punch down.





  • I’ve told this story before and I’ll tell it again.

    4th grade Teacher of the Year winner and current sitting member of the school board Mrs. S. had a strict rule when lining up after recess:

    “Straight line, no talking, no touching.”

    The bell would ring, and we’d all run to our respective, numbered spots on the playground, in a straight line, without talking, and certainly not touching, one another. Then, Mrs. S. would walk out to us, and we’d recite the line:

    “Straight line, no talking, no touching.”

    And she’d lead us inside.

    One day, returning from recess, the kid in front of me, Joe, was crying while standing on his number. Foolishly, I set my hand on his shoulder, and asked, “Are you alright?” Mrs. S. arrived just in time to rectify the situation. I watched as she strode up to me, staring daggers into my soul, and I yanked my hand off of my fellow student’s shoulder, but the damage was done. Towering over me, inches away, she shouts to the class, “Class, what is the rule?”

    “Straight line, no talking, no touching.”

    “Papalonian, what is the last part?”

    “No touching.”

    “No… Touching.”

    I received my first and only citation for the rest of my elementary school years. Ever thankful will I be for learning the lesson that empathy (towards someone I didn’t even like) shall never be tolerated when the rules forbid it.







  • My job involves a lot of travel.

    Guy that got hired on with me with, largely because he missed his family so much when he was out of town.

    Guy that replaced him non-stop complains about his wife and kid, always wants to work OT and out of town to get away from them.

    Guess that’s what the company is after.