Yikes. Those receptors are not growing back...
Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clearly, Yuga Labs has no incentive to either exaggerate the number of attendees or understate the number of people harmed. =)
I was curious when I heard the initial reports so I went looking for pics on Twitter — the ones I found looked absolutely nothing like the 2,500 attendees and more like 250..
Are these the same people that count attendees at inauguration speeches?
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
We - humans - could have had digital money - fast and fee-less, micro-transactions, decentralization, secure, anti-spam. Everything Bitcoin claimed to want to be. Instead we - the tech community - got smug about scams. People here get smug even toward the victims of scams. The attitude has been 'Who gives a flying fuck about the details of any crypto tech, or the potential of digital money'. 'It's all a scam, so I do…
Wait till you realize that any form of money is a scam designed to extort riches from the poorest producers and make those riches climb the social pyramid. Tongue in cheek comment of course, but that's an argument that can be defended.
It's more like a way to trick farmers into producing food for you even though you don't right that second have something they want.
Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
#154I learned last night that there are low-cost cards that test for UVC exposure; here is an example: https://www.amazon.com/QuantaDose-Light-Power-Visibility-Tec... They are usually used to verify that a purported UVC lamp is working, rather than working as a measure of protecting your eyesight, but maybe I should start bringing one of these to any concerts I go to.
I would not rely on a stain test designed to be used in close proximity to a light source being sensitive enough to detect eye-damaging UV at a distance. It might react only slightly, and the stain may not be discernible from the control in such circumstances.
Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
#155I learned last night that there are low-cost cards that test for UVC exposure; here is an example: https://www.amazon.com/QuantaDose-Light-Power-Visibility-Tec... They are usually used to verify that a purported UVC lamp is working, rather than working as a measure of protecting your eyesight, but maybe I should start bringing one of these to any concerts I go to.
I'm thinking UV safety glasses too. If you attend with one of these cards, you've already been subjected to them too. At least with glasses, you can have some protection. Unless you're going to wears these over your eyes as protection
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#156This has happened before when the event planners have put the wrong type of UV lights around. Instead of "UV-A" blacklights, they used shorter wavelength UV-C lights
https://hongkongfp.com/2017/10/26/partygoers-left-burns-ligh...
It's easy to order the wrong tubes on AliExpress....
Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
#157Cited in the article: https://twitter.com/crypto_birb/status/1721222853394121193 "Thanks for great apefest logistiscs guys @yugalabs & @BoredApeYC. Incredible event and met plenty of amazing people. Still, as dozens of others, I’ve almost lost sight this night." I mean, c'mon. "Thanks, incredible event, it almost blinded me"?
"WE ARE TRYING TO PUT A TINY THRILL INTO THEIR GREY LITTLE LIVES! OH FORGET IT, TURN ON THE LASERS!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiaWwjZS50s)
Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
#158Sounds very much like arc eye (welder's flash). Very painful, caused by UV.
You would think the pain would be immediate though.
Its like a sunburn blister. Takes a while to develop, usually whilst you're asleep. When you wake up, you open your eyes and rip the blisters open. I'm told it feels like hot sand being poured in your eyes at that point. Definitely one to avoid!
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#159Cited in the article: https://twitter.com/crypto_birb/status/1721222853394121193 "Thanks for great apefest logistiscs guys @yugalabs & @BoredApeYC. Incredible event and met plenty of amazing people. Still, as dozens of others, I’ve almost lost sight this night." I mean, c'mon. "Thanks, incredible event, it almost blinded me"?
nft enthusiasts are not the sharpest tools in the shed
they were looking kinda dumb with the laser
carving an L in their forehead
Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss
#160Cited in the article: https://twitter.com/crypto_birb/status/1721222853394121193 "Thanks for great apefest logistiscs guys @yugalabs & @BoredApeYC. Incredible event and met plenty of amazing people. Still, as dozens of others, I’ve almost lost sight this night." I mean, c'mon. "Thanks, incredible event, it almost blinded me"?
This seems pretty reasonable once you realize that other cults have managed to get people excited about literally killing themselves.