Ok. But I’m a little annoyed it wasn’t expressly stated in the article. I don’t wear contacts.

It’s funny because what you describe is way BETTER than I would have expected. LOL.

The article never explicitly made the connection between contacts and this condition.

Does it trap the parasites against the eye? Does it cause micro tears that allow the parasites to enter? In which case, just being a contact user would be the problem, not wearing them while swimming. I didn’t see anything in the story that would indicate NOT wearing contacts would prevent this.

Termite treatment.

Absolutely, but there are a few problems with this. First, I live in the US. Americans do NOT know how to negotiate a roundabout. There is a roundabout near my house. The instructions of how to use it are posted on signs as you approach. They are wrong. They actually have inside lanes exiting across the outside lanes that can continue around. So not only is it wrong but it’s teaching the locals here what NOT to do at a normal roundabout.

Second, they don’t fit at existing intersections.

Third, I think they would be more expensive than just a piece of tech attached to traffic lights that already exist.

I mean the best solution would be some good public transportation, but I’m trying to be more realistic here. That’s for more civilized nations. In the US the car rules. And the bigger, the better.

Timing traffic lights. They could look down the road and see when nothing is coming, to let the other direction go, like a traffic cop. It would save time and gas.

It’s not just, you know, Halloween?

Not sure that’s the kind of technology purchase to which the OP was referring. I thought you were going to say you purchased some kind of high tech sink and was excited to hear what it did to improve your life. I mean, I can see the point but…

Was so excited to answer this only to find the top post hit virtually every one of my suggestions.

But there is one more. This year I plan to revisit an old classic:

The Lost Boys.

You mean the worst? I don’t know. I’m just hopeful that I’m not actually the worst. Fingers crossed.

Nope. I’m just that bad. I feel like I have a logical mind but it just seems like the command don’t do what I think they will, won’t operate on a certain type of variable or Holy crap I forgot a friggin space or semi-colon or something.

Languages in order of proficiency: C++ HTML/CSS Matlab Basic Fortran (1 class taken)

But when I say proficient I seriously mean looking stuff up on the internet for every single line. And I haven’t used Basic in decades.

A one out of ten. I consider myself the world’s second worst programmer.

Yes but it’s very few.

Hmmm, I don’t get this. Usually if you’re in a flood area the mortgage company requires flood insurance. If you don’t get it, they get it for you and send you the bill.

But as most are saying, it’s a scam. They will tell you you have flood insurance without mentioning that there are three different kinds of flood damage. Rising water is the one most of us think of, but there is flood damage cause by plumbing issues and finally wind driven water. To a home owner, it’s water damage. To an insurance company it’s an opportunity to either charge you three times or deny your claim.

It’s great!

People in North Korea have golf clubs?

I’m sure they’ll stop this practice post haste.

Noice!

Thank you very much kind sir or madame or whatever you identify as. Very helpful.

Not sure which ones are AAA slop. I play online every Monday with a friend in the UK. Here are some of the games we’ve played:

Grim Dawn

Diablo 4,

Borderlands,

Borderlands 2,

Borderlands 3,

Borderlands the presequel,

Tiny Tina’s Wonderland,

and currently we’re playing Aliens Elite something.

But I have played other games with a different group of friends online.

Man, the formatting sucks. There was a carriage return after every game.

Not sure which ones are AAA slop. I play online every Monday with a friend in the UK. Here are some of the games we’ve played:

Grim Dawn, Diablo 4, Borderlands, Borderlands 2, Borderlands 3, Borderlands the presequel, Tiny Tina’s Wonderland, and currently we’re playing Aliens Elite something.

But I have played other games with a different group of friends online.

Man, the formatting sucks. There was a carriage return after every game. Why is it there for the paragraphs and gone for the lists?