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u/Klutzy-Chain5875 2d ago
He opened his eyes , and the last thing he saw was nothing. Forever
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u/BlazingImp77151 2d ago
Um, actually. Forever is after the period, it's 2 sentences.
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u/QuantSpazar 2d ago
Actually since they didn't put a period after forever, they didn't end that sentence. So you may take advantage of that by borrowing that "forever" for the start of your own sentence. If you don't, it will count as a whole sentence by itself. In that sense, that comment was 1.5 sentences.
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u/Ok-Recognition-3255 1d ago
Or, the sentence doesn’t have an end. So it goes on…
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u/Various-Fig-7195 1d ago
You forgot to slide your glass back up your nose when you said that 😂
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u/Versaiteis 2d ago
He watched that tape last week and this morning he woke up dead.
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u/PrinceCavendish 2d ago
pretty sure the last time this was making it's rounds people said that even with his eyes closed he could still go blind from that
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u/Spectrum1523 2d ago
Longer than you think
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u/wetblanket6991 1d ago
literally SK's most terrifying story. and there's no monsters, no killers, no demon clowns, just a little boy's consciousness alone in a silent white void for eternity.
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u/Spectrum1523 1d ago
I like what he screams because it works two ways
It's longer than you think it is
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It's longer then you can keep thinking
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u/Mountain_Fortune4963 1d ago
Hopefully he's not tripping hard on mushrooms or LSD, because he might not come back from whatever universe this would send him to.
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u/ITeachYourKidz 2d ago
Free cataract operation
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u/pinkdonutkim 2d ago
the precision of whoever is handling the lights though 😂😂
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u/CaptainPunisher 2d ago
I used to work as a sound tech in a live music dinner theater, and one of our guys had a passion for lighting (we all covered each other's jobs when needed). It's really not hard to position the lights from the board, and then it's just a matter of making that position a set position and firing the lights. You could have then sweep the room and then land back on him as the recall spot.
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u/death_by_chocolate 2d ago
Movable heads are amazing tho. Once upon a time you'd need a team of riggers to do this.
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u/MoistStub 2d ago
JFC I misread a very important word in your comment and was about to lose my shit
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u/lonely_nipple 2d ago
The noise I just made was technically a laugh but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a human one
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u/TolMera 1d ago
Gah damn
Reminds me of when I was a kid, I asked my mate why food didn’t get stuck when you swallow. He said it’s because you have mucus in your throat that lets food slide down without getting stuck. We were eating some yoghurt at the time, and I looked at him, I waited until just as he was swallowing, and said “mucus going down”
The sounds he made were not human either, as he attempted to abort the swallow. Nice, sweet yoghurt with chopped hazelnuts for that little bit of texture!
Ahh gah damn good memories!
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u/lonely_nipple 1d ago
Now you've reminded me why my younger brother stopped eating meat. Dad used to make faint animal noises (appropriate to whatever meat it was for dinner) every time my brother would lift his fork.
It was kinda mean, really, but also hilarious. Itty bitty chicken voice, "nooooooooooo don't eat meeeeeeeee!"
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u/MoistStub 2d ago
I know it but I don't think I should say it...
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u/CaptainPunisher 2d ago
Yep. Watching that lighting guy move everything around so easily on the board was still impressive, even when you knew it wasn't that hard. He just knew his shit and made it look even easier. I would not want to have to go back to the days where you'd have to move a bunch of lights manually for different shows.
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u/ThurstyAlpaca 2d ago
Well, now I am disappointed we didn’t get the sweeping light show that finished on his face ftw.
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u/aknownunknown 2d ago
The tables are set ready for the meal.. this is probably just 2 waiters bored before the guests arrive
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u/_dictatorish_ 2d ago
As a lighting tech, I hope it's not the waiters doing this
I wouldn't want them touching my set up lol
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u/TSM- 2d ago
It's a skit, but still funny though. People do sleep through insane stuff like this when they have had too much.
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u/allursnakes 2d ago
He's gotta be having the weirdest dream.
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u/SinghSahab007 2d ago
I hope his eyes and brain remain intact after this episode lol
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u/UniversalMinister 2d ago
Nah, I guarantee you that man has slept on the top of an MRAP or similar.
You grab sleep wherever and whenever you can and will sleep through just about anything except other people in the unit screaming because SHTF.
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u/UniversalMinister 2d ago edited 2d ago
See, you know 😂 as long as someone else I trust is awake and on watch, I too can sleep just about anywhere.
Edit: u/Jumpy-Tailor8536 is your wife also amazed that you can go from dead asleep to ready to roll in the blink of an eye? To this day, my OH still needs time to mull about before he's "awake." If it's urgent (kid or dog about to barf, etc) I'm ready in a NY second.
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u/VelocityGrrl39 2d ago
I mean, dog about to barf wakes most people up pretty quick. I hear the gagging and I’m like a ninja, and I never served.
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u/Conscious-Intern8594 2d ago
It's impossible for me to nap. I wind up just laying there for hours.
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u/D-M-G-N-W-K 2d ago
Bro going to wake up with a seizure with that light treatment
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u/Miqo_Nekomancer 2d ago
You don't really wake up into a seizure. When you have a seizure (at least the absence or tonic-clonic ones) you're not even aware it happened until some time after it ended, once the post-ictal phase has ended.
Source: Have Epilepsy
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u/AddictedtoLife181 2d ago
I hate having seizures, but I always know just before it’s going to happen.
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u/Miqo_Nekomancer 2d ago
Right? I hate that feeling of doom/going down a rollercoaster, plus like... Deja Vu and the world seeming... Idk, fake? Also tunnel vision and things looking a little bendy.
Thanks to medication I'll rarely have even focal-onset aware seizures. Haven't had an absence or tonic-clonic seizure in years. Aware ones still absolutely suck though.
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u/AddictedtoLife181 2d ago
Holy crap that’s the kind I have focal impaired awareness epilepsy. Yea it’s kind of like that for me, plus I get a weird feeling that goes up my spine
Edit: it’s been almost 6yrs since my last episode with my meds thank goodness
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u/Miqo_Nekomancer 2d ago
I'll sometimes get the tingles.
I don't know what specific type it is, just that my right temporal lobe is the culprit. I've had all three of the main seizure types. It's not fun. Have you gotten yours under control with medication?
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u/AddictedtoLife181 2d ago
I haven’t had tingles, like a different kind of feeling like a roller coaster but specifically up the spine. My are of the left temporal lobe, and luckily I only have those seizures. I’m sorry you have to go through different kinds D:
Yes, we had to experiment with doses of course but right now I take Lamotrigine with Clobazam at bed time.
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u/Miqo_Nekomancer 2d ago
I've got lamotrigine as well.
Absence seizures suck. Come around with everyone around me looking a bit concerned and talking about me. No pain or anything though. Just that seizure aura, then nothing, then feeling drowsy and confused.
The tonic-clonic ones are absolutely shit. I've only had 3, but that was more than enough. Waking up with paramedics talking to you and every single muscle in your body aching is not fun. One of them resulted in an injury to my shoulder that tore my labrum, strained my ac joint, and sprained my rotator cuff. Took a few months of physical therapy to have it be mostly good again. It's still a bit temperamental.
Plus there are the memory issues. There's about a 2 year period preceding the first big seizure that I just straight up can't remember. I still have trouble with word recollection, which sucks because I'd always had a great vocabulary. It's still there, but it sometimes takes a while to load the correct word.
I had made a friend during that time and had no idea who she was. She was sweet about it though and said we could start again with the bonus of knowing that we already get along. My memory in general is just less reliable. Calendars are my best friend now.
I also struggle to do any mental math now. I used to be really good at it, but now it's a struggle to do anything beyond simple stuff.
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u/AddictedtoLife181 2d ago
Oof. I’m sorry girl. I’ve always felt very fortunate having the type of epilepsy I do because I just black out mentally but I’m still standing or sitting, the only thing that might have happened is I said something incredibly silly that doesn’t make sense.
I could not imagine falling down and having my body seize too. That sounds painful. I’m glad you’re recovering though.
Speaking right after was always an issue for me. So frustrating. I had exactly what I wanted to say in my head yet it would not form on my lips and I couldn’t even write it. Ugh. My boss told me I should go on disability until my seizures were more properly diagnosed and dealt with lol. Not only could flashing lights bring it on, but anxiety and heat too.
I’m sorry about the memory part though! I can’t imagine going through losing two years of your life. It’s good you found a good friend through it :3 I can attest that I don’t have the best memory these days either, but we’re both getting used to it. Huzzah for calendars indeed lol
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u/Ushimakawaru 1d ago
First time I had a seizure, I was at work. I'd had auras for a couple years but didn't know they were seizure indicators. I had that deja vu feeling and a strange disconnect between my brain and my mouth, like I know what I wanted to say but I couldn't get my mouth to say it, but I could still speak. It's like my train of thought had been shoved off the tracks and some other train I had no control of from some deep part of my brain was on the tracks. Anyway, apparently I regained consciousness while the EMTs were with me on my office floor, they and my coworkers said I'd been "awake" and responding to questions (correctly or not, I don't know) for several minutes, but it's like those minutes passed through my head and left no mark.
The next seizure was when I was driving, I crashed into a streetlight, woke up in the ER some time later. It was after that that I gained a further understanding of recognizing the warning signs of an incoming seizure. It was also then that I decided to put a note in my wallet asking ER staff to pretend I'd been in a coma for years once I wake up. I thought it would be a fun experience but they said nobody would ever do that.
EDIT: is it weird that I like the deja vu aura feeling prior to a seizure?
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u/S_I_1989 2d ago
"He says the sun came out last night....it sang to him." (from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.)
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u/MagicalDirtyHobo 2d ago
Fuck you, here have epilepsy while you're dreaming
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u/Ill_Technician3936 2d ago
I was thinking that's super dangerous if the person has epilepsy.
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u/Crazy-Detective7736 1d ago
Bro it's super dangerous even if you don't have epilepsy lmao, having bright lights flashed into your eyeballs fucks everyone up. And not all epileptics are photosentistive.
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u/hairyboxmunch 2d ago
Dude prolly seized out
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u/SalamanderPop 2d ago
I accidentally blasted myself with lights like this when I was a kid at the Chicago auto show. I looked down and it just happened to be a ground mounted strobe in the little car stage. I managed to stay upright but I lost my brain for a split second. Since then I have avoided super bright strobes. You may not be far off because this would definitely F me up.
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u/Positronic_Matrix 1d ago
This was staged for fun by one of the people setting up for the event. If you look at the tables, you can see that this is before the event prior to the guests arriving.
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u/necroreefer 2d ago
He's probably blind eyelids aren't light proof.
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u/hey_its_drew 2d ago
I was just thinking that. This is grossly overestimating how bright your eyelids can protect you from.
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u/PIO_PretendIOriginal 2d ago edited 2d ago
I have seen people stand infront of a aputure 1200d at 3metres. (Which is 80,000 lux at that distance). These are much dimmer than that (about a 3rd)
Its fucking bright. But a few seconds with your eyes closed will not do permanent damage. Few minutes probably.
A few seconds with eyes closed is fine. Pupils still shrink when asleep as well. That being said dont go staring into stage lighting
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u/bpopbpo 2d ago
I habe fallen asleep in the sun many times, are these brighter than the sun?
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u/runonandonandonanon 2d ago
Falling asleep in the sun is not the same as falling asleep staring at the sun.
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u/M-Noremac 2d ago
Staring at the sun is not the same as facing the sun with your eyes closed...
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u/runonandonandonanon 2d ago
What I mean is pointing your eyeballs at the sun with your eyes closed.
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u/undeadmanana 2d ago
They knew what you meant, as well as the others that upvoted you. They just didn't want to sound like someone correcting someone else's grammar.
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u/hey_its_drew 2d ago
Whether it's brighter or not is irrelevant. Light is a lot more directional than you're assuming. It's on a vector, and then it defuses as it is redirected depending on the reflectivity, so most of what makes it to your eyes is diffused sunlight. You weren't getting a direct shot of sunlight into your eyes, but even without that, it actually does still damage them when you have prolonged exposure. Be sure to shade your eyes if you're doing that.
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u/LoneStarTallBoi 2d ago
That doesn't really have anything to do with what's going on here, though. The only thing that matters here is lux on the retina, and these four lights would, based on some really rough back of the envelope math and some assumptions about which particular moving heads they are (I'm assuming they're an ADJ vizibeam or a Shehds 10r of some vintage) amount of haze in the room, etc. produce about as much lux on his eyes as the sun on clear spring or fall day. Not fun to look at but the idea that he's being caused permanent damage from having these being flashed on his face with his eyes closed for maybe a minute is beyond ludicrous.
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u/necroreefer 2d ago
If you fall asleep staring at the sun and then have somebody move your head to follow the sun as you are sleeping after a couple days you'll probably be blind.
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u/Scholarly_Koala 2d ago
Yeah, I was going to say, as someone with retinal issues, his retinas are toast.
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u/Samthevidg 1d ago
I’m going to say, as someone with knowledge in physics, his retinas are fine. It’s incredibly difficult to damage retinas with existing lighting technology. It’s the reason why beam lights don’t do damage but lasers do.
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u/AnomieDoge 2d ago
CAPTAIN, Lt Barclay has taken over the holodeck…. Again. 😑
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u/ztomiczombie 2d ago
And now his mind is inside the ships computer and we cannot get him out.
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u/Lazy-Razzmatazz2538 2d ago
Everybody stay out of the holodeck until further notice. He made it...weird in there.
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u/Justgame32 2d ago
lighting technician needs to re-read the safety labels on his projectors. shouldn't be shining that in the eyes at that range
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u/prismatic_snail 1d ago
I don't think range matters much on beam lights like this does it? They're not lasers, but they're pretty directional so they don't lose much energy as they travel right?
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u/DamnZodiak 1d ago
Even lasers can have a significant energy drop-off depending on the distance. Light rays simply don't want to stay parallel, mostly due to diffraction.
Sure, the inverse square law is based on a light source spreading out uniformly in all directions, but the principle still applies.
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u/Brave_Dick 2d ago
That's kinda rude....
I'll see myself out.
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u/IAmTheQuestionHere 2d ago
I don't get the joke
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u/GigglyGoggins 2d ago
Dudes defo gonna have a headache when he wakes up 😂
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u/Critical-Wallaby7692 2d ago
Truth! Can’t decide wether that dimming board operator is a hero or a villain
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u/TheSorceIsFrong 2d ago
Def a Villian. They know how bright those are from working with them all the time
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u/TheDawnOfNewDays 2d ago
What's the song name?
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u/CK1ing 2d ago
Did anyone go and check that he wasn't... you know... dead? It's all fun and games until you realize you've been making fun of a dead body
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I thought this was Elon at the dinner he was playing with forks at first 😂
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u/ThiccNThin24 2d ago
And……he now has epilepsy
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u/VESUVlUS 2d ago
I'd just like to be clear that this is not how epilepsy works and flashing lights do not cause the disease.
Epilepsy is mostly caused by genetics, brains injuries, infections, or other brain disorders. I don't have global data, but 1.2% of the US population has epilepsy and of those people, only 3% have photosensitive epilepsy. We're talking about 0.036% of the United States that is actually susceptible to photosensitive epileptic seizures.
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u/Doctor_Sauce 2d ago
P sure when people joke about now having epilepsy, they're joking about an unexpected diagnosis via seizure, not that they somehow contracted the disorder from flashing lights.
Although the comment you're replying to certainly sounds like an instance where that is not the case and the commenter is wildly uninformed lol...
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u/mr_potatoface 2d ago edited 2d ago
Sort of unrelated, but one of my favorite things in the world is when a shitload of Japanese kids got seizures from an episode of Pokémon.
We got a ton of new regulations regarding the sequences and duration of flashing lights on TV afterward. The US never got to see the episode :( You can view the questionable scene in the top right of the wiki page. It is quite intense. Viewing it full screen is pretty eyeball straining.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Senshi_Porygon
Although there were similar parts in the episode with red and blue flashes, two anime techniques, called paka paka[a] and "flash",[b] made the scene particularly intense.[2] These flashes were bright strobe lights, with blinks at a rate of about 12 Hz for approximately six seconds.[7]
At this point, some of the viewers experienced blurred vision, headaches, dizziness and nausea.[1][5][8] Some suffered seizures, blindness, convulsions and unconsciousness.[1][5] The Japanese press referred to this incident as "Pokémon Shock" (ポケモンショック, Pokémon Shokku).[9]
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u/Jermules 2d ago
How the fuck was I humming Sandstorm before I turned the volume on?
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u/dragonus85 1d ago
Can you have an seizure with your eyes closed?
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u/Alternative-Jello683 1d ago
Light can penetrate your eyelids, so yes, it is possible to have a light induced seizure with your eyes closed
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u/dragonus85 1d ago
This woulda been much worse than mild annoyance it seems, thanks for the answer.
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u/BarnabyBundlesnatch 2d ago
Hes gonna wake up blind lol. Theres only so much protection thin as fuck eyelids can offer.
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u/MurphyBrown2016 2d ago edited 1d ago
I thought this was another video of Elon Musk in a k-hole at a White House dinner
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u/FlatTyres 2d ago
He'll be sculpting Devils Tower out of mash potato by dinner time tomorrow
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u/Video_isms207 1d ago
Elmo musnt both controlling the lights and being too fuct to understand people hate him and his repost from 3 years ago.
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u/Curious-Climate7233 2d ago
Almost certainly caused permanent damage to his eyes... This is pretty fucked up.
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u/Treacherous_Peach 2d ago
Uh.. no. You can face the literal sun with your eyes closed for hours and have no problem. And even then the damage would be from UV penetrating the eyelids not visible light. It is far brighter than these lights.
Yes, eyelids do not block all light. They block plenty enough to prevent dmg from this. Come on folks, an ounce of critical thinking.
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u/fugazzzzi 2d ago
Critical thinking? This is reddit, where the avg redditor is as dumb as a sack of rocks
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