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The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Need a hotel and just wanna blindly trust your glasses?

What are your other options? Blindly trust google? Blindly trust random locals? Blindly trust every hotel receptionist trying to convince you to stay at their hotel?

At some point you have to trust something.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can at least look at options presented to you. Even Google Maps will let you manually sift through businesses. Letting your fucking sunglasses tell you “go here” is immensely different, dude.

[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can ask the sunglasses for other options too

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Get this, I can also look it up on the already insanely powerful phone in my pocket, see the options with my own eyes, look at the map so I know where I’m going, and make my decisions on my own because I’m not an adult baby who needs his sunnies to tell him what to do.

[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

But what if your hands are occupied, carrying shopping bags or eating a sandwich on the go? These things have legitimate use

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Put your shopping bags down? Plan ahead?

I swear to god, you people are so intensely lazy. It is not in any way worth it, the damage these glasses for the mentally impotent are currently causing isn’t worth it and it will never be worth it. You’re acting like if I sent you back to 2002 you’d fucking die in three-to-five business days.

So pathetic.