How specific I am with details depends on why someone is asking.

$30,000 is not going to be a sufficient living in 45 years, in my opinion.

You don’t understand the issue at hand if you think that’s the crux of the problem.

Could you possibly be more pompous? Obviously this is constitutional, or it wouldn’t be happening. So, yay, you’ve observed something we already know.

22% who say it’s more important to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood

Agreed. I like Nine a lot, especially because it “sandboxes” the Exchange connection so that a remote wipe command will wipe your mailbox, not your entire device.

I didn’t make up odds. I made up a hypothetical scenario to demonstrate why a flood of positive anecdotes wasn’t useful.

No, your anecdote is not meaningfully relevant to determining whether LASIK is safe. No matter how badly you’d like it to be. It’s like saying, “driving your car is safe, I drove in this morning and didn’t crash once.”

“SparJar has gone all-in. $237,000 in chips, the title to his car and the opportunity to gouge his eyes out with a spoon. If his opponent gets an ace on the river, he’s done for.

I agree with what you’re saying, but that’s really only tangentially related here. Overall, people have a terrible ability to evaluate risk, but the issue is that they aren’t even being properly presented with the risks.

How about you read a little more critically?

<insert "can't tell if serious" meme here>

Sigh. Read again. It was an example to illustrate the problem with anecdotes, not a freakin’ statistical analysis of LASIK.

I didn’t say that.

Here comes the flood of people who have had successful LASIK done saying it’s the best thing ever.

Hey, you gotta do what makes you happy.

I think a lot of people did both. As a matter of fact, among my friends, none of them even realized it was either/or - it was just accepted that we did the ice dump for notoriety, and then donated money for the cause.

I was just saying this same thing in a reply to a thread a few weeks ago.

404 years: castle not found.

I’m sure I’ll get used to some of the changes, but there are a few things that are far and away not “this is new” problems: