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6 months agoI was paying $500 annually for a new prescription back in the 80s. Had to get new ones every year.
I was paying $500 annually for a new prescription back in the 80s. Had to get new ones every year.
I didn’t need glasses for 40 years.
My glasses were costing $500 plus in the 1980s. They needed replacing annually.
Lasik didn’t get FDA approval until 1996.
Before that, it was radial keratotomy.
I got mine in 1986 and it was effective until 2015 when I started to need bifocals.
I consider it a success.
That isn’t actually Popper. That is Marcuse.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse
That crappy cartoon gets shared a lot but it does not actually represent Popper’s views.
It is, however, A very accurate description of Marcuse’s views. It even looks like him!
Yeah, stop spreading this misinformation. The Credit Act of 1974 made it illegal to discriminate in banking and credit but there was nothing preventing women from having bank accounts before 1974.
1862 California passed a law allowing women to open their own bank accounts without a male signature.
My grandmother and mother both had bank accounts in the 60s in their names, along with home mortgage and business accounts, with no other signatures other than their own.