I get it, it’s the 32nd century and the glasses are maybe heads up displays that only he can see and use. But don’t you think in three thousand years they would have figured out how to build that stuff INTO or ONTO the eye? Instead of making the person, or the person choosing to wear an ancient form of corrective lenses.

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    5 months ago

    Not sure if this is true, but I remember reading that Churchill used to insert a straightened paperclip into his cigars so that the ash would stay attached to the cigar even when it was burned way down. People would be distracted watching the cigar waiting for the ash to fall, breaking their concentration and giving him an advantage

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      My friend’s mom was a smoker and a hand talker, also didn’t really ash when one might expect. She’d be waving around a cigarette with an inch ash on the end, it was wild. Maybe there was secretly a paper clip in there.