Today, 538 is unveiling a new polling average for President Donald Trump’s job approval rating … Trump’s initial net approval rating of +7 percentage points is lower than that of any newly elected president since World War II, with one exception: Trump himself during his first term. Trump began his presidency in 2017 with a 44.6 percent approval rating and a 41.4 percent disapproval rating, based on applying our current averaging methodology retroactively. Before that, the record low for initial net approval rating was set by former President George W. Bush in 2001, at +28 points.
Karoline Leavitt reads statement from President Trump: “The drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by FAA for research and various other reasons…this was not the enemy.”
Several American ‘Herds’ almost stampeded over those drones…
Once again, Trump starts a term with a weak approval rating
At least his net approval is still much higher than it was at the start of his first term (+7 versus +3).
3) AI energy demand predictions have echoes of the great horse manure crisis – ‘DeepSeek’s Sputnik moment has debunked overblown projections of a data centre boom’
There’s still going to be need for large data centers. The so called “distilled” models like Deepseek will still need the gargantuan multi-trillion parameter models to use as a starting point. And those models can only be trained in such facilities. It’s just that there won’t be quite the demand for hosting models on the cloud when these smaller, more specialized ones can be run locally on modest hardware for a lot less money.
: “The drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by FAA for research and various other reasons…this was not the enemy.”
I assumed this would be the case and can only wonder why the Biden regime remained tight lipped about it. All they ever had to say was pretty much what Leavitt said. Instead we had weeks and weeks of speculation and conspiracy theories involving everything from Chicoms to aliens for no good reason.
The RFK Jr. confimation hearings seem to be all about which Democrat can shriek and screech the loudest and appear to be the most unhinged. I’m uncertain if this will endear them to their base or not.
So 538 is a very good source?
What is “based on applying our current averaging methodology retroactively”
On my morning financial news there was just now a video clip of Chuck Schumer lecturing to the camera about how America must forgive student debts. It’s cruel not to do so, he claimed!
Screw the parents and students who busted their butts to either: not take a loan in the first place, or… take the loan and pay it back in full.
This topic makes my blood boil. The instant that I heard that the Obama administration was roughly taking full control of student lending, debt, and collection, I knew what the gambit was going to be. Forgiveness later. Yet another financial scam.
A trillion here, a trillion there,… Pretty soon you are talking about real money!
But even worse than the expenditure is that it degrades the public’s perception of the importance of the debtor’s promise to repay.
@SHIREHOME:What is “based on applying our current averaging methodology retroactively”
It means they are recalculating past approval ratings with the same method as they use now, and comparing that to Trump’s rating now, not comparing with what they reported in the past as approval ratings.
Incidentally Nate Silver left 538 in 2023, in case you missed it; he took all his models with him, and no doubt that’s one reason 538 has to recalculate their past averages, because Silver owns the methods they previously published and they had to come up with new ones.
I’ve been in disagreement with RFK Jr. over the years on many issues. However, if he can, as HHS Secretary, reform the NIH to eliminate the pharmaceutical kickbacks and pressure other entities like the CDC to focus on actual health and not on political crusades, he’d be a big success. It was unconscionable, during the COVID scare, for the health authorities NOT to be urging people to check their Vitamin D levels and lose weight.
I watched the RFK jr hearing. The Democrats were universally hostile, and if they didn’t get “yes/no” answers, moved on to another hostile question. I think They are angry with him because he’s an apostate. In any case, I suspect the vote will be 50/50 at best, possibly worse with a few Republican defections. My gut tells me he will not be confirmed. Then Chuck Schumer will claim it was always Trump’s intention that he NOT be confirmed, but only after RFK jr endorsed his candidacy.
Anyone have any idea how many Trump votes RFK jr brought with him? Was it significant?
Cataract surgery – Third try:
One of two disadvantages of being a humble hermit is not having someone to take you for some medical stuff that requires someone transport ‘n wait there for you. Forget what the other disadvantage was!? U of F Eye Center has been good to me, but their service dropped after my Doctor left.
Last time I mentioned the surgery here—it came so close to happening that I had even picked up the prescriptions for it (four bottles). Surgery on right eye scheduled_no left eye scheduled at the time, and the “Scheduler” finally let me know that it could be almost 1:00 PM before surgery!?! I had kept asking for a time, but she just said some arrive at 6:30 am!?! Called a free medical transport service and canceled, and called the $28 an hour for waiting in lobby medical service and canceled also.
Started looking for a new Doctor after having finally calmed down from the experience of dealing with so many people. Phew! Lo ‘n Behold – that search quickly produced the Doctor who had left U of F, but stayed in Gainesville. Had been my Doctor for 10 years…went down to that new office, and scheduled an appointment with him. Happy Hermit!!!
Yesterday, had all kinds of check-ups on the eye…their office accepted my Medicare & Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) insurance—QMB is handled by Medicaid, but separate from the normal Florida Medicaid. QMB pays Medicare monthly payments, deductibles, co-pays and such.
Did pay $60 for surgery eye drops instead of getting the $4 prescriptions for four different bottles of surgery eye drops…hey, One Bottle to handle the task of four has gotta be a bargain ‘n easier to follow instructions. Threw the old four bottles from U of F prescription away.
NOTE: no problems with QMB, and later read neo’s posts on some claimed “funding freeze” issues of such stuff.
U of F could never give me an exact time for surgery…no one knew if my insurance would cover all costs, etc. Surgeon was going to put in new lens that wouldn’t need distance prescription on my glasses. Doctor yesterday said they were $2000 each, and my insurance would not have paid.
Just called a Medical Service that provides transport at $0.62 per mile and it will be about a 100 mile round-trip = about $62. Ditto on Happy Hermit!!! The driver then waits in the lobby for $28 an hour = for about $48-84. Double Ditto on Happy Hermit!!! Yeah, no worries this time—gonna happen at last! 🙂
Mind the drops!
Good luck for good vision again.
Will do – ‘n Thanks om!
“…blood boil…”
Indeed.
(The expression, “read it and weep” just won’t cut it where the odious Democratic Party is concerned…)
And so, read it—from Shipwreckedcrew (William Shipley)—and get outraged…though it will likely NOT, alas, come as a surprise any of the readers of this blog…
Surgeon was going to put in new lens that wouldn’t need distance prescription on my glasses. Doctor yesterday said they were $2000 each, and my insurance would not have paid. – Karmi
I had cataract surgery this summer and my advantage plan paid for a single vision lens (corrected for far vision/ I’m extremely near sighted). It was the dual correction/bifocal lens that Medicare wouldn’t pay for, according to my Opthamologist.
He offered the option of one lens correcting for near vision and the other lens correcting for distance vision. I decided I wanted the best distance vision and opted for the far correction in both eyes– base on 20 year previously when I was wearing contacts and the doctor prescribed a near/far contacts (which he didn’t tell me he was doing) and after a week or so I came back complaining I wasn’t seeing things “crisply”. He explained what he had done swapped out the near vision lens with the understanding I would need “cheaters” for any near vision.
OK, 20 years later I’m finding it very frustrating with the reading glasses– I got them scattered around the house, in various magnifications– but I still struggle to to read very small type (like on a small excedrin bottle–4pt type).
The times I was wearing glasses- bifocals) I could always just take my glasses off and get as close as necessary to read small print.
I’m not sure there’s a solution to aging– since even the near/far lens would make it less likely you’ll forget to bring them along on a trip to the store.
Niketas, thanks, I thought that is what is was. However, I still want to know if 538 is a good source. I thought that I have read somewhere, different numbers.
3) AI energy demand predictions have echoes of the great horse manure crisis – ‘DeepSeek’s Sputnik moment has debunked overblown projections of a data centre boom’
–Karmi
Not so, according to Jevons Paradox:
____________________________________
In economics, the Jevons paradox (sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological advancements make a resource more efficient to use (thereby reducing the amount needed for a single application); however, as the cost of using the resource drops, overall demand increases causing total resource consumption to rise. Governments have typically expected efficiency gains to lower resource consumption, rather than anticipating possible increases due to the Jevons paradox.
… Artificial Intelligence – Efficiency and Compute Demand
The development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has demonstrated characteristics of the Jevons Paradox, particularly in relation to compute efficiency and overall demand. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlighted this phenomenon when discussing DeepSeek, noting that “Jevons paradox strikes again! As AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket, turning it into a commodity we just can’t get enough of.”[
Yeah, all I know is that I wear trifocals – distance, reading, and computer. Trust in a Doctor is important, which I didn’t feel from new Doctors at U of F.
🙂 I got TV glasses – one is distance and other is distance + reading. Have distance glasses for walking around the yard in morning to check electric fence and property. Got two pair of trifocals. A pair just for computer. Many times I have the wrong pair on. Took me years to get to used to wearing the things and walking…the bottom sections seems to block out areas that were obvious before. Seems you also had Epiretinal surgery, and I just found the old Doctor who I had checking mine for 9 years is still in Gainesville…Happy Hermit me! I will soon check to see if they take my insurance and move over to him if they do…he left Gainesville U of F same time as other. My issue is “stable” there, and I don’t want surgery on that right eye.
Yes, our bodies are in the process of dying…still the best time of my life.
huxley: Yeah, Nonapod said something similar earlier. I tend to believe him and Jevons Paradox on that.
AI is still new—to the likes of us anyway—so it has a long way to go. The early rides are nice tho, huh! 🙂
After my cataract surgeries a year ago, I can drive and walk around without lenses. I bought four pairs of drugstore reading glasses. One, bedside. Two, main room and computer location. Three, sewing machine. Four, in a case in my purse. I always have one where I need one.
Karmi, yes I had Epirental surgery after the two cataract surgeries. Initially it seemed great– then it seemed the waviness I always saw returned. Now six months later the retina has smoothed out and though it’s still a slight waviness to any text– it’s much better.
Brian E — I need to get cataract surgery. I’ve been very near sighted most of my life. My sister already had cataract surgery and got her sight corrected so she can see far, but needs readers for close sight. She regretted that. I’m thinking of seeing if I can just keep my crappy vision. I’m used to peering close up at fine work. When I was wearing contact lenses after I developed presbyopia, even with readers, I could never really get close up without removing my contacts.
Kangaroo isn’t as tasty as beef, lamb, sheep, veal, bison, venison or goat. It isn’t as tasty as fowl, either, including ostrich. But fowl aren’t ruminants.
“echoes of the great horse manure crisis”…that’s an interesting analogy. Another analogy would be James Watts’ major improvement to the Newcomen steam engine so that it used much less coal. But the outcome was that steam engines got used a lot more broadly, and surely the total coal usage was increased greatly. A similar analogy was the tremendous reduction in computing cost and energy use driven by the microprocessor, resulting in a computers being used a lot more broadly.
So is Deepseek more comparable to the horse case, or to the steam engine and computer cases?
Lee Also:
I had cataracts in both eyes and had very poor distance vision but OK (not great, but OK) closeup vision. I had one eye corrected to good distance vision and so far have let the other eye alone. It means that – so far- I have good distance vision and OK closeup vision.
Lee, it’s a trade off for sure. Not needing glasses most of the time is great and reading glasses are a pain, but I had to use them when I wore contacts. But yes if you do lots of fine work or need to read tiny text, it’s frustrating. If you aren’t close to someone who has good close up vision you’re just out of luck.
Actually there is a workaround. Take a picture of the text and enlarge it. Most phones now are high resolution and will hold the sharpness of the image. I have readers 1.75, 2.00, 2.5, 3. I tried my 3 power mag readers and they worked. And the make readers up to 4 power magnification. The greater the magnification the closer the item has to be in the focal range.
I’ll probably keep a 3-4 power mag glasses to use in the grocery store– plus the 2 power mag I use for most things. Hope that helps.
The ophthalmologist said I needed 2.5 power readers but that forced me to keep my laptop which sits in my lap most of the day further away.
My cataract surgery experience was one of no regrets and it revealed my low eye pressure severe glaucoma in my dexter eye, which
my opthamologist hadn’t noticed (severe cupping of the optic nerve….),loss of peripheral vision, but not my dominant eye.
IIRC the cataracts will only get worse and most people loose the ability to closely focus as they age.
I went from 20/300 correctable, to 20/20 – 20/30 without glasses or contacts. And now need glasses for close work. But I was in progressive glasses by then anyway. And I allways wear safety glasses anyway (for good reasons).
Now the glaucoma, that still rankles; that my opthamologist missed that for many years. Get checked for glaucoma routinely by someone trustworthy.
om – good point on glaucoma. My primary Doc sent me to an eye doctor for a free Medicare check when I first became eligible for Medicare. I had pressure in both eyes – they said to take prescription eye drops to lower the pressure. A pre-glaucoma treatment since I didn’t have it yet.
That also reminds me – that my upcoming cataract surgery is also going to get something called iStents. I don’t like the idea, but trust this Doc, and may get to stop the eye drops.
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1) When Hollywood Lies About History
2) Once again, Trump starts a term with a weak approval rating
3) AI energy demand predictions have echoes of the great horse manure crisis – ‘DeepSeek’s Sputnik moment has debunked overblown projections of a data centre boom’
4) Drones over NJ: Why didn’t the FAA admit they authorized the flights?
Several American ‘Herds’ almost stampeded over those drones…
At least his net approval is still much higher than it was at the start of his first term (+7 versus +3).
There’s still going to be need for large data centers. The so called “distilled” models like Deepseek will still need the gargantuan multi-trillion parameter models to use as a starting point. And those models can only be trained in such facilities. It’s just that there won’t be quite the demand for hosting models on the cloud when these smaller, more specialized ones can be run locally on modest hardware for a lot less money.
I assumed this would be the case and can only wonder why the Biden regime remained tight lipped about it. All they ever had to say was pretty much what Leavitt said. Instead we had weeks and weeks of speculation and conspiracy theories involving everything from Chicoms to aliens for no good reason.
“Insane biology” ya say??
“Duo Involved In US Border Guard Murder Are Transgender Terrorists”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2025/01/28/duo-involved-in-us-border-guard-murder-are-transgender-terrorists/
(And then there’s “Insane theology”…which had its day in the sun, so to speak, on Inauguration Day…)
“What Happened When DEI Came to the Military?”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2025/01/28/what-happened-when-dei-came-to-the-military/
Key phrase:
“Walker was a mole.”
Blazingcatfur blog on a roll…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIKs0l_EgGM
The RFK Jr. confimation hearings seem to be all about which Democrat can shriek and screech the loudest and appear to be the most unhinged. I’m uncertain if this will endear them to their base or not.
So 538 is a very good source?
What is “based on applying our current averaging methodology retroactively”
On my morning financial news there was just now a video clip of Chuck Schumer lecturing to the camera about how America must forgive student debts. It’s cruel not to do so, he claimed!
Screw the parents and students who busted their butts to either: not take a loan in the first place, or… take the loan and pay it back in full.
This topic makes my blood boil. The instant that I heard that the Obama administration was roughly taking full control of student lending, debt, and collection, I knew what the gambit was going to be. Forgiveness later. Yet another financial scam.
A trillion here, a trillion there,… Pretty soon you are talking about real money!
But even worse than the expenditure is that it degrades the public’s perception of the importance of the debtor’s promise to repay.
@SHIREHOME:What is “based on applying our current averaging methodology retroactively”
It means they are recalculating past approval ratings with the same method as they use now, and comparing that to Trump’s rating now, not comparing with what they reported in the past as approval ratings.
Incidentally Nate Silver left 538 in 2023, in case you missed it; he took all his models with him, and no doubt that’s one reason 538 has to recalculate their past averages, because Silver owns the methods they previously published and they had to come up with new ones.
I’ve been in disagreement with RFK Jr. over the years on many issues. However, if he can, as HHS Secretary, reform the NIH to eliminate the pharmaceutical kickbacks and pressure other entities like the CDC to focus on actual health and not on political crusades, he’d be a big success. It was unconscionable, during the COVID scare, for the health authorities NOT to be urging people to check their Vitamin D levels and lose weight.
I watched the RFK jr hearing. The Democrats were universally hostile, and if they didn’t get “yes/no” answers, moved on to another hostile question. I think They are angry with him because he’s an apostate. In any case, I suspect the vote will be 50/50 at best, possibly worse with a few Republican defections. My gut tells me he will not be confirmed. Then Chuck Schumer will claim it was always Trump’s intention that he NOT be confirmed, but only after RFK jr endorsed his candidacy.
Anyone have any idea how many Trump votes RFK jr brought with him? Was it significant?
Cataract surgery – Third try:
One of two disadvantages of being a humble hermit is not having someone to take you for some medical stuff that requires someone transport ‘n wait there for you. Forget what the other disadvantage was!? U of F Eye Center has been good to me, but their service dropped after my Doctor left.
Last time I mentioned the surgery here—it came so close to happening that I had even picked up the prescriptions for it (four bottles). Surgery on right eye scheduled_no left eye scheduled at the time, and the “Scheduler” finally let me know that it could be almost 1:00 PM before surgery!?! I had kept asking for a time, but she just said some arrive at 6:30 am!?! Called a free medical transport service and canceled, and called the $28 an hour for waiting in lobby medical service and canceled also.
Started looking for a new Doctor after having finally calmed down from the experience of dealing with so many people. Phew! Lo ‘n Behold – that search quickly produced the Doctor who had left U of F, but stayed in Gainesville. Had been my Doctor for 10 years…went down to that new office, and scheduled an appointment with him. Happy Hermit!!!
Yesterday, had all kinds of check-ups on the eye…their office accepted my Medicare & Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) insurance—QMB is handled by Medicaid, but separate from the normal Florida Medicaid. QMB pays Medicare monthly payments, deductibles, co-pays and such.
Did pay $60 for surgery eye drops instead of getting the $4 prescriptions for four different bottles of surgery eye drops…hey, One Bottle to handle the task of four has gotta be a bargain ‘n easier to follow instructions. Threw the old four bottles from U of F prescription away.
NOTE: no problems with QMB, and later read neo’s posts on some claimed “funding freeze” issues of such stuff.
U of F could never give me an exact time for surgery…no one knew if my insurance would cover all costs, etc. Surgeon was going to put in new lens that wouldn’t need distance prescription on my glasses. Doctor yesterday said they were $2000 each, and my insurance would not have paid.
Just called a Medical Service that provides transport at $0.62 per mile and it will be about a 100 mile round-trip = about $62. Ditto on Happy Hermit!!! The driver then waits in the lobby for $28 an hour = for about $48-84. Double Ditto on Happy Hermit!!! Yeah, no worries this time—gonna happen at last! 🙂
Mind the drops!
Good luck for good vision again.
Will do – ‘n Thanks om!
“…blood boil…”
Indeed.
(The expression, “read it and weep” just won’t cut it where the odious Democratic Party is concerned…)
And so, read it—from Shipwreckedcrew (William Shipley)—and get outraged…though it will likely NOT, alas, come as a surprise any of the readers of this blog…
“A JAN. 6 WHODUNNIT“
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/01/a-jan-6-whodunnit.php
H/T Powerlineblog.
(Linking to:
“Who Was Responsible for Using an Inapplicable Felony Charge Against J6 Defendants?”—
https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2025/01/28/who-was-responsible-for-using-an-inapplicable-felony-charge-against-j6-defendants-n2184921 )
– – – – – – – –
WRT RFK Jr., if the seething, hysterical, rabid—DERANGED, CRIMINAL AND FLAGRANTLY DISHONEST—Democrats go after him, it’s reason enough for me to conclude that he absolutely deserves to be confirmed.
Surgeon was going to put in new lens that wouldn’t need distance prescription on my glasses. Doctor yesterday said they were $2000 each, and my insurance would not have paid. – Karmi
I had cataract surgery this summer and my advantage plan paid for a single vision lens (corrected for far vision/ I’m extremely near sighted). It was the dual correction/bifocal lens that Medicare wouldn’t pay for, according to my Opthamologist.
He offered the option of one lens correcting for near vision and the other lens correcting for distance vision. I decided I wanted the best distance vision and opted for the far correction in both eyes– base on 20 year previously when I was wearing contacts and the doctor prescribed a near/far contacts (which he didn’t tell me he was doing) and after a week or so I came back complaining I wasn’t seeing things “crisply”. He explained what he had done swapped out the near vision lens with the understanding I would need “cheaters” for any near vision.
OK, 20 years later I’m finding it very frustrating with the reading glasses– I got them scattered around the house, in various magnifications– but I still struggle to to read very small type (like on a small excedrin bottle–4pt type).
The times I was wearing glasses- bifocals) I could always just take my glasses off and get as close as necessary to read small print.
I’m not sure there’s a solution to aging– since even the near/far lens would make it less likely you’ll forget to bring them along on a trip to the store.
Niketas, thanks, I thought that is what is was. However, I still want to know if 538 is a good source. I thought that I have read somewhere, different numbers.
3) AI energy demand predictions have echoes of the great horse manure crisis – ‘DeepSeek’s Sputnik moment has debunked overblown projections of a data centre boom’
–Karmi
Not so, according to Jevons Paradox:
____________________________________
In economics, the Jevons paradox (sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological advancements make a resource more efficient to use (thereby reducing the amount needed for a single application); however, as the cost of using the resource drops, overall demand increases causing total resource consumption to rise. Governments have typically expected efficiency gains to lower resource consumption, rather than anticipating possible increases due to the Jevons paradox.
…
Artificial Intelligence – Efficiency and Compute Demand
The development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has demonstrated characteristics of the Jevons Paradox, particularly in relation to compute efficiency and overall demand. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlighted this phenomenon when discussing DeepSeek, noting that “Jevons paradox strikes again! As AI gets more efficient and accessible, we will see its use skyrocket, turning it into a commodity we just can’t get enough of.”[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Brian E
Yeah, all I know is that I wear trifocals – distance, reading, and computer. Trust in a Doctor is important, which I didn’t feel from new Doctors at U of F.
🙂 I got TV glasses – one is distance and other is distance + reading. Have distance glasses for walking around the yard in morning to check electric fence and property. Got two pair of trifocals. A pair just for computer. Many times I have the wrong pair on. Took me years to get to used to wearing the things and walking…the bottom sections seems to block out areas that were obvious before. Seems you also had Epiretinal surgery, and I just found the old Doctor who I had checking mine for 9 years is still in Gainesville…Happy Hermit me! I will soon check to see if they take my insurance and move over to him if they do…he left Gainesville U of F same time as other. My issue is “stable” there, and I don’t want surgery on that right eye.
Yes, our bodies are in the process of dying…still the best time of my life.
huxley: Yeah, Nonapod said something similar earlier. I tend to believe him and Jevons Paradox on that.
AI is still new—to the likes of us anyway—so it has a long way to go. The early rides are nice tho, huh! 🙂
After my cataract surgeries a year ago, I can drive and walk around without lenses. I bought four pairs of drugstore reading glasses. One, bedside. Two, main room and computer location. Three, sewing machine. Four, in a case in my purse. I always have one where I need one.
Karmi, yes I had Epirental surgery after the two cataract surgeries. Initially it seemed great– then it seemed the waviness I always saw returned. Now six months later the retina has smoothed out and though it’s still a slight waviness to any text– it’s much better.
Brian E — I need to get cataract surgery. I’ve been very near sighted most of my life. My sister already had cataract surgery and got her sight corrected so she can see far, but needs readers for close sight. She regretted that. I’m thinking of seeing if I can just keep my crappy vision. I’m used to peering close up at fine work. When I was wearing contact lenses after I developed presbyopia, even with readers, I could never really get close up without removing my contacts.
Kangaroo isn’t as tasty as beef, lamb, sheep, veal, bison, venison or goat. It isn’t as tasty as fowl, either, including ostrich. But fowl aren’t ruminants.
“echoes of the great horse manure crisis”…that’s an interesting analogy. Another analogy would be James Watts’ major improvement to the Newcomen steam engine so that it used much less coal. But the outcome was that steam engines got used a lot more broadly, and surely the total coal usage was increased greatly. A similar analogy was the tremendous reduction in computing cost and energy use driven by the microprocessor, resulting in a computers being used a lot more broadly.
So is Deepseek more comparable to the horse case, or to the steam engine and computer cases?
Lee Also:
I had cataracts in both eyes and had very poor distance vision but OK (not great, but OK) closeup vision. I had one eye corrected to good distance vision and so far have let the other eye alone. It means that – so far- I have good distance vision and OK closeup vision.
Lee, it’s a trade off for sure. Not needing glasses most of the time is great and reading glasses are a pain, but I had to use them when I wore contacts. But yes if you do lots of fine work or need to read tiny text, it’s frustrating. If you aren’t close to someone who has good close up vision you’re just out of luck.
Actually there is a workaround. Take a picture of the text and enlarge it. Most phones now are high resolution and will hold the sharpness of the image. I have readers 1.75, 2.00, 2.5, 3. I tried my 3 power mag readers and they worked. And the make readers up to 4 power magnification. The greater the magnification the closer the item has to be in the focal range.
I’ll probably keep a 3-4 power mag glasses to use in the grocery store– plus the 2 power mag I use for most things. Hope that helps.
The ophthalmologist said I needed 2.5 power readers but that forced me to keep my laptop which sits in my lap most of the day further away.
Hey CNN/MSNBC – Democrats are UNDERWATER 26 points (31% Favorable – 57% Unfavorable) – Absolutely BRUTAL Quinnipiac Poll
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/01/hey-cnnmsnbc-democrats-are-underwater.html
My cataract surgery experience was one of no regrets and it revealed my low eye pressure severe glaucoma in my dexter eye, which
my opthamologist hadn’t noticed (severe cupping of the optic nerve….),loss of peripheral vision, but not my dominant eye.
IIRC the cataracts will only get worse and most people loose the ability to closely focus as they age.
I went from 20/300 correctable, to 20/20 – 20/30 without glasses or contacts. And now need glasses for close work. But I was in progressive glasses by then anyway. And I allways wear safety glasses anyway (for good reasons).
Now the glaucoma, that still rankles; that my opthamologist missed that for many years. Get checked for glaucoma routinely by someone trustworthy.
om – good point on glaucoma. My primary Doc sent me to an eye doctor for a free Medicare check when I first became eligible for Medicare. I had pressure in both eyes – they said to take prescription eye drops to lower the pressure. A pre-glaucoma treatment since I didn’t have it yet.
That also reminds me – that my upcoming cataract surgery is also going to get something called iStents. I don’t like the idea, but trust this Doc, and may get to stop the eye drops.