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zuck is trying to push bad, ugly glasses to profit at the expense of causing nefarious social impact. the blog is mocking the ugliness of the glasses. it represents how out of touch zuck is. i’m not sure how you got to “four eyes” from there

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although it's true and funny that rich assholes often have terrible taste, it's important that criticism of pervert glasses doesn't make their ugliness load-bearing. what happens if the next gen looks good, we're suddenly okay with them?

i dont think the blog is proposing a long-term criteria. the ugliness is funny and worth noting now because its currently happening and a great symbol of them pushing plainly horrible stuff down our throats

It's not about taste! They're literally too big to function effectively! If you bed over to look at something they will fall off your face. It's like offering running shoes with kilogram-weight batteries on the bottom, a basic failure to understand the problem.

I can't believe people are trying to make excuses for a product that is clearly not ready for consumer applications.

> zuck is trying to push bad, ugly glasses

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> i’m not sure how you got to “four eyes” from there

I'm guessing you're younger than me. In my youth, having glasses meant being ugly.

It doesn't mean that anymore. But having "smart glasses" does mean "jerk".

i know what it means. you’re projecting something completely inappropriate, i’m guessing from your own life, onto the blogs criticism.

You use normal glasses to see better. You buy a smart glass to record people without their knowledge. The only thing similar in these objects is that your wear them on your face.

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