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Well maybe I don’t WANT to work double as hard as abled people!! Maybe I deserve a BREAK!! Maybe I’ve been working MORE THAN double as hard for MY WHOLE LIFE and it’s led me to immense burnout & caused me to develop several MORE disabilities!! Maybe I should be ACCOMMODATED so I don’t have to KILL MY BODY AND BRAIN over trying to do what abled people can do!! Maybe I DON’T have to work double as hard!! Maybe if there’s the option to let me NOT work double as hard, I should have it, because I’m already working double as hard JUST TO SURVIVE!!

Here are some basic primers. If someone is wearing what look like Meta glasses, they usually have a small circular camera in the outer corners of the lenses, like the one on your phone.

I would also regularly check their own product pages so you're on top of what the models look like. They tend to have larger frames, but come in a variety of shapes and colors.

A new hobbyist developed app warns if people nearby may be wearing smart glasses, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which stalkers and harassers have repeatedly used to film people without their knowledge or consent. The app scans for smart glasses’ distinctive Bluetooth signatures and sends a push alert if it detects a potential pair of glasses in the local area.

The American Foundation for the Blind has said that "The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are an accessibility tool only by coincidence. That makes them more affordable and, in many ways, unaware of the needs of users with reduced vision" although they do have seemingly positive views on Meta Glasses as a whole. (source 10). It also seems like their marketing push as accessibility devices began last year (source 11).

But to add even more into the nonsense, Meta is now toying around with adding a "limit" to the functionality of their glasses unless their users pay for more access (source 12). AND, as stated above, Meta has officially added facial recognition code in their glasses and only admitted it after being called out, which is basically the death of privacy as we know it (source 13, source 14, source 15). And oh look another lawsuit because of it (source 16) THAT THEY LOST (source 17)!

Long story short: I don't begrudge someone using them as a disability aid overall, but ultimately both their privacy and other people's privacy are being disregarded by Meta and that is not and should not be acceptable by any means.

I understand there is no ethical consumption under capitalism but there is a level of personal responsibility someone has to take when using them if they truly truly need them, such as opting out of sharing information, not filming strangers without permission, not posting footage of strangers online, opting out of facial recognition if possible, etc.

Spongebob doesn't flinch at his own queerness. He dresses in drag, he doesn't mind pronoun misusage, he doesn't care that his friendships come off to others as unconventional. He knows who he is. which is an asexual (canon by both Stephen Hillenburg AND Nickelodeon) sponge. He's openly fluid in his expression and is full of a love and hope that has been crushed out of Squidward a long time ago. Squidward is bitter from his past situationships with people like Squilliam and his only outlet for personal expression is through his art and music which people respond to with abject hatred and disgust, and because it is so personal to him, in fact it IS HIM because he is the subject of his artistic serial form is his literal face, the people are thus rejecting him personally.

Squidward secretly likes Spongebob, not because he's attracted to him but because he represents that sappy doe eyed queer twentysomething that Squidward used to be, and outwardly resents Spongebob because of how readily he's accepted by the community. What Squidward can't or flatly refuses to accept is that the town would be willing to accept him as well if he ever did come out of the closet but he's weighed down in his own bitterness and loathing both towards himself and others. The times where he creates art that speaks to others or when he plays the clarinet well in the show are all instances where his facade slips and he loses his inhibitions either through violent anger or when he feels genuine confidence rather than forcing it into his work. He CAN make beautiful art and he CAN play the clarinet but he choses to shoot himself in the foot in a self fufilling prophecy of miserable failure because ultimately he believes he is a failure and that he deserves his misery.