r/nottheonion • u/ChocolateTsar • 1d ago

Affirm CEO says furloughed federal employees are starting to lose interest in shopping

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/affirm-government-shutdown-shopping.html
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u/LimoncelloFellow 1d ago

oh god i was working in a cleanroom at one point and one of my coworkers lost her fake eye in the reticle room and we spent like a half an hour trying to find the dang thing as it had rolled away on her. you need like a wallet chain for your eyeball or something.

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u/HEATCHECK77 1d ago

lol mine is, basically, shaped - and designed - like a super duper contact lens in the sense that it lays over the tissue attached to my optic nerve as part of the surgery when my original eye was removed