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30. Some Reddit threads on what people think of people wearing smart glasses:

Wed Feb 18, 2026, 10:04 PM

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Apple is reportedly planning to launch AI-powered glasses, a pendant, and AirPods [View all] highplainsdem Tuesday OP

What could go wrong? FalloutShelter Tuesday #1

I hope all these products FAIL!!!! Multichromatic Tuesday #2

I have Ray-Ban Meta's that have been out for a couple of years now Polybius Tuesday #6

Because most people don't want to have to wonder if anyone wearing glasses is taking photos and/or highplainsdem Tuesday #9

Ray-Ban Meta's are a lot different than small companies who put out similar glasses Polybius Tuesday #10

Meta is planning to add facial recognition to its smart glasses. I guess you missed the news. highplainsdem Tuesday #12

No, we were talking about currently, not speculation on the future Polybius Tuesday #13

I don't believe there aren't ways to disable that light, or that it can't simply stop working. And highplainsdem Tuesday #14

There are ways, but it's quite complicated Polybius Tuesday #16

Btw, would you trust anyone wearing smart glasses and watching children to be watching innocently, highplainsdem Tuesday #15

I would thoroughly vet anyone around my kids Polybius Tuesday #17

No, we don't have to tolerate people wearing glasses that could be recording and storing photos, highplainsdem Tuesday #18

Google Glass was discontinued because it was expensive and the technology wasn't there yet in 2013 Polybius Wednesday #20

The reasons Google Glass was discontinued usually have privacy concerns at or near the top. Tech highplainsdem Wednesday #21

Smart glasses don't create new surveillance, they operate within the same legal framework Polybius Wednesday #28

You're much too trusting of AI companies and how desperate they always are for more training data. highplainsdem Wednesday #29

You're right about one thing: distrust of large tech companies is understandable Polybius Thursday #33

The formatting of your reply is very reminiscent of outputs from genAI. You're defending/promoting highplainsdem Thursday #35

I'll clear this up directly: it's me writing the replies Polybius Thursday #41

Thanks for explaining. And I'll accept your explanation because I would like to believe that people on highplainsdem Friday #42

Thank you for accepting my explanation, you are a great person Polybius Friday #43

Liberals are supposed to be good people, concerned about others and wanting fairness. That's all I'm highplainsdem Yesterday #44

I wasn't being sarcastic at all when I said you're a good person Polybius Yesterday #45

You keep trying to make a fundamentally unethical defense of an industry built on theft that highplainsdem Yesterday #47

I'm not rooting for AI companies to "win a battle against artists" Polybius 20 hrs ago #50

Sigh. Frame it however you want. I realize AI users can get hooked easily and do not want highplainsdem 5 hrs ago #51

I don't share the view that ordinary use equals moral endorsement of everything a corporation does or might do Polybius 1 hr ago #53

Some Reddit threads on what people think of people wearing smart glasses: highplainsdem Wednesday #30

I honestly don't care what a handful of Reddit threads say Polybius Thursday #34

Thanks! architect359 Yesterday #48

This. And people are defending it. travelingthrulife Wednesday #22

To all those consuming morons willing to buy this junk, I would like to quote Jim Morrison by saying.... Crowman2009 Tuesday #3

"They were a double pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses" muriel_volestrangler Tuesday #4

LOL... Thank you for my laugh of the day FemDemERA Tuesday #5

I have zero doubt that the people who buy these products Skittles Tuesday #7

Just........ Red Mountain Tuesday #8

Google's brand of smart glasses, Google Glass, were discontinued soon after they were introduced highplainsdem Tuesday #11

Reminds me of this parody. Crowman2009 Tuesday #19

Just no! SheltieLover Wednesday #23

They are trying to normalize surveillance! SheltieLover Wednesday #24

Yes! And it surprises and disappoints me that any Democrats, any liberals, would be okay with this, highplainsdem Wednesday #25

Absolutely in agreement with all you've stated! SheltieLover Wednesday #27

I wouldn't want an apple product unless it was made of gold and given to me by cook yaesu Wednesday #26

I'm still waiting for my Honewell kitchen computer... hunter Wednesday #31

That ad is so hilarious - and sexist. highplainsdem Thursday #36

It keeps them out of trouble. hunter Thursday #38

I plan to sell my house so I can buy all those goodies! chouchou Thursday #32

The prices are coming down, unfortunately. Which means that more and more teachers will have to highplainsdem Thursday #37

Your words are true. Personally, I've never liked the idea that some students can easily... chouchou Thursday #39

Oh great, now jealous husbands can spy on their wives FakeNoose Thursday #40

Apple's products have gone from amazing to shit Prairie Gates Yesterday #46

Besides the whole being an insane mass murderer thing, the Unabomber may have had a point or two about technology. LudwigPastorius Yesterday #49

God. Who the hell wants to wear glasses just so they can record everything? Kablooie 5 hrs ago #52