I mean if the president looks straight at an eclipse without any eye protection…
If you look at humans as dumb apes, you will never be amazed, except for the few times we do impressive and intelligent feats.
Also correlates roughly to people going “totality bro, absolutely life change. Totality. Wow. Totality.” In every conversation for an entire fucking month before never bringing it up again.
More like Americans never cease to amaze me
To be clear all, while funny this is a meme. For both medical reasons “eye pan isn’t a thing for this”, and Google own public search data availability. This isn’t real.
But it’s a good chuckle.
God bless the USA! ?
Mississippi: who’s the stupid one now?
Can’t use Americans as a litmus for humanity
What was happening in Yuma back then, though.
smog. prob from wild fires.
Have you ever been to Yuma?
I was in the path of totality and there were so many glasses available to everyone around its hard to believe this.
This is a bit misleading, I would bet most of the searches where something like “How to watch the eclipse without getting your eyes hurt”. Notice that the search data started days before the eclipse.
Ofc my sun is a pussy…
Okay you had to pick the stupidest person on earth.
Bet you he googled it though. Bet you.
I don’t know “eyes” is a difficult word to spell.
My favourite is still and will always be the negative reviews on Amazon for Yankee candles correlating with Covid outbreaks.
What’s the story about that?
Just a guess based on “covid” and “candles”, a ton of people negatively reviewed candles for not smelling good/right/at all, not realizing they had lost their sense of smell from covid at the time.
I know my spouse had the realization our cold was covid because we couldn’t smell the candles we had bought (and smelled) the week before.
I had been a bit sick and I had the realization when I went to sniff some weed and I couldn’t smell it. I’d been able to smell earlier in the day and it was a weird realization. I went around and sniffed everything I could hoping to get a whiff
It was extremely bizarre. I’ve had muted sense of smell and taste because of a sickness but never an absence of the sense
The weird thing is also what happens to taste of you lose your sense of smell. You can still feel the texture of the food, but it doesn’t taste like much. One of the weirdest things I have experienced as a result of a virus.
I tried tasting vinegar to check if I still could, but nothing.
For some reason vinegar, something I normally love, turned into this nasty acrid chemically taste and smell I can’t even begin to explain. It’s happened two times that I’ve lost my smell from covid.
I now give some ketchup a sniff as my early litmus test when I’m starting to get sick to check for covid lol.
I experimented with a bunch of foods and food-safe strong smelling/tasting things. Even spicy was knocked out which surprised me. I would have thought that would have remained unaffected
That was one of the few times in life I’ve really been concerned about my quality of life if the effects were permanent
Like, I’ve thought about “what if I lost my sight/hearing/limbs” but taste and smell never really occurred to me. But it was truly life altering and I really considered what I’d do if I didn’t get those senses back
Oh yeah that was absolutely affected as well. I couldn’t taste anything for a few days. I don’t remember specifically how long I couldn’t taste or smell, this was 4.5 years ago. That was the first time, early 2021. Subsequent bouts have not done that to me (unfortunately I work in an environment where people come in sick and pass it along. I’ve gotten covid many times and it makes me upset every time)
But yeah, eating became an even more unpleasant task. I pretty much do it because I have to but I try to make it enjoyable; but when you only have texture to work with then that becomes very difficult
Conversely I woke up in the middle of the night with a cold and couldn’t smell Vick’s VapeoRub, which usually has an extremely strong menthol scent.
I got tested, talked to a doctor, and didn’t have COVID. It’s possible we lose our sense of smell sometimes with other types of colds too, but we never noticed because we didn’t panic about it.
When was this? For the first year and a half or so, the more commonly used test kits had something like a 40% false negative rate.
I had this twice, the first time was at least 25 years ago.
I don’t recall. But I took the pharmacy test too, the more accurate one.
I realised I had it when I tried to drink my morning coffee and it tasted rancid because I had no smell
Yankee candle rating dropped sharply (or at least statistically significant) during covid with reviews of them being negative because they had little to no smell.
Loss of smell being a covid symptom.
Edit: oh and yeah it would go up and down based on larger outbreaks. So it followed the early waves of mass outbreaks basically 1:1
Which is wild in retrospect because holy shit they smell SO strongly.
What’s more surprising to me is that there’s a big enough stream of reviews for a candle to see this effect.
People are extremely opinionated on scented candles it seems.
You got some responses but here is an article about it https://www.newsweek.com/covid-scented-candles-reviews-1551248
Why does the data for eyes hurt start before the eclipse even happened?
People were practicing daily to build up an immunity.
Because in preparation for the eclipse, people were searching for ways to prevent hurting their eyes.
People kept looking at the sun to check if it was eclipsing yet.
You gotta get familiar with what it normally looks like, otherwise you wont understand how different and special it looks when it eclipses
Surely it’s just the sum of searches during that period, just to cover the interval. 🤷♂️
I had like 5 seconds of panic because there was a gray spot in my vision after I accidentally looked at a baileys bead completely unfiltered through my telescope the second the eclipse ended. Turns out I just had a smudge on my glasses :P
I definitely held on to the very last dazzle, maybe one dazzle more than I should have, and I had to get reading glasses within 8 months. But I also just hit 42 so I’m guessing it’s that.
To my understanding, as you age, the lenses becomes less flexible and harder to focus, making it more difficult to see text up close. Retinal damage from the sun, on the other hand, would burn spots in your retina that would leave little blind spots that are uncorrectable by glasses.
You can rest assured you probably don’t have significant damage from the eclipse, but instead, your body, like all of our bodies, is slowly deteriorating with the ever marching passage of time.
Have a nice weekend, stanger!
100% true. Can’t also forget about nearly everyone getting cataracts by the time they’re in their 60’s!
I tend to wake up every morning amazed that: A) We’re generally still here and B) I’m specifically still here. Then the disappointment hits.
Don’t give us too much credit just yet. Dinosaurs were around for about 180 million years.
Our earliest ancestors are about 2 million years ago, our closest ancestors are about 300,000 years and our actual ancestors who are like us are only about 50,000 years.
We’re still just a tiny blip in earth’s history and if we wipe ourselves out, it’ll be pretty hard for any future archaeologist to figure out who we were and what we did, or even to know that we were even here.
The sheer volume of microplastics that will be in our respective layer of rock stratigraphy will be unmistakable evidence that some rather stupid species was here.
man what ever species rises next will be stoked to find out what kind of super fossil fuels you get when you lay down a bed of petrochemicals, then lay literally all our organic matter on top, then cover with more petrochemicals and bake at runnaway global warming temps for 200million years.
Sure, but forget 50 kiloyears. Just considering the events of the last century is sufficient to make me marvel that we haven’t sterilized ourselves – and the rest of the planet. But, as you say, it’s early days yet. I’m sure we’ll manage to irrevocably cock it up any moment now.
I mean climate change might’ve already done it. Just need to wait 500-1000 years for the full effects to all take place.
That too, yeah. There’s plenty of options. It’s like once humanity heard of the Great Filter concept, the response was to collectively go: “Yes, but are we absolutely sure we’ve discovered all the anthropogenic causes? Maybe we should explore that some more. The best learning is by doing, you know?”
Dinosaurs is a clade, not a species. Humans belong to the clades hominoids and simians, which have been around for 13 and 42 million years.
or even to know that we were even here.
What about our megafauna extinctions, nuclear tests, mass biosphere degradation and destruction, the Anthropocene extinction event, the fish bones of 2-6 trillion fish we torture to death every year, the bones of trillions of monstrous chickens, anthropogenic climate change, plastic… and soon the upcoming anthropogenic climate-change cascade and the Anthropocene mass-extinction event?
You find yourself on the planet of half-intelligent disaster hominids.
Ganbatte, xxce2AAb.
Thanks. I guess there’s nothing for it but to venture deep into the woods at night, alone and carrying only a high-power laser pointer and a large sign reading “for the love of everything pure and good, abduct me!”
(I consent to reasonable amounts of probing)
That’s a bop, thanks :)
human race = Muricans
ok
Plenty of stupid people everywhere.
Can confirm.
Humans do live in America, you are correct
and this is your leader
Use of the term leader there is a stretch
Yeah. Unfortunately he counts as human too
