Damnit people

I was driving back from work lunch about 10 minutes before totality and passed literally dozens of people standing on sidewalks and in roadways just staring directly at the sun… gonna be a lot of blindness after this

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- Not trying to down play the health risk for staring at an eclipse, but dipshit in chief stared at the last one and didn't go blind. What kind of harm to his vision do you think he experienced?
  Does it depend on close you are to the totality? Are a bunch of people going to need glasses after this latest one?
- The point
- That's an mp4.

Here's the 90 day graph

Lol you can see the stupidity in real time.
- Some of it is that people didn't get the memo, some of it is that people got told incorrect information, some of it is that people got sold bad glasses, and some of it really is that people didn't listen to the warnings.

To be fair, many people were sold fake eclipse glasses that claimed to be safe.

I feel awful for folks who were duped.

Mostly in Illinois, and on Amazon, some people who literally bought ISO 12312-2020 instead of ISO12312-2 glasses. There is a story on it.
I knew nothing about the proper ISO for eclipse glasses beforehand but if I was going to risk my eyesight and the eyesight of those who I love like that, you bet I was going to learn about it via due diligence.
Solar eclipse glasses sold on Amazon, in stores recalled: Illinois health officials say
Most people however seemed to have screwed with their eyesight by just looking at the sun. Seems political inclination was really not a factor. Stupidity or lack of education were.
Yeah, I wouldn’t trust any glasses that I could buy
If I was going to view it then I would have built a pinhole projector
- You can buy glasses approved by the American Astrological Society, which independently checked that the glasses were safe. (They're supposed to meet an ISO standard, but this is a double check.) Also, you can test them at home, by looking at lightbulbs and around your house. If you can see anything that isn't the emitting source of a bright light (like the actual diode of an LED) then they're not dark enough.
- I just poked a hole through a dozen or so sheets and held it over another pile of sheets. Trivial and worked well enough for seeing the partial eclipse.

Silly me googled it to see why I'm seeing posts about it and why people would be googling it. Then I remembered it was eclipse day.

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My eyes hurt, and I had eclipse glasses, and a solar filter on my telescope. Lots of these are probably just eyestrain.

Same here, followed proper procedure and was extra careful to have them on as soon as totality came to an end. My eyes felt strained after I googled to see if I needed to be concerned.
Most of the glasses say not to use them for longer than 3-5 minutes total over the course of the eclipse. So if people were sitting there staring at it for the entire event with the glasses on, their eyes going to hurt.
Just a thing to note, some glasses ship with warnings to only look at the sun with the glasses on for a few minutes or less. The sun is very bright.

What the hell Michigan? I expected this from Indiana, but I thought you were better than this.

Michiganders might have been better that that, but consider all the tourists who decided to travel up there and skewed the data.
- As a Michigander, I choose this one because I don't like the other option 😅

Haha my eyes hurt before the eclipse! Allergies are a bitch

The only reason it's so light in MN is because it was too cloudy to stare at the sun

It also didn't get that dark here I went out around 2 and it was dim at best.

Never forget the only reason Trump lost to Biden is because he literally killed his base with COVID denialism.

I wonder how much of this is just people looking for other people to make fun of.

It did seem really bright this morning. (Hours before the eclipse.)

Well good thing I slept through it.

What a trend