Doing relative stupidity comparisons with Trump is kinda like doing math with infinity. Anything divided by infinity is basically zero. Any moron standing next to Trump is the smartest person in the room and a relative genius.
Case in point, this photo was one of the THREE times that he looked directly into the eclipse AFTER taking off his glasses. The second time he does it he points directly at the sun because he wanted everyone to know what he was looking at? i don't know, he's too stupid to analyze, but its literally the origin of the photo in this sticker.
A) google does this analysis by week-long blocks, so all the searches from 8th will be i this block.
B) I have legit seen people stare at the sun BEFORE an eclipse as if to get some baseline for what the sun looks like? Just talking about the sun makes people do this.
The question is does it differentiate between "eyes hurt" and just watches that contain those two words. Like if someone asked "How can I look at the eclipse and not hurt my eyes" would it show up in this bucket too.
To test whether stupid people are psychic, or, if the smart part of their brain (that refuses to help their conscious mind or, more likely, is actively ignored) foresaw what was coming?
I drove what should have been a 2 hour trip in 4 hours to see the 2017 one.
I figured "let's get some lunch, walk around some local parks, and maybe go walk around the local shops for a few hour before trying to go home" because I knew traffic would be bad. I even spent most of an afternoon plotting my course back home to avoid major roads and highways.
Even after 5ish hours, traffic was terrible. Every highway we passed was stopped. People were flooding back roads, it was slow but moving faster than the highways.
12 hours later, I pulled into my driveway and decided next time I ever travel for an eclipse, I'm bringing a tent and staying a few days.
It took some friends if mine 14 hours to get home and they didn't even leave their state.
I must have been lucky in 2024 then. Drove 8 hours to see it, stayed until about an hour after totality, took about 10 hours to get back. Not bad considering it was 500 miles one-way.
My wife and I have kind of turned into eclipse chasers, we did TN in 2016, Montreal 2024, and in a couple days we're off to Iceland for another.
We always plan on not doing much the day of the eclipse, figuring that traffic and such would be a nightmare, and leave ourselves a couple days on either side of the eclipse to hopefully avoid even more traffic.
I don't remember exactly what days we did for TN, but I remember on our way home a couple days later we still hit what seemed like a weird amount of traffic for the area we were in.
Day of the 2017 eclipse we really lucked out. We stayed at a little campground a little bit outside of Nashville, and about 10 minutes away from there we found some sort of wildlife conservation area. It was gated and I'm not totally clear if it was really supposed open to the public, but as luck would have it just as we were pulling up to the gate some sort of conservation officer/ranger/game warden type guy also pulled up there. We asked if we were allowed in, he asked what we were gonna do and we said we basically just planned to set up a couple camp chairs and a camera on a tripod and look and watch the eclipse and he gave us the go-ahead, so we had a big open field to ourselves.
For Montreal, we took the train up from NYC, and the AirBnB we booked had a really nice rooftop deck, so we just posted up there.
We'll see where we end up in Reykjavik, fingers crossed the weather cooperates.
I took the train from Mississippi to Illinois for the last one I saw. Had to wait a bit for the train going back since it was scheduled for something like 1AM the morning after the eclipse, but I just found a quiet spot in the local college’s activity center to nap until then. Was definitely much more enjoyable than driving would have been, I think.
Look I gotta admit this. I was using 80x sea binoculars to focus in on the eclipse with my eclipse glasses in behind the binoculars on my face. Fried a hole through the eclipse glasses and into my retina not horrible but similar to a plastic sand-which back looking through for a few hours. Got my eyes checked by a dr. Said it was minor ish. Got lucky. It was during totality. Hate Magats. But damn I was dumb.
If it was during totality, and you were actually in the path of totality, there is no harm looking at the sun, even with magnification. But ONLY during totality and ONLY if you are firmly within the path.
During the last solar eclipse, I had my telescope set up and knew we had just over 4 minutes. Once it went dark, I quickly got it aimed and saw the corona in all its glory. Literally the most incredible thing I have ever seen in my life. But I also had a stopwatch going as soon as totality started, and at 3 minutes I stopped and wouldn't let anyone look through anymore. Even the tiniest sliver would be enough for serious eye damage.
So yea, it's safe, but not a single second before, and not a single second after.
Well if they were curious enough about whether they could look at the sun during an eclipse, maybe they tried looking at the sun leading up to the eclipse
You can't just stare at an eclipse willy nilly, you gotta train your eyes for something like that. Glance at the sun a few seconds at a time, and work your way up to a minute.
Serious: a Google data scientist has legitimately written a book on this topic lol. Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (see his Wikipedia page)
The book didn't age super well because they got the causation direction wrong; in terms of real-world implementation Google Trends turned out to be pretty bad at actually predicting flu
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valar@lemmy.ca · 166 pts · 19h
I knew it, internet searches cause eclipses.
homoludens@feddit.org · 19 pts · 18h
People's eyes were hurting, so the sun goddess decided to go easy on them.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 16h
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 15h
Had a lol at this, thanks
shittydwarf@piefed.ca · 120 pts · 19h
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 18h
Two stupid people. One slightly less stupid than the other.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 23 pts · 15h
Doing relative stupidity comparisons with Trump is kinda like doing math with infinity. Anything divided by infinity is basically zero. Any moron standing next to Trump is the smartest person in the room and a relative genius.
Case in point, this photo was one of the THREE times that he looked directly into the eclipse AFTER taking off his glasses. The second time he does it he points directly at the sun because he wanted everyone to know what he was looking at? i don't know, he's too stupid to analyze, but its literally the origin of the photo in this sticker.
Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 19h
Why would we care about April 3rd thru the 7th?
quill7513@anarchist.nexus · 49 pts · 19h
google gives you this data in one week blocks if i remember correctly
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 11 pts · 15h
A) google does this analysis by week-long blocks, so all the searches from 8th will be i this block.
B) I have legit seen people stare at the sun BEFORE an eclipse as if to get some baseline for what the sun looks like? Just talking about the sun makes people do this.
Dultas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
The question is does it differentiate between "eyes hurt" and just watches that contain those two words. Like if someone asked "How can I look at the eclipse and not hurt my eyes" would it show up in this bucket too.
Folstar@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 15h
To test whether stupid people are psychic, or, if the smart part of their brain (that refuses to help their conscious mind or, more likely, is actively ignored) foresaw what was coming?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 19h
Another good eclipse map is the one showing the massive traffic jams that start right after local totality
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 pts · 19h
I drove what should have been a 2 hour trip in 4 hours to see the 2017 one.
I figured "let's get some lunch, walk around some local parks, and maybe go walk around the local shops for a few hour before trying to go home" because I knew traffic would be bad. I even spent most of an afternoon plotting my course back home to avoid major roads and highways.
Even after 5ish hours, traffic was terrible. Every highway we passed was stopped. People were flooding back roads, it was slow but moving faster than the highways.
12 hours later, I pulled into my driveway and decided next time I ever travel for an eclipse, I'm bringing a tent and staying a few days.
It took some friends if mine 14 hours to get home and they didn't even leave their state.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18h
I must have been lucky in 2024 then. Drove 8 hours to see it, stayed until about an hour after totality, took about 10 hours to get back. Not bad considering it was 500 miles one-way.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 18h
Drove a few hours for both the 2017 and 2024 eclipse.
Waited several hours afterwards to go home both times.
The 2024 eclipse was a much easier drive home (though still not great).
Fondots@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 16h
My wife and I have kind of turned into eclipse chasers, we did TN in 2016, Montreal 2024, and in a couple days we're off to Iceland for another.
We always plan on not doing much the day of the eclipse, figuring that traffic and such would be a nightmare, and leave ourselves a couple days on either side of the eclipse to hopefully avoid even more traffic.
I don't remember exactly what days we did for TN, but I remember on our way home a couple days later we still hit what seemed like a weird amount of traffic for the area we were in.
Day of the 2017 eclipse we really lucked out. We stayed at a little campground a little bit outside of Nashville, and about 10 minutes away from there we found some sort of wildlife conservation area. It was gated and I'm not totally clear if it was really supposed open to the public, but as luck would have it just as we were pulling up to the gate some sort of conservation officer/ranger/game warden type guy also pulled up there. We asked if we were allowed in, he asked what we were gonna do and we said we basically just planned to set up a couple camp chairs and a camera on a tripod and look and watch the eclipse and he gave us the go-ahead, so we had a big open field to ourselves.
For Montreal, we took the train up from NYC, and the AirBnB we booked had a really nice rooftop deck, so we just posted up there.
We'll see where we end up in Reykjavik, fingers crossed the weather cooperates.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18h
I drove seven hours to TN to get maximum totality. The drive home was 14 hours. Just a sea of cars as far as the eye could see.
Worth it.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 16h
I took the train from Mississippi to Illinois for the last one I saw. Had to wait a bit for the train going back since it was scheduled for something like 1AM the morning after the eclipse, but I just found a quiet spot in the local college’s activity center to nap until then. Was definitely much more enjoyable than driving would have been, I think.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18h
Can confirm. Drove about 1.5 hours to Ohio for the eclipse, driving back in traffic took about 5 hours.
thessnake03@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18h
Was trying to find a good map to post and came across this study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198224002112
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 15h
Trump looked directly at it, stands to reason his fans did too 🤷
Dookieman12@piefed.social · 15 pts · 19h
Correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation, but every instance of causation is accompanied by at least one correlation.
Disregarding correlation entirely is equally fallacious.
red_tomato@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 19h
Any causation is accompanied by someone reminding everyone that correlation doesn’t imply causation.
marcos@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 19h
Oh, not every. But the correlation is really high for some reason.
trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 16h
I mean, you do still need to subtract this:
FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 2 pts · 1h
yes, but the above is clearly more than that
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 18h
Some of those people might have fallen for scam glasses too
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 2 pts · 9h
I used a welding helmet I happened to have laying around. It worked great.
e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social · 6 pts · 18h
let’s see whether it occurs again next week in Spain
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 14h
Same thing happened in 2016!
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 10h
Is there a comparirson against other countries to confirm my bias?
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 9h
Only Americans would do such a thing
rumba@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 6h
ok, I get the population density matters a lot in this kind of query,which explains LA, but WTF was going on here:
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 7h
Look I gotta admit this. I was using 80x sea binoculars to focus in on the eclipse with my eclipse glasses in behind the binoculars on my face. Fried a hole through the eclipse glasses and into my retina not horrible but similar to a plastic sand-which back looking through for a few hours. Got my eyes checked by a dr. Said it was minor ish. Got lucky. It was during totality. Hate Magats. But damn I was dumb.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
If it was during totality, and you were actually in the path of totality, there is no harm looking at the sun, even with magnification. But ONLY during totality and ONLY if you are firmly within the path.
During the last solar eclipse, I had my telescope set up and knew we had just over 4 minutes. Once it went dark, I quickly got it aimed and saw the corona in all its glory. Literally the most incredible thing I have ever seen in my life. But I also had a stopwatch going as soon as totality started, and at 3 minutes I stopped and wouldn't let anyone look through anymore. Even the tiniest sliver would be enough for serious eye damage.
So yea, it's safe, but not a single second before, and not a single second after.
jonathan@piefed.social · 3 pts · 3h
Texas had heavy cloud cover, which is why it doesn't look as dumb as it is.
elevenbones@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 7h
Yeah my eyes started hurting 5 days before the eclipse too......
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 6h
Well if they were curious enough about whether they could look at the sun during an eclipse, maybe they tried looking at the sun leading up to the eclipse
scutiger@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 5h
You can't just stare at an eclipse willy nilly, you gotta train your eyes for something like that. Glance at the sun a few seconds at a time, and work your way up to a minute.
Corngood@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 19h
I assume in Arizona your eyes always hurt.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 6h
I could kinda see LA sprawl having so many people you get google for everything, the desert sure.. i'm more concerned with west florida.
zlatiah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1h
Serious: a Google data scientist has legitimately written a book on this topic lol. Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (see his Wikipedia page)
The book didn't age super well because they got the causation direction wrong; in terms of real-world implementation Google Trends turned out to be pretty bad at actually predicting flu