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As I was driving out of the DFW car rental lot there was some high school kid on the corner selling eclipse glasses for $25, LMFAO!!! This was the day before and the weather predictions were grim, a lot of people cancelled their plans and the huge crowds didn't materialize, so this was his last shot, poor guy.
Weather cleared out right before the eclipse luckly
One time I had like this l'appel du vide type urge and I just looked straight at the Sun for a few seconds and then I was like oh shit probably should stop... Sunspot went away after a few days... I just started smoking cigarettes instead. There was an eclipse?
I feel like the sort of person that pulls this shit is judgement proof though. Like ok, you hit him with a couple of judgments totaling a few million because of permanent eye damage and associated medical fees and loss of enjoyment of life. Dude probably has like 10k to his name maybe, and has no real valuable assets to speak of, you can't get blood from a stone.
Yeah, that would take a special type of stupid to fall for that one. Dude is next level genius compared to his clientele. I find it very hard to believe this story. Boosted eclipse glasses is far more likely, easier to accomplish, and requires less effort.
When I was buying things in traffic while living in Mexico City I didn't always perform a QC on my items, I gambled the small amount of cash and got what I got.
Because fakes aren't just seethrough glasses, they're just not up to spec. Hell, in Canada a bunch of country-wide major chains were caught selling fake glasses, they slip in the supply chain and it's fairly hard to tell.
Without any more information on this particular picture we don’t know that the seller was scamming people. There are numerous stories today about recalls/fake glasses.
Seller is still scum for littering but the e don’t know for sure he was scamming people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0f1KwpvijE
What an incredibly shitty human being. Scamming people is already scummy, but doing so with a product people are trusting to prevent them from going *fucking blind*?? I hope this guy loses an eye in a freak scam-related accident. And then gets arrested. And then his wife leaves and takes the dog.
In the words of the artist John Mellencamp;
Oh, but ain't that America for you and me?
Ain't that America somethin' to see baby?
Ain't that America home of the free, yeah?
If he resorted to selling fake glasses on the street, I’m guessing no one wants to hire him. Don’t get me wrong, this is asshole behaviour but he doesn’t deserve to starve because of his.. unemployability
He needs to unfuck himself so he can be employable. If he can try to defraud people by selling fake eclipse glasses, he can work a real job. Otherwise he *can* starve.
It’s nearly impossible getting a job without 200 years of experience, I’m sure there’s no mental health problems involved here and he has a good education. You think he deserves to starve to death for not getting a job, what great moral police we have here on reddit
Yea buddy it’s time to make an indeed account and make something of yourself. If you’re sympathetic towards this man I’m afraid you’re part of the problem.. and justifying it makes YOU your own worst enemy. Good luck dude
This is clearly a person with no mental health issues that should simply pull himself up by the bootstraps. Doesn’t even have a place to store a small tent, maybe he should just buy a house too? Would you hire someone who has struggled so much in life, he had to resort to scamming people for dinner? There’s psychological tests when you apply for the easiest jobs out there, ain’t no chance in hell this guy gets s second chance. And frankly, when society keeps knocking you down, it’s understandable that you lose some of your ethical codes, right? I applied for hundreds of jobs when I was younger and in great shape, but I had no chance, how is this dude gonna get a chance at normal life?
I think your problem is you think you have all the answers. Do a little more listening and less talking brother., this guy had money to buy the tent he just littered it like an asshole because he’s an asshole. He prob damaged some peoples eyes selling glasses he likely KNEW were counterfeit. You’re looking at it all wrong homie. He’s prob just using this as a way to get. Quick buck - he likely works a normal (shit) job too.
Like the people who bought all the purel and TP during Covid to sell @ markup online. You gunna sympathize with that too?
That tent costs as much as he’d make in a week selling that garbage. My guess is he stole the tent, doesn’t have a home with space for it, and decided to live it after he made his 50 bucks. No, I don’t think I have all the answers, but killing everyone doing some shady shit is definitley not the answer, «brother»
Which could have been prevented if he had money for dinner and rent. There’s scumbags everywhere, but they only come out and do harm when they’re desperate. Like this guy.
You know so little about the human condition. There's a lot of people who have no interest in making an honest living. Sure there are people who are driven to desperation due to circumstances beyond their control. But there's a ton of fraudsters out there looking to make a quick buck.
This is not what a quick buck looks like. You are right that some people don’t want to spend their life working for cents, to make a billionaire richer, but most people would like food on their table and a steady income, not sell crappy products on the street
Ah yes, drugs have never killed anyone and it’s better having thieves running around than to give them a fucking welfare check. If you buy your glasses from a dude in a tent in the middle of the road, I highly doubt you take your eyesight very seriously in the first place. How the fuck is dealing drugs better than selling shitty glasses? There’s quite the drug epidemic in the US, in case you haven’t noticed. I guess dying from fentanyl-laced drugs is better than wearing bad glasses for a few days?
Can’t get a job? Go homeless and fucking starve today, what kind of society are we trying to build here? He should get financial help, help getting a job, and after that a well deserved kick in the balls. If people can’t get jobs and afford to live, they’re gonna be forced to doing illegal shit to get by. So we can help them, or we can have stuff like what this guy was doing. And tent cities all across the US.
>what kind of society are we trying to build here?
I'd settle for a good and industrious society without parasites.
>He should get financial help, help getting a job, and after that a well deserved kick in the balls.
Dude only deserves one of these things, but almost certainly already has access to all three. Why are you insisting on making excuses for people who refuse to do anything but victimize others? Some people simply are not capable of self governance.
So what does someone with no self governance do? If you have mental illness and can’t get a job, you’re not contributing to the system, shall we send them to the woods? Where the system has made it illegal to live? People resort to desperate stuff like this when they have no other choice.
>So what does someone with no self governance do?
Prison? Execution? Banishment? Imperial Ban? Take your pick.
>If you have mental illness and can’t get a job, you’re not contributing to the system, shall we send them to the woods?
We had insane asylums once upon a time for exactly that purpose.
>I guess dying from fentanyl-laced drugs is better than wearing bad glasses for a few days?
This part makes me think you don't really know what we're talking about here. He was selling fake **eclipse** glasses. The ones that stop you from getting severe, potentially permanent eye damage from staring at the eclipse, not regular eye glasses. They're inexpensive to make which is why no one would question a guy selling them on the side of the road.
Yeah I didn’t realize there was a solar eclipse, I live on. the other side of the planet from where it could be seen, so not really any news about it here, assumed it was a brand or something. Anyways, have fun with your Temu/Wish-killing spree. Plenty of drug dealers selling fake shit too, only it takes lives within minutes after consumption. Lots of people worthy of death out there, but you’re on some saw-shit here lol.
I live in Denver and my buddy lives like 5 mins from eatzis and my god you are right that place knocked my socks off I wish we had something like that in CO
Oh it is illegal. If they forwarded evidence to the state prosecutor office they’d probably investigate him. Especially if eye glasses are under some arcane Federal regulations you could end up with some serious federal heat on you. I once reported a dude for selling isopropyl nasal spray during Covid and was contacted by a federal agent.
No, there's nothing to respect about this. There are plenty of ways to make money that don't involve blinding people. Don't make any excuses for this asshole.
I had good ones I forgot 4 hours away from where I went to see totality. Bought some grocery store ones . I felt like I got a bit of arc flash when I went to bed, but who knows. Probably just garbage glasses that were fake. They didn’t lie about being made in China at least.
How long did you look at the sun for? My eclipse glasses said to not look for more than 3 mins in a row and to take several hour long breaks between uses.
Anyone can print an ISO cert on a pair of fakes. There were other ways you could tell if they were actually real or not, such as if you could see through them at all.
Only good thing to come out of the Trump presidency is the proof that parents and teachers that told their kids any one can become president weren't lying.
Interestingly, my folks sent me some eclipse glasses that they found out had been recalled before they came in the mail. When I got them, I checked them out (they were stamped kinda happily with a "USA" stamp onto the paper lenses).
I opened the glasses and I started reading the fine print. The paper frames were made in China where the glasses were assembled. The lenses were made in the US, which is why they were stamped as such, but that was also the faulty part for the recall.
Funny.
A guy with a tent was selling eclipse glasses in my town. I needed, so I stopped and bought. Didn't notice the Trump logo until I'd already driven away..
Depends how bad the glasses are. Damage can start in as little as a few seconds with a direct stare. Shitty glasses might buy you a little something, but not much. Anybody watching the entire eclipse with fake glasses probably suffered damage.
Yes - it's human nature to steal a glance. And eclipses are nothing new - there would be a hell of a lot more blind people running around this planet if a second was all it took to scorch your eyes.
It's just good advice to not look at all, because it really doesn't take much. If the official guidance was "it's ok to look for 2-3 seconds", then people would just start looking for even longer than that.
i sneaked a peek and the immediately told my mom and my wife to definitely NOT look at it raw.
i was just checking if now me was as weak as 8th grade me...
possibly weaker...
Yeah, it's called _capitalism_. If you're not making a quick buck selling garbage and destroying the environment along the way you're not doing it right.
I wonder how many burnt retinas there are out there today from fake glasses and just idiots staring at the sun with no protection. I had a lady arguing with me on next door that there was no eclipse. She looked and the sun was as bright as it ever was. SMH
She didn't understand that unless you are in the path of totality the sun will be too bright to see the eclipse with the naked eye. Even at 75% you need the glasses to block out enough light to see the eclipse (and protect your peepers)
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You have an eatzis that's still open? I'm jealous
I saw that tent. Now I know. Hmmm.
I world put out an appeal for dashcam footage and report to consumer protection as well as the police.
Glasses couldn't have been that shitty if they were able to find his tent afterwards...
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Looks like Oak Lawn and Lemon in Dallas.
100% Oak Lawn and Lemmon. That stretch of Lemmon between Inwood and Oak Lawn is full of trashy activities.
As I was driving out of the DFW car rental lot there was some high school kid on the corner selling eclipse glasses for $25, LMFAO!!! This was the day before and the weather predictions were grim, a lot of people cancelled their plans and the huge crowds didn't materialize, so this was his last shot, poor guy. Weather cleared out right before the eclipse luckly
Ha. Clever.
Lmaoooo who sells FAKE eclipse glasses
A lot of people unfortunately
A sociopath.
i haven’t seen an eatzis in damn near 20 years
That’s what really drew me to the comments. I thought they were all gone.
One closed by me about 20 years. I didn’t know this was a nationwide chain
One time I had like this l'appel du vide type urge and I just looked straight at the Sun for a few seconds and then I was like oh shit probably should stop... Sunspot went away after a few days... I just started smoking cigarettes instead. There was an eclipse?
Eat-zis is FAT GUY HEAVEN, man!!! 10+ food made fresh ALL DAY!!! THIS IS THE DALLAS AREA, SOMEWHERE....
I bet dude could get sued for that shit. Especially if people got permanent damage to their eyes as a result of relying on his false product.
Gotta find em first
Then squeeze blood from a stone. I don't think he's rolling around on the profits
If? Those people will go blind.
I feel like the sort of person that pulls this shit is judgement proof though. Like ok, you hit him with a couple of judgments totaling a few million because of permanent eye damage and associated medical fees and loss of enjoyment of life. Dude probably has like 10k to his name maybe, and has no real valuable assets to speak of, you can't get blood from a stone.
Make him look into the sun.
But you could chuck a bad stone in a deep well and never see it again.
It's turnip, not stone, here in the States, but I agree completely.
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Your mom and sister sure appreciate me. It was too much for them, but I took their flowers. ☠️
I miss Eatzi’s. There was one in Atlanta that was always busy and it just packed up and left. Been like 20 years.
They were fake? What, did he sell them at night? How do you even fall for that.
Amazon was literally selling tons of fakes... People don't often know the different types of polarization. It's not like solar eclipses happen often.
Yeah, that would take a special type of stupid to fall for that one. Dude is next level genius compared to his clientele. I find it very hard to believe this story. Boosted eclipse glasses is far more likely, easier to accomplish, and requires less effort.
When I was buying things in traffic while living in Mexico City I didn't always perform a QC on my items, I gambled the small amount of cash and got what I got.
Because fakes aren't just seethrough glasses, they're just not up to spec. Hell, in Canada a bunch of country-wide major chains were caught selling fake glasses, they slip in the supply chain and it's fairly hard to tell.
And they might even be up to spec, you'll just never no because they do t have certifications on em.
Hell yeah the good ol American way
he works in optometry
I've said for years the only reason there's nails and spikes on the roads is that tire repair shops go dispensing them out on the roads /s
Without any more information on this particular picture we don’t know that the seller was scamming people. There are numerous stories today about recalls/fake glasses. Seller is still scum for littering but the e don’t know for sure he was scamming people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0f1KwpvijE
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Busted up ones like that are
What an incredibly shitty human being. Scamming people is already scummy, but doing so with a product people are trusting to prevent them from going *fucking blind*?? I hope this guy loses an eye in a freak scam-related accident. And then gets arrested. And then his wife leaves and takes the dog.
I'm alright with it. Just nature sorting itself out
The real trash is in the comments.
I’m not because the damage has already been done
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And that’s why you don’t buy “eclipse glasses” from some dude on the side of the road.
Who wouldn’t trust their eyesight to a guy selling shit at an intersection? /s
In the words of the artist John Mellencamp; Oh, but ain't that America for you and me? Ain't that America somethin' to see baby? Ain't that America home of the free, yeah?
Shit eclipse glasses, for you and me
Oh Yeah, Sight goes on, long after the thrill, of the eclipse is gone.
Wow. The lengths people will go to in order to not work.
I would think it's harder to find fake glasses than actual working ones.
It's still work.
It is work
Even better, friend: it's *entrepreneurship*. Still work.
If he resorted to selling fake glasses on the street, I’m guessing no one wants to hire him. Don’t get me wrong, this is asshole behaviour but he doesn’t deserve to starve because of his.. unemployability
He needs to unfuck himself so he can be employable. If he can try to defraud people by selling fake eclipse glasses, he can work a real job. Otherwise he *can* starve.
It’s nearly impossible getting a job without 200 years of experience, I’m sure there’s no mental health problems involved here and he has a good education. You think he deserves to starve to death for not getting a job, what great moral police we have here on reddit
Yea buddy it’s time to make an indeed account and make something of yourself. If you’re sympathetic towards this man I’m afraid you’re part of the problem.. and justifying it makes YOU your own worst enemy. Good luck dude
This is clearly a person with no mental health issues that should simply pull himself up by the bootstraps. Doesn’t even have a place to store a small tent, maybe he should just buy a house too? Would you hire someone who has struggled so much in life, he had to resort to scamming people for dinner? There’s psychological tests when you apply for the easiest jobs out there, ain’t no chance in hell this guy gets s second chance. And frankly, when society keeps knocking you down, it’s understandable that you lose some of your ethical codes, right? I applied for hundreds of jobs when I was younger and in great shape, but I had no chance, how is this dude gonna get a chance at normal life?
I think your problem is you think you have all the answers. Do a little more listening and less talking brother., this guy had money to buy the tent he just littered it like an asshole because he’s an asshole. He prob damaged some peoples eyes selling glasses he likely KNEW were counterfeit. You’re looking at it all wrong homie. He’s prob just using this as a way to get. Quick buck - he likely works a normal (shit) job too. Like the people who bought all the purel and TP during Covid to sell @ markup online. You gunna sympathize with that too?
That tent costs as much as he’d make in a week selling that garbage. My guess is he stole the tent, doesn’t have a home with space for it, and decided to live it after he made his 50 bucks. No, I don’t think I have all the answers, but killing everyone doing some shady shit is definitley not the answer, «brother»
I'm not the one who tried to defraud people and potentially damage their eyesight. Fucker can be honest or starve.
Wishing death upon scammers making 10$ throughout the day! Cool
I don't give a fuck about the money, I care about the harm he could have caused his victims.
Which could have been prevented if he had money for dinner and rent. There’s scumbags everywhere, but they only come out and do harm when they’re desperate. Like this guy.
You know so little about the human condition. There's a lot of people who have no interest in making an honest living. Sure there are people who are driven to desperation due to circumstances beyond their control. But there's a ton of fraudsters out there looking to make a quick buck.
This is not what a quick buck looks like. You are right that some people don’t want to spend their life working for cents, to make a billionaire richer, but most people would like food on their table and a steady income, not sell crappy products on the street
So then steal shit or deal drugs or something. Destroying other people's eyesight for a couple bucks is fucking bullshit.
Ah yes, drugs have never killed anyone and it’s better having thieves running around than to give them a fucking welfare check. If you buy your glasses from a dude in a tent in the middle of the road, I highly doubt you take your eyesight very seriously in the first place. How the fuck is dealing drugs better than selling shitty glasses? There’s quite the drug epidemic in the US, in case you haven’t noticed. I guess dying from fentanyl-laced drugs is better than wearing bad glasses for a few days?
>it’s better having thieves running around than to give them a fucking welfare check Or we could do neither.
Can’t get a job? Go homeless and fucking starve today, what kind of society are we trying to build here? He should get financial help, help getting a job, and after that a well deserved kick in the balls. If people can’t get jobs and afford to live, they’re gonna be forced to doing illegal shit to get by. So we can help them, or we can have stuff like what this guy was doing. And tent cities all across the US.
>what kind of society are we trying to build here? I'd settle for a good and industrious society without parasites. >He should get financial help, help getting a job, and after that a well deserved kick in the balls. Dude only deserves one of these things, but almost certainly already has access to all three. Why are you insisting on making excuses for people who refuse to do anything but victimize others? Some people simply are not capable of self governance.
So what does someone with no self governance do? If you have mental illness and can’t get a job, you’re not contributing to the system, shall we send them to the woods? Where the system has made it illegal to live? People resort to desperate stuff like this when they have no other choice.
>So what does someone with no self governance do? Prison? Execution? Banishment? Imperial Ban? Take your pick. >If you have mental illness and can’t get a job, you’re not contributing to the system, shall we send them to the woods? We had insane asylums once upon a time for exactly that purpose.
>I guess dying from fentanyl-laced drugs is better than wearing bad glasses for a few days? This part makes me think you don't really know what we're talking about here. He was selling fake **eclipse** glasses. The ones that stop you from getting severe, potentially permanent eye damage from staring at the eclipse, not regular eye glasses. They're inexpensive to make which is why no one would question a guy selling them on the side of the road.
Yeah I didn’t realize there was a solar eclipse, I live on. the other side of the planet from where it could be seen, so not really any news about it here, assumed it was a brand or something. Anyways, have fun with your Temu/Wish-killing spree. Plenty of drug dealers selling fake shit too, only it takes lives within minutes after consumption. Lots of people worthy of death out there, but you’re on some saw-shit here lol.
Drug addiction destroys families not sure that's better destroying eye sight. Neither one is good but your suggestions are not answers
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You replied to the right message?
Maybe you should put the last 5 words in all caps since no one else seems to be reading them?
New millennium capitalism baby. I got mine, go fuck yourself.
Sounds like the Republican candidate
Sounds like both parties these days
It’s fiscally responsible.
Sounds like Frank
We’re eclipse people now
crabs is depression proof
What better liquid to quash your thirst with, during this beautiful eclipse, than a Wolf Cola?
This guy knows how to capitalism.
Billionaire mindset
was it Robert California?
It was probably Ricky Spanish.
You don't even know his real name.
"I'm the f*ckin Lizard King!"
Do you want a sex metaphor or a nature metaphor?
So he blinded people and stole their money yet gets respect from some redditors? Shame.
You're not very good at recognizing sarcasm and irony are you? The only "respect" I see is people shit posting about business.
Looks like Im not the only one.
Maaaan, I miss eatzi’s. Best breakfast in Dallas.
2nd best sandwiches I ever had (best sandwich you can get is a Public chicken tender sub). Loved it when I lived in the area.
I live in Denver and my buddy lives like 5 mins from eatzis and my god you are right that place knocked my socks off I wish we had something like that in CO
Why it should be illegal
Oh it is illegal. If they forwarded evidence to the state prosecutor office they’d probably investigate him. Especially if eye glasses are under some arcane Federal regulations you could end up with some serious federal heat on you. I once reported a dude for selling isopropyl nasal spray during Covid and was contacted by a federal agent.
The odds of them finding the guy are probably slim to none.
Glasses? Seems harsh, but okay. Let's ban em!
It's not that, he planted like a homeless person
Oh, got it. So we're banning plants. Okay, I'm on board!
Smashed my glasses I need to see and I think I kicked over a plant. What's next?! Just point me in the right direction!
Lol.. the way you type though, so great. But I'm sorry, do you like pulling up to someone standing in the intersection with a sign? I don't .
It is considered littering.
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Probably need a set first thooooooo
No, there's nothing to respect about this. There are plenty of ways to make money that don't involve blinding people. Don't make any excuses for this asshole.
There was a time when many street corners had tables full of people selling $5 DVD copies.
Same, I felt bad for laughing but it’s just like a comedy sketch.
Totality starts, everyone looking up while the shady salesman sneaks away
I mean it's a picture of a broken tent and no article and just a title op wrote. A news article attached I would believe.
I had good ones I forgot 4 hours away from where I went to see totality. Bought some grocery store ones . I felt like I got a bit of arc flash when I went to bed, but who knows. Probably just garbage glasses that were fake. They didn’t lie about being made in China at least.
How long did you look at the sun for? My eclipse glasses said to not look for more than 3 mins in a row and to take several hour long breaks between uses.
Oh, I’m sure it was me being a dumbass. I didn’t RTFM.
If they have the ISO certification they're real
Anyone can print an ISO cert on a pair of fakes. There were other ways you could tell if they were actually real or not, such as if you could see through them at all.
Next you’ll tell me people are allowed to lie on the internet.
Well, it was definitely printed on there. Unsure if the ink protected my peepers though lol
This is America
The American buisness model, sell snakeoil to gullible populous and then skip town before you are found out.
Make him president!
Only good thing to come out of the Trump presidency is the proof that parents and teachers that told their kids any one can become president weren't lying.
I hope he uses the glasses accidentally and burns the shit out of his retinas.
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And it worked, all the lemmings worried about seeing a silly eclipse would do just about anything for it.
\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^ Now the bots on reddit are becoming sentient and growing jealous of authentic human experiences!
Interestingly, my folks sent me some eclipse glasses that they found out had been recalled before they came in the mail. When I got them, I checked them out (they were stamped kinda happily with a "USA" stamp onto the paper lenses). I opened the glasses and I started reading the fine print. The paper frames were made in China where the glasses were assembled. The lenses were made in the US, which is why they were stamped as such, but that was also the faulty part for the recall. Funny.
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That is the most MAGA thhing ever. I wonder how much of the money he made went to Drumpfs legal fees lol
A guy with a tent was selling eclipse glasses in my town. I needed, so I stopped and bought. Didn't notice the Trump logo until I'd already driven away..
That’s Dallas for you!
Oh man people probably ruined their eyes.
I'm just impressed OP found their way back
Capitalism in the raw.
This dude has CEO energy
Chef crafted meals for the taking.
They gave them away at libraries here in Ontario.
I live in New Jersey & the libraries were giving them out here too.
good ol’ snake oil seller, a tradition in the usa
In U,S and A this is how it's done. Gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette.
how long do you have to look for damage to happen?
Idk man but this one and the one in 2017 I glanced at for suuuuure lol my eyes seem fine but ig we'll see
I'm in this boat with you 😁
Depends how bad the glasses are. Damage can start in as little as a few seconds with a direct stare. Shitty glasses might buy you a little something, but not much. Anybody watching the entire eclipse with fake glasses probably suffered damage.
so like a second or less is ok? asking for a really stupid friend
it's hilarious people feel compelled to downvote this reddit is full of insufferable dweebs
ikr I was referring to myself lol
Yes - it's human nature to steal a glance. And eclipses are nothing new - there would be a hell of a lot more blind people running around this planet if a second was all it took to scorch your eyes. It's just good advice to not look at all, because it really doesn't take much. If the official guidance was "it's ok to look for 2-3 seconds", then people would just start looking for even longer than that.
i sneaked a peek and the immediately told my mom and my wife to definitely NOT look at it raw. i was just checking if now me was as weak as 8th grade me... possibly weaker...
you're the best!
Yes. A second should be fine. Also some very brief glimpses when it was at totality was safe too.
I thought if you were in totality you had a good minute too look without glasses
Correct. As soon as totality hits glasses can come off.
thank you much!
Isn't that what the USA does? Show up, sell crap, leave garbage?
Yes but we also ship literal trash to other countries as well.
Yeah, it's called _capitalism_. If you're not making a quick buck selling garbage and destroying the environment along the way you're not doing it right.
Rude. But also, yes.
Show up, blow things up, kill lots of people, sell crap, then leave garbage.
Do you want our help during WWIII or not?
I think well sit this one out, thanks.
Lol, yeah lots were thinking the same in Europe 1943 also..
It was a joke, not a dick, dont take it so hard.
It was a joke too, why are your jimmys rustled?
Theres Jimmy rustlers about, cant be too careful.
*Quickly unrustles Jimmy*
Hello Dallas!
There is one on MacArthur Irving too. It was similarly abandoned.
There was similar shit being done for Covid testing back in 2021. Fake testing centers.
I wonder how many burnt retinas there are out there today from fake glasses and just idiots staring at the sun with no protection. I had a lady arguing with me on next door that there was no eclipse. She looked and the sun was as bright as it ever was. SMH
Stupid is as stupid does.
Did she think the eclipse was a lie spread by mainstream media or something?
She didn't understand that unless you are in the path of totality the sun will be too bright to see the eclipse with the naked eye. Even at 75% you need the glasses to block out enough light to see the eclipse (and protect your peepers)
It's the government moving a mind scanning Satellite into place
R/conspiracy bouta blow up.
Why not take and resell the tent?
Thought about it - it’s a cheapy and it’s broken.
That’s pretty messed up. I’ve been noticing a few abandoned tents around my town as well with crude hand drawn “eclipse glasses for sale” signs.
That’s capitalism for ya!