If you go north/west, the eclipse will take place a bit higher over the horizon. If you go to the eastern part/coast of Spain, it will be very low to the horizon, which would maybe suck inland but might be cool over the ocean.

If you are in the path of totality, go find a spot early on and just kind of hang out - bring snacks and water and a book. If you aren’t familiar with the area, download a map on your phone because the cell network might be slammed with people. Don’t look at the sun without solar glasses until totality. The moon takes a while to move in front of the sun and the light level gradually drops, but you won’t notice it until probably 90% of the sun is covered. Once totality occurs, you can look at the eclipse with the naked eye.

It is beautiful and indescribable and I was profoundly moved when I watched the 2017 eclipse. I will watch the upcoming one, provided the clouds don’t cover it.

Once the eclipse is over, prepare to wait for traffic. It might be a while to get out because so many people go to such a small area.

I fucking hate Aptos. It makes my work emails (Outlook) look “quirky” and that is NOT what is needed.

Neat, just remove actual facts. Very nice.

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Let’s gooooo!

Important to point out that their wealth is largely unrealized gains, that is, only exists in theory. If the stock market / bond market / whatever market crashed, this wealth would largely vaporize. Stock prices are essentially a mass agreed-upon hallucination, as they can be extremely divorced from real assets like industrial machines. It does mean that by controlling these stock etc assets, other people have a harder time getting into this slice of pie and they can do dumb shit like buying Twitter and summarily running it into the ground.

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. This could have the makings of constructive dismissal. Relocate to a place with vastly different legal protections or be fired? Hmm. Since it also would possibly disproportionately affect female employees, I wonder if some discrimination could also come in to play?

Not a lawyer, just spitballing ideas.

I applaud you fighting back against the hive mind. I have been working on it as well when I have the energy to engage. Thanks for making this point.

Thank you.

Well, they’re wrong.

The USA isn’t a Christian government though, so I’m not sure I follow your point.

Thank fuck. The school infrastructure is abysmal, and it’s incredibly hard to pass a bond for more funding. Idaho schools need help, and I’m glad Little basically got shamed into this.

Please show proof of this claim.

Yes. Any of those. None of those are propaganda arms of the Russian government.

Seems like the analysis is starting from the hypothesis that the BBC is biased, while a better scientific inquiry is “IS the BBC biased”.

Oh sure … just ignore the fact that Iran backs the Houthis and the Houthis attack random ships, like those owned by Danish Maersk… that’s not terrorism at all.

They are being directed to attack ships indiscriminately by Iran. If they wanted to fight genocide for real, a naval blockade without weapons would do the trick. This is just terrorism.

Edit: jfc, I don’t just pull this shit out of my ass.

The Houthis do this because Iran tells them to. WTF. Can’t believe you’re white-knighting this.

Edit: frfr

You realize it’s just an excuse for them to attack, right?