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?
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
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.
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?
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.
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)
I was in the path of totality and there were so many glasses available to everyone around its hard to believe this.
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.
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.
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 become 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!
Why does the data for eyes hurt start before the eclipse even happened?
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. 🤷♂️
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.
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
Couldn’t the search be, how do I see the eclipse without hurting my eyes?
That search query would be sent right after looking directly at it
Definitely has to be pretty low in Buffalo NY…
…since it was fucking OVERCAST!
FML
Same in Toronto. I wonder what the results would be like from Sherbrooke, since we had crystal clear skies there.
I mean if the president looks straight at an eclipse without any eye protection…
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.
What was happening in Yuma back then, though.
smog. prob from wild fires.
Have you ever been to Yuma?
… I feel like you teased me with a rickroll & then in fact left me hanging all deserted, intentionally.
Well done!Never a day goes by that I don’t feel thankful for your kindness.
Grateful beyond words for the warmth you bring into my life.
Giving your time and care means more than I can say.
Your presence reminds me how beautiful life can be.
Under every circumstance, I’m thankful for you.
…
More like Americans never cease to amaze me
God bless the USA! ?
Mississippi: who’s the stupid one now?
