The one we all got in the States a few years ago was the first one I've experienced where we got the weird shadows. I made sure to save all our viewing glasses in a safe place. We (again) are not in the path of totality, but we'll get enough for the cool effects. I'm so excited for my family. Our youngest was just barely five last time, next time she'll be 9. Hopefully we'll all have lifetime memories of it.

We had that last summer in a nearby lake. A young teen was drowning, 2 different friends tried to help, in the end all 3 teenagers drowned. I think the oldest one was only 15. I get numb to all the horrible news, but that made me feel sick to my stomach for days.

Also, lifejackets are super sexy everybody, I promise. Please wear your lifejacket.

I'm just a significant sign, not a bottle of Dom Perignon. 🤷

This is one of the stupider things I've seen on Reddit, and I peruse r/all on a weekly basis.

Two different companies owned them.

"We'll have the planning meeting after all the executives get back from their winter holidays in Fiji."

There are always layoff at the bigger companies, sometimes they delay them to manage how much bad press they get at any one time. That's all this is.

Thanks for all that! The surface appearance is where my mind went to immediately, but I know nothing about this stuff. Glad to see something besides the distance & apparent size.

If you ever need something shorter than a movie, Pui Pui Molcar on Netflix will be perfect. Maybe the French movie A Town Called Panic - which you do not need to know French for, it's stop motion with animal and cowboy little figurine toys and it's "acted" like the old silent movies so you get the basic story from the movements and plot without dialogue being strictly necessary. Miniscule is another maybe? There are some meanie flies and a ladybug is lost alone for a while, but the bugs are like bugs not people-bugs and there's no talking at all just bug sounds so maybe that would keep the intensity down?

Also, are your nieces okay? They seem a little old for some of the things you've said in your comments are scary to them. Do adults often watch with them and talk about the movies? Kids have to be taught how to process emotions and fictional events, they don't really get it through osmosis just being around older folks. If an adult is watching with them, children will often follow their lead in how they respond to strong imagery. Kind of like how toddlers won't always cry after a fall if the parent stays calm or says something like "wow! you're good at falling! can you show me how to jump?" An adult they trust and love sometimes commenting during or after intense scenes "wow, that would really bother me, I bet they figure it out though bc they are so good at problem solving" or things like that can really help. It helped my kids who did not like even mildly scary stuff, but take it or leave it bc I know there could be a situation I don't know or understand going on and your nieces are just being normal kids.

And it dovetails with a rise in interest in old superstitions, neo-paganism, etc. Even the Christian fundamentalists who've been taken in by q-conspiracies talk about these bloodmoons signifying important events - back in the 80s when I was a child being raised in a slightly-fundie church you would never use the same vocab as the superstitious people. It's no longer just the aging flower children who were always a minority, it's very widespread across many demographics that add up to lots of people.

It's not how most people use the term, but I label any show like this a soap opera. Regardless of genre or the lighting crew's ability. And I won't watch them once I start to feel I've been tricked into watching a Days of Our Lives clone. Soapy writing cheapens (alleged) character development and the work that goes into acting a and I just can't be having with it. Now, I'm not superior to anyone else, there's some dumb stuff I'll watch and enjoy but not soap operas.

This is the one with Vanessa Helsing, yes? I watched almost the whole first season in a single binge while sick. I think I got better with only an episode or two left. It is very jumbled and I haven't been back to it since getting well. The actors were capable for the most part, but the writing totally lets them down. So many back and forth "twists", shoving multiple seasons of lore and character arcs into a single season. I found it tiresome and didn't care about what was happening bc I knew it would be undone soon.

Yes! It's like they don't know we've been talking about epigenetics for more than 5 seconds and people are familiar with it. Even my mom has a passing familiarity and she is not a nerd of any persuasion. Except, they do of course know and this is grown adults still acting like they are adolescents trying to secure their in-group status with the cool kids. Boo to this buzzword marketing-speak becoming the norm in scientific circles.

Now if you'll excuse me, my back is aching.

Not long. It only needs to get picked up by the correct "independent minded" channel/paper/zine and the people who do their own research will be trying to "own" their relatives at Thanksgiving.

Well, I find it difficult to appreciate the novel use of 'dark matter' just for buzzy-ness, but it is quite a breakthrough. Takes advantage of the level of technology we already have, we just need to use it differently.

Business hotels are what you want. That's what we do as a family with kids and it works so well.

We lived ~half a mile off the farthest out road intersection my school bus driver was willing to come to. We had one neighbor family halfway between us and the end of the road. All around the hill we lived on was cow pastures and woods - which sometimes got clear cut, turning our road into a logging road. When we needed more help than the one neighbor, we walked over the pastures and through the woods to get to other houses when we could all them to lend a hand or let us use the phone to call relatives that lived in town. I think you and I mean the same thing by rural, we just have very different experiences of people knowing how to act.

I mean, your neighbors come. That's what we did in the rural area I grew up in. Remote work has only increased the occurrence of something that's been happening since I don't know when. We knew if someone from the city had moved to our little town and we knew they probably didn't have what they needed to get through hurricane season. You go over there and help them, when they ask if you like the chainsaw you're using you say yes & offer to teach them how to use one safely if they buy one. Then you chitchat about the pros and cons of various generators. In just a year or so they have their tools and are contributing to the clean up like everyone else. They even bring food or beer when something is going to take all day. Sometimes their wife knows how to make something the locals would never have tried otherwise and then they all discover they love Greek food.

This idea of rural areas as a bunch of assholes who want to be lonely islands and never help each other is false and says lots more about you than someone who may not even have soft hands bc you can do manual labor in the city and know how to use lots of tools. Like my uncle, who worked in the city for the DOT and knew how to use all the tools including plenty of specialized ones us country folk couldn't afford so we had do workarounds with basic tools. It sure was nice when he would drive out to help.

Legit funny, thank you for improving this thread.

Aren't both nocebo & placebo seen really just in the area of pain management? Nocebo can't make you get cancer or whatever.

Ghrelin sounds right. The only thing I know about leptin is its possible role in oral hygiene problems.

There are cells in the stomach lining that sense protein presence and communicate that to the brain. The brain keeps track and wants to stop after it's reached some kind of threshold, in addition to the bulk making you feel physically full. Not a doc or anything, I can't remember what they're called.

Unsupervised kids and Instagrammers getting a closer look are going to get hit left and right. Like, I love her but my 8 year old would definitely jump into traffic to get a better look at a car with huge googly eyes. Her survival instincts are way behind.

That is so gross to me.

~a person from Louisiana