Oh boy.

Not good, this.

Damn. Welcome to reality, Joey. Learn Braille.

Just because Trump can stare at the Sun doesn’t mean mere mortals can.

Seems like there’s room for a Chuck Norris joke here...

He doesn't come across as "Badass" to me. Gives the impression of coming from a white-friendly reasonably well-to-do family.

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He ain’t as badass as the sun...

For the record, “Yes, he’s crazy.”

there is a certain attribution for retinal damage caused by white privilege to follow...

This is a stupid article. They didn’t even bother doing research to find out if the sun somehow becomes more capable of blinding a person during an eclipse compared to staring at the sun any odd afternoon. Then they didn’t even bother to contact the dude to see if it was related. How can this trash make it to print?

a hip-hop artist who has earned praise from Malia Obama

I think her mom and pop prefers she listens to Beyonce and Jay Z.

From 2012...

HUFFINGTON POST - ENTERTAINMENT

Obama Says ‘Beyonce Could Not Be A Better Role Model For My Girls’ As Event With Jay-Z Nets $4 Million

Sept 19, 2012

Barack Obama was the guest of Beyonce and Jay-Z on Wednesday night. The foursome — joined by about 100 other people at Jay-Z’s 40/40 club in Manhattan — had a wildly successful evening, raising $4 million for the president’s reelection campaign. ...”

“To J and B, thank you so much for your friendship,” the president said.

“Beyoncé could not be a better role model for my girls because she carries herself with such class and poise and has so much talent,” he said.

The singer has taken an active role in promoting Obama’s bid, posting an open letter to Michelle Obama on her blog and later reading it an a web video released by the campaign. ...”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/obama-beyonce-role-model-jay-z-4-million_n_1896368.html
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Beyonce and JZ in Communist Cuba:

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Michelle Obama on the night of her husband's 2008 election victory
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"The raised fist (also known as the clenched fist) is a salute and logo most often used by left-wing activists, such as: Marxists, anarchists, socialists, communists, pacifists, trade unionists, and black nationalists. The raised fist is usually regarded as an expression of solidarity, strength or defiance."

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Anarcho-syndicalism

A common Anarcho-Syndicalist flag.

In the early 20th century, anarcho-syndicalism arose as a distinct school of thought within anarchism.[78] With greater focus on the labour movement than previous forms of anarchism, syndicalism posits radical trade unions as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the state with a new society, democratically self-managed by the workers.

Anarcho-syndicalists seek to abolish the wage system and private ownership of the means of production, which they believe lead to class divisions. Important principles include workers' solidarity, direct action (such as general strikes and workplace recuperations), and workers' self-management. This is compatible with other branches of anarchism, and anarcho-syndicalists often subscribe to anarchist communist or collectivist anarchist economic systems.[79] Its advocates propose labour organization as a means to create the foundations of a non-hierarchical anarchist society within the current system and bring about social revolution.

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2008 election night victory

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He misspelled “dumb”, as in “dumbass”.

"I've sungazed before and afterwards saw colors for a whole day

I am afraid you won't be seeing any more colors for a very long time.

I think the problem is that the sun is ordinarily very difficult to stare at for any length of time so the possibility of damage is limited, whereas the sun in not quite total eclipse is not so difficult to stare at which greatly increases the possibility of damage.

From NPR...

How would somebody know if they've done any damage?

It takes at least 12 hours before we can tell if anything has happened. The thing is, if people just saw the sun briefly without a protective filter — just a fraction of a second — the chances they've hurt themselves are very low.

If they looked at the display of a camera or a smartphone but didn't look through the optics at the sun, they're in no danger. While it may look bright, it isn't all that bright by comparison. They were not getting direct optical radiation from the sun in that case. It's just a duplicate of whatever the sensors see, and there's no danger in that.

If, for some reason, they forgot to use their filters entirely — well, [permanent damage is] always a possibility, but I would hope that after all the publicity, that that didn't happen.

What might someone's symptoms be if they didn't use any filters and looked at the sun?

It wouldn't be until 12 hours later that they would even notice their vision was changing. It might not be until [the next] morning when they wake up and realize that they can't see that well.

[The symptoms would be] blurred vision, where the very center of the vision might have a spot, or multiple spots, that were missing in their vision — that were very, very blurred. Around it, there might be some clear spots. It really depends on exactly what happened, and what kind of injury there is at the back of the eye. [As Chou told us earlier, this kind of vision loss can get better over several months to a year. But about half the time, it's permanent.]

What should someone do if they're worried there could be damage? Should they stay indoors or wear sunglasses?

Seeing an optometrist is faster than getting to see an ophthalmologist. If there is damage, the optometrist would refer the individual to the ophthalmologist for further assessment and management in any case.

The damage, if any, would not be mitigated by staying indoors or wearing sunglasses, but these are ways to make vision more comfortable as the individual recovers.

I used an eclipse viewer that came from a reputable seller. But even after looking at the sun for a few seconds through that, I felt like my eyes felt weird and needed time to adjust.

The thing is, if you look for a sustained period through the filter, you're stimulating only one set of color-sensitive receptors at the back of the eye. So they'll get more work than, say, the receptors that are responsible for green and blue light. And the result will be that for a brief time, you'll suffer the same kind of after-image effects that you get from looking at a very bright headlight or flash from a camera.

You'll recall how you'll have spots in your vision that are sort of the opposite effect of what you normally see. That kind of thing will happen if you look at the sun for an extended period of time. It'll feel a bit weird as your eyes recover from that. It doesn't mean you've hurt yourself. It's just that you've overloaded some of the photo receptors, and it takes a while to get back to full function. In most cases, it's going to be just a few minutes. There's no lasting damage from that. You would have to be staring at an extremely bright image for minutes at a time before you started to get any clinically significant damage.

Can a Solar Eclipse Really Blind You?

By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor | August 10, 2017

People across the United States will have the chance to see a total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, the first time the spectacle was viewable from the continental U.S. since 1979. While it may be tempting to brush off warnings about looking up at this eclipse bare-eyed, don't: The light of an eclipse really can damage your eyes — though warnings of total blindness may be overstated.

The condition is called solar retinopathy, and it occurs when bright light from the sun floods the retina on the back of the eyeball. The retina is home to the light-sensing cells that make vision possible. When they're over-stimulated by sunlight, they release a flood of communication chemicals that can damage the retina. This damage is often painless, so people don't realize what they're doing to their vision.

Solar retinopathy can be caused by staring at the sun (regardless of its phase), but few people can stand to look directly at our nearest star for very long without pain. It does happen occasionally — medical journals record cases in which people high on drugs have stared at the sun for long periods of time, causing serious damage. Adherents of sun-worshipping religious sects are also victims. In 1988, for example, Italian ophthalmologists treated 66 people for solar retinopathy after a sun-staring ritual.

But during a solar eclipse, more people are at risk. With the sun almost covered, it's comfortable to stare, and protective reflexes like blinking and pupil contraction are a lot less likely to kick in than on a normal day. Even pets are vulnerable to eye damage from looking at an eclipse, though they don't tend to look directly at the sun. Even so, if they're with you during your eclipse outing, your furry friends should wear protective glasses as well.

Damaged eyes

Early observers of astronomy sometimes found out about solar retinopathy the hard way. Thomas Harriot, who observed sunspots in 1610 but did not publish his discovery, wrote in 1612 that after viewing the sun his "sight was dim for an hour." Oxford astronomer John Greaves was once quoted as saying that after sun observations, he saw afterimages that looked like a flock of crows in his vision. In the most famous case of all, Isaac Newton tried looking at the sun in a mirror, essentially blinding himself for three days and experiencing afterimages for months.

Scientists don't have a good bead on the prevalence of eye damage after a solar eclipse. In one study, conducted in 1999 after a solar eclipse visible in Europe, 45 patients with possible solar retinopathy showed up at an eye clinic in Leicester in the United Kingdom after viewing the eclipse. Forty were confirmed to have some sort of damage or symptoms of damage; five of those had visible changes in their retina.

Twenty of the patients reported eye pain, while another 20 reported problems with vision. Of the latter group, 12 reported that their sight had returned to normal seven months later, but four could still see the ghosts of the damage in their visual field, such as a crescent-shaped spot visible in dim light. [If the Sun Is 93 Million Miles Away, Why Can't We Look Directly at It?]

"Our series demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, the majority of people with eclipse retinopathy are not totally blinded," the researchers wrote in 2001 in the journal The Lancet. However, they warned, earlier post-eclipse studies had turned up more severe problems in patients, suggesting that widespread media warnings not to look at the eclipsing sun may have prevented more damage during recent eclipses.

Safe eclipse viewing

Research also suggests that while a lot of the damage may heal, some may be permanent. One 1995 study followed 58 patients who sustained eye damage after viewing a 1976 eclipse in Turkey. Healing occurred during the first month after the eclipse, the researchers reported in the journal Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, but by 18 months, whatever damage remained was permanent up to 15 years later.

So, while it might be tough to go totally blind by looking at an eclipse, doing so without proper protection could leave a long-lasting stain on your vision. The only safe way to view an eclipse, according to NASA, is to use specially designed sun filters, often available at telescope stores, or to wear No. 14 welder's glasses, available at welding specialty stores. Pinhole viewers — essentially a hole in a piece of cardboard or paper — can also be used to view the eclipse indirectly by casting a shadow of the sun on the ground or on a screen. [How to Build a Solar Eclipse Viewer: Photos]

REMEMBER not to stare directly at the sun without protective eyewear during the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse. If you don't have certified eclipse viewers, you can also make a pinhole camera viewer that will allow you to see the eclipse without looking at the sun directly.

Editor's Note: This article was first published in 2012 and updated for the Great American Solar Eclipse in 2017.

Originally published on Live Science.

Exactly. The sun doesn’t magically change its characteristics just because we see the moon’s shadow. In fact, there is a perpetual solar eclipse somewhere out in space, multiple eclipses even, depending on where in space you are viewing from. It’s not like the moon’s shadow disappears after totality is over. I really hate people that don’t bother with the simple things like facts, like this dumb author.

Anyway, TGIF and Friday night and end of work. Time for booze and conservative podcasts and nuclear physics.

Stupid is as stupid does
Hymn, Hymn, F Him.
Next article please

Prayers up that he did not suffer retinal damage :-(

I see no humor at all in poking fun at this guy :-/

Sounds like competition for Stevie Wonder

That is one of the most hideous dresses — the “inverse Black Widow Spider-look.”