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@NoraReed I don't think I need to tell you but for safety's sake I'd like to add obviously don't look at the sun through binoculars if you like having working eyes

@NoraReed you want eclipse glasses to confirm to this standard, apparently, I don't think your kiln glasses are up to anything comparable https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/iso12312-2

real eclipse glasses are probably cheap, and if you have binoculars they make a great projector onto a sheet of paper or sth which allows you to view the sun without any eye protection, (you'd be standing with your back to it, watching your projection screen). I've seen Venus pass the sun that way, you can get it pretty sharp

@onfy scholars seem to have determined that it only helps in relatively mundane cases and is mostly "crime control theater" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_alert#Crime_control_theater

@onfy amber alerts are such a weird thing, I wonder how useful they really are, and waking someone up with them isn't really helpful because what, am I gonna find the missing child in my dreams?

here in Germany I have an app where I can subscribe to stuff like flood and storm warnings and for really important stuff they also use cell broadcast, that seems much less like a feature people will want to turn off (so far I've only gotten test alerts)