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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • We were able to see it with the naked eye. Our area has less light pollution than most, but still very much not a dark zone.

    Wait long enough after sundown that it gets pretty dark. Even if its lower in the horizon, it’ll be easier to see if it’s still in your field of view.

    I went to the beach with some friends to watch at sunset. We kept looking for it. Even using Stellarium and binoculars we didn’t see it and assumed it was too low to the horizon and obscured by haze.

    It got dark. We figured we weren’t gonna see it. We started looking at the other stars/constellations as they became visible with advanced darkness. We were just about to pack up and go home when we realized we could plainly see it!















  • Yes, the stock market did so much better under Trump. There are many many reasons underlying the performance of the market under each of them.

    For example most of the time trump was president was pre pandemic, but Biden was president through most of the pandemic. Trump was also president during the pandemic stimulus and enhanced unemployment payments, then Biden was president when all of that spending materialized into inflation which spooked the markets, and then caused interest rates to rise, prompting the tech layoffs