HEADS UP! 🪐🌖💫 Three incredible sky events in *one day* across the world on Wednesday. A Six-Planet Parade in the morning, Total Solar Eclipse in the afternoon/evening followed by the Perseid Meteor Shower at night! Here's what you need to know:
1) Before dawn, six planets — Mercury, Jupiter, Mars, Uranus, Saturn and Neptune — will be spread across the morning sky, although Uranus and Neptune require optical assistance to see well.
2) Then during the afternoon, a total solar eclipse will sweep across Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, Spain while portions of the northern United States, Canada and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere will see a partial eclipse.
3) After dark, the show continues as the Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak overnight into August 13, with the New Moon providing exceptionally dark skies for what is expected to be one of the best meteor-viewing nights of the year!
August 12th is one of those rare days when the sky puts on a show nearly around the clock. Enjoy!
- Matt Devitt Weather
IT'S HAPPENING! Chick-fil-A is bringing the Chicken & Waffles AND S'mores Milkshake NATIONWIDE!
Starting August 24th you'll be able to get the new Chicken & Waffles sandwiches ALL DAY LONG that feature maple waffles for the bun, a honey butter spread, applewood smoked bacon, and your choice of a regular or spicy filet. You also get a side of syrup to really layer on the goodness!
And then we're getting S'mores Frosted Coffee and Milkshakes! These feature a marshmallow syrup blended with their ice dream and then mixed with chocolate covered graham cracker crumbs, and the milkshake has a marshmallow whipped cream on top!
I'll have a review up soon, but this might be the best seasonal menu they've ever done.
What are you grabbing from @ChickfilA on August 24th?
#chickfila #fastfood #chickenandwaffles #smores #milkshake
Megan Thee Stallion today with Michelle Obama!
She is of the guests on Michelle and Craig Robinson's IMO podcast. The episode will be available tomorrow, Aug 12.
A guy bought a $1,800 Samsung TV and watched it for 3 years.
Netflix. YouTube. Sports. Movies. Every night. Same screen. Same picture. He thought it looked fine. He assumed that's just what a TV looks like.
His friend, a home theater installer who calibrates 200+ TVs a year across luxury homes came over to watch a fight one Saturday night. He sat on the couch, looked at the screen for about 5 seconds, and said:
"You're in Vivid mode."
"What's Vivid mode?"
"It's the picture setting Samsung puts on every TV so it pops under the fluorescent lights at Best Buy. Maximum brightness. Oversaturated colors. Artificial sharpness cranked to 50. It's designed to catch your eye on a showroom wall next to 60 other TVs not for watching content in a living room. You've been watching a Best Buy demo reel on your couch for 3 years."
He picked up the remote and started going through Settings.
"Your skin tones are orange. Your motion smoothing is making every movie look like a soap opera. The eco mode is dimming your brightness by 40% during dark scenes. The sharpness filter is adding digital noise to every frame. Your HDMI ports are blocking HDR from your streaming stick. Your TV is taking screenshots of your screen and selling your viewing data. And Bixby has been listening through the remote's microphone since the day you plugged this in."
He changed 9 settings in 11 minutes.
The guy looked at the screen and said "did you buy me a new TV while I wasn't looking?"
His friend said: "Same TV. Same panel. Same $1,800 you spent 3 years ago. Samsung builds incredible displays and then ships them with settings designed for a retail store, not your living room. Nobody tells you to change them because Samsung makes money from the defaults you leave untouched."
Here's every setting he changed 🧵