I went on Facebook (I know I know I know) and they are selling tinfoil hats.
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I went on Facebook (I know I know I know) and they are selling tinfoil hats.
The "Wavestopper" costs $88 Free Shipping!
(I checked. It is not an April Fools joke. Selling to people with "brain fog" feels a little predatory to me.)
@futurebird sometimes with this sort of thing, my morbid curiosity gets the best of me and i need to know who exactly is behind things — especially when their website has no ‘about us’ type info at all. this interview response from one of their founders (arthur de calenge; the company was formerly called lambs) cracked me up — people are claimed to be noticing positive changes via ~wireless devices that are literally as close to their bodies as possible~

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I went on Facebook (I know I know I know) and they are selling tinfoil hats.
The "Wavestopper" costs $88 Free Shipping!
(I checked. It is not an April Fools joke. Selling to people with "brain fog" feels a little predatory to me.)
@futurebird I love it is certified to "Military Standards". I looked up IEEE-299, and it applies to enclosures larger than 2 m. The relevant standard for small enclosures is IEEE-299.1.
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Around 25 years ago, there was a not-very-serious paper from MIT that pointed out that tinfoil hats are basically parabolic reflectors and so, rather than keeping out rays, they will focus them on the brain.
Possibly worth sharing with people who might buy this nonsense.
@david_chisnall @futurebird Well that's just the kind of thing Big 5G would say
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Do you think the people selling this are laughing at their customers or are they into it?
It's like a damn joke.
@futurebird
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I went on Facebook (I know I know I know) and they are selling tinfoil hats.
The "Wavestopper" costs $88 Free Shipping!
(I checked. It is not an April Fools joke. Selling to people with "brain fog" feels a little predatory to me.)
@futurebird I prefer my brain shields in purple
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@futurebird@sauropods.win
IEEE-299:Uniform measurement procedures and techniques are provided for determining the effectiveness of electromagnetic shielding enclosures at frequencies from 9 kHz to 18 GHz (extendable to 50 Hz and 100 GHz, respectively) for enclosures having all dimension greater than or equal to 2.0 m.
damn those people have massive heads@sam @futurebird It's entirely likely that their conductive fabric supplier provided them with some kind of datasheet that did have those words on it ... above a table of measurements they didn't understand.
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Me, too. I worry a lot about the impacts our light and noise have on birds and insects. Not to mention pesticides, wildfires, "produced water", and structures (windows, guy wires, turbines) etc. Makes me sick to think about what we're doing to this wonderful living World.
@oldclumsy_nowmad @Anke @muddle
I wonder if one could channel the feeling many people have that "the world is slowly killing me somehow" into things like insisting that new highways don't send horrible rumbling sounds into surrounding neighborhoods?
But CO2 is also invisible and no one wants to care about that...
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I went on Facebook (I know I know I know) and they are selling tinfoil hats.
The "Wavestopper" costs $88 Free Shipping!
(I checked. It is not an April Fools joke. Selling to people with "brain fog" feels a little predatory to me.)
@futurebird *smdh*
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@oldclumsy_nowmad @Anke @muddle
I'm interested in noise pollution and light pollution. Light pollution is horrible for insects. (and birds) Noise pollution is bad for people.
We could have less loud, dark at night (but still safe) cities and towns.
@futurebird @oldclumsy_nowmad @Anke @muddle noise pollution is terrible for birds and other animals too. Fuck fireworks in particular.
And it's not just an effect at the time, it's long-lasting disruption for them.
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-devastating-effects-of-fireworks-on-pets-and-wildlife/ -
I went on Facebook (I know I know I know) and they are selling tinfoil hats.
The "Wavestopper" costs $88 Free Shipping!
(I checked. It is not an April Fools joke. Selling to people with "brain fog" feels a little predatory to me.)
@futurebird as a brainfog haver, we wish people would just wear a fucking mask.
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@oldclumsy_nowmad @Anke @muddle
I wonder if one could channel the feeling many people have that "the world is slowly killing me somehow" into things like insisting that new highways don't send horrible rumbling sounds into surrounding neighborhoods?
But CO2 is also invisible and no one wants to care about that...
Good thoughts. There's so much of that sort that ought to be done. But right now, it seems that putting out the human societal bonfire is about all we can do.
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I went on Facebook (I know I know I know) and they are selling tinfoil hats.
The "Wavestopper" costs $88 Free Shipping!
(I checked. It is not an April Fools joke. Selling to people with "brain fog" feels a little predatory to me.)
Ignoring the ethics of taking advantage of gullible people, I'm not sure this isn't just a brilliant bit of marketing.
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I went on Facebook (I know I know I know) and they are selling tinfoil hats.
The "Wavestopper" costs $88 Free Shipping!
(I checked. It is not an April Fools joke. Selling to people with "brain fog" feels a little predatory to me.)
@futurebird False advertising. With a beanie the WiFi and 5G can just go up your nose instead.
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I don't think these things are harmless because they are a symptom of people not getting real help, and because it's a rip off.
I don't think it should be so easy to make money telling lies and ripping people off with false medical claims.
@futurebird @CStamp real healthcare is too expensive but quack stuff is affordable
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@futurebird @CStamp real healthcare is too expensive but quack stuff is affordable
@fluffykittycat @futurebird That wackadoodle stuff isn't contained to the US.
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@futurebird They make tinfoil underwear too!
https://havnwear.com/product/wavestopper-boxer-briefs@clayfoot @futurebird finally
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@fluffykittycat @futurebird That wackadoodle stuff isn't contained to the US.
True. But I think it's resurgent at the moment. I'd love to see a false advertising crackdown.
These people are fearless.
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Good thoughts. There's so much of that sort that ought to be done. But right now, it seems that putting out the human societal bonfire is about all we can do.
Please excuse my gloomy response. I don't want to discourage anyone from working to improve things for the natural world and for ourselves. Big wins seem very unlikely for the moment, but we can still be laying foundations for making things better, and supporting others to help out. Thanks for your efforts!
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@futurebird They make tinfoil underwear too!
https://havnwear.com/product/wavestopper-boxer-briefsIs this to keep something out... or is it to keep something *in* ?
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@futurebird False advertising. With a beanie the WiFi and 5G can just go up your nose instead.
@thestrangelet @futurebird you gotta wrap your neithers in tin foil otherwise the Bluetooth will trans you.