I went on Facebook (I know I know I know) and they are selling tinfoil hats.

[mook@possum.city]

@futurebird@sauropods.win sometimes i consider reactivating my facebook to contact old friends ( they banned me and asked for ID years ago, i was like nope ) but then I hear about this shit, and i think most of my old pals have probably jumped ship as well

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@Scofisticated

It hurts, right??

[sam@shonk.sam.ax]

@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

[david_chisnall@infosec.exchange]

@futurebird

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.

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@AnnieBuddy @futurebird It's disturbing that in the age of information, people are choosing ignorance.

But it reminds me of back at the beginning of the internet, in which authorities expressed concern with regards to pedophiles. Before the internet, they were generally isolated and they knew that what they were doing was wrong by social standards. The internet gave them community, to validate and justify their actions.

This is a greater manifestation of finding community as an outlier.

[sam@shonk.sam.ax]

@futurebird@sauropods.win got to store all those facts from facebook pseudoscientific shitposts somewhere

[serverlessaoife@mastodon.social]

@futurebird Nothing else jumping out at me other than that the company used to be called "Spartan" which is red flaggy but not a slam dunk, and not finding much about the guy behind it outside of interviews which he isn't really dropping any dogwhistles. Probably not a nazi rn, but the way these alternative medicine grifters are I'm sure he will be in a few years.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@mook

Maybe? But what I find is my friends are doing fine and are just unaware the there is any other choice?

Not only is it normal to see ads all the time, but expecting that they be... not scams is unreasonable.

"You didn't fall for it, I didn't what's the big deal?"

It makes me feel bad. It makes me feel like science is dead.

[Guest]

@futurebird it's like the inverse of Audiophile Cables

[drsbaitso@infosec.exchange]

@futurebird It's hard to argue with that "alt"-right price! Is there a final "gift" if you order 14 of them?

[heathen_cat@furs.social]

@futurebird
Sadly, between COVID and aging, there's probably going to be a wave of scam products in the future for brain fog. Nutropics, supplements, silver embedded clothing, just like copper was the woo-woo for arthritis.

[oldclumsy_nowmad@mastodon.social]

@futurebird

Thanks! Enjoyable info!

p.s. I looked up IEEE-299. It's a test method standard, not a standard on how well this hat protects you from Larry Ellison or ICE. Too bad!

[feorlen@appdot.net]

@futurebird @digitalsnow some years back I had need of RF shielding material for a project. I found a reseller online who had the products I wanted and the technical information that indicated they knew what they were talking about. (I forget who.)

They _also_ carried underwear, wallpaper, and other literal “tinfoil hat” type products.

I thanked them for having what I needed and casually commented on the others.

“People buy them, so we stock them.”

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@oldclumsy_nowmad

"well this hat protects you from Larry Ellison"

... is there a hat for that? I could... IDK I'm curious.

[koushiniku@hachyderm.io]

@futurebird @serverlessaoife I’d expect the baseball/trucker hat to have dog whistle pricing before the beanie.

[oldclumsy_nowmad@mastodon.social]

@futurebird

I wish!

[sollat@masto.ai]

@futurebird
I logged in to Facebook this morning after the longest break yet (many months or maybe a year). At first it was nice to see what people were doing, but eventually it became a solid stream of targeting me with bs. Useless.

[scofisticated@socel.net]

@futurebird Sad that ppl would sell like that. Sad that some might fall for it.

Also, as a hat fan, they dont need the tin foil gimmick. It would be a perfectly good looking beanie without.

[airikr@mst-gts.airikr.me]

@futurebird Seriously?! Are people that gullible? Oh, wait, Facebook. Makes more sense now.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@Scofisticated

Yeah, the design isn't that bad. But I think you can find one on aliexpress for $6 without the pseudo science liner.

Or often hats are on offer as handmade goods since they aren't that hard to make. (I am to lazy however. I would like to buy a hat ready to go.)