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

[azuaron@cyberpunk.lol]

@futurebird As someone substantially disabled by brain fog, that ad makes me want to perform some Luddite-like activities.

[josh0@babka.social]

@futurebird I like mine better. Much more stylish.

[sudaksis@furry.engineer]

@futurebird Not $85 or $90? Specifically $88? I'm going to assume it is intentional then.

88 (number) - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[carstenfranke@mastodon.social]

@futurebird I wonder how it shields 99.7% when about 40 % of your head are open... And otherwise...price for best snake oil product of the year? When is a red MAGA version coming?

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@futurebird They are exploiting the idiocy common today. Just look at the "wellness" industry and US gov. People are steaming parts of their anatomy that are not supposed to have air introduced, sunning their nether regions to power up for the day, sticking so many things up their hinies that have no business there, are vilifying life-saving vaccines...

So this hat is like a harmless nothing that I am sure many will buy and somehow feel safer for the wearing...

Sigh.

[wendigo@metalhead.club]

@futurebird It's hard to say whether all the new-age garbage out there is being sold by true believers or con artists. A mixture of both?

[chris@nutmeg.social]

@futurebird of course this fashionable hat is built to "IEEE military standards"

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@serverlessaoife

Maybe? The "wavestopper" boxers are $78 ... I don't see a pattern in the other prices.

IDK I don't know every creepy number what do you think:

havnwear. com/collection/best-sellers

[count_01@mastodon.social]

@CStamp @futurebird It's a magnetic bracelet for the Rona era. Mostly scam, but also basically a harmless bit of tat that makes people feel happy.

[shovemedia@triangletoot.party]

@futurebird dog-whistle-based pricing

[sleet01@fosstodon.org]

@futurebird Aside from everything else wrong with this, how do they square with the _giant gaping hole_ that allows all waves from the front and bottom to enter and, presumably, get concentrated by the hemispherical shape??

If one wears this hat and holds their phone in front of themselves (as most scrollers do), aren't they firing a 5G Death Star directly into their Corpus Callosum??

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@CStamp

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.

[clayfoot@mastodon.social]

@futurebird Though these days, it isn't radio waves that I worry about getting through
https://bulletproofzone.com/products/legacy-safety-bulletproof-baseball-hat

[elight@tenforward.social]

@futurebird Holy. Fucking. Shit.

Are these people also concerned about mind control...?

Ok. I'm ordering a dozen.

[bfordham@infosec.exchange]

@futurebird It meets military standards!

I was curious, and the standard covers shielding for enclosures over 2 meters... which, I'm assuming doesn't match the size of those hats.

There's another standard that covers 0.1-2.0 meters, but apparently they couldn't be bothered to google that

[essjax@essjax.com]

@futurebird It's ridiculous and should be banned for false advertising, but I've had a low-grade headache for more than a week and even though I know it's utter bullshit, some part of me goes

[azuaron@cyberpunk.lol]

@futurebird I found their Amazon page and gave them a glowing (like nuclear waste) review, and reported their product page. Will Amazon do anything? Probably not. But hopefully it makes them do some damage control, at the very least.

[simplicator@federate.social]

@sleet01 @futurebird In addition to the absence of a Faraday cage effect,I think a ways back some MIT electrical engineers found that tinfoil hats actually amplify certain government-reserved frequencies

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@futurebird Most wackos are very careful to have disclaimers about their claims. It would be interesting to see the fine print.

And, I agree with you. Laws should not be allowing this, but until they do, this is one of the less harmful things I've seen.

[olliestudio45@theforkiverse.com]

@futurebird

"blocks 99.7% of wifi, bluetooth and 5G" .... I suspect all my devices got some of these already