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 Btw you can get the fabric off Ali for much cheaper. Not silver tho (neither is this I bet), but will stop 100% waves lol. Could be used as a hat I guess (intended for shielding electronics, but for the poor droids among us...).
...and reading the replies, someone pointed out that it might come in handy for emergency phone hiding.
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Now this I buy more than the 88 having a meaning in this case. (88 can be a dogwhistle... I just don't think it is this time?)
@futurebird
Oh... I didn't even notice the 88 thing. I could see that also being deliberate, knowing their probable targets. -
@elight @futurebird Goodness, no! If you'd want to be doing mind control then those would not be the correct sort of hat for you to wear!
edited to add: Your thoughts would not be able to go anywhere other than inside your own head!@MossyQuartz oh! You use a different kind of mind control hat?????
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@futurebird @oldclumsy_nowmad @muddle
related: resonance frequency of the human eyeVery interesting. Something I hadn't looked into before, but relevant these days. Thanks for flagging it.
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@futurebird I like mine better. Much more stylish.
Now I really want one of those.
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Very interesting. Something I hadn't looked into before, but relevant these days. Thanks for flagging it.
@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.
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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 if a faraday’s cage is not grounded it can end up amplifying the signal #funfacts
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@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.
@count_01 @CStamp @futurebird Some people just are wired that way. This product is like... "Ok... you wanna comply with your brain wiring? Now you can without people staring at you for believing in something that lacks scientific consense."
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There aren't any common waves that could hurt your brain.
BUT
If you want to know about something invisible, that most people don't know about that can impact your health in persistent mild but still bad ways? Look up "infrasound" --
@futurebird @oldclumsy_nowmad @muddle RF *can* hurt you if its high enough power, but that’s generally limited to labs and microwave ovens, not what’s emitted by cell phones
…or anywhere outdoors. you might get a sunburn
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Now I really want one of those.
@helvick @futurebird I got it from ARSE. Not sure if they’re selling them right now, but they’ve always got fun things. (I like to buy their refrigerator magnets to surreptitiously leave on my friends’ refrigerators and see how long it takes them to notice.)
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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.
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.
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The real "wavestopper" that will protect your brain is a robust ad blocker, and get off of facebook.
If I say that ads give out brainrot waves would people be more excited about this?
@futurebird And stay off Fox News
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You mean like... somehow keeping it from getting out of the hat and spreading? Like it's a brainrot containment hat?
hmm?
I think one would need some kind of noise canceling face mask to do that.
@futurebird The rot is out of the hat. We're late. Sorry.
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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...
