I went on Facebook (I know I know I know) and they are selling tinfoil hats.
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oh.
Oh wow. When you said "bubble" I was thinking of a little tent... like a real tent ... that could keep your phone from ringing and not improve your health.
But this is just a USB stick with a mysterious copper dot.. animations and made up stories.
@futurebird GET IN THE BUBBLE, IT'S ONLY SAFE IN THE BUBBLE. /s
I shit you not, mcaffee antivirus software does the same shit to the elderly. If you install their software it convinces them they need to get in the TUNNEL (GET IN THE TUNNEL!!!), the VPN tunnel of course, which they depicted, I shit you not, alien UFOs, criminals, and the ever dubious man in black. who could not get into the TUNNEL. YOU MUST BUY THE TUNNEL TO BE SAFE NOW NOW NOW!!!! (only slightly over-emphasized for effect) and it only cost a low low cost of $100 annually.
edit: of course so mcaffee could sell their browsing data to third parties.
America's biggest industry is scams.
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@fluffykittycat @futurebird That wackadoodle stuff isn't contained to the US.
@CStamp @futurebird this is an important market for them at scale. So many people so little healthcare
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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.)
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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 it's a bit pricey but I'd quite like one.
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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 Of course they sneak the number 88 in somehow. And what standards do they think exist for foil hats? What about radio waves coming from the opposite side of the hat? Marketing this kind of thing to defenseless idiots is more than just a little predatory!
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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.
"who would care outside of a small circle of friends?"
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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 maybe if we enforced laws against medical devices without approval...
this is blatantly thumbing their nose at the law
it claims a medical effect. arrest them.
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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 More frightening that someone is selling them is the fact that people are buying them!
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I really hope it unrelated, but I saw 2 teen girls wearing what looked like tinfoil hats in a small town near me last week. I was thinking it was an interesting look
@AnnieBuddy @futurebird @CStamp Maybe something to do with hair dyeing. I think one of the methods for doing highlights or complete dyeing involves separating bunches of hair & wrapping them in foil to contain the dye as it soaks in so you can do other things while waiting on it.
However it also could have been foil hats. Kids are exposed to more anti knowledge propaganda now than they have ever been.
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Hah. What the MIT folks didn't realize is that by FOCUSING THE RADIO WAVES your brain becomes MORE POWERFUL!
@lemgandi @david_chisnall @futurebird You still use a cellphone to make long distance calls? So old fashioned! I use my parabolic reflecting foil hat to focus radio waves into my hypothalamus, allowing me to receive & transmit radio communications for miles!
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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.)
the hat itself is fine. the reflective lining will keep your head warmer. it's the claims about blocking radio signals that are wrong. there is a bunch of stuff like this on fartbook. for a while i was getting relentless ads for these LED face masks that are claimed to serve some kind of cosmetic purpose, but it's a good bet they do absolutely nothing but make you look pretty unhinged.
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"well this hat protects you from Larry Ellison"
... is there a hat for that? I could... IDK I'm curious.
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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@mastodon.social @muddle@infosec.exchange
it depends on the strength and type of signal, and how close you are to the source. an unshielded magnetron from a microwave oven will definitely cook you, including your brain. that's why there are warning signs to not stand in front of microwave radio dishes.
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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 The silver also helps against werewolves.
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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...
@futurebird @oldclumsy_nowmad@mastodon.social @Anke @muddle@infosec.exchange
living next to a busy road is very stressful.
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@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.There are already hundreds of "brain fog" and "shortness of breath" and "fatigue" snake oils bc of the combination of widespread and surging LC and official/bipartisan minimizing of LC.
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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 take it Wade Tillman was unavailable to provide an endorsement.
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If I was just a skosh more evil I'd be selling all kinds of geegaws and doodads to the superstitious New-age Dark Age dipshits.
@GGMcBG @futurebird It is immoral to let stupid people keep their money.
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@futurebird I like mine better. Much more stylish.
@josh0 @futurebird love some good ARSE swag!
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@futurebird
...that price tag should be a dead giveaway as to their target demographic.
