I went on Facebook (I know I know I know) and they are selling tinfoil hats.
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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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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
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@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.
@burnitdown @futurebird Its also interesting that different parts of the body are affected differently by microwaves. One of the more vulnerable parts are the eyes. So don't watch the food cook...
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@clayfoot @futurebird Do they sell chaps to go with their chafes?
@linuxandyarn @futurebird Well that's just silly
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@adrake @futurebird @oldclumsy_nowmad I was thinking about that, and the fact that microwave ovens and wifi both use 2.4GHz. I did a quick search to try to find out the relative power levels. Ovens are easy: they're going to be around 800W~2kW. Unfortunately, the search results were suggesting WiFi pumps out 100--200W. Scary, if true. In fact, the actual power output is in the 20-100mW (*milli-*Watt) range.
I didn't really want to go there because it could play into the hands of those people that want to convince us that Wi-Fi (or 5G or whatever) is making us sick, but the 99.7% shielding figure is good to know. It would mean, roughly, that a 1KW microwave oven with proper shielding is pumping out around 10 times as much radiation as a local Wi-Fi router (1W compared to 100mW).
People pushing conspiracy theories about this is bad enough, but when search engines are promoting figures that are 3 orders of magnitude off, well... that's also very worrying. (and that's before we even get into LLMs...)
@muddle @futurebird @oldclumsy_nowmad the FCC limit on 2.4GHz transmitters is 1W for sufficiently spread-spectrum devices (including WiFi). The maximum emissions in any particular direction are capped at a level equivalent to a 4W omnidirectional antenna (this equivalent measurement is called EIRP). Most wifi devices operate well below that level since it's rough on battery life.
Microwave ovens are limited by FDA to leaking a max of 5mW/cm^2 from any point on the oven's surface (measured 2in away). That works out to be a little below the power density you get from a worst-case WiFi transmitter at 3 inches away.
The 99.7 number is the claimed shielding performance of the hat, not any regulations.
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@oldclumsy_nowmad @futurebird I was going to look it up myself but realised the futility of it. IEEE is not a military organisation and real military standards tend to start with MIL, I think. Even if not, that whole line at the bottom screams fake.
@muddle @oldclumsy_nowmad @futurebird IEEE 299 is about standard measurement practice
