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

[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

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

Until they make one that blocks purring I don't see the point.

myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)

Purring is a form of **kinetic mind control** And any time someone designs an experiment to investigate this? A cat hops on their lap and makes them forget about-- about... something. That's funny. There was something I wanted to tell you all urgently but it just slipped my mind. 😽

Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)

[anniebuddy@thecanadian.social]

@futurebird @CStamp

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

[scofisticated@socel.net]

@futurebird

[mossyquartz@social.vivaldi.net]

@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!

[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.