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Nicker on 16/11/2023 at 21:28

I get anxious in public places but when I wrap myself in tinfoil and go out, I feel great and everybody else gets anxious. Explain that.

Azaran on 16/11/2023 at 21:51

(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30806932/) There's some truth behind the tinfoil theory

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Aluminium foil dampened the adverse effect of 2100 MHz mobile phone-induced radiation on the blood parameters and myocardium in rats

Mobile phones emit a radiofrequency radiation (RFR) that might have adverse health effects. We aimed to investigate the possible protective effects of aluminium foil (AF) as a physical shield against the RFR from mobile phones on the blood parameters and the myocardium in rats. The effects of whole body 2100 MHz with 0.84-1.86 W/kg of SAR, 4 h/day for 30 days Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)-RFR exposure for 4 h/day for 30 days on blood parameters (i.e. haemoglobin, leucocytes, thrombocytes, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, white blood cell differential count, corticosterone, CKMB), and the histology of myocardium were investigated. Three-month-old male rats (n = 32) were studied and randomised equally in the following four groups: K1 (non-AF non-RFR control), K2 (AF non-RFR control), P1 (non-AF RFR-exposed), P2 (AF RFR-exposed). Data were analysed with level of significance of p < 0.05. In P1, lower leucocytes and neutrophils counts with high corticosterone levels were found compared with the control groups, whilst a significantly higher CKMB was observed compared with P2 (p = 0.034). Lower cardiomyocyte counts congruent to the area fraction of the non-fibrotic myocardium were observed in P1 compared with the other groups (p < 0.01). AF might decrease the inflammatory-oxidative stress on rodent's blood cells and myocardium induced by the exposures of radiofrequency radiation of the mobile phones.

SD on 16/11/2023 at 22:07

My favourites are the ones who buy Faraday cages for their phones and wifi routers, then leave negative reviews when they can't get any signal.

Tocky on 17/11/2023 at 03:36

Quote Posted by Nicker

I get anxious in public places but when I wrap myself in tinfoil and go out, I feel great and everybody else gets anxious. Explain that.

I think it's more that you go out ONLY in tinfoil that does that. Also to consider is the large amount you place on your genitals.

As for tinfoil blocking certain wavelengths, it's certain. Much less cancer when used as an umbrella outside. The most radiation producing thing we have is facing us in daytime.

Starker on 18/11/2023 at 23:45

So.. what's up with Wall Street Journal these days...

[video=youtube;l3IXoRKDgfQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3IXoRKDgfQ[/video]

SD on 19/11/2023 at 03:10

The Wall Street Journal has been steadily heading downhill since Murdoch bought it. It's hard to think of a single individual who has had a more malign influence on Western society in the past half century.

Cipheron on 19/11/2023 at 15:29

Newsweek too. Someone else linked a story a while ago from there and we were discussing whether or not Newsweek had a conservative bias, as there seemed to be a bit of a slant in the article

So to check it out I went and looked at the author.

"Ryan Smith is a Newsweek Senior Pop Culture and Entertainment Reporter"

(https://www.newsweek.com/authors/ryan-smith)

If you go through his output he has certain recurring topics and obsessions. He's constantly pushing conservative pundits and figures, almost never mentions any liberal ones. I don't think i've seen anyone write more stories about Candace Owens than this guy, other than perhaps Candace Owens. And he's obsessed with culture war / trans agenda backlash type stuff. For a "pop culture" writer I think there are political writers who don't mention these figures anywhere near as much as him.

If he gets into a weeds on a topic, it's sure to be some culture war BS with a plausibly "entertainment" related thing. Like he wrote heaps of articles about the Jason Aldean thing, but almost never writes about new music. Except now he's writing about Taylor Swift, but only because of the conservative backlash against her. He's writing a lot about Hamas right now, and Hollywood actors reactions to the war, but almost never writes about the movies they are in.

And CONSTANT stories trying to shoe-horn in another story about that QAnon movie "Sound of Freedom":

"How Taylor Swift's 'Eras' movie box office compares to 'Sound of Freedom'"

To a normal human that would make no sense, but it's because of the conservative backlash against Taylor Swift, and the fact that "sound of freedom" is that QAnon movie. So, I guess if the QAnon movie made more money than the Taylor Swift movie then that's a "culture war victory" or something. Otherwise that headline makes ZERO sense.

BTW the reason the right-wing hates Taylor Swift now is because Neo-Nazis / Alt-Right were putting her face on "racial purity" memes with her as some ideal Aryan girl, and to stop it, she came out in support of liberal causes. So they see her as a race-traitor. That's the entire reason. And this guy is all-in on writing stories to pander to that.

This. This is what happened to Newsweek. It's not even on the Fox level, it's like Newsmax the magazine now.

SD on 19/11/2023 at 20:14

The funny thing about Candace Owens, I'd hardly been aware of her over here in the last couple of years, but she's started popping up again in the past few weeks, being amplified by the kind of leftists who would have called her a coconut when she was shilling for Trump. It seems she's reinvented herself as a prominent critic of Israel. I guess there's always been that one thing which unites the far left and the far right.

Nicker on 19/11/2023 at 21:05

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I guess there's always been that one thing which unites the far left and the far right.

What might that be? Surely you don't mean exporting grievances across platforms? :eek:

Cipheron on 22/11/2023 at 20:31

(https://www.salon.com/2023/11/22/capitol-rioter-gets-sentence-quadrupled-after-meltdown-in/)

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Capitol rioter gets sentence quadrupled after meltdown in court

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Prosecutors recommended a four-month prison stint for Giustino. They had initially requested a 21-day sentence but pursued a longer term of incarceration after the massage therapist defiantly disrupted a June 23 court hearing. During that proceeding, Giustino dubbed his case “an absolute clown show of a prosecution,” used language that appeared to reference the sovereign citizen extremist movement's believe that the U.S. government is illegitimate, and said, "Why don't I issue a warrant for your arrest?" after the judge threatened to order one against him because of his courtroom conduct.

Guy should get a grip. If "the system" wanted to frame you up, they could do a lot better than a misdemeanor warranting 3 weeks in jail.

For an actual real case, there's the lawyer Steven Donziger, who won a lawsuit against Chevron for environmental damages in Ecuador, and since then has been targeted by Chevron with collusion by the judicial system in the USA. He's been detained on minor charges, no trial, for far longer than the maximum sentence the charges would even have entailed, if they were actually proven.

(https://www.amnesty.org.uk/urgent-actions/environmental-lawyer-undea-house-arrest)