• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    “It’s funny how people will believe in Newton’s laws of motion but still think the Force from Star Wars is mythical nonsense.”

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    9 days ago

    They also seem to believe wi-fi “powers everything”? What a loon.

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    9 days ago

    Heard some conspiracy folks mention negative frequencies from 5G and the like. It’s just a phase I guess…

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    9 days ago

    I absolutely believe in energy, frequency, and vibration. My wifi vibrates at a frequency of 2.4 and 5 GHz and in order to do that it needs to use energy.

    Like, I’m down with hippie woo energy work, it’s really useful meditation. I use it to keep my anxiety under control. But your religion can’t cure diseases, it can only provide comfort

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      9 days ago

      Meditation is awesome and useful. But it doesn’t need to be mystical and magical to be great, and I wish more people realized that.

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    9 days ago

    They aren’t “powering everything”. JFC go lick a wall outlet, that’s what powers many things. WiFi is information, and indeed, they try to make it use less and less power.

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      8 days ago

      It could power stuff. Tesla was working on it, and there have been a few small companies over the years that have done it.

      Just turns out that it’s not very practical compared to a wall socket.

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    10 days ago

    I only saw the top part of the picture at first, and I was very confused: “Why is this in Science Memes?”

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      9 days ago

      That’s just what big WiFi wants you to think so they can sell you more WiFi
      Open your eyes sheeple! And also remember to buy my $499 online course on how to make the vibrations of your aura more positive or something

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    8 days ago

    To be honest… electric field you are surrounded by every day most likely affects you more than position of Saturn on the night sky… But people who claim that new tech is causing medical issues are considered crackpots.

    Believing in astrology is much safer.

  • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    World appears to be solid/stable at first but on closer inspection is actually vibratory.

    It’s ok to have points of agreement. You don’t have to mock and bicker 100% of the time.

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      9 days ago

      This is what I don’t like about the top meme, though. Like, yes, energy, frequency, and vibration are all things. Obviously. But the top meme is implying that everyone should believe that those things work in the specific ways that the woo practitioners say they do, and that’s a very different demand. More, it’s implying that people who doubt those effects are ignoring obvious evidence, when in fact the people who doubt those effects do so because nobody has been able to demonstrate reliable evidence for them. It has a nasty gaslighting overtone to it.

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        There’s not enough information in the top meme to know what theories it’s about.

        Things vibrate in a way that isn’t obvious to an unexamined view. If I look at a pebble, it appears to be non-vibratory, still. But a mystic or scientist who has really investigated it closely, exposed it to close analysis, can tell you that the reality of the pebble is vibration, not stillness.

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          I mean, it’s talking about people thinking that “energy, frequency and vibration are just mystical nonsense.” People don’t think that if you talk about an FM station broadcasting on a particular frequency, or about the frequency of light absorbed by particular atomic orbitals. They think that if you’re explaining that you’ve slept much better since you placed jasper and amethyst on the ley lines near your bed to absorb the negative frequencies.

          The implication in the meme that anyone who is using these terms cannot be indulging in mystical nonsense, because these terms can also apply to real things. In fact, though, mystic cranks have been coopting scientific terms for ages, and they show no signs of slowing down. It’s a real problem that people confuse crap with science.