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[–] arcine@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

WiFi uses all three. (Yes, even vibration, AFAIK the clocks inside both computers use piezoelectric quartz crystals)

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 181 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 month ago (3 children)

But the Force is Mass times Acceleration!

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Midichlorians are the powerhouse of the Force.

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[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

No, it's the Force so it has to be the Mass times the Acceleration.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

No it can't be then The Force will be equal to The²(Mass times Acceleration)

Its either The mass times acceleration or mass times the acceleration

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where we're going we don't need commutative multiplication.

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 111 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I do believe gorilla piss exists.

I do not believe drinking gorilla piss would grant you gorilla strength (citation needed).

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

well yeah, obviously! You have to dilute it 1000 times for it to have any effect.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

well you eyedrop it into your butthole and then expose your butthole to the sun so the positive solar energy modifies it primally because we're all made of starlight and that's just how it works

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 78 points 1 month ago (34 children)
[–] TheFriendlyDickhead@feddit.org 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I peraonally belief in a really thin cable, but big tech is trying to tell us its waves and stuff. But you have your opinion, I have mine. Nobody can be sure wich one is really true.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

It's actually a really REALLY fat cable. We spend our entire time inside it.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 18 points 1 month ago

data goes in, data goes out. you can't explain that.

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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Introducing POW (power over wlan)! By broadcasting a constant small gamma wave, small electronic devices can use the latent energy to power electronic components.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Shout out to my broken coworker who brought his crystals in to work one day to fix our negative energy. After carefully placing each stone according to universal leylines of good vibes, extraordinarily pleased with himself, immediately saw me slice through a package and into my fingers. I needed eleven stitches.

[–] arcine@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago

Crystals do fix negative energy in a very simple way ! Feeling negative ? Just look at a crystal, crystals are pretty. Now you feel less negative, ta-dah !

I have multiple salt lamps for this reason. The magic of being a very pretty glowing crystal works wonders on me when I feel down x)

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's just how the magic stones remove the negative energy from your body, through bloodletting

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 20 points 1 month ago

It all makes sense now. The universe balanced my humors.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Negative energy can never be removed, only transferred. He obviously didn't like you, the skeptic, so he transferred all the negative energy into you from your other co-workers. /s

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month 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.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

God has not once healed an amputee. What does he have against them?

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[–] cokeslutgarbage@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (9 children)

That's how I feel about astrology. A horoscope is just a prompt for self reflection. But it's fun when something feels woo woo or predictive or relatable because... its fun, idk. Its spooOoOoOoKy, it's fun, it's cute. Star charts are a skill you have to learn, it's a hobby, it makes your brain work.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

You can map out the inside of a building and figure out where objects are, and when and where movement occurs, with WiFi.

You cannot do this with magic woo woo nonsense that equivocates and conflates terms across different domain specific meanings, and then attempts to build a world view out of confused, meaningless/contradictory gibberish.

[–] quarkquasar@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't say I tune with your vibes, but I am grooving to your aura.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Must be a Pisces. Classic Pisces vibes lol

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I used to love reading W.I.T.C.H. comics and they always had a bunch of fun stuff about zodiacs and reading the future in tea leaves, moons and stars and all that silly stuff. I friggin loved that shit because it was fun for the imagination and it also tied in well with the comic being about a groups magical girls who get their powers from nature and blah blah blah. I thought it was fun to find out what my element was based on what month I was born in and what my birthstone was and take little personality tests to see which one of the girls I was like the most (9 out of 10 times, I got Taranee).

The thing is, though: I always knew it was just play pretend and fun past time stuff.

I have had that fun permanently destroyed for me after people started believing in astrology and magic for real. I know people irl who refer to their zodiacs as an explanation for how they like their coffee or why they push their work to last minute or why they vibe well with this and that person. They take personality tests and believe it for real instead of using it as some stupid past time fun. Online, it's even worse. It gives me the same level of ick as the women in Sex and the City.

It absolutely fucking ruined the fun for me and I just can't read my horoscope anymore because I don't want anyone to think I'm one of those people.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You might enjoy Terry Pratchett's witches series. There's magic, but the real trick is solving your problems without ever using it. Wyrd Systers or Wee Free Men are good places to start.

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[–] Glitterkoe@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You guys, energy, frequency and vibration are all obviously fake. Nobody has ever observed vibration in real life. Go on and try measuring one of those "frequencies", I'll wait. Where are you even supposed to find those? "A faucet dripping"? "Your literal heartbeat"? Don't make me laugh!

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] suodrazah@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So many layers to unpack here.

[–] Lollygagger@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Specifically OSI layers 1 and 2!

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[–] U7826391786239@piefed.zip 12 points 1 month ago

if someone is trying to "convert" you to esoteric/occult beliefs, then that person has no idea what they're talking about

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

Trying to legitimize bullshit by using big words out of context and meaning

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago

I don't need to believe in Wi-Fi I just need to see that my phone is connected to the internet. The existence of Wi-Fi can be inferred by me having access to YouTube.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

WiFi IS real. "Auras", "Vibes" and "Crystal Energy" is magical nonsense.

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can you teach me to vibrate into alternate universes like The Flash? 'Cause I don't like this one that much.

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

I do subscribe to a small comfort belief that our consciousness isn't just encoded in our neurons but has a radiative component that constructively/destructively interferes with the environment on some small level we atttibute to random events, and that when we die, we sever only the somatic component of our consciousness but our radiative part lives on encoded into a wider network of ambient thought.

Sort of like ghosts/an afterlife, but less moaning and chain rattling and more general vibing the emotion of a park bench from the overlapped thought networks that ever intersected it

Might be in the wrong sub...

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