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[–] cloudshouter@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So while there is a risk associated with resting your nuts directly on certain very high power radio transmitters, the noise and nausea are something different. Without getting pedantic, electricity and magnesium basically cause each other and sometimes it lines up with resonant frequencies in a device and cause it to physically vibrate in an audible way. This is why electronic devices with no moving parts can hum. This leads into how some sound can mess with people, sometimes even when they can’t hear it (infra sounds from data centers and such). I have experienced this too, most memorably when I went to a restaurant with my then girlfriend and her family. One of the tvs was whistling really loudly but at a pitch so high nobody else could hear it. She and I could clearly hear dog whistles and she was practically crying by the time we convinced her dad to go to a different place. I felt like there was an ice pick getting screwed into my head. People associate the device with the discomfort and don’t recognize the actual mechanism behind it.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, it's a really tricky topic to discuss or try to find a solution for because for some people it's a real effect from something like infrasound, and for others it's a psychiatric illness manifesting.
The distress is real and they're not faking it, but it can be very difficult to actually differentiate.

So while there is a risk associated with resting your nuts directly on certain very high power radio transmitters,

Immediately made me think of the dumbass who touched the wire at a high voltage power plant.