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Lol electric lighting was the 5G of the late 1800s.
Surprised we don't have signs like that now. Not that we'd notice them for all the other hundred warning labels on everything.
Even if we had the labels, the 5G doubters would be like this
Now I wanna know what the literacy rate was during that time.
From a Google search, 89.3% in the US in 1900, with white people having significantly more than other races.
Edison was responsible for a big part of that with his anti-AC schtick
The biggest lie of omission was all we learned in school about Edison and his inventions while leaving out the fact that he was a massive, thieving, elephant-electrocuting dickbag.
Y'know, it's not fully accurate. It totally disrupts sound sleep, lol
If it's switched off?
Funny enough, there were complaints of people's sleep being effected by the switch electric lights. Because theyd gotten used to sleeping in a room with some amount of carbon monoxide and other toxic off gasses from burning things like kerosene.
That hit me like a much much worse version of the XKCD comic about somebody's workflow and "please add an option to re-enable spacebar heating."
"I am set in my ways and find that my routine maintains my humours most divinely. Please just re-enable sleepy time CO, sandman soot, and funny fumes."
I mean, not my default unless you're really bad with loose, bare wiring.
We have a Victorian house from 1892. Earlier this year we renovated the bathroom. We installed a high-tank toilet, and we're planning on changing the switches to retro push button switches.
I'm thinking I should replicate this sign and post it in the bathroom.
The light switch for the bathroom used to be outside the bathroom which confused everyone. Now everyone expects the switch to be outside so they don't know where to look for it. Maybe a sign would help.
That sounds like a fun house to live in.
When I was double-checking the date of this sign before posting earlier, I saw a handful of results for vendors selling them. You could probably find one pretty easily if you decide you want it.
In a world without modern circuit breakers or GFI outlets, perhaps they wanted to keep the switch away from any water.
Nah they just liked to play sick pranks while someone was on the crapper.
iTs A gHoSt pushes button rapidly
Disco shits
Oh you absolutely should. Also you need to make part of it "haunted" somehow lol.
Had a coworker who refused her new office because it had a circuit breaker panel in the wall. Her husband told her it caused cancer. I explained that any EM coming around that steel door was barely detectable and wasn't ionizing radiation. Pointed to a sunbeam on the floor, "That's cancer causing radiation."
I know that sounds like I got all snotty about it, but I have social skills, explained it gently without condensation.
"Shalafi, you just think you know everything! Anyway, I believe my husband." Whose expertise in laying sheetrock belies his physics knowledge.
Best part? She posted a pic of her and her husband working up a tan on their boat that weekend.
Some men, you just can't reach...
I've dealt with people like that before.
The easiest solution is to solve magical bullshit with magical bullshit.
"Oh you're right! Let me get the special magnet that blocks out the cancer causing stuff from the inventory people".
Then you go out, get a random magnet, and just stick it on there.
I once dealt with someone who thought being close to a router caused cancer.
So I put a ~~key ring~~ "cage loop" on top of it that forced the internet waves into the ceiling instead.
These people don't understand technology -it's just magic to them. So you give them magical solutions every time.
It makes me so sad to imagine that this worked that I have instead decided you must be a bot. Sorry
Don't worry, I reprogrammed the bot and they won't harm you anymore. You're safe.
I understand at the existential dread of realizing people are dumber than you can imagine, because we probably don't consider ourselves smart, just average at best, but as the old saying goes, "imagine the average dumbest person you know, and realize that half are dumber than that".
Moving to Finland years ago did wonders for my sanity, because at least people are on average better educated here, and they actually do know basic things about stuff they use daily, like electricity and WiFi.
People really don't know how electromagnetic things work in general though I suppose, especially in the USA.
Using the key ring isn't even a completely original idea - I got it from remembering these "healing bracelets" exist.
That's also why I recommended to Shalafi to just stick a magnet to it. Magnets are magic to a lot of people.
Instructions unclear. Tried to light the key on the wall by the door with a match.
(inspects key)
Nothing happened. Try again.
Nor does it affect the soundness of sleep
What if I have trouble sleeping when it isn't dark?
IT DOES NOT AFFECT THE SOUNDNESS OF SLEEP!
GOOD NIGHT!
WHAT IF I WANT TO HAVE MORE SQUARE FEET?
There was a story about Will Rogers.
He once went to a hotel with new fangled gas lighting. He assumed you just blew out the flame like a candle. He almost died from inhaling gas.
Years later he was in a hotle that had the new fangled electric bulbs. Not wanting to repeat his prior mistake, he put the bulb in the dresser and left it there all night.
Will rogers wiki
"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."
Lol
Also, I'm not a member or an organized religion.
I'm a Baptist.
Apparently, 'light' does not affect 'sound'
Except for the buzzing...
Copilot of the 1800s hahaha