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NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  still a miss-labeling to call them bladeless fans, just because the blades are hidden. by that logic my beef raviolis are vegetarian (tbf: the catholic church made a similar claim during the medieval ages).

  Bernoulli Fan is not only more accurate, it also sounds much cooler.

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To play devil’s advocate, there are no exposed blades at the point of use. I’d wager people who buy “bladeless” fans are more concerned with aesthetics and avoiding a crying toddler than they are with semantic accuracy. We call Wi-Fi “wireless” even though the router is plugged in.

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can stick my peepee into a bladeless fan and not worry about cuts so there’s that.

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      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        well, no, see, you can’t.

        you can stick it through it. but you can’t stick it in it.

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    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Regular fans dont have exposed blades either, there is a mesh over it.

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      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I take it you’ve never seen a toddler stick their fingers through the mesh

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    • ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      at work we have expensive fans with a cheap metal mesh around them - to avoid a crying co-worker. at home i have a cheap tower fan with a weird plastic mesh - there are no visible blades on it except if i crank my neck into a really uncomfortable position and shine a flashlight into it. which one of the two can i call bladeless?

      luckily i already have a devils advocate and @arctanthrope@lemmy.world dropped the name of god. how well do i need to hide my fans blade to create a Ventilationbescheißerle?

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  • arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    there’s a type of German meat dumplings called Herrgottsbescheißerle, which literally means “little things that bullshit the Lord” for the same reason

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    • craftrabbit@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh my god that makes so much sense suddenly

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  • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, Beef comes from cows, and cows only eat vegetation, so beef raviolis are vegetarian. Now, I’m not a Rocket Biologist, but I think the math here is pretty conclusive.

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    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is this what a rocket biologist specializes in?

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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The cynic in me thinks “bladeless” makes them easier to sell in fan-death countries.

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  • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is such a rollercoaster to read LMAO

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    (tbf: the catholic church made a similar claim during the medieval ages).

    Carpinchos (capybara) are fish.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tesla sounded like a cool name for a car too…

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  • ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You know … Bernoulli Fan - that’s way better idea than a room full of MBAs from expensive business schools and months of market research and focus groups with 2 way mirrors ever came up with. Well done

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s also just Dyson’s completely overpriced bullshit. It makes weak air flow and has no real benefit for use as a fan.

  Project Farm has tested them a couple different times. They’re expensive aesthetic toys.

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• hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A traditional fan also pulls air from around its blades using the same principal. A bladeless is just a gimmick it has no actual benefits.

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    it has no actual benefits.

    • no toddler will put their hands in to it
    • can look better for some people

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Toddler hands don’t go through the protection of a classic fan, if it’s built like after 1965.

      Also we were not discussing esthetics but efficiency.

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  • turtlesareneat@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you.

    Much like Sharper Image’s Ionic Breeze, this is a very expensive bullshit tower, but I am seeing them everywhere lately. Box fans are fucking amazing. Get a box fan.

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• vogi@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ironically love Lemmy for the explainers you get on a shitpost. Only stumbled on this cause I was looking it up myself. Thanks for the write up :)

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  • hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Keep in mind, that the explanation is wrong.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep, dyson bullshit marketing.

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      • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Just like their hoovers then.

        Used to have to use one and I just don’t understand the bagless appeal. I like having a bag to contain all this awful dust. Felt like I needed to wash every time I emptied it and they fill up so fast in comparison too.

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• Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sir, this is a Wendy’s shitpost community.

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s the same reason I use a beef bouillon cube in place of real meat when I feed my vegan friends. It’s much smaller so it doesn’t count.

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  • fulcrummed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My god, the sass - it’s magnificent.

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• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Smaller fans = more noise

  And why isn’t a regular fan getting the “surrounding air” to move too? Is there a subscription for that?

  It’s most probably dyson bullshit (the moved extra air is slowing the original air down, or it’s magic) marketing.

  Magnets!

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  • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I got one years ago when they still were a lot cheaper and I must say it’s the best one I ever had. It’s powerful and so quiet that I can leave it running next to my bed when it’s hot.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How much?

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      • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Full sentences?

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fans are usually loud in proportion to their speed. Quiet ceiling fans have a big diameter and many blades. Doesn’t a small fan cause a lot of noise?

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Honestly depends on speed, quality of bearings and motor, blade geometry and thickness as well as any possible enclosures.

    The biggest source of noise with fans is air cavitation.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I just imagined someone turning on a fan and hearing an electric f1 car drive by

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• expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i don’t think the point of the post is about being useless or inefficient, but about the misleading name

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