Comment on Finally got a skirt (alongside a Thorium pendant)

alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They gotta be messing with us, a quick search says it’s some sort of “5G/EMF protection” thing. That’s the most ironic scam I’ve ever seen. Protect yourself from harmless non ionizing radiation by wearing harmful ionizing radiation. Thorium is weak, but damn that’s funny.

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  • sonori@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also worth noting that sometimes people just like jewelry made with weird and neat rocks.

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    • GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is harmful radioactive jewelry rather than weird and neat rocks. People can and should do what they want, but it’s absolutely insane and ironic that you can buy radioactive wear-on-your-body jewelry that’s sold as good for you rather than a disclaimer that you literally should not wear it, because it’s actually poison.

      But I mean, if you want to wear literal poison, I raise my glass of bleach to you.

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      • Forrest_O@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Luckily, I didn’t buy it to wear. And I can confirm it’s not a “cool rock”.

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      • sonori@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Actual radioactivity matters as to how safe it is, and that’s dependent quite a bit on the actual amount and thorium density of the specific item in question. From Tokaimura to a banana levels of radiation covers quite a large range, and I in good faith assumed that if someone was going out of their way to find and mention thorium on Unix socks of all places it was probably a pretty safe assumption that they know the basics and could check where on that spectrum the item falls, that an excuse to play with a detector is most of the fun after all.

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• cor@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  radioactive necklace… to protect from 5g or something dumb

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some of them use bismuth, which is as weakly radioactive as it gets, but why?

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    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      bismuth is not toxic in reasonable amounts. One serving of Pepto Bismol has half a gram of it

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    • cor@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      people conflate ionizing radiation with radio waves and then sell garbage to people that don’t understand it so they can make money.

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  • Forrest_O@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. “Bio energy”.

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• Forrest_O@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I bought it for a friend. And it was labeled as “bio energy” on AliExpress.

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  • alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    if you value your and your friends’ health, pls stop with that esoteric bs

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    • Forrest_O@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t worry, I sold it off. And we both knew it was loaded with Thorium. Easiest $5 made.

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