Jeanne has found a kindred spirit
is that kawakaze?
IndomieRasaRendang said:
is that kawakaze?
It seems to be, it's a better match for Kawakaze than it is Fubuki, but the artist didn't tag her and she doesn't seem to be mentioned in the commentary. It kinda seems like maybe they mixed up the designs since they're nearly identical.
Right, I'm proper confused now.
Is this related to the Hololive collab with Azur Lane?
Blindga said:
This is madness. How could people believe this? A virus caused by a network sounds like something out of science fiction. Have these people gone insane?
In the 1990's, there were court cases filed under the assertion that cellphones causes cancer.
I think the best part of this particular bit of lunacy was that most of the towers torched weren't even 5g towers.
Aren’t Chinese companies handling a lot of 5g tower business? If so, then the thought process of these people may be: 5g towers -> Chinese company -> Covid-19 starting and not being contained initially in China.
A_Lurker said:
Aren’t Chinese companies handling a lot of 5g tower business? If so, then the thought process of these people may be: 5g towers -> Chinese company -> Covid-19 starting and not being contained initially in China.
You'd think so and that'd make some degree of logic, but as I understand it the conspiracy theory actually claims Wuhan got COVID-19 because they had 5G towers installed not that long ago.
The thing to understand is this is actually a 5G conspiracy that is latching onto the whole COVID-19 hysteria. The bogeyman is 5G, coronavirus is just another excuse to blame the bogeyman.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/technology/coronavirus-5g-uk.html
Wild claims about 5G are not new. The technology has an outsize political importance because it may provide countries with a competitive edge, with faster wireless speeds enabling more rapid development of driverless cars and other innovations.
Internet trolls have seized on 5G and its political implications to sow fear, leading to protests in the United States and elsewhere against the technology in recent years. Russians have pushed claims that 5G signals were linked to brain cancer, infertility, autism, heart tumors and Alzheimer’s disease, all of which lacked scientific support.
In January, as the coronavirus rippled through Wuhan, China, and beyond, it provided new fodder for anti-5G trolls. On Jan. 19, a post on Twitter speculated on a link between 5G and the disease, according to Zignal Labs, a media insights company that studied 699,000 mentions of the conspiracy this year through April 7.
“Wuhan has 5,000+ #5G base stations now and 50,000 by 2021 — is it a disease or 5G?” the tweet said.
On Jan. 22, an article on a Belgium news website included a comment from a physician claiming that 5G was harmful to people’s health. Though it did not specifically mention the coronavirus, the doctor mentioned a possible “link with current events.” The article, later deleted by the publisher, reached as many as 115,000 people, according to CrowdTangle, a tool that analyzes interactions across social media.
By last month, 5G-coronavirus claims on the web and television were rising, according to Zignal Labs. A YouTube video that connected the virus to 5G last month racked up roughly two million views before the site deleted it. And the singer Keri Hilson, as well as Mr. Harrelson and Mr. Cusack, posted online about the conspiracy.
“A lot of my friends have been talking about the negative effects of 5G,” Mr. Harrelson wrote on Instagram to his two million followers last week, sharing a screenshot of an article that drew links between the outbreak in Wuhan and 5G development there.
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This kind of behavior wouldn't have surprised me if it happened in the U.S., but the U.K?
And the Netherlands too, apparently?
I always thought Europe had a better education system than us.
Bansho said:
This kind of behavior wouldn't have surprised me if it happened in the U.S., but the U.K?
And the Netherlands too, apparently?I always thought Europe had a better education system than us.
The funny thing about that (as someone who traveled a lot), is that every country and society have idiots, but some are better at hiding them than others.
An example within the US itself would be Florida. Florida Man is a meme, but that isn't because of a higher disposition of crazy shitters in Florida but rather the laxer news and crime reporting of the state relative to the others.