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Do Americans really only shit once a week?
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wow, your friend is a heavyweight, figuratively speaking. Not to give water to his mill, but I have a family friend who is actually disturbed by wifi. She is able to tell when it's on, we blind tested her. She would always turn it off at night when sleeping over.
I’d be interested in more scientific tests on this as I think some people do have a sensitivity to it.(not me personally) but I think It should be researched more about the effects of the signals on the human body if they can feel it. I wouldn’t dismiss it as silly as way back when Bluetooth had levels developed after it could produce tumours and they had to reduce the signal a lot for current day use.
Used to be able to have Bluetooth that could work past two blocks. Turns out that was NOT good for the body.
Class 1 Bluetooth devices can reach around 100 meters under ideal unobstructed line-of-sight.
There's no scientific study to suggest Bluetooth radio frequencies are harmful. They're very low power and it's non-ionizing radiation.
Smoking(Polonium and lead, and thousands of carcinogens), UV exposure(sun), radon exposure(usually in homes), and air pollution are all significantly more dangerous than radio frequencies.
Radio frequencies can absolutely microwave (heat) you under specific circumstances. Like at AM/FM and DTV antenna power levels, sure, but only if you're climbing one of the towers, then sure they can cook you inside-out(with many megawatts of RF energy)... But by the time it gets to even 1 km the power is so low it's harmless(about a million times weaker than just one meter away, so 1 km away a 1 megawatt antenna would have only 1 watt of energy). Bluetooth class 1 devices top out at 100 milliwatts and consumer-grade WiFi tops out at 1 watt. It would kind of like being afraid of a full moon giving you a sunburn.... It's just not going to happen.