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Silence Rule
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"Behold! The shut-the-fuck-up-inator!"
In case anyone didn't get the reference.
3000
You need some big number attached to the name to make it sound technical and powerful
I did not, thanks!
I watched a demo of that sound technology and it worked on everyone they tried it on, except this one dude who was absolutely immune. It was wild. I'll try to find the video, but it was a while back.
EDIT: Here is the video. https://youtu.be/J-SH18dtBlY
That was pretty cool, wonder what it is specifically that allowed the one guy to be immune.
There was the other guy who was able to power through but just gave in due to discomfort, could be a clue.
I think it is related to the discomfort of someone talking over you. I experience the same feeling of not being able to finish my thoughts even when it's someone else who isn't repeating my words over me. If someone starts talking over me I find it very hard to continue to speak. I have been trying to train myself to be more assertive and to continue speaking through the discomfort.
I think maybe the guy who is unaffected is just very good at talking over other people without missing a beat.
This makes sense!
The Flashbulb! I saw him twice, and he KILLED it both times. One of the times, all the equipment fucked up so he had to adlib it and do it live. He busted out the vocoder for most of it and I was ELATED.
It kinda brothers me when I see something attributed to an entire country when it really only has to do with a small group or area within that county.
Like a single town in India could do some thing, with 95% of the population having no idea about it, and the headline would say "look at this thing India did!". I use India as an example because I feel like this happens with non english speaking or non-western countries more. Like, if it were US researchers that made the silence gun the caption would say "researchers at Harvard" instead of "the US did this".
I think its appropriate to use that phrasing when its something that was done as part of a national government project or policy, if its something that exists across a wide swath of the population/area of the country, or if you are comparing a thing across two countries (e.g. the Taiwanese semiconductor industry vs the South Korean one).
if it helps, other countries do the same thing to the us.
Yeah, I once saw the Uno Reverse card of this, where some horrid, conservative Indian media outlet was saying some shit like the EU is holding some bad position. And the guy, who had posted that article, would not even engage in discussion that this was a massive point of contention, where neither France and Germany, nor me and my neighbor agreed. It just felt like shit. Don't drag me into what the assholes are doing, please.
Hey, it worked on Shinzo Abe
Great now law enforcement will make you stutter while trying to explain you’re unarmed and they’ll say you sounded threatening.
I remember seeing the same thing on Futureweapons 15+ years ago. Anecdotally, I can say from experience how hard it is to talk when your works are echoing back to you at just the right delay. It totally scrambles me.
When it happens enough you get used to it :(
Actually a regular gun is most likely to make someone louder because people sometimes rudely make abrasive sounds when experiencing pain.
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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