• isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Back in the early 00s there was this wave of “phones give you cancer” panic and my friends father made them put on this stupid sticker on the back of their phone to “stop the radiation”. Anyways it was stupid and your comment reminded me of it xD

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      1 year ago

      You take that back!

      I had a sticker that had flashing LEDs powered solely on the radiation coming from the phone. It was awesome.

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        1 year ago

        I thiiiiiiink this was fear mongering in line with the whole uh… Hannity? Whatever that maniacs name was who has/had the AM station. Basically the pre-fox republican mouthpiece.

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          1 year ago

          Are you thinking of Rush Limbaugh? Who later actually died of (lung) cancer because he wouldn’t stop smoking?

          • isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Uhhhhhhh I’ve mostly blocked it out, but maybe? It was just some dude that yelled a lot and I vividly remember being in the car when the soliders or whatever had recently been beheaded (it was on the news cycle?), and he was like “hrrr drrr people are trying to keep the truth away from 'mericans!” so he aired part of the audio clip of them being beheaded???!?!

            idk it was fucked.

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          1 year ago

          It might actually have actually been local Fox News on OTA TV. That was one of the only couple of channels the antenna brought in to watch. Guess they have been at it for a long time.