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The Town That Banned Wi-Fi
An anonymous reader sends a story from The Guardian about Green Bank, West Virginia, a small town housing the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. There are other telescopes nearby, too. Because the telescopes are so sensitive, stray electromagnetic signals are strictly regulated in the surrounding area, which is called the National Radio Quiet Zone. But the town is running into a problem: its population was around 120 when this began, and by now about 40 people have moved there because they want to get away from radio waves and Wi-Fi signals and other types of electromagnetic radiation.
There have been reports of tensions in the town: tales of threats and abuse unfitting to a sleepy mountain village. And it is all the stranger when you consider that no serious scientific study has been able to establish that electrosensitivity exists. ... Where the locals might have been happy to tolerate one or two of the sensitives, the mass migration was beyond the pale. ... People would walk towards [one woman] with concealed electronics, in an effort to provoke a reaction. A meeting she and her husband organised to help educate the others about electrosensitivity descended into a slanging match.
. . . then you can imagine all the "fun" sadistic police would have with these folks and a Taser.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
It might be a shock to you stupid usians, but we Europeans of Germanic ancestry (some people in Brussels get all hot and bothered when we use the term "Herrenvolk") don't put Jews in ovens alive. We first gas them, shoot them or bash their skulls in with a hammer first. It saves the trouble for the guys who have to tip their golden teeth out before disposing of them. That's why we Europeans are rich. Except the Greek and assorted untermensch of course but then we steamed all over them back when that stupid Mussolini thug could not. Never send an italian to do an Aryan's job. It's not easy being Herrenvolk.
Seriously.
Your town is 120 people.
FORTY more people move there - people who will pay taxes, join the Lions Club, and mow their lawns. Most communities would be delighted to see that sort of growth.
As long as they didn't come to create some sort of armageddon death cult, WHO GIVES A SHIT WHY THEY MOVED THERE?
Are they interfering with your life?
No?
Then shut the hell up and mind your own business.
-Styopa
These are the same people who believe that women came from a man's rib, and a virgin woman gave birth, and the moon landing was a hoax.
What do you expect from these nutjobs?
Pretty much how liberals take over any place.