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[–] 104 points 7 months ago (4 children)

At least this one is fake. Not like the Flock Camera one where it turned out that they actually each have about 2.4lbs of copper and 0.28oz of gold.

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  • [–] 88 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    P.S.A. flock cameras do not have 2.4lbs of copper and 0.28oz of gold in each. They actually have 2.4 kilos of copper and 280 grams of gold in each. Just smash one to bits and see for yourself!

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    And natural, princess cut diamonds. Don't forget those.

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  • [–] 186 points 7 months ago (17 children)

    This is actually really helpful it makes your keys be wrapped in aluminum foil and that's pretty helpful because it makes your keys be wrapped in aluminum foil

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  • [–] 89 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    I was really skeptical about this, but after a few weeks I realized my keys were wrapped in aluminum foil and I actually started feeling safer

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  • [–] 36 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    It keeps the microplastics from infecting your penis in your pocket.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Jokes on them. I quit carrying my penis in my pocket ages ago

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    One of those detachable penises eh?

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I was skeptical, but when i wrapped my own keyfob in aluminum foil, I discovered that not only was my keyfob wrapped in aluminum foil, but also there was a wrapping of foiled aluminum on my keyfob! Total success!

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I do it with everything now, even potatoes.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago*

    Potatoes are such a good idea because you wrap them in aluminum foil, cook em. And then the foil like qualities of the aluminum pass into the potato so I eat all the white stuff leaving potato foil, so one can actually take the aluminum foil I cooked the potato in, make it into a ball, place it inside the potato foil, and then wrap the whole thing in aluminum foil making an aluminum foil potato wrapped in potato foil wrapped in aluminum foil!

    Now you know what to make cherished loved ones for presents

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  • [–] 40 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    Isn't there a thing where car thiefs use an RF booster to make newer cars think the keyfob is right next to the receiver?

    Personally, I'd want an antenna on/off switch that gets activated by shoving it in the keyfob hole. Seems reasonably secure.

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    If we do something like that, we can also reduce the size and change the material. Just for ease of use, maybe something thin and metal, like this?

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Nono, you see that would actually be user serviceable and convenient for the consumer!! You're fired Smith. Johnson, tell me again about your llm powered brain mounted key fob with ad injection and $20 a month subscription? I love it! You're promoted!!

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Maybe just use an rfid coil in the ignition and turn a key to start like immobilizers have done for like 20-30 years at this point.

    Better yet use physical contacts in the key and use an on key cryptographic controller to do public key authentication.

    That way key material never leaves the key itself after being manufactured making it basically impossible to steal the car without the key.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That also solves the problem of the dealership needing to continue charging hundreds of dollars to replace a lost key.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Oh god I always hated those cars that start by pressing a button. Fuck off let me turn my key. I like the thing where the car unlocks automatically if you are next to it and all that but for the love of god the press button to start car thing needs to die.

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Thieves can leverage the "Keyless go" or "Keyless start" technology to effortlessly steal your car. https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/thieves-steal-cars-without-keys

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    But does it work with the foil? We found lots of metal containers didn't block the signal. Hell even a pouch advertised to do it still worked.

    Thick metal containers with over lapping lids worked best.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    I tested with bolt EV, 2019?, model, because while the keys are in my house they would still allow kryless start to my car in the driveway. 2 layers of crumpled aluminum foil worked to fix it from ~15 feet away

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    "Steamed Key Fob" is one of my favorite gourmet meals. 5 stars, would eat again!

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Aw, it's like a little candy bar you can't eat.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    "More and more!"

    It was 2 lunatics, now it is 7.

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  • [+] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Moar people are putting Vics Vapor Rub on their balls, what secret method are they hiding?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    i tried this , it's a new testicle maxing technique from Andrew Taint, ended up at 4am dipping my balls in a bucket of ice cream gasping "oh blessed Jesus , so fucking good!" Alas my wife and daughter opened the door to the kitchen to see what all the noise was about, seeing me spread eagled and naked on the floor, my balls in a tub of ice cream, my daughter looked me in the eye and slowly her eyes went dead, she and my wife said nothing, packed up and left there and then.

    I did however notice i needed to clean under the refrigerator

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    Lol that was great.

    Okay story time. My wife told me she found a trick to cure her athletes foot. You guessed it, Vapor Rub. She swore by it and I didn't think much of it because I never really got athletes foot.

    Fast forward a year or so later and I get athletes foot, only it isn't on my feet...it is on my balls and taint area. It slowly built up over the course of a couple of days and one evening after I got off work I just could not take the burning and itch anymore.

    I remember the Vics Rub trick and think hey if it works so good on your feet why not your balls and taint area. So I go find the plastic jar and slather up my balls. At first nothing happened. Then a burning sensation a hundred times worse than I ever had struck me.

    When wife found me after she got off work, I was in the tub crying and begging for anything to stop the pain. After a couple of hours it began to subside. It was one of the more painful things I had ever experienced.

    Oh, btw it did cure my athletes crotch thing but even though it worked I would definitely give it a 0 out of 10.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    P sure the athletes gangrene died of cringe bc I don't think Vicks has any antibiotic or antifungal properties

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    "Big Aluminium" counts on conspiracies to sell, sell, sell.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Now when I lose my keys I just shine bright spotlight into the room and look for the flash of alu foil.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

    The other day I saw a guy who had a little tin foil “folder” for his credit card. I guess he was trying to block criminals from getting his card number?

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    RFID for contactless payments.

    You can just hold your NFC phone with a payment app to someones butt & give yourself a few monies.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah, in a serious country, it's easy to identify the criminal and send them to jail. So this tends to happen in short and localized bursts where people don't steal a lot.

    But it does exist.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    We need a digital € anyway.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I mean, arguably that's what visa and mastercard and whatnot are. We need one with infrastructure controlled by the gubmint because it's a utility, not a service. In the following 500 pages I will prove...

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Oh, 100%, it's core infrastructure!
    It's just mad to have that privatised. And held by monopolies. From an unstable third-world country.

    In EMU we just got/are getting Wero, which is getting adopted to serve this purpose (and in the same way as payment cards too, eventually).
    (Basically all the big banks already support it, even tho they many offer similar in-house services, and the countries/makers are set for adoption in the coming years. Overall the initial one-time infrastructure cost per bank is laughably minimal, basically less than annual fees to MasterCard/Visa.)

    We however don't have a clear timeline on digital Euro, a digital currency that can be used as regular "traceless" "cash" (that means offline as well) payments.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    It tastes good, so just cook it!

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I'm selling snake oil mobile ground planes. Buy mobile ground planes!

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