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I live in a part of unincorporated Marin county (Tamalpais Valley) that has a Mill Valley postal address, and the discussion about this issue on our local NextD
by Asparagirl 8y ago
I live in a part of unincorporated Marin county (Tamalpais Valley) that has a Mill Valley postal address, and the discussion about this issue on our local NextDoor was BANANAS. You could satirize this situation any way you like and it wouldn’t come close to how terrible and anti-science the comments were.
Meanwhile, I don’t even have cellphone service of any kind at my own house, not even 3G/4G, thanks to a combination of hills and NIMBYism about more towers. My family has to rely on a combination of a microcell and WiFi calling. It’s infuriating.
Actual discussion:
Guy: Come to this meeting or else they might put a 5G cell on a telephone pole right outside your house!
Me: OMG that would be amazing, yes please!
- robterrell 8y agoI live downtown. Let's coordinate on getting this nonsense overturned. There's enough geeks in the community to get this done!
- draw_down 8y agoUp with wireless providers! They’re just such wonderful businesses.
- 0x8BADF00D 8y agoNot sure how these ignorant memes get started. Some memes refuse to die after thousands of years and evidence contrary. Like Flat Earth hypothesis.
- photos_victim 8y agoIf it makes you feel better, the discussion of 5G on Nextdoor in Oakland was and remains bonkers. It’s not Marin, it’s people of a certain age. There just happens to be more of them in Marin.
- s0rce 8y agoPiedmont Nextdoor is similar. Bunch of people with no background in RF health effects or non-ionizing radiation tissue interaction arguing pointlessly with conspiracy theory website as supporting evidence. Seeing a few scientists (in other fields) try to respond is exasperating. I don't bother.
- photos_victim 8y agoWhole Bay Area, I guess. Remember, the city of Richmond (California) passed a resolution against orbiting mind-control satellites. It’s juat wacky around here.
- s0rce 8y agoI particularly like the Nuclear free zone signs in Berkeley.
- hodgesrm 8y agoOn the other hand there has not been a single nuclear explosion within city limits since those signs went up.
- jwhitlark 8y agoWell, at least that's dangerous.
- curun1r 8y agoThat wasn't about resident safety, it was about a moral position against war. IIRC, those went up in the 80s when residents wanted to ensure that Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory couldn't legally do the kind of weapons-directed research that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory did.
- nkoren 8y agoYou know that BANANA stands for "Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody", right?
- thrav 8y agoDitto. Thankfully, my corporate phone is Verizon, and I get LTE on that. If you plan to stay long term, it’s probably worth switching carriers.