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Of course it’s been heavily suggested! They have been openly hypothesizing this is some sort of directed microwave attack on people, from Cuba. Articles by the
by rtpg 5y ago
Of course it’s been heavily suggested! They have been openly hypothesizing this is some sort of directed microwave attack on people, from Cuba.
Articles by the NYT initially put the microwave hypothesis hand in hand with strained US-Cuba relations!
Of course now it’s being revealed that people in other countries are having it so it’s hard. But they’re actively implying this is some microwave super weapon (it feels so absurd that when talking about it even Obama alum Ben Rhodes basically talks about it as “allegedly some weapon thing” in a “don’t believe that” theory).
I’m curious what is going on here too, but definitely don’t believe the weapon hypothesis compared to the much more banal explanations that we all know.
- unethical_ban 5y agoSure it was, when it was first discovered five years ago. Sure the initial reports suggested that, years ago when maybe it did strain relations. It's 2021.
- relativ575 5y agoIt was "hypothesizing this is some sort of directed microwave attack on people, from Cuba", because it originated from Havana, Cuba, affecting Americans, Cuba's adversary. Once it started to appear in other locations, even in DC, that isn't main hypothesis anymore. > definitely don’t believe the weapon hypothesis compared to the much more banal explanations that we all know. Although nobody knows what is behind the phenomenon, you must admit that it's strange that it seems to only occur to American staff at those locations. It may not be a weapon, but it does seem to target American facilities. For all we know it could be a malfunctioning American system inside those locations.
- elefanten 5y agoYou offer no counter-evidence to gp. I've never seen it seriously suggested that Cuba is doing it. There might've been speculation that Cuba allowed it or supported a foreign operation, but "from Cuba" doesn't mean "by Cuba".