I'm mitigating personal risk, and noticing I enjoy life a lot more without all that stuff. Nothing "schizophrenic" about it.

That's a very misused word, among people 15-30, these days, for some reason. It slights actual people with the situation, I think.

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It’s not meant literally, but I think you know that. If your reasoning is to detach from computers and the internet, I think that’s fine. But if you think ppl are losing their sight or becoming dehydrated, or whatever from it, then that’s a bit schizo.

my reasoning is to make my life more enjoyable. I've always been electromagnetically sensitive. When the iPhone came out, I could feel the data in my wrist. That's a really uncomfortable sensation, if you've never felt it before.

As a small kid, If you turned a TV on in a room, even if it was on the other floor of the house, I could hear the high pitched wine of the flyback transformer. Even with the TV muted entirely, or volume at 0.

I don’t believe electromagnetic sensitivity is real. I’m p sure I’ve read studies that subjected ppl to it and they couldn’t tell one way or the other.

I dunno, there are some people who really seem to be sensitive to a lot of stuff.

I definitely know what Ringo is talking about with the high-pitched whine of CRT screens turning on...That was annoying. Kind of felt like a little static shock in my ears.

That’s a sound, that’s not electromagnetic radiation.

If you talk to any old ham radio operator, they'll tell you about "RF burn" or "RF in the shack," where improperly grounded equipment or being too close to antennas during transmission can cause burns.

Granted, that's at a way higher power output than most consumer devices (a hundred watts or so at a lower frequency versus 100 milliwatts max for phones and most access points).

I don't actually know anyone personally who can prove that they're sensitive to 2.4GHz, but the body is susceptible to RF and microwave radiation at some level.

It is, but it’s the difference between using a furnace to heat your home and lighting yourself on fire.

I've been this way my whole life, even before I knew what it was. It's real.

You think it’s real. Some people also sincerely believe they’re being gangstalked.

some of the people that think they're being gangstalked actually are. That's a whole different topic. I'm not one of them, though. Fortunately.

What makes something real? Empirical evidence? Belief? Subjective evidence? It is different for every person.

Empirical evidence is the best way to test fringe beliefs.

typically, yes. :)