• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Oh great, now you’re reminding me about how my cell phone gave me a brain tumor back in the 90s.

      And just don’t ask me about the time I blew up a gas station because my mom called me while I was filling up.

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        5 months ago

        And just don’t ask me about the time I blew up a gas station because my mom called me while I was filling up.

        Oh shit I’d completely forgotten about that one.

        I mean yeah, at least GSM phones (and I guess CDMA too since the frequency bands are pretty close) did tend to cause funky interference, but the idea that they could somehow cause fuel pumps to go boom was… well, a bit silly.