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The skunk works

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Luxembourg. They could just put some of them up. I’m not sure what things are like there at all. But maybe faraday safe houses would be nice for them. Perhaps the first ones are made out of cinderblocks or brick (I think they used to like sandstone there). And then the later ones are nicer and made out of something more attractive.

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Ukraine:

Are you Ukrainian? Are you at war? Are you able to talk about it openly? No? Are refugees able to talk about openly? No? What about in places like New Zealand, Australia? Can they speak openly? What about in Germany, Czech Republic or Poland? What if some refugees could build faraday safe houses in the country-side to live in, and could build in front of it a cafe or something, and they could create a space where other refugees could talk and share stories and videos openly. No limitations to conversations. Don't forget that if this technology works, there will be future prototypes and versions that will probably be fancier than the basic cinderblock version.

Maybe they could have a house, but have a cafe as well. Two buildings. Safety, accomodation and conversation.

Where? Poland, Germany and Czech Republic. That's where they are.

Next, create clusters of houses which are networked. That way they can start basic conversations with one another online. That is a separate idea.

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Chicago: people just build faraday safe houses in cinderblock around the place. Like in the suburbs. And open them up to people in their neighbourhood. And sell tea and coffee at them. And yeah. That's it. And talk and socialise.

And maybe have two rooms out the back that can be rented by boarder who is in danger. Just a bathroom and a bedroom.

That could be the replicable model.

Note: I have a massive thing about infrastructure, assets, inventory and capital. I think in terms of “models”, “infrastructure” and “assets”. As well as in terms of what is scalable. Scalability is very important to me. I want something that is scalable. I want a model that is scalable. Because then it can become infrastructure, rather than just a hobby horse. I hope that makes sense.

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Letter Writing Campaigns

What if Washington is reviving tons of letters from neighbourhoods of faraday safe houses in Wellington, Melbourne, Manchester, Edinburgh, Dublin, Lyon, Munich, Vienna. And letter writing campaigns get going? And what if LOCAL council candidates can start hosting meetings and conversations in these local neighbourhoods. Like for the xyz ward of the local council - I.E. the Wharangi/Onslow-Western General Ward of the Wellington council. Because that grass roots level stuff works. Or the candidates and members of the Kapiti district council, or the candidates for the Maori seats in the Manawatu area can meet with people in a faraday neighbourhood to have meetings and talk.

And what if these faraday safe houses are just the beginning? And eventually we have custom built houses, apartments, multi story apartment buildings, cafes, restaurants, dairies (aka corner stores or convenience stores) and offices.

Note: the houses still don’t exist! It is still a skunkworks and an extended brainstorming session.

Or what if you have several faraday safe house neighbourhoods in a place like Timaru. They each have 40 houses, one cafe and one general convenience store.

And then all of the council members move into them. And they can talk however they want. And they’re fully networked together and with the outside world. They start telecommuting to the office and to council meetings. And they then start making consents easier and easier for new faraday safe house builds, and open up land banks for new builds, and make infrastructure easier. And maybe also build some public faraday house buildings, beside libraries etc. and perhaps put cafes into these public faraday safe house buildings to facilitate and promote conversation and provide spaces for people who want to work from cafes on laptops. What if they built entire subsidised neighbourhoods, using council funding and resources? It’s all still just ideas.

What if a philanthropist just paid for these to be built as staff rooms for places like USPS. Or staff rooms at schools. Or common rooms at NZ high schools.

Or ethnic churches put one beside their main sanctuary. Don’t forget that these churches call their place a sanctuary.

What if you donated a faraday safe house to every sheriff’s department in your state, to be used as a staff room and office space? I hear that in Florida these donations are tax deductible. For conversations, interrogations, locking certain types of people up?

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Deprogramming people (especially women)

We can change things at the grass roots level, like using supply side economics, behavioural economics, psychology etc.

This is an idea that comes much later down the track. Once many safe houses and hermits already exist.

For example, people could build faraday safe houses to give women holidays for 4-6 weeks at a time.

The safe houses are like a comfortable apartment or home that you might rent on air bnb (or local equivalent). The quality of the safe houses has improved, and the underlying designs are even nicer than the baseline cinderblock version. It has nice interior decoration, and nice furniture. The kitchen and bathroom are as nice as you might expect in an above average home. It is comfortable, for example, the beds are comfortable double beds, with nice linen. Changed weekly. It has a deck out the back of it, as well as a small garden area and some lawn. They can do their own cooking in the kitchen, with freshly delivered groceries such as crusty fresh bread, organic free range eggs and organic, pasture raised bacon, organic baby spinach for breakfast. They can have food delivered from the local organic online grocery company (or co-op). And for dinner, they can have fresh pan fried fish along side wild rice risotto, and grilled asparagus made in their own kitchen. Or organic, pasture raised chicken (fed only on high omega three feed) roasted in the oven, alongside honey roasted sweet potatoes and served with steamed vegetables. Or they can also just get pizza, Thai or Indian delivered. Or just buy cream buns, custard squares and sandwiches from the bakeries on door dash or uber eats. Or just get groceries from the ordinary supermarket. It's delivered food, delivered groceries, and a nice kitchen. They can even prepare meals for friends and family; they can have dinner guests.

There might be between four and six properties in the block. They still have visitors by the way!! You do need people to talk to.

And make sure that they have a desk and chair, and plenty of paper and books and pens to write with. Lots of stationary.

Offer them an all expenses paid holiday to stay in a comfortable faraday safe house to “reset their brain”. To deprogram themselves. Give them all of the books they can read, music they can listen to, movies they can watch, give them a projection screen and Netflix. Give them game consoles and big screen TVs, all of the DoorDash they can order daily and as many cakes, pastries and other as they can eat (or healthy options!). They should even have a Nespresso pod machine. And a pet cat to pat, in some of them (or other suitably cute animals, such as a baby lamb, baby alpacas, a rabbit hutch or a pony in the garden). By the way, they should have a garden, also sheltered. Or maybe like a pet baby cow (like a miniature highland cow) or happy egg laying chickens. I don't know what chicks like. They will never be the same again. Their family visits them often, just to hang out and talk. It would be really nice! You can even take your kids: link to YouTube reel of a little kid/toddler playing with a baby cow.

And after six weeks, the women re enter the world and refuse to do sex work. It is a scalable idea. If the system bullies them into getting back into sex work, they seek “forever shelters”. This way we can deny the system access to their preferred resource (the systems preferred resource are docile, compliant women who put out for people subjugated by the system, or otherwise working in service of the system)!!

It's like cult deprogramming. You have to break “milieu control”.

You have got to get the whole hermit movement going first. Where people can just become long term hermits, living inside faraday safe houses.

For many people, this might mean a neighbourhood of 8-12 houses, and each of them contains four flatmates. This would be common with women. You get three friends together, and rent a house with faraday stuff installed. And you just live there. Food is delivered by and purchased from the local supermarket, and life is pretty normal for a suburban home, you just don’t leave the house. You work from home. If you work at all. Your nearest neighbours are in similar houses. But it’s actually in the middle of a normal suburban neighbourhood.

Ps: the above comment is posted largely unedited.

PPS: the comment about the baby yak was an “in joke”. It has since been edited out.

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Another picture:

Maybe install normal electricity and plumbing. Like, basic lightbulbs and power points. Failing that, kerosene lamps it is haha. A couple of sinks with drains, and a flushing toilet. Plumbing should be easier than internet. If you can get away with it, plug it into the internet, run fibre optic to the door. And have a fibre box. And plug it into a router/switch. And run Ethernet cables from that. Plug these into laptops or desktop PCs. Adapters exist if you want to use a phone or tablet. Wifi won’t work in there.

The roofing product used should be something like the product “colour steel” from NZ or Australia. Or similar local product. Guttering and down spouts should be whatever is standard. I think you get it?

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// politically correct idea incoming

Who uses it? Women refugees of the system. They have minds, and their minds suffer. If they have a place of refuge, they can get their minds back. And think for themselves again. And can ask themselves what sort of people they want to be, and how they want to live. They can stay in it for even just a week.

// politically correct idea all finished

// it is actually a good idea though. Seriously, one of my best. Let women use it for a month, rent it for a holiday or as a retreat.

People like me could stay safe without having to argue with lunatics or morons.

Local councils could build them in every town with more than 2000 people, using government money. They could be supervised by a combination of volunteers and/or paid staff. It could be funded by councils. It could also be a public private partnership, like libraries funded by Carnegie but maintained by local councils. Like, philanthropists could fund them. How can you improve your mind if you don’t have a place to at least sit and converse, let alone think? There is nothing more democratic than the local public library (Carnegie educated himself with libraries and night school), and perhaps a faraday safe house might be similar. Note: you could use it as a quiet place to read, study and think. A reading room.

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You could even build one in Svalbard.

Or a dozen in Suriname, just so that they have places to talk and meet without interference or harassment.

Note: this assumes we have functioning prototypes!

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Don't forget that full electrification, even of places like England, only happened in the post ww2 era. And don't forget that indoor plumbing wasn't standard within living memory here in New Zealand. We used to have outhouses. And that we only just got ubiquitous high speed internet in the Key era!

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What if we had 10000 faraday safe houses listed for rent on AirBnB in France by Christmas? They are simply made out of cinderblocks or similar construction. They are technically holiday homes or cabins, and therefore exempt from many/most building codes.

You just rent one.

1000 in New Zealand as well?

Women could use them to take a month long holiday, just to clear their heads. Figure out who they are and who they want to be. To paraphrase Woolf, a woman must have a space of her own if she is to able to form her own mind, and shape her own personality and character.

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Alaska?

Alaska!

I think that Alaska has the culture for it. I think that they would love it. I think that there might be many people there who just want to be left alone. And value the actual ability to just be left alone.

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Each block of bunks has eight rooms, each room has maybe four to six bunks. That means you have 48 bunks per block. And 192 bunks for the whole thing. The “double rooms” have one double bed and one single bed each, making it 8 rooms times three equals 24 people. And the family rooms can hold four each. Making eight. That makes up to 224 people. My numbers are useless though. Maybe add in a shielded grassy outdoor area beside it. The building type is pretty much the same across all buildings. Kitchen is normal for people who cook for a crowd, normal for experienced cooks/chefs, dining hall isn’t anything special. Common room isn’t anything special. Rec centre is extremely normal, and might have a gym, pool table, mini table tennis table, darts, TV room, foosball, reading room, card tables. All of that rubbish.

It’s like a hostel, but for refugees. You just go there so that you don’t get brain damage.

It isn’t ready. Skip this one. But if you can just build a fairly basic faraday safe house, even just once. And the prototype works. Then that is a huge thing.

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Dormitories

Build a dormitory complex out of cinderblock buildings. Maybe four rows of five buildings. You would have a cafeteria, bedrooms, bathrooms, a laundry and a common room. There would be a lot of rooms with bunks. Let it merely be for people who are seeking shelter. With a strict requirement that no one is posting online from inside (no internet - but you could always just walk down the street with your phone) if you really needed internet.

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Appalachia: modest numbers of them “go hermit”. Like in West Virginia. And are still communicating in a variety of ways.

France is still a good place for it though.

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Discord Mod

What happens if your discord server's chief mod is a member of the hermit movement, and he is living inside his own personal faraday safe house, as part of a block of 6 faraday safe houses. And his server is hosted inside his house. And his house is within shouting distance of the street in a pleasant neighbourhood/town in France. Ps: I don't know how discord works! It could just as easily be vent, teamspeak or slack. Or an alternative such as “Quiet” that is p2p and runs via Tor.

What happens if everyone on your privately hosted equivalent of vent or discord is in a faraday safe house? Or perhaps your privately hosted version of an mIRC channel.

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Good opportunity for charity, or Christian good works.

Just start a charity, collect donations and do good works. Once the faraday shelter tech works (if it works and is affordable). Just start a charity where you become a landlord, and give people shelter and food in faraday safe houses en masse. While collecting support from others. Donations to be able to afford to build shelters. Give them rent well below market cost (or free), based on income. Just shelter and feed as many people as humanly possible. People will want it. You could make it your life's mission to shelter any refugee who needs refuge. By the way, anyone who doesn't want computers in their head is a refugee.

Ps: You can even do it merely within your own nation. Or support efforts overseas. It doesn't have to involve immigration, which is a hot button topic.

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Free to choose safety: with no need to persuade anyone

A safe house in every town, village and city (anyone who needs a place to become safe can find one. Many more than one in large cities). You can unilaterally choose not to be harmed. You don't have to prove that you deserve it, that you deserve to be safe. You don't have to convince lunatics that they should let you be safe enough to sleep and think. There's just a place where your mind and body can be safe from these electromagnetic interference devices.

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It’s the cabin in the poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” to me. It’s the green pastures and still waters in Psalms 23. It’s the house of Beorn in The Hobbit. It’s an oasis of solitude in a world of madness.

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I feel that posting these things is altruistic. It is for the public good. Internationally as well as locally. It keeps good and decent people sheltered and safer.

Ps: the intersection between “the technology” and the social structure in our society isn’t viable. It is unsustainable and doomed to failure. It is probably inevitable. By technology, I mean the electromagnetic spectrum wave stuff that messes with brains and nerves and muscle.

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The three building model

A home, a hostel and a bar with hotel (bars with hotel rooms aren’t uncommon in New Zealand). It is one business. Totally controlled by one owner. Maybe you have 3-4 faraday homes off to the right that are rented out by means of air bnb. Where? Kazakhstan, for example. It is the perfect nation for it (it is just an example though). Ps: I love plov. My wife’s stepmother’s mother used to make it.

Kazakhstan: they could put a few faraday houses in every town and a dozen in every city. Connect all of them to the internet and put old fashioned phones in there too (perhaps on copper networks). Even small villages could have one. Every town and village needs them, because if the system does a crackdown, they need a place to talk. As far as I am concerned, every time a Marxist or a communist does something, they’re about 12-18 months away from a mass murder or Ceaușescu situation.. and if ever you try to leave or reform your society, you end up with a Hungary 1956 situation. And so you need ways to keep communication going in an emergency. It’s just a thought.

If ever the system tells you that you aren’t allowed to talk, like the Ukrainians or Iranians. Or that you can’t ignore them, then you have places to meet and talk. Like a safe house or town meeting hall in every town or village. It’s a really good idea. But it needs to be developed. Still a skunkworks.

The above picture might be overkill, like with all three. Just have something like the one on the left. Even just one building could be huge. Or maybe people would want to build half a dozen (Imagine the picture above mirror images north to south, so you have three facing down, and three facing up. With about 3 metres gap in the middle. And another squat wall below it).

Space in the middle should be about 3-4 metres. You could drive a car down the middle.

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A quick what if?

This might be too much to take in at the moment.

What if these safe houses can not only protect people directly, but can then be rigged up to function as the "nervous system" of your society. By linking them together via the internet.

Maybe you have 1-3 of them in each town/city in your society. You have them in clusters. A home, a safe house and a hostel.

But what if it goes further than that! Further!? And they essentially allow the full power of the information super highway (aka the internet) to be unleashed, and to be leveraged for positive pro-social change in favour of genuine grassroots democracy.

And the internet becomes what it always should have been. And we have thousands of faraday safe houses everywhere. Just everywhere. And the society we lived in is currently predicated on the idea that nothing faster than a horse and buggy is allowed on the road. But what if it's a highway once this faraday tech gets going, and it's all bullet trains, BMWs Mac trucks and buses!

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Different proportions: faraday safe house

Another idea:

It is a house with larger rooms and fewer of them. Maybe the proportions work better. 4 by 3 approximately. I’m not sure of the correct room size to be honest. What if you just build a new house, install a “tin can firewall” as you build it, and then enjoy the homebody lifestyle.

For best results, build two of these. And put them side by side. A pair is the right number. This is a basic faraday house, just above. A basic faraday safe house. But we’re still trying out prototypes and doing proof of concept. And it is still a bit of a skunkworks.

Build it with cinderblocks probably.

You could use it as a house, a hotel, a refuge, a cafe/hotel or a bar/hotel, or a church and offices. Or just a home. Or a church/parsonage. Or a youth drop in centre (with fresh baking, tea, coffee, Milo, video games, table tennis and card tables).

Perhaps you have:

Bar, cafe and seating in the front.

Then a bathroom and kitchen next two rooms. Then two bedrooms and two meeting/work rooms where you have access to the internet. Bedrooms have 8 bunks in each.

That is the bar, cafe and safe house. You can eat, drink, socialise, work, sleep and use the bathroom. But you still have to go home. Beside it you have an entire house that is owner-occupied (and maybe has one long term boarder, like a family member or something).

It’s just space though. And rooms. You can use it however you wish. I’m not sure what to do with all of the space.

Hostel:

A hostel might be even better. Just have 10 rooms as sleeping quarters, one big kitchen, two bathrooms and a room set aside as a laundry/utility room. This is across two buildings. Next, have one room as a shared office/study/conference room, with desks etc. And that is it. It is a hostel. Each bedroom (sleeping quarters) has between 4 and 8 bunks.

If plenty of plebs hide out and shelter in these, then so can celebrities and wealthy/important/prominent people. But you need plebs to do it first.

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What if Kazakhstan had 200 faraday safe houses in their country? And they were all spread out across it, and all connected to the internet? What could they do with that?

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What if I could be posting every thing I am currently posting from behind a “tin can firewall”.

Or in a sheltered spot protected by a figurative “tin can firewall”. A faraday safe house.

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What if refugees from armed conflicts all over the world like not only shelter in other countries, but shelter in faraday safe houses within those other countries, and have encrypted conversations with one another over Skype, WhatsApp, Telegram and Threema (including voice, text and video). And what if you could share zipped and encrypted videos using those applications.

For example, people fleeing conflict in Ukraine, Venezuela, Iran, the Middle East or Haiti.

By the way, you could also use online games such as Counterstrike, Quake live and World of Warcraft to chat with other people. Failing that, you can send messages to friends in the mail, printed on paper. And encrypt or decrypt these messages if you really want to. However, you may actually have enough privacy just by putting them in an envelope. Or you can communicate “in the clear” by letter or radio transmission. Lastly, you could press vinyl for audio messages. Because I don’t think you can wipe vinyl using em rf attacks.

Last but not least, you can use vibrations in the air. Also known as noise. You can shout. You can yell. You can yell super super loudly, and your voice carries from within the faraday safe house. And you can amplify your voice by cupping your hands or by using a megaphone or analogue amplifier and speaker system.

One more: You could even have a public announcements system using copper cables and speakers on poles. And then also you could have a network of copper cables to get the signal to distant our outlying satellite sites. Sorry, clunky use of language there! Or you could have a PA system that broadcast to all houses in the faraday safe house neighbourhood, or safe house network. And can also broadcast outwardly. The sky is the limit! Use your voice. You can just shout! Or/and amplify it.

Hypothetically, if you are in Central Asia and you have a village, and single safe house in it, and a couple of “hermits” live inside it, you could broadcast from a PA system to the whole village in a time of conflict and chaos. You could speak to everyone at the same time. And just imagine that you have a safe house with PA system in every single village. Wouldn’t that be useful? And a space to talk also.

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Random Idea

Cross between between community gardens

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWXPwqREWR3/?igsh=NDJjYWI2eWpkcXk0

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Faraday safe houses.

The basic safe house is still the thing that needs to be prototyped though.

Imagine a space where people go for solitude, peace and quiet. A place to restore the soil. But you put faraday safe houses in it, or sheds, cabins and whatnot.

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Different proportions: faraday safe house

Another idea:

Build it with cinderblocks probably.

You could use it as a house, a hotel, a refuge, a cafe/hotel or a bar/hotel, or a church and offices. Or just a home. Or a church/parsonage.

Perhaps you have:

Bar, cafe and seating in the front.

Then a bathroom and kitchen next two rooms. Then two bedrooms and two meeting/work rooms where you have access to the internet. Bedrooms have 8 bunks in each.

It’s just space though. And rooms. You can use it however you wish.

Hostel:

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By the way, there are some additional ideas stashed at the bottom of this page.

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Probably France is a very good place for these sorts of things.

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Charity: and/or social entrepreneurship

Two faraday houses, side by side. A big church or wealthy backer funds it for a smaller church in a small town. It has two faraday houses. One is used as a refuge for those in danger. As a sanctuary. The other one is used for the Sunday morning meetings and for the pastor’s home. Obviously, you knock out a few internal walls, to create some space for the meeting area. Or change the arrangements of the rooms. It can be built all over the place. Use affordable, easy to use construction methods. Use whatever is appropriate in your local environment.

Chapel, parsonage (aka vicarage or manse), and a safe house as a refuge for a dozen people in immediate danger (just like my grandma and grandpa). Good examples of people in danger might be my Grandmother, Grandfather or myself. My grandmother was driven to suicide by the system (assisted suicide, aka euthanasia) because she wanted to chat to people around her at the rest home and because she couldn’t convince the system that she had anything to live for. Her son was a part of this situation. I can’t prove that though. My grandfather was killed by the system, using remote control tightening of his neck and other parts of his body. Maybe other muscles. I don’t know which muscles they did it to. But I suspect they did it to his iliopsoas, neck, throat, back and shoulders. It killed him. My father was a part of that situation. And as for me, I’m actively being harmed. And it sucks.

Ps: my grandparents were old, and there were other issues too. But my grandfather went though a pronounced change in his body as a result of the things they did to him. It changed his body. The form, posture, shape and structure of his body changed. He had to use blocks of wood nailed into the walls as supports to navigate the house. His shoulders were up around his ears like a coat hanger. He couldn’t walk. He had massive eye pain and a weeping eye. He just couldn’t move. He suffered an anal prolapse. These people did horrible things to him. And it was his own family and former son-in-law. And these people have done similar things to me, and have used similar muscle control techniques. After proving conclusively that these methods can be lethal.

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Added a new idea:

There could be three buildings. One for the pastor to live, one for the church hall, meeting rooms, and offices. And the last one as a safe house. I think it is an excellent and scalable model.

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Country Pub: Hotel and Bar

Franchise opportunity: make a prototype of the faraday house. Improve it. Iterate and perfect it. Turn it into a New Zealand style country pub (bar and hotel). It has food, alcohol and accomodation. Use a New Zealand theme for it. It should be nothing fancy, but it should be warm, cosy and welcoming. Once the original business has taken off, franchise it or turn it into a chain. Call it something catchy, and have some sort of thematic decoration. Here in New Zealand we used to have a special rule that all pubs must have hotel rooms as a part of the conditions of starting a pub. And so we have a lot of places that have both alcohol and accomodation. It's a good combination. I think that the owner-operator should live on site, with their family. For best results, you maybe need two faraday houses side by side to have enough actual space. Maybe you end up with 10-12 rentable rooms.

What if you then fill them with families, including children and older people in stable long term stay situations. And you do it in a way that is economically sustainable. And then what if these people are all online. And they are on Facebook and WhatsApp and instagram and other social media and messaging apps. What will happen is that they will form their own culture amongst themselves (they will be blocked off of major platforms, probably). What happens next?

Note: I am not sure if you should put toilets in every room, or just have shared bathrooms across the whole block. It’s a tricky one. There are plenty of different arrangements for how to layout these things and how many to build.

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Ukraine

Ukrainian families all across Europe and around the world start up an owner-operated-occupied cafe, restaurant and bar. Aka, a pub. And stay inside it, never leaving. Ever. And start conversations from within it. This is only outside of Ukraine. It’s a family friendly place, with food and drink and conversations.

Also, simultaneously many simply build faraday houses. And they are connected via the internet. Those who are online and shielded function as the nervous system of the Ukrainian people, keeping communications afloat. These people are merely hermits. They can create media, news articles, newspapers, audio recordings, podcasts, magazines, manuals, videos, websites and other things. And these recordings and publications can then be watched and enjoyed in the Ukrainian owner-operated-occupied cafe, restaurant and bars. You play video related to the Ukraine War in the pub. By the way, a pub in New Zealand and other parts of the world isn’t automatically a horrible place that only adults go to.

Someone like New Zealand, Ireland, Norway or Mexico might need to do it first. The prototypes at least. To check that the engineering works, and that the communications technology can be rigged up properly.

Maybe look at the hub and spokes model associated with American mega churches to understand how some of this might work.

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Tiny House: look at both tiny houses.

Consider shielding one of these:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWSd8iLjhfY/?igsh=MWU1ZGtsZXY5dGY3ZA==

How?

Build a cinderblock enclosure kind of like a hollow horse shoe shape. Fill it with crushed aluminium cans. 2.4 metres might might be enough. I’m not sure exactly.

https://youtu.be/b5R6lHmDoyc?si=6HTwl82l2xThSAt7

^Another example of a tiny home.

Note: one of the things I often thought about was the importance of solitude. It is philosophically important. And I think that it is useful when it comes to the formation of a person’s character, personality and intellect. I was also very interested in things like peace, quiet and ataraxia.

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Make it a country inn: a new idea for the “faraday house”

Cosy and a little rustic. It should have a bar, kitchen and dining rooms, and maybe a dozen rooms for guests. Guest rooms ought to have bathrooms in them. There should be fast internet and plenty of basic comforts and amenities such as heating and cooling, fridges and electricity. The bar should be open to outside visitors. It would be a fantastic idea.

We could call it the cinderblock inn, with restaurant and bar.

Maybe women flock to these inns and lodges, and become long term residents. They supported by their fathers, sons, uncles and brothers. They can have shelter and nice food. And have access to the internet so that they can network with one another. They don't have to justify their decisions to anyone psychically.

Maybe intellectuals (like me) take refuge in them. Or perhaps engineers or former Silicon Valley tech workers fleeing California take refuge in them (I love techie people. Listening to podcasts by tech enthusiasts was the only thing keeping me sane back from 2012 to 2017). Persecuted religious minorities, and also elderly refugees fleeing serious life threatening harm could take refuge in them. The owners live on site.

We could have many of these, where people could live like hermits. People could build many of them. Perhaps hundreds in New Zealand alone. And hundreds more in places like Australia. Thousands and tens of thousands further abroad. I like Ireland, India, Canada and Mexico for this.

How do you build it? Well take the layout for faraday houses, and put two faraday houses right beside one another. With 24 rooms in total between the two (including kitchen, bar, bathroom, public dining rooms, private dining booth etc).

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What style?

You could make it something like a gasthaus.

Check this out. This is a gasthaus: https://wtf-philroberts.com/2018/01/04/gasthaus-uber-alles/

Or like an English inn/pub. Or like the Irish equivalent..

Update: Ahahahhahhaa. Get enough of them, and local nz politicians (parliament and local council) and activists could seek shelter there too. As well as bureaucrats and military men. And intelligence officers. But they have to be the proper things. Be open minded about what we can achieve over time, but be realistic about what can be done straight away. Who else: Chinese patriots who love China but hate the CCP and are being persecuted. Who else: homeless people in the USA (who tend to be oppressed minorities [i.e. Black] from lower socioeconomic backgrounds). Many of these people have grown up in homes where violence, abuse, neglect, drug use and alcoholism have been the norm. Some of them have made a few mistakes in their lives (or commit crimes) that have made it hard for them to integrate well into society. But many haven’t commit any real crimes, or may have only committed victimless crimes such as using cannabis. I understand that the Chinese and American leaders hate homeless black males, but I feel that they are people too, and would benefit from the opportunity to create places of shelter from the radio frequency, electromagnetic psychic assaults on their nervous systems.

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You have to read other versions of this to understand how it would work. And I didn’t draw things like the width of the walls. Walls made of cinderblocks are 20 cm thick by the way. The rooms are supposed to be 3 by 2 metres. The spaces for the cubes of crushed cans should be about 1 metre by three metres.the length of the place should be about 16 metres. It’s up to the individual person’s judgement though.

Sorry about the grease stains. I put it on the stove top. Where there was grease from frying a piece of lamb for dinner.

Maybe a youth hostel as well. Make these as hostels. This is only once 100s of houses and dozens of pubs/hotels exist in the world. The idea is always that these things become ubiquitous. They quickly become a standard and readily available part of life. Kind of like personal computers became ubiquitous. It’s technology, after all.

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Repost:

Safe Room: “a sleeping chamber to cure long covid”

One room, about 4 metres by 4 metres.

You put shelves (metal shelves, of the style and type you might have in a workshop, that is, workshop shelves) along two or three walls. Floor to ceiling. 2.4 metres high. Bolt the shelves to floor and ceiling (or to the studs in the wall) for stability. Stack shelves full of cubes of crushed aluminium cans. Use perfectly clean, brand new cubes of cans. Cover the shelves with a sheet. Put a bed, chest of drawers and a chair into the room. And you have a safe room. Then maybe what you do is sleep in there if you have “long covid”. And it cures your long covid (which is just all cell towers and satellites anyway.

If you want it to be tidier, then hide the shelves of cans behind new walls.

It could be a cure for “long covid”. Which is very common in South America, especially Brazil and Argentina. Basically, just put cubes of crushed cans against two walls (or maybe two and a half walls), cover up the cans with dry wall and framing etc. paint it. And then you have a room in which you can sleep. I think. And your “long covid” is cured. At least at home. The symptoms go away.

The important thing is the supply chain and production line. And having the right economies of scale and right products. That is, creating the right shapes and types of cubes, and having an industry where they are mass produced and therefore more affordable. And creating a cottage industry around installation. Like actual small businesses.

Maybe plumb a toilet, sink and perhaps stand alone shower into the room.

[Speaking of “long covid”, I actually had the symptoms of “chronic fatigue”, “chronic back problems” and “chronic digestive problems” as well as a variety of other symptoms such as brain fog, dry mouth and an inability to sleep properly, feel refreshed after sleep or regulate my body temperature. They also used sweat as a symptom, and would randomly cause me to have massive uncontrollable bouts of hunger. I had these sorts of issues in my life from 18 onwards, but haven’t written up the full story. It’s a work in progress. I have filled in about two notepads so far. It’s a long story with a lot of details to it. It was mostly caused by cell towers and satellites.]

Cure for em spectrum rf related insomnia:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWP5bDTGact/?igsh=Y2h4bTFzc2Z0ZjMz

Postscript: If you do two adjacent rooms in a house or apartment at the same time, it might be more efficient and effective. Just sneakily, if you do this for perhaps between thirty and one hundred apartments in a highly built up area, or even in one apartment building or apartment complex, then the whole apartment block or area might to be affected. Possibly to the point that it might go altogether ”dark” to the system.. maybe you do 200 apartments in the same sort of area in Lower East Side, New York, and the whole neighbourhood is cooked, or part of it. And the efficiency of cell towers and satellite surveillance drops from 100% to 2.5%. Basically, it’s gone dark. Just two rooms each for 200 apartments. It is just an idea.

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Faraday House

Not finished.

But just ideas. Back of the envelope. It’s a house.

Suburban house. Scale is each room is about 3 by 2 metres. Construction style is wooden framing, piles, weatherboards (or other suitable cladding), gib board, building part, colour steel roof. Each room has an exterior window. Not included in the picture. The cans go in dedicated can closets. In a pinch, brick or cinderblock construction might be doable, but it might actually be tough because cinder blocks are so think? But ymmv. Normal NZ joinery (aluminium or wooden) for windows and doors. Cans are inserted by means of workshop shelves and 40cm cubes of crushed aluminium cans. Totally clean cans. Roof is a basic “colour steel” (basically corrugated iron) roof with maybe a normal pitch/angle. Idk how to do roof pitches, whatever is a normal angle.

The cans compartments: these are one metre by three metres. They have a door. They have a ventilation grill or something to the outside, to keep air flowing. They contain shelves (probably made out of steel) from floor to ceiling in which you can fit plenty of cubes of crushed cans. The cubes or rectangles might be somewhere between 40 cm to 60 cm to 80 cm in dimensions. It depends on what is easy to handle. There is space to walk in these compartments. They aren’t chocka compartments. If someone eventually creates a factory situation where you’re taking perfectly clean, totally new, brand new aluminium cans, and crushing them into standardised cubes or rectangles, then that might be ideal. Perfectly clean, brand new aluminium cans crushed and turned into rectangles might be essential. And producing with mass manufacturing them might be extremely beneficial.

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Second image.

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Make it a country inn.

Cosy and a little rustic. It should have a bar, kitchen and dining room, and maybe a dozen rooms for guests. Rooms ought to have bathrooms in them. There should be fast internet and plenty of basic comforts such as heating and cooling. The bar should be open to outside visitors. It would be a fantastic idea.

We could call it the cinderblock inn, with restaurant and bar.

Maybe women flock to these inns and lodges, and become long term residents. They supported by their fathers, sons, uncles and brothers. They can have shelter and nice food. And have access to the internet so that they can network with one another. They don't have to justify their decisions to anyone psychically.

We could have many of these, where people could live like hermits.

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Propaganda:

The woman doesn’t want to leave the house, because she is afraid of going outside, she becomes a hermit and never leaves

Just spitballing…

Based and housepilled, trad purdah sister wives

Man: if you leave even for a minute, they’ll fry your mind out there, it’s the only space that’s safe in here. And lecherous old men will coerce me into letting them sleep with you in exchange for money and resources, and I won’t be able to protect you out there.

He offers safety and shelter in exchange for “company” and housework. They have to pay a dowry to be there lol

Yes habibi, we will wash your laundry and have your dates, rice and lamb ready for you when you get home.

The beloved (apparently, habibi means “my love”): yes, I love lamb. Without you, I wouldn’t be able to have lamb for dinner.

Women: without you, we wouldn’t have money for lamb alone a safe place to cook it or eat it.

/ irony

Obviously, it needs work.

Wives: Uhhhh. Our secluded daughter Hasfa went online and did some online shopping, spending $7000. And was doing e-girl cam whore work to pay for the bill. We saw the footage. Bring out the petrol can and lighter, we need to honour kill her! Kill her! Kill her with fire.

Man: no habibti, we don’t kill them with fire any more!

Women, kill it with fire!

Man, no, no. we can send her to live with her great aunt. The wine aunt with cats (the alcoholic), over in Leeds (the main family is in the Islamic Caliphate of Birmingham, 30% muslim).

Women: kill it!

Man, no, no, if you kill her, no more shelter, nor more lamb, I’m sending her away whether you like it or not!

Conclusion: and so she goes over to Leeds to live with her alcoholic aunty who loves cats. There are no more tender cuts of lamb to eat, no more half dissolved dates to find in the greasy, lightly spiced rice, no more hidden pieces of whole cardamom to find, no more toasted almonds on top, no more privacy, and no more solitude or shelter. All that remains is online shopping and wine. No one wants her e girl web cam work anymore, because she was making money off of a Muslim fetish. And now she’s living with her aunty, it’s just not the same. Idk. (The only way she was making money was by selling hijabi foot pics)

Or…

Based and house pilled, trad bomb-shelter wife

“Keep calm and carry on”, “those electronic fascists can’t keep electro bombing us forever!” “The blitz has turned into a slog.”.

I think the second one works better.

Or,

Based and house pilled, Malaysian pudding wife, Xbox rotting. I’m not going outside. I’m just playing Xbox and making us pudding.

Man, no more pudding, you can hardly fit in the house as it is!

Then picture of her too large to fit through doors.

Woman: But there is nothing else in life to do, and nothing that is real, but Xbox and pudding!

Games and pudding, only things that exist.

Man then takes the pudding pill, becomes based and pudding pilled. Final picture is of a blimp sized Muslim man with a pudding in front of him. Both he and his wife are exactly round.

I can’t do memes though. It’s too hard atm. Humour is supposed to be provocative, but it’s also supposed to be funny. But the funny part is hard at the moment. Perspectives are difficult to manage. All of those are in faraday houses, that have gone dark. Invisible to the system.

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People become “based and hermit pilled”. Never leave their home. And they live there as flatmates. They communicate by physical letter and by other means. Over time, a new “hermit culture” emerges. The aren’t actively fighting the system, or at least most of them aren’t, which means that the system can’t attack them.

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More sensible idea: a landlord builds one for himself, and ten for other people. And he does this in a tiny place like Fairmouth, Kentucky. And he rents these three bedroom places to other people. Families with 5-6 people, or room-mate/flatmate situations with 5-6 people.

Ideas: what could you use it for? Private house/home, a home for 5 flatmates, hotel, flophouse, boarding house, pub, internet cafe, possibly an internet cafe or pub with overnight rooms. Oh, and a meeting house (Or a marae? I don't want to be too PC) or a safe house are all options.

Corporate head quarters, worker dorms, offices.

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What if you’re based and seclusion pilled, trad asymmetrical warfare chad, and start a cottage industry of making memes from home? /humour

The well known meme face of silly bearded Nordic looking Viking dude: “Yes”. Iirc, it is the “Nordic gamer” or “yes chad” wojak.

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www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=cam_whore

^Reference material to help you understand how the girl mentioned above was making money to pay for online shopping

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Next idea: faraday safe room

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Just spitballing ideas: Sikhs

Sikhs: dedicated to fighting for justice, righteousness and protecting the weak. Perhaps faraday safe houses become standard for people like them.

How can you maintain your own righteousness, and the integrity of your mind, if you cannot have a place of solitude alone with your own thoughts.

And also you need a place where you can have conversations with your own sect to figure out what you believe or don't believe.

Furthermore, they may wish to have places of safety in which they can offer asylum to the weak and oppressed.

And a place of mental solitude where they can plan out schemes of fighting for justice. And meet together to work on implementing these plans.

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Safe Room

One room, about 4 metres by 4 metres.

You put shelves (metal shelves, of the style and type you might have in a workshop) along two or three walls. Floor to ceiling. 2.4 metres high. Bolt the shelves to floor and ceiling. Stack shelves full of cubes of crushed aluminium cans. Perfect clean, brand new cubes of cans. Cover the shelves with a sheet. Plumb a toilet, sink and perhaps stand alone shower into the room. Put a bed, chest of drawers and a chair into the room. And you have a safe room. Then maybe if one member of your family is terrified and in danger, they can hide out. And they stay there for a year or two. Assuming someone can bring them food.

If you want it to be tidier, then hide the shelves of cans behind new walls.

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Who might like it? Faraday tech in general.

Elderly in danger: a very important demographic

The elderly are very much in danger!

Women who have been trafficked into sex work (this includes both women who have been complicit and those who are not).

Irish

Silicon Valley Refugees: huge, hugely important demographic.

Tech Aficionados who believe in electronic freedoms and an open internet and DIY web hosting. People who support the ideas of things like the IndieWeb movement, and are working on home brew internet hosting solutions and p2p sharing. Perhaps also the sort of people who watch or listen to TwiT and used to enjoy Dan Benjamin's 5x5 network.

Proponents of open journalism who believe in having home printing presses

Oppressed religious people: this includes Christian, Jews and Muslims

People who don't like Buddhism, and don't want it being installed into their brains by force (no compulsory eastern psychology! It sucks, and makes you daft and less moral)

Latin Americans in imminent danger of regime change. Too late for Venezuela, perhaps not too late for Cuba (who I want to win, even if I don't love their ideology!).

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How many to build?

Maybe you build 30 of them in a place like Templeton, just outside of Christchurch. Near Waterloo road. And you sell them to landlords (and owner occupiers), who then rent them to tenants for about $1500 NZD per week each. It could perhaps be subsidised a bit by donations.

And this happens all over the world, just outside cities and large towns. And it happens in thousands of places using standard construction methods and standard methods of financing. And there are 20000 rentable faraday houses around the world by Christmas.

But first we need prototypes and perhaps a couple of proof of concepts. A good prototype, followed by iteration, and then we might figure out exactly how best to do it. And we can have the final model, ready to produce at scale.

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Hermit movement: what if people start a hermit movement. Clusters of 2-3 faraday houses inside pre-existing small towns and suburbs. And each of these have a connection to the internet. And they create a social media network of their own called "hermit social". And they use "encrypted tunnels" to connect to it. And it has video, audio, pictures and text. As well as chat and forums. And file sharing. It is a p2p social network. It has distributed servers as nodes, hidden inside people's faraday houses. And basic media and communication erupts into existence. A whole new culture exists.

Tldr: people become hermits in faraday houses all around the world, have internet connections, and start social media networks. At it works. And file sharing.

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The long rain

https://youtu.be/hoRMOg0N8pk?si=6RKoX5Um3SVMaAbc

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Backyard Faraday Tent

Five sheds, metal workshop shelves, with cubes of crushed cans, a tent, use cubes or rectangles of cans maybe 40 cm across. Maybe two layers of shelves in the cabins? Maybe one. It depends though. The sheds are mostly empty.

It is just an experiment!!

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Another idea, is that you could add in a portaloo and a kitchen area that contains a bench, sink and camp stove. That’s all I have got for now.

Next picture:

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Faraday Garden

Two cinder block structures full of cubes of crushed cans on heavy duty steel shelves. The structures are approximately 6 metres long, 3 metres high and 1 metre wide. They contain tall shelves heavily laden with cubes or rectangles of crushed cans. There is five metres of space between the two high walls. You put the garden in between. I think that it might work. Perhaps you might put it alongside a faraday house. For some people it might be the first taste of genuine solitude (or freedom) in their life. Their first patch of genuinely free soil in life. This is for young(ish) people. Or the only place where they are actually alone with their thoughts. See also the poem the lake isle of Innisfree. Where else can you find a place of genuine peace? A place where you can find genuine rest? Still just an idea.

You could double it up if you really wanted to.

There are plenty of people in the world with a bit of money set aside, who would love to have a place of mental solitude. A place of peace and quiet where they could be left alone. Some of them will just do it regardless of what other people think.

It is like the Lake Isle of Innisfree, a poem by Yeats. A place of peace and refuge.

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Backyard Sheds: kit sets and/or DIY blueprints

This picture is 100% not good enough. But it is a wooden shed, kitset. Mass manufactured. Put metal shelves into it, and stack aluminium cubes of crushed cans on the shelves. It’s the backyard solution. It has three compartments, the main inner area has doors and a window. Each side compartment has a door to it. It’s basic and wooden.

It’s just the idea.

There are ways to make it more effective, if this version isn’t powerful enough. Like extending the side compartments an extra metre out the back end for example. Or another idea to stimulate smart thought is to put a layer of cans 20 cm deep under the floor. This would be extremely effective in a shed of this size.

The idea is to design something that can be turned into a kit set that is easy and quick for other people to make. But in the meantime, to create a model that is suitable for other DIYers and home builders to make at home.

First of all, create a backyard shed with specifications and blueprints that works well enough and can be replicated by other fairly competent DIY type guys in their back yards.

Secondly, create a kitset version that is even easier, so that backyard DIY guys can do it quickly and easily, without too many hiccups.

Thirdly, create a version of a kitset that contains a shower, a toilet and a sink, as well as proper electrical wiring, that can be good enough to pass council standards and compliance. And that building companies are happy to put up for you. A kitset model with blueprints and specifications seems like a really good way to do it. Keep the IP either open source or Creative Commons though. You could even share it on something like GitHub.

A kitset isn’t always what you think it is. Sometimes it’s just half prefabricated construction with all of the parts out together, and you still need trained builders! But it saves a lot of time, effort and expense to do a kitset instead of doing it all from scratch. You do a lot of the work at the factory, to save you time on the building site. Wood construction of course. For example, treated radiata pine 2x4 for framing. Painted weatherboards on the outside, building paper beneath that, and line the inside with ordinary wooden planks, ply wood, or drywall. I think planks are best for the lining inside. Umm. Anything works though, it’s not that it has to be wood. It’s just that wood is very good for small projects at home. It’s a forgiving and resilient material, and a forgiving type of construction to use wood framing (as opposed to reinforced concrete, or brick houses, or cinderblocks, or who knows what’s else).

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Hypothetically speaking, a person could construct a backyard faraday tent (with a toilet [porta loo] and plumbed in outdoor sink). Before immediately getting to work on building a prototype faraday house, while living in the tent.

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Under the floorboards: a new idea

Assume that you have a typical Kiwi house that is built on piles.

What if you just put a bunch of wooden pallets down on the ground beneath the floor of your house. And then put a whole bunch (maybe $30k NZD worth of cubes of crushed aluminium cans down on those pallets underneath your house. And then maybe some against your walls in a few rooms, and hidden in some wardrobes too. Decided that are maybe closer to 20-40cm in width, instead of being like 2m worth. I think it might be more efficient. It might be super successful! And if it works, it might go viral.

Now just imagine that one million households do this all over the world by Christmas 2026. What then?

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Backyard podcasters shed (or podcast listeners shed)

For Americans, if I were doing products for USA. Sit in your back yard and create podcasts or listen to them. It might be quite affordable over time! And you can just have normal Skype conversations.

It might cost in the ballpark of 12k nzd in total, ball park.

$7000 in usd, maybe could get it lower to something like 4-5000 usd over time. I don’t know how much material is needed, or how expensive basic tin sheds are.

Maybe all of the people of your local neighbourhood can listen to podcasts in there too.

One person creates the California and friends: news and discussion podcast, it’s 30 minutes long. And it has 1 million listeners globally, 600000 of them in California alone. People listen to them in their back-yards, but they share their sheds. There is a lot of sharing. Like, you finish up listening on your own laptop, but you transfer the audio file onto an old thumb stick to put into a stereo in the shed, so that other people can listen to the show in their shed. And maybe throughout the week, 300 other people use the same shed to listen. And so you can reach lots of people locally. Maybe 4-5 people can fit into the shed at once to listen to it, and then they can talk about it afterwards.

It is a shed that people can use to listen to podcasts.

And also to record and create them.

It’s a great for of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. It might help Americans to break free of the attempts of their universities to create an environment where only university educated people have opinions. A monopoly on opinions and speech. It also helps people to socialise on their own terms, and to have their own minds again. Furthermore, it shields them from corporate repression.

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Five walls (and a sponsorship model)

Start a shanty town in who knows where. University Students. Central America or something. Or New Zealanders in Palmerston North or Dunedin. And get overseas tech millionaires to support it. Sponsor a cabin or two. Sponsor a wall in the shanty town 20 metres long, two and a half metres high, 50 cm wide, fifteen metres long, and covered in concrete. With foundations well put together. And get ten of these paid for by Silicon Valley millionaire refugees. Sink the wall down into the ground too, maybe. So it’s 1 metre deep and 2.5 metres above ground. Build them 4 metres apart in a field. And build a shanty there. Success! And they then provide refuge for all and sundry. Or just get sponsorship for your front garden 5 shed model. To expand it.

Idk, Kenya, South Africa, Lesotho, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Swaziland. Shanty town. Tents first, build shanty town later, then build better houses over 3-6 months.

New Zealand or Australia!!! Or Wales, England, Scotland, Ireland. Just do a tent city!!! Ahhhh. It’s a refugee camp. Tents first, build shanty town later, then build better houses over 3-6 months.

Haha, I shouldn’t say this: New Masada, new parihaka, or it’s just like fleeing the Soviet invasion of the nation of Hungary, or sheltering yourself from the Nazi Blitz. Maybe Parihaka is a good one (an inspiration for Ghandi and Tolstoy I think). Parihaka: sometimes when you lose, you still win in some ways (they screwed up on some property rights issues, but it’s complicated). Altruistic: solve problems. It wouldn’t be new Masada tbh. Because people would just sprinkle these walls into slums… and add in a few sheds too.

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The powers that be (institutions, models (corporate, banking, academic/university, intelligence agency, political parties, ideologies, wealthy, powerful, politicians) aren't capable of maintaining a coherent and stable society, so what does it matter if I (or we) create disruptive technologies to shelter the good and the innocent from the depredations of the wicked/ignorant/greedy/perverted/stupid/power-hungry. These powerful people will just screw up anyway. They are tards. Their way of life based on satellites (and corporations banks and universities) as well as little more than glorified video games, is probably going to fail anyway. So why shouldn't we shelter ourselves?

Note: the powers that be aka, the tards that abide, the dunderheads that abound. The power-structures and those who inhabit them. Idk. Words are hard to find.

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Another idea:

This could possible go in your front garden in a suburban area. And you could live there, and offer conversation to people passing by!

I have heard rumours that the baseline version of one 1x2 shed amidst 4 sheds full of cans work. And so this one can work.

Note, it might be possible to make this model even more efficient. Perhaps by doubling up the habitable sheds. I will post a picture soon. And instead of a beer fridge, maybe hot chocolate, tea and coffee.

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Two more ideas:

Four small sheds, which make it possible to eat, sleep, socialise, wash and use the toilet. And if it is in the front yard, you can receive food deliveries (bread, cheese, canned soup, water, beer). For the bathroom, use standard normal equipment and plumbing.

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Backyard Faraday Cabin

Most decent diary entry.

It is still a skunkworks, and it doesn’t work until it is proven to work.

Ps: you can always plumb a toilet in there. And put it behind a curtain (on a railing) for privacy. One toilet installed in the corner shouldn’t be too difficult if you have help, or have the skills yourself. And maybe a sink outside.

PPS: My grandma and grandpa might not have died the way they did if they had had one of these in their back yard.

Edit, new idea: it’s less like a “body blow” to the system, and more like the _invention of quinine_.

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A new idea: lots of sheds

One of these could be repurposed for being a family home. Just make it into modular housing.

Put it in an empty lot, behind a chain link fence. And use a mega phone. Talk to the public however loudly you want. And maybe turn it into a hang out space.

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Perfect for refugee camps. And I get the feeling that economies of scale probably exist once you get this many (or more) sheds in the same location. And if you expand to a situation where you have 36 usable sheds, maybe you get massive economies of scale.

What if it goes viral?

What if students embrace it? They need refuge more than many? They are refugees of the mind, in a society that is hell bent on dumbing them down.

And women who want to exit the system, even if only for a few months, just to "reset" their brain.

What if they create massive refugee camps?

Maybe make the middle shed a thoroughfare, with doors on each end.

Sheds are either 2 by 1 metre or about 2 by 2. Approximately.

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Maybe put some seats and tables into the sheds and make it into a cafe or a bar: wine and beer. It might be nice in France, Spain or Italy. Advertise it to people on the street by a megaphone: “free speech cafe, coffee 3 euro, beer 5 euro, wine 5 euro, pastries in the cabinet 2 euro, faraday shielding, have any conversation you like, socialise with anyone, invite anyone to your table to talk”.

Socialise on your own terms.

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Or take the blueprint and turn it into modular housing. Perhaps the women of the household demand it. They hate living under the “eye of Sauron” and request shelter and they get it. You’d have to make it a bit nicer though!

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The cafe model: just serve tea, filter coffee from pot and standard bakery fare (sandwiches, cakes, lamingtons, biscuits, muffins, scones). People can sit and talk. But you can also use it to print and distribute fliers, booklets and leaflets. There is a printer on site, and/or photocopier. There are also computers with pre-recorded video messages that you can watch. Or a projection room where you can watch the same half a dozen short videos on repeat. It’s a cafe, but with media. You can get information, food, drink and conversation. For New Zealand, it’s just basic tea and coffee, and basic bakery fare. Perhaps each shed should have doors that open in the front and back, so make walking around the location easy. It could be extremely easy and comfortable.

In the sheds you have private tables, or the place wheee you serve the food and drink. Outside the sheds, you have picnic tables and benches with sun umbrellas, where people can sit and eat. Or even put up proper shade cloths. Maybe a band too?

What if this goes viral? All over the world? Cafes everywhere?

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Here is an idea: it is a tea house, cafe, bar, or what not.

Maybe have one counter/shed serving tea, filter coffee, cake, slice, biscuits and sandwiches, as well as potato chips and cans of fizzy drink, all during the day. And the other shed selling beer and wine at night, perhaps with unheated bar snacks like chips and peanuts. It might turn into a fantastic location for conversation.

Ps: it might be expandable. I will try to do an expanded version later. And maybe put it at the bottom of the page. But the easier version is what’s testable. I put a picture of it at the bottom of the page. The picture is absolutely horrible. But I might redo it sometime.

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5 sheds

Five sheds, each measuring one by two metres. Fill the outer sheds with crushed aluminium inside. Put a mattress and a folding chair and table in the middle shed. Hang the folding chair and table on the wall at night. Lean the mattress against the wall during the day. It might be a little too “bare bones” or not have enough material. It could just as easily be a study nook, an office, a reading room, a writing nook for diarists, a computer gaming room or a man cave. A printing and pamphlet distribution kiosk. Or just a spot for conversation. Or a spot for terrified homeless people to take refuge, if only for a day or two.

Or an “electronic” bomb shelter in the back yard, just in case they fry of us simultaneously, just out of spite or fear. Like if you’re in country that America hates. Or if you’re in China and try to rebel en masse against the system.

Here is an example of the type of shed you might use, but many such examples exist. You could even use a shed that measured two metres by two metres, and only half fill them, putting the cans only on the side of the shed adjacent to the middle shed. For the four containers of cans, I mean.

https://www.mitre10.co.nz/shop/duratuf-guardian-gl37-garden-shed-1-02-x-2-02m-zinc/p/297868?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21093805856&gbraid=0AAAAADvumcAEcb750sXUbgoYisPv1Bd_a&gclid=CjwKCAiAqprNBhB6EiwAMe3yhlmzP96tEcHnuKe4lVA1GkR2lAeymcQq2XSeYlCJePH6OkObqq5TqhoCyY0QAvD_BwE

Ps: this is just an idea, it is untested, untried and uncertain.

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The compartments version

Perhaps create a couple of compartments on two of the walls of a room. Build framing and line the spaces with plywood and put drywall in the outside. Leave a couple of cupboards in the top of it to be able to put loose crushed cans in through. And I think that two walls per room might do it. Particularly if you can get two rooms with it. And just maybe put in something like a window seat full of crushed aluminium cans, and a few disrupto cubes around the room. You might be able to have two safe rooms per home.

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The office divisions and compartments version

Another idea… take an office building. Build compartments out of plywood throughout the building and fill them with loose crushed cans. And maybe if you have enough of them, it works. It’s just an idea. Just test! Because if it works, it’s legendary. In fact, just test two shipping containers full of loose crushed aluminium cans. Maybe get the type of container that has a lid that opens from above, and totally fill it with loose cans! Maybe it’s way cheaper and easier to do it like that. But that’s just a test. Maybe it’s exactly as effective as the dense version.

It’s about interference, not shielding. You’re not blocking out all rays, just creating enough interference that you can’t triangulate the position of the their nervous system, nerves, to get a reading. Let alone create a good connection.

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A little more discussion

Maybe you have a house in New Zealand, on wooden piles. Which means that there is space underneath it. You lay down pallets on the dirt beneath the house and then put 50L plastic containers full of loose crushed aluminium cans into the containers on the pallets underneath the house.

You then find a way to put a whole bunch of these 50L boxes full of loose crushed aluminium cans into the roof.

Then put a few compartments into the house. That is, just a false wall with about 50 cm space behind it, and fill a few of those with cans. And then I think it's pretty much done. Maybe just a few of those plastic containers around the place too.

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Disrupto-Cubes

Edit: maybe make the cubes something like 50cm.

Ps: my grandma and grandpa died from this sort of stuff, grandpa straight killed by my father afaik.

PPS: I think it might be possible to greatly reduce the number of boxes for a nook, particularly if economies of scale are involved. But the first experiment needs to be done first.

If you have a nearby bathroom or toilet, and it isn’t a large room, and has space in adjacent areas, you might be able to disrupt those areas too. Just put containers on the other side of the toilets walls. I’ll upload an example.

This version of the thing is a proof of concept. The next version/s maybe you could do a lot more with. Just disrupt the zone around a bed, or a desk, or a couch and TV, or a kitchen table, or a web hosting server, a yoga/meditation spot, a class room. The sky is the limit. But the proof of concept is the important thing. If that doesn’t work, then it doesn’t work.

If you maybe put a total of 50 to 100 in total around a normal house, it might enough to disrupt their radio wave based stuff, and create a “dead zone”. That’s the theory. But the only way to figure it out is to try it.

Added 23rd feb:

Ps: maybe you can do it to just one or two rooms in an apartment building. And then if you do it to 50+% of the apartments in the building, perhaps the apartment building goes dark as a whole.

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Extra idea^

23 cubes. But maybe there are easier or better arrangements of them for shielding an individual room. Like you put them in the adjacent room (electromagnetic radiation of the wavelengths they use doesn’t really worry about normal walls in a house very much - it’s sort of em radiation, it is weird though).

I’ll do up a better version sometime. But I think it might be ready for testing!

It is even made out of recycled goods (crushed aluminium cans) and renewable resources (wood).

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Disrupto-cubes in a school gym, but extrapolate outwards. Fill the whole place with booths. The other idea is that you can go into a place in a place like England, Manchester. A place with row houses. And every house shield two bedrooms. But once 66% of the houses have done this, the whole row is “disrupted” and becomes a dead zone. It’s just a theory. But I think that it might work.

The school gym idea is that you have to extrapolate it out. Imagine the whole gym is full of them. They cover the whole floor. It’s up to scale.

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Probably needs more shielding/disruption. You could perhaps even out some tables and couches in there, made out of disrupto-cubes. Such as two cubes side by side, with a wooden board on top of it. Or chairs made out of (smaller) disrupto cubes. Or standup tables made of two cubes, one on top of another.

It works by means of disruption, not shielding.

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What if people started putting these in homes and universities. And then started making propaganda and educational content (and media). And then shared it via the internet (through encrypted tunnels). And then watched propaganda videos all over the world both in family homes as well as universities. And also perhaps maybe dodgy apartment blocks of the kind where the DEA and ICE can't even enter them to inspect them (Latin Americans and African-Americans). And also Muslims and other minorities in places like Canada. And Chinese Patriots against the CCP in New Zealand could use them too. And everyone can share videos and watch them as a group. And discuss them unimpeded. Videos could be made in the modern equivalent of flash, and often be animations. Or just video. They could perhaps create a counter culture. (And forums, chat rooms, video sharing, podcast sharing, animation sharing websites, music sharing, sharing of pdfs of pamphlet and booklets to be printed locally). These ideas might scale, up to millions and millions of people. And also people might use them to create refuge.] (Ps: we still don't know if these things work. PPS: Chinese who move to NZ/AUS are often kind of refugees from the Chinese system and party, or used to be. But there is no escape for Chinese refugees! And nowhere to hide!)

Random note: these people misclassified me early on as fighting for “reverse social engineering”. Like years ago. But I haven’t yet been able to set the record straight. I’ll try to finish up some stories when I can.

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What if a factory cropped up in Mexico City making 10000 disrupto cubes per day. Selling them for $100 per cube (or $8000 for 100). And they used perfectly clean, brand new aluminium cans. Freshly crushed. And what if they did likewise in Sao Paulo?

And then people could make a safe room (or safe space) in their home? For about the price of 8-12k nzd, they could create a safe room to use as their: reading room, sitting room, lounge, computer room etc. And then also create a small "dead zone" for their bed.

Extending it out further, what if there were safe houses in every town in your country? Would the social engineering fail? Would it go backwards?

Maybe don't post this.

Total civilisation level re-engineering (aka reverse social engineering) wasn't what I was hoping to do when I allegedly went wolololololo, and allegedly wanted to "move the world with a lever". But I'll explain that another day.

I thought that back when I was theorising, that I could perhaps create a "computer virus" in sociology. It's a bit of a stretch, as a metaphor. Something that could scale and spread. I would (or could) find a "zero day flaw" and create an exploit.

Or perhaps a public health analogy, like the fight against smallpox, malaria or polio might be better examples.

But anyway, I always thought that it might be best to shy away from actually doing it. I wanted to be responsible when or if I used these techniques. It's actually a little complicated, and the are many ethical concerns in this situation.

Problem solving by means of invention and innovation is the sort of thing I always wanted to do. But there are ethical concerns!!

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Another idea for faraday disrupto-cubes:

https://www.bunnings.co.nz/all-set-50l-clear-modular-storage-container_p0219783?store=9491&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21895743995&gbraid=0AAAAADL7rPpCYz8afD5PQy6EaI0fPUali&gclid=Cj0KCQiAwYrNBhDcARIsAGo3u32UIDstz5zUBTOSA92dEfJfWT-WLVxmZzOXnSvRAJCTvnqTiVDRvJoaAsSvEALw_wcB

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A room of one’s own

Perhaps a woman should have a room of her own if she is to have a mind of her own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_of_One%27s_Own

And if women have rooms of their own, shielded by disrupto cubes. Or with false walls that allow them to pack crushed cans into 2-3 walls of their bedrooms or lounges, many of them will choose to live differently. They will have time to think, and ask themselves if they want to be a commodity. A commodity sex product, and commodity sexual experience.

Other demographics who might benefit from these technologies might be the elderly, honest Chinese dissidents, Christians, males who just want to chill out and play video games and finally thinkers and intellectuals who want to preserve and use their mind.

Just one room in a house. There are more ideas stuffed at the bottom of the page.

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What if?

What if people started building faraday garages in their back yards, and then started building a second one for guests (in case of emergencies, or for longer term stays or rentals). They could do this sort of thing in suburbia or rural areas all over the world. People could have one for themselves, and one for someone else. It could change the world by offering people shelter and refuge. And it might actually be affordable for many people.

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Faraday Garage

Maybe use a pre-existing internal garage, and put up additional internal walls, and fill the spaces created with bales of cans. 2 by 6 metres of cans. Each side. Line the “can side” of the walls with planks, and the inside of the walls with plywood. Also, make the walls sturdy, in case of earth quake. Ps: long term, it ought to be possible to cut costs by using a smaller quantity of raw materials, or higher quality materials or better style of construction, but in the skunkworks I think that is best to do the expensive version.

It would fit in here. I call it “the Anne Frank”, haha.

You could even do bunk beds.

For more inspiration, you could even customise it by put in a side door instead of the side window. And replace the bed with a bunk-bed-desk. And then put the fridge and microwave on the north wall of the “apartment”.

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Faraday Garage 2.0

Another layout. You could even put up drywall on the framing, and paint it. Or wallpaper it. If you so desired. It’s for a standalone garage.

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If you have to, put a couple of ordinary garden sheds in front of it and behind it with some crushed cubes of cans in them.

Ps: this is where it might get interesting…. But try it with cubes of aluminium (think that version probably works fairly convincingly). And then try it with loose crushed cans. It might be possible to get it working with much, much less material. For example, it might be possible to get it going just with these compartments full of loose crushed cans. And maybe some sheds or containers full of loose crushed cans surrounding the place. It might be possible to greatly reduce the cost of the construction project over time. And maybe other materials could be used as the filler. It is a skunkworks after all.

Maybe you could also have a “murphy bed” in there, that is a folding bed. I’m not so sure this one is strong enough though. I don’t know. It might not have enough crushed cans in there.

I have this idea, that perhaps we could shelter refugees in our homes. Assuming this works. And then ordinary people can flee all of this madness, and hide in other people’s garages. Both of my maternal grandparents seem to have been killed by this stuff. And in the past my family were refugees. More about that in a bit.

Maybe you have a house in a rural area, and you first shelter yourself with a garage modification. And once you’re sure that works, you build 30 faraday garages in your front paddock/s. And then you shelter 30 families of 4 (at a reasonable discounted/subsidised price). It’s a way to shelter refugees. And that is what they are. And you tell them that their refugee status is conditional on them keeping their heads down, and avoiding trouble and drama.

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Additional idea: get 100 small garden sheds, cheap tin sheds. And space them out in a grid pattern ten metres apart. Across a field 100 metres by 100 meters. And put some cubes of crushed cans inside them. This might shield the whole area, or at least the inner 80 by 80 ish area.

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Basement conversion

Create rooms in your basement similar to the size of shipping containers. But you don’t need a ceiling for these rooms. And then fill these with aluminium cans. You don’t need a lid to the thing. Just create a space like you use for the “faraday garage” and make a nook 5 metres long and two meters wide, in the basement. And make the walls nice and finished, put carpet down, and use it as a man cave (aka, a den). I’ll tidy it up later.

Like this^

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Garage conversion project:

Put two containers into a garage. Put a gap between the two containers. And you make the gap between the containers between 1 and 3 metres. And you just put a bed, desk and armchair in the gap. And you’re done. You might need to get custom containers made, that are only 6ft high, because the garage isn’t high enough to fit the normal height containers that are 8 and a half foot high (I.e. not enough clearance). It is also okay if the containers are slightly shorter. For example, they could be 16 foot long. That might make it possible to fit them into an ordinary Kiwi garage (which is often 6x6m). Note: the picture isn’t perfectly to scale. This would be much easier with a big garage! One that’s bigger than the standard 6 by 6 metres, and maybe has higher ceilings.

Ps; you could plumb a toilet and sink in there, easy as pie. If you really wanted to. But assume that you’re just putting a bed, couch and desk in there. Just use your main toilet.

I think that this one might actually be 90% ready for prime time. Just put two faraday containers into a garage, between 1-3 metres apart.

Three more ideas:

You could put one of the containers outside, and one inside, if that is easier.

Next idea:

A standalone garage. Put a bed, desk, chair, armchair, fridge and microwave in there. Maybe a “composting toilet”. Run an Ethernet cable from the main house (no wifi after all). And put a bookshelf and a guitar in there for something to do. It’s a home office with a bed. You still mostly live in the main house.

Or just make a mancave.

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Apartment Conversion Project

Maybe buy something like this and fill the entire ground floor with bales of crushed aluminium cans.

It would be very expensive. But then you could use the whole thing as a refuge. It would be great “proof of concept”. It might cost you $720000 NZD to put the cans in (12 deep, 2 high, 50 wide equals 1200 cubic metres). The apartments themselves are priced at about 7 million nzd. Or 4.3 million USD.

One millionaire who owned it could shelter upwards of a hundred people long term. The apartment building has 30 apartments, if you fill a third of them with cans, you might end up with 20 apartments available for use.

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/9620-Farmer-Dr-Highland-IN/38411624/

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Another idea for faraday shielding a house

It requires six half sized containers.

The house is 12 metres by 18.

It might be a little over engineered. But it’s worth trying out. If the prototype works, then it might be possible to cut costs somehow.

$120 - $150k NZD, estimate.

Edit: It would probably work very, very well on a smaller house also. Even with only four containers.

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The Four Corners Model of Faraday Shielding: an Example

This is a rough example of what I mean by the four corners model. I think it’s worth trying out. This particular example is from rural Texas, near Houston. Not that the location of the example matters all that much. There is another idea worth trying out at the bottom of the page.

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Edit/addition: it is possible that the four corners model might work just fine with half sized containers. That is, we put one 10 ft container on each corner, and each container is completely full of crushed aluminium cans. Particularly if it is a small house. But it may be preferable to test it out first with 20 ft containers.

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Scroll down for the discussion of this one^

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Hi Everybody, I just updated and added a bunch of stuff. The headings are “high stud garage”, additional images of hiding a house, and “herd immunity”.

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Picnic

You could just put a faraday container in your backyard. And put a blanket down right beside it, to just sit and relax. You could lay on the blanket to read a book. Or you could meditate, or take a nap. Or even set up a table and a chair. Or perhaps you could have a picnic.

In the open air, and in the sunshine.

It is supposed to have an area of effect of up to ten metres, according to (rumoured testing). If it works, it will go viral.

You could put up a sun-shade or umbrella if you prefer, along with a picnic table. Or you could put up a tent or cheap wooden shack/shed/cabin, so that you have a nice place to sit and rest, that is out of the sun and rain. Imagine this: you have a picnic blanket on one side of the container, along side a couple of deck chairs, a wooden picnic table on another side with an umbrella in it, and a small shack on the other side with a chair, table and couch inside it, and on the final side you have a prefab portable bathroom (plumbed into your home water supply and sewerage system) or a portaloo. Run power and internet out there from your house, so you can plug your laptop in. And it’s all clustered around just one container.

Your mind is probably invisible to certain functions: such as the brain rot, mind fry, speech-to-thought communication, mind-reading and ability to make your muscles contract involuntarily. It should also make your imagination your own. That is, your mind’s eye is liberated. And prevent their invasion of your dreams (waking or sleeping). I don’t think their targeting system can properly triangulate the location of your nerve tissue if you have one of these container within 5-10 metres of you.

Later on, if you trust and like the faraday container technology enough, you could purchase/manufacture a second container. And you could put your first container on one side of your small suburban home, and the new one on the other side of your small suburban home. And I think it should shield or “hide” your home with just two containers. I think that they “synergise” with one another, or in other words, they overlap with one another.

Let me repeat that: I think that you might be able to shield a small suburban home with just two containers. For example, I think it might have been possible to shield the house I used to live in back at 17 Princeton Road, Paraparaumu with just two containers (one on the front lawn, one in the back yard). And then you can just use your own normal home.

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How to Hide a House

Maybe just put one on either side of the house??

I think that this might work. I think you might actually end up with an overlap between the containers’ area of effect. If you know what I mean. Someone already tested one container, and it had an area of total exclusion of up to ten metres, but I predict that they also have an area of “weak effect” of up to thirty metres, but that they synergise with one another and overlap their effects. They kind of have a multiplier effect when near to one another.

I think that these faraday containers jam the “triangulation and targeting systems” associated with the em (electromagnetic) technology. The technology has to scan the area and “map out” the location of all of these nervous systems. And if this passive scanning and mapping doesn’t work, or is too resource intensive, I think the system just gives up and can’t scan it.

This one is a new image^ it shows the overlap of the “strong area of effect”. Which is actually enough already. But the overlap and synergy of the “weak area of effect” might quite likely be even better and larger than those two circles.

Maybe the areas of effect of the containers overlap enough to shield the whole house.

[And if you’ve got a bigger house, maybe you need one on each corner of the house. And maybe that is all it takes to shield a whole house!! Even if you have a larger house!!]

Put one container on either side of a small suburban home. Then your home is hidden from the satellites and cell towers “Eye of Sauron” attacks or the mind fry. They can’t read or fry your mind. They can’t target or triangulate your nervous system properly. (Disclaimer: Basic heat rays and stuff might be doable, and visual cameras probably work, and so does infrared, but if you’re basically a lazy pacifist, then you can probably hide out).

The only way to find out if it works, or how well it works, is to test it out. That’s how engineering and science work (sort of, in some cases). So let’s just do it, and work out the theory later.

What might the world be like if large numbers of people (tens of thousands of people in dozens of countries) started “going dark” to the system.

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Here is an updated idea of how you might hide a house…

The fours corners model

If you have a house, and you put just one container on each corner, you should be able to shield the whole thing from “wifi”. I think that the odds are pretty good that it might work. I drew this diagram to scale. It should work for a house that is 18 metres by 12 metres and two stories high. It might work for houses even bigger as well. For best results, I think that a smaller house should be selected.

This would mean that the “mind fry” attack stops working, the “brain rot” attack stops working and the voice messages stop working, and they cannot read your thoughts anymore, they don’t know what you are thinking, they can’t put bad dreams into your head while you sleep, they can’t tell your muscles and nerves what to do against your will. And they can’t smother your ability to breathe. Note: just as an aside, they might still be able to use pure “energy weapons” against you, just for ordinary damage. But at least if you’re a normal guy, who isn’t an activist, you should be able to get a bit of peace and quiet.

The containers have been reported to work at a distance of 10 metres to prevent the satellites getting a read on your, but I also think that there might be an additional synergistic effect when you put a number of them close together, in the same area. Maybe if they were within 20 to 40 metres of one another it improves their “area of effect” and their “strength”.

It’s still untested, so you would be participating in a skunkworks. It is dangerous! And uncertain.

Perhaps we might call it “the four corners model”

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Four Corners Model: using faraday containers to shield an ordinary suburban home

Does it shield us from the passive surveillance of our minds and get the voices out of our heads?

If the four corners model can do that, then it is a win.

It might be able to give us peace, quiet and solitude.

The best type of person for this is someone who wants peace, quiet and solitude simply for their own sake. And just so that they can enjoy their normal lifestyle of things like socialising, reading, conversation, hobbies and relaxing.

It would be perfect for someone who just wants to be left alone.

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For best results, we might do the “four corners model” throughout a whole cul de sac. Maybe 4-5 houses. That might have a flow-on, “synergistic” effect to shield the whole zone, including the asphalt of the cul de sac itself.

Perhaps children could rollerblade, ride their bikes, play soccer or hockey in the cul de sac itself.

Edit/addition: it is possible that the four corners model might work just fine with half sized containers, that is one 10 ft container on each corner, chock full of crushed aluminium cans. But it may be preferable to test it out first with 20 ft containers.

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High Stud Garage

If you have a high stud garage, then you could put a faraday container measuring 6.0 metres by 2.5 metres by 3.0 metres inside the garage. And you could cluster the following items around it: a couch and tv, one arm chair and a coffee table, a desk and a chair, and a bed, a bar fridge, a microwave and a chest of drawers. And if the bathroom is adjacent to the garage, you could put it hard up against the garage wall, so that it protects the bathroom that is already there on the other side of the wall. Or you could have a toilet and shower installed inside the garage. And then you can hang out in your own garage most of the time. You can run an ethernet or fibre optic cable to it for internet, and use the standard plug sockets for electricity. And you can have groceries delivered via the garage door.

Or you could just put your bed beside it. And then at least you could have a peaceful place to sleep at night. This second idea might actually be the "killer app" for this implementation (if you don't know what term "killer app" means, then you can easily google it.

And you can just chill! Because in this case you're not an activist, you're a guy who just wants to chill out and be left alone. You're like Shrek the Ogre from the hit movie "Shrek" produced by DreamWorks starring Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and John Lithgow, based on the book written by William Steig.

It's just an idea. And it might be a fun and useful way to test out this particular technological innovation.

Please note: it is possible to get custom made shipping containers that are only 6ft high. Containers of this height should be able to fit through an ordinary garage door and therefore into a standard garage. That might be useful information for some people.

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Next idea for implementation and testing:

Safety in numbers (aka herd immunity)

This might work best in a tightly packed suburban neighbourhood, but in the type of area where people still have back-yards. Everyone on a street or in the block puts a container in their back-yard (or garage). This shields their own house a fair bit, but once you have enough of them in the neighbourhood (maybe between 15-30), it shields everyone's home. And it works even if there is a fair bit of ground to cover. When you do it in solidarity with one another, it works better. This one, I am less certain about. That's the theory anyway.

Perhaps it happens piecemeal. That is, people slowly shield their own homes, and over time it gets better and better for a lot of people in the neighbourhood.

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Price per container (including cans and the container itself) might be in the vicinity of about 32k nzd, 20k usd. This is just an estimate. I might be quite a bit off though. The trick is to use second hand containers that are too worn out to be used on a container ship, but still holding together enough to be transported to your property.

C-grade containers might cost about $1500 USD in Chicago USA, plus shipping. And about $3500 NZD in NZ, plus shipping.

30 cubic metres of crushed aluminium cans might cost $16500 USD or $28000 NZD.

Total cost of container is $19000 USD plus shipping and handling.

Or $32500 NZD plus shipping and handling.

Those are just estimates.

If you can just one of those in your backyard, you could let a friend pitch his tent in your backyard to take shelter from the mind rot or brain fry attacks.

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Bermuda Triangle

This is just an idea..?? But it looks good to me.

I think that it is highly likely to work. You will probably have peace, quiet and privacy in that house. You will feel like you’re alone for the first time in years. Like, actually you will be alone. You can be alone, and alone with your own thoughts.

You could change the angle and positions of the boxes, for the sake of completeness and aesthetics. If you wanted a perfect equilateral triangle.

Bill Gates allegedly tested out the basic model of the faraday container, and it has a ten metre area of effect. I have been told that a second person tested it out to confirm it. That means that if you stand within ten metres of the container, you “go dark” to the system. Or if you prefer alternative wording, it gives you a bit of respite from the panopticon. If you use three faraday containers, it should do the whole house. It’s still an experiment, but I’m fairly optimistic. Edit: maybe do just two containers? Or if the house is really big, four containers, one on each corner.

I’m calling it the Bermuda Triangle, because why not?

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Discussion

The Bermuda Triangle. We could call it a Bermuda Triangle. Like, just put your house into a Bermuda Triangle. You know, that spooky place where planes just go missing? Like, a geographic blind spot.

Equilateral triangle of faraday containers with sides 20 long. Everything inside the triangle is protected, and the protection extends for 10 metres outside the triangle too.

For the easiest version of construction, you just put three faraday containers outside your home in the shape of a triangle.

For aesthetics: you could put one or two points of the triangle in large sheds instead of a shipping container. Next, you could put one point of the triangle into the garage in a container, instead of outside. But that's just aesthetics and practicality. But the easier option is just to use three containers outside the home.

The cool thing is that you don’t have to become a hermit, you can just be a normal person who has peace, quiet and privacy at home.

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One faraday container in the garage is a good alternative. Just put it straight into the garage. And put a bed and desk right beside it. Then at least you have a place to sleep and work. According to reports received, this should already work as is.

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Hiding a house

More discussion at the bottom of the page of this one^

I think you need a “triangle” of containers.

If you do this, your house is hidden. And the inhabitants “go dark” to the satellites (I think).

If we can test it out, I think that it would be amazing. I suspect that if we have a triangle of three containers full of crushed cans where the sides of the triangle are no greater than 15-20 metres each side. Then it will hide everything inside it, and also around it to a distance of maybe about 10-25 metres. I strongly suspect that these have a “multiplier effect”. But the only way to know is to test it out.

A triangle with sides of maybe 10-20 metres, with three faraday containers (or other suitable vessels as nodes) as the corners.

If it works, it’ll go viral. And it’ll probably have an area of effect extending beyond what you think it might. For example, it might actually have an area of “total exclusion” that covers an area of up to 30 by 30 metres, but an area of partial disruption that makes passive surveillance up to 300% more computationally expensive over about 100 metres by 100 metres. And if you have a dozen homes in the same neighbourhood who do this, it might start to get really “expensive” to use cell towers and satellites at all (ps: sometimes the radio wave building blocks “skim” the earth, sometimes they penetrate and bounce, and sometimes the “model” or analogy isn’t quite the right one, but it’s okay).

By the way, just as a stop gap measure, one massive faraday container in the backyard (20ft by 8.5ft by 8ft) very close to the rear wall of your home might just shield most of it, particularly if it is a small home. But if you can have two containers on your property (one in the back-yard, and one either in the front yard, or in the garage) it probably works much better.

This stuff (faraday containers) probably disrupts and confuses the target acquisition and triangulation function/capacity of these systems. Because they (satellites and cell towers) have to constantly check up on where you are, and get constant readings.

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And then you just chill out, and enjoy the peace and quiet, and you enjoy the privacy. Without becoming an “activist”. You socialise, play cards, play video games, and enjoy normal life without being disturbed. And if you’re a woman, you can become a non-participant. And if you’re a teenage girl, you don’t need to know what your male classmates think of you, or want to do to you. And if you’re a curmudgeonly old man, you can rant and rave to the ceiling all you like.

Price: maybe $50000 nzd (aka 30000 usd).

Ps: someone tested it a single faraday container, and I’m told that they’re more effective (range of ten metres, just for one) than I initially hoped that they might be.

Good locations to try it out might be Australia, New Zealand, France or Germany. It’s still in trials.

In the end, if it works and goes viral, millions of people could potentially do it.

Last word, there is a little more discussion of this idea down at the bottom of the page.

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The Shielded Sleepout

It’s just three faraday containers, one cabin and one bathroom. Can go inside or outside.

Shielded sleep out, or the “faraday nook”.

Edit: change of plans, a faraday nook only needs two of those containers. Remove any one of them. Testing has shown that it works with less (or so I am told).

I think that this one is a fantastic idea!

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Faraday Cabin Sandwich

Bathroom, cabin and two standard faraday containers.

To get to the bathroom, you just walk around the outside of the containers. The effect of these faraday containers probably extends about 4-7 metres in every direction.

Maybe $14000 nzd for the cabin, $7000 nzd for the bathroom, $32000 for the faraday containers. Total is $53000 nzd. That’s the price of a bit of peace and quiet.

We might call it the faraday cabin sandwich, or the faraday sandwich, or the Rutherford Sandwich. I don’t know, I’m bad at names.

Ps: you could use a simple portaloo instead of a proper bathroom, if you don’t want to do any plumbing. You could put one of these indoor backyard. Or even in a warehouse. It’s just a cabin sandwiched in between two faraday containers. It can go indoors or outdoors. In the unlikely event that you need more “oomph” to disrupt the satellites, and cause the “connection/relationship/field” to break down, then you could sandwich it between two containers on each side.

A better toilet/basin combo: https://bathrooms.supersub.co.nz/products/portable-bathrooms/portable-bathroom-nz/

Or something like this:

https://youtube.com/shorts/lKxn5OzYHzo?si=pTbu1NaPOAjGTv6A

Here is a different shape for it. Smaller toilet/bathroom. Perfect for a sleep-out in the backyard. Or for a hideaway snug inside a warehouse (situated it close to an exterior door though, so that you can receive deliveries!).

Idea: if you use it as a combined sleep-out/office in the backyard, then you’ll always have a place to “get a bit of space” whenever you need it. If you need peace and quiet, a place to read, work, socialise or take a nap. Or just a place where you can sleep without the system either waking you up, or invading your dreams, then this is the right tool for the job. Or if you need a place for encrypted Skype conversations conducted off the grid, then this is for you.

I think that this one is the best idea that I’ve got at the moment. But if you’re desperate to have something bigger, just put ten of these in a warehouse. Maybe with a decent kitchen, and better bathrooms.

Edit:

Here are two more versions. I used the slightly larger cabin from roommatecabins

This might be a very good model^

But if it doesn’t work, the one below might work. Another idea might be to “cradle the cabin and bathroom in a “horseshoe” type of shape.

This cabin might be even better. I’m just finalising a good model or option.

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Zero day; business model. Has failed? Fait accompli? Inevitable? Who knows. Unlikely. But possible. Business model failure, due to technological and “programming” exploit. 9 March.

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The faraday cabin motel

Updated version^ (you could even put it in a warehouse, just imagine having two rows of this - or maybe even four rows). In a warehouse, or in a field.

Maybe call it the Rutherford lodge, the Rutherford Motel.

It’s good for seeking refuge, and offering refuge. Sheltering you from the electromagnetic surveillance and manipulation. That way, you can sleep at night. And also, you be alone inside your own mind. Instead of always being watched by machines. And freedom from the mindrot.

According to Bill Gates on “wifi” the faraday containers actually do protect your mind from interference. He built and tested one. I haven’t seen it with my own eyes though.

My theory is that they cause the “relationship” between cell towers + satellites and your brain/nervous system to break down. They cause the electromagnetic magnetic waves to be disrupted and the “field to break down”. That isn’t proper “scientific” language, but I think that it is good enough.

You could step into one of those four cabins, or into one of those two portable bathrooms, and be shielded from the satellites and cell towers ability to scan your mind. And the effect probably exists for at least a few of metres in every direction around the containers

Updated idea^

Put the bathrooms in the middle, one facing south, one south. Face two cabins north, two south. Easy to fit two families in this, or four couples.

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The Faraday Cabin Sandwich

The faraday cabin sandwich, And the Faraday Cabin Club Sandwich

According to Bill Gates, over wifi, it works? ^

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Another idea:

The Shed Sandwich

It might work. Maybe add one more container on each side if it doesn’t. It could let your kids take a time out away from them weirdness, the feeling of being watched, the bullying, the brain rot. Or just let you take a bit of time to play cards or read a book. Anyway, it’s a skunkworks. Give it a go. Or don’t. I’m not the boss of you. It’s for privacy of mind, and also peace and quiet. I think that “Ataraxia” and equanimity are good things. And I used to like the epicurean motto “live hidden”. Glhf.

Maybe if you have teenage daughters, they’ll requisition it to sleep in. Why? Because “creepy Greg” keeps on fantasising about them. And they keep on feeling it. And it’s creepy. So they just sleep in there and chill and whatever. They also want to avoid being bullied by their female peers. They still have their bedrooms inside. They just sleep in it overnight. Because it’s the only place she can avoid getting bullied by her peers at school. Maybe they do their home work in there too. No electronics. It’s a wooden garden shed (see below).

If the sandwich is too weak, just add more “bread”. Just thicken the sides of it.

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Expansion idea^. Sort that it is messy. But it’s just four containers. A shed, and a toilet, shower and bbq. It’s enough. You put it in your backyard, or the back paddock of someone’s family owned farm. And it’s okay. You can just extend the shed sandwich.

This looks good: pictures of portable toilets/showers

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ur9aIs0JHRg?si=kTJ4IOaqnpEt4hIO

https://youtube.com/shorts/1EtwyY2xP-w?si=qa5o-L-5SScCVBDO

One for sale right now:

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/building-renovation/portable-cabins/listing/5689362307?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21314500525&gbraid=0AAAAADu3WfuQRIESeLhGSZm98P7X7A0-X&gclid=CjwKCAiA3rPKBhBZEiwAhPNFQFDi8Q_y5d8ssZfqeMYXTCatDVwxTljmZjTidnt9xK_V7R2GHfFdkxoCszIQAvD_BwE

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Faraday Nook

This is a backyard faraday nook, four faraday containers. One bathroom. One cabin. It might work as is. It might actually be over engineered. You might be able to do it with containers that are like 2/3 full. Or something like that. The medium sized rectangle is a cabin. The smallest rectangle is a bathroom 10 ft wide and 8 ft long. Or you can put in a bigger one. Whatever works. There are plenty of options for prefab bathrooms, showers and outhouses (use your imagination). The set up is connected to the water, power and internet at the main house.

Peace and quiet. It’s a faraday nook.

Dad builds it for himself, because he wants an office/mancave. But it gets stolen/requisitioned by his teenage daughter who eats, sleeps, studies, reads and surfs the internet in there. Because it’s the only place she can avoid getting bullied by her peers at school.

Privacy, peace and quiet!

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You could even fit a washer/dryer in the bathroom and a small gas camp stove and kitchen outside.

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https://www.roommatecabins.co.nz/our-cabins/

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Other options, Dad just wants a shed:

The outhouse:

Plumb an actual toilet in there…

https://supasheds.nz/other-sheds/outhouse/dunny-boy/

I might do a redesign later. Perhaps put a bath inside the shed, if they want to wash in there? Or install a DIY outdoor bathtub, behind a tall wooden fence.

Ataraxia

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Go to the bottom of the page

There are a few new ideas lower down in the page.

Just search for the title: expanded model: caravans and farm house

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New blueprint for the faraday circle, a revolutionary privacy technology

New diagram^

Update: if you take a small house out in the country, and if it is on a bit of land, and the land is yours, you might situate a faraday circle on the land in such a manner that the centre block of containers is hard up against the side of the house. That is, you put a ring around the house, with the house hard up against the central block of containers. It should shield the house. And then you’re sheltered at home. You’ve got peace and quiet, freedom from the “mind rot”, you silence the voices in your head that rob you of your peace. And you can have a more peaceful existence. The system wants to dumb you down and rob you of your peace, but perhaps you can find a way to have peace and shelter, at least at home. You probably have a bit of space around the house that is sheltered too. Because the system uses things like “interpolation”, “triangulation” and averaging out interference.

There is this concept in philosophy called “ataraxia”. It’s worth looking into.

It is all single level. 31 shipping containers, 6 tiny homes.

Standardised faraday shipping containers v 2.0 consist of 20ft by 8ft containers about 80% full of crushed aluminium cans, the baled aluminium cans are wrapped up with something like adhesive plastic wrap and duct tape for ease of handling. You’ll probably need about 27 cubic metres of crushed aluminium cans per container.

It will be fairly expensive.

Make several more containers than you think you’ll need.

Note: the blue rectangles are shipping containers full of crushed aluminium cans, wrapped in plastic wrap. The plastic wrap is for ease of handling. Either use adhesive plastic wrap, or secure the plastic wrap using duct tape. The plastic wrap should stop you from losing cans, or having the bales fall apart during handling. You may also wish to use polypropylene strapping, aka plastic strapping. Plastic wrap (or other wrap) is optional. It is just to keep things cleaner and tidier.

The red rectangles are “tiny homes”. The dwellings you can live in. They measure about 10 metres by 3 metres.

It is perfect for hippies and retirees. Homesteaders, farmers and people who already have land. It is also perfect for hideaways and weekenders (for celebrities, corporate executives; and also people who work and live in the city during the week, such as office workers and university academics). And for other people who want to have privacy, or to live “off the grid”. It may also perhaps be expanded, and made suitable and large enough for sheltering entire church communities of up to 200 people, long term (see rough diagrams at the bottom of this page).

Note: You can also be “on the grid” and connected to power, gas, water, internet, garbage pick up and groceries deliveries. If your dwellings are on wheels, then things like the local council approvals and consents process should be easier.

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What is a tiny home?

Here is one example:

https://elitetinyhomes.co.nz/lowrider-tiny-home/

YouTube link to a 60 second viewing of the “lowrider tiny home” here.

Please tap this link straight away^

It’s only 60 seconds!

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You could even install things like a rain water tank, a bore for water, solar panels, and a septic tank. Live totally off the grid, if you felt so inclined. Or, you could be on the grid and connected to power, gas, water, internet, garbage pick up and groceries deliveries.

This type of construction could become normalised and widespread over time.

Crushed aluminium cans:

https://youtube.com/shorts/RTtKpe52cHc?si=2rXJtEKq2NE3dLcv

Shipping container:

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Note: if aluminium isn’t the right material, then you might try steel pipe or scrap instead. But I think that aluminium might work nicely. Either mild steel, or aluminium.

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Estimated Costs

255 per cubic meter USD for aluminium cans crushed and baled.

About $1800 for a shipping container in good condition, used several time.

27 cubic metres of cans, which fills the container up about 80%.

9500 for the cans, 1800 for the container.

$11300 per container.

Multiplied by thirty one: $350300, estimate. USD. Plus the cost of land, and tiny houses (or caravans) and add to that the cost of labour, and plastic wrap. This is for six dwellings.

Ball park estimate: $350000 USD

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Property Developers

If the faraday circles work, just become a property developer. And do good old fashioned property development to build and sell them to landlord investors, who then sublet berths and tiny homes (also trailers and caravans) to all and sundry.

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Extension of range.

They are expandable.

You can just add additional concentric rings of standardised faraday containers around the first ring and it should _probably_ work. Add a new ring for every 15-20 metres of radius. There is a diagram further down the page to explain it further. You ought to be able to expand it enough to contain a whole community of 150-250 people in one installation.

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That’s the end of the blue print just there^

It might not be ubiquitous and readily available to the masses at first, but over time availability might improve. New technologies start out expensive, but get cheaper and better with time. Eventually it might become affordable and ubiquitous, just like the Ford Model T.

This project is designed as an open source skunk works.

You’re now moving on to other posts and entries on this page. FYI, you might find that the drop box of garbage v3 is more interesting, if you want to catch up on my story and understand my situation a bit better.

The Drop Box of Garbage v3

A lot of the interesting stuff on this page is added to the bottom, so if you scroll up from the bottom, you find it quicker. If I were you, I’d take 3-4 minutes to quickly look at those ideas, and then move on to the drop box of garbage (my main discussion page).

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Now for some previous posts below, these are slightly older posts. By the way, when you look at older posts, such as those in my “old ideas” page, you will see the evolution of my ideas as they developed.

Crushed Aluminium Cans

What if it turns out, after some testing has been done, that the best material for all of this is actually shipping containers full of crushed aluminium cans. And that this is much cheaper, and better, than short lengths of steel pipe inside plywood boxes?

https://youtube.com/shorts/RTtKpe52cHc?si=2rXJtEKq2NE3dLcv

Over time, these methods of building might get cheaper and better. They might get better and cheaper. That’s the way capitalism, innovation and technology works.

And then people can have privacy. And those who want to be left alone, can be left alone. Some of us just don’t like being a part of a hive-mind. Those who need a place of refuge will be able to find it.

This is just a “what if”.

Ps: I’m not sure how good aluminium is for interfering with em spectrum rays, but it might be very good. Maybe even much better than steel.

Experiment:

Take 28 ordinary shipping containers, measuring 20ft by 8ft, and fill them with cubes of washed, crushed aluminium cans. Perhaps the crushed aluminium cans might be placed into boxes made out of plastic or plywood, for ease of handling. And then arrange them as follows.

You could do three lines of 4. And stack them two high. A total of 24 containers. 24 ft wide, 40 ft long, 16 ft high. 7 metres by 12 metres by 5 metres). Maybe more density appeals to some people. Place 3-4 out-rigger containers off to the sides, 15 metres away. Maybe a few more further away if desired. I’m a strong believer in out-rigger containers, they give you a bit of breathing room and improve the coverage.

If/when it works, then you can turn it into a home for a couple or a family. Treat it as a home, a house. A dwelling for a family or a couple. They’re all standard 20 by 8 ft containers. You can put cabins, bathrooms, living quarters, sleeping quarters, and other items on top. Or even a petrol generator and solar panels. You can also just attach it to the electrical grid, plumbing and internet.

Here are some items you could put on top:

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Alternate model: plateau experiment

Maybe fill 40 shipping containers, 20ft by 8ft with cubes of crushed aluminium cans. Arrange them in a square, which should measure about 80 ft by 80 ft (25m by 25m) Connect them together firmly with connectors. This gives you your base, your foundations.

Put a tent on top of the plateau of containers, somewhere in the middle of it, and stay there for a week.

Just set up camp on the top. Maybe just put up a tent and take a portable toilet with you, take all of the water and food you need.

That is your proof of concept.

That’s all it is, a proof of concept.

Note: You’ll need wooden boards, 2x4 and 4x4 or something as a floor for the tent.

Note 2: if the “proof of concept” works, you could use this as a “platform” or as a foundation, for a settlement. Just put a bunch of prefab cabins on top, and a few prefab bathrooms. Or even just put up some shanties or basic shacks. Connect utilities such as electricity, gas, water and internet. Here is a “model” for how to view it: maybe it’s just a quiet village settlement where people can get on with their lives in peace. Maybe it’s the functional equivalent of a refugee camp. There are MANY people who would be refugees fleeing from this satellite technology if they could. Just like there were many Han Chinese who wanted to flee Mao’s cultural revolution, or Jews/gypsies who wanted to flee from Hitler’s ghettos, or Kazakhs who wanted to flee into China from the Kremlin’s Bolsheviks. We could be refugees fleeing from bad technology (or technocracy, or bad tech-religion or weird dogmatic sex cults; with all of their repressive rules on how you’re allowed to think, form relationships, or engage in ordinary friendship).

(There are plenty of options for prefab offices, cabins and bathrooms that are fully compatible with the connectors build into shipping containers; as well as refrigeration units, electrical generators etc. just google “20 ft office” in a container if you want to find them. Your best bet is probably to use prefab “office containers” as cabins).

Maybe you use a truck crane, but you do it while it is empty, and load it up once it is in place. There is no reason that you need to move a fully loaded shipping container. Or maybe you use a container forklift, but you do it while it’s empty.

https://www.bison-jacks.com/blog/iso-lifting/9-ways-to-lift-a-shipping-container/

https://www.shippingcontainersuk.com/m9b0s14p2340/SHIPPING-CONTAINERS-20ft-ModiBox-Office

Ps: these ideas would work just fine with the ‘old recipe’ of boxes of steel pipes in wooden boxes (see below) too though, just like the other plans. Or maybe boxes of aluminium pipes might be worth looking at? It is quite possible that aluminium pipe might be better than mild steel? But more expensive. (I think that aluminium might actually have better qualities than steel when it comes to interfering with em radiation aka radio waves, but I’m not sure if that is relative to displacement or density. In other words, I’m not sure what is the best material, or what will have the best cost-benefit ratio. I feel that aluminium might be a very good idea, and well worth trying)

PPS: I put a new, expandable version of these ideas at the bottom of the page as well.

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Skunk works

This is a skunk works, a group effort. It is a decentralised, trial and error experiment. I think that we can get there in the end. And if we can get there, we can have privacy, and we can have a place of refuge. At least at home, or inside our own little settlements, we can have a place of privacy and refuge.

This first one is my favourite, for actual practicality. 24 containers in the middle and 8 outriggers. Park 4-6 “tiny homes” around the central island of containers. Spread the outriggers around. Put together a few dwellings on top of the island as well. It might need some work, but I think it is doable.

The dwellings (sleeping quarters, bathrooms and kitchens, living areas) on the top can be prefab containers that can be securely attached directly to the containers below. Place a ladder up the side for access (or a lift, or stairs, or whatever suits you best; scissor lifts might be useful in this situation).

It may be necessary to add in few more standardised faraday containers around the perimeter, to expand the protected area (zone of cognitive privacy), so that you have space to roam and walk around. In kind of ‘virtualised concentric circles’? I think that each container maybe “breaks up” the rays in an area of about 20 metres. When it comes to that point, it might be wise to avoid overthinking it.

[Note: I think that maybe to have 8-12 outriggers makes sense. I’m a big believer in the central island with outriggers model. The current suggested experimental model, with 24 containers in the middle and 8-12 outriggers, might be a little over engineered.]

And you could park six tiny homes around this central island. I didn’t draw four in there. But you can park six of them around it, if you like.

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What is a tiny home?

Here is one example:

https://elitetinyhomes.co.nz/lowrider-tiny-home/

YouTube link to a 60 second viewing of the “lowrider tiny home” here.

Please tap this link straight away^

It’s only 60 seconds!

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You could fit about 6 of them around the central island. Six tiny homes seems like a good number. You could build this installation with space for half a dozen two bedroom dwellings perhaps, if you felt so inclined. They are on wheels, so you can bring your own.

It could be your weekender, or your full time residence.

You can find more examples of tiny homes here, and here.

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Update, a version with six dwellings instead of two (below):

Update: Here is another arrangement (below) for the central island. It is the same as the previous one, but zoomed in on the top island. It’s just the central island part.

It is just 24 containers, over two levels, with 6 tiny homes (still on wheels) hard up against the sides. You still have the out-rigger containers around the outside. Note: tiny containers are basically “single wide trailers”, but the kiwi/hipster version of them.

Note: if you want to have one that is a little less crowded, then just build one with only four tiny homes, with no additional dwellings on top, and put a fence extending out diagonally from each corner. And plant a garden. That way it feels a little more homey. Each person has their own gravel driveway.

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Update:

Imagine this scenario:

The people living there have privacy at home, but still get up to go to work at their office jobs on Monday through Thursday (they work from home one day a week). They do their grocery shopping at the supermarket every Wednesday evening and go to Church on Sunday morning. They visit their friends on Saturday evening, but have guests over to lunch on Sundays. They have privacy while at home, but still have lives. They have comfortable tiny homes, and are connected to the grid for electricity; they have ordinary plumbing, storm water, sewerage, hot and cold running water, and high speed internet. They can even select their own model of tiny home. The tiny homes are on wheels, and so they remain mobile. They have privacy, but aren’t activists or hermits. They have a place of refuge, in particular a place of refuge from the surveillance of their minds, it is called home.

There are 60000 people living like this across the USA, Australia and New Zealand by July 2026.

If you’re not a hive mind guy, or not a hive mind girl, then this technology might be ideal for you!

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Alternative Model

Alternative model: instead of using “tiny homes” just put a bunch of prefab container cabins (20ft by 8 ft containers) as living quarters hard up against the central island, stacked two high, with two bathrooms installed (or you can use the 20 ft by 8 ft office container as a cabin). Probably you would put up a deck or something to create easy access to the second floor cabins; there are perfectly good products available for that. Or just use ladders. You end up with 18 usable cabins, and two bathrooms. Surround it with the same 8 outriggers as the idea above, and I think you should be okay. Plus some wooden shacks on top. You could perhaps house 120 people.

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The Plateau

This next one is deliberately strange, just to encourage you to think about things a little differently. It isn’t as good as the two ideas above.

32 containers. 24 in the middle, and some outriggers. Park 4 tiny homes around the outsides. Maybe it works. It’s just an idea. I’d try one of the other ones, the proof of concepts first. Like just putting a cabin on top of the stack, just once. But whatever works, works. It’ll be an evolving, developing thing. This one above might be the expensive one, for wealthy people. But something like the plateau could be good for less wealthy people, or students. Just build the platform, and then students put up tents/shacks.

I think people would just have to start experimenting. It it were me, I’d just build something like the one just above (sorry it is messy, back hurts). And just put a tent on top. And some planks and boards to walk and sit on.

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Idea, perhaps for student activists.

Idk, maybe start a corporation that provides houses to those who need refuge and privacy. Privacy refugees. Because this whole thing, and the lack of privacy is soul destroying.

They build houses and dwellings, and then sell them in an affordable manner. But they also provide technological support and communications technology to those who need them. As well as web hosting. It is construction, and file hosting, and tech. Three areas. Where does revenue come from? People sponsor the construction of new homes. A home is a shelter, it provides refuge from the chaos outside of it. It shields you, and keeps your life private, away from prying eyes.

Give people a place called home. A place of refuge, to shield them from prying eyes. And then provide them with a way to communicate with one another. Help to rebuild and reinvigorate conversation; it is a basic human necessity. Technology can help with that. Including file hosting (audio conversation content).

Uhhh. They can live there, and not be an activist.

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Develop these new methods of construction as a decentralised collaborative skunksworks. Sooner or later you will find something that works very well. Try using the “Edisonian approach”, based on trial and error, and experimentation.

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1% Inspiration, 99% Perspiration

The "Edison method" refers to Thomas Edison's famous quote, “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”. It emphasizes that innovation is not just about a single idea, but about the immense hard work, trial-and-error, and persistent experimentation required to make that idea a reality. This concept highlights the importance of dedication and tireless effort in problem-solving and achieving success.

The challenge is to make it cheap enough and good enough to become accessible to normal people.

Just keep trying things, and sooner or later we can find a good product solution that is fit for purpose.

For all I know, all you need are half a dozen shipping containers full of aluminium can bales, connected together, and a tent on top of it, with four garden sheds full of aluminium cans around it (one each of north, south, east, west, 20 metres away from the main central island). It could actually be really easy.

Really, really easy.

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Silly Idea: aka “the wide platform”

Silly idea, this is over-kill in my opinion.

Prepare 80 shipping containers. Any version will do. Aluminium bales, steel pipe, or aluminium pipe.

Create a 25 by 25 meter square, 16 ft high. And connect everything up.

To test, just pitch a tent in the very middle of it. I am 90% sure it works in the centre.

Yes, it is overkill, but I am 90% sure that it works. The overkill version is just if you want a proof of concept. And want to be all but certain that it works.

Once you prove that it works, just build a shanty town on top of it, and stay away from the edges. Done. Use wood, corrugated iron and something called “colour steel” (aka pre painted long run steel). Tents and other canvas products are also ideal.

If you want to improve privacy coverage right out to the end, just add in some out-rigger containers at a distance of 20m and 40m. To create a double perimeter and better coverage. Not too many containers. Maybe 16: put two of them at 20 metres on all four points of the compass. And then the same at 40 metres on all four points of the compass.

It’s way, way over engineered I think, and too expensive, but it should work. You could even park some tiny homes (single wide trailers) up against the sides as well.

25 metres by 25 metres.

And you could just put a few of them in the same field, or whatever. Four of them, because why not?

Or if you’re a misanthrope with a decent amount of money and some land, just put a single shack up top, connect it to power, and water. And then do nothing much.

What’s the point?

The whole point of the “silly version” is that if you do it, it will work. Just put 80 containers in a parking lot, or in the desert, or in a student commons (as a student activist project), connected to one another, full of plywood boxes of steel pipe, and then it’ll work. It’s not meant to be cost effective. It’s not meant to be special. It’s just silly. It’s just to prove that you can have a shack on top of a plateau of boxes, shielded, for just the price of 80 containers full of wooden boxes of steel pipe.

It might be suitable for student activists.

Student activists? Where? France, Germany, UK, Italy, Greece, Spain? Which side? It could be left or right. It doesn’t matter. Whoever wants privacy. Technology doesn’t pick sides. It’s just a way to test out the ideas and the technology.

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Four to a paddock

You could have maybe four of the main model, my favourite one with 6 tiny homes, in the same paddock. And their areas of effect would probably overlap. Which means you could walk between them.

You could have 24 homes/dwellings in one paddock.

The product goes “viral” and 1000 people can live like that within months. A lot of people just want privacy and shelter.

But then it’s just a matter of supply and demand. Anyone who wants to live in a tiny house with a bit of land, and all the modern utilities can do so. And privacy and shelter. Just so long as they can afford it.

Ps: take the model, of six homes, and maybe surround it with a circle of garden sheds full of crushed aluminium cans, radius like 60 metres, or something. This makes the whole area shielded enough. You don’t need to cover every inch! The whole area will be shielded and private!! The whole area!!

And then you have four of them.

And you have 24 homes, but you also have enough space to pitch a whole bunch of tents. It is basically a refuge camp. These containers have an “area of effect”. It’s more like zone denial than it is direct blocking. You can probably protect whole fields with this stuff. You might be able to protect huge swathes of land, given how the maths works.

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Here’s some stuff I copied from a previous page:

Basic Faraday Cube

Rename: box of honeycomb steel, to “basic faraday cube”.

It’s a box made of plywood measuring 50x50x50 full of mild steel pipe 50cm long, 4ish cm diameter, 1-2 thick. Although, the box could be bigger or smaller according to your needs. For example, it could be 40x40x80cm. It’s all about ease of handling. Also, the pipe could have more or less diameter. Such as 3cm diameter, up to 6cm diameter, or the thickness greater or lesser. Such as 1-3mm. There is some wiggle room, and the custom and building style would probably evolve over time. You could even pack a small amount of pipe into cardboard boxes, or fools so file boxes, so that you could stuff it into the wardrobes, kitchen drawers and cupboards and pantries on the ground floor.

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Standardised faraday shipping containers and conversion of pre existing buildings

You can stack these basic faraday cubes into a 20ft shipping container to turn it into a “standardised faraday shipping container”. And you can also stuff them chock full into the ground floor (or maybe the bottom two floors) of an apartment block, and surround the apartment block with tons of standardised faraday shipping containers to create a hermitage.

Question: How big does it need to be? How much area to cover? I think you might want to cover a space of 60m by 60m. Including the ground floor of the apartment block. But it might take a few iterations of this style of construction to figure out what works. No guarantees.

Also, it would work just as well to convert something like a five story office building.

Government Subsidies

Next, once these houses/dwellings are proven to work. Get the government, by direct democracy, in some nation states to subsidise them. And then people can have privacy of mind. And private relationships. At least at home. Keep the international government (the electronic peeping Tom’s) out of your bedroom.

With Government funding, you can get tens of thousands of them funded and built.

Then you have enough of a “power base” to start campaigning for kicking companies like spacex out of your spectrum space.

If they don’t budge, after kicking them out of spectrum space, you can sue them in international courts. You also have a bit of scope for a bit of “plebian politics” via direct democracy.

I don’t like the hive-mind thing, I’m just not into it.

Note: as for plebian politics, you can just implement anything at all via direct democracy (preferably at 66%) into the law codes that has the capacity to disrupt the society being pushed by “hive-mind utopians” or the techno-weirdos. And if it happens via direct democracy (aka mail ballot initiatives, see also Swiss direct democratic politics), that means that politicians can wash their hands of it.

For example, you could demand that the Government buy all of the cell towers in your society, by eminent domain, and ban ownership of cell towers by private entities.

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Ummm. If the technology really worked well, you could just use large quantities of aluminium can bales (or boxes of steel pipe) in the sub foundation of a block of flats. Just put 40 by 40 metres of this stuff, and then build steel girder framework over it, and build a development of maybe 16 units on top of it. A proper development. Surround it with two concentric circles of half sized shipping containers. That is, 9-12 months down the track, you could build proper housing. And just use bales of aluminium, or large containers of steel/aluminium pipes as part of the sub flooring or base of the development. At scale. And have proper, normal housing. Probably fair compact two story homes, semi detached.

You make the base first, and then build the dwellings on top. You use concrete and steel. Perhaps you have to surround the area in faraday containers to begin with, before you can get enough space to well in. Just like the way Romans used cofferdams for bridges.

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Houses

Base/platform

Containers/crushed aluminium cans

Ground

I don’t know if that comes through properly.

But it is only once about 10000 of the earlier models have been constructed, and the process is well understood.

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Put a concrete base down. Use girders and pillars to get up to a height of 16 ft, and build the houses on top of that. And put a bunch of containers of aluminium cans, pipes, or steel pipe beneath that structure.

Sell them to the wealthy at a comfortable profit.

Use the tools of capitalism against it.

Stilts and Sea

Or better yet, just build houses on stilts, and place heaps and heaps of shipping containers full of steel/aluminium/aluminium cans around them. Create a sea of these containers, and a bunch of houses on stilts 16 high amidst this sea of containers.

You can have actual houses.

The seas probably needs to be about 60 m by 60 m.

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Or just get a warehouse, that measures 50 metres by 50 metres. Fill the whole ground floor with shipping containers full of one of the following: bales of aluminium cans, boxes of aluminium pipe, or boxes of steel pipe. And then subdivide the top floor into apartments, and either sell it to the highest bidder. Or turn it into a sponsored (i.e. crowd funded) refugee camp.

99% perspiration, 1% inspiration

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By the way, there are more idea in my old page here:

Link to the old ideas page.

There is stuff at the bottom of the page also.

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Old stuff from the old page below this point

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This next one is just to stimulate thought, it isn’t actually doable.

Faraday Depolarisation Device

A faraday de-polarisation device. A depolarisation sieve. It strips the orientation from the em beams/fields from the sky. Disrupting their functionality.

A gap generator.

Get a piece of wood. A board measuring 8 foot by 8 foot.

And then get a bundle of pipes, made out of mild steel. Very narrow pipes. One cm diameter, thin walls. Make the bundle about 12 cm diameter, like a bundle of sticks. And about 180cm long. Wrap a large amount of very tightly wound copper wire around it. To make something similar to, but not exactly like an electromagnet.

Make four of these. And put them on the wooden board. Plug one end of the cable on the bundle into current in, and the other end into current out. Modulate the current correctly. I forget how to do this. Do it for each of the four bundles. Congratulations, these tubes (the walls of them) strip the polarity from the fields/beams from the sky-computers. Using faradays principles of polarity, not fully understood (look it up).

Stack four of these on top of one another.

Umm, lay them 90 degree angle, like rotate them in a cross hash pattern? You want them to cancel out a bit.

You have four by four of these.

That’s your “polarity stripper”. It kills the em rotation, thus destroying the ability of the rays to get you. It takes a a lot of power.

It could be mobile. That is the starting point for a skunks works you need to build it in a passive “faraday shielded hermitage” (another words, faraday fortress freeway settlement”.

Chance it works, right out of the box: 2%. But the chance it can be turned into a viable product, is 20%. But if it works, it could be mass produced from inside a faraday shielded hermitage, and marketed and sold widely. Maybe even converted into a mobile “gap generator”. Furthermore, it could best be used to extend the area of safety with about passively shielded hermitage. Maybe the hermitage is shielded passively, but the area around it (for tents and fields and gardens) is shielded actively. So if it goes down, you can shelter in the hermitage.

See the page on faraday for learning about the polarisation of light thing.

Faraday also discovered that the plane of polarization of linearly polarised light can be rotated by the application of an external magnetic field aligned with the direction in which the light is moving. This is now termed the Faraday effect.[63] In Sept 1845 he wrote in his notebook, "I have at last succeeded in illuminating a magnetic curve or line of force and in magnetising a ray of light".[70]

Think of it as a jumping off point for creating something so cheap that it can be used by almost anyone. (Not literally anyone), but at least by many types of people.

Just scatter a few around, and it’ll ruin their ability to triangulate properly. It destroys their whole thing if try’s can’t triangulate. Imagine that they need a large areas of effect to triangulate and create a good “handshake” triangulation relationship. One isn’t enough. You’d need at least 3-4 in a location. (A small group of these “gap generators” in a location, at least 3-4, up to 8-9, in an area to get it going). One isn’t enough.

Or if you had power, and everything designed perfectly, could shield or shelter a whole town, maybe. Have to make the devices very simple. And very well engineered, no complex electronics.

They look like an 8 by 8 by 8 ft stack of shipping pallets. With log sized bundles in between each layer.

This is still science fiction.

Maybe what is needed is a skunks works, just like J.E. Gordon at the RAE in ww2, or Turing at Bletchley. TBH, the faraday shelters themselves need to be “skunks works’d” and tested. And turned into prototypes, before being improved and made more costs effective.

If you had this sort of stuff up and running in a towns I think they’d get printers up and running, and start doing fliers and posters straight away. But I still believe broadcast radio is much more effective. Perhaps along with broadcast terrestrial TV. Radio is magical tbh. An amazing technology. It’s the best.

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Imagine if you have hermitages all over the world. And they come in clusters of about five, and all around these hermitages, they have gap generators. And they’re all able to use printers. And some of them have radio stations. They broadcast radio live from their locations! Legally.

What if this technology is so cheap, and so good, and so reliable, that people anywhere in the world can do it. Or becomes so cheap. And what if there are blueprints available, and tables of calculations for how many material to use. What if it becomes ubiquitous?

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Large number of people will seek refuge in faraday hermitages, and around them they will use gap generators aka faraday depolarisation devices. And communities can have privacy again. And they’ll just live like this, while still being embedded in the society that they live in.

And some people will just plug them into spare apartments that they own, to disrupt the system.

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Update:

If you’re physics-ey. For the sake of information. Just for other people to draw colour and vibe from.

One:

Something something spin/rotation/polarisation. Map-territory, or whatever. I read about this years ago, in Feynman biographies, and online. I also borrowed his textbooks from the library. He had something about atomic wobble, and rotation. A frisbee.

Polarisation. Polarity.

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_05.html

https://www.willpatrick.co.uk/articles/the-unusual-way-to-work-like-a-nobel-prize-winning-physicist

I’m thinking about the “rotational information”. You don’t actually have to look at it.

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Two:

I read this book on Christmas Day in 2007, along with what I talk about when I talk about running by Murakami. It was in the Wairarapa at Amanda’s Uncle’s place. Schroedingers kittens.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100006.Schr_dinger_s_Kittens_and_the_Search_for_Reality

These are here just because this is the sort of stuff I get inspired by. You don’t really need to read any of it. Seriously, it’s just here because I thought that it’s interesting.

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Hypothetical ideas:

What if someone creates full blueprints and instructions for a DIY faraday encampment with the capacity for DDOS attacks on the satellites, to prevent their mesh network from working. It intercepts their packets to one another, imitates them, and uses their shape to DDOS the mesh network. Some sort of packet sniffing, and spoofing. I forget the right words. But they just fill the channels with garbage.

Then anyone can make one anywhere.

Probably need to create a community of networked hermitages first, and then start developing better technology with blueprints.

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Then nation-state actors can hold USA corporations hostage (musk, bezos, Branson), by saying, “pay us 100 million dollars, or we’ll DDOS your satellites’ mesh network as they fly above us”. For example, nation states in Central Asia, the Arab world, or sub Saharan Africa.

Even smallish nation state actors.

Find a cure, like the search for a cure for polio.

A good mental model is to treat this as though it is a public health issue, like the hunt for a cure for polio, or a means of dealing with malaria.

Just inspiration.

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Hiding

Personally, I’d just like for there to be places to hide. Just from the satellites themselves. Or the “remote control electromagnetic nerve splicing” technology itself (from both satellites and cell towers).

And the best way to do that is with a social movement combined with new technologies.

I want people to be able to take refuge. Aka, to seek shelter, or to hide from this technology in the skies. We can live hidden? We can form the new “underground” of electromagnetically hidden people. We can have minds that are private again, and we can rebuild our personalities through a combination of education, conversation, reading and privacy. We can have normal friendship again.

I’m not a hive-mind guy. There are a lot of people out there who just aren’t hive-mind guys, or hive-mind girls.

Postscript

Note: In the aggregate, culture changes. But never mind that for now. Get the technology operating first.

Note 2: But in the medium to long term, culture matters. As Drucker said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”.

Privacy, education, conversation, friendship, shelter

https://youtu.be/C7ayji3ipyI?si=9ZMboGd93Kpr0I_3

Ummmmm. What if we had a “sponsored refugee camp” movement? It’s just an idea. People could create refuge for themselves and others, and outsiders would sponsor them to stay safe in the refuge.

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This idea isn’t ready, but I’m too tired to remake it yet.

I’ll tidy it up, but it’s just an idea.

https://oasisengineering.com/product/shipping-container-studio/?srsltid=AfmBOopCvKKJ70m8t2T9u0wz4Y_iSIij20Z-i2fNOtfT8F03FP5mZv4Tjb8

Start with the stuff in blue. And then add in the stuff in green until it works. Play it by ear. Maybe keep on expanding outwards if you have to. It’ll work eventually. I assume.

Maybe scatter a few outriggers, because that saves money.

The funny green lines are stairs.

It is suitable for one hermit who wants to take refuge.

Call it a hermit house, a faraday fort. I prefer hermit house.

Two means two high. Three means three high.

My chest hurts. I need rest.

Expandable:

If you need more living space, you can climb to the top of the whole complex and lounge about on the top of it. Maybe 3 units in a field close to a rural road, right next door to a farm house. That’s enough. They live like hermits. That solves the problem of how to be a hermit. That is a problem solved.

Privacy

Some people need privacy, even to be human. I understand that these people are trying to upgrade us to human 2.0 (or 3.0 depending on who you ask). But a lot of people don’t want to upgrade. We’re okay with the old version. And do so without privacy causes us so much suffering that it isn’t worth even explaining. So perhaps some people might just seek out privacy.

Some of us might just do it. And some of us might be killed, but why not try it anyway. It’s not like living without privacy is very good, and it isn’t sustainable. As for destabilising the system, it’ll fail sometime anyway, so why worry.

Some of us need privacy, because to live without it causes tremendous unhappiness. And to have it would make us so happy! And also, a lot of us just want to play video games or whatever.

If someone else has one, and you can’t afford your own, you could always just pitch a tent on the roof of their deck? Like, the top deck.

And these people have tons of people visiting. For tea/coffee, or lunch/dinner. You have a tea party on the roof. Or a barbecue.

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Edit: perhaps you could perch this on the front landing:

Edit 2:

https://mccontainers.com/product/10-toilet-shower-container-premium/

https://universal-containers.com/new-10ft-office-container/

Maybe use two 10 ft containers. It might be much easier to set up.. follow the links. Better pictures in the other side. Also, spin 90 degrees.

degrees.

Once you’ve build the basic cabin/office and the bathroom, and all the rest, you could just build additional rooms on top, or whatever. Or just one more room. Just build a wooden shack on top, stuff like that. A bedroom or a lounge. It’s not rocket science. Just any additions can be build on top. Or just a deck with a railing and a sun shelter so you can hang out and drink, or bbq, or anything. Building safety regulations notwithstanding.

Roof top garden.

For all I know, you could even use garden sheds as outriggers.

For all I know, you could use tin garden sheds full of crushed aluminium cans surrounding your main installation as “outriggers”. Like at 50m from your main central point, just surrounding with a ring of garden sheds full of crushed aluminium cans. You could even use donated, battered old garden sheds

You still have basic containers in the central part. This would be for any version, like the one with 6 berths for tiny homes (kinda the equivalent of a single wide trailer, but the hipster version) or the plateau. You never know if you try.

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Put in fences, so that you feel a little less crowded. And gardens

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Unfinished:

Flop house parking lot, rv holiday park in a parking lot, cabins in a parking lot

Things an unfinished idea. But it might be possible to convert a parking lot to an RV holiday park. Or a flop house, or a cabin containing facility. Either for profit, or for activists. Or maybe as a refugee camp for displaced Christians who cannot have freedom of conscience. Or a refugee camp for people in general who are technophobes.

Ummm. If you have enough containers inside the building, maybe you don’t need any around it. On the outside. Remember though, 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration.

If you can find a way to make it profitable, then it becomes possible to do it at scale. You’re providing privacy as a service. You’re providing private accommodation. There are a lot of people who want that. And at least two really good market segments. There are “homeless” people, who just really want to get away from the “all seeing eye”, and you can make money off of that market segment. And there is also the luxury recreational vehicle (caravan and caravan market). Also, millionaires could subsidise them through sponsorship, in order to improve access, because they believe that there is a “positive externality” associated with privacy. And also, because economies of scale exist. And “critical mass” exists. Like, safety in numbers.

Doing it at scale is the thing.

Update: or what if you just surprised the parking building with containers stacked four high. And did it at width. Like, four high and two wide. And then a bit of space, and another circle of four high, and two wide. And then some more space followed by a final ring. And maybe only a small number of containers inside the parking lots itself. Or maybe it isn’t necessary to have that much materials around the place.

Maybe two rings of containers around it that are four high and two wide, and you have a whole parking lot belongs to you. And it becomes private. And maybe some stuff on the top floor. Of ten floors.

Ps: many of the homeless in the USA ought to be considered refugees of the fae (aka philosopher kings). And if they want shelter, then NGOs, foreign powers, charities and businessmen ought to be able to provide it. And they should be able to provide it in any way that meets their needs, including through the use of market forces. They can’t even sleep at night without fear of being attacked by electronic weapons that manipulate their muscles, or disturbing dreams that invade their minds.

If you can give shelter to “the least of these” (aka, the homeless and dispossessed) then sooner or later the technology will “trickle up” to the masses, as well as to the intellectuals, thinkers and activists (especially non Marxist socialists, including but not limited to, social democrats, democratic socialists, and those who want appropriate social reform at the nation-state level and/or those who want democratic socialism at the nation-state level [especially for smaller and medium sized nations!]. As well as other anti-totalitarian activists. Also, it gives shelter to those who oppose patent law and copyrights

law).

What does “the least of these” mean?

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Proper one later. This one is bad. See the first and best idea up top, this is just an expansion idea.

It can be expanded as needed. And they can be produced at scale. You could have as many of these all over the place as you wanted. For example, you could have 50-100 within 20-30 minutes drive of Christchurch, on farm land. All of the dwellings are on wheels, and so should be fairly easy to sort out when it comes to compliance with things like building codes or zoning.

If the blocking of surveillance is too weak, then you can add more containers on the blue dotted line. And that should make it strong enough.

If you want to expand it north or south, you can do that, just make sure to move the boundaries and perimeter out before adding more of those blocks of 24 containers.

The idea is to have 24 of these units on the piece of land. Which should make it suitable for 48 people comfortably, or maybe 72 if you’re willing to have someone sleeping on the (foldout) couch. Perhaps each unit could be entitled to let one friend stay in a tent adjacent to their house/unit. For a total of 24 in tents, if needed. This makes the location suitable for up to 96 residents.

This is the sort of house I want people to use^

https://elitetinyhomes.co.nz/lowrider-tiny-home/

YouTube link to a 60 second viewing of the “lowrider tiny home” here.

In a pinch, people could use a caravan, like these:

https://remarkablecampers.com/used-caravans/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23145759570&gbraid=0AAAAA9gbDPsWOq1goIQowRydyL-yJcrKH&gclid=CjwKCAiA24XJBhBXEiwAXElO3xwskHEnaB966SOsdD9KKRX_zJT-LmU0EdwDrndJLyxyAk3vdn4TdBoC1YsQAvD_BwE

But using “tiny houses” is much, much smarter.

Update:

36 containers and 6 tiny houses

The basic model might set you back 500k nzd, or 330k usd just for the "standardised faraday containers 2.0" alone. I have priced faraday containers at about 16k nzd apiece. This doesn’t include the tiny houses, or the land. Or plumbing and electricity (you could do it off grid).

That's 36 containers at 16k nzd apiece. Really rough calculations. 6k for the container, stuff it with like 10k nzd worth of crushed aluminium cans. Although I may have over estimated the density, and therefore the cost of cans. And also the price of crushed cans. And also over estimated the cost of the containers. It may actually be a fair bit cheaper than this. It might be possible to bring it down to closer to 200k usd, or 350k nzd. I honestly have no idea, it’s all just ballpark figures. I’ll do better figures soon. I just checked container prices in USA, and it’s about 1500 USD for a used container in good condition. How much it costs to stuff it full of 33 cubic metres of crushed cans, I’m not sure. But I said it might be 10000NZD, so maybe I’ll round it down to 5000USD. Which makes a price of 6500USD per “standardised faraday shipping container v2.0”.

Don’t forget that this is a skunkworks though!!

A better plan soon, I hope.

This next one should be totally remade, and put into a new folder. It’s just an idea. And it’s maybe easier to do, for like a farmer or something. It’s only single level for the central element. In fact, all of it is single level. Wait, I’ll colour the six tiny homes green in two minutes.

If I had some land, I’d give it a go. The central island consists of twelve containers, chock full of crushed ammonium cans. 4 by 3. Surrounded by “tiny homes” Similar to this diagram below: ignore the label of “2 fc”, it’s just one high. You can even make it “off the grid” with solar panels for electricity, and not on the town water supply.

Maybe things a better picture^

Scale is 8 foot by 20 ft container. And also, maybe you only need about 28 cubic metres of crushed aluminium cans per container. For ease of handling and use, consider baling them up in plastic before packing them into the containers. Make cubes of crushed aluminium cans, and bale them up in plastic wrap. Whatever you do, it’s just an experiment.

Uhh. Hippies and old fashioned counter culture people would love this. Retirees and eccentrics as well. So many people would love it. People who work during the week as engineers, software developers, accountants, CEOs and cfos could use it. So many people. Especially hippies. So many people just want to be left alone. They want privacy.

They want to be left alone by the corporations, and academic know-it-alls, the peeping Toms and voyeurs of the world and all of sex pests, the busy bodies who want to meddle in your life. They want to be left alone by all of the proponents of the know-nothing dead brained new secular psych-engineering religion too (that’s my name for the religion of the university and corporate system, the religion of “applied psychology”).

Corporations = telcos and big tech and big data and space launch companies - as well as infrastructure syndicates. And all of the tech-dweebs

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I "productised" "privacy" and "refuge", and this might be the best way to create refugee camps for people who want to flee from the harms of the system. I think that there is maybe a 20-30% chance that it takes off, and works well, and it cost effective, and socially acceptable. But underpromise, over deliver, right?

It is a “distributed”, “decentralised”, “deconstructed” form of refugee camp. And it could be funded by means of sponsorship. And I want to live in one. With my daughter, if possible.

Ps: there is probably a 60-70% chance that it works right off the bat, first try. And 70-80% chance it works within 3-4 iterations. There will probably be some teething issues. Edit: it is probably closer to a 90% chance of it working.

Edit: Uhh. The whole area within the circle, and about 10 metres outside of it, should be private and usable. Shielded from the “all seeing eye”. And… I have been told that I should remove the “under promise and under deliver”, because it will actually just work. Probably. It seems to be way over engineered lol. Maybe like a 90% chance we can get it going fairly quickly. I’m just really hesitant to make promises that might not work out.

Umm. You can probably just keep on adding concentric circles, if you really want. Ps: the model at the top of the page, you can just keep on adding concentric circles of containers every 15 metres out from the first ring, and it probably works. Probably. You could add 2-3 rings, and just expand it out wards. And maybe turn it into a tent city, by expanding outwards over and over and over. Or make it into a park for self contained campervans.

Another diagram. Make the scale about 20 metres between the central island and first 4 out-riggers, and 20 metres out to the next circle. And I think you have yourself and your homes shielded straight away, and have plenty of space to hang out as well. That’s it. I’m not sure how many containers to used in the outer ring though.

In the end, it might become a model or a blueprint for a decentralised, resilient, distributed network of refugee camps. Kind of like a deconstructed refugee camp. It performs the function, but you don’t end up being ghetto-used. But it needs to evolve first. It will take some time. I think the first model/s are ready. But the models that will be suitable for mass rollout will take some work.

It would be popular with a lot of hippies and retirees. Or as a hideaway for celebrities and business executives. And as a weekender for office workers who live and work during the week in the city. This will make it possible for it to trickle down to the masses as well. That’s just how technology works! See the car industry if you don’t believe me. Once it trickles down, then large numbers (hundreds) of people might flock to them. And there might be surprises as to who finds it useful. Sometimes whole religious communities in places like rural Texas might move into them. Like an entire church community of 180 people. Or the whole ruling family (extended family) of an oppressed African nation (or several of their major ruling/influential families). Or wealthy, influential Japanese families. Or a medium sized church in a place like Uganda, who proselytises, and wants a radio station and printing press. Or the whole government of certain nations. Or the upper echelons of their ruling party. Or homesteaders.

We need the “model t ford” of this thing. It’s an open source skunk works and design project.

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Here is a good idea, look at it!!!!

Look at this!!!

The Johnny Appleseed Model

Social entrepreneurship and a business model

Once the technology works well, become the Johnny Apple seed of the basic faraday circle, and spread them far and wide. Give or sell them to people who can use them as a cottage industry, renting out berths to people with tiny homes (or single wide trailers aka manufactured housing on wheels, or caravans).

Business model:

The landlord lives in one tiny house, and rents 5 berths to other people who bring their tiny home on wheels, towed behind a 4wd vehicle. And eventually, anyone and their Mum can rent one (assuming money).

The social entrepreneurship is that you become a property developer, create the circles, and then sell them to people at cost, or slightly below cost.

That way you have access to all of the tools and services associated with financial and industrial capitalism.

The Long Rain, a short story by Ray Bradbury.

https://youtu.be/hoRMOg0N8pk?si=p7BDdw5AoV1yD1vy

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Just a couple of undeveloped ideas here.

This is a good one, below: it is the faraday circle, expanded outwards, infinitely.

You could exist anywhere within the outer ring. Probably. Or maybe anywhere within the second to last ring, with total security of not being under mental observation. You could stick a whole church community in there.

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Manufactured Housing

You can use ordinary transportable homes, ie manufactured housing

Ordinary transportable homes (aka manufactured housing) might be doable. Regulatory approval might be a hassle. But it’s possible as well. 7m by 13m

But maybe only two of them in one circle. Here is a good example of what you could use:

https://www.builtsmart.co.nz/transportable-homes-floor-plans-prices/86sqm

Early versions:

When you first try this technology out, it’s probably best to use houses on wheels, like tiny houses and camper vans. And tents! Because it’s just easier to set up. And there are fewer issues with regulations if the houses are on wheels. And it makes it so much easier to house poorer people, and people without fixed abodes. But as time goes on, you ought use newer and nice places to live.

It is a skunkworks!

Two more ideas

Just put one in a spare field or abandoned lot as an act of public service for homeless people to use. And they can just camp out there. Or several around the city. The expanded version.

Or just put one in your town square, or village green. The expanded one, so people can converse during the day in peace. And socialise. Test out the technology (skunk works). And figure out the best use cases?? It’s trial and error.

One more idea

For a wealthy individual. Set up 20 faraday circles in fields that you own, outside your home town. Let them be used as common property. Anyone can park their caravan there, or set up a tent.

That is the new commons. The only place for free exchange of ideas. And a sanctuary where people can escape to. Not rent charged. Private property, used as a commons.

Maybe set up 20 faraday circles in and around a big city. So that people have a new “town square” for discussion. Like 20ish just outside a place like Birmingham. And maybe a few inside. As an act of public service. Private land, used as though it is a commons. Some shelter homeless overnight. Most just allow free discussion and a place of refuge and shelter during the day. Just a thought.

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Why not just set one up as an urban homeless shelter? They can just set up tents in amongst the containers.

If you need more space, just add more concentric circles.

Urban homeless shelters might be the best use case for this technology. Other than dwellings in the countryside for people like retirees, hippies and non-conformists. They are perhaps one of the best examples of electronic refugees in our society. A lot of them aren’t “hive-mind guys” or “hive-mind girls”.

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//Still asleep.

It is quite possible that the faraday circle shields a circle of 120 m diameter. The whole thing. Entirely. Totally. And you might be able to stuff it totally full of campervans. Like 50 of them. These rays use multiple depths of earth as reflection points. Sort of. So they have to penetrate the earth from a variety of angles, and do rerouting and contingency algorithms end averaging algorithms. And then if you have enough in the centre and around the edges, it might be enough to do the whole 100m circle, and ten to twenty metres outside of it. They have to reflect and bounce a lot of radio waves off of the earth to make this work. Models are just models. Ugh. Too hard to explain. There is no “is”.
Next thought, what if you bought a pre existing holiday park, or camper van haven, with connections for caravans, and just installed standardised faraday shipping containers. A faraday circle. And some extra. Then it’s just a holiday park with amenities, and satellite em spectrum nervous system privacy. And you stuff it with 50 caravans of long term residents, who live there and work outside of the location.

[[Next thought, it might also be the case that it is way over engineered, and you’ve used twice as much expensive materials than you need, and you could remove half of the material from inside the containers and it still works. (Don’t try that though.) We’ll not know until it is experimented on. This is useful, because maybe if you only need a tiny spot for one cabin, you can use 50% of the material??]]

Seriously though, you can probably just build the "basic faraday circle" and stuff it full of 50 campervans and you'll be fine. And in the unlikely even that it isn't strong and secure enough, you can probably just add more containers into the perimeter, just strengthen the line. Thicken it, and fill in the gaps (at the 50 metre radius point approx). You know, fill in the dotted line of the circles circumference. And then make it double thickness. If you look at the basic model, there is a ring at about 50 metres. You just make this a solid line, instead of a dashed line. And maybe make it thicker, like double high or double wide. And that makes the whole region totally secure. And you then stuff it full of 50 campervans But the basic model ought actually to be fine for stuffing like 50 caravans in there!!! And for even better results, just buy a location already fully set up for campervans. A space with all of the basic hook ups for caravans, as well as well prepared ground. and overlay the faraday circle on it. I'm sorry, I try not to over promise!! It is a skunk works. It is experimental! I can’t promise success! But it might be amazing!

[note to self, redo that section]

By holiday park, I might just mean good level grounds, with gravel or concrete pads for the caravans, and level grassy areas. It has maybe just a toilet block, showers, and small kitchen already on site. You already have electricity, plumbing and internet (maybe wifi on site, unsure how that works). You might have to bulldoze a few cabins or buildings to make space, but it could definitely work. Edit: better idea, just find a large flat piece of land with a toilet/shower kitchen block already built, and overlay the faraday circle on top of it.

Ultimately, someone should just do it on their farm or lifestyle block though. Just to test it out. With only two tiny houses. One for them and their wife, with also one for their parents. And see how that goes. Just to test it.

And then build it into ordinary life. Shelter in place, or build shelters. Keep calm, carry on.

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Read this part, just below:

Seriously, the basic model (see diagram on the top of the page) should give you a circle with a 100-120 metre diameter zone of exclusion. And it if doesn’t, just fill in the gaps on the outer rim with an additional 15 or so containers, and it should be enough. I’d just make the basic model straight away. And have another 12-15 containers on hand, just in case. 45 containers in total. And then instantly, I think I might have a football field worth of space to play with.

What does that mean? It means that if you are inside circle of containers you are safe and have electronic privacy. And if you are just outside of the circle of containers (by ten metres) you are still safe and have privacy. That means that the whole circle of safety is 120 metres across. Please note, the circle in the diagram is approximately 100 metres across. The scale is: each rectangle is a standard 20ft shipping container, that is 6m by 2.5m.

Read me^

It is a skunk works. That means we need something like 20-30 different sets of people to test it out, in a decentralised manner, to find out how it works, and how best to make it work. Once it works, it will evolve fast. There will be multiple iterations, for example there might be circles full of comfortable cabins and barracks, with common areas and basic amenities, instead of campervans. Many guys could hide away in these, just for the sake of argument. And work as programmers, designers, developers and software engineers. They never leave the circle. Or seldom.

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People who just want to be left alone, maybe they can just be left alone.

Just overlay a circle on top of a family home. Probably works. And if it doesn’t, just add ten more containers into the ring. Suitable for homesteaders, lifestyle block dwellers, and anyone who has a modest home in the middle of a level, even plain with firm soil/ground. You need land around the house is what I mean.

Better photo of the above picture available here:

https://www.howcommunicate.com/general-photos-and-images

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New idea:

Imagine you have a neighbourhood consisting of 50 “lifestyle blocks”. You can probably put 30-40 of those houses inside faraday rings, and end up achieving “critical mass” in the neighbourhood. And even houses that aren’t a part of it end up having coverage. But it depends on the size of the properties, and the effectiveness of the technology. These things have a multiplier effect, or synergise, or something, I think. It’s a skunkworks, remember? This idea I think has a low chance of working. But it might be the kernel of inspiration for something good, or better. I’m kind of conducting a public, open source skunkworks.

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You could just mix and match a neighbourhood a bit. Maybe some houses have faraday rings over them, and you also have a few in the neighbourhood just for caravans, and they’re close enough to link up.

Extra idea:

Maybe just have one overlay faraday circle on top of your house, and then a second basic faraday circle with six tiny homes on wheels in it adjacent, in the nearest paddock. That way you have a place for yourself to live, and six units to rent to tenants. Place them close to one another so that you can run power and internet to them easily, and so that you can walk to-and-fro between the house and the six tenants’ units. Or use the second faraday circle for 20 caravans. Either way, just become a landlord.

Or maybe build multiple faraday circles to create many spaces for your tenants. One house, 3-4 adjacent circles for your tenants. I might do a diagram later. Or if you have a large farm, you could build one circle around your main dwelling, and then 10-20 faraday circles on your farm, and daisy chain them together. You could fill each new circle with either tiny homes or cheap caravans, and then become a landlord. And have many tenants. If you want, you could either charge market rents, or do it as a refugee charity with rents like $20 weekly (with sponsors and donors supporting you). A good demographic might be women who were trafficked into prostitution (aka sex work), but want to get out. Or young men who don’t fit in (“zoomers” who are basically decent people, but don’t like the current day culture), or retirees, or hippies. Or political activists and party members in mainstream parties who need privacy. And members of the civil service. Or just rent spaces to van dwellers.

Places like England, France, Germany and Switzerland might be good places for this.

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Random idea:

Boarding house: Thailand, Phillipines. You have a home in a small town. One paddock in the back, one in the front. One large paddock to the side. Regulations as to housing are lax!

You put up a faraday circle, to protect your home. You have just enough space to put up the circle. You expand it a little to the rear of your home. You then put up 3-4 cheap cabins (with bathroom facilities) for boarders. Serve them food, charge rent, do laundry. Earn money. Landlady in charge. Two occupants per cabin, 8 occupants total.

It is a business model, just spitballing ideas. Can be replicated in many places. Just an idea.

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My new favourite idea

Second attempt:

The red/green rectangles are house buses or motor homes. The two story farmhouse was already on the property. You just overlay the containers over the property. And move the house buses in. For best results, you want to have flat land. Also, for best results (and more space to walk around and stretch your legs) put a second circle of standardised faraday containers exactly 20 metres out from the outermost containers.

You end up with one house and spaces for 7 house buses (or full length motor homes, aka RVs). Or perhaps one house and 14 small vans. You can use the electrical connections, plumbing, internet etc associated with the original house. It can be replicated easily. Just buy a house in the countryside, put up a faraday circle, and move in with about 25 friends, including children (they can bring the house buses).

If you double park them, you could have 14 vans instead of 7 house buses.

That might be better. Have one house and 14 vans. Easier. Like 20 people, straight away.

Imagine if you have 1000 of these worldwide (each and every one of them is independent of one another) and they’re all networked via the internet.

End of that idea (it is a very good one!).

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Going Underground

Next idea: you could just bury the containers underground.

For example, if you’re wealthy, and you want to shield your cabin/cottage out in the country side, you could just build a faraday circle with buried containers.

You have a small two bedroom house in rural New Zealand on a flat piece of ground. You then dig a large pit close to it, and create a reinforced concrete pit, with lid, and fill it with 24 faraday containers. Put the lid on it, and then grow grass over it. You still have access to it via a manhole or something, to check drainage or whatever. It’s like good construction.

And then at a distance of 50 metres radius from the house you dig a trench one story deep, line it with concrete and make sure it has drainage, and fill it with faraday containers, then put a lid on it. And put grass over top.

And then you put a few extras containers into pits within the circle, to even out coverage. At a distance of maybe 20m away from the house. And plant grass over top.

Congratulations, you may just have shielded your whole house. Use a small house though. And then no one can see the shielding tech. But you’re still shielded. It’s like your whole home is hiding under a dome of aluminium and steel mesh, just like hiding this black cardamom under this sieve:

Congratulations! You have privacy, but your house doesn’t look weird. Pricey though lol.

Tldr: just dig the containers underground and cover them up with soil and grass.

The Long Rain, by Ray Bradbury:

https://youtu.be/W0KiDEkJP4A?si=hMY6ztL6paH8pyTR

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A new idea

Make some crushed cubes of aluminium cans. Wrap them in fibrous plastic wrap (sturdy stuff). Dip them in something water proof.

Make lots of them.

Find a house in the country side. A small one, surrounded by flat land. Plenty of land. Then draw a circle with a radius of 60 metres.

Sink many wells and shafts into this soil. Make them about 1-2 metres across and 20-60 metres deep. Many of them. 60-80 wells in total.

Fill these wells with the cubes of aluminium cans.

Put lids on the wells.

Grow grass over top of them.

And you should have an attractive house that’s shielded from the rays of the satellites. Maybe. This one still needs to be fully skunksworked. It really just is inspiration. I wouldn't trust it yet. Maybe 30% chance that it would work, as is. The benefit of this one is that it is good for aesthetic qualities. That is, it looks better. All of the material is underground.

I personally dislike it. But perhaps other people will like it. The one just above (the nucleus and circle model) is probably better. Oh, and you could always just put a massive diving pool full of crushed cans beside a house as well. To synergise with the wells you’re sinking.

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Maybe this is an idea?

Farm house, and you park some vans around.

Circle, imaginary circle like 120+ metres across. Fill it with a bunch of para pools (frame pool sets) full of aluminium cans (crushed into cubes). Spread the pools out a bit. And cover them with tarpaulins. That’s it. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t. Make sure to cover a lot of ground though. I dunno. You’ve got a farm house, and a couple dozen vans. People live in the vans. It’s like mass van life. You install extra toilets, and use the farm house as a lounge, kitchen, bathroom and laundry. No one actually lives in it. Seems smart. Just chill out. Like a fern.

Edit: Small grain silos could work too. The most important thing is do create a circle that is about 100-120 metres across. It’s a matter of scale. I think?

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Bigger scale idea

Or a field, in a place like Ashburton. 400 metres by 400 metres. Spread out a huge number of smallish grain silos. Fill them chock full of crushed aluminium cans. Install it somewhere that has buildings/houses on the land already, so that you have connection points for electricity, sewerage, fresh water and internet. And you also have some bathrooms, kitchen and laundry facilities also. Invite hundreds of people in vans and camper and to come to stay on the land, cheap. Hundreds of people. What they do, I’m not sure. It’s clever, but perhaps not sustainable. But it’s a start.

Refuge.

The desire for privacy is very, very strong. And so if it’s affordable, people will leap at the chance to have it. They will move heaven and earth, shift countries, and spend boat loads of money to have it.

Privacy. It is a type of refuge!

Privacy!!!!!!!

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Rural House Conversion Kit

Here is another idea. It might be worth testing out. We don't know if it works until it's tried. It might be a little over engineered at the moment, and the scale is a bit off, but the cost and quantity of materials can probably be reduced over time.

Rural Australia might be a good place for this. It should cover more than just the main house, giving you space for a handful of vans, caravans or cabins as well. It gives you privacy and refuge, so that you're not obliged to be a part of the mass "hive-mind" social experiment.

The product is intended for mass rollout, assuming it works.

Here is an example of the type of pool you might use, full of bales of crushed aluminium, covered with a tarpaulin. Either weigh down the tarpaulin with bricks or pin it down with sturdy tent pegs. You need lots of them, and spread them out. It’s all about “scale”, coverage, quantity and spread.

Ps: if you feel a need for additional "emotional security", (I.e. lack of faith that it will work) when installing this version, just put a few faraday containers (2-3) directly beside the house when you build it. Then move them away one by one once you're sure it works. You probably don’t need them.

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If it works (the faraday circles, or the swimming pool grid)

This is hopefully the last idea for a while, because I am hoping to get away from political ideas for the moment. But here it is.

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Main functions

You can hide!

Privacy

Refuge

Rest and recuperation

Normal conversation

Unmediated relationships. For example, friendships that aren’t mediated and manipulated by the busybodies of the sky. Also, familial, marital and dating relationships that are unmediated. Where you are free to choose how to interact with the other person!

They would be good for a holiday or as a home.

Mission creep:

If this works, it might be best to stick to the core functions above. That is, use technology to create privacy, and provide places of refuge to people who need it. It will allow people to rest and recuperate, rejuvenating themselves in both mind and body. They can enjoy normal conversations and unmediated relationships (no busybodies meddling psychically with your social interactions). Some people can live inside the privacy bubble, and always have refuge and shelter. Some people can merely visit for a while.

Mission creep could be dangerous and unwise, and is best avoided. Also, a peaceful non-violent movement is more likely to be successful (something kind of like civil rights USA; or like quakers in pre civil war USA, or the pilgrims in pre 1776 USA fleeing religious oppression in Europe) rather than something armed and violent. Maybe people with minds worth protecting would very much like shelter?

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What other "functions"?

Any faraday circle could have any one of the following “functions”… Lecture theatre, classroom, multimedia library, newspaper printing and distribution centre.

For example, if you have a projection room you could air lectures recorded elsewhere for audiences who walked to your circle from the surrounding area. If you have a room full of headphones and audio recordings, then people could visit to listen to talks, radio shows and podcasts recorded elsewhere. If you had a photo copier and industrial printer, then you could print out magazines or newspapers that other people wrote, to distribute to the surrounding area. Perhaps the best time to distribute materials to the surrounding area might be when you hold a barbecue or shared pot luck lunch. Oh, and ordinary classrooms too.

Content Creation

Some of them can be used as a place for content creation. Such as a place where you create and record lectures, write books and pamphlets to be reproduced elsewhere, and multimedia content (to be watched elsewhere), where you write, edit and do layouts for newspapers. That sort of thing. You need to create content in the first place, to distribute it elsewhere. They could be like punk zines? I don’t know much about that sort of thing.

Additional idea, once the technique and technology improves and has been tested. Then you can do things like overlay it into a warehouse (that is, surround it with swimming pools full of crushed bales of aluminium cans and also put some standalone swimming pools of crushed baled aluminium cans inside the warehouse. All of it evenly spaced on a grid. That way you have space inside and out. I think. You ought have to visualise that one your self. But think in terms of 200m by 200m grid, with a 60m by 60m warehouse in the middle of a desert?

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Expanded Model: Caravans and Farm House

Take a property with a plenty of flat land, and a small house already on it. You’ve already got utilities attached.

Put one of these things down, including the caravans. Use second hand caravans. Plug everything into the house. Power, water, sewerage.

Rent out the caravans to people for a few hundred dollars each. Will it work? I dunno. Possibly. I reckon the main house is good. Probably the rest are too. But it’s all about treating it. It spreads like wildfire, because you can rent them out and make money. This means that people can use debt and profit to self fund expansion. Ie, they can borrow money.

You put the nucleus hard up against the house, and the caravans inside the inner circle. At least the whole inner circle should be clear, safe and private. And if it doesn’t work, then the “swimming pool grid” one should work.

Uhhh. I actually need to tidy it up. But I’m shattered. It’s just a circle, with an extra one outside it. It still has the nucleus, and four solo containers north south east and west of the nucleus. And it has 24 caravans in the picture, and one modest house.

It’s a skunkworks. There are no guarantees that it works, but if it is tested out, it might work really well. It might work perfectly the first time, shielding absolutely everything inside the circles. In fact, it might be so over engineered that the whole area is not only safe from observation, but that the amount of material could have cut in half, and it still works!

Or it could still need work, I’m not sure.

It seriously could just work first try. And it could potentially be so over engineered that the later versions could be made with something like half of the quantity of crushed and baled cans.

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Faraday Circles: brain storming ideas for use cases in service of basic grass roots democracy

Hypothetically, imagine a party activist in labour, national, Maori party.

Moves into a caravan in a faraday circle (assuming it works). They write pamphlets and other documents. And can send them via the internet to another faraday circle in another part of the country. They then print 5000 pamphlets at the second location, and host a barbecue. At the barbecue they hand out 5000 pamphlets.

Another idea. They create teaching materials in a faraday circle, and then distribute them to 20 other faraday circles. Each of those circles contains a small cabin (on wheels) useable as a classroom. And then a teacher uses those teaching materials to teach an informal class every evening.

Next, another idea. If you create high quality information inside a faraday circle (like a book, music, art or multimedia document, or a file discussing the merits and demerits of particular politicians, civil servants or other officials) you can then transfer it to other circles, where they can download it to their server. And then anyone within the circle can access it to use it, enjoy it or observe it. This includes books, music, black market copyrighted materials, instructions for bypassing patent protected materials, engineering blue prints for telecommunications technology, respectable analysis of foreign powers and institutions (Including analysis of USA, EU, Japan, UN, IMF, WHO, Banks, CIA, Corporations in the telecommunications industry, spacex, MIT/Harvard, Cambridge/Oxford, China, Australia etc) by genuine academics (working in sheltered locations).

Or a different idea.

What if?

What if we had 25 faraday circles in small towns in NZ. 100 in small towns in Australia. 200 in small towns in Texas, 100 scattered about California and another 200 spread between places like Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, South Dakota, North Dakota, Virginia and the Carolinas. Maybe another 150 between England, Ireland and Canada. And a few in each of France, Germany and Switzerland. Perhaps some in each of Poland, Hungary, Cuba and Romania.

And they all had classrooms, standardised pamphlets, electronic libraries and barbecues every Saturday. Barbecues where people were able to talk and hand out pamphlets, produced and printed “off-the-grid”. And huge numbers of people could have at least one conversation every week without being harassed. Some places focus on research and writing, some on outreach.

It is called “horizontal power” and it is inherently democratic.

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It could allow people in significant number to eat, sleep and live in private. But also to be able to access, share and create information in a private, safe location.

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But maybe the biggest selling point of this technology is that once it is available (please see the most recent version at the bottom of the (new) ideas page) then many people will be able to have privacy while they are at home (even if they can’t have it at work). They can live in a motorhome, caravan or cabin on site, and have privacy for 120/168 hours per week. That’s 168 hours minus 48 hours for working and commuting.

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Another (unfinished) idea.

The hobbit hole model

This really is a silly idea. Seriously. Build a cabin, it ought to be three metres by three metres. It is waterproof, it is made of wood with a tin roof, or reinforced concrete. It is very sturdy. It has a 10 metre long concrete pipe to the door as a tunnel. Surround it with a chain link fence. Maybe 20 metres by 20 metres, and about 4-5 metres high (I know I said that the square should be 25/25, but don’t worry about that). And then fill the whole area with cans. Bales of aluminium cans. Even loose cans. And then cover the whole thing with netting, to stop it blowing away.

It’s like a hobbit hole.

It should work.

And maybe you can reduce the amount of material required over time. To find out the cheapest way to do it. That is, maybe make it a smaller square, but with really high walls.

Furthermore, you can possibly add more little hobbit holes to it. Each with their own entrance.

That’s it. It’s just an idea. You use it as a cabin to sleep, eat, work, read, study and relax in. But you still have your main house. This one just goes in the back yard. It’s a silly little idea, but I like it anyway!

Edit: Maybe you and your wife put it behind the house, and it’s just one cabin inside it. And you just use it as a sleep out. It contains a double bed, and two small laptops on mini desks. And you run a power cable and Ethernet cable out there. And you can sleep out there, surf the internet for a bit every evening. Lounge about doing nothing much. Read. Do yoga, or whatever. You use the kitchen, toilet and bathroom inside.

The idea is still evolving.

Maybe make the building 4 metres by four metres, out of cinder blocks. And make the enclosure closer to a cube in size. The fences are taller, but closer in. That is, height increases, but depth and width are reduced.

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Emily Dickinson

I'm Nobody! Who are you?

Are you - Nobody - too?

Then there's a pair of us!

Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know!

How dreary - to be - Somebody!

How public - like a Frog -

To tell one's name - the livelong June -

To an admiring Bog!

This is one of my favourite few poems.

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Fun idea, good for the backyard scientist

Just an idea. Ummm. It is a work in progress.

Build tall fences of 16 ft high. Bottom 8 feet are sturdy wood, top 8 feet are chain link. Central area is 4 by 4 (or as little as 2.5 by 2.5). Outer fence is 14m by 14m. Alley way is from outer fence to inner courtyard, it is also 16 ft high. You fill in the courtyard with bales of crushed aluminium cans and possibly other metal scrap. Then put a small cabin or shed in the middle, run power and internet to it. Maybe plumbing in and out, if you feel like it. You could actually do a bathroom (or just hand basic and flushing toilet) if you really wanted to. It’s not impossible. Location, your back yard. If you have a decent backyard. If it doesn’t work, just put a few containers or covered swimming pools of extra cans around it. If you don’t want to pour concrete, then you can do the central courtyard in brick. Put a net over the top of it, something sturdy enough to last that prevents the cans escaping over the top in the wind. Prediction: chance of success is about 30-40% that it works. If it works, it might catch on. Good for makers and DIY guys. Remember, this is a skunk works. Think of it like JE Gordon working at the RAE. Once the technologies and methods of construction work, they can be spread all around the world. If they work!? But that remains to be seen: it’s a perfect project for some of the mad scientists among us.

https://www.tradetested.co.nz/p/sheds-carports/garden-sheds/wooden-garden-sheds/wooden-garden-shed-dan-2-73m-x-2-8m-x-1-9m

And then you maybe rent it out to someone for $1000 per week. And you make great money. It’s a way to offer refuge, and make money. The profit margin makes it possible to roll it out en masse, privately funded.

Or maybe I would just use it to sleep in, and as a day room. But still get things done outside. Like, you have your main home. But out in the back yard, you have your sleep out. Which is private. And you can also spend the day in there chilling out. Doing nothing much. And maybe also have a job, out in the real world. As for showers and proper meals, you do that inside.

I still think the first model is best. The one at the top of the page.

Use Cases

What could you use it for? Gigs. Or rock music. An underground rock scene. Counter culture music. Also, the main faraday circle model would work even better for gigs.

If you need space to just live a normal private life, or escape from your childhood bullies in your head, that’s fine. Or to escape from being trafficked into semi-voluntary unwanted sex work. Or maybe you want to be a terminally online person/gamer. Or you just want a private space to sleep at night. Like you go to your sleepout 1 hour before bed, read a bit, you enjoy a private conversation with your spouse, you take some time to process the thoughts of the day in your diary/journal before going to bed. And you spend literally all of the rest of your time in your main home.

Or for me, set up a normal social life: set up an old windows box as a server, phpbb forum, mirc channel/server, ventrilo/teamspeak server, host some half life one engine servers (counter strike 1.5, half life one deathmatch, day of defeat, natural selection 3.2, the specialists, team fortress classic, Garry’s mod(?)) - no matchmaking. And UT2004, Quake3arena? You know, a normal social life!? And also, make sure we have some file sharing for off the grid rock music, and counter-culture stuff. Like materials that oppose the institution/tradition/custom of intellectual property (patent law and copyright law. That is total abolition of patent law and copyright law in New Zealand and Australia)?? The new underground! It’s about having a normal social life again. Conducted in private.

And you can even lend your place (or a bit of space) to a few of friends who want a bit of privacy for a normal, in person, face-to-face conversation, over a cup of tea.

https://www.roommatecabins.co.nz/our-cabins/

https://supasheds.nz/other-sheds/outhouse/dunny-boy/

New idea for the fenced faraday courtyard, use a small cabin like this. Also maybe make the fences 100% wood, and 12 ft high. That might be enough. And have a nicely plumbed outhouse in the courtyard. As well as a sturdy outdoor laundry sink (as an all purpose sink), and you might actually be very comfortable out there! Just use it as your bedroom, and maybe say, “I just want to keep the Government out of my bedroom.” And you still live most of your waking life outside of this courtyard.

I kinda feel like this page ought to be mostly for people who are hoping to actually do one of the projects? Like a DIY self funded thing. And the best way to do it is to do it because you desire privacy for its own sake. Along with social life conducted in private, and a mental life conducted in private. Not for other things like politics downstream.

Think in abstractions: These “electromagnetic rays” have to do multiple bounce backs between the earth and the satellites (or between multiple cell towers while bouncing off of the earth) while intersecting your skull and spine and nerves just triangulate your position. Let alone read your brain waves or alter them. And they bounce many rays off of multiple “layers” of materials to figure out how to get the stuff back to the satellites or cell towers. And then average them out. And they reroute and average out heaps of stuff. So they have to do many passes through your brain. They also have to use interference patterns. But anyway, multiple passes. And if buoy surround yourself with a 4 metre thick 12 ft high wall of cans it should easily shield you. So you can have a simple 4by4 court yard inside a fence. Because these cans disrupt enough of the rays. It’s not about total coverage as though it’s just a camera watching you directly, that is, you don’t need an underground bunker with a metre thick steel over top of you from every single direction. I’m not 100%, but I think it works that way. I think you just need to disrupt the rays enough!! They try to make up for interference with extra computing power and infinite reroutes. But if they’re brute forcing it with more power, you can just interfere with enough material to get in the way. And I think that this stuff (crushed cans) might have an effect within like 20 metres (diminishing with distance) because the waves cover some space, and also have width, and they like to bounce off of multiple layers and surfaces. So if you have it in concentration in a location, it helps. And if you have a big concentration in one spot, it might disrupt this for 20 metres in every direction (diminishing with distance) (I think the underlying rays are high wave length radio waves with. Wave length of 20 metres). So it’s about scale! But anyway, if you have to make multiple passes through something like this, it’s over for the rays.

But also if you have a different situation where you spread them out, then every concentration of them might disrupt in an area of effect of about 20 metres (diminishing) which blocks out heaps if you had like a grid pattern of swimming pools or a circle of containers. The basic circle is fine for houses and caravans. I think. If I were to bolster it, I’d just fill in the gaps in the outer circle. And I think the whole thing is so strong it could contain a house and as many as 20-30 caravans.

Now this is engineering, not science. Sort of. And according to Petroski (or JE Gordon), sometimes the way to do engineering is to just test it. And if it works, it works. It’s just testing out multiple iterations until it’s good, cheap and reliable.

For an analogy, just imagine you have a sieve doing multiple sweeps of the waves, and this disrupts many many waves each sweep. Maybe a bad analogy, but it’s all I’ve got for now. Or maybe like chaff behind a plane to disrupt. Or stealth on a stealth plane or boat. I was inspired to think about it all when I visited Sir Ernest Rutherford’s old lab in the basement of the art centre in Christchurch, formerly the university of Canterbury buildings, now sold to a different organisation and used as an art gallery. His area is a museum, including his space for testing radio waves in the basement coat room. Every em ray that touches even a wafer thin layer of metal has a chance for the energy in that wave to be absorbed by that metal, or to be deflected. Because it’s all like energy in the aether, and waves, particles, whatever model you use. Vibrations? I dunno. Disruptions in the aether, like disruptions in water. And maybe energetic disruptions in aether just resolve into particles/packets when absorbed by the metal. I’m a bit fuzzy on this. But it’s a start.

Update 28 December, Anyway, I think the at the presence of this stuff causes the breakdown of the field/relationship within about 10-20 metres of it. However, it depends on the arrangement of the containers or pools. I think that if you had containers spaced out 20 metres apart in a grid pattern. They the whole grid might become secure, but if you had only one container, then you’re only shielded within few metre of it. But if you had four containers, even only half full, 20 metres out from a central point, then the central point might be clear. There is a field, or a relationship, and it relies on basic radio waves interposed on top of one another, and uses something like constructive and destructive interference. Those are the basic building blocks of the overall system, and if you can disrupt that, then they can’t get a good “handshake relationship” (analogy from like TLS internet stuff) between your brain/nervous system and the satellites or cell towers. Now, with physics, you actually use different “models” for describing phenomena at different levels. It is hard to explain what I mean in words. But I think that my theories are good enough to justify doing trials of my new innovative technologies. And just like Ehrlich, I don’t think that it matters if I use all of the right words. Furthermore, you can actually learn more by reading the old timey words used by the likes of faraday than you might think. Skip the “mathematical” stuff of Maxwell, and go straight to faraday (and maybe Rutherford). Look at the physical experiments, and their language associated with it. Look beneath and below that mathematics of it. This is not for everyone!!

I think it’s basically radio waves, but there are all of these relationships on top of the radio waves, and using the radio waves. But the trick is that the stuff you think you “know” about ordinary radio waves (electromagnetic spectrum radiation) might actually be just a “map”, “model” or representation of the underlying territory. Which when you boil it all down, is just “when we did this thing, who’s the phenomena happened”. And the best way to understand this is to…. Just read about the basic experiments that they did. It actually is just really good to read biographies of past scientists. It really is. And to try to replicate stuff by people like faraday. And also to just spend hours today dreaming and imagining the experiments. And tons of reading. I remember reading a book called Schroeinger’s kittens when I was 19. I was always reading.

I reckon waves are like a relationship between two points, and the idea of a wave is just like a “model”. I also feel that the idea of aether is really, really useful. Just as a model. Because you can then imagine that em waves are existing as “displacement” within the aether. Anyway, that’s enough for now. It is only through testing that we can see if the ideas work. Personally (as of today), I’d test it out by building a faraday sandwich around a cabin. But I’d double it up by putting two containers on each side. Like two layers of bread on each side.

What would the product be like in the end?

Sell the sizzle, not the sausage.

It would give you peace and quiet, and freedom from the mind rot. A place of refuge where teenagers (particularly girls) can escape from the cruelty of their peers. And a place of privacy, where people don’t have to viscerally feel the creepiness of what other people are thinking about them. And also where you don’t feel that people are snooping on your personal thoughts, daydreams or other things (including slightly shady daydreams and other such thoughts). It would also mean that legitimate mainstream party activists and party members in mainstream parties would be able to deliberate and think in private. This would be very important for things like trade policy, as well as matters of conscience.

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I read this book on Christmas Day 2007 in the Wairarapa. Or most of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_Kittens_and_the_Search_for_Reality

I also read Haruki Murakami's "what I think about when I think about running" on the same day. Which was my first exposure to Murakami.

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In 1950, Albert Einstein wrote to Erwin Schrödinger, reflecting on the foundations of quantum theory and the famous “cat” thought experiment: Dear Schrödinger, You are the only contemporary physicist, besides Laue, who sees that one cannot get around the assumption of reality—if only one is honest.

My quote, "you have to just kind of turn off your brain and be a little disconnected from reality" when it comes to thinking about radio waves. And see that the model of something is not the same as the thing itself. The ability for abstract thought is useful. As is the ability to use thought experiments and analogies. And avoid getting too mathematical too quickly!

Analogies are useful. And examples, like waves in a pool. Or visiting places like Rutherford’s lab. Or possibly visiting faraday’s lab, if it still exists.

Also, playing video games with three dimensional first person environments, and good physics engines help. Like half life one, and also Gary’s mod. This helps because I have been thinking about physics, graphics, light, waves and simulation of waves and light since I was 13. And also vectors, velocity and momentum and energy since I was a child. In video games you have equations and maths, but you’re just simulating things?? And you have an imaginary the dimensional space. And things ricochet?

The physics of video games can help you to think, especially if you want to make games. Or if you use physics exploits all day long (such as bunny hopping, wiggle walking, wall strafing, surfing(ugh) or such things) as a matter of course. It teaches a new angle on thinking. Now of course maths and physics at school, as well as dozens of books on engineering are important too. Such as the life stories of Telford, Brunel. And also books by JE Gordon, and Petroski. Landels, ancient engineering.

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Swimming pool grid. Homeless refugees stay here. Perhaps women with their children who have become homeless. And they move 50 cabins into the property. And down the road, 100 homeless men find a new place to stay in a similar grid. They fill it with tents, cabins, shacks, sheds, caravans and motor homes. Better explanation on the other pages on my other website (picture resolutions better there).

Build a grid of swimming pools.

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The back yard cabin model:

What if every little girl who doesn’t want to have her soul broken to pieces, and her heart hollowed out by the bullying of her peers and the constant observation of these satellites. By the feeling of never being alone. So that she can become a sex worker for life. What if they all have their fathers but them these things at the age of 13. And this kills off the supply of new and willing sex workers.

And also what if every stoner who works a dead end job but just doesn’t want to participate in society can buy a back yard cabin, and stay in it for 130/168 hours per weeks and never leave it. And he and his friends just hang out and get high or drink a little. And they’re totally off the grid mentally. And their homes become hangouts. People can talk normally, and socialise too. Play console games, cards or whatever.

And what if homeless can build these in people’s back yards, and shelter. Not all homeless, but many of them. In places like DC, NYC, Seattle, Denver. The sorts of people who can’t cope, because the world is too horrible to their brains.

And what if people like me, the cognitive outliers, can find a place of rest and peace. Like a Rivendell of the back garden.

And then what if we all can find a way to communicate. For example, by mirc, phpbb forums, or by snail mail. And we build new social relationships. But do it off the grid. And we totally rebuild our minds and our souls. We build new relationships, proper ones. Off the grid! Some of them are in person, face to face. Some of them are by letters and over the internet. Like at a distance. But either way, we can rebuild new and real relationships with that wonderful thing called privacy of mind. Which really is just not feeling crowded. We can be people again!

What if conversation and socialising are what build our souls, and turn us into “proper people”. And these places make that possible. And also, a lot of us just need a bit of rest and relaxation. Or a place of safety!! My father killed my father in law, for example. And my uncle killed his own elderly mother, Joyce.

Haha, what if they built them in the Republic of China (Taiwan), and in Japan. And could have better and more comfortable places to socialise, without having people inside your head? They could have normal friendships, relationships and conversations. At least inside the cabins.

Umm. And what if “dregvant defectors” aka fae who want to quit can “run away screaming like a little girl” and seek shelter in cabins for the next 5 years!!!!! And what if people shelter them.

Conversation

Socialising

Relationships

Refuge

Rest and relaxation, recuperation

Girls not being bullied at home by their peers.

Perhaps also a good pace to engage in the “improvement of the mind”.

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It's possible that each one of these containers causes about 20 metres area of effect in every direction. That is, they have an effective range of a circle with a range of 20 metres. But the range diminishes.

But the bottom line is,,, maybe if you put three in your back yard, in a triangle, about 15 metres apart, then everything inside is safe. It might actually work that way. And then maybe you can fill that whole area with cabins, sheds and other modular housing. Or whatever.

The reason it might work this way, is that I think the radio wave building blocks are wide/long. And the triangulation function and bounce back tests to establish the "connection" and maintains strong "field" or whatever, it takes up a bit of distance.

But we won't know if we don't have testing done. Maybe if you have 3 in your back yard, that basically clears a bunch of space for backyard cabins. The only way to know, is to try it. Just a triangle. Figure out the range and effectiveness. But first just try sandwiching one cabin. I think. But then do a triangle!!

Or maybe a square. What I’m saying, is that it might actually be possible to clear a house or something, just by putting several containers around it. Maybe if you have a small house in a big section, you could just put a container hard up against the north, south, east, west walls of the house. And then it is private. You have peace and quiet. I actually don’t yet know the effective range of these things. Or the calculations for cloaking/shielding?

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Product idea:

Mexican Faraday Cabin Motel

Five containers and five cabins, each with plumbing inside. They’re in the back yard of a currently existing motel. American Citizens go to Mexico to enjoy having a bit of time and privacy away from the satellites. They get a bit of peace and quiet. All they need to do is hop across the border. The motels all have wired internet (Ethernet). They become widespread.

It could be very popular with American refugees.

Excuse the horrible picture:

The long rectangles are faraday containers, the short rectangles are cabins. The w squares are out-houses/portaloos. This would just be the tester model, of course. The second version would have indoor plumbing. Maybe push the containers and cabins hard up against one another.

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I used to be really into economics. In the same ways other people are into things like fantasy football, or study ww2 history. I also was an enthusiast about the subjects of engineering, science, design and technology. I used to study so much, independently. And read and learn about anything that I could find. I was a self directed education fanatic. I was too sick to do much else though.

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Shielded Tent City

I also really like the idea of a shielded tent city for homeless people in America.

Just put a 7 by 7 grid of containers spaced out with 15-20 meters apart, and it might just work. I think they might have range. And I think that their range might overlap and have a “multiplier” effect if you have lots of them in one area.

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The faraday cabin motel, If these things become more commonly available, then it might be possible for people to heal the damage done by constantly living under surveillance. I’d they can just have the option to at least stay a couple of weeks per year in one of these, and have normal conversations, and normal sleep. And stop worrying all of the time.

It could heal their minds and souls. They could relax again. It might be tremendously beneficial.

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New idea:

Plastic boxes full of aluminium pipe, not too thick/large. Find a 4 bedroom house. Use plastic containers with clip on lids. Put a floor to ceiling shelf made of metal. A workshop style shelf. Stack plastic boxes full of pipe on the shelves. Add more shelves to the room, until it is chock full. Do this for 3/4 bedrooms. And then also put a couple of containers outside, hard up against the side of the house. Especially on the side where the master bedroom is.

The Faraday Grid

Put up tents, cabins, sheds, or park vans, motorhomes, caravans or other dwellings in amongst the swimming pools. For best results, install things such as diesel generators, street lights, decent toilets/bathrooms and chillers/refrigeration for food. It could be suitable for things like homeless encampments in places like Los Angeles, Washington DC or New York. It could give people refuge from electronic harassment, and shelter them from the voices in their head (peace and quiet). Homeless people need shelter too, and not just from the elements. They are people and have value, even if they are aesthetically displeasing or seem unpleasant or difficult. It’s still in the ideas stage, and hasn’t yet been demonstrated to work. It’s about 10 metres between the centre point of each swimming pool by the way. And I think you might want at least 100m by 100m, and maybe you want 200m by 200m. I would do a 200m by 200m version, but perhaps 100m by 100m is good enough as a test. I think that scale matters for this sort of thing, because of the way their computer and radio wave systems work. Great for tent cities. You could even do it piecemeal, or do it using containers instead of pools. There’s another idea lower down the page about tent cities. Just below the Mexican motel idea. I actually think the faraday grid is an amazing idea that might work beautifully for homeless people tent cities. Only after the main one has been done.

Example of a suitable pool^

Or maybe shove a couple of faraday containers, or similar into your internal two car, high stud garage. And on on the rear side of your house add another one, hard up against the rear wall, and then another one on the far side of the house (away from the garage). After that, put up a bunch of sturdy metal workshop style shelves in your spare room, and then on them put a bunch of plastic boxes, pretty big ones, full of aluminium pipe, maybe 5cm diameter, 50cm long. Just an estimate. And then get 40 buckets with kids, fill them with aluminium pipe. And then put these 40 buckets around the house inside unused storage space. It might work. It’s a really smart idea!!

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I’m too tired and too busy (spoiled brat only child little emperor CCP MSS employees and their mediocre princeling leader with an intellectual inferiority complex and a chip on his shoulder about it have been bugging me too much. See also: imperialist bootlickers, war apologists) to do this properly. But I’ll do it in the next few days.

The bathrooms are these ones, but you could probably find some much, much better ones:

https://bathrooms.supersub.co.nz/products/portable-bathrooms/portable-laundry-shower-toilet-nz/

Scale is a warehouse 24 by 48 metres. A smaller warehouse might be cheaper and more manageable. You can step outside for some air and sunshine. The central space of it is probably clear of radio waves? I’m not sure for sure though. You could use it as accomodation. It could house twenty adults. Or… it could house 5 bureaucrats and their work place. Or… with some modification, it could become the family home for a large family. Seriously.

Or student activists.

Or subsidised accomodation for homeless people.

Anyways, I am unwell today. And will need to deal with other things before doing a proper diagram. This was back of the envelope stuff.

It could also be accomodation and office space for military intelligence staff in smaller controls suffering from harassment and or invasion by American corporate and banking interests, or the depredations of the mediocre, inane and banal Chinese (bores).

You could probably put up trestle tables with chairs and laptops in the middle of the room to work.

Warehouse measuring about 48 by 24 metres. Using the “faraday sleep out” as the basic unit. Put a bunch of cabins and bathrooms in the place. You might have about 12 units in the place, for a total of 20 or so people.

Target market: women who want to exit the system. Perhaps women who were in “too deep” and want to quit, or women who want to be radical feminists and live without men altogether. Or men who just want to play video games and ignore the world, but keep on getting hurt. Or Chinese dissidents who want to be sheltered from the satellites, or “anti-imperialists” who oppose the USA corporate and financial hegemony. Or pro education wing-nuts who believe in the improvement of the mind, and dislike the mind rot aka brain fry thing. Or people like me who just plain want to get healthy! Or Muslim nations who need space for their bureaucrats and military intelligence services. Or African nations who want to shelter their wives and families from the depredations and intrusions of these perverted American sex pests and their satellites.

Idk, best case: 20-40 radical feminists in Birmingham take over two warehouses and live in it as a collective, or 20-40 male separatists who just want to play video games create a collective in a warehouse. They do this after some engineering students test it out first, and find out that it works.

https://www.loopnet.co.uk/listing/aldridge-rd-birmingham/38509317/

I sometimes give obscure examples for people to mull over. But it could just as easily be used in Auckland or Boston as in Birmingham.

Added: Or a Buddhist monastery. Or yoga enthusiasts who practise TM.

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Shielding your house

What if a faraday container in your garage could protect and hide things about 10 metres in every direction. And another one in your back yard up against the rear of your house could protect another 10-ish metres. And what if they had a “multiplier effect” that magically protected and hid most of the house, assuming that the house isn't that large.

It might actually be that easy. Just two containers, and your small suburban home is hidden and protected. I light use three though.

We had tests done, and one container was able to shield about ten metres around itself in a warehouse in France.

Or maybe just one in front of the house, and one behind it, and you’re sorted. Here’s an example.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/residential/sale/manawatu-whanganui/horowhenua/levin/listing/5660100074

Who would do this^

Well, someone like me who just didn’t want to be a part of a hivemind. And couldn’t stand having people and another (electronic) consciousness inside his head. They might take refuge.

Unfortunately, a container is a little bit too tall for the average garage door. But some garage doors are just the right height for them.

https://www.nzbox.kiwi.nz/shipping-container-sales/7ft-containers/

Or maybe here is a container short enough for the garage door.

Here is another idea for a house to convert:

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/residential/sale/auckland/waitakere-city/westgate/listing/5656479375

Fill the Garage with containers, and have one in the back garden. Maybe that works. It is a long garage that runs the length of the house. And the house itself is narrow and two floors height.

A large garden shed in the back garden full of crushed cans is also an idea. And in the upper floor’s wardrobes, just throw some buckets (10-20) of aluminium pipes. Buckets being large buckets with lids on them, and the pipe being thin pipe with a diameter of between 3 and 7 cm. Thickness maybe 1-2 mm thick. Maybe. 20 litre polypropylene (plastic) buckets with lids, full of lengths of pipe 35 centimetres long, lids on top of the buckets. I am sure that you can visualise it. Both of those along with containers in the garage.

Car ports seem good too, put some containers in those. Enough faraday containers in an area could actually ruin a whole area/zone, like a small town for example, for passive surveillance. And it could also ruin the use of “wifi” for communications amongst the fae (aka philosopher-kings, dregvant, communists, satellists). They just can’t use it to coordinate their activities. It’s too resource intensive. People who want to shield their actual homes from surveillance and communication can do so, and people who want to just put a container in their garage can do it. And eventually, the whole place is so computationally intensive that the satellites just give up. Because maybe faraday containers > Moore’s law (a bit geeky, I know, but I was top of senior computing at my high school - without being in my 7th form year). Also, the radio transmission coils (?) are probably the bottleneck, as well as the mesh networking itself.

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Another Idea

Three containers, triangular. One in the garage (can be shorter in height). One at the back of the house, and a third to make a triangle. One of the three items can be a bit smaller than the others, like a half sized container or even just a garden shed. I like triangles. If we can test out triangles, I think that this is a good idea.

Get three containers, put one inside your garage. One behind your house, and one out to the side. Fill them all with crushed aluminium cans. See what happens.

We already know that the basic container disrupts up to ten metres of space enough to block it out. But maybe three does the whole house. I really, really like threes. Maybe it hides the whole area in and around the whole house. I’m fairly optimistic!

If I had that house, I’d just socialise and play video games. Read a bit. And get some much needed rest and relaxation. Finally rehabilitate and heal my body! Socialising and enjoying a bit of conversation would be the most important things. I’d start writing in a diary again. In a normal way, to collect my thoughts. It socialise in person and online, without having my friendships micromanaged by busybodies.

A lot of people might rent a three or four bedroom house and live in it with five roommates, and maybe fund it through welfare or student allowances (student allowance for studying online). There could be hundreds of thousands of men and women who would love to do this, just for the sake of taking refuge.

That is the next part of the skunkworks. Testing out a triangle. If that works, we figure out the next step.

If you had this for your house, it means your daughter doesn’t have to hear about what creepy Greg from her calculus class wants to do to her. And it means that your son Yang Li the 14 year old high school student from Guangdong doesn’t have to doesn’t have to worry about girls anymore, who insists that he “wants them”, and can focus on his studies.

Or it also means that 7 male roommates in their twenties can just hang out indefinitely on welfare (or student allowances, if they study from home) in a shielded, rented house until this whole thing blows over. While literally never leaving the house. Or that half a dozen young women can just sit it out while working from home as part time data entry workers or casual call centre workers. While literally never leaving the house.

Ps: this is what I mean by a shed

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Monday 19th January: what if I have just been playing for time? Treading water? Until I can get my ideas out there? Maybe there is some truth to that, although I might not make that assertion as though it were thoroughly true.

Or maybe just taking my time until they give up and go away.

Also, it wasn’t about fitness ideas!!

Umm. Reframe it.

They keep acting as through I was fighting to introduce fitness ideas!! I wasn’t. As though I wanted to create a lifestyle and a fitness regime and a martial arts training regime to support an ideology. And that the ideology is called reverse social engineering. But that’s nonsense!

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What if I wanted to make peace, but they couldn’t even show up to have conversation? Because too stubborn/daft. Or perhaps too proud: they have the principle that their pride can never be lost. Never lose pride/mana. And part of that is tied up in non-conversationally.

What if I didn’t want to interfere in “earthling” affairs. At least until I had talked with a bunch of then first, for fear of causing chaos?

But then again, maybe it is better to just “re-democratise” places like New Zealand? And other democracies and republics?? I’m never sure.

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I thought that I might defer to tptb (fae), given that they have more experience in governance. And to disrupt their way of life might cause chaos (loss of life and destruction of productive assets). But at the same time, if they’re actually “too dumb to function” and “too stupid for words”, then maybe it is moral to do it?

If one can lose “the favour of heaven”, then maybe also a class of people can be reclassified as just… daft?? And then it okay to reorganise their society?

If the “leaders” are daft, dumb and incompetent. And are bad intellectually. Then why should I bother to try to work around them, or to defer to their way of doing things?

It’s just food for thought.

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What if they are really, really dumb in some ways. And they want to dumb us down too. And create an “idiocracy”. But then we can’t solve problems, if we have an idiocracy. So then what do we do?

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Or another idea, get two hundred 20 litre plastic pails/buckets. Fill them with crushed aluminium cans. Put lids on the buckets/pails. You may need to optimise the can crushing machine for the right sized bales, and you might need to use square buckets.

Take these buckets and stash them all around your home. Such as… under the floor, in the attic, in the wardrobes, under the beds, in the garage, in spare pantries, or just sitting on shelves in the spare room. And put just one shed or container full of cans somewhere adjacent to the house. Or if you’re wealthy, just put many many shelves of buckets full of crushed cans in multiple spare rooms, including the basement. And that way you sacrifice enough space to the task of disrupting their satellites and cell towers.

[Or maybe 500 buckets. Or maybe use light, thin aluminium pipe cut to size instead of crushed cans.]

[hypothetically, if you have a house with a basement because of “frost heave” and an attic (a lot of houses in places like cold parts of America have that), then you could fill your basement with shelves upon shelves of these buckets, and fill a fair bit of your attic. It might legitimately work!]

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Look this spot up, it’s poplar avenue in Kapiti. It is a house right beside a cafe. Why not buy a house like this, and put it in a Bermuda Triangle, and then put a container up against the wall of the cafe itself. These containers have a range of ten metres as it is anyway. But don’t ask permission!! Or do ask. Idk.

The people in the cafe can think and talk freely. And on the street outside.

Ps: or adjacent to a bar, or behind a bus stop.

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Next idea, if you have an American house with a large basement. Just spend 250k USD filling the basement with rows upon rows shelves of buckets full of aluminium scrap. Lots of money, scale is important, quantity is important. I think there’s a high chance of success.

Next idea,

Bar in Portland, Oregon. Two floors. Bottom floor, put a bunch of faraday containers, padlocked and welded shut. Top floor, the workers and owners live on the top floor. The bar is on the bottom floor. Live music, drinks, beer, dancing, conversation, basic fryer food. It’s a normal bar, but the containers are part of the decor.

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A potential use case for the Bermuda Triangle

Use case for a Bermuda Triangle: a church or a Mutual Aid society. They buy up houses 3-4 bedroom houses in cheap areas. And then put a Bermuda Triangle on the property. Stack ten homeless people in the house. They can live cheaply on food handouts. You’re busily giving refuge to the most vulnerable members of society. Many of them just need shelter from the satellites and the cell towers. This idea is naive and not fully formed. But sometimes you should just blast straight ahead and provide shelter to those who need it most without over thinking it. Just meet the actual needs right where and when you can. You can just do it, and ask questions later about what is most efficient or most politically appropriate.

Who funds it? Socialist groups, libertarian groups, Christian groups, other religions like Muslims and Jewish people might do it too.

Homeless American people are basically refugees. They are basically a massive refugee crisis. And a lot them are “electromagnetic refugees”. Also, a lot of Latin American immigrants into the USA are economic refugees.

These are all ideas.

But the first things to do would be to shelter nice normal

People inside their own homes. Like the elderly, or curmudgeons who can’t relax and keep their mouths shut, or intelligent people who can’t stop thinking and just want to be left alone, or women who can’t cope with the current regime and all the sex stuff, or men who just want to stay home and game. Nations like France, Germany, Italy, Spain, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Greece, Portugal, Macedonia, Switzerland, The UK, Argentina, Canada, Jamaica, Hungary, Barbados, Japan and the USA are all sensible places.

Go for people who aren’t hardcore activists.

But first we would need to actually test out the technology. We need to know it works.

I need it for me, to be perfectly honest.

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The “killer app” is possibly old folks who are retired, own their own houses, and are willing and able to live as shut ins.

Some just relax and enjoy the feeling of not being observed.

Some provide a safe space for others to enjoy conversation, and food hospitality

Some provide a place of refuge for good people who need it

Some provide long term sanctuary for bad people who have done bad things, and want the opportunity to start over, and quit being a member of the fae. Especially women who have hurt others, done a lot of sex work, and want to quit.

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If you value your intellect

If you have a mind, and you value your intellect. If you want to be able to think, reason, judge and consider things yourself. If you don’t want your mind to be damaged, and you don’t want to have it harassed and interfered with by these satellites and cell towers and other electromagnetic technologies, perhaps you can shelter an entire neighbourhood (even slums and favelas) with this technology. And if hiding your whole neighbourhood using faraday containers, or similar, to protect and preserve your mind isn’t a good enough reason to do it, then I don’t know what is.

Besides, empires rise and empires fall, regimes come and go, technologies morph change, and evolve over time, and nations and states and their leadership are always in flux. Models of how societies are arranged and governed (corporations, academic institutions, politicians, bureaucrats, militaries, wealth) are aren’t set in stone, and change fairly often. So why shouldn't we, the people of nations other than America, China and Russia shelter ourselves and our minds?

Note: this faraday container thing is still mostly untested, so it is important to manage expectations. Still yet to be proven to be good and suitable.

Uhhh, I’m still just spitballing ideas, brainstorming use cases, and conducting a skunkworks. We still need to see how well this technology works, and how affordable and effective it is.

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New idea as of Monday:

A model for intervention, involving old folks

Maybe if old folks like it... the Bermuda triangle, they can hunker down and become shut ins. Just for the sake of staying home and being alone, and harassed.

It's something they do for themselves, because they value "alone time".

It is based on intrinsic motivation.

This forms a mass (cohort?) of 25k across New Zealand, widely distributed.

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Next, as an act of service, a subset of them provide spaces for people in their local community to have conversations. They host morning teas for groups of people, providing things to eat and drink.

Next, a subset of them take on boarders at reasonable rates (maybe $250 per week, including room, food and electricity/internet). They arrange this privately. Their boarders become shut ins, and never leave the house.

Good examples or types of people to become shut in boarders might be young women who don't want to be coerced into doing sex work, and therefore want to opt out. Another good example might be the dodgy kind of women who currently hurt, bully, damage/maim and torment people, and so a lot of sex work, but want to quit. These houses could be a sanctuary. The next type could be men who just want to opt out and be left alone (maybe they have hobbies like video gaming or music, maybe they don't, and they just want to read all day or watch movies. Maybe they have jobs, maybe they don't). And these people just go on welfare (there are good and clever ways to get welfare in New Zealand, such as becoming a registered full time student studying online, from home, with a polytech or university and claiming the student allowance).

And a lot of people can opt out of "the system" of mental observation. And have time and space to think, and be normal for once. And all of the "movers and shakers" can still do their foolish things, and create needless conflict. And all of the "activist types" can keep in playing their games of brinksmanship, and protesters keep protesting, and organisers keep on organising. And the hardcore gung ho keep on training and organising. But many people opt out, and hide away. So that we can be alone, and unobserved. And can train and manage our own minds in whatever manner we see fit. And have our own social relations in whatever way we desire (like normal conversations and friendships, or internet friendships).

Ps: as for the old folks, many of them just do it for themselves, and no one else. This is a good thing. But many also do it for the sake of others. And this is good too. Retired people with their own home are a useful demographic, but they have their own desires, values and intentions.

PPS: people with lots of savings (100k or more in the bank) might be even better as boarders, but welfare is okay too.

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More theorising

I think that these boxes have a "strong range" of ten metres, and maybe a "weak range" of 25 metres. But that if you overlap the weak ranges of two boxes, then it becomes a "strong effect". And so you could have two boxes 40 metres apart, and the space right in between those two boxes might be virtually invisible or otherwise inaccessible to the satellites basic abilities. But if you could put them in a triangle with sides of up to 30-40 metres, then they might work a lot better. I really think triangles are the right shape.

Perhaps the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Edit: I think if you use two containers, up to twenty to thirty metres apart, then it’s like drawing an ellipse.

You take the central point of each container, and draw an ellipse using these central points as the focal points.

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If you want to understand the natural world, take a look at some of faradays experiments, and some of his ideas. But don’t look at it through the lens of maxwells equations. Just look at it through the lens of using experiments to create and analyse phenomena. Just look at his experiments, and they to get it via that. Also, try to understand some of the old timey language. And learn how to use your imagination and/or thought experiments. Just use “models” or “representations” of reality. And also look at the physical experiments of Rutherford. These will help you to better understand the nature of the universe. Analogies, visualisations, and representations, and thought experiments are very useful. Don’t get too “mathematical” too quickly. And by the way, there is a difference between the representations we have of reality, and reality itself. Sometimes, when it comes to natural philosophy, we are just noting down observations about what happened, and then finding language to discus it, and then creating equations and formulas and models to describe what will happen within certain parameters and under certain conditions. But we are not figuring out the “is”. Just describing and modelling the “what” that is happening, and then constructing language to help us with discussion. Anyway, I gave you some action points.

Map is not the territory. But by the way, you have to learn that the map is the territory first. Ie, truth is totally true etc, before you find that the map is it the territory. If that makes sense. First step is A = A, second step is that you’re just mapping a territory. Wisdom is understanding that the map only needs to be good enough for navigation.

For example, if your “map” of reality is good enough for coming up with an experiment, then it is good enough. Like if it is good enough for coming up with the faraday containers idea. And then you just test it. And if it works, you just keep on doing it. And work out the theory backwards, afterwards, in retrospect.

Korzybski is a tolerable philosopher in this regard. But you should start out with the idea that truth and reality exist (as though there is a God, only one of them, that monotheism is the best way to do things, and that in his eyes there is such a thing as truth - this is a good mental model). Please note: Faraday was a Christian, and quite clearly a naysayer as to the philosopher king way of life.

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Two faraday containers on Castle Street (north), Dunedin? Placed 15-20 metres apart. Maybe one on either side of the road.

If popular, add in another one 20 metres down the road. And again and again until the street is done.

How could they use it?

They could study, think, read, talk to one another, and thus improve their minds.

And do so without “mind fry” and “brain rot” or undue influence of the satellites. They could be alone, and unobserved within their own minds.

Or just socialise and party in the streets ahahahaha. It is Dunedin after all!

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Gutenberg Revolution 2.0

Every faraday four cornered house becomes a safe haven or safe zone for people (like the long rain by Bradbury).

And it becomes a place where you can print newspapers (after downloading them from the encrypted internet). And then distribute them by hand.

It becomes a p2p file sharing location, for hosting stuff including newspapers.

It becomes a place where you can communicate with other people in person.

You can host newspapers, newsletters, booklets, books, pamphlets, anything.

And you can have very good photocopiers on site as well.

Some of them can become really good hosting locations for things like educational videos and encyclopedias. And how to manuals.

It could become the Gutenberg revolution 2.0

The technology is all there, there’s just the limiting factor of the surveillance state.. and the controlling satellites.. and if that goes??? Idk if I want to push for it though. But it’s just an idea.

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Also, I think that if 20% of the homes in a neighbourhood are shielded by this, that many other homes could also benefit from it. Like, herd immunity? I reckon that the more faraday containers you have in a neighbourhood, the stronger they all get.

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Another model: take two half sized shipping containers, that is 10 ft containers. Put them in your backyard, 5 metres apart. Fill them with crushed aluminium cans. And then you have a space that is something like 30 metres wide and 10 metres long that is cleared. And your whole backyard is "quiet". It's a satellite dead zone.

Have a family gathering, barbecue. Or just beer.

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Mexico^

Good random idea: one 10ft container in each front lawn. Whole place clear. Easy. Then they make money by offering room and board at reasonable prices (maybe $220 p/w) to refugees from other nations, like the USA. All of the houses have internet, which means that things like publishing, printing, newspapers (make the newspaper in one location, and distribute it electronically, and then print it off in a decentralised way, that is you let people print it off in a decentralised manner, before distributing it from their own home, you can even syndicate papers internationally, or magazines. It’s really smart), radio shows and other such things become viable. This is what thinking big looks like.

Here are a few more ideas to try out…:

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This one ^ might actually be very, very effective. And if you do maybe half a dozen houses in a row, it might even effect a lot of the nearby houses too.

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Faraday Shielding a House: Use Cases

If you faraday shield a house, what could you do with it? What could your use cases be?

Firstly, you live in it. Yourself. It's a home first.

Offer refuge to those in harms way, to shelter them. If someone is being hurt my the system, you can offer them shelter. This gives them a way to hide, seek shelter and heal their body.

Gives people a safe space for normal

conversation, like a forum for discussion, the owner of the home could open it up for daily discussion at 10 am for a couple of hours. Many people could come to talk every day.

Offer "sanctuary" for bad people who wish to leave their lifestyle behind. This neutralised the bad people, but also saves them from being harmed by their own kind. It's a win-win. For example, male fae bullies who want to quit fighting, but aren’t allowed to quit. Or female fae sex workers who don’t want to do sex work anymore, and don’t want to harm other people anymore.

Lastly, you work to help other people to shelter themselves. But you do it by means of finance and construction. Perhaps start a charity (like faraday container habitat for humanity). Or you lend money to people, and do the delivery and construction.

Other:

Also, you could do radio, web hosting, p2p file sharing, printing, photocopying and content creation (radio, podcasts, pamphlets, books, booklets, fliers, posters, bookmarks, stickers). What else? Yoga classes, martial arts classes, history classes, science classes, grassroots activist political party meetings (e.g. CCP, Democratic Party, Republican Party, NZ Labour, National Party, Greens, ACT) for parties who wish to meet without intelligence agencies viewing their thoughts. Corporations and banks who want privacy. Pubs and cafes. University lectures, or university style lectures.

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Easy idea:

Find a barn this shape and size.

Put two 20ft faraday shipping containers into the building, full of cans. Push them to the edges. And then move in the middle. Install bathroom and kitchen facilities. And maybe a washing machine and dryer. It’s sorted. Finished. Just don’t bother with fancy stuff like insulation. You can become a shut in gamer geek! Or a shut in otaku manga girl with purple hair! Or a hikkikomori who hates everything. Or an old person like my Grandma or Grandpa who just needs to be safe.

They could make a living working from home doing data entry, working as a remote call centre operator, teaching piano, tutoring math/English for high schoolers or as a YouTuber. They could also work as an academic. They could just hang out at home and game. They could even be a streamer. They could also be a politician who works from home, and telecommutes to parliament, for national security reasons.

Just put two 20 ft shipping containers into a barn or large high stud garage. Put them 10 metres apart, fill them with crushed aluminium cans, and your mind is hidden from the system. You’ve “gone dark”.

https://kiwispannz.co.nz/lifestyle-residential-sheds/american-barn/

I call it the faraday barn.

It’s a studio apartment sized living area in a barn. The amount of living space might be 9 by 9 metres.

It would be an ideal habitat for “electromagnetic refugees”. I.e. people who are in too deep and need a place to hide out, possibly for a few years. This would be great for both men and women. It might also prevent suicide in some cases, or the slow slide into destructive drinking or drug addiction.

One person buys it as a house, and then puts in a few bunks in there so that other friends can stay over for a few weeks, if they need to. He can raise money online for expenses, and so that he can afford to build more barns on his property. To shelter more people.

By the way, Bill Gates (and other people) tested out the physics and computational theory by just building a container. And the underlying physics works. “Just building a container” was the test. And it just needs testing to see if the actual “barn model” works. The underlying stuff of the container has been tested already.

It’s kind of like a “de-constructed” refugee camp. You don’t have to have them all in one spot though.

You convert a barn into a shielded studio apartment. It’s a faraday barn.

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Update: some people tried it out. With a barn. This is the next way to test it out. Or at least one version.

Four in a row, with a three metre gap in between each. Nestle beds, desks, tables, chairs, a fridge, a toilet, a basic kitchen sink, with hose to drain it to an outside drainage point, a couch, a rug, bunks.

This version is just one prototype. Then they try out various types of fill, in the next iteration. Steel scrap, iron scrap. Iron pipes packed into boxes and stacked. Steel pipes packed into boxes and stacked. Maybe copper is tried out too (that might be a bit expensive though).

More ideas: furnished and finished “nooks”.

Next thing to try out is fitting the 3 by 6 meter spaces out with walls, floors and ceilings. They create comfortable “nooks”. For example, they might be built as follows. They have wooden framing made of ordinary 2x4. They have plywood or plasterboard walls, tile floors, mesh ceiling, with insect netting over top. A large fan on top for ventilation, and electronic lighting. Normal light switches, wallpaper, plug sockets (aka power points), a lockable door on the front of the nook. You have maybe one nook as the bedroom area, with desks and bookshelves as well. One nook as the lounge/dining area. Built like a normal dining and lounge area, and another nook built for kitchen, bathroom and laundry, with lockable door. Each nook has walls, floors and a ceiling. And doors and windows on the front, electric lighting and normal plug sockets (aka power points), as well as Ethernet networking cables into them. The kitchen and bathroom nook has ordinary plumbing, a normal flushing toilet, a normal bathroom basin and a shower/bath. It also has a large kitchen sink that doubles as laundry sink, a washing machine and a condensing dryer. It has a normal free standing electric oven with four elements and a pantry. If the location is cold, maybe you have heaters. If it is too hot, maybe you have air conditioning - but then you have to do the calculations of… ceilings open to the air or not (mesh and insect netting or sealing up the roof).

Maybe an example of the type of building? I’m not sure exactly what sort of barns and sheds are most useful. Or commonly

The compartments version

available.

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You have a faraday internet cafe. It has wired internet. Ethernet. Long bar height tables with bar stools. Circular cafe style tables with normal chairs. Long desk height tables 50cm deep, with computer chairs. It has toilets, a place selling coffee, tea, soft drinks. It has spots to sell standard bakery fare, a spot to sell beer and hot chips after 5pm. It has a room where you can watch videos on a tv, using a vhs player. And a stereo where you can listen to stuff on tape. And people can record messages. This room also has a photocopier and printer. It becomes a major socialising hub. This picture is execrable. I don’t yet know if it is possible to make this work. The scale is two squares width or height equals a metre. Which means that the rectangular sheds are one by two metres. And standard height of about 1.8 metres. And the other garden sheds are two by two metres. I don’t know if there is enough material, or if there is too much! It is all experimental. Maybe we should also have couches. And prefab sheds (2 by 4 m) that are open at both ends to shelter the couches.

I apologise once more for the really badly done picture.

Here is another terrible version, I just added another column which has simple sheds inside it, with couches inside the sheds. Just plain old couches. It’s pretty rustic! Just ordinary two by two couches.

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You could even do it in a mall!!?

You could put one in a mall.

And other than that.. you could use it as a hub for socialising, conversation, education and sharing information (pamphlets and booklets, as well as conversations).

Education:

Reading, conversation, debate/argument are all very important for sharpening and shaping the mind. And a well trained and thoroughly improved mind is very useful for things like problem solving, administration, governance, good judgement and commercial decision making.

Unrelated: web forums, well moderated, are one of the fastest and coolest ways to share information. They can function as repositories of good advice and information. I have often used web forums as a way to learn things and find things out.

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This one, is unfinished. Just a nook inside the garage. Two sheds in which you put two steel work shop shelves, and some cubes of crushed cans. In the middle is the nook. Sheds are maybe around 2 by 2.5 metres, idk.

And then you can finish the nook in the middle. Just put in a few walls and a ceiling, and a carpet down on the floor. It’s just cosmetic at that point. Internal walls for style. Or maybe no sheds to contain the cubes of crushed cans, just create internal walls. The nook could contain a fold out couch if you prefer. It is 2 m by 1 m.

The sheds are just for the prototype. The proper version would have actual walls, with 2by4 framing and drywall and planks to line the inside. Or perhaps make them out of cinder blocks if you’re not a wooden house type of nation. And you could perhaps put it in an apartment or in the house itself HOWEVER the metal is heavy!!!!!!! So it might not be suitable for an apartment. You have to look at the weight of certain objects, and the strength of your floors. Take earthquake risk into account as well. You could also put things like a Murphy bed (fold down bed) in there, or a card table and folding chairs (stored just outside it) to put your laptop on. Or a foldout couch: Or whatever you want.

It might actually be possible to get it done with only one thickness of crushed cans. Like 40 - 50 cm thickness in either side. Like a space of 1 by 2 meters. With a wall of cans on each side. A sandwich of cans.

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Another picture:

This one is against a wall of the garage. It is just a nook measuring two metres long, two metres high, one metre wide. It is finished properly with nice tidy walls and drywall, or it is made out of cinder block. The thickness of crushed cans is only 30-50 cm. It’s actually inside the garage. Okay? Actually inside. But you have a nook. It could be concrete floors, with cinder block walls. And enclosed in the cinder block areas, there is a fully 30-50 cm deep wall of crushed cans. But space to put more.

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A few new ideas:

Faraday internet cafe, becomes podcast studio for marginalised and deplatformed podcasters. And also pastors that are deplatformed and gagged (hi Africa). And also for intellectuals and academics and theorists. And also for recording artists, performers and other celebrities. And then people can listen to stuff in other faraday internet cafes and their own home “nook”. Just use something like WhatsApp chat or Facebook to share audio files p2p.

Maybe podcasters in Latin America, Spanish language podcasts. Actually no, podcasters in France and Germany. Pastors in Africa. And intellectuals in NZ, Canada, Australia and the UK.

Edit: and short video content too, shared p2p over WhatsApp and Facebook. Like amateur YouTube clog quality. Like YouTuber stuff.

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Use actual basic normal walls and construction for this one:

I think that the faraday internet cafe and the faraday garage room are ready for testing. One of them goes in a garage, and the other one goes into something like a warehouse or a mall. Or perhaps just in a field or parking lot. By the way, it might be possible to make the faraday nook/room in the garage just a tiny bit larger. But it still has to be sandwiched.

Socialising is important

Can you keep one Guinea pig as a pet, alone? In places like Sweden or Switzerland? No. You cannot do that legally. They have to have at least one companion. They are herd animals who need company. It is the same with us. Basic socialising is a basic and fundamental human need. We need to socialise. And these tools might allow us to socialise better. Or at least to socialise on our terms a little bit better.

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New idea:

Faraday Internet Cafe (and Inn)

Build a faraday internet cafe, but add in some guest rooms! So that people can stay there. Like an inn or country hotel or a guesthouse. You go for conversation, food and drink. And stay there for a day or two. You also include an audio visual studio for recording video and audio messages (such as podcasts, speeches and catchy songs). I mean, that is just a shed/cabin with audio equipment. And a printing facility too (that is just a photocopier with affordable printing).

Where? Silly suggestion, maybe a “dead mall” in a place like Boston, Massachusetts. Perhaps Emerald Square Mall in North Attleborough, MA. Or Berkshire Mall in Lanesborough, Massachusetts outside Pittsfield. Or just put it outside in a spare parking lot surrounded by chain link fences or in a warehouse. Maybe when the weather is warmer, if it is in a place like Boston.

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Pub and social hub

Maybe turn it into a local pub equivalent. Where? Maybe a town of about 90000 beside the sea, with an empty warehouse or two. You put a faraday internet cafe inside it, with some additional guest rooms. Sell beer and food to make money. Tea, coffee and soft drinks are dirt cheap. Stick to simple beer and ordinary food (basic bakery food such as sandwiches, pies, cakes, biscuits and slices, and basic fried food). There are rooms for those who want to stay the night (just a waterproof mattress on top of an old bed frame in a shed inside a warehouse). It’s pretty ramshackle, but it is a social hub! It is connected to the internet if you want to bring your laptop, it has printers and photocopiers and a spare place to record videos and audio (like a “YouTube” studio - yes, I know, that is just called a recording studio). The owner is making money hand over fist selling beer at £9 a pint ($18 NZD) and £6 ($13 NZD) sandwiches and pies. But it’s great. A can of coke, or a cup of tea or coffee is 50p, so it is possible to sit there without bleeding your wallet dry if you really want to.

I don’t know. Maybe a trendy church starts a faraday internet cafe down by the harbour in Auckland in a warehouse as a form of ministry. They put all of the sheds in there. With tiny cabins and sheds for the overnights. And who knows what happens! Or a group of people start a faraday pub in Los Angeles in an old warehouse.

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Other ideas for business models:

Construction similar to faraday internet cafe. Maybe inside warehousing, maybe outside in a parking lot, surrounded by chain link fences, maybe in an old mall. Maybe custom built.

Why business models? If it is profitable and self supporting, it’ll spread. Go viral.

German Guesthouse, gasthof.

A Gasthof is a traditional German-style inn, tavern, or guesthouse common in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, usually featuring a restaurant, bar, and lodging. Often family-owned, they serve local cuisine and typically include a beer garden.

Kiwi Hotel and bar. Similar to Gasthof. You had to offer hotel rooms to have a bar, back in the olden days. Due to temperance and prohibition.

Cheap bar, suitable for just getting drunk. Beer, spirits, mixers and no food fancier than hot chips. Keep the music quiet, for conversation. You can think freely. About anything. Dive bar basically. Or piss up bar. Run down bar.

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Business Model for Social Entrepreneurship

Or you could use faraday garages as community drop in centres in large cities in places such as São Paulo. Just imagine putting simple faraday garages in every single neighbourhood in São Paulo. And you put them in high foot traffic areas, with couches and chairs inside, one or two people minding the location (paid or unpaid). And have a donations box and vending machine to make it financially self supporting. Anyone can run to it and avoid being harmed or surveilled. And they can talk! Imagine it! And that right there is a model for what we call “social entrepreneurship”.

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Idea: Put five of these in a row inside a warehouse. And then a toilet/bathroom block in a trailer or two. Five faraday cabins with the six mini sheds around it. And then you put a toilet block at the end of the line. Two lines of these. And then one shower or bath unit. Finished! You have a camp for ten to twenty people. Or more. Probably not more, but if you have children in the camp, or you don’t need to get work done, you can really cram people in there. Men at work, only 10 can fit, especially knowledge work. A gaggle of YouTubers? A bunch of American Silicon Valley refugees. Who knows. A bunch of former sex workers trying to exit the system and rehabilitate. A bunch of Chinese refugees, fleeing Chinese influence; honest people, who just want to live on their own terms and enjoy honest company. FWIW, anyone who leaves China can call themselves an ersatz refugee as far as I’m concerned. Anyone who has left since 1949 is borderline a refugee. And anyone fleeing electromagnetic oppression is a refugee. This stuff damages your brain , and makes you stupid.

Another idea:

This could possible go in your front garden in a suburban area. And you could live there, and offer conversation to people passing by!

I have heard rumours that the baseline version of one 1x2 shed amidst 4 sheds full of cans work. And so this one can work.

Note, it might be possible to make this model even more efficient. Perhaps by doubling up the habitable sheds. I will post a picture soon.

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Two more ideas:

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This picture sucks. It really is horrible. But imagine an alley to get to your home. You put 1 by 4 metres of cans either side, 2 metres high. Inside a compartment made of treated 2x4 pieces of wood, with boards and or corrugated iron over it. Cubes of crushed cans inside these compartments. And you put chairs and a couch in the alleyway. And run an ethernet cable in there for wired internet, so you can use your laptop (with a dongle for connecting it to your phone). You have space where you (and other friends) can sit to enjoy a bit of shelter from the system (the only place that you can achieve mental and cognitive solitude). Right hand side of picture is the street. And it is one of those places where houses are cheek by jowl. The cans are expensive (1000 nzd per cubic metre of crushed cans, I think. A total of 15k nzd for 16 square metres). Cans could attract ants if not clean. Be careful. Sorry the picture sucks, and so does the explanation. But I’m exhausted. But people ought to have these things! Peace and quiet is essential to good mental and cognitive development. And you need solitude to develop properly. How can people improve their minds without genuine peace, quiet and solitude.

There are people who would love to have a space just one metre by four in their homes where they had the opportunity to be alone inside their own minds.

Not yet proven to work. Partially proven, but not confirmed to me. Sort of proven, according to “wifi”. Still a skunkworks.

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Apropos of nothing, my favourite poem.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree - W. B. Yeats

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:

Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;

And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;

There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,

I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

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Chile or Malaysia: slumlords and flophouses. Build a ten room faraday house out of cinderblocks, put six beds to a room (bunks) and rent them out for $10-$20 per night. Or $50-100 for a week. If someone wants a whole room to themselves, charge maybe $100 per night. Just any basic room.

Or for long stays, turn them into coffin apartments, make the rooms smaller, and gouge them with $200 per night. The theory is that if price gouging exists, more landlords will enter the market, thus increasing supply and reducing prices eventually. It's simple supply and demand.

Or maybe you build a whole slum... you build 20 of them in a row, and people live and work in them. Live AND work. And never leave the neighbourhood. Or maybe instead of a slum, it becomes a high tech haven for techno-dweebs (aka Silicon Valley refugees). And they just live and work in a complex with 20+ faraday houses packed in close with one another. They can be hermit refugees, and work as digital nomads. The same jobs digital nomads do. And they could be in Mexico, or Malaysia or something. Or India. Idk. They're basically refugees. The can't even be alone. Ever. Inside their own minds. And for a hyper abstract thinker, this is a problem.

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Make a pub.

Public room is just benches and tables and chairs. Private rooms, is you book or otherwise claim a room. It’s not complicated. And maybe you rent rooms to stay the night. But that might be a hassle but still worth it. Alternative, is karaoke bar with booths. All cinderblock. It’s easy and simple. Either way, they bring the food to the rooms. And it is soooooooo profitable that tons of people want to do it. Think like an entrepreneur. How many beers, servings of mixed drinks and plates of food would people buy? If Asian: how many servings of fried chicken with sauce, grilled pork belly, kimchi pancakes, spring rolls, wontons, pork dumplings, pork buns, rice cakes, cabbage stew, fried pork cutlets, mango pudding, rice pudding, noodles etc could you sell? Washed down with beer, sake, soju, whiskey and soda, jugs of lemon sour, cassis orange or sangria. Glasses of whisky highball. Jugs of soda mixed with plum wine. Idk what Asians drink. Jug after jug of beer at $20 nzd a jug.

What about seaweed rice rolls (kimbap), Budae Jjigae (army stew), dried squid/anchovies with nuts, nachos or rice cakes. Wedges. Sichuan pork belly. Spicy cucumber. Mekhong rum. Grilled meats in tamarind paste. Fish sauce chicken wings. How about Sisig (sizzling chopped pork), pork/chicken barbecue skewers, chicharon (fried pork belly) and raw marinaded seafood (such as kinilaw, gejang or raw fish served in coconut milk with onions, lime, chilli and coriander). Served alongside gin and juice and jugs upon jugs of cheap beer? Or maybe I’m thinking seafood platters and mixed drinks. Just an avalanche of seafood. Or fried food and beer. What would they do with this in a place like Korea or Thailand? Or Africa, or the Carribean, or Latin America. Or just America, NZ, Australia? Anywhere. Conversation starts again.

What you want is crunchy, fatty, salty stuff. For example, anything glazed with soy sauce and grilled until charred and crunchy, then dipped in a spicy sauce. You want something a group of people can share, which is an important aspect of it. How much money could you make? And how ubiquitous would it become if you could make a profit? If you can make a bundle of money selling food and drink, then how many people would get into the industry??

Or if it is more Kiwi/Western/Irish/English: just have a pub selling lots of beer and a little bit of really reliable pub food. Maybe like an Irish type of pub, I dunno. Or something like the type of pub they have in England or what we have here in New Zealand. Or level it up into selling good basic restaurant fare as well. You just go for beer on tap, and hot chips. But wind up staying for dinner, and because you drank too much you end up staying over night. It would be perfect. The Americans could just do it in the same way.

Or do Mexican, call it the cinderblock bar and grill. Serve beer, tequila, mezcal. Nachos, quesadillas, enchiladas, guacamole, ceviche, and tacos. Seafood. Hot fried chips, hotdogs, sliders, burgers, pizza, wedges and fried chicken wings in hot sauce. Margaritas. Potato chips with lime, hot sauce or soy sauce.

Eastern Europe: vodka, beer, fried potatoes and savoury pancakes. Herring salad (herring under a fur coat). Cabbage and meat stew, dumplings and fried breaded pork cutlets. Smoked sausages and meat salads/platters with cheese and bread.

The Steppe Cafe: meat, pastries and potatoes. Beer, wine and vodka. Echpochmak (triangle meat and potato pie), Kystyby (flatbread with potato filling), and Chak-chak (honey-drenched pastry dessert). Pieces of honey comb. Mugs of hot, strong, sweetened, milky tea. Barbecued or grilled lamb, beef and horse meat. Stewed noodles with meat and onions (such as Beshbarmak, for example). Dumplings filled with things like meat, onions or pumpkin (many?). Plov (I love plov. My step mother in law from Kazakhstan used to make it for me. As well as Russian fried potatoes). And skewered meats. Maybe you can’t serve all of those at the same time at the same place, but there are a few ideas. Ps: the people of the steppe are excellent people. They are better and more worthwhile people than those who governed the ussr and associated soviet bloc countries. And they are better people than the Chinese and perhaps underrated when compared with many other peoples of the far east. Both ancient and current. This includes many of the people of the Silk Road and throughout Central Asia.

Southern Europe: Tapas and Sangria.

South Africa, Shebeens: Beer, cider, whisky and umqombothi. Food, dancing and music. Best place in town for a proper conversation.

Other (nz): just grilled meat, with bread and salad. Wash down with beer, spirits, wine and soft drinks. Deep fried chips. And basic ice cream with a few other desserts like cheese cake, tiramisu and pavlova. I think that would be very popular here in New Zealand. By grilled meats, I mean just ordinary barbecue. Things like lamb chops, sausages, marinaded chicken, steak, burgers and chicken skewers (or vegetable skewers). Garlic bread is also popular. “NZ bar and barbecue.”

More exotic options might include… Maybe otters noses, badgers tails, lamb flaps, turkey butts, pate on toast and stir fried kittens paws?

You must have high speed internet (Ethernet) in the rooms for plugging in laptops as well. Or instead of a pub, make a karaoke bar!

Media: Distribute and sell the local “rebel news from the radical underground newspaper”. Play recorded audio statements on a loop in a back room of the pub, or video statements on a loop. Use a megaphone to broadcast anything from the roof top of the cinderblock building. And also to call customers in.

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Make it a country inn

We could call it the cinderblock inn, with restaurant and bar.

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Two unit block. Two small flats in one block. Put them in a row of five maybe. And make two rows. And put a pub/hotel near it too. Which is good for socialising.

Maybe out a little bit of a deck or garden to the top or bottom of these things.

Thought experiment: let us just imagine that the satellites are going to be here for 20 years. Can someone build one of these, work from home (or live off accumulated capital) and live in it for 19 years and six months (assuming it takes 6 months to build)? Yes! I think they could. Or imagine that this stuff is around for 250 years: could someone life inside one of these things, and their children, and their children’s children, for three generations? I guess so. Yes, I don’t see why not. So why not build them anyway, and see how it goes. The hermits of the world will enjoy them, and over time will form their own culture (probably involving the internet).

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It is a place of refuge and warmth, like in Bradbury’s the long rain. It is a bomb shelter like in Kent during the Blitz. But these bombs are electronic and cause brain damage. These electronic bombs also target the elderly very badly. It is also like asylum. Or like fleeing from a war torn nation to a new nation, like Hungary in 1956. The “nation or hermits”.

Also, it is a “tin can firewall”.

Something that can fully unleash the forestalled information and internet age and society.

Once you have these, it might be possible to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. We could share it by p2p. It might also make the dream and vision of social media fully possible. It could change so much. It would be very much the sort of thing Silicon Valley engineers could use for good, once they got out from being controlled by deranged and retarded politicians and bureaucrats. And perhaps more importantly, it’s the sort of thing that tech engineers in Western Europe could do a lot with. Because I think that their tech scene might have more life in it for social benefit enterprise in many regards than people might think, when you weigh it all up and add it all up (Silicon Valley is very concentrated, and also relies on DARPA and other government funding for a lot of what they do, and the CIA used to run interference for them iirc, but idk). Oh, and journalists seek refuge. Duh. Also, I used to watch this week in Google, which had a lot in it about journalism online.

People with excellent minds may wish to have refuge.

Just for our own sake.

And just for the sake of having it and enjoying the full use of our own minds.

Also, pubs that serve beer are an important part of civilisation going back to ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq/Babylon) and also to early modern England and much of Germanic Europe. And of course to Ireland and New Zealand and Australia. They are important everywhere. Half of Germany’s culture seems to have something to do with beer. It is an incredibly important part of socialising throughout history (prohibition pushed people from beer to spirits, which can be a mistake). Or a tea house, cafe or something is fine. Like an old school NZ tea house.

Block of houses.

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Build a prototype the faraday house. Probably the first one in cinderblocks. And then do a second iteration of the type in basic wood framed construction (common in nz). But actually, you can prototype it in wood framed construction too. Instead of cinderblocks. It involves wooden frames, cladding, building paper and gib board aka plasterboard, and then colour steel on the roof, or painted corrugated iron. Build them on concrete slabs. Piles might not be the best tool for the job. (In the end, you could make them out of whatever materials seem best, such as wood, concrete, red brick or cinderblock).

Build ten houses. You have already seen the idea.

For the surrounds. Put tube fences in front and in back. Put concrete walls left and right side. Put some cans in those concrete walls. Make them about 6 ft high. Cinderblock walls are fine too. Have a gate to get into the housing area with vehicle, with normal lock to open and close. And a keypad for the side gate. Mechanical key pad, not electronic. Parking lot out front.

It’s just ten houses behind a gate. With walls on either side. And fences front and back. And then what you do is also put decks or gardens out the back of the houses.

You end up with ten houses, and they are behind fences and gates. With walls on either side. And it looks nice. Basic, proper houses.

Mass produce it. Once it is good, and all of the kinks are worked out. You build ten basic houses like this all over the world. Just put them in small towns across America. Put them in semi rural or small town Europe. Europe in general. England, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Mexico. A lot of places would work for this. Africa, Asia, anywhere! It’s just housing. They can then be used for refuge. France, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Kenya!

You build them in small towns or rural areas. And then sell them to people either individually or as a block of ten. Landlords could rent them on standard contracts to ordinary tenants. It’s not just part of a social contract! It’s just a normal part of life. For example, they could become part of the normal Kiwi way of life! You could buy and sell them, rent them. Or even let them out on Airbnb. It’s just real estate, and up to building codes.

It’s just a block of ten houses behind a gate!! With fences and walls for security! That’s it! And faraday shielding (it’s like a “tin can firewall”).

I could use one right now! Like today!!

I would use it basically as a safe house. So that I don’t have to negotiate with morons and lunatics.

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Ten rooms? How would you use them?

Each is 2 by 3.

Kitchen, dining room, lounge and study.

That's four.

Two bathrooms. But put the laundry in one of the bathrooms.

Four bedrooms.

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It could be used to shelter and protect the innocent, the good, the decent, honest and worthwhile members of society. The most vulnerable could be sheltered. Those suffering massive harm could seek shelter. Those who value their minds, or who don’t want to share their minds with perverts, or don’t want to be given dementia as an older person, or sudden massive physical harm again and again, can simply seek shelter. Or those who just want to left alone or don’t want to be a part of a hive mind can seek shelter.

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Cinderblock building, no windows.

Call it the bunker. It’s in a student town, or a medium sized town where nothing ever happens or matters. Bathtubs full of beer on ice. Or kegs?

Fog machine, disco lights, loud “doof doof” music. Horrible scene, horrible boring situation. Boring people..

Party!!!!! It is just concrete and cinderblock decor. The building paper in the ceiling is still visible. South Dunedin, or Palmerston North. It’s just a party location. NZ university student party. Or small town. My theory, is that if irresponsible people can enjoy it as a product, then responsible people can more easily enjoy it.

Start drinking beer at 2 in the afternoon. Just finishing stupid amounts of it, and talking. It is a free for all, without “supervision”. It is about uninhibited conversation.

Ummm. Maybe put 8 basic windows into it. But just close them up with painted wood plank panels on hinges (I forget what the right terminology is).

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Columbia? Possibly a great place for it. The basic safe house, basic cinder block. Still a skunkworks.

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Friday 3rd of April

Maybe you have a new prototype that comes along, for housing. And it is amazing.

Blueprints for a faraday safe house that's comfortable, stylish and homey. That is affordable and effective. And it uses crushed cans as a building product. And it is more economical in how it uses them.

And people build 1000 of them.

My first prototype idea is built 100 times. A second prototype is built and is made 300 times. It is similar to the first, but more economical in the use of crushed cans:

And a third prototype is made which looks nothing like the first two, but is a really nice and affordable house that people love. And people build 2500 of them. It goes viral.

I have no idea when it will show up, or what it will look like.

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A new idea:

Faraday shielded single wide trailer

A single wide trailer is made in a factory. As a building product built into it, there is a machine to take used aluminium cans, crush them down to a thickness of 20 cm width, then dip them in fast drying chemical foam, layer them between pieces of plywood, and dip it in a waterproof membrane. You end up with a panel measuring 1.2 metres by 60 cm by 20 cm. These are then built into the sides, ceiling and floor of the single wide.

And you can have it delivered to your home. 50000 are manufactured. And if you park these trailers (manufactured homes) closely enough, then the spaces in between and shielded too. Like with 4 metres in between. It is just an idea.

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We still need the basic prototype to be done first. Or a really good basic prototype that can be replicated. Something like a building made out of cinderblocks.

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Just spitballing: a more comfortable home. In second thoughts, maybe take the low wall beside the patio, and spin it 90 degrees, and double it up. But either way we need the basic prototype first!!

Another one:

Doing the low walls that way lets more light through, and reduces the feelings of claustrophobia. Maybe instead of low walls, you do medium height walls of about 2 metres, and slender? I don’t know. I think low walls of maybe 1.0 to 1.5 metres high might be enough. Besides, if there’s a patio, you can just bury a “panel” or plate or tile of moisture protected crushed aluminium cans underneath it. Or multiple A panel is maybe 20 cm thick, and measures 80 cm by 80 cm.

Target market: what if the occupant is your retired Nana, Nonna, Grandmother (or localised language equivalent). And she has sufficient retirement savings to carry her through, and she wants to live like a hermit or a shut in until all of this blows over. Never going outside the property. Sitting in the garden of course! But never leaving. And getting groceries delivered, and socialising in her own sitting room (aka lounge).