Are you serious, they did not use proper filters to block the really harmful UV? One can only hope that they get sued to shit.
It’s not that they didn’t block UV, it’s that they installed UV lights in the DJ booth because it would “look cool”.
It was a purposeful choice, and no one stopped to think about why it was a bad idea. Which is totally on brand for people running a convention based around NFTs.
Apparently they were UV tubes meant specifically for sterilization. It’s almost poetic.
So it wasn’t just UV A or B which is found in normal sunlight, but the extremely dangerous and potentially cancer causing UVC radiation that your body does not have a natural resistance to and most sunscreen does not protect against either.
Monumentally stupid.
bored ape conference
Monumentally stupid.
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hey man, you can’t just use youdontsay.png I have minted it using my lifesavings it belongs to me.
Damn, I got NFTed again :(
The way I learned to remember it are
Aging
Burning
Cancer/Curing
Yes. It’s got powerful germicidal effects mainly because it absolutely shreds and scrambles cell DNA with direct exposure. Bad for cells. Unfortunately it doesn’t discriminate between single and multicellular organisms.
Probably a mix up of sorts and the responsibility lies with the contractor that installed it. I don’t believe the Bored Apes crew organized everything themselves down to the lights, it’s not their job. They just paid a company to do it for them.
Asia is much, much more serious than the West regarding sanitation, especially since COVID. UV door frames at the entrance of public transportation is a thing. Where I live, before entering a pharmacy during COVID I had to step in a pond of sanitizer, then was sprayed with the same, then had to wash my hands.
I’m not surprised the contractor had a stockpile of UV tubes to be used specifically for sanitation purpose. Now, did they just confused them with regular black light tubes or did they use them on purpose, or a mix of the two? I guess there’s going to be an investigation to sort that out. Wouldn’t like to be them, the Hong Kong judicial system is not known for being lenient, quite the opposite.
They thought it would be the “can’t make babies” kind of sterilization. They were just trying to help prevent the creation of more crypto bros.
Scarcity creates wealth, according to their logic. In 2047 when all but the last two cryptobros have died from ingesting the LD-50 of jaegerbombs, those last remaing, blind, hairless brain damaged cryptobros will be valued at trillions.
Only until there’s one left. The second to last one keels off this mortal coil and immediately all their combined wealth disappears due to lack of demand.
“Where is there a eugenics lab we can rent some sperm and egg sterilization lamps from?”
Nfters and not thinking ahead: name a more iconic duo
COVID and MAGA??
Ok you win
I saw a case of this in a documentary, a club installed ‘pretty’ powder blue UVC lights everywhere and it crisped up the attendees. The UVC part of the light doesn’t register to your eyes, so your pupils stay wide open and the designers added tons of it because it wasn’t that bright.
Yeah was going to say why does this sound familiar… 100% lawsuit incoming.
Big Clive on YouTube just posted a reaction video to this story. He mentioned that it happened recently in Hong Kong at an event by the fashion label Hype Beast. He then goes on to look through pictures of the event and actually located what appear to be germicidal tubes used instead of black light tubes.
They used the wrong type of bulb. Ordinarily the bulb will be made of a UV blocking glass, and not be quartz based. I think? So it’s not usually the shroud that stops UV except in cases of Halogen bulbs. These would be CFL without any shield except perhaps a cage to protect against things thrown.
The bulbs in this picture sure do look like UC-V sterilizing lights.
what exactly am i looking at here? is this an open floor plan bathroom?
I’m assuming it’s not a bathroom and just a display thing. I don’t know why, but they have an obsession with toilets and the stuff in them. They made a sewer based mobile game with the monkeys before. It makes the fact people are that into them even more confusing.
Sorry but who the fuck attends the “Bored Ape Conference”?
Thankfully a bunch of deuche bros
Techbros
Damn, screwed twice by the same Ape…
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Right to the eyeballs
Laughing at these people for getting their retinas burned like I see many people do (not just here) is in really bad taste imo. Even cryptobros don’t deserve that.
“Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.” ― Charles Bukowski
Misread this as Concerned Ape and became… Concerned. And also mad I didn’t know there was a convention.
No this is not our Lord of Stardew :) These are actual dumb people that think NFT’s are a good idea and went to a conference for them. Ick.
To be fair the idea behind nft’s is great when its about tracking a commodity, item or piece of information.
Its making them “THE” commodity that is cringe levels of stupid.
I still hope that one day press will have professional onlines cameras generating an nft with location, time and camera id for every piece of footage. No more fake news with misused imagery.
Right, it’s sad how nfts are just a joke now because of the worst possible execution of what an nft could do/be became a massive scam
Who’d have thought that a group of conmen would skimp on safety to make some money… I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!
It’s more likely to be down to incompetence. I can’t imagine the party UV lights are more expensive than the fuck-you-up UV lights.
EDIT: Someone else mentioned these might’ve been used during COVID for sanitation, and are extremely cheap leftover wares now that the pandemic is “over”, which would actually make them a lot cheaper.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by plain incompetence is a saying. But I think a new modern corollary can be made. Never attribute to incompetence what can be easily explained by greed, which just circles back to malice and is stupidity at the same time.
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Come to think of it, Radioactive Man looks kinda like he could be a differently coloured “bored ape”
Does anyone have the full article?
No, but there are.many other articles covering the topic if you search for it, e.g.
I think so, because two comments clearly had more info than was available in my click.
it was already posted here on lemmy, idk where, but i remember it on my feed and the comments
Please, don’t post paywalled content.
It was paywalled after I posted it! Here’s a link that’s unrestricted https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948464/bored-ape-nft-event-eye-injury-sunburn-uv-exposure
lol
It’s scary how one retards mistake can cost other people so much, and there’s no way of even knowing it’s happening until it’s too late
Not sure why you were voted down, because I feel the exact same way. No one should have to suffer vision loss from a public event, horrifying.
reminds me of the Blade movie https://youtu.be/KZnb8InfpHI?t=42
Sorry this link has been paywalled for some people after I posted. Here’s an article that is unrestricted https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948464/bored-ape-nft-event-eye-injury-sunburn-uv-exposure
Wait… What?
You have to read the article to understand the headline. Intense, I know.
My man the article is behind a brick of cookie permissions and then a paywall. The “What” is more than warranted
Perhaps you’re on desktop and it’s different? I get the first three paragraphs or so.
So you haven’t read it yet either then XD
I’d love to, but the text fades out after the first paragraph and is replaced with “This post is for members only.”
I think you get the picture. I did.
That’s one sign of a bad headline.
What is going on in the world?
It’s like I blinked and then… This headline existed.
that’s what you get
