And now for something weird...

ZCochran98

Joined Jul 24, 2018
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It's a thought experiment.

It's like putting on special light detecting glasses. What's more likely? The beam is an artifact of the lens interaction with the eyes and brain or the lens detects the existing beam.
This thought experiment makes the "Hat Man" and other (supposedly) shared hallucinations way more terrifying.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,768
️ In Seoul’s Gangnam district, a cosmetic surgery clinic drew global shock by displaying two glass towers filled with jawbone fragments removed during chin contouring surgeries, reportedly from around 1,000 patients. The eerie installation, meant to showcase the surgeon’s skill in face-slimming procedures, went viral but was soon taken down after authorities fined the clinic for violating medical waste disposal laws and ordered the bone sculptures removed. The incident sparked outrage online and raised questions about aesthetics, culture, and how far beauty standards can go.

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WBahn

Joined Mar 31, 2012
32,871
️ In Seoul’s Gangnam district, a cosmetic surgery clinic drew global shock by displaying two glass towers filled with jawbone fragments removed during chin contouring surgeries, reportedly from around 1,000 patients. The eerie installation, meant to showcase the surgeon’s skill in face-slimming procedures, went viral but was soon taken down after authorities fined the clinic for violating medical waste disposal laws and ordered the bone sculptures removed. The incident sparked outrage online and raised questions about aesthetics, culture, and how far beauty standards can go.

That photo makes it look like the tower is huge, which made me skeptical with the claim being that all of that was from just a thousand patients. If you were to cut the tower at any level, there would be hundreds visible at the cut. So I did a bit of digging and, while the story is true, the towers were only 60 cm (about two feet) tall. The width was probably in the six inch range. So they were essentially desk-top size sculptures. The jawbones fragments inside were relatively small and were removed to change the contour of the jaw line. The clinic was fined about US$2800 for violating medical waste rules (human tissue must be incinerated there), so not a huge deal from a legal standpoint.

I wonder what the net impact on their business was? Were people disgusted and business fell? Or did it end up being a net advertising gain that more than made up for the fine? My guess is that latter is the more likely of the two.
 
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