I saw this post a few years ago and that’s why I licked my friend’s himylayan salt lamp a few years ago, officer
Admit it, it gave you magic powers.
E. What’s a Himalayan salt lamp and have I ever licked one?
One of these bois:
I don’t know if you’ve ever licked one, but I sure have.
Is it safe, like is it just rock salt?
It is just rock salt. And possibly dust gathered on top of it.
As safe as any other form of salt. If you consume enough of it then it could raise your blood pressure
And what’s the experience like? One of the higher ups at my workplace has one in their office and I need to know if the risk is worth the reward
Probably not, but it’s admittedly odd to verify that a home furnishing is obviously also a lump of seasoning.
You don’t know what you’re missing.
I’ve licked salt licks. I grew up around farm/farm-adjacent animals, and I’ve always been very curious, so I’ve tried a lot of things my animals consume…
The flavored salt licks are fun. I genuinely understand why they like them. Especially of their diet is deficient. Bet they taste like magic if your diet isn’t just full of salt already.
For some reason that probably has to do with surface area, granulated salt tastes much much saltier than salt licks. So I’m not joking about them tasting nice, it’s a totally different thing to table salt.
Do that while holding eye contact with said higher up
Boss makes a dollar, you make a dime. Lick that salt on company time!
Salt with a potential of dustiness (the latter all depends on the lamp).
It’s pretty salty but I think it’s worth the risk.
Would recommend finding a spot to gradually erode away with repeated licking
It’s literally a giant salt crystal with a light bulb in. I have no idea what it’s supposed to do, or why it’s got to be Himalayan.
It’s pink, which is a pretty and uncommon color for salt from other places.
It’s Himalayan and therefore oriental.
It’s a crystal, but cheap (cause it’s salt).
Some weirdos think crystals have beneficial magic properties just from being in their vicinity.
Combine those and you have the perfect mass-market object for white people to become obsessed with.
Also, they give a nice soft warm glow when lit from within
This is why I have one! It is incredibly beautiful, with its soft orange glow, when lit up. The winter is long and dark here, and I need all sorts of beautiful lights to look at.
Combine those and you have the perfect mass-market object for white people to become obsessed with.
I concur. I am white and i’m obsessed with Himalayan salt lamps.
And it can be problematic on a few levels, for one it is toxic to cats and some of them want to lick it, it can also collect humidity from the air and drip it over your desk and power cords (hmm, spicy salty water).
Will licking this Himalayan salt lamp make it easier to insert into my anus?
Unironically yes.
If only they would know that Himalayan salt can be a great deodorant. (With some caveats)
option b
Steal the memory and storage from their PC then make a run for it
Take apart their vape pens for the flashable MCUs, microphones, decent battery, and sweet magnets, and then bounce
microphones?
Yep! The heating coil voltage should only start ramping up when the user is inhaling, and how do you detect that they’re inhaling?
With a friggin microphone! The negative air pulls the drum up and that’s enough to send a signal to the MCU
You can see some examples here
You can see some examples here
oh i see, that one doesn’t have a microphone but rather three microphones 🤯
(previously via hackaday i saw someone turn a disposable vape into a webserver but the use of microphones in them is news to me, thanks)
Yep, lucky bastard got PUYA chip with a readily available flasher! Best I’ve gotten is an SC8 chip with maybe a UART (I’m still probing the pins)
Why don’t they do what MAF sensors in cars do? I.e. measure how fast a warm wire cools, which directly tells you how many molecules are hitting that wire and therefore how fast air is flowing past it?
I’m guessing it’s because microphones are cheap
Yep, cheap and cheerful chinese chips. You have to admire the resourceful ingenuity of it
E: Secretly take out my hidden stash of himalayan salt and eat as much as i can before they return
Drink their lava lamp.
I was a kid and had some classmates over for a slumber party. Unknown to me, at some point someone cracked open the top to my lava lamp and it somehow dribbled over the top and ruined my PS1. I can’t look at a lava lamp the same again.
Like, they popped the soda cap off the bottle or did they break the glass?
Popped the soda cap top and put the little black lid back on that hides it. My sister and I shared a room and she needed the lamp to sleep so I had it turned on and I think that’s what made it overflow over night. The next morning, I was looking around for the source of this goo all over my console and the lava lamp was sitting on a shelf above the TV,
I checked for cracks and then splashed the whole thing when I picked it up and saw the cap sitting on the shelf right next to the lamp. I wish they had just said and I wouldn’t have turned it on that night. I was a poor kid and me having that console was a big deal at the time. My uncle won it at a poker game and we couldn’t afford to replace it. It was the nicest thing I owned at that time and owned for a while.
I never found out who did it. I’m grown now and got a PS1 for old times sake to emotionally right that childhood wound so I guess it all turned out okay in the end.
E. Be freaked out by said lamp and make a run for it.
Make sure you wrap your licker! You don’t know how many unwrapped licker people have licked that Himalayan salt lamp before you! Or even which animals! You could end up with … Dry Tongue!
Nah, I have hypertension. Can’t do it.
If it’s so obvious, your licking what they others date have licked previously ? No kink shaming, I’m just curious
Crawl under the covers and fall asleep?
Dude… rob them tf (/j)
I feel like I have to ask: what is a salt lamp?
A block of pink salt heated by a lamp that users believe gives them health benefits. No proven medical benefits have been established and is as a result a superstition.
Ah so the heat from the lamp, adds salt to the air or something like that?
One claim is it adds negative ions to the air which the claim is are good for you. There’s no evidence they’d release anything more than an infinitesimal amount. Salt is pretty stable.
Another claim is it helps purify the air by trapping toxins, which, even if true, would quickly become useless as the surface area becomes saturated. There’s also no evidence any pollutants end up on the lamp beyond pure coincidence/chance.
The only pollutant on that lamp is my saliva. Cause I licked it.
The heat makes the lamp atoms vibrate at a higher frequency, which in turn makes it deteriorate. To maintain its structure the lamp seeks out emotions vibrating at other frequencies to pull within itself. Drawing these “Bad Vibes” into the lamp is what makes it salty, and a naturally gifted or properly trained Empath can taste this salt to see what has been absorbed by the lamp, to gain knowledge of the owner’s troubles.
Not fair, I like having a salt lamp because it’s taking a piece of enormous historical wealth and using it for shitty lighting
Pretty good for searing a steak, though
If used as a decoration I’m fine with them.
