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Anecdotally I can confirm this. Whenever my friends and I get together, we zap each other. Sometimes it’s frequent but beneficial, sometimes it’s more like active harm. Either way we always agree at the end of the night that the most harmful social behaviors are the toughest to shift.

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Dayam. Change the carpet or take off your shoes already.

This is a no zap safe-space, unless it's a consensual thing.

You didn’t read his comment fully. They are deliberately trying to destroy each other’s expensive electronics.

I can’t imagine why, but at least it does sound consensual.

Why? For the love of the game.

I would be exhausted by any game that involved that much shuffling over carpet...unless you guys resort to mechanical assistance....

Mechanical assistance, medical assistants. We have been doing this for decades and everyone signs a waiver regarding the “risks”

Interesting, so you could carry a battery powered electrostatic zapper OR have someone to help you if you cramp, trip, or have a heart attack while shuffling on the carpet. I could see different strategies for the different gameplay.

And of course instead of batteries you could have long cords and plug your zappers in.

Ok, life does sound like consensual fun for you and your buddies.

Yes something like a personal defibrillator (many cramps, no trips, and an outsize count of heart attacks). I’ll make a full blog post about it some day. When it happens we call it a “fallen angel” - don’t misunderstand me, there’s nothing holy about the arrangement. Pure thrill seeking that happens to align with a love for academia and a hoorah attitude towards the university of Haifa’s scholarly pursuits.

If it were an Olympic sport it might be enough to get me to care about the olympics. Of course the countries with the best portable defibrillators (and cheapest laptops) would collect all the medals.

Don’t get me started with the damn Swedes…

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/john-travoltage

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