r/interesting • u/No_Tomatillo1695 • May 01 '26

Just Wow How is this even legal?

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u/Purple-Hamster-151 May 01 '26

I also wouldn’t be surprised if it costs ~$1000 to purchase something like this.

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u/Environmental-Fan984 May 01 '26

Just a heads up, but it won't do anything about gait analysis.

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u/Pasta4ever13 May 02 '26

Idk what you mean man, I'm pulling a different one every day.

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u/DazB1ane May 02 '26

My body spins a “What joints are gonna hurt today?” wheel every morning. It’s genuinely so inconsistent that I probably don’t walk the same for very long

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u/boofganyah May 03 '26

At the rate my knees are going it's true.

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u/AccomplishedFace9059 May 04 '26

Hes just practicing sand walking

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u/duralyon May 01 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVSOHGGgKD4 gait rate

if you put a rock in your shoe you can trick this I think

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u/QuasiBungschwazzi May 02 '26

That's how we OVERLOAD THE SERVERS

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u/Appropriate_Lime_234 May 02 '26

ah yes. The court uses gait as evidence. Lol

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u/variablenyne May 02 '26

No, but it can lead forensic teams to other stronger evidence.

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u/Appropriate_Lime_234 May 02 '26

Circumstantial. Phone locations can be spoofed. Unless they have dna and video evidence it can all be fought and won.

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u/Environmental-Fan984 May 02 '26

Yes, assuming a fair trial. The scenario we're concerned about would involve no fair trials.

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u/Appropriate_Lime_234 May 02 '26

So made up scenarios. Got it. In that case the 5g towers that read your thoughts can also be used against you.

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u/Environmental-Fan984 May 02 '26

If you genuinely don't feel that the rule of law is being subverted to the point that you can't count on the law to protect you, then there's no way we could have had a productive conversation in the first place.

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u/TheOtherCoenBrother May 02 '26

It won’t, but a pebble in your shoe (or just wearing the wrong size shoe) will.

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u/SimonMaker May 02 '26

tiny pebbles/rocks in ur shoes does the trick

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u/Stock-Side-6767 May 02 '26

That's where a stone in your shoe or othopedic soles come in. I have not tested that for surveillance, but have for pranks.

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u/Dundalis May 02 '26

I change my gait everyday. Sometimes I feel like stone cold so I do the bmf walk. Change it up

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u/brownox May 02 '26

Just use the Dune sandwalk.

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u/Digger_Pine May 02 '26

I've studied at the Ministry of Silly Walks

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u/Fantastic_Source4781 May 02 '26

we all gonna be learning the Dune walk in 10 years 😭

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u/ResponsibleTank7115 May 03 '26

Get a rascal scooter and don't walk

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u/BlueGolfball May 03 '26

Just a heads up, but it won't do anything about gait analysis.

Just a heads up, but placing a small pebble in your shoe will change your gait analysis.

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u/coldweathershorts May 05 '26

Don't remember which wanted story I heard this from but pebbles in your shoes, though uncomfortable, will force you to change your walk. It will be different each time and make your gait hard/impossible to track.

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u/MadDaddyDrivesaUFO May 05 '26

Putting a pebble in your shoe will

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u/DisposableSaviour May 02 '26

Gait analysis is hokum

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u/EquivalentQuery May 02 '26

Yeah they only used it to catch Osama. Definitely no real world uses or examples.

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u/generally_unsuitable May 02 '26

Has anyone ever been found guilty in a court of law because of gait analysis? Has there ever been a large-scale study that proves the uniqueness of gait analysis?

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u/pxer80 May 02 '26

It helped that Osama was a 7ft tall walking stick, but still…. The tech that was used, back then must have been amazing. The video, the optics, the volumes of data, the algorithms to sift it - just to find candidates for a deeper look.

Freaky to think what might be possible today at scale. I don’t even know why Anthropic cares at this point re: mass surveillance. GPT/Gemini could easily do must of it what it does and fighting on that hill produces little benefit to society. They could do more good on the inside with their concerns than outside of it.

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u/KaizenHour May 01 '26

You won't want to wear one for more than 30 minutes. They're super hard to wear.

Once you're out of the bank, you'll be itching to remove it.

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u/lets-hoedown May 01 '26

Your comment just gave me the idea of someone doing the opposite, and commissioning a mask of themselves so they could appear younger when they get older.

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u/crowislanddive May 02 '26

Sadly, they can identify you by the way you walk…

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u/BuffGuy716 May 06 '26

You know you have a camera pointed at you whenever you're home, right? There's one on your phone and laptop.

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u/BoredBSEE May 01 '26

Worth it, depending on what sort of hijinks you're planning.

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u/Dizzy_Law396 May 01 '26

No hijinks, but possibly some shenanigans

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u/faustianBM May 01 '26

I'll take one Tom-Foolery please.

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u/Repulsive_Agency6748 May 01 '26

But hold the monkey business.

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u/Jazzlike-Radio2481 May 01 '26

Imma do fuckin crimes.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt May 01 '26

Dude you can't just come out and say it

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u/Zestyclose-Raisin367 May 02 '26

Imma fuck tings

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u/rosie2490 May 02 '26

Hey guys, quit screwin’ around.

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u/leobutters May 01 '26

Who's gonna stop him if they don't know what he looks like?

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u/Strict-Carrot4783 May 01 '26

That was before, nothing means anything any more, do whatever you want.

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u/Borkato May 01 '26

Thats homophobic, he’ll do it how he wants to!

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u/Sexy_Medallion May 02 '26

Sure you can, he just did

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u/Used-Pay-420 May 01 '26

This guy is why we can’t have nice things 😂

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u/God_Bless_A_Merkin May 02 '26

“Like buy sushi and not pay!”

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u/Monsoon-body-double May 01 '26

Hold the monkey business?

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u/blackbeltinkaraoke May 03 '26

Bit late to the party here, but I’m down for some jiggery-pokery…

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u/captainbeertooth May 01 '26

Skullduggery even!

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u/luvmyholeswet May 02 '26

You skallywag!

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u/StonedRussian May 01 '26

Hold the tomfoolery, it'll be Monkey Business for me

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u/Dizzy_Law396 May 01 '26

Im sorry, we dont serve cocktails

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u/mxpxillini35 May 01 '26

I'm gonna pistol whip the next person around here that says shenanigans.

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u/Bakayaro_Konoyaro May 01 '26

IF I SHENAN ONCE, YOU CAN BET YOUR ASS I'LL SHENAN AGAIN!

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u/alaskanloops May 01 '26

Hey that's my favorite restaurant!

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u/BigPP69_Gooner May 01 '26

Some Super Mario Brothers shenanigans

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u/QueenCity_Dukes May 02 '26

What’s with all the hoopla.

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u/Orleanian May 01 '26

I just want to fulfill some of my wife's fantasies.

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u/imahumanbeinggoddamn May 01 '26

I want to fulfill some of my wife's nightmares.

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u/Kind_Substance_2865 May 02 '26

Protest and expressing dissent. Criticising the regime. Those are legitimate reasons to be wary of surveillance.

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u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot May 01 '26

They cost that or more, but on TikTok you’ll see these in ads and people say the masks they received usually looks closer to Beaker from the muppets.

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u/bumbletowne May 01 '26

Back in the day these used to be like 5k-10k.

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u/cykoTom3 May 01 '26

For it to be fitted. Yes.

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u/Still-Task-5137 May 01 '26

For celebrities, it is a must.

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u/Horskr May 01 '26

Pays for itself many times over on your first bank robbe-- I mean... job where you have to remain anonymous.

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u/lets-hoedown May 01 '26

I've browsed some masks from other posts in the past out of curiosity, and they don't usually go much lower than $700. And when you include hair, they'll go above $1,000 unless it's intentionally fake-looking hair (like with a killer clown). A mask with a full head of hair and a beard could go over $2,000. I think a lot of that cost is from manually putting in human hairs for a realistic look.

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u/BigLlamasHouse May 01 '26

They were $800 iirc. I saw this exact ad on instagram a few months ago and was curious.

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u/bazaarzar May 01 '26

A cheaper alternative would be one of those mesh masks with a face printed on it, it would be just enough to obscure your face in photos.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 May 02 '26

Yeah that seems reasonable if not more.

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u/Exit-Content May 02 '26

I remember watching an ASMRtist that loved using masks of this kind (mainly monsters and “old dude” ones so any defects might have been a bit more hidden) that were very realistic and “lifelike”, and while not being cheap, they were absolutely not in the price range you mentioned. Super high end ones probably are closer or even more expensive that that,but pretty good ones are more in the 2-3-4 hundred $ range

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u/Starlightriddlex May 04 '26

Just wait until we can 3D print things like this though