• philpo@feddit.org
    84·
    30 days ago

    Guessing this is a hotel bathroom by the looks of it.

    Then it very likely has a mirror with integrated heating. I have one myself and love it.

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
    41·
    30 days ago

    There’s a ghost in your house that’s trying to tell you “rectangle”, but it’s illiterate.

    Try to figure out what “rectangle” means.

  • coldasblues@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    34·
    29 days ago

    Don’t believe any of the other comments, this is clearly a one-way mirror with a camera inside. That conspiracy theory you’ve been thinking about a lot lately is true, and even worse they know you are on to them. Remember that creak in the floorboards you dismissed as the house settling? Footsteps. The way your coffee mug was turned slightly counterclockwise this morning? Intentional. They watch you when you sleep, and know how much time you spend looking at your phone.

    Or it’s what the top comment said. Sleep tight!

    • Asetru@feddit.org
      8·
      29 days ago

      Or it’s what the top comment said. Sleep tight!

      Writing this in the top comment doesn’t help, like, at all…

  • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    25·
    30 days ago

    I had this happen in a hotel, and being curious I removed the mirror, and yes there was a hole in the wall behind it, no there wasn’t a camera there. It was just were they had ran the wiring for the lights on the mirror.

    It would make sense that it serves like an access hatch to a terminal block that feeds the whole room. It’s simple, costs nothing, is easy to get to (compared to having it sealed in the wall), protected from splashing and prying guests, and close to where you want most lights and outlets.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    212·
    29 days ago

    These are such a good idea. It works by having a mirror behind the heater which prevents the reflection.

  • elgordino@fedia.io
    185·
    30 days ago

    These are such a good idea. It works by having a heater behind the mirror which prevents the condensation.

    Ps. Excuse the multiple posts. fedia.io was having a moment. I’ve deleted them now

      • ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org
        5·
        29 days ago

        You can achieve the same thing without wasting any (electric) energy by rubbing a bit of shaving cream onto the mirror and buffing it out. Works for a while.

        • kmartburrito@lemmy.world
          7·
          29 days ago

          You can achieve the same thing without wasting any shaving cream by rubbing a bit of testicle onto the mirror and buffing it out. Works for a while until the testicle becomes cold.

        • 𝕛𝕨𝕞-𝕕𝕖𝕧@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          72·
          29 days ago

          i’ll be honest the amount of energy it took to produce, ship, and then sell that shaving cream to you dwarfs the cost of the power for a hairdryer that’s only on a few seconds. if you’re wanting to be pendantic about it that is overall more harmful to the climate.

          not in a rude way i’m just sick of these BP-personal-climate-calculator-core takes about environmentalism. just because you prostrate yourself doesn’t mean it’s actually doing anything to help. live your life. we’re all gonna die within a couple centuries if we don’t overthrow oligarchy, tho.

          • ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org
            2·
            29 days ago

            Interesting experience to be shamed as an environmental extremist for this take.

            The idea is to shave whatever and then use a tiny bit of that shaving cream on your mirror, since you will not be able to fully use 100% of the batch and just wash it down the drain anyway.

            That makes the additional cost = 0.

            • 𝕛𝕨𝕞-𝕕𝕖𝕧@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              28 days ago

              that’s fair, and in that context it is closer to a net cost of zero.

              i don’t mean to be a dick. i’m honestly just sick of the narrative that stemming climate change is at all the responsibility of individuals. it’s oil company propaganda that entirely misrepresents the actual statistics we have regarding climate.

              if it makes you feel better to do these things, i don’t want to make you feel shame about them. they’re morally aligned actions regardless and are good things to do. it doesn’t help the climate to do it, though, and that’s a lie that these people have sold you.

              that’s just the problem with all these individual decisions we could take to supposedly help the climate… even if every consumer in every problematic market adjusted their behaviors (which is already fantastical fantasy)… exxon, bp, aramco, etc. will all just continue spewing inordinate amount of toxic fumes and sludge into the biosphere. the vast majority of climate change effects are driven almost entirely by industrial factors. that’s why they spread this weird propoganda about showering for less time or recycling… because they’re objectively moral things to do and they can make you, the consumer, feel more in control of the environment than you actually are, all without sacrificing their precious right to dump jamba juice into the ocean whenever they please.

              so ig, like, continue keeping on keeping on. i like that you care about the environment. the deed itself doesn’t help it, though. spreading anti-industry messages is likely a better use of time and the public’s focus. that’s never going to happen though because then something might actually change or get done lol.

              either way, i’m willing to admit the average westerner has far less control over their life than they’d like to admit. i can’t really blame people for buying and using the products sold to them. i can’t definitely blame these companies for producing such things tho.

        • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
          1·
          29 days ago

          That’s definitely the better long-term solution!

          If my bathroom mirror is fogged up, the only reason I’d want it clear is to blow-dry my hair, so my method works out perfectly for me (and since it’s ~10s of extra power usage, it’s negligible). Otherwise your way is better :)

  • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world
    111·
    29 days ago

    Just posting to say I was here when everyone replied with “These are such a good idea. It works by having a heater behind the mirror which prevents the condensation.”

    • elgordino@fedia.io
      1·
      25 days ago

      Hahaha I just saw this. fedia.io was having a moment and posted my comment several times and everyone else has just run with it. Quality!

  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
    1611·
    30 days ago

    There is probably a hole cut into the wall there.

    If you want an innocent explanation, then it’s entirely possible that there used to be a medicine-cabinet-style mirror there. It looks like it’s about that size and would fit in that location. Those medicine cabinets are recessed into the wall and so they require a hole to be cut in the wall. When they installed the large mirror, they didn’t think it was worth it to repair the hole, since they were covering it up with a mirror.

    If the hotel is fairly old, it might have had something like that in the past.

    But since there is no way of knowing that for sure, if I was in that room, I’d assume there’s a camera behind there, too.