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!
Or it’s what the top comment said. Sleep tight!
Writing this in the top comment doesn’t help, like, at all…
These are such a good idea. It works by having a mirror behind the heater which prevents the reflection.
Alright, but now the heater is in the way.
Yeah, that’s why it prevents the reflection
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Your part of a TV show!
It’s heated.
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.”
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!
These are such a good idea. It works by having a heater behind the mirror which prevents the condensation.
These are such a good idea. It works by having a heater behind the mirror which prevents the condensation.
Uhh, because of the heat of the raspberry pi & camera behind there
Ahh yes, because that would produce exactly square shaped heat.
It a very big Pi. Might even be a Tau.
Dumbass, tau is round
Then why are people talking about squaring the circle
What about taumoeba?
Why else would it be called the inverse square law?
- Gets rid of fog
- is in shape of a square
Makes sense to me!
Lol, when I cut a hole in the wall I always make it the exact shape of a raspberry pi
Not with that attitude!
Ah yes, 10W of heat :3
Suppose you were in this situation and suspected something. I’d imagine the space behind it would be totally dark, so what would be a safe way to check if there’s a gap in between without breaking the glass?
there are no “one-way” mirrors. You just need to make your side darker than the other side (there’s a reason the observation side of a two-way mirror is never brightly lit, but the interrogation room is)
Tldr: put your face right up against it and use your hands to block out as much light as you can
there are no “one-way” mirrors. You just need to make your side darker than the other side
15 upvotes? Really? Mirrors are painted on the back with opaque paint.
Are we cross posting this to a flat earth science forum?
but a one-way mirror (also known as a two-way mirror) is one that you can see through in one direction
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.
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.
Nah, just means that the mirror can’t render the Unicode character that the ghost has sent.
It was the poop emoji
or the eggplant emoji. its placed after a shower.
There are coatings /sprays for this
/sprays
i read this as a tone marker
I think in this particular case it might be an integrated heating element like this: https://clearmirror.com/products/shower-clearmirror
They’re popular in shower rooms in Japan.
You’re popular in shower rooms in Japan.
A gee, thanks.
Would make for a great practical joke.
You can also just rub some shaving cream on it and wipe it off.
This comments section feels like schizophrenia.
These are such a good idea. It works by having a heater behind the mirror which prevents the condensation.
Wait until someone finds a screwdriver.
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.
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
Apparently no one here has been to a Home Depot or Lowe’s in the last 15 years.
You can achieve a similar effect at home by using your hairdryer on the fogged-up mirror!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That fills the second ‘R’ out of the 3.
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 :)
Sure…shaving cream…
Yep. Has to be the cream though, gel doesn’t work, afaik.
Well lah di dah ms “I own a hairdryer” /s
Uninsulated heat leak behind.
