We need a thread for “chipspotting,” I had a clever name for such a thread about 3 hours ago but now of course I can’t remember it.
With chip implants becoming more common I feel like we need some sort of secret signal or handshake… the Sparkfun guy has a little wifi connection symbol tattooed over his chip, but that’s a little extreme.
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Need a led chipset on the forehead that lights up… one of us.
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this is a long thread. so, I am sure I have missed and may be redundant in my response here.
I would be honest, truthful and passionate about your aspiration for the chipset. Speak to the “what” - the technology challenges in today’s world - i.e., security, identity, data sharing, etc., and how to solve to those challenges - that is the narrative; once the business challenge narrative is sold, the implanting is the “how” - speak to how people have always fixed bad knees with knee, hip, teeth replacements. But, don’t oversell the reality. Also layout the risks. Let them know the pros/cons and how you’re seeing it.
if my son were to be interested in getting a chipset, I would say, “no”. unless I can sense the passion and that he’s serious about understanding the subject and not going crazy overboard. that is just me…
my 2c worth FWIW.
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My parents know only about 4 Chipimplants. On TV I said only “Several” this could mean 3 or much more.
They know ablout the: flexNT, the Spark, the xSIID and the creditcard
I didn’t told them about the magnets.
What it was a surprise, my father is a bit intrested in technology, saw it was easy to explain RFID. The advantage was, that they have RFID Access Cards at the golfcourt.
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Yeah, I might try to get my folks into RFID tags. They have tons of use for them. Both of them carry ~ 1lb of keys!
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Smart play my friend.
They can carry one fob or card instead of bunches of keys…easy sale.
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the lockdown has also some positive effect: the most time my parents used to pay with cash and sometimes they used the card ( gas station) know I showed them, that they can pay easy at the stores, only put the card on the reader. My mother didn’t know that this was so easy - know she loves it 
The first time when I told them I have chipimplants, they asked also, is this dangerous. I told them getting medical implants like breast implants this is much more dangerous.
I’m also glad that many friends from my parents are very religious, I tlaked also with them about the implants - and no one talked about “mark of the beast” and they know the bible.
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Same with the locksmiths I work with. Additionally, an implant would be more secure than our current setup (ID cards for most of the locks and exterior doors on campus, and master keys) as if one of those gets lost the entire campus is basically unlockable.
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Woah, you were on TV? Nice!
I bet this helps! Over the last few weeks of explaining to people what and why I got chipped, it seems like most people are a bit more understanding of it once they get used to the concept and how it works.
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Some friends saw me on TV - they were surprised and asked me a lot of questions - all positiv.
It was also fun, when I was at the hsopital in october - the doctors were also intresting - you must fill out a sheet of paper, and there was also a section about implants.
Maybe you can shwo it with testcards, how it works, and the range is vey small of this cards too.
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It was pretty painless telling my family. I showed up to a dinner at my mom’s with my brother. While we waited in the lobby to get buzzed in I kept swiping my hand against the reader making it beep and pretending to get frustrated that the door wasn’t opening, he thought I was palming a card.
Sitting around after dinner I asked my mom to text me then opened my texting app with my chip. She just laughed and was not surprised I would do something like this. I guess getting tattoos and a Prince Albert in college prepared her. 
She’s incredibly not online, so she has no idea about gov’t controlling people conspiracies or even Mark of the Beast stuff. Stepdad just said “oh neat, what else can you do with it?”
The only real negative reaction was someone that thought it was a huge painful surgical procedure, and got grossed out.
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Oh boy. How did that come up?
“Mom, we need to have a talk. I need to you know, this is important, my penis is pierced.”
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It was after I started stretching my lobes or getting my tongue pierced. “This is nothing, guess what I did a few months ago!”
I’ve got two more, I guess I love freaking my Mom out. Sorry OP for derailing your thread.
She found out about a tattoo on a bus. I was coming home from the parlour, she got on the same bus and saw me with a big bandage. She gave me a dirty look and had to bite her tongue until we got off.
My least favourite was telling her I got a vasectomy over the phone while she was at work, (she was joking/asking for grandkids, I didn’t just bring it up!). Found out later she had to explain to coworkers why she was crying. My brother had a kid later so she got her wish at least. She laughs at this one now, so it might be my most favourite.
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Just realised that I’ve got really cool parents…
I started with all my bodymod-stuff when I was 16 - in germany, you need your parents permission to get pierced as a minor, and they were always like “okay, it’s your body, your decision - you thought about that for quite some time, you’re informed and know what you do”. They didn’t understand many things, like getting titan bars and rings through several parts of my body, getting implants or - my next bigger project - planning a scarification, but they’re okay with it. They actually even like my tattoos, but especially my mum is alway like “uuuh, this must all hurt so bad, why do you do this…?” 
Anyway, I’m really happy about them both^^
Yeah, that’s a different kind of problem… I’m my parents’ only child, and my dad is still pretty sad that my husband got a vasectomy… still “joking” that I might just cheat on him, so that my dad will get some grandchildren -.- sigh. He just doesn’t get it that we both don’t want children at all - so if I’d be cheating, I would surely not get any children from that
I got a vasectomy as soon as the doctors saw it fit to consider me “responsible” - because apparently, when you’re young, they think you haven’t thought it through, and they see sterility as a major disaster. I told my parents, who weren’t surprised one bit since I always told them I’d never want kids - even as a kid myself.
However, I never told my partners, and it served me well once: I had been with that woman for almost 3 years when she came back home one evening, all glowing:
“Good news!”
“Oh yeah? What’s the news?” I expected her to have found a new job, or won the lottery or something.
“You’re gonna be a dad. Ain’t that wonderful??!?!”
“Aah now you see…” I said “here’s a plan: how about you gather your shit and get the hell out of the house in the next 15 minutes to go to that new man of yours. I’m sure he’ll be more than happy to raise your brat.”
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Same, very confounding. I was 23 with a partner who had nearly died as a consequence of birth control. We both have no desire for offspring, so I took matters into my own hands.
The doctor tried to talk me down for 40 minutes. He even tried to convince me to freeze some sperm. I looked into that, quite a racket they have to run some freezers for you. I finally got the procedure done and he retired the next week. I hope the chagrin over that carried into his first few weeks off.
Ouch - that’s hard…
But to be honest, I just don’t understand how you could be together for almost 3 years and the woman wasn’t wondering that nothing in this direction happened… I would be far too paranoid to just “hope” not to get pregnant
Yeah… reproduction seems pretty important for many people. My husband’s doc even talked to me for a while, to see if I was really okay with the decision…
She was on the pill, because I had told her I really wasn’t keen on children from the get-go. But women have to get off the pill every once in a while, because it’s not terribly good for them in the long run. She tried to pull a “Oops, no pill no more, I slipped” on me. Only she slipped with somebody else. Bad luck for her.
And yes, if you’re thinking “What a bastard, he let her be on the pill while he knew he was snipped”, well yes… yes I did. I really, REALLY wanted to keep that trump card. And right I was.
I’m not paranoid and I don’t have to hope nothing unplanned will happen thanks to the magic of surgery 
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