[randerson]

I'm not even sure which of many questions to ask first..

- Are you a furry?

- Do you tend to wander off and forget who you are?

- Who would think to scan a human for a chip?

- Is this a common thing to do and I just don't know it?

- Did you put the chip there or did someone else?

- Or was it some kind of freak accident?

[rimunroe]

You can inject these things pretty easily. They're about the size of a grain of rice, and pretty popular in some circles.

[netsharc]

Popular in Sweden, apparently: https://geeksaroundglobe.com/6000-swedes-implant-chips-in-sk...

And when they used it as a digital identifier to check for the Covid-vaccination status, of course all the wormbrained screamed that "Covid certificate mandate leads to Swedish government microchipping its citizens!'.

[joezydeco]

Is this how the whole "Bill Gates is putting 5G chips in the Covid vaccine" meme got started?

[imp0cat]

Yeah, this explains a lot!

Crazy times we are living in! First all the conspiracy theories about a huge pedo-ring controlling the world's government come true and then this?!

[azinman2]

You’re forgetting adrenochrome

[Jerrrrrrrry]

All of this is actually happening, and semi-post-ironically joking about it preemptively just to hedge the "well if its happening I was joking ironically" and " of its not happening look how stupid you look"

Just makes you all look like cowardly cattle, which they also refer to us as.

But yeah, joke about it.

[akimbostrawman]

>huge pedo-ring controlling the world's government

Just wait until you realize these pedos are just getting blackmailed into submission and aren't controlling anything but most here probably never will because of the wrong think programming.

[zoklet-enjoyer]

Hahaha definitely not a furry. I had some magnets implanted and was looking into other subtle body mods and thought an NFC chip would be fun. I bought the magnets and the chip from dangerousthings.com

I went to a piercing shop to get it done by a guy who does silicone implants and other less common body modifications.

It's not common. The only other people I've met with chips are the guy who implanted it and my girlfriend at the time.

I have considered getting a newer model implanted and using that to badge in at work and home, but I'd likely have to travel halfway across the country to get it done.

[Buildstarted]

was this a couple decades ago or so? i remember reading a blog about someone who implanted a magnet in the tip of one of their fingers and then put a chip in the skin between the thumb and forefinger.

[zoklet-enjoyer]

You might be thinking of a blog called Feeling Waves. https://feelingwaves.blogspot.com That's where I heard about it too. He had magnets custom coated in some sort of Teflon like material. I ordered some magnets from him in 2009 but then couldn't find anyone who would implant them. I was living in Fargo, ND at the time and had called a bunch of tattoo and piercing shops as far away as Omaha and nobody would do it.

A few years later and I was living in Tacoma. I found a guy in Seattle, John Durante, who does all kinds of body mods. So I got one of the Dangerous Things magnets implanted in my finger. I still had those magnets from the blogger, but John wasn't going to install mystery objects into a client haha and he already had some magnets on hand.

Maybe a year or 2 after that I had moved back to Fargo. Somehow I came across a guy, Ian Bell, out of St. Cloud, MN who also did some more extreme body boss. He implanted the NFC chip in my hand. Later on I had him implant a magnet in each ear, in the tragus. The idea with that was I could wear a coil necklace hooked up to an audio jack and I'd have implanted headphones. That didn't really work. The magnetic field is much to weak. It did work if I held the coil up to my ear, so that was a near trick, because the audio was audible from a few inches away. The magnets in my ears were stronger than the magnet in my finger, so I was able to hang paperclips off of them and that was a fun party trick. The ear magnets had to be removed after several months because the casing had cracked and the magnets were disintegrating, causing my ears to swell and hurt. I forgot what the magnets were coated in, but it was a different coating than the finger magnet; the finger magnet is still in there and fine today.

The magnet removal sucked and I was dumb about it. Only one bothered me at first so I left the other one in there. Well, the 2nd one started to bother me a bit later and by the time I was like ok I should get this taken out, the only person within 1400 miles who would do it was out of state. So I went to a walk in clinic and explained the situation and I'm pretty sure they thought I was crazy. They scheduled me for a surgery that was a couple of months out and I had a vacation to Australia coming up. I ordered some scalpels off Amazon and tried to DIY. I couldn't do it. I asked a friend, and she couldn't get it either. At this point my ear was swollen, discolored, and had some scalpel cuts. So I flew to Australia with a messed up ear. I tried to meet up with the owner of a piercing shop in Sydney who Ian had hooked me up with but he was in Perth while I was in Sydney. Suffered for the next month. Got back home. Ian cut it out.

I typed all this on a phone and I'm not going to proofread it. Sorry

[c0balt]

Thank you for sharing your story, that was an interesting perspective of the practical side of light body implants.

[Buildstarted]

yup that looks like the one. i had an interest at the time but i'm glad i got out of that after reading your story. :)

thanks for the details it was a pretty interesting read.

[bombcar]

Bright side! you'll never be John Doe - unidentified serial killer victim #3

if they bother scanning the bodies

[Rebelgecko]

* they're definitely disproportionately common in the furry community but not really a "furry thing"

I think most people use them as a backup work badge or controlling other RFID readers (car key, smart lock, etc). Or as a party trick

It's not particularly common but I've met other people.

Some people selfinject but it's probably more common to go to like a tattoo parlor or body mod shop