Yeah, because polygamy definitely wasn’t tightly linked to the cultural system of exploitation and oppression of women in Burkina Faso - it just existed in a cultural vacuum and Sankara was an evil dictator for taking away freedoms /s

I’ve been having fun with euphemising this stuff.

My current favorite is “to make a mural out of someone” but I also like terms such as “a height adjustment”, “craniofacial reconstruction”, “percussive orthodontistry”, “deserves to be wallpaint” and things like that.

I’m trying to figure out how a frequency in the range of IR wouldn’t be reflected by Mylar; Mylar is literally foil bonded to a plastic layer designed to reflect IR radiation back to a person who is wrapped in it.

Why do you think that it won’t work?

I don’t know for sure (I’m not an engineer) but I have a strong suspicion that those emergency Mylar blankets would work to reflect(?) most of the EM radiation.

The blankets are cheap, portable, readily accessible, and there’s very little to lose by trying it out. Just make sure that when you do raise it that you fold the blanket in around your hands as if you were using a fire blanket (plenty of instructional diagrams online for that.)

It would probably be worth having multiple so that you could deploy your own and then move to cover a comrade on the ground and drop a blanket on them so they could cover themselves and so on.

I wonder how much juice the device uses… if we are fortunate it won’t be able to sustain long bursts and/or it will chew through too much battery for it to be used constantly for more than a short period.