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Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick

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Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick

#21

Why is this product even a USB stick? The advertisement says it works fine just placing it near your cell phone. Do people have some sort of trust in USB sticks?

It is the cheapest electronic looking thingy that can easily fit on a key chain.

Making it electronic looking at all seems like a strange choice. Surely at least some people would know electronics need electricity.

Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick

#22

If you think this is just bunk, and you'd like a laugh, read the FAQs on the website [1]... My favourite: >Does the device remove the EMF from the environment? If so can I use a meter to measure EMF? >>The 'electro magnetic meter' can only measure the intensity of radiation which is not changed by our technology nor does it change the quality of connection and speed of data transfer. Well, that's convenient, isn't it…

If it interferes with radio transmissions, an fcc (or equivalent for your country) complaint is in order?

Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick

#24
Selling tin foil as specialist EMF limiting wallpaper would be more honest than this device and yet, there will be people out there who will buy this and what's more, some of those will believe it works whatever you tell or show them.

Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is the cheapest electronic looking thingy that can easily fit on a key chain.

Making it electronic looking at all seems like a strange choice. Surely at least some people would know electronics need electricity.

> Surely at least some people would know electronics need electricity.

If you buy into the conspiracy, then electricity is probably some kind of dark magic to you.

EDIT: They actually have you plug it in to charge it periodically or expand the protective field.

Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick

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post #12

Things like this go to show how much money can be made with low effort if you don't have a conscience.

Absolutely. Now realize the entire economy is a sliding scale of quackery from completely quack-a-scamtastic to fairly sober. It's just a question of the weighting of that spectrum.

Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick

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post #22

If you think this is just bunk, and you'd like a laugh, read the FAQs on the website [1]... My favourite: >Does the device remove the EMF from the environment? If so can I use a meter to measure EMF? >>The 'electro magnetic meter' can only measure the intensity of radiation which is not changed by our technology nor does it change the quality of connection and speed of data transfer. Well, that's convenient, isn't it…

If it interferes with radio transmissions, an fcc (or equivalent for your country) complaint is in order?

It does not; it's a sticker on an USB stick

Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is the cheapest electronic looking thingy that can easily fit on a key chain.

Making it electronic looking at all seems like a strange choice. Surely at least some people would know electronics need electricity.

>> Surely at least some people would know electronics need electricity.

I think the Venn diagram of people who know this and people who think they can protect themselves from 5G with a crystal stick has absolutely no overlap.

Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick

#30

If you think this is just bunk, and you'd like a laugh, read the FAQs on the website [1]... My favourite: >Does the device remove the EMF from the environment? If so can I use a meter to measure EMF? >>The 'electro magnetic meter' can only measure the intensity of radiation which is not changed by our technology nor does it change the quality of connection and speed of data transfer. Well, that's convenient, isn't it…

> Do people actually believe this nonsense? It sounds like the kind of thing that Russell Brand was wittering about a couple of years ago

Probably.

My mum was a New-Age type, so I grew up with homeopathic pills explicitly labelled as “sodium chloride”, “silicon dioxide”, and “titanium dioxide”, while being told my brother and I were “typical” for our astrological star signs. She was big on dowsing with wands and pendulums and thought crystals had personalities and could jump out of your hand. When I was young she expressed sadness that my older brother no longer believed in chakras, and the last time she met my (now ex) girlfriend, she expressed sadness to her that I didn’t believe in Orgone energy. She was also taking Bach flower remedies for memory right up until she got Alzheimer’s.

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