Things like this go to show how much money can be made with low effort if you don't have a conscience.
A fool can be parted from their money, but only time will tell
Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick
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#32> [...] promises to protect your family from 5G, using ground-breaking quantum technology My intuitive guess would be that for the target audience "ground-breaking quantum technology" would cause even more problems for their family than 5G. Interesting.
Don't think so. Quantum is often used as a convenient explanation for why things work in those circles (at least from what i've seen). How does it protect me from evil radiation? It's quantum, you wouldn't understand.
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#33Two things come to my mind: - this is basically an ignorance tax - sometimes I wish I had no conscience, I would be much richer
See the gambling industry...
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#34If 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 pend…
Table salt, sand, and food-grade white pigment respectively.
Also: Sorry you went through that decline at the end. :'(
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#35Amazingly, it is still less of a scam than Lacie hard drives.
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#36What I don't understand is that a site like BBC, doesn't actually harshly denounce it as a scam. Why?
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#37Two things come to my mind: - this is basically an ignorance tax - sometimes I wish I had no conscience, I would be much richer
If you've never heard about the Gopher, read on: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29459896
Also here is a hilarious recount of the same story in Italian, you might have success with automated translation: https://bagniproeliator.it/cerca-una-pallina-da-golf-trova-r...
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#38A perfect target for Softbank or other VCs in the valley, such margins can’t be ignored.
Re: Pulling apart a £339 anti-5G USB stick
#39If 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 pend…
this sounds like a proper novel!
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#40What an absolute lack of surprise that the person with one of these is from Glastonbury