Found at a large chain, so I assume they’re selling this slop all over the US
A similar, non-AI slop blanker is $10-12 at Walmart
Found at a large chain, so I assume they’re selling this slop all over the US
A similar, non-AI slop blanker is $10-12 at Walmart
I’ve often thought, if I had a little less integrity, I could make huge money off the world’s idiots.
Faraday cage MAGA hats, weeping <insert religious icon here> statues, that kind of thing.
I think my favourite grift of all time was the little plugin devices that “optimised” your home electrical system. Literally just a blinking LED circuit.
When my mother in law last came to visit, she mailed ahead a plug-in “purifier” that was supposed to… de-ionize your phone. Or something. There was an LED but she said that it’s not supposed to light up. She wanted us to have it plugged in and humming before she got there.
So I took it apart.
Super simple circuit - it was a remote controlled outlet switch. Was eventually able to find what looked like an exact match, sold in a three-pack for like $30. The LED was supposed to light up when it was turned on (with the missing remote). MIL paid like $90 for it from one scammer or another. She was super pissed when it wasn’t plugged in when she arrived. Refused to listen to anything either of us had to say on the matter.
She’s still patiently waiting for the global currency reset that will make her rich. And/or the cloud ships to come and rescue the faithful.
It’s trivially easy to grift the credulous.
I was recently talking to one of those CrossFit® weirdos and he was going on and on about his special health water that allegedly had… nitrogen… added to it. He was swearing up and down about the health benefits.
It’s like… Buddy… You know you’re breathing 78% nitrogen right now, right? If it’s so healthy you can just… Keep breathing…?
Nitrogen is reasonably soluble in water - about 18 mg/l, compared to 10 mg/l for oxygen. If it’s running a bit low, you can choose the lid on the bottle and give it a shake - the bubbles have a lot of surface area to promote gas readsorption.
It’s not what we’d normally consider an essential nutrient, unless of course you’re a nitrogen-fixing plant. CrossFit guy wasn’t actually some green beans in disguise, were they?
He probably developed his own internal colony of nitrogen fixing bacteria, feeding another colony of gut bacteria that churned out amino acids, providing 24/7 protein generation for maximum swole.
Your home boy may have been trying to talk about nitric oxide? Supposedly that has some health benefits.
Possibly lol
Ironically, those scammy plug-ins are what finally got me to learn about electrical impedance. I knew they were bullshit but I didn’t have the background to explain why. I finally found a an ElectroBOOM video that laid it all out.