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Ugh, most of mine are usually “I’m 23 and I made 3m on tiktok in 12 months…”
If you really made 3m then wtf are you making no quality tiktok videos instead of enjoying life are ruining tiktok even more by cluttering it up with even more god awful videos?
Because you didn’t… and this is the critical thinking no-one bothers to taught themselves so get easily scammed.
Like the “Voltage harmonisers” that “cut you’re bill by ½”. Anyone with 1 braincell would understand electric is charged by watts because its the value that doesn’t change when voltage or amps change!
I normally only watch tiktok when waiting for something to finish but I’m almost at the point now where it’s more interesting to watch paint dry than try find anything fun on tiktok. 😞
If tiktok videos where honest they’d be saying “If don’t have any conscience or empathy, you too can get rich by ripping morons off and conning them into re-selling your garbage so you don’t have to.”
They aren't actually looking for smart people.
I’m not smart and still see through the corporate bs! 🤨
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
The fun thing is like most scams there's a kernel of truth in there. I don't fully understand it but Big Clive explained it once while tearing one of them apart. Basically it's a giant capacitor that is designed to smooth the frequency of the circuit a little, and if that frequency is fluctuating a lot due to a really wonky load (like a bunch of giant AC motors) on certain types of (older) electric meters that can be read as more energy consumption than if you shove a bunch of capacitors on the circuit to smooth it out. But the capacitors on those little boxes are much too small to have any noticable impact on your energy bill if you happened to have both the load and the type of meter that would care, and ultimately if you want a cheap plugin of questionable legality to lower your electric bill you're much better off just throwing solar panels outside and plugging them into the wall
There is an element of truth, but what you're describing still sounds like a scam. Power factor correction is legitimate, but it's not something that can be done with a generic product that you hook up to any appliance, or even your whole house.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor
The more relevant part is that as a regular consumer you don't need to do power factor correction because you don't get charged for reactive power. Industrial consumers on the other hand want to do power factor correction because they're paying for reactive power.
Erm… yeah, i’m not en electrical engineer but slapping capacitors on things still increases power use slightly because capacitors have losses themselves. So that doesn’t make any sense. I get the smoothing out voltage side but voltage and amps can change as much as they want but the watts is always constant. So I still don’t see anything they do can reduce the wattage.
But i’m an uneducated idiot so who knows!