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[-] shalva97@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Also don't use phone before bed. Read for 1 hour before bed. Buy my book so you can read it before bed

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

But he's standing in front of a Ferrari, he must know what he is talking about!

[-] Brimstone@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

Bob Lazar stood in front of a corvette and therefore was a physicist who worked on alien space craft.

Tale as old as time 😂

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Here in my garage...

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

A long time ago, people were selling books to tell you how to win national lotteries. I wonder how many they actually sold, and how many of the buyers thought about the fact that someone selling this kind of book while not being super rich was weird.

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

Bro ive got a well that gives unlimited clean water. I'll let you use it too if you give me a bottle of clean water.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Heeeeeere in my garage [...] knaawlidge

No one in my life remembers that early YouTube ad

[-] Undearius@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago

That guy had like 2000 Lamborghinis in his knawledge

[-] paulcdb@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

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.”

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

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?

They aren't actually looking for smart people.

[-] paulcdb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

They aren't actually looking for smart people.

I’m not smart and still see through the corporate bs! 🤨

[-] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

  • George Carlin
[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

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!

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

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

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

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 21 hours ago

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.

[-] paulcdb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I don't fully understand it but Big Clive explained it once while tearing one of them apart.

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!

[-] AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Girl leave!

[-] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 2 days ago
[-] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Brain: You know, she looks like Vi- Sees comment -cky. Yeah.

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 15 points 2 days ago

I thought of Rika Nonaka from Digimon when I saw her.

[-] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago

I was thinking Frankie Foster

[-] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

I knew this was awakening something in me!

[-] ttyybb@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Your losing money by not taking that deal while it lasts

[-] M137@lemmy.today 1 points 19 hours ago
[-] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

and who wants to lose money? only idiots! are you an idiot? no? well then, swipe the card! don't miss your chance, only 18999 deals left!!!

[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

And for some magical reason, the deal will only last for the next 5 minutes, just for you, be quick or be dead!

[-] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why is a bunch of digital goods limited? Did you forget to stock up on 1s and 0s?

[-] 123@programming.dev 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Hello who this? "OMG STEEM SALE BETTER BUY GAMES ILL NEVER PLEY"

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

“Join the Milan institute where we teach you to make topical stamp clip art which will be irrelevant style of art by the time you graduate , ground your confidence into shit for even looking in our direction, call you lazy, guilt you for watching any of the free content we decided on our own to supply to you and tell you how you should owe us money now”

Then there’s the : “watch my video where I’ve done dexa scans of some randos and heavily edited my own graph of what fat percentage means and created the ‘skinny fat’ body type and heavily played up how physically dangerous it is to cause medical anxiety which can only be solved if you join my my program. Please go to this website for the FREE body calculator for more FREE anxiety”

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Funny enough I never saw any of these gurus in YouTube.

[-] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

all you need to do is log out of your account and watch the related videos. the rabbit hole is shorter than you'd think.

this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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