- Alkaline water
- Smart toothbrushes
- Chiropractors
- Yearly bug and pest deterrent spraying around exteriors of buildings
- Self help books
- Apps like Nerdwallet
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2024
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Do you remember that influencer that started her day with alkaline water with lemon juice, the lemon juice being acidic neutralises the alkaline and makes it not alkaline water.
Those self help books just parrot the same things you would find in a wikihow article.
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In a somewhat metaphorical but nonetheless very real sense - most politics is effectively snake oil.
There's a set of people who exhibit a particular combination of mental illness and natural charisma, such that they feel an irrational urge to impose their wills on others, a lack of the necessary empathy to recognize the harm they do and the personal appeal necessary to convince others to let them do it.
There's another set of people who feel an irrational sense of helplessness - who want to turn control of their lives and their decisions over to others, so they can just go along with a preordained set of values and beliefs and choices rather expending effort on, and taking the risk of, making their own.
And just as in any more standard "snake oil" dynamic, the first group, exclusively for its own benefit, preys upon the weakness and hope of the second. Just as in any other such dynamic, the people of the first group make promises they have no intention of keeping ultimately just so that they can benefit, and the people of the second group continue, irratiomally, to believe those promises, even as all of the available evidence demonstrates that the promises are empty.
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Snake-scented oil. (1% snake oil)
AirUp/Flavored water companies
If you want orange flavored water, squeeze an orange in your water, damn it! You don't need a subscription service for some chemicals that taste like orange
VPNs like NordVPN for almost everyone.
But if you don't use a VPN with military grade encryption hackers can steal your money from the banking website that only uses military grade encryption!
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