Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

NoReturn said:
It is! In the video I include in the spoiler, the guy goes into how it works.
TL;DW: Temu ships from China using "developing country" rates, so it's literally cheaper to ship things from China than within the US, so there is literally no way for a local producer to be able to ship for less than China pays to ship internationally, but the USPS still has to process all that stuff, so every time you buy from Temu you're basically screwing over your own country if you're in the "developed country" block because you are still paying for shipping, just indirectly.
Put another way, China has a way to exhaust our postal service's resources/tax funding because Americans order cheap shit like this:
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So these individuals are using a chinese app, that continually harvests and shares all their phone's information with the Chinese government (fun fact: if you are in the armed forces you are actually barred from having TikTok on your government-issued devices. It's increasingly recognized as international spyware), ordering Chinese products, which are shipped in a way to drain resources from the USPS.

At what point do you just start deporting these people?
 
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Crystal Coomer said:
When I think of safe places to bring screaming and running children, I instantly think of warehouses with forklifts driving around.
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Ok, 8 year old me would think this is the coolest place to have a birthday party in. I would do anything to get this little hardhat or a scrap of carpet.

But I dont think the drones making $15/hr are particularly happy to have a horde of kids as an extra annoyance on the store floor...
 
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NoReturn said:
every time you buy from Temu you're basically screwing over your own country if you're in the "developed country" block because you are still paying for shipping, just indirectly.
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That's okay tho because a bunch of fat white and black women got their cheap useless plastic product that will break in 4 months
 
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Crystal Coomer said:

Your little do-it-yourselfer can have a birthday party at Lowe's​


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Lowe’s announced an in-store kids' birthday party program "that aims to inspire the next generation of builders while giving parents a comprehensive one-stop party solution." (Credit: Lowe's)



When I think of safe places to bring screaming and running children, I instantly think of warehouses with forklifts driving around.
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I hate to say it but 10 year old me would've loved this sort of stuff. Then again I'm a hyper autist.
 
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Yaks said:
Okay but where else am I supposed to order 12 tiny dinosaurs you inflate using a straw in their butthole for $13?

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Checkmate American imperial scum.
(This was one of the first listings I saw on the front page and immediately began laughing.)
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Look how happy this little fucker is
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Yaks said:
On the other hand this is just a giant corporation attempting to groom their future loyal consumers.
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A less cynical take: The ability to look after your home and to perform repairs is a vital life skill (and also a fun one to master) and they are providing free or cheap education to help children learn this at an early age, and in a way, becoming an anti-consoomer.

Allowing children to learn about the ability to fix things early helps shape their responses to problems later in life. What is better:
  1. The cable on my vacuum cleaner is broken, I need to buy a new one, I'm heading to Amazon to find the latest model with wifi and probably a companion app for some fucking reason that costs $400
  2. The cable on my vacuum cleaner is broken, I'm heading to Lowes to buy a new cable and plug so I can get another few more years out of it
 
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glow said:
A less cynical take: The ability to look after your home and to perform repairs is a vital life skill (and also a fun one to master) and they are providing free or cheap education to help children learn this at an early age, and in a way, becoming an anti-consoomer.

Allowing children to learn about the ability to fix things early helps shape their responses to problems later in life. What is better:
  1. The cable on my vacuum cleaner is broken, I need to buy a new one, I'm heading to Amazon to find the latest model with wifi and probably a companion app for some fucking reason that costs $400
  2. The cable on my vacuum cleaner is broken, I'm heading to Lowes to buy a new cable and plug so I can get another few more years out of it
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3. Women are looking for men at the hardware store, maybe I can pick up chicks.


 
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glow said:
A less cynical take: The ability to look after your home and to perform repairs is a vital life skill (and also a fun one to master) and they are providing free or cheap education to help children learn this at an early age, and in a way, becoming an anti-consoomer.

Allowing children to learn about the ability to fix things early helps shape their responses to problems later in life. What is better:
  1. The cable on my vacuum cleaner is broken, I need to buy a new one, I'm heading to Amazon to find the latest model with wifi and probably a companion app for some fucking reason that costs $400
  2. The cable on my vacuum cleaner is broken, I'm heading to Lowes to buy a new cable and plug so I can get another few more years out of it
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Yeah like I said, I like the idea behind it, I just hate mega corporations. If it was just a mom and pop place it'd feel less evil hand rubbing together.
 
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Yaks said:
Yeah like I said, I like the idea behind it, I just hate mega corporations. If it was just a mom and pop place it'd feel less evil hand rubbing together.
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I want to root for the smaller businesses also, and I am mindful to spend my money where possible in independent businesses.

I am curious to dig in to the last part though. This is not a business that sells pointless pieces of plastic to collect for no reason, or a business that seeks to addict people to some kind of gambling mechanic, whether for money, digital goods or further plastic bullshit, it is a business that sells useful products to solve real-world problems that home owners and tradesmen encounter all the time. I'm interested in why you'd characterise that business as evil.
 
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Most public libraries won't take book donations. Would take far too much time processing them and infrastructure. Library problems aren't funding for books, it's being defacto front line social workers/daycare for the homeless.
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Accepting book donations would be playing thrift store Russian roulette, you have no idea where the books have been and what hidden problems they have. Were they exposed to mold or stored in a place with a silverfish or roach problem? Is the glue on the spine fucked, and will it crack a week after someone takes the time to laminate the cover, catalogue it, and shelve it? And what books are they donating? Randos in the community also have no idea what curation the librarians are doing, maybe the reason they don't have 15 copies of Bill O'Reilly's Killing Jesus is because no one wanted to read that shit and they needed the shelf space.
 
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glow said:
I am curious to dig in to the last part though. This is not a business that sells pointless pieces of plastic to collect for no reason, or a business that seeks to addict people to some kind of gambling mechanic, whether for money, digital goods or further plastic bullshit, it is a business that sells useful products to solve real-world problems that home owners and tradesmen encounter all the time. I'm interested in why you'd characterise that business as evil.
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Not him and not calling it evil but I can understand a bit of not wanting to patronize.

I know it's a romanticizing of small business but with all these large warehouse style stores (home depot, Lowes, best buy, etc) everything starts to feel the same no matter where you go.

Shopping center A has: Starbucks, home depot, game stop, qudoba

Shopping center b: Starbucks, Lowes, chipotle, khols

Shopping center C is the best of both worlds with: starbucks, home depot, lowes, gamestop, old navy and a McDonald's

It's all the same big box stores in different combinations. Though I will admit when I can finally goto that cozy Americana small business they never have what I need so I have to goto a big box store in the end.
 
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What’s temu? Is it that cheap Chinese knock off shit/ super fake future shit that you see on Amazon randomly?
Worj said:
It's just amazing how practically all of the people shilling for this subversive Chinese garbage are non whites or fat white women. It's artistic, really. Perfectly encapsulates modern society.
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