Point. Maybe start with that as the core and rebuild the rest on that foundation.

You appear to be missing my point by a wide country mile. Also, either pay me or do your own work.

That seemed like a bold claim, and, indeed, this is more like “tool-assisted rewriting”.

Huh. The only circumstances under which I’d ever expected to see ‘Boris Johnson’ and ‘fear’ in the same sentence involves the word ‘comb’.

That or the right job application and a lot of propellant and oxidizer - but seriously, don’t do that. It didn’t end well for Icarus. Gravitationally-driven open-core fusion reactors are best admired from a safe minimum distance.

America… What. The. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. You?

Do you need an ‘electric cleaning brush’? We have this cheap, battle-tested commonly available device called a broom. It’s sometimes combined with an ergonomically shaped piece of metal or plastic called a ‘dust pan’ to great effect. Lasts practically forever, and as a bonus neither will spontaneously scalp your three year old child (or catch on fire).

I realize you weren’t necessarily talking about this particular product, but I’m trying to illustrate how no product is often times preferable to a cheap one. We got by before these things existed, somehow.

So? I could come up with almost infinite things a child could activate, but definitely shouldn’t. Temu isn’t in this lady’s home and ‘good parenting’ isn’t a product they sell. This is entirely her responsibility.

Now, if we’d been taking about - I don’t know - children’s shoes full of BPA, chromium and lead, then yes - that would absolutely been on the manufacturer and partially on Temu (and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find they sell something like that too), but…

Intriguing and unexpected.

If you ever find a viable way out of this idiotic shithole, I beg you - with tears in my eyes - to PM me the details.

I can’t wait for that one to go the way of “dude”.

“No, i mean: What kind of genit-”

“I think you’re asking to see the weapon in my pants.”

While she’s not wrong about Temu’s approach to consumer protections (if they can be said to have one), it’s hardly their responsibility to ensure her kid doesn’t operate tools she shouldn’t.

If her daughter had lost a hand to a powered electric saw she should have been nowhere near, would that also somehow be Black & Decker’s fault?

With that said, I do wish people would stop buying cheap products of dubious quality - regardless of who sells them.

Much as I’d like things to be otherwise, some people needs to be locked up for the sake of public safety. This is one of those people.

“And since only very few if any of our customers have ever actually tasted horse, they’ll never think to question the shit we’re feeding them. It’s perfect.”

“It’s always nice to get a customer who can appreciate the finer points of palaeoenvironmental conditions. I swear, some days I have clients without even the most basic epistemological awareness. Then again, I suppose someone needs to watch all that so-called reality TV they’re producing. Let’s get you all fixed up, hun.”

Must be those damn Boyars up to no good again.

I suppose there’s no denying you’ve made a truly excellent submission.

What an interesting idea, America. Maybe the EU needs to adopt a reciprocal policy. Perhaps add in visa rejections for unvaccinated Americans. Actually, let’s prioritize the latter and do that first.

“He was a genius, but then he turned to evil.”