millie@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
As much as I am not remotely bothered by the banning of TikTok (which seems like it may well not go through anyway), maybe we should start with banning the sites that literally funnel a bunch of heavy metals into people’s mailboxes and cause actual known physical harm both to the naive people who still buy this stuff and to their neighbors, family members, and postal workers?
jarfil@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
China for decades has been buying scrap and actual trash from Western countries. They were not going to just sit on it without trying to make a profit.
The alternative, would have been to keep that trash locally. This way at lest it gets smeared out over multiple countries… or something. 🤷