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aidan@lemmy.world 1 week agoI think thats a kinda dumb purity test when they clearly did put a lot of effort into actually trying, and I don’t see why its better if they threw away the supply they already mistakenly bought.
fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No I’m not suggesting that he throw away perfectly good materials. I disagree that he put a lot of effort into really trying. There was little to no follow up after discovering the parts weren’t from US. There was no attempt to contact the American chain mail supplier about limited capacity. Why is it that they can only supply so little amount? What would it take to increase capacity? Is it lack of people, machinery or investment? We don’t know because it wasn’t in the video. Same thing with the knobs that came from Costa Rica. There was no follow up. He didn’t even try to source knobs made locally. He just said he will later. He started out the video sounding like he was determined to figure out a way to complete task of trying to make a product made locally but he kinda just gave up and decided to just ship the product as is. The video started out as an education video but slowly turned into a marketing video. I find that disappointing.