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They don't work with it though.

The insult was for abusing that catalogue and falsely claiming they could commercially produce and ship something that they could not, and I think it was fairly deserved. I don't really see any sort of racial dogwhistles or subtext here, this reads like a small snipe over questionable business practices.

I think the pint is that it’s clearly a fake listing as no one could safely handle 1kg of the stuff.

I think he was making fun of them for the fake listing. Offering 1kg of FOOF in a chemical database is like offering a nuclear warhead with free shipping on Amazon. Both are so ridiculously dangerous that they will surely not be publicly accessible.

Sometimes I wonder if China is still PO'd about the Opium Wars or something.