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alliecaton Musk’s mini-submarine ‘not practical’ for Thailand cave rescue, say authorities

And absolutely nobody was surprised.

I wonder what a donation of the equivalent value of that thing would have achieved?

Ah I see the plan here: Twitter knows their platform is a cesspool of abuse and harassment, but instead of fixing it they're pulling the rest of the internet down to their level so they stand out less!

Genius. /s

alliecaton Carbon monoxide alarms removed from Amazon and eBay after failing safety tests

Amazon also used to be pretty notorious for fake SD cards, especially those sold in their 'frustration free packaging'.

They've gotten better at it these days, but I think that's more due to the fact that faking SD cards isn't as profitable as it once was.

Amazon seem to take a very hands-off approach to caring about the quality of the items they sell; I'd like to see what their internal slippage budget is.