If she’s shopping on Temu with white labeled products, she’s going to get what she paid for. Sounds like you’ve also concluded she’s the problem. She’s the demand side of the equation. If there’s demand for cheaply made crap, there will be more cheaply made crap.

There are also ways to gauge the quality of products before buying online. You make it sound like it’s impossible. Like reviews and research and buying from reputable brands that have good track records. Most of which are likely manufactured in China, but with actual quality assurance.

While I still say buying local is king, you’re like way too irrationally angry at this. Likely because she’s offloading cheap crap onto you and making it your problem.

I would like to learn about this a bit more, I keep hearing it in conversations here and there. Do you have links around studies/data on this?

I mean, I would love North America as a whole not need to rely on cars as much as we do now. This involves building walkable neighborhoods and investment in public transit. But the car lobby is not going to let that happen. Same with the gun lobby in the US.

Too many business majors joined game dev teams

How do you get blocked from a news site?

Deliberately used as the “enemy” by the fascist state as scapegoat and distraction. Queer people were also targeted by Nazis.

So like, a sample of the general population?

Stop edging us