For anyone who doesn’t know, Temu is essentially Chinese Amazon, but they only really sell the crappy stuff that amazon has or knockoffs for cheap. It’s cheap stuff for cheap, all made and shipped from China. It’s online 80s Kmart.
I actually saw something the other day on Temu, but it was clothing and I want to hear others experience first.
Also, what was that website before Temu that got such a terrible rep for clothing? Wish?
Vote people! If you don’t vote you can’t complain about the state of things.
As I mentioned in the voting for 2024 thread, I’ve gotten my mail in ballot (Colorado being all mail in), filled it out along with my wife, submitted, and received confirmation of submission and acceptance.
Just to preserve my right to complain of course. 
Early voting hasn’t opened yet in my state.
I doubt I’ll vote on the first day; but do expect to in the first week.
I’ll be going in to vote early on this Friday (a day off work); the early-voting location in my village only opened up this past Monday.
My wife prefers doing a mail ballot, and she mailed in hers two weeks ago.
I replace the faulty device, and then i can’t bring myself to throw away the old one, leading to clutter.
I know it’s confirmation bias, but I have an echo device in my car that has worked intermittently, and I finally told my wife I thought it was damaged because it had stopped working for three or four days. About a minute later it kicked on without me telling it to, and it has worked ever since.
I thought i knew what a push present is, and voted that way. But i was wrong. And I’ve never heard of such a thing.
On the grilling poll, what about pellet grills, like Trager?
How low can the battery possibly be if it’s been chirping every 30 seconds for weeks?!
They also chirp at the end of their life span. Often, they still work totally fine at that point, but are programmed to chirp so you’ll replace it. They can chirp for a really long time. I dismantled one because the chirp coming from the trash can was driving me nuts.
Shein?
I’m not sure, don’t buy clothes online
Early voting started last week. Mrs Magill and I voted Tuesday evening. According to the count on the talliers, about 5000 had voted. Our town has a population of about 18,000.
Ours all started their end of life chirping a couple of months ago. We went to the Kidde website to replace them, and discovered they had been under recall for nearly ten years - right after we’d bought our house. Good thing we hadn’t had a fire since then.
I struggled with how to vote on the cnn paid subscription poll. I never read CNN online. But i do have paid subscriptions to news sources i like to read. I voted, “my nyt subscription is looking better”, but really, that’s not true, as I’m basically indifferent to CNN charging. It is true that i believe in supporting journalism, and find paid sites are often better than the free ones.
Also, i like the “we’ll give you a could of articles a month, but if you want more you need to pay” model. There are a lot of sites I’m not going to pay because I’m unlikely to read them more than once a year.
We subscribe to the NYT, WaPo, and Guardian, and I think CNN generally sucks, so…I said my NYT etc. were fine.
The NYT also kind of sucks, but we’re sticking with it as long as we’re getting that low, low rate.
Reuters announced they are going to a digital subscription model as well. As mentioned, decent reporting is going to cost something.
It would be nice if there were something between “free” and “subscription.” Perhaps “buy access to ten articles” or something. I can’t afford multiple subscriptions but am happy to pay for good journalism.
I have broken several because they were either insisting on chirping, or giving full force false alarms.
The noises they make hit my ‘can’t stand that noise’ buttons. It’s a good thing they’ve got a ‘break this device’ tab on the back to shut them up, because otherwise I’d have to go for a hammer. By the time I’ve figured out which device in the house is giving out that damnable chirp, my temper’s about to explode.
I am paying full rate for two local papers (both of which do some actual local reporting, though less than they used to); and the minimum rate WaPo will give you if you determinedly tell them you can’t afford their regular rate. I can’t afford anything else. If it’s major news other than just locally, it’s probably on NPR; and/or being discussed here.
Huh, i missed that. I currently subscribe to Reuters (for free) but I’d be happy to pay them something.