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The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem

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Re: The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem

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Post by zrm »

hamstergene wrote: post #11
Syonyk wrote: post #2

Ew. Not surprised you can buy the stuff that professionals shy away from for being too damned toxic, to your door, overnight delivery. Plus good reviews, hard to leave a bad review for it when you're bleeding out in the ER. I don't use poisons for pest control. We have too many owls, hawks, and the occasional eagle overhead. I'll kill stuff mechanically (damned pocket gophers...) and toss the carcass out where someth…

Good reviews also barely mean anything these days. The worst item I have ever bought online, which damaged itself on opening for 100% of buyers, had ~4.1 rating. At this point, it is fair to say getting less than 4 stars means the seller was too poor/naive to hire "online promotion" services or whatever they are called, rather than anything else.

Similar to eBay seller ratings where 99.9% positive feedback means you might get your item, whereas 95% positive feedback implies the seller is stealing the goods from the factory that counterfeits them and whether you receive anything depends mainly on how the shipping carrier handles a package that catches fire in transit.

Less than 80% positive feedback has never been observed but would presumably involve the seller coming to your house to murder you and steal your identity and then using your account to leave negative feedback for themselves.

Re: The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem

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Post by akomtu »

sueders101 wrote: post #12
seabird wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can order parts to make your gun fully automatic straight to your door without filling out a Form 4 if you want to commit a federal crime that the ATF likely will follow up on. You can order suppressors straight to your door without filling out a Form 4 if you want to commit a federal crime that the ATF likely will follow up on. You can _not_ buy thousands of rounds worth of any ammo other than .22 with a week's…

"You can _not_ buy thousands of rounds worth of any ammo other than .22 with a week's worth of minimum wage pay (if you know something that I don't, let me know where you're finding these deals)." It's pretty close. Ammoseek shows 9mm starting at ~$0.30 per round, and most other popular pistol calibers starting at ~$0.40 to ~$0.45 per round. And it's easy to find better deals if you're checking the r/gundeals subredd…

600 bucks also buy a lot of cheap gasoline and matchsticks.

Re: The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem

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Post by amatecha »

Happy to report I can't seem to find any products that contain either brodifacoum nor bromethalin on Amazon in Canada (not that I searched super-extensively). Sadly I could see a review on one product where someone specifically says "Don't order this from Amazon.ca! Order from Amazon.COM and pick it up at the border, because the chemical it uses is banned in Canada!" ... Really great advice there, buddy...

Re: The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem

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Post by [deleted] »

laurent92 wrote: post #6
s5300 wrote: post #4

We (younger than 30ish) are in for some crazy times IMO You can order parts to reliably make guns fully automatic straight to your door, thousands of rounds of ammunition for a weeks worth of minimum wage work straight to your door, poisons such as what this article refers to straight to your door… gun suppressors straight to your door… I just think were going to see a ton of people in the US snapping and doing crazy…

The dismantling of safety nets is a circumvoluted problem. Safety nets are a feature of rather leftist politics (To me, helping others is the core of leftism). However, the same ones who set up the safety nets, have a racial preference towards helping those they perceive as in the worst situation. Yesterday it was the factory workers, today it’s women, african americans and LGBTQIA+. So, by increasing the safety nets…

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Re: The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem

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Post by kstenerud »

zrm wrote: post #21
hamstergene wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good reviews also barely mean anything these days. The worst item I have ever bought online, which damaged itself on opening for 100% of buyers, had ~4.1 rating. At this point, it is fair to say getting less than 4 stars means the seller was too poor/naive to hire "online promotion" services or whatever they are called, rather than anything else.

Similar to eBay seller ratings where 99.9% positive feedback means you might get your item, whereas 95% positive feedback implies the seller is stealing the goods from the factory that counterfeits them and whether you receive anything depends mainly on how the shipping carrier handles a package that catches fire in transit. Less than 80% positive feedback has never been observed but would presumably involve the sell…

I spit my tea all over at that last sentence.

Re: The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem

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Post by s5300 »

akomtu wrote: post #22
sueders101 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"You can _not_ buy thousands of rounds worth of any ammo other than .22 with a week's worth of minimum wage pay (if you know something that I don't, let me know where you're finding these deals)." It's pretty close. Ammoseek shows 9mm starting at ~$0.30 per round, and most other popular pistol calibers starting at ~$0.40 to ~$0.45 per round. And it's easy to find better deals if you're checking the r/gundeals subredd…

600 bucks also buy a lot of cheap gasoline and matchsticks.

Three (3) whole YEET Cannons

Re: The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem

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Post by estaseuropano »

KingMachiavelli wrote: post #3

What's surprising is why people would buy this over the more obvious search result 'Rat Poison'. Perhaps Amazon has already adjusted the search results but the top results for 'rat poison' were Cholecalciferol and Bromethalin based products. Does Brodifacoum work the best? What's driving consumers to search for a specific type of poison. > Things haven’t quite worked out as the EPA envisioned. When I first started br…

I don't know if that's what they mean, but the pest control guy advised me to put poison in every single room, and in large rooms at several locations as often you will not know where they really stay/forage. E.g. you might notice the one mouse that goesi in the kitchen but not the others that live in the attic. Then again, maybe he was just trying to sell more.
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