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Amazon used to have a webpage that clearly stated they commingle inventory from all sellers, so it has long been public information that when you buy something on Amazon.com, the seller you buy from does not matter.
It does matter. If you order real stuff, and get fake stuff, then it matters.
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Amazon used to have a webpage that clearly stated they commingle inventory from all sellers, so it has long been public information that when you buy something on Amazon.com, the seller you buy from does not matter.
What I never understand: Why do they not put a sticker with an unique ID on the items (or require the seller to do so, with occasional compliance checks)? That way they could match customer complaints to the company that delivered the item, even if it is not the seller the customer bought from.
I also assume the reason Amazon commingles is it makes their 2 day shipping promise cheaper or more possible to fulfill. If seller A’s items are on the east coast, and seller B’s items are on the west coast, and the items are identical, then it makes sense to send you the closest one.
Obviously, the problem is items are not identical, and quality control is not something I am interested in doing as a customer of Amazon’s.
Anyone surprised that the title is not a metaphor? The article is about the literal sale of substances which are harmful when ingested by rodents.
Yep, I totally thought that it would be about some law that ruins the internet for everyone while at the same time does nothing to stop bad actors. Like the EU cookie warning mandate.
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For a Cat to work on mice it has to be a Mouser. I can't pretend I know the full theory of Mousers but it seems that females brought up by Mouser mothers in a mouse-rich environment are the best Mousers, since they are taught to kill from their earliest years.
Then all you have to be concerned with is avoiding toxoplasmosis exposure.
Also, cats only spread the parasite for up to three weeks after becoming infected themselves.
This has more info about this: https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/gen_info/faqs.ht...
Also, for anyone curious about parasites, this book is a gem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_Rex
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> To me, helping others is the core of leftism People on the right wing also want to help others, but the method is different: helping people to help themselves. I think there are risks to both. People can become dependent on safety nets. People can also need more help than just "pull yourself up by your bootstraps". > I say beautiful because, to abstain from finding solutions, there has to be people who find this be…
To play devil's advocate and be only a little cheeky, it seems the way the right of recent American politics tries to help people help themselves is to offer them military-grade weaponry, deregulated environmental protections, laws to enforce sexual and vice Christian-specific rules not widely agreed on by non-Christians, and decreased worker protections. This seems almost perfectly calculated to help them become cri…
How would you define a "fair" wage? Enough to stay alive? Raise a family? Own a house? A car? A TV? An air conditioner? I personally don't see how entitling people to these things is remotely "fair". You'll note that none of this has anything remotely to do with religion.
> I'm not sure how to even start to deescalate the situation.
The best way would be to refrain from imposing your view of "good" or "fair" on other people. Society is about coexisting peacefully, not binding everyone into a single ideology.
These chemicals are supposed to be used for rats because many rats have developed resistance to other chemicals, but I very much doubt that rats are the problem around here. Never seen one, or signs of one. People are using these poisons to control mice, which most definitely are a problem, and it's literally overkill. Personally I burn through a handful of snap traps every year (PB and Nutella are my baits of choice). There are other effective techniques as well, several mentioned here. Like "last line of defense" antibiotics, SGARs should be a last resort for pests which can't be dealt with by other means.
Brodifacoum? I don’t buy that on Amazon, I buy it at my local supermarket. Not the US, Australia. I’ve never heard any controversy about availability of brodifacoum in Australia (maybe some environmental or animal welfare group has complained, but if so I haven’t heard about it) Glue traps, now that’s controversial. In the state of Victoria, illegal to use in residential settings (on animal welfare grounds), but stil…
What’s so bad about a glue trap that it weighs up against massive internal hemorrhaging over the course of 5 days?
You can kill it of course, and I'm not against killing an animal, but is a mess of glue and liquids and spring traps are more fair in that sense.
[1] After a while I just couldn't keep typing without doing something about it. Some people laughed at me, and a bald and almost naked mouse was released some weeks later into a dry stone wall when fur started to grow again. It was a lot of work but I don't regret anything.
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I managed to control my serious ant problem by feeding them. I would set up plates of sugar or sugary food outside, away from the house. Over time I got fewer and fewer scouts coming in to the house to snoop around.
I would expect this only works for you because something else is preventing population growth in ants near your house.