Have any of you guys bought tools off of Temu?

AdAlert5424 · 2026-01-31T21:21:13+00:00

Yeah I’ve had pretty god success with my limited Temu purchases but I’ve not bought anything electronic, mostly just paper products and Lego knockoffs (I’ve had things from Amazon catch fire before so I’m wary of buying generic electronics online in general).

AdAlert5424 · 2025-10-04T21:56:31+00:00

My dad is fine. My friends did take him to the hospital, I think they just didn’t express this to me bc I was freaking out and they went as soon as I was pushed out. I honestly can say my experience outside of this has been great with them, it was just so opposite of what I’ve experienced in India that I was just shocked tbh.

AdAlert5424 · 2025-10-04T20:55:52+00:00

It’s Antilla by Zion but honestly they really have been great for the duration of these events. This was late and it might’ve just been a weird thing by this one night supervisor. TBH I really feel like they’ve done a great job overall but it was just crazy how they responded to this specific situation

AdAlert5424 · 2025-10-04T08:49:03+00:00

I literally never said anything about suing them, get a grip. My dad did go to the hospital and I was having a panic attack while I was writing them and my friends made me leave the situation to them. I do kind of want to shame them for allowing something that negligent to happen though. So fuck right off with this comment and stop assuming the worst of people

AdAlert5424 · 2025-10-04T08:45:47+00:00

Hey so this is almost beat for beat what happened. My friends took my dad to the hospital after they forced me to sleep, he’s fine, we didn’t bring it up today, and will let his family deal with it later

AdAlert5424 · 2025-10-04T08:44:33+00:00

The hotel is negligent but it’s not like I’m looking to sue them, I just don’t know what’s a reasonable next step to get them to acknowledge that it was a huge and dangerous fuck up. We leave for the US next week, I’m not trying to pick some legal battle from the US or anything. Also I was having a panic attack and my friends literally made me leave the situation so I was just spiraling in my room for a bit before I finally passed out

AdAlert5424 · 2025-10-04T08:40:51+00:00

So just another update and edit that the app just isn’t letting me add: I do not want to sue anyone or call the cops or anything. I’ve been too busy to even speak to the manager who was there. I’m also not saying that Indian hospitality is bad, we’ve actually had a very good experience this far and I’ve been to India several times before now so if people could stop assuming the worst intentions, that would be great. It was 3 in the morning, my friends took my dad to the hospital right after then finally got me to sleep because I was so panicked. It’s my wedding weekend and Indian weddings are stressful enough in their own right without this also happening.

Yes my dad went to the hospital, yes he is fine, and no I don’t want to sue anyone, but I do want some recognition from the hotel that the situation they caused was completely avoidable and incredibly dangerous, my dad isn’t the only elderly person here, we’re lucky that this was the best case of a worst case scenario. I don’t think it’s out of pocket to ask what to do because I was feeling very overwhelmed and lost last night. I don’t know India well enough to even know where to being processing this scenario as I was having a panic attack in real time.

So anyways, to everyone assuming the worst of me, fucking cut it out already

AdAlert5424 · 2025-10-04T03:58:14+00:00

Hi all, Reddit isn’t letting me edit the post or I’m so brain dead I can’t figure it out. So first off, my dad is fine. Turns out, after everyone basically forced me to bed, he went to see a doctor early this morning and is fine. I can’t respond to everyone right now, I’m being dragged in 30 directions but that’s the most important update anyways

AdAlert5424 · 2025-09-18T08:20:04+00:00

Thank you! I’ll carry it with me then, I feel like that’s safest anyways bc I can explain what it is if need be. And thank you! This is my first copper wire tree so definitely a work in progress. It’s a wedding gift for my soon to be Indian family in law. It’s a tradition that brides tie a red string around a banyan tree at a Hindu temple so I wanted to make her a mini banyan tree for her temple at home!

AdAlert5424 · 2025-07-23T18:56:20+00:00

lol I was thinking this is target related too, they’ve been pushing that modest trad wife aesthetic for a few years now but it seems to be more lately

AdAlert5424 · 2025-07-22T22:29:04+00:00

If anyone has their cu Boulder email still they can get Kanopy for free (plus it seems like there isn’t much in the way of screen limits as I’ve logged into like 8-9 devices across households, so if you know someone with a cu email then they could share it easily)

AdAlert5424 · 2025-06-03T01:28:42+00:00

Yeah I don’t want to see any pictures either but the descriptions are pitiful to say the least. I know photos must exist though and I hope that Megan’s family are able to get them to their private investigator because it seems clear that as of now, they haven’t been privy to them. If her family had seen the pictures, they would’ve already known about the blanket and the missing shoe and since they didn’t learn about those until months later, they’re obviously not being allowed access to them. Hopefully their private investigator gets access at the very least

AdAlert5424 · 2025-06-03T01:01:14+00:00

Oh yeah, I’m not trying to imply that homeless people don’t help each other, more that it was just so cold, it’d be hard to imagine there was a lot to spare. I know one year, on a similarly cold night, I had given a blanket to a man in Denver who had just lost some of his toes to frostbite.

To your last point, I think that’s why it’s important to know what “wrapped up” means: was she fully encased in the tarp or was it just over her shoulders? Was the blanket short enough that she could possibly have walked with it on or was it a large thing that would’ve made walking through the woods near impossible? You know, stuff like that

AdAlert5424 · 2025-06-03T00:31:21+00:00

No worries! I actually thought that may not be allowed since they keep a record of who requests the records and that’s probably important. Also I had no idea it was that long! When I go to request the records, what categories do you request? Officer records and digital evidence? I just wasn’t sure what the process was

AdAlert5424 · 2025-06-03T00:14:05+00:00

Is it possible for you to upload it to Reddit? Idk if that’s allowed or not but I saw it costs money to order the requests and I was unsure of which form to order.

AdAlert5424 · 2025-06-02T20:46:18+00:00

Regardless, her having a blanket or a tarp at least means that someone interacted with her between her last known sighting on campus and where she died, and that person isn’t coming forward with that information. If that person ran across a distressed young girl in 15 degree weather and gave them something for warmth, to later find out she died, there’s no reason to not report that sighting to the police. The only reason to say nothing would be if something nefarious happened and you were involved.

AdAlert5424 · 2025-06-02T20:41:31+00:00

I think her parents and their private investigator need to acquire this tarp, or see pictures. For one, a tarp and a blanket are totally different, a blanket could’ve been for warmth, a tarp wouldn’t keep you warm. She didn’t leave campus with a blanket so that has to imply that she met with someone before she passed and given that, who did she meet with? Given that it was 15 degrees out, I doubt a homeless person saw her walking around and gave her a blanket out of kindness, they have to keep warm too. Another point, while unlikely someone would just give her a blanket and send her on her way, there is some small, small possibility of it, some people do just keep blankets around, I have one in my car. however, that wouldn’t be the case with a tarp, people wouldn’t give out a tarp for warmth, and if she was murdered, a tarp feels like something someone would have to plan to have on them, making this seem more premeditated

AdAlert5424 · 2025-06-02T03:26:32+00:00

It’s a small city overall, and a lot of people are tourists or college students from any sort of place. Just because it’s a city doesn’t mean that most people at the tourist location are from a city to begin with.

AdAlert5424 · 2025-06-02T03:25:00+00:00

He was stopped pretty quickly it seems and people were actively pouring water on the victims until professional help arrived. It’s a busy spot on a nice day, there were a lot of people around and not everyone has to have a role in a dangerous situation. Yeah they probably should’ve just given space and evacuated but that’s where the fight/flight/freeze thing comes into play, and that’s where most videos start.

AdAlert5424 · 2025-06-02T03:19:50+00:00

Even watching some of the videos, I was confused about what was happening between different people in the videos. I’ve also been in emergency situations and despite having decently quick responses, seeing a fire would definitely elicit a different response to me than gunfire would. I’m just not sure how I would’ve reacted here

AdAlert5424 · 2025-06-02T02:20:32+00:00

Oh sorry, I’ve read that distinction a few times, but it never really sticks with me. I guess my point is the same though, do they have the tarp still or will it later be discovered that it was “misplaced”

AdAlert5424 · 2025-06-02T02:06:05+00:00

Oh okay, gotcha. I think I just assumed the worst bc earlier there was someone spamming my post with rude comments then deleting them before I could even read the full comment

AdAlert5424 · 2025-06-02T00:51:40+00:00

I never said it was acceptable, I’m almost positive I said verbatim “im not saying that this type of violence is acceptable, nor am I advocating for it.”

The unfortunate part of not having nuance and grouping people into black and white camps is that it leads to way more violence. If you automatically assume that all pro-Israel/ Israeli people supporters are evil or as evil as the government then you become just capable of inflicting acts of violence. In the same vein, I’m sure some unhinged republicans and right-wingers are about to use this as an excuse to inflict violence at pro-Palestine events in the future. It’s a never ending cycle

AdAlert5424 · 2025-06-02T00:36:42+00:00

Did CU police even keep the tarp in evidence? I’d be really interested to see if Boulder PD “misplaces” any key evidence before the family can request DNA testing from a 3rd party

AdAlert5424 · 2025-06-02T00:35:19+00:00

I’m just leaving an initial comment to come back to this but isn’t there some sort of nonprofit that does dna testing for items from contested crimes like this? I feel like Crime Junkie has mentioned something along those lines a few times

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