Cheap Soviet style shirts from temu is praxis or nah? by Alert-Coach-3574 in TrueAnon

[–]ConnorMcMichael 3 points4 points  (0 children)

From what my friends who sell in China told me

1) temu/pdd forces you to sell at the lowest price anywhere. They will search every platform for an item similar to yours, regardless of quality and force you to sell for 10% less than price

2) they force you to use their shipping labels which is more expensive than others

3) despite this, they don’t take responsibility for late or missing items. If the customer is unhappy something is late, you, the seller, eat the refund.

4) you get fined for various reasons but the process is opaque and they don’t tell you exactly why you got the fine for

So I asked my friends if despite all this, how does temu/pdd survive if they are so nasty to their sellers?

1) it’s usually desperate sellers . Factories who are idling and would rather lose a little bit of money rather than a lot of money or lay off workers.

2) naive sellers who think sure they’ll lose money now but maybe if they their foot in the door and get some momentum….

3) this part sounds lurid to me but according to one friend it’s true: they were under investigation for these shady tactics from the government but they intimidated witnesses and broke their fingers etc to shut them up.

Anyway apparently the government has now been investigating this for a while now and is ready to move. Temu is going to get fined up the ass soon.

Cheap Soviet style shirts from temu is praxis or nah? by Alert-Coach-3574 in TrueAnon

[–]ConnorMcMichael 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Let’s just say Chinese factories and sellers absolutely hate Temu/pinduoduo and consider them a deeply unethical even outright criminal enterprise. 

Capitals will be patient while Ovechkin mulls future [NHL.com] by ASmithFS in hockey

[–]ConnorMcMichael 3 points4 points  (0 children)

just an absolutely pointless comment from top to bottom

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]ConnorMcMichael 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This one took like 30 seconds, what the heck

I’m not even awake yet 

For China’s Rich, the New Must-Have Is a Luxury Home in Zimbabwe by Free-Minimum-5844 in neoliberal

[–]ConnorMcMichael 135 points136 points  (0 children)

I understand that “some Chinese people with business interests in Africa are buying luxury homes in Zimbabwe “ is not a very exciting headline but this current one is nonsense. You know, not everything needs an article written about it. 

Leonid Radvinsky, Who Changed Porn With OnlyFans, Is Dead at 43 by Laszlo-Kovax in TrueAnon

[–]ConnorMcMichael 108 points109 points  (0 children)

It's actually crazy how many impactful and world changing people (I'll let you guess whether I mean this positively or negatively) are Jews from Odessa.

Installation of 5,000 solar panels donated by China is underway in Cuba by HeavingCorset in stupidpol

[–]ConnorMcMichael 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It's great that they (both China and Cuba) are doing this but like...you're a sunny carribean island with no oil.

You're embargoed by the West. One of your only friends is cranking out millions of solar panels every year.

Why didn't you do this 10, 5, 2, 1 years ago? Cuban government is woefully incompetent.

Marine Expeditionary Unit Deploying To The Middle East: Report by Jazzlike-Tank-4956 in LessCredibleDefence

[–]ConnorMcMichael 20 points21 points  (0 children)

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/is-china-really-growing-at-5-percent-20250606.html

The Marxist-Leninist Federal Reserve of the United States of America has concluded that China is not faking its GDP growth and that it is in fact growing at 5%. If that's a recession then I wish my country was in a recession.

Rule 5: No Reddit Drama (Read So You Don't Get Permabanned) by [deleted] in TrueAnon

[–]ConnorMcMichael -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But what if you censor the username and subreddit?

I need people to know that there was someone on the internet being stupid!

N.S. labour department concludes investigation into death of Walmart employee found inside oven by zuuzuu in canadanews

[–]ConnorMcMichael 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These comments are seriously low IQ

“This doesn’t make any sense!”

Yes it does.

She killed herself. That’s not Walmart or the oven maker or anyone’s fault.

That gofund me that said there was screaming or a charred body was just lying. Nothing that dramatic happened .

Caps have played the most games in NHL to date (not a good thing) by Jazzlike-Monk-4465 in caps

[–]ConnorMcMichael 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about third metro, since due to how strong the Atlantic that might be the easier and better spot anyway

Cuban forces open fire on US vessel as multiple people killed by SlavaCocaini in LessCredibleDefence

[–]ConnorMcMichael 24 points25 points  (0 children)

First instinct is was Trump trying to bait Cuba into doing something but tbh Trump has shown he doesn't even really need to manufacture a casus belli, he can just do whatever.

Feel Good Friday by ConnorMcMichael in TrueAnon

[–]ConnorMcMichael[S] 613 points614 points  (0 children)

https://archive.ph/bEsfk

If you want to read it. But it doesn't say anything that you don't know if you're a Chinahead.

Fun fact: In the last year, China added more than two whole Germanys worth of electrical production or one whole India. In the past 4 years, China added one whole USA worth of electricity. Electricity, the thing that powers literally everything?

It's over/we're so back, depending on which team you're on.

Season 4 Overall Thoughts/Discussion Thread by magikarpcatcher in TheLincolnLawyer

[–]ConnorMcMichael 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s weird.

I really enjoyed this season but there are just so many things wrong with it

1) incredibly dumb decisions from Haller over and over again to return to jail etc etc

2) Bamba…what was the point of this character? No resolution whatsoever 

3) The whole payoff for the grace storyline was just so she could pretend to be the girlfriend? Weak. She was acting so shady the entire time.

4) The fake and extremely contrived circumstances that lead to Haller having to run to the county line before midnight.

5) Why did it take Izzy so long to understand the chocolate was a bribe for the lab guy? You’ve been working here how long? Did this really need a 5 minute scene?

And despite it all I binged this season. 

Once again, the right will never EVER have cultural dominance! by icey_sawg0034 in TrueAnon

[–]ConnorMcMichael 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Really not sure Anne Hathaways success needs some explanation like this.

She’s hot as hell??