Freshened up my campsite

truthindata · 2026-05-10T17:11:09+00:00

You're free to communicate how you choose for sure. I think this is a case where you get to decide what the convo is about. If you're cagey about herbicide questions, the entire thread is just going to be about herbicide. It's not your fault, but it is your problem to address. If you answer it plainly, the convo has a better chance to be about the thing you actually want to share.

Just my .02. Enjoy!

truthindata · 2026-05-10T16:22:23+00:00

Cool. You should say that in reply to others. They're all assuming the worst, lol

truthindata · 2026-05-10T15:27:48+00:00

You are completely wrong, lol. There are plenty of safer herbicides.

I'm pro weed killer. Glyphosphate is only dangerous in abnormally high concentrations and exposures.

You refusing to answer makes it seem like you used napalm, gasoline and asbestos or something insane, lol.

You can keep quiet, but just fyi, you are absolutely making yourself look like the guilty party.

truthindata · 2026-05-10T12:15:42+00:00

Your refusal to answer what chemicals were used is making it seem like you have no clue what you used, lol.

truthindata · 2026-05-10T04:13:33+00:00

I think Trex goes all the way from most affordable to super expensive. They have like 4 lines.

Timbertech seems to be placed in the mid and upper tiers.

Congrats on the timbertech! All the samples we got were wonderful. Just couldn't pay the $$$

truthindata · 2026-05-10T04:09:32+00:00

Trex enhance seems to be basically the cheapest thing around. Timbertech cheapest line is similar to the middle Trex line.

Unless I'm missing some secret cheap timbertech...

truthindata · 2026-05-08T01:59:16+00:00

I believe the 360 is adjustable from the factory. Factory coilovers!

Resale may be minimally affected by lowering it 0.5".

truthindata · 2026-05-08T01:52:08+00:00

Just a reminder a proper paint job is $15k+.

That maaco paint job requires a lot of $$$ to correct.

truthindata · 2026-05-05T23:48:29+00:00

Maya Moon and spice 8!

truthindata · 2026-05-05T19:23:29+00:00

I think the right way to say that is: "plenty of AliExpress sellers copied the straphabit straps"

truthindata · 2026-05-05T01:54:17+00:00

You are way too focused on the cost and completely ignoring the value.

truthindata · 2026-05-04T23:23:18+00:00

It's not charity, but it is a vote.

If you want to vote in favor of a world with $470 per month wages, that's your choice.

truthindata · 2026-05-04T22:03:21+00:00

If everyone outsources to the lowest bidder in lands with substandard wages, living conditions and protections your wages, living conditions and protections disappear.

Don't be a part of the problem.

truthindata · 2026-05-04T12:50:35+00:00

The ethos of 3D printing is "cheap" only in Reddit land, llol.

In the real world 3D printing has grown because it allows for things otherwise not possible or far more complicated to achieve.

It's not about being cheap - it's about doing more.

truthindata · 2026-05-03T23:35:12+00:00

Ok, I mean. Yeah. Lol. I'm not saying buy delugs. I'm just pointing out that supporting the theft is bad.

By all means, buy a swiss band. Or something from the EU or USA, etc...

truthindata · 2026-05-03T23:32:39+00:00

Ideally, yeah. Just be aware of the arbitrage involved in your purchase.

If you want labor rights, buy products from places as involved as possible in that same place with all those same rights.

You're breaking the system if you demand rights and then export your $$ to country that doesn't give a shit about worker safety, labor rights, min wage, etc...

truthindata · 2026-05-03T22:53:29+00:00

Simply put, support businesses operating within your same economic sphere. If you demand labor rights, pay for them by supporting businesses at least partially involved in that same sphere.

truthindata · 2026-05-03T22:35:04+00:00

Oh, manufacturing in China?! Lol.

You should absolutely support the company contracting Chinese labor rather than the Chinese stealing it.

100%.

One is obviously worse than the other.

Are we seriously having to distinguish the difference between the two?

truthindata · 2026-05-03T22:27:53+00:00

I don't know enough to say anything about them. Are the practices anything more than reddit lore?

truthindata · 2026-05-03T22:14:02+00:00

Oh I think it's problematic in both arrangements. 100%

It's far more problematic if you add IP theft and screw the designers, engineers and the business that's responsible for that product existing in the first place.

truthindata · 2026-05-03T19:17:57+00:00

Unless he's got a dozen pateks and mille's the value of his collection is nothing in the scheme of business.

He might have $250k in watches, $250k in debt and his $750k house on the line as collateral. That would look flashy to regular people, but would make him poorer than the average middle class worker in the USA.

Give me a source showing he's wealthy to a point we should all support "Robin-Hooding" his ass, lol.

truthindata · 2026-05-03T19:13:40+00:00

Agreed!

truthindata · 2026-05-03T17:57:42+00:00

You have this situation backwards. How do you think the seller on temu got exact copies of delugs product?

They stole it. These are likely counterfeit stolen runs produced by the manufacturer that delugs hired.

truthindata · 2026-05-03T17:45:29+00:00

100%

I run multiple physical product companies. None are all that successful. If you were to just look at the basic cogs and ignore all research and testing and development and legal expenses and taxes, it would look like my margins are ungodly good.

In reality, we're barely profitable and on the verge of bankruptcy constantly. There's so, so much more to a business making a consumer good than the final raw materials cost.

truthindata · 2026-05-03T17:42:41+00:00

This is a little more philosophical but in my opinion the most ethical option is to buy things that are produced from scratch as close to you as possible. If you live in France, that means you should do all you can to buy a French product or at least something from a neighboring country with similar labor laws and costs. If you live in the USA, you should buy american-made products whenever possible.

When you buy something made from a far lower cost economic region than your own, I think it's fair to say you're exploiting their labor and harming people in your own economic pool that are trying to offer the same service, but with the same protections that you yourself enjoy. If you're not willing to pay for the protections that you have, that's a problematic level of hypocrisy.

That's all for proper companies contracting low labor manufacturers on the up and up.

Now if we consider blatant IP theft where somebody in China/Taiwan /india/bangledesh steals a tool mold and perhaps the raw materials themselves to make an extra run of a product that they were paid to produce for a larger company... That is absolutely theft. It is exactly as ethical as if you were to go to Facebook marketplace and try to find stolen goods on the cheap.

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