Amazon Caught Selling Kitchen Faucets That Leach Lead Directly Into Your Water : broligarchywatch

[+] Archangel1313@lemm.ee 85 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And consumer protection agencies. But they're saving money, or some shit. Not you personally though, if you aren't already rich, your taxes are actually going to increase... Even though the services they paid for have been eliminated...

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 weeks ago

Your taxes and your medical costs. Freedom, motherfuckers!

[–] C1pher@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And let me guess, nothing will happen to said company now, will it?

[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

They've already scrambled their letter salad name and rented a different shell mailing address office.

[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Almost every hose spigot I found leaches lead. I had to order off a specialty website and even then half the hose bibs I got said not for potable water. WTF!!! How do I run water into my RV, or my Garden?

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Bluetooth /s

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you do a slow drip for a month, the lead will go away from the quality ones because a layer builds up over the metal

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is weird to me. When we bought our house 10-years ago we were volunteering at Habitat for Humanity. (Because that's how we got a mortgage.) At the time our manager made us trash any donated faucets because we weren't qualified to gauge if they met the new lead content rules. (Fuck 'em. I still swiped a few sweet faucets for the house.)

And yet, 10-years later, you can still buy out-of-spec faucets? Unreal.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

It might just be drop shippers who dump cheaply made Ali express stuff into Amazon marketplace. Amazon has no QA and pretends not to know, yet it just allows everything to be sold there.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

People just won't learn. This stuff is so cheap for a reason.

[+] cheers_queers@lemm.ee -33 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Hate to be that guy but its kinda on you if you still shop there. Theyve been selling toxic counterfeit stuff on there for years. Its really not that hard to shop elsewhere

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No. Voting with your wallet doesn't work at this scale, they can far outspend any negative PR at this point. It is on the government for not having strong watchdogs, enforcing laws, inflicting massive fines. Don't victim blame here like you just did because all you'll honestly accomplish is to sound smug.

[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They just keep selling it under new names on Amazon, it’s never ending.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Tell me where you live, so I can host an all-night rock concert on the street in front of your house and tell you it's not that hard to stay somewhere else for the night.

The issue is not whether it's all that hard to avoid the harm, the issue is whether the harm should be there in the first place, whether someone should be allowed to profit by putting you in danger. They should not. No one's kids should get poisoned because they weren't up to speed on your "not that hard" and bought a faucet for the house.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

Dude's gonna be more upset when his neighbours find out they shoulda also known to be away for the night on his account. He's gonna have so many new friends -- and free eggs!

[+] cheers_queers@lemm.ee -23 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Lol okay dude.

If you come into my house despite the no trespassing sign and i shoot you in the neck, it's on you. Dont make stupid choices and you wont get stupid consequences.

Obviously the harm shouldnt be there, but its common knowledge that it is. Anyone still buying from amazon knowing how corrupt and openly evil they are kinda deserve it and you arent gonna change my mind by calling me a victim blamer :)

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I am not coming to your house. I think the point I was making should be pretty clear.

And yes, it's also an issue if you didn't shop on Amazon, but your negligent landlord did, or a previous tenant, or the guy from Fiverr who redid the sink, or whatever. Or your parent or family member. There are plenty of very common scenarios where the person being harmed by the faucet has absolutely nothing to do with the decision to buy it on Amazon. We figured out a very long time ago that "who cares if you 'decide' to let the construction company put asbestos around the pipes, it's your project so do whatever you want, freedom, America, amirite" fucks up a whole bunch of people who had nothing to do with the decision. That's actually exactly what makes it dangerous and why any civilized society will take steps to prevent it.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

on the street in front of your house

Also, it still affects you. Look up the crime wave from lead poisoning in the 70s and 80s.

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

It sounds like you didn't read what the other guy said. Or maybe need to read it again.

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

You're missing the point. We have agencies in place so we don't have to do the mental gymnastics for every single fucking risk out there 24x7 Your blasè attitude just comes off as stupid here.

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Victim blaming isn't a good look.

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