darkoshi: (Default)
2025-05-25 03:13 am

probably not made in the U.S.

While shopping for bed slats (not for me), I found a set on the Kohl's website that says it is made "right here" in the USA from Canadian wood. But while checking out that brand's website, Continental Sleep, I belatedly realized the wording and grammar on their pages isn't quite right. So now I wonder, is the "Made in USA" claim a lie? Or do Chinese companies have factories in the U.S. making that kind of stuff? I could have sworn I saw that "Made in the USA" claim on one of their website pages too (for only that one product, which made it seem all the more dubious), but am not finding it anymore.

I looked up info on the company but found nothing other than a reference to "Continental Sleep Holdings", which was likely a different company, on a Wikipedia page about "Sleepeezee".

The reviews on the ContinentalSleep website seem fake too, with similar grammar and wording issues; not the kind Americans would make.

It's a bit surprising they haven't used an LLM to fix the grammar on their webpages. Once Chinese companies get better at doing that, there won't even be that tell to give them away.
darkoshi: (Default)
2024-02-17 04:11 am
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The Fraud of Plastic Recycling

The Fraud of Plastic Recycling
Through new and existing research, “The Fraud of Plastic Recycling” shows how Big Oil and the plastics industry have deceptively promoted recycling as a solution to plastic waste management for more than 50 years, despite their long-standing knowledge that plastic recycling is not technically or economically viable at scale.


It is a long report, but the most pertinent parts are in the first sections.
darkoshi: (Default)
2007-12-09 12:41 pm

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What is the point of creating a password which is very hard to crack, when most sites now also require you to enter "security questions" in case you forget the password, and it is probably a lot easier for a hacker to guess the answers to such questions than it would be for them to guess the password?