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The incoming administration doesn't seem to really be pro upregulating anything. In fact core members of their team believe the firefighters have had way too m
by metacritic12 2y ago
The incoming administration doesn't seem to really be pro upregulating anything. In fact core members of their team believe the firefighters have had way too much political power already in building requirements, etc.
- Syonyk 2y agoThey don't have to add regulations. They just have to suggest that Amazon actually enforce the regulations on the books, instead of allowing fake UL/ETL listings to be accepted as seems Amazon's common practice.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y agoJust tell them that enforcing these regulations will hurt Bezos who owns the Washington Post.
- Syonyk 2y agoThere shouldn't have to be any political reasons at all to enforce safety testing listings, and I would actively discourage anyone from taking that path regardless of their views on any given administration. Far too many Chinese vendors just treat the "UL circle" as a required marking to forge, along with everything else they're forging on the items. http://www.righto.com/2016/03/counterfeit-macbook-charger-teardown.html http://www.righto.com/2016/03/counterfeit-macbook-charger-te... is a good teardown that highlights the problems with the fakes. Amazon has had more than enough chances to solve this problem somehow or another, and it's clear they do not care about it at this point. They cannot claim ignorance after a decade of people highlighting the problems to them. As much as I don't like Walmart, I'd go to Walmart over Amazon for anything electronic (realistically, I'll buy NewEgg or B&H Photo for most things), because I have somewhat more faith in Walmart's supply chains to actually get me the thing I'm buying, vs "binned product fraud" that seems to be Amazon's bread and butter these days. "Fraudulent markings on poorly designed, unsafe electronics that lack all the safety systems that the markings indicate exist" isn't a political problem. It's a basic consumer safety problem.
- ak217 2y agoWalmart has the same exact marketplace sellers and the same exact problems as Amazon (unless perhaps you go to their brick and mortar stores). The only solution is to shop for only brands that are known to be good and have a reputation to protect, which of course doesn't scale very well beyond our personal preferences.
- reginald78 2y agoWhile they make it a pain and constantly reset it, it is still possible to set the filter for Walmart only on their website. I'm not sure shopping for known good brands works since counterfeits are so prevalent and many third party sellers on walmart seem to just be running an Amazon reshipping service.
- Syonyk 2y agoI'll go to one of their physical locations if I want something that plugs into the wall. It's likely to be actually what it says on the box, if I do that.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoIf you tell them that they'll go and ask him for a bribe to avoid tariffs and regulation enforcement. Better to stick to basic racism and conspiracy thinking and say the China batteries are leaked from a lab to intentionally burn down American patriots homes.
- aaomidi 2y agoIt’s time to enforce these on state and state compact levels tbh.
- parineum 2y agoTariffs are regulations.
- viraptor 2y agoDepending on which requirement they mean, that case is actually interesting. There's a good video from Not Just Bikes about it https://youtu.be/j2dHFC31VtQ https://youtu.be/j2dHFC31VtQ ("How American Fire Departments are Getting People Killed")
- spankalee 2y agoThis is a great video. The main point is that fire departments oppose bike lanes and safer street designs because of their unnecessarily giant fire trucks.