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  • Thank You, China

    From =?UTF-8?Q?Pelle_Svansl=C3=B6s?=@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, September 21, 2025 21:52:10
    From: pelle@svans.los

    I needed a couple of very simple tools to install new tuners. Simple
    little tools but hard to find. Couldn't find one shop in the EU
    LoserVille selling these. A couple of luthier pages in the US do sell
    though. At exorbitant prices. And for something that is made in China
    anyways and really should cost about 20 cents.

    If I Google for these things, Chinese retailers don't show up. Thinking
    about it with an open mind and with some benefit of hindsight, it
    doesn't seem like a huge surpriseski.

    But then it came to poor Pelle. Eff Google! Go to AliExpress! China's
    answer to Amazon. And lo and behold. There it was! All that I needed and
    more. And, just as I though, they are the exact same gadgets US shops
    gouge my eyeballs off for. Now, I'm getting them for a fraction of a
    price. Not only that. Those guys work their asses off. It's weekend, I
    ordered the stuffs in the evening and the packages are already in
    transit in less than 24h!

    Thank You, AliExpress. Thank You, China.

    Memo to the West: "You're doomed".

    --
    "Cough cough"
    -- Suzanne Lenglen

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  • From Kalevi Kolttonen@3:633/10 to pelle@svans.los on Monday, September 22, 2025 11:40:02
    From: kalevi@kolttonen.fi

    Pelle Svanslös <pelle@svans.los> wrote:
    Thank You, AliExpress. Thank You, China.

    YOU FUCKING IDIOT..HAHAH!

    br,
    KK

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  • From TT@3:633/10 to All on Friday, September 26, 2025 21:20:29
    From: TT@dprk.kp

    Pelle Svanslös kirjoitti 21.9.2025 klo 21.52:
    If I Google for these things, Chinese retailers don't show up. Thinking
    about it with an open mind and with some benefit of hindsight, it
    doesn't seem like a huge surpriseski.

    Are you hinting that American Google is not the unbiased holy saint of information highway?

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  • From TT@3:633/10 to All on Friday, September 26, 2025 21:21:16
    From: TT@dprk.kp

    Kalevi Kolttonen kirjoitti 22.9.2025 klo 14.40:
    Pelle Svanslös <pelle@svans.los> wrote:
    Thank You, AliExpress. Thank You, China.

    YOU FUCKING IDIOT..HAHAH!

    br,
    KK

    China is fucking awesome. AWESOME!

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  • From Kalevi Kolttonen@3:633/10 to TT@dprk.kp on Friday, September 26, 2025 21:11:07
    From: kalevi@kolttonen.fi

    TT <TT@dprk.kp> wrote:
    Kalevi Kolttonen kirjoitti 22.9.2025 klo 14.40:
    Pelle Svanslös <pelle@svans.los> wrote:
    Thank You, AliExpress. Thank You, China.

    YOU FUCKING IDIOT..HAHAH!

    br,
    KK

    China is fucking awesome. AWESOME!

    It is actually one of the very worst shithole
    countries this world has ever known. Nothing
    good about that stinking pile of shit!

    br,
    KK

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  • From TT@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, September 27, 2025 01:38:49
    From: TT@dprk.kp

    Kalevi Kolttonen kirjoitti 27.9.2025 klo 0.11:
    TT <TT@dprk.kp> wrote:
    Kalevi Kolttonen kirjoitti 22.9.2025 klo 14.40:
    Pelle Svanslös <pelle@svans.los> wrote:
    Thank You, AliExpress. Thank You, China.

    YOU FUCKING IDIOT..HAHAH!

    br,
    KK

    China is fucking awesome. AWESOME!

    It is actually one of the very worst shithole
    countries this world has ever known. Nothing
    good about that stinking pile of shit!

    br,
    KK

    Nothing good?
    Ok.

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