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Everything is already from China, but here we discuss the cheap chink shit you see on various sites.
1st rule of /csg/: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Useful links
>TWS IEM reviews: www.scarbir.com/
>Guide: csg-guide.neocities.org/
>Wiki: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Chink_Shit_General
>What headphones/earbuds should I buy?
>>>/g/iemg
>I want a cheap smartphone what should I buy?
>>>/g/spg/
>I want to buy some sort of emulation device
>>>/vr/hhg/
>News
Idk where the news guy is, instead we got this month sales Calendar
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Promo Codes for the Sale:
USD
$2/$15: IFPNMR8Y
$4/$29: IFPV7KAP
$7/$49: IFPOG1FP
$9/$69: IFP9PNZ8
$13/$99: IFP1LMZF
$20/$159: IFP0TNOJ
$25/$209: IFPGGOKN
$40/$329: IFPEOJXU
$55/$459: IFPT4FYZ
EURO
€2/€15: IFP3LASG
€4/€29: IFP2ZWDX
€7/€49: IFPUKUDW
€9/€69: IFPCFKXA
€13/€99: IFPILN5T
€20/€159: IFPVLFSV
€25/€209: IFPHZECS
€40/€329: IFPUXNXU
€55/€459: IFPFCU9N
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What do we think about dark mode so far ?
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>>108029903
>So aliexpress has a wiki section. It's AI slop. Like full blown hallucinations.
What?
Where?
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>I'm in Germany. From what I've researched, I think Harbor Freight has cheaper stuff than our tool shops.
>tool shops
Do you really have a tool shop accessible to you (Werkzeugfachgeschäft) that sells to non-businesses and is open at times a working man can visit it? In this case, you'll pay a lot, but you might even get gut stuff with proper Beratung.
Or did you ESL Baumarkt? In that case: The first rule of Baumarkting: Don't go to OBI, unless you absolutely have to or you know what you're doing. The second rule of Baumarkting: Always do the opposite of what the sales clerk tells you! But seriously, you never know if you asked that one dude in the whole shop who knows his shit, if someone just memorized a box or if it's even malicious "leave me alone, I got some masturbating to do behind that stack of niceeeeee organic fertilizer!"-kind of advice.
Other than that, you're on your own, I have long ascended way above Baumarkt (I just spend another 200€ on some specialized shops. Again. Please send help!).
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>Cool. Some Carpenter squares are almost the same price on Amazon, but with, I suppose, warranty.
Oldschool, Euro Zimmermannswinkel or anglo speed square?
Ironically, it seems like chink speed sqares are more expensive on amazon, than an USA made Milwaukee one (which is hilarious, since they're owned by the chinese and do almost everything in china) at gotools.de (shipping, though).
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>>108033515
>>wiki section
>Where?
Some examples:
https://www.aliexpress.com/p/wiki/article.html?keywords=kws-x1-firmwar e-1.0-5_1005004706116976
https://www.aliexpress.com/p/wiki/article.html?keywords=flashforge-ad5 x-vs-ad5m
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>>108033515
Alibaba too. https://www.alibaba.com/product-insights/potato-glados-explained-porta l-2-s-iconic-potato-battery-gag.htm l
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I bought $60 worth of pi5 GPS RTK hats and a changess from the Ali seller is constantly messaging me on WhatsApp asking about how they’re going and making small talk.
Is this a typical chink scam? They don’t actually care if I’m happy with the products surely?
You think it’s actually an obese 50 year old Chang with sweat stains on his shirt?
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>>108038398
>>108038640
>"Why isn't Anon responding? I must have said something wrong. I'm such an idiot. I'll never find a husband to share in my vast chink shit fortune."
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>>108039801
depends on your classification. there are definite non-sale days where the prices are high and there are no coupons, and then there are "sales" like this that happen every 1st week of the month, have a set of coupons, have team cashback and coincide with coupons released with events
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>>108039418
I'm definitely expecting a difference but I doubt it matters much with tiny almost card-only filler games.
I'd get the originals if they weren't greedy with the pricing. I'm not paying 22e in a local store for muh japanese game folded over 1000 times.
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Bluetooth remote.
Volume and media buttons don't work on windows PC, the rest are not remappable.
Mouse gyro surprisingly stable, better than LG TV remote gyro.
A bit too small but decent ergonomics thanks to fat battery bay on the bottom.
Still for $5 it's a better manga page turner than all the gay tiktok rings and overpriced enterprise presenters out there.
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>>108040223
https://faglorddis.cum/y/my_jimmies_are_rustled
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Triggered
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>>108040158
i'd prefer it if we exchanged links here but we've already tried it and it was a disaster
people spamming their referral links, then NeoOP made a disroot but people were being petty deleting each other's links or bumping them down the list and keeping their link at the top
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What's the catch? Comments are positive but it still bothers me.
Oh yea, dead sectors as well.
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>>108041491
why are we bound to repeat this
every
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any sata to usb adapters with 12v jack that are real usb 3.0? those triangle and square shaped ones say they're usb 3.0 and have blue ports but they're really usb 2.0
or maybe I just got chinked with mine, the 2.5 enclosures I got are real 3.0 and they were about the same price.
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received a nanovna saa-2 today, that i got from ebay for $50 with free shipping (seller cancelled listing right after i bought it, so maybe it was a price mistake). its the smaller sma plugs version, but it was cheap, and i really have no need for this, other than testing an wifi or rf antenna maybe once a year to see if they match the specs, but i guess now i can check where cables are broken (maybe, rf is kinda black black magic to me. im a dc fag, anything ac above the support range of my scope, ~150mhz, is completely outside of my interest).
its basically pic related but it also included the same stylus that usually acompanies the esp32-cheap-yellow-display and is much better to use than the modified guitar pick.
i openned it up and there seems to be a shielding can on each of the pcb sections that can have it, on both sides. saw some versions online that had only one can and some neither even (my guess is that it would make the crosstalk between chips a lot worse? idk, the outside case is all metal so im not sure if calibrating every time its used would not be enough to mitigate most of the issues).
the firmware info page claims that there is fpu support, not sure if thats normal, since this shit is using a low end stm32 clone chip, the fpu is mos likely irrelevant.
there is opensouce software to use/control this from a pc, and its handier than using the fucking interface clusterfuck on the device (but given the size of the thing i dont see how it could be better).
thanks for reading my blog post
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I’m away for work so I can’t review it but it’s
https://a.aliexpress com/_mLDG90d
You gotta buy the right version for base or rover if you want to do that, for surveying single points I think just the base is fine.
She’s so nice to me I think I’ll buy a Lora 915mhz hat off her too~
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>>108038726
We got a Telegram group for that, join and share, tag others and help each other, very active groups for each game, also it's in english only.
https://t.me/+LOcozfud9FwyNjVk
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>>108043008
>You gotta buy the right version for base or rover if you want to do that, for surveying single points I think just the base is fine.
i am pretty sure that base is not the one i would want, unless it can be hacked to be used with and rtk corrections, i am close enough to a public base station to have a precision around 3.5cm, good enough for what i do
honestly i was planing to buy an bluetooth device or something, but it didnt occur to me to use a rpi hat
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>>108043312
All chink controllers have bad batches that make it to sellers. They're usually the minority, but it's always a risk you're taking.
Personally I've had the worst experiences with 8Bitdo. My Gulikit Elves 2 has a rattling R2 button, but no other problems. Strictly good experiences with Gamesir, Flydigi, and Mobapad, but I've seen other people have issues with all three of those too.
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>>108044368
avoid peltier ones liek the plague, only as last resouce.
if for a small place like a closet, or a larger one that has no humanoids/creatures on it ever, you can get one of those absortion powders that "melts" into liquid as it absorves water from the air.
for a alrger space or a room where animals spend some time in you definitely want to get a compressor based one. these are rated in how many water they can extract from the air each day (which relates to how big the machine is), but dont expect those numbers, those are edge case scenarios
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Any good carry-on luggage for planes? Ideally something good enough that won't break bank, is NOT plastic shit that can't be compressed nor extended, has at least two wheels and, surely this must exist, can be transported either as a regular wheeled one or as a backpack, 2-in-1.
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Chinese buying culture involves a lot of talking. We will look around for reviews and stuff then order online anonymously. They will chat to the seller on weixin and ask for pics and stuff.
They also have a lazy-but-long-day office culture like japan/korea. The office worker sellers jobs are to talk to customers, sometimes cold calling but also a lot of chatting like this. She could be real and just bored / need to look like she's doing something.
I used to know a girl that worked like that (knew her from tk), she added me on her work wx, when she quit another worker got the account and she still sends me product listings.
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>>108045699
There's many options but just buy the cheapest solid feeling one irl desu. Too big and low tech it make sense to ship from china, I think.
>s NOT plastic shit that can't be compressed
plastic is the best option (although frame+fabric isnt that bad), metal is too heavy. You want it to flex a bit and dent, it's better than cracking.
>transported either as a regular wheeled one or as a backpack, 2-in-1.
There is but it's not a very good idea, it won't be very good at either. You're not going to want to use it as a backpack.
But actually for carry-on you don't need it to be strong at all, a soft bag is fine. You only need checked luggage to be solid since it will be on conveyor belts and thrown around by staff.
>>108047821
>i need a knife but it just gives me nothing but bowls
Then save the bowls (don't fill any orders that don't give coins) and in the future your coin orders will be super easy.
>gogo match is just impossible
It's not (maybe after level 500 idk), use the tools and focus on making and combining bombs.
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>>108047821
it may seem like mixed spawn boxes only gives one item but i reckon it's still 55~60% cups to utensils until level 8 where it's 50-50.
if you need utensils, max the spawn box to lv8 ASAP, but until then you have to pay attention to the order
if it's asking for a high level utensil item like a knife and you're only on a lv5 spawn box, you might want to refresh that order.
otherwise, you keep spawning from that box and putting the dishes into storage while working towards that knife.
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Can I buy a machinist/engineers square off aliexpress?
Ironically, my "local" trusted tool store, has some no-name one, where one of the reviews says the end is off by a few mm, and I probably don't need to tell you why that's very bad with such a thing.
And I mostly need it as a kind of ground-truth for woodworking stuff, so I don't need micrometer precision as a proper machinist would, but a few mm off in such a small thing? Yeah, no.
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Anyone got any experience getting prescription glasses of Aliexpress?
1005001389879495
Was peeping these lenses but not too sure what I should be looking out for. Any tips on what to pay attention to? Same for frames
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How the fuck do I make it so it doesn't show me "Choice" items?
I want to order a single 5 dollar item and I don't want to be forced to buy a 20 dollar bondle or pay some retarded 4 dollar shipping on a 5 dollar item.
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>>108048933
> those are adjustable
I’ll admit, I’m no machinist, but how do you adjust those? The knows I know are fixed as can be, which is kinda their whole point.
I know the trick how to check if they’re square, but if they aren’t, that’s probably gonna be a rather awkward chat with Chang for the refund.
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>>108049520
If you dont want to pay for shipping, then choice is what you want.
You have three options:
>Choice: buy things for $10 for free shipping
>Bundle: buy 3+ things for free shipping
>Pay 3-4 bucks for shipping (can be free on $20+ items)
Choice is the best, you just have to wait until there's more stuff you want (remember to use coupons too). Bundle is alright, you can pick some $1 things.
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>>108043265
Let's say I sell something at nominally $100 but reduce it to $80 on "sale" every day except Tuesdays.
Eventually you would stop thinking about it that way and start seeing it as "anon's shit is $80, except on Tuesdays when it's an extra $20 for no reason".
In the UK there was a sofa company that worked this way. Near-perpetual sales with occasional legally-required periods at full price during which everyone knew not to buy anything.
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My friend gave this to me for a christmas thing and said they found it cheap in a Chinatown they went to.
I've never used Chinesium before, do you guys recognize this one? I don't know why I'm kinda scared of opening it. I don't think I'd put any of my login details on this. Or am I hugely overcautious?
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>>108051294
Are you really sure about that? You don't think it's like fake or unauthorized? It says "a most sensible tablet", that looks like translation slop.
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>>108051322
just google unboxings for amazon fire 5th gen.
that's unironically the official box, hope your friend didn't pay too much because that's 10 years old and these things are basically already landfill when you buy them new.
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>yesterday start adding things to an AliExpress bundle order
>check cart today
>suddenly almost every item in my cart has gone up by $0.30 to $3
What the fuck just happened? Isn't the sale still on? Will it go back down again or was I just too slow?
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>>108049676
you can punch them to correct them, or scrap it check this video, they explain both ways
https://youtu.be/NISSr-9rNws
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>>108051463
>It says "a most sensible tablet", that looks like translation slop.
These were marketed as "sensible" because they had, even at the time, pretty shit specs. Their selling point was a reasonable price point to go with it. Think lower mid-market tablet.
Anyways they were pretty shit even at the time, these days they are, unless you run a very lean software stack, borderline e-waste.
Might be enough for tachiyomi or shit like that, or use it for some DIY project, but normal tablet use will probably be too much.
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>>108031691
here's an interesting hardware hack:
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/03/the-surprising-hackability-of-a-knock- off-chinese-toy-camera/
https://spritesmods.com/?art=kid_cam&page=1
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"he" (maybe a bot) might want you to write a review, since the product page has no reviews
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New titanium tweezers came in. Nice.
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>>108051322
it might be useful to play youtube off of the brave browser while you do things around the house or to watch while you take a shit, you wont have any other functional use for it.
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>go into Temu
>wow you can get 3 items for literally almost free!
>just buy some of this other stuff to ship these items to you
>well, these items you picked must be 5% of the other things you actually buy before we ship it to you
I almost got chinked, honestly.
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>>108056532
You should buy a new mouse, but you should just get a $5 mouse off of Amazon instead of ordering it from China and waiting three weeks for a mouse that you're going to also pay import fees on to arrive.
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https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010215760632.html
I know this is corny as fuck and a stupid gimmick, but does anybody have any experience with this particular external power button? Wondering if the wireless version is reliable at all. I've been trying to read other listings of the same product but it has been mostly bots. It does look simple enough, so I'm thinking if I should just go for it.
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I finally got around to fixing the OLED screen on my T12 station. These chink OLEDs tend to die out of nowhere, I got a xiaomi induction cooker with a dead screen too. Fortunately replacements are super cheap and they all use the same protocol.
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0.65 bars of vacuum, or 65% of the atmospheric pressure, not bad at all if real
the problem with vaccum is that you only have one bar to work with, and the disminishing returns hit you hard early, while if it was using compresed air you have way more power at your disposition , 10 bars is easy
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i have $11 in shopping credits alone (not coupons) that expire tomorrow and like $200 worth of coins.
i have 0 clue on what to purchase and big man clive does not seem interesting to me right now, so if anyone has chinkshit recommendations then that would be highly appreciated.
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has someone already tested this car air freshener ?
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>>108055631
>those alignment pins
i guess maller tweezers dont "need" those.
chang could really improve shitty tweezers, even the small ones, by using that small amount of extra metal instead of making the whole tool larger
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>>108058225
>alignment pins
they make a huge difference especially for 0805 and lower.
I've also found that titanium tweezers are the most precise tweezers you can buy for a reasonable price.
Pic related are still my fav tweezers.
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Bought some PSP upgrades:
- New batteries that hold charge for more than 20 minutes
- microSD adapter (card is locally sourced)
- USB-C to barrel jack adapter for charging
- glass lens (not yet installed)
So far all of them are fine
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>>108057446
buy anime figurines, buy edgy third reich stuff made by chinks so you can enjoy the irony of it.
I bought a samurai sword hilt custom gearstick for my car for cheap off of ebay, but their rubber connector was utter dogshit so i had to wait a week to get a metal screw-adaptor that both fit the gearstick screw-spiral on my car, and a metal file to shave it enough to squeeze it into my hilt. End result looks great though.
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>>108060449
Nothing specific since brands like this die and get replaced by new brands all the time but I have two chinese 2560x1600 12" monitors and they both work great.
Supposedly they use panels that got rejected by tablet manufacturers.
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Will we ever get a game as good as the football thing they did? I got some nice coupons with that.
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Whats up, chink-shit lovers.
Looking for decent NiMH AA, and AAA rechargeable batteries that will not make my house explode.
Just for TV, A/C remotes, kids toys, nothing fancy. Willing to accept fancy recs, however.
I have a nice, dedicated charger for them.
Any brands/vendors I should look for or avoid? I prefer TEMU, but Ali will do, too.
I found no mention of this in the archives.
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>>108061972
Living in the turd world, fella, no Ikea here.
>>108052592
>Any cheap Chinese SBC worth using as a Jellyfin client, including HDMI-CEC support?
Seconding this.
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is lidl (tronic brand) available in your shithole? those are basically the same as ladda/enerloops. if not, then pkcell has decent cells that you can ask chang to ship your way. just make sure you get pre-charged/ready-to-use/low-discharge-rate ones, otherwise youll be charging them all the time, even when they are not in use
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My headlamp came in
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also my tiny boring bars
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so tiny
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panic buying before a possible ban if they get grandfathered in they should go up in price
also it was a good deal I was only going to get the 30 round ones but I saw the 40 round ones were the same price so I got them too
I didn't realize how much 39 mags would be until I opened the box (they actually skimped me one but are sending it after I emailed them)
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has anyone used wall clocks like this? https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805968789365.html?
How reliable are they? if it drifts after a week or two then it's not worth the trouble.
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>>108064149
_all_ the clocks sold by chinamen are the same. if you've ever encountered one of those "quartz clock"s then youve seen them all, only difference are the labels on the front (and the wall mounted versions lack the alarm feature). they work fine
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>>108061623
of course it is. You can't really do it with autos. Its a cheap beater car i've modded to suit me better, aftermarket sound system, touch screen deck with all the features etc. Purity seal too.
www.ebay.com.au/itm/136771007111
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>>108061885
Don't bother with NiMH, it was always a highly flawed technology.
They are only 1.2v (should be 1.5v), not enough for everything. They also quickly self-discharge. I have lots but I don't use them cause they either give poor performance or they are discharged by the next time you want to use them.
Lithium rechargeable + alkaline for low use stuff i the best way to go.
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>>108065865
its a Japanese car, Mitsubishi, so it likes it of course. Samurai spirit buddy.
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>the delivery in question is worth 40 dollars and has been "delayed" at customs since November because Chang fucked up my personal details
>seller refuses to do anything, Ali refuses to do anything, because it's still technically in transit
But yeah no thanks I will cherish this $1 voucher
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>>108057794
Some racost podcasters I listen to are upset that groypers think Epstein was cool now. But if you think about it, nobody ever cared about kids being raped. Theyve been making jokes about the whole thing from the beginning. Imagine your preteen daughter gets raped tortured and murdered, and the entire internet is like "lol epstein didnt kill himself amirite, so funny"