Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | Gunbbang  | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2024 20:20 | | Subject: | Re: What do you think about seller notice? | | Viewed: | 46 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, Nubs_Select writes:
| | it is vaguely worded but "crack under the arm" can be understood both
way with the cracking being on the underside of the arm and the crack being under
the arm on the torso.
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That's right
There are two interpretations, but usually they clearly write down the subject
of the crack
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2024 20:07 | | Subject: | Re: What do you think about seller notice? | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| it is vaguely worded but "crack under the arm" can be understood both
way with the cracking being on the underside of the arm and the crack being under
the arm on the torso.
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| Author: | Gunbbang | | Posted: | Jan 17, 2024 20:02 | | Subject: | What do you think about seller notice? | | Viewed: | 183 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| Hello
I buy some minifigure torsos.
And there notice "crack under the arm" i understand 'arm crack'.
Seller reply : "Very clearly stated in description cracks UNDER arm, not
ON it."
Did I get it wrong?
Other sellers clearly enter the subject
Example : cracked torso (left, right,..) side
It's the first absurd thing I've ever experienced
What do you think about seller notice?
Thanks.
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| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 16:48 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 52 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| Yes China has horrible working conditions, they have become a dump and free source
of cheap labour for us. 
Most EV batteries are made there and the waste from the refinement is crazy!
And they are the one who have to live in polluted, dirty, and water contaminated
land.
Just so we can have “clean” cars.(until the batteries die and need to be replaced,
then what happens to the batteries?)
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| Author: | wildchicken13 | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 16:40 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 32 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, Adjour writes:
| | The USA wasn't actually recycling most of what goes into those sorted bins.
Most of it was being exported to China. China finally said they wouldn't
take it anymore. There's been large campaigns to explain to Americans that
we were lied to, and nearly nothing we "recycled" actually got recycled.
Just shipped overseas where its often burned
Last I checked the USA was scrambling to find another country to take the stuff.
We don't really have recycling infrastructure here aside from sorting facilities.
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New York City's recycling program is abysmal. Most New Yorkers don't
have plastic recycling bins, so they put cardboard boxes directly on the sidewalk.
When it rains, the boxes gets soaked and disintegrate. The end result is a soggy
wet mess that jams sorting machines and ultimately can't be recycled.
Beverage containers are better since New York State has a bottle bill and people
go around collecting bottles and cans and bring them back to recycling centers,
but I don't know what the recycling centers do with them.
After China stopped buying almost all plastic waste in January 2018, Malaysia
picked up the slack and began importing a lot of waste from other countries,
but now even they're starting to get fed up with all this garbage.
China still recycles a lot of electronic waste, but the people who take apart
used electronics generally work without proper protective equipment and many
develop skin and respiratory diseases from touching and breathing toxic metals.
The people who mine rare metals to make new electronic devices also work under
pretty poor conditions. Many come from poor countries without workers' rights.
Apparently, some people recycle cooking oil:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_grease
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 16:30 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| wow... I remember people often told me that damaged parts sell well as filler
so I tried and with sub 2 cent filler for plates and shipping capped at $10 in
Canada even if they ordered 2 thousand of them. I sold like 20 over the span
of 1 year and broke 3 or so $1 containers due to the weight of storing them.
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 16:27 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 28 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| | very impressive! |
| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 15:59 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| Canada was doing the same thing except we shipped our stuff to the Philippines,
were it just sat to rot, or just go into their landfills.
Typical north America, fix the problem by making it disappear for others to fix/or
just don't fix it till you are forced to.
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| Author: | Adjour | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 15:43 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Media, Saitolegos writes:
| | Yes it’s not right to give the poor our garbage, if we can’t use it because it’s
so badly damaged, than they probably can’t.
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One person's trash is another person's treasure. 
Some people are incredibly resourceful. Once upon a time, I came across a few
AA/AAA power functions battery boxes that someone (probably me  ) had forgotten
to take the batteries out of and by the time I found them several years later
they were corroded shut. I sold them for cheap on BrickLink to a buyer that was
able to clean them and restore them to useable condition.
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I sold an old technic set (I think it was auto chassis) once and I had mentioned
that a few of the long technic beams had been discarded and I got a DM from someone
pissed I can discarded literally broken in half and chewed on by a dog part because
he claimed could fix them.
I asked him if he wanted the set, I still had the trash parts, he said no, but
other people would for sure want to fix the broken parts.
I'm the queen of repurposing and fixing things, but I think some people become
obsessive.
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| Author: | Adjour | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 15:37 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, Nubs_Select writes:
| | | | I was in the exotic animal Business for a couple decades and knew some bear owners.
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Bricklink forums has got to be the most wide ranging prior employment/skill set
group out there based on user size.
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I was a professional Animal wrangler and breeder for 20+ years. I worked as a
trainer out of Hollywood for about 5. Wealthy people actually take damn good
care of their animals as a general statement. Most other people treat them as
trading cards.
I think there was a thread about jobs here before, and yes people are all over
the map in professions
Crystal
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| Author: | Adjour | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 15:33 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 41 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, ghyde writes:
| | In Media, Adjour writes:
| | In Media, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Crazy!!! I'm kinda surprised there isn't a law forcing them to donate
it instead or something but yah that's just crazy
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In the Usa you can't donate it because if it does have an issue. You can
be sued.
Some places are making efforts to change such rules however. It's slow but
its happening.
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If they can't donate it then at least they should put it in a bin with other
plastics and send it to a plastics recycling facility. I'm sure non-LEGO
elements wouldn't be a problem to recycle into new products made from recycled
plastics.
What needs to happen is that the charities need to be made aware that there are
options that would reduce their landfill contributions and therefore make their
waste streams somewhat more environmentally friendly. That might mean changes
in the way in which charities operate.
As for the plastics, it's just an extra bin that they throw plastics into
and have collections set up on a regular basis.
There's also a fairly new recycling method that shreds the incoming plastics
into small pieces and then steam under pressure is used to turn them back into
oil products. That means a recycling effort might be possible to implement because
that oil product can then be refined and reused.
It does, however, mean that a lot more effort has to be focused on recycling
products instead of sending them to waste streams. Companies are slow to implement
changes to how they handle waste streams because a lot of it involves expenses
associated with handling and shipping the waste. Individuals may do their part
for the recycling process but there still isn't a properly focused effort
on getting any recycling process to 100% or near that in terms of efficiency.
Our world is slowly becoming a plastic world, but we can make a difference. Even
the oceans are getting plastics and other floating debris removed from them.
If they can clean up the oceans surely diverting the plastics out of landfill
isn't entirely impossible. Someone just needs to come up with a properly
scaled solution that fits the current and future needs of plastics recycling.
Just my 2c worth.
Cheers ...
ghyde
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The USA wasn't actually recycling most of what goes into those sorted bins.
Most of it was being exported to China. China finally said they wouldn't
take it anymore. There's been large campaigns to explain to Americans that
we were lied to, and nearly nothing we "recycled" actually got recycled.
Just shipped overseas where its often burned
Last I checked the USA was scrambling to find another country to take the stuff.
We don't really have recycling infrastructure here aside from sorting facilities.
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| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 13:58 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| Yes, since big companies can’t or won’t do anything we got to do something. Often
it’s too expensive to reuse plastics, so companies do nothing. And government
incentives will just raise taxes, therefore raising the price of everything.
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| Author: | ghyde | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 13:48 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, Adjour writes:
| | In Media, Nubs_Select writes:
| | Crazy!!! I'm kinda surprised there isn't a law forcing them to donate
it instead or something but yah that's just crazy
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In the Usa you can't donate it because if it does have an issue. You can
be sued.
Some places are making efforts to change such rules however. It's slow but
its happening.
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If they can't donate it then at least they should put it in a bin with other
plastics and send it to a plastics recycling facility. I'm sure non-LEGO
elements wouldn't be a problem to recycle into new products made from recycled
plastics.
What needs to happen is that the charities need to be made aware that there are
options that would reduce their landfill contributions and therefore make their
waste streams somewhat more environmentally friendly. That might mean changes
in the way in which charities operate.
As for the plastics, it's just an extra bin that they throw plastics into
and have collections set up on a regular basis.
There's also a fairly new recycling method that shreds the incoming plastics
into small pieces and then steam under pressure is used to turn them back into
oil products. That means a recycling effort might be possible to implement because
that oil product can then be refined and reused.
It does, however, mean that a lot more effort has to be focused on recycling
products instead of sending them to waste streams. Companies are slow to implement
changes to how they handle waste streams because a lot of it involves expenses
associated with handling and shipping the waste. Individuals may do their part
for the recycling process but there still isn't a properly focused effort
on getting any recycling process to 100% or near that in terms of efficiency.
Our world is slowly becoming a plastic world, but we can make a difference. Even
the oceans are getting plastics and other floating debris removed from them.
If they can clean up the oceans surely diverting the plastics out of landfill
isn't entirely impossible. Someone just needs to come up with a properly
scaled solution that fits the current and future needs of plastics recycling.
Just my 2c worth.
Cheers ...
ghyde
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| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 13:40 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| | Exactly! Before you know it the president has joined the chat! |
| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 13:32 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 20 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Media, Nubs_Select writes:
| | | | I was in the exotic animal Business for a couple decades and knew some bear owners.
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Bricklink forums has got to be the most wide ranging prior employment/skill set
group out there based on user size
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I’m not sure: there’s way too many posts about how the website or Studio should
do this or that with the argument “I know, I’m a software engineer”
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 13:28 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 36 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, Nubs_Select writes:
| | | | I was in the exotic animal Business for a couple decades and knew some bear owners.
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Bricklink forums has got to be the most wide ranging prior employment/skill set
group out there based on user size
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I’m not sure: there’s way too many posts about how the website or Studio should
do this or that with the argument “I know, I’m a software engineer”
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| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 13:24 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| | Ha, ha, ha, yes the bear is chasing the chicken across the road! |
| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 13:23 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 17 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| Author: | Saitobricks.ca | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 13:21 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| I had an aunt and uncle who had a beautiful tree in the front yard, but after
they sold the house the new owner cut down the tree.
The city needs trees to keep the air clean!
I live in a small town and we have too many trees here. To get to my town from
the nearest city is a 3 hour drive with nothing but trees on the side of the
highway.
But that’s good because in the winter in can get down to -40c and we have to
heat with wood.
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| Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 13:14 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, wildchicken13 writes:
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What's the difference between a chicken and a bear?
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Does it have something to do with crossing a road?
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 13:14 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| | | I was in the exotic animal Business for a couple decades and knew some bear owners.
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Bricklink forums has got to be the most wide ranging prior employment/skill set
group out there based on user size
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 13:11 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 21 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Media, Nubs_Select writes:
What's the difference between a chicken and a bear?
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One is from the USA and one from France?
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| Author: | Nubs_Select | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 13:10 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, wildchicken13 writes:
| | In Media, Saitolegos writes:
| | Yes it’s not right to give the poor our garbage, if we can’t use it because it’s
so badly damaged, than they probably can’t.
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One person's trash is another person's treasure.
Some people are incredibly resourceful. Once upon a time, I came across a few
AA/AAA power functions battery boxes that someone (probably me ) had forgotten
to take the batteries out of and by the time I found them several years later
they were corroded shut. I sold them for cheap on BrickLink to a buyer that was
able to clean them and restore them to useable condition.
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| Author: | Adjour | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 13:06 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, wildchicken13 writes:
| | Congratulations, you've just reinvented the domesticated dog!
Real live bears don't make good pets and sometimes they do attack people.
However, some bears are friendlier than others.
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I was in the exotic animal Business for a couple decades and knew some bear owners.
Whats sad is they aren't really that bad of a pet for the right trainer,
I can think of 25 worse pets that are far more common (looking at you, exotic
cat people), but sadly most people think you need to use punitive training to
accomplish even the most basic tasks and can't house them correctly. Which
is why attacks happens generally speaking.
One of my favorite trainers said in one of her books that if you can't train
a chicken without touching it you have no business with kids or any animals.
A bit extreme, but her point stands IMO
Anyway, back to bear stores.
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| Author: | Adjour | | Posted: | Dec 29, 2023 12:59 | | Subject: | Re: LEGO Replay, a new Lego “charity” | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Media | |
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| In Media, Saitolegos writes:
| | I buy a lot of thrift store book, and bricks. Just about every book in my house
is a used one. Also about half of our Lego is used too. It’s better for the
environment to buy used stuff. When you buy used you just saved on the manufacturing
of more product. And we all know that every product produced makes some sort
of waste product to go with it.
I recently heard of a company that takes garbage and burns it at super high temperatures
to produce electricity!
And the company gets paid to take the garbage from the landfill, and they get
paid for the electricity that they produce!
Not only that, but because the fire is so hot the smoke is next to none. If you
own a wood stove than you know that the hotter the fire the cleaner the smoke,
because it’s being burned.
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Growing up I never understood why my friends poor families only bought new stuff.
I remember taking my best friend as a child to a thrift store with me because
they had a toy section and she was blown away. Said she'd never been to one.
Same later in life when I was in the life of a child that was growing up with
nearly nothing. She was confused as to why nothing was in packaging.
pretty sure they burn trash here for the same thing. I know my neighbors also
burn their trash and leaves every year. They don't compost anything, cut
down trees like crazy. I know they also recycle basically nothing. It's been
hard for my West Coast Soul to get used to. I think I'm the last house on
my side of the street with any trees.
I sold a property down the road, and it was so beautiful. I drove past it for
the first time in a year and the guy who bought it clear cut it.
Anyway.
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