this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2024
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A place to post product recalls. Recalls can be national or local, even just one store down the street. Nor are they limited to one country, if a product is declared unsafe by the government or the maker, share it here.

Title should reflect what's being recalled, body should say where and/or have a link to the announcement.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'll save you a click: they're being recalled, of course, because people are eating them.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And our species beat out all the other hominids

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Imagine how dumb Neanderthals must have been.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Their brain was bigger and took longer to fully mature so it could be that Neanderthals were smarter and would not be stupid enough to eat magnets.

Maybe we were more social or aggressive, wasted less energy or they were just absorbed or killed by our species.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Mr Life of the Party over here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Probably ate colored non-ferrous rocks

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This isn't a new issue. Buckyballs have been on our radar for years. I bought some in 2015 and when I got mine there were warnings about not eating them as they can magnet inside the body and pinch intestines and whatnot.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Buckyballs are amazing. You can make some really neat shapes and the taste is delicious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It doesn't taste like pinching to me!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep, I got some then and I thought they had shutdown due to this, but then I noticed here a couple years ago that they made a comeback, and I got some more...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even though they were banned for a while, you could always get them from China on places like AliExpress and wish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh sure, but Buckyballs themselves have since comeback so perhaps the ban was lifted or for a limited time.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Didn't we do this already? I remember a big bruhaha about legislation banning tiny magnets as toys. Is '24 going to be the year of the rerun?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Reality is like Hollywood, just recycling old ideas at this point.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And that's why we can't have nice things - too many retards are alive and somehow we need to protect them from themselves at the expense of everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I agree with the sentiment but would request not using the r-word. There are plenty of other pejoratives available.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Go back to Reddit with this crap.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

wow shame on you dude

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for making Lemmy the new Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You replied to the wrong comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed, it is very retarded to use such word and it shouldn't

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh to be 11 and edgy again

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Could be worse. They could be your age and getting offended about a word they read online.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not offended, I just don't punch down by using slurs directed at marginalised groups. When you grow up you'll understand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol, get a load of this retard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You French kiss your mother with that mouth? Shame

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Do words have meaning to ourselves?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I thought these were banned in the US quite a few years ago for the same reason…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

So did I, so I was surprised to see the recall

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why are Americans eating magnets

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Children do odd things

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The problem is when you eat more than one, right?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or just one and any ferrous object. It is good to have options.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

True that. But are there really that many magnetically reacting food objects?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They already ate a magnet. Other non foods aren't off the table.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Off the table, into the mouth

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I feel like I read this story every year. When will retailers learn?

[–] hemko 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When will people learn? I feel like you can't blame retailers for people eating magnets...

But then again, 'muricans. I guess retailers should know their audience

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

When they start losing money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah they need to learn that people are dumb.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're not supposed to eat them... SMH my head

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

SMH my head

Shaking my head my head.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

He's had one too many magnet snacks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Post locked due to people not being humans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The first time I saw a meme with SMH in it, I somehow interpreted it as So Much Hate. In that meme, and many others honestly, I think it fits.

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