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Recalled Barbie Sunglasses from 2001

In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), IMT Accessories, of New York, N.Y., is recalling about 70,000 BarbieTM Sunglasses. The frames of the sunglasses can break, allowing the petroleum distillate and floating glitter to leak out. Petroleum distillates could be harmful to children's eyes and skin and could be fatal if ingested. IMT Accessories has received one report of a six-year-old child who received chemical burns in her right eye as a result of petroleum distillates leaking from the sunglasses when she was playing. The recalled sunglasses have a pink tint to the eyeglasses, have floating glitter in the temple of the sunglasses, say "BarbieTM" and "Mattel®" on the left side of the earpiece, and say "China" on the right side.

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Amazon is responsible under federal safety law for hazardous products sold on its platform by third-party sellers and shipped by the company, a U.S. government agency ordered Tuesday. In a unanimous vote, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said it determined that the e-commerce company was a “distributor” of faulty items sold on its site and packed and shipped through its fulfillment service. That means the company is on the hook, legally, for the recalls of more than 400,000 products, including hairdryers and defective carbon monoxide detectors, the agency said. It ordered Amazon to come up with a system for notifying customers who purchased faulty items and to remove the products from circulation by offering incentives for their return or destruction. Overall, Amazon accounts for roughly 40% of e-commerce sales in the U.S., according to the market research firm Emarketer. The company sells many items directly to consumers and also partners with nearly 2 million third-party sellers, who drive the majority of the sales on the platform. The online retailer has fought the “distributor” label since 2021, when the Consumer Product Safety Commission filed an administrative complaint against the company for distributing hazardous items.

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sick. I don't know how much legal weight this ruling has at the moment/how its gonna be enforced, but still.

Amazon has been deemed responsible for dangerous or faulty products sold by third-parties on Amazon.com after a unanimous vote by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on Tuesday (July 30).

The vote determined that Amazon is a "distributor" and thus liable for any products that are found defective or hazardous. With the ruling, Amazon now bears the legal responsibility for any products that require a recall or destruction.

In an announcement the U.S. regulator said that over 400,000 products are subject; these include such items as carbon monoxide detectors that don't sound alarms, hairdryers without electrocution protection and children's pajamas that were found to be highly flammable.

"Amazon failed to notify the public about these hazardous products and did not take adequate steps to encourage its customers to return or destroy them, thereby leaving consumers at substantial risk of injury," the agency said.

the article says that amazon still intends to. appeal the decision and shit bc of course they do, so idk if its possible that it could be overturned I suppose, but hell it would be Really Fucking Nice if amazon at the very least took some goddamn responsibility for some of the dangerous shit they got on their site and had to do more to actually prevent this shit from being sold in the first place

[emeraldreverie]

CPSC made some good music?

And classic style they made this the image:

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- redacted doing a meme about raven nevermore

(Source: uscpsc on Instagram)

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Let's Circle Back (and eFile) after the Holidays

The Consumer Product Safety Commission launched its eFiling Beta Pilot a little over a year ago. Non-pilot participants were invited to participate in voluntary eFiling last summer, and the CPSC extended this stage to October 10, as it continued to work on a revised rule. The CPSC had anticipated completing a final rulemaking by the end of its fiscal year, which would have meant a full system…

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Review - The Deacon, Blended Scotch Whisky, (No Age Stated), 40%

If you’re talking to me, I may only be half-listening. This does not mean I don’t like you or that I’m generally disinterested in what you have to say. It simply means that mentally, I’ve strayed into a possible scenario relative to our discussion, and I’m now trapped in an unfortunate attention-sucking downswirl of questions that is leading me to more questions. For example, I took two of our…

[pulseincorp]

What did your father teach you? Good or bad.

#mentalhealth #pulse #father #fatherhood #love #hate #lessons #trauma #therapy #therapist #socialworker #traumahealing #abuse #overcomer #strength #childhood #memories

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One downside of potentially losing Twitter is that there won't be a centralized place for interns at major institutions to post stuff like this.

the US consumer product safety commission using chainsaw man as a teachable moment about chainsaw safety might be my favorite thing on twt rn

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Onewheel Recall After Four Deaths

All Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboard models are being recalled due to serious safety concerns, as announced by federal regulators. Onewheel skateboards are manufactured by California-based Future Motion. As the name suggests, they have a single, self-balancing wheel with a small deck to stand on to either side of it. The successor to toys like hoverboards, they’re surprisingly popular…

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Recalled novelty lighters - 2002

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Consumer Product Safety Commission staff on Wednesday recommended the first federal requirements intended to make nursing pillows safer and discourage caregivers from setting babies down on the pillows to sleep, citing dozens of deaths associated with the popular infant product. [...] The CPSC staff also proposed requiring prominent labels warning caregivers of the product’s hazards. Most nursing pillows already have warning tags that caution against using the products for sleep or leaving infants unsupervised on them, but these labels should be more visible and more difficult to remove, unlike the hanging warning tags currently attached to many nursing pillows, staff said in the draft proposal. Additionally, staff recommended nursing pillows not include straps to secure babies, which could lead parents to believe it’s safe to leave infants alone in the products. The recommendations come just over two weeks after an NBC News investigation found that at least 162 babies have died in incidents involving nursing pillows since 2007. Most of the deaths occurred after the infants were placed to sleep on or with the pillows.

[whilomm]

the USCPSC has put out an album and it actually kinda slaps. also its all public domain apparently so if you need another track for your skate game or st

[eradicatetehnormal]

Weirdly enough, the actual music isn't even that bad. It's even pretty on point with trends. Love that our tax dollars are going to this.

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That fucking girl again. I swear, any time I try to talk to her, I end up talking here instead.

I saw JH today. A fire-and-forget message, sent to a mutual who I knew was studying with her (E), allowed me the pleasure of sitting across from her for several hours while she did homework. We talked about random shit, I spilled my beans of "I'm coming off my anti-anxiety meds" to the others who were with me, normal stuff. For context, I'm now-overcorrecting, since I believe no one likes me and that my friends are faking their friendships with me. I concurrently believe this to be flawed reasoning, since I didn't think that several weeks prior.

I shook off my worries (somewhat) this evening and hit her up, asking to see a movie with her. No response, as usual. This is different from just 7 hours prior, where she was holding actual full conversations with me, albeit in person. Hence, I'm depressed and stressed and searching for answers. Hence, I ended up here, detailing my woes to an audience of my future self (and those who find this account in whatever obituary I leave it in).

In my search for answers, I become paranoid. Highly so. As I type this, my mind searches for what I did wrong. I've come up with an answer: I came on to her.

Again, as I've described in past updates, I find her attractive. I told her I wanna bang, she said maybe, 6 months ago. I got stupidly drunk off 6-7 shots of vodka (I'm a lightweight) and told her exactly how attractive I find her. I would assume she's still creeped out by me.

So I take my data, and I analyze it. She only talks to me when someone else is present, whether it's in a group chat or in person (with another friend there). Today, she evidently asked a friend to come by and study with us without any of the other current attendees knowing. He showed up, he's fun, he's nice, but the (mutual) friend talked to me much more than JH. Why invite him if not to talk to him or study with him? I conclude it was for my sake.

I believe JH to feel unsafe around me, or otherwise not enjoy having me around. Why else would she exhibit this behavior? She doesn't even respond to my discord messages. I feel terrible. The question of "Why else" has been asked many times, and answered in myriad shitty ways, but never satisfactorily. I could imagine a hundred scenarios tantamount to fantasies in which she actually just has the same kind of social anxiety as me, or just has some random reasoning, or is just busy. These are all too optimistic, I must be the problem.

This is paranoia. My thoughts on the matter of JH talking to me are unhinged, unchecked, and unfounded. I recognize I have made terrible judgement in listening to myself, but we all know at this point that I'm the only person who talks to me. What else do I have in my ears? Endless distractions, which fade away to give more voice to my paranoia. I label it as such because I have no real data, no real proof, no real reasoning, and absolutely no substantial counterpoints. This is all me.

I want to stop listening. Taking Wellbutrin made it easier to ignore the voices telling me "they hate you," "no one wants to talk to you, let alone listen to you," and "you did this to yourself by being yourself." That's no longer the case. They're loud, and they're constant.

I miss JH. I miss S, J, A, E, B, even less talkative friends like W, WH, C, or friends not in my school like AK, or AB. I literally saw some of them 8 hours ago. It's nice to see them on someone else's terms, but I need to know that they'll come see me on my terms, or at least their terms. We only seem to talk when we have an external reason to be together.

As of the time of writing this, JH has gone offline on discord. I was holding out hope that she'd respond sometime before midnight, but now there's no chance. Screw me for being hopeful, I guess.

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A ton of dehumidifiers have been recalled for starting fires. You can check yours against this CPSC list.