Remember that Chinese seed brushing story? [gardening]

[rebeccmeister]

Well, this is a fun follow-up article about it from The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/unsolicited-seeds-china-brushing/619417/

When you think you should stop reading it, keep reading.

This past March, I ordered some tomato seeds from that big online crafting marketplace. It took me two months to realize that the seeds I'd ordered never showed up. I was super annoyed because they were for a variety of tomato I was really excited to grow. (And while I'm thinking about it, I'm going to order some from a place that HAS actually shipped seeds to me before!). The big online crafting marketplace did, at least, honor my request for a refund.

File this article away with other articles about the trash heap that is online shopping.

Comments

[rainswolf]

Read that seed article. How weird...

[rebeccmeister]

I think it's hilarious.

But also weird, yes, in terms of what can happen to how people think about things and how well they do/don't remember what they've ordered. The internet commerce mega-companies have done everything they can to help us forget, though, because they profit every single time we open our wallets on their sites. Kind of like how social media sites are more than happy to be repositories for birthday reminders...

[altamira16]

It was so funny!