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I'm imagining a thousand people in a spitshop in (Mechanical) Turkey in a sitting at desks with a spittoon, waiting for a signal to spit.

> I bet that it tastes 1000 times better than the processed cacao.

It does not. Cacao beans/seeds taste utterly vile. You couldn't imagine in your wildest dreams that the chocolate you buy in stores comes from those disgusting things.

There was a cacao plantation on the side of the road that I walked past every day after school when I was between 5 and 14yrs old. I'd always pick a few on the way home to break open a pod and suck on the beans. But if you accidentally bit into one, well /* insert face vomiting emoji */

Cacao are OK to suck on (to get the pulp around the seeds), but the seeds themselves taste utterly vile.

They'll put another limp dick like Merrick Garland in charge

Crop, not crops. A palm oil monoculture as far as the eye can see.

No chance! West Papuans are being ethnically cleansed from the forest to make your chocolates cheaper (palm oil).

That's a different matter altogether. The food is bad, get refund.

But if you've never drunk Fanta Blueberry before and you try that new flavour, you don't get to ask for a refund because you decide you don't like it and prefer the original orange flavoured Fanta.

That model started in South America. They're called Bin Stores.

One day a week the bins fill up with returned/liquidated goods from Amazon, Target, etc etc. Everything in the bin is the same price and the price drops every day until they fill up again a week later.

Search "bin store" on youtube or tiktok and you should get a million videos about the craze.

> Which of the returns can be sold as new, which can be sold as-is, and which can be repaired / refurbished. What if a unit is returned once again? Did the customer return counterfeit? How to detect bad-faith actors (which may be the seller)? Who is to blame for damages? What if the item requires special handling (household chemicals, batteries, etc.)? And how to safely dispose / liquidate inventory while being compliant to all the regulations?

They just sell it in bulk and leave it to regular folk to buy pallets or containers and sell the shit on WhatNot.

US customers are nuts. I recently heard from a vendor (small business) that someone demanded a refund because they didn't like the taste of the beverage they bought. That's not the crazy part. The crazy part is that the vendor refunded their money instead of laughing them out the door.

> Never heard of liver connection, wonder if thats actually true of standard powder kratom

It is. You can look it up in the FAERS database on the FDA website.

That said, it's still far safer than alcohol in terms of the potential liver issues.

Illegal in 10 states.

In the states where it's legal, some counties and cities have banned it as well.