Yes, the storm has arrived.
Gen. Mike Flynn
Posted on 06/13/2023 5:30:02 PM PDT by ransomnote
A bit off-topic compared to today’s developments, but this appears to be quite important.
This has been confirmed. You can also confirm by performing a search for the name Kim Komando and TEMU. You will find multiple authentic posts. Copied from elsewhere ...
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT regarding the shopping app TEMU ...
Radio talk show hostess, Kim Komando, did some digging about TEMU and this is what she found!
Seemingly overnight, everyone’s talking about Temu (pronounced “tee-moo”), an online shopping app that boasts deals that seem too good to be true, like $17 wireless earbuds, $1 “gold” necklaces and $23 wedding dresses.
Over 50 million Americans have downloaded Temu since it launched state-side in September 2022, after it gained traction with expensive Super Bowl ads promising to let you “shop like a billionaire.”
Today, Temu is the most popular shopping app in the U.S. behind Amazon. But most of us don’t know much about the app’s true origins. Reader Daniel Mayer asked an important question, “Is [Temu] something we should be concerned about?”
So, I did some digging. And as it turns out, yes, you absolutely should be. Here’s what I found:
Where did Temu come from?
This isn’t some fly-by-night operation. Temu is based in Boston, Massachusetts, by PDD Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: PDD). PDD is headquartered in Shanghai, China.
PDD also owns the e-commerce platform Pinduoduo headquartered in — you guessed it — China. So, Temu is a Communist China-based app and site.
What you need to know before using Temu
First, you’re buying goods directly from manufacturers in China and other parts of the world. That’s why shipping times are often 12 days or longer. The prices are low because the goods are cheap. The pictures of what you see advertised may not be what you actually get.
Temu’s BBB rating is 2.21/5. Reviews at TrustPilot are interesting, with 38% 5-star reviews and 41% 1-star reviews.
But that’s not the worst of it.
Temu is downright dangerous.
The app is a clever, pervasive digital stalker. As you shop, Temu monitors your activity on other apps, tracks your notifications and location and changes settings.
?? It gets worse. Temu gains full access to all your contacts, calendars and photo albums, plus all your social media accounts, chats and texts. In other words, literally everything on your phone.
No shopping app needs this much control, especially one tied to Communist China. If you’re using Temu, delete the app from your phone ASAP.
On iPhone, Long-press an app, then tap Remove App > Delete App. Tap Delete to confirm.
On Android, touch and hold an app, then tap Remove App > Delete App > Delete.
Pro tip: If you downloaded Temu, to be safe from Chinese spies, you really need to do a full factory reset.
But wait, there’s more! Temu’s sister app was removed from Google Play because of malware.
Do not buy from this company, or use their app!
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Yes, the storm has arrived.
Gen. Mike Flynn
I figured that out just by looking at the ads on YouTube.
Thanks for the new thread!
Big storm on the horizon
Gnight!
Know your Nautical Terminology
Locker
The place where something is kept. There are many lockers on a ship, the paint locker, the small arms locker, the rain locker (shower), and the goat locker (Chief's quarters). But the one everone tries to stay out of is the hurt locker.
Davy Jones' Locker
An idiom for the bottom of the sea.
The 1898 Dictionary of Phrase and Fable connects Davy to the West-Indian duppy (duffy) and Jones to biblical Jonah:
He’s gone to Jones' locker, i.e. he is dead. Jones is a corruption of Jonah, the prophet, who was thrown into the sea. Locker, in seaman’s phrase, means any receptacle for private stores; and duffy is a ghost or spirit among the West Indian negroes. So the whole phrase is, "He is gone to the place of safe keeping, where duffy Jonah was sent to."
— E. Cobham Brewer
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Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
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thankQ MqD for the new thread!
The Highlander reporting in!
Well, I’m losing my mind apparently lol. I thought for sure I posted a hello and a thank you, RN post!
So, thank you for the new thread. I know I had it written.. I said something about Trump’s speech. Did it post? I said he looked po’d but was optimistic.
Aw that’s sooo cute. I love Goldens.
Good find, foldspace!
I went there to see what the fuss was but did NOT download any app. But, ooh since then, I’ve gotten notifications from McAfee? that a couple of apps ? are trying to go to bad places?
Did that make sense? Should I renew McAfee?? I have a new computer. McAfee just expired a couple of days ago.
Anyway, two things I noticed, Temu is going to very addicting to those shoppers. The other thing is, cheap garbage carp that looks cute. Like I saw some adorable, embroidered, turquoise cowboy boots, but they are not made of leather.
Greedy greedy. Also, clothing that is made in China is usually farmed out to factories where people live and die in, in North Korea. Not good places at all!! If you are born there, you work there, you die there.
Thanks for the public service announcement. I was disheartened when I saw that my dil had joined the Tik Tok craze.
You’re welcome and thanks for your comments!
Used to be a time when in legal terms, “Intent” or “commander’s intent” or the “intent of the law” was everything and there was no way getting around intent. Today, America is ruled by people intent on keeping power forever and the hell with the intent of laws such as ones stating it is illegal to fund certain research, or to obtain certain information on citizens - the intent of the laws to keep the government from engaging or hiring companies or paying for that research in another nation..., or buying protected personal data from private companies or just plain getting it from companies by hook or crook.
Many of the abuses of power by today’s ruling click will be overturned. Once that happens, those who engaged in unlawful intent will be criminals, not simply innocent wards of the government protecting itself. Americans are governed by consent... we are not ruled. When American’s leadership became rulers (read Biden, Romney, McCain, Obama, Clintons, etc.,) they no longer govern by constitutional intent, nor by our laws - they have become dictators.
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