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

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And our species beat out all the other hominids

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Imagine how dumb Neanderthals must have been.

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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.

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Probably ate colored non-ferrous rocks

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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?

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The children yearn for the magnets

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They crave that element.

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

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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.

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

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It doesn’t taste like pinching to me!

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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…

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

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

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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.

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

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Go back to Reddit with this crap.

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wow shame on you dude

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Thanks for making Lemmy the new Reddit.

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

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Oh to be 11 and edgy again

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

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

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Why are Americans eating magnets

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Children do odd things

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!recall@reddthat.com

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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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