Magnets are banned in New Zealand?
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2025
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now they'll never know how they work.
Some like Bucky Balls are banned in the USA as well.
The post States that the subject of the band are the small magnets.
Reading comprehension is going to be the end of us.
There's a lot of worse things that could be the end of us...zombie kittens, for example
I still have a set of BuckyBalls that I bought before the ban. They're kind of a cool toy to fidget with, but I understand why they're banned.
What the hell is wrong with NZ? Are they trying to out nanny-state the UK?
How is Temu allowed to sell items which are explicutly banned in that country?
By shifting the responsibility to the seller. temu is just a marketplace, the sellers are people who run the factories or their fulfillment center.
I don't know if this is the same loophole used in NZ as in the UK and EU, but in the UK and EU, lots of things are banned from retail rather than completely illegal. If they're imported and the importer sells them without demonstrating that they're safe, the importer has committed a crime. If the importer keeps them for personal use, that's fine, though. In theory, people ordering things from outside the EU and importing them are supposed to be aware that they're importing things and that the stores aren't necessarily only selling CE-marked goods, so they're responsible for checking that they're safe themselves, but in practice, people just see an online shop and don't make a distinction from a domestic online shop except the price and delivery time. The EU is working on a law to close this loophole in some way.
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Fucking christ NZ can't even have magnets?!
That sounds like something the british would do.
Well hearing Trump rant against magnets might happen to the US soon as well
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I like to think as the surgeons were removing the magnets they asked themselves “Magnets, how do they work?”
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