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Re:Stop using poison on your lawn on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:53PM (#19670757)
Often, that's desirable. Most recurring weeds grow in cracks between joints in concrete. Use good judgement, duh.
AliExpress is worse. Fake/low-quality products just disappear completely and there's very few, short reviews. It's almost as bad as eBay.
1. Bots

2. Click-farms buying clicks from humans in India, Malaysia, countries in Africa, etc.

3. Mostly, but not all, Chinese distributers and manufacturers offering inducements, bonuses and generally cajoling customers for 5 star reviews.

It seems like the weight of amount of water/retardant to effectively extinguish a fully-involved fire would be a problem AND simultaneously smothering the fire underneath AND reducing core coal temperatures below ignition point would need to happen. It's a thought towards a possible solution to a ruinous class of fires, but there appears to be a need for a gentle and widely-deployed technology to rescue historic structures in the midst of fire events.

1. Cool an outer structure rapidly with lightweight/gently-applied, inert, high specific heat material from above.

2. Thixotropic gently-applied, inert, high specific heat material inner structure (possibly same as 1.).