Listen-1.0x+0:008:37Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.No surprise, I thought, as I disposed of the 12-volt charging adapter I had purchased for my car. I’d bought the thing on Temu, the Chinese low-cost-shopping app, as part of a larger haul of random other stuff that the app had marketed to me: chargers to plug into my adapter and car-seat gap-filler crumb-catchers to flank them.The charger cost $2.43 and took weeks to arrive. Because it came from China, I knew I had no hope of returning it,…
