Yeah a lot of that chinesium printer stuff is a bit dangerous. You hear about thermal runaway and this stuff happening, and how shoddy it all is, in that community all the time.

Sounds like something that needs to be submitted to Louis Rossmann's Consumer Action Taskforce if this is the attitude being presented to someone who lost their home.

Let them learn about the Streisand Effect the hard way.

Touching more on the general theme of what happened and why, the fact is that China has perfect the art of the illusion of choice, and it's something westerners have a very hard time reconciling and understanding. Chicoms have a master level understanding of the ploy of offering multiple doors that lead to the same place, and making a big show with their victims abut how and why they should choose one door or the other, while the victims are blissfully unaware China is behind all of them. We see the same thing with wokeness in video games, and the rise in 'non-woke' Chinese games like Wukong. China is the one who directly funded and directed the rise of wokeness in video games, as well as indirectly through picking up where the Soviets left off with the communist control of American universities. The end goal being both making their own stuff more popular by subverting the competition, and allowing them to acquire the competition so that they control both sides. It's like if there were a Ford and an GM dealership across the street from each other and they're always competing for sales. But the Ford dealership owner ends up hiring a bunch of family members of the GM owner and they poison him with ideas about how they should raise prices, be closed more often, reduce warranty offers, etc. 'Shockingly' the Ford dealership loses sales and the GM dealership gets more, then the GM owner buys the Ford dealership, but keeps the old name. That's what China does. Chicom influence is what caused Ubisoft to do what it did. And now China is about to buy them.

They do it with consumer electronics all the time. You have the bottom barrel Chinese shit, where there's a dozen shell companies with names like JINYWOO and DELORD, just made up words all in caps, all selling identical products for cheap, all made in the same Chinese factory. Those are meant to lure in the true suckers, but they're also meant to serve as a contrast to the 'real' brands. You can buy the shitty KELAAR brand USB powerbank, or you can spend a lot more and get the 'good' Anker brand. You think you're smart and getting a good deal with the more expensive but higher quality Anker, but in reality it's also a Chinese brand and the money is going to the same place.

Go try to buy some kind of small consumer electronic. A handheld radio, a solar charger, a USB media player, some headphones, an electric thermos, etc. Just pick something and go look for what brands are selling one. You'll see the obvious China junk brands, but a tiny handful of 'good' brands, that are also made in and owned by China. There is basically nothing they don't control 100% of the market for. The illusion of brand tiers is to get you to pick one door or the other, but China is lurking behind each one. Westerners are terrible at picking up on this and it's a brutally effective tactic in ensuring Chinese control of entire swaths of the global market for many goods. The last few holdouts are a handful of Japanese or South Korean brands. But if you dig a little deeper you'll see that many of those are at least partially owned by China, or major internal parts are manufactured only in China, or final assembly is done in Japan while actual manufacture is done in China. It's China all the way down.

The Chicom trash tier 3D printer that caused this fire was made in China, obviously. You know what else are Chinese brands and made in China? MakerBot and Creality.

China does care if you put your money in their left hand or their right hand, so long as it is their hand.

Consumer 3d printers are relatively new. Safety standards haven't been figured out yet, and I'm afraid humans learn through suffering.

Clever brands will evolve to advertise heating sensors and other safety features. This matters on a heating machine that is expected to be left working for hours without supervision.