PeriodicallyPedantic

Ooph yeah that seems pretty bad. What is even the purpose of seller rating with FBA if the inventories are mixed?

Who is "they"?
You have to test the product to know it's counterfeit. Then you have to return it. Then you have to buy it again and, what? Hope that what they have stocked is from a different batch? I don't think this is any different between Amazon and other retailers

I imagine that "sold by Amazon" has about the same supply chain reliability as big box retailers. On Amazon you do gotta check your seller rating if you're not buying prime, but that's not harder than driving to best buy, and big box retailer online stores have the same problem when they're the storefront for 3rd parties (as many are, trying to emulate Amazon).

On Amazon, reviews can be faked, but at least it has reviews.

Is that like a power bottom on steroids?

I think the argument that A-A should be in the spec.

But usb-c is just so much better all around.

Even if you don't, there is basically no way to tell you've got a legit authentic product that passed QC until you test it yourself. The supply chains that give retailers plausible deniability wrt child labor also by their nature allow counterfeits.

I have never seen this.

There is absolutely a certification process, but playing legal whack-a-mole with fly-by-night counterfeiters is difficult.
This is why buying reputable brands from reputable sellers is important.

But even then, I remember years ago I read an article about major retailers selling counterfeit brand name SD cards that didn't meet the labeled performance specifications and had very poor QC. Turns out that gray market sellers were buying batches of the real product that failed QC and just reselling them as though they were fine, and they ended up making their way back into the distribution network.
In the end the conclusion was that we're all kind of fucked until retailers start being way more strict about their supply chains, which they are disincentivized to do, because the current system gives them plausible deniability on things like child labor.

The choice was intentional 😭

For clarity: donair is a specific kind of doner kebab invented in Canada, not just a local name for it.
Canada still has other kinds of doner kebabs besides the donair.

Let me introduce you to poutine

Yup. That's why I'm skeptical of directors are artists.

Or, more accurately, I don't think you can get a clear black and white answer about if someone is an artist or something is art.
It's probably more like a grey area, a sliding scale.

I think we're looking at this question wrong anyways. Anything can be art, this is just a tool and in the hands of an artist it will contribute to the creation of art.
The question is: is this a net benefit for society? Is it helping new/hidden artists create art that they otherwise couldn't? Or is it making the life of the artist harder by fucking up the job market? Both?

You don't want people like me. I have time to complain, but not time to work on a solution lol