I largely stopped buying from Amazon after receiving three counterfeit or defective products in one month. The only reason I buy from them now is due to a particularly low sale price or things I can’t easily source elsewhere. Otherwise, if ai can buy local or buy elsewhere I do.

This. Amazon made a number of changes to the Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) program related to lost and damaged inventory among other things. The changes risked increasing the costs and also required Amazon to be provided information that they really shouldn’t need, such as as the cost to source that inventory.

My assumption is that the decision to stop commingling is more to support these changes to the FBA program and allow them to extract more money via fees.

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/2024/12/22/amazon-drops-bombs...

I think you'd be surprised by how durable the newer phones are, especially the iPhone Air. It's hard to completely protect a glass screen from shattering since its a crystalline material encased in a metal enclosure that is more likely to dent than flex, absorb the impact and return to it's shape, but they keep getting better and I think most people could go without a case if they really wanted to.

If you're curious about just how durable the iPhone Air is, take a look at the latest Jerry Rig Everything video where it exceeded his typical scratch test resits and he was unable to bend it with his hands.

https://youtu.be/sQ56ve39l2I?si=XOgAtnlAtOwO4Lln

There’s another benefit to immigration that isn’t often discussed. Known as the immigrant paradox, children of immigrants routinely perform better academically than their peers, even despite other socioeconomic challenges. This suggests that immigrants not only benefit the country from the work they directly perform but their children also benefit the country by raising the bar for academic performance and arguably growing up into better educated if not better skilled workers themselves.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5555844/

Given the number of organizations that have labeled what’s happening in Gaza as a genocide I think it’s pretty clear what the objective is and it’s reprehensible that the United States continues to support it the way it does.