(Note: I'm against the profligate financial support the US is providing Israel, for a variety of reason)

The problem with the idea of "stop sending billions to Israel" is that it's not actually that we send, you know, truckloads of cash to Israel for it to spend wherever it wants. Most of our aid to Israel is in the form of arms and equipment that is specifically to be purchased from US companies -- so most of that money actually ends up staying in the US, and if you were to take that money off the table, then several large US contractors -- and thousands of employees -- would then feel that pinch.

(Not that that makes it a bad idea, mind you)

Y'know, it feels intuitive to assume that going through some sort of Massively Traumatic Event (e.g. WW2 or Great Depression) would have depressed survivability, but apparently that's -- again, totally counter-intuitively -- not necessarily supported by studies.

For example, this study comparing Holocaust Survivors lifespans to control group in Israel demonstrated that while Holocaust survivors had more chronic health conditions, "mean age at death was significantly higher in the survivor group compared with the control group."

I've seen some hypothesis that these sorts of massive events sadly cull the population, on average leaving a population that will actually be hardier than otherwise, which ... both makes sense and is a bummer.

Technically, but I think it's still an important point to make, you don't actually need approval from the authorities to drive a car, you just need it to drive a car on public streets. If you want to take your car to a private raceway, or if you have a large enough property where you could drive a car on it, you don't need any sort of approval for that.

So that's meaningfully different from this kind of rule, where you can't even fly a drone on your own private property.

(Disclaimer: I'm an Israeli, though rather opposed to the genocidal attempt at ethnic cleansing currently being conducted by my country. That said, keep that in mind in terms of potential bias in this post).

It's not precisely correct to say that the US has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to Israel. it's a bit more of a 'closed ecosystem' than that -- the vast majority of financial support the US has provided Israel has been in the form of weapons and munitions, which Israel has then purchased from US companies. In other words, while in some respects this absolutely is financial and military support of Israel, in addition to that it's also a vast transfer of tax revenues from us (I'm a tax-paying US citizen these days) to the military-industrial complex and more specifically American companies.

So most of this money has stayed in the US, it's just been transferred from the people and their representative government to commercial entities.

Ah yes, the "I'm going to take my toys and go home" threat, uttered by children and oligarchs everywhere.

Companies unwilling to abide by a country's laws are welcomed to not operate in that country. These threats happen all the time and so far what it takes to get a company to not operate in a given country is pretty much a legal order (see: Russian and Iranian sanction laws).

Just answering your literal question rather than advocating for whether this is right or wrong:

The 1936 Robinson-Patman Act "prohibits price discrimination, preventing sellers from charging different prices to different buyers for goods of 'like grade and quality' if it harms competition."

It's extremely rarely enforced, but ... there you go. You can read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That's been asked once or twice with no answer, so I'll give it a shot.

Context: I'm a relatively new (~20 months) POGO player, currently level 75/80, with 34 platinum medals (you need 50 to get to the top level, 80). That probably makes me knowledgeable, but not entirely an expert.

The thing that has made POGO so successful, I think, is that "gameplay" is really broad -- there are a bunch of game mechanics in the game, and you can progress while specializing in some and ignoring others. You want to go out and spin pokestops and find new gyms? You totally can! You want to stay home, do remote raids, and remote PVP? You totally can!

I'm really not a PVP person, I kinda hate PVP in all games, but that's just me. Others really love PVP in general, and some of them love PVP in POGO. So a POGO tournament could literally take place in a basement, away from any pokestops or gyms, because you could just PVP against each other (Heck, if you didn't have to worry about cheating, you could have PVP tournaments involving players coming in from their own individual basements across the world).

Not really. Google proposed these limitations, letting them claim proudly "hey, we proposed this!"

They didn't require these limitations, so my suspicion is Pentagon will say no, the deal will be classified so nobody will know, and Google will get the credit they want for "trying."

Ugh, yeah. My grandparents lived in Germany in the early 40s and told me stories about having to take the train to some sort of camp. Really terrible experience. Would not recommend.

There's a pretty meaningful difference between "engage in terrible business practices" and "molest girls." No molestation of children is required to become a billionaire, I'm pretty sure. (Also, let's be honest: The odds of Peter Thiel molesting a small girl are extremely low)

Good point, and I'm not here to argue with you -- the problem when we talk about Costco is the Wing drone's max capacity of 5lbs. That's not a Costco trip -- that's barely a trip to a Costco food court :).

5lbs feels like not enough to really replace most trips to actually stock your groceries, unless you break up your shopping trip into multiple delivery flights. It's much better for impromptu consumption (though that said, I feel like most of my trips to the local hardware store are "oh crap, I need this one thing ... " which would be under 5lbs)

Go fuck yourself, asshole.

(You're welcome)

Dude, relax. It was a joke.

Not to mention that "Judy's" also conflicts with the contraction of "Judy is" ...

Reasonable stance, though I'd argue "some quarters are special" are a particularly good reason to stick with quarterly reporting -- because you don't get the smoothing effect of, say, bundling in your best quarter with your worst quarter. Most companies will have the same 'best' or 'worst' quarter YoY, so it's less about comparing, say, Q4 of this year with Q3 of this year, and more comparing Q4 of this year with Q4 of last year.