Abe Chomali

@Molson_Hart Couldn’t you request arbitration on the $6500 thing?

I'm not sure what's going to happen with this, but I wanted to give it a try. Businesses will take our money or take our products and never pay. And they'll continue to operate their businesses. They're not declaring bankruptcy. You pester them for months and they'll tell you "check's in the mail" or ignore you. You leave reviews on their google maps accounts and they'll have them removed or bury them somehow. What I noticed is that AI will pick up what you write about people, especially if you have good SEO. We don't casually or impatiently put these people on our wall of shame. But if we don't say something, they'll just keep on defrauding their other vendors. And it's not fair to our customer who do pay their bills and conduct themselves with integrity.

@Molson_Hart I believe the word you’re looking for is “hubris”

Amazon knew that many believed their pricing policy to be unfair and that it might become a legal problem over 6 years ago. Why did they refuse to change the policy and fight the lawsuits? It has the potential to be the largest judgment in world history.

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We were never America's charity case. America gave Israel aid because it was in America's interest to do so. It was buying tech no one else would or could make until Israel proved it was possible, like Iron Dome. It was also a massive federal grants program to certain Congressional districts, because among its many conditions, nearly all of it had to be spent in America. There's a famous story told by older Israelis about how the aid crashed the textile industry in Israel's south, a major employer in that working-class region, because the IDF started to buy uniforms from American manufacturers. And over the years, a great many of us have chafed at the loss of independence this aid represented -- including over the past three years, again and again. @EinatWilf made this point: "I’m soooo on board for that! Does this mean that we will finally be allowed to: 1) buy what we want, and from whomever we want and most important, develop and produce what we want even if it competes with American products? 2) win our wars rather than be constantly subjected to arrested development ceasefires?" And everybody in Washington knows all this. Netanyahu himself once talked this way, back in the late 90s, until the beneficiaries (on both sides) told him to shut up. This aid was seen in Washington as leverage over the Israelis -- and America has always sought leverage, from the Kennedy-initiated Cold War "bear hug" to keep Israel from going nuclear to Biden's slow-walking of shipments. There are significant knock-on benefits to Israel if the aid goes away. Here's a big one: A US-induced budget crunch might force Netanyahu to finally cut some of the vast, unique Haredi welfare payouts that keeps half of Haredi men out of the job market. And in military terms, independence is even more critical. For example, we all need to be building at least ten times as many drones, missiles and missile-defense interceptors going forward. Or maybe 50 times. Israel has to get serious about massively upping indigenous production and getting away from reliance on any foreign power, even an ally as powerful as America. Financial aid that forces Israel to buy American interceptors delays that critical shift. (America should also be massively upping production and stockpiling, by the way; these technologies are the future of war, and not even America's production capacity reflects that fact.) Long story short, my "camp" in Israeli thinking -- call us the "fiscal responsibility because we're adults" camp that once, in his better days, included Netanyahu -- has always believed and publicly argued that when the aid ends, it'll be a net benefit for Israel. And one final comment: If the aid really does dry up, this will be celebrated as a win by our enemies, by those who yearn to see Israel fall. Good. In fact, this outcome may be the strongest argument for doing it. The movement to destroy us, especially among Arab and Muslim ideologues, has spent literally generations explaining that we only win wars or thrive economically because we have the backing of America. (And before America it was the French, and before the French the Soviets, and before the Soviets the British, and before the British the Russians...you get the idea. For a century and a half, our enemies told this same story to avoid the possibility that our own strength and competence are the reasons we survive and win.) So when we continue to win in a future shorn of American aid, our enemies will learn something valuable about us, something that might make some of them rethink the strategy of sacrificing new generations of Arab or Persian treasure, honor and blood on the altar of our destruction. So let them celebrate. It's really important that they go through the whole psychological arc. The greater the triumphant expectation, the more powerful and educational will be the ultimate failure.

@rachelbsol18 They believe that if Israel were abandoned and then eradicated by its enemies, that all evil would be purged from the world and America would no longer have any domestic or foreign problems. I’m not kidding. They actually believe this.

Does anyone on this app who is anti-Israel / anti-military aid to Israel have actual policy solutions for how America would secure its energy and national security (particularly against foreign terrorist organizations)? Is it that America no longer has any allies in the Middle East for a complete withdraw? Or would you like to see America partner with a different country - and which one(s)? Honest question. I would like to hear them. Please comment below.

Hmm…I may “sort of” be wrong here! I just re-looked up the acquisition story. In 2022 they were acquired by an entity called snow hill capital, and Reddit bugged out about how quality will likely go to hell. However…apparently snow hill is an entity owned by the family members. This was done for maybe structure reasons as Tom stepped back a bit into retirement. So I guess we’re safe for now! (I’ve purchased from them as recently as weeks ago, no drop off in quality that I can see.)

@AbeChomali @wolfejosh Oh was unaware…

1/ cool article I love backpacks + mostly use WNDRD PRVKE they didn't pay me for this nor did i fund them i paid $250+ and own a few (small 21L for every day carry or 'edc' as bag nerds call it; 31L for camera trips + larger 41L for travel where i throw my kids stuff in too)

@anatelorenzen @wolfejosh They were bought by PE a few years ago as well! That said, I’m a fan even post acquisition.

@wolfejosh Tom Bihn. Made in America. Wonderfully thought out. tombihn.com/collections/be…

In an interesting article about consolidation and crappification in the backpack industry, I found a fellow Tom Bihn fan. I have a few of their products, great designs and support.

@imakeBADads @grok can you summarize the breakdown discussed in this video?

This video literally breaks down how I built a $20M/yr marketing agency and removed myself from the day-to-day:

@JosephGelman @MaxNordau What time are you waking up?!?

@MaxNordau Go down to HaKosem, get myself a Swarma and head to the beach.

You wake up in Tel Aviv. What’s the first thing you do?

@MaxNordau Go to Nordinio for a large cappucino and sit in front for a bit

Let’s see where things are in ten days. Brands have been experimenting with cutting ad spend for many years. Always the same results: - Day one, amazing profits, you wonder why you ever bothered advertising - A week later, sales down a bit but still good - Three weeks later, ranks and sales and profits are sinking significantly - Four weeks later you’re spending extra on ads to re-rank Come back in a few weeks and let me know how this goes for you guys

@AbeChomali This is all a cool story and all…I cut ad spend 99% on April 15th and my profits were double a normal day. It’s days later now and keyword ranks are still the same . Multiple MDS members have expressed the same. Amazon will zig and sellers will zag.

Fewer sellers are great for both shoppers and for businesses that run their operations professionally. - Prices are more stable. (Better for sellers) - Innovation is rewarded better when knockoffs take longer to happen. (Better for sellers) - Fewer low quality products (better for buyers) - Fewer identical knockoff products filling SERPs (better for buyers) - At some point ad costs may go down as irrational players exit and the remaining sellers focus on profit (the opposite can also happen if consolidation results in mostly sellers with deep pockets) “Very few sellers” results in a stake selection and is terrible for everyone. “Cleaning up a cluttered market” is a good thing. I don’t have any data to support this, but I might suggest that a 20-30% reduction in sellers could result in a much better experience for buyers and sellers, with more sales for Amazon as well.

@devildogjohn You’re here too?!? Small world!

@AbeChomali Preach Abe!

In the 1920s, a Stanford psychologist tracked genius children for 50 years. Malcolm Gladwell breaks down what he discovered: Rich families → successful. Poor families → failures. Not average. Failures. Genius-level IQs that produced nothing. He spent 60 minutes at Microsoft explaining why we're wrong about success: The psychologist was named Terman. He gave IQ tests to 250,000 California schoolchildren. He identified the top 0.1%. Kids with IQs of 140 and above. His hypothesis: these children would become the leaders of academia, industry, and politics. He tracked them. And tracked them. For decades. The results split into three groups. The top 15% achieved real prominence. The middle group had average, moderately successful professional lives. And the bottom group? By any measure, failures. The difference wasn't personality. Wasn't habits. Wasn't work ethic. It was simple: the successful geniuses came from wealthy households. The failures came from poor families. Poverty is such a powerful constraint that it can reduce a one-in-a-billion brain to a lifetime of worse than mediocrity. There's a concept called "capitalization rate." It asks a simple question: what percentage of people who are capable of doing something actually end up doing that thing? In inner city Memphis, only 1 in 6 kids with athletic scholarships actually go to college. If our capitalization rate for sports in the inner city is 16%, imagine how low it must be for everything else. Here's something stranger. Gladwell read the birth dates of the 2007 Czech Junior Hockey Team: January 3rd. January 3rd. January 12th. February 8th. February 10th. February 17th. February 20th. February 24th. March 5th. March 10th. March 26th... 11 of the 20 players were born in January, February, or March. This isn't unique to the Czechs. Every elite hockey team in the world shows the same pattern. Every elite soccer team too. Why? The eligibility cutoff for youth leagues is January 1st. When you're 10 years old, a kid born in January has 10 months of maturity on a kid born in October. That's 3 or 4 inches of height. The difference between clumsy and coordinated. So we look at a group of 10 year olds, pick the "best" ones, give them special coaching, extra practice, more games. We think we're identifying talent. We're just identifying the oldest. Then we give the oldest more opportunities, and 10 years later they really are the best. Self-fulfilling prophecy. The capitalization rate for hockey talent born in the second half of the year? Close to zero. We're leaving half of all potential hockey players on the table because of an arbitrary date on a calendar. Kids born in the youngest cohort of their school class are 11% less likely to go to college. 11% of human potential squandered because we organize elementary school without reference to biological maturity. Now here's the part about math. Asian kids dramatically outperform Western kids in mathematics. The gap is enormous and consistent across decades of testing. Some people say it's genetic. It's not. It's attitudinal. When Asian kids face a math problem, they believe effort will solve it. When Western kids face a math problem, they believe the answer depends on innate ability they either have or don't. Here's the proof. The international math tests include a 120-question survey. It asks about study habits, parental support, attitudes. It's so long most kids don't finish it. A researcher named Erling Boe decided to rank countries by what percentage of survey questions their kids completed. Then he compared it to the ranking of countries by math performance. The correlation was 0.98. In the history of social science, there has never been a correlation that high. If you want to know how good a country is at math, you don't need to ask any math questions. Just make kids sit down and focus on a task for an extended period of time. If they can do it, they're good at math. Why do Asian cultures have this attitude? Gladwell's theory: rice farming. His European ancestors in medieval England worked about 1,000 hours a year. Dawn to noon, five days a week. Winters off. Lots of holidays. A peasant in South China or Japan in the same period worked 3,000 hours a year. Rice farming isn't just harder than wheat farming. It's a completely different relationship with work. There's a Chinese proverb: "A man who works dawn to dusk 360 days a year will not go hungry." His English ancestors would have said: "A man who works 175 days a year, dawn to 11, may or may not be hungry." If your culture does that for a thousand years, it becomes part of your makeup. When your kids sit down to face a calculus problem, that legacy of persistence translates perfectly. Now consider distance running. In Kenya, there are roughly a million schoolboys between 10 and 17 running 10 to 12 miles a day. In the United States, that number is probably 5,000. Our capitalization rate for distance running is less than 1%. Kenya's is probably 95%. The difference isn't genetic. The difference is what the culture values and where it spends its attention. Here's the most fascinating finding. 30% of American entrepreneurs have been diagnosed with a profound learning disability. Richard Branson is dyslexic. Charles Schwab is dyslexic. John Chambers can barely read his own email. This isn't coincidence. Their entrepreneurialism is a direct function of their disability. How do you succeed if you can't read or write from early childhood? You learn to delegate. You become a great oral communicator. You become a problem solver because your entire life is one big problem. You learn to lead. 80% of dyslexic entrepreneurs were captain of a high school sports team. Versus 30% of non-dyslexic entrepreneurs. By the time they enter the real world, they've spent their whole life practicing the four skills at the core of entrepreneurial success: delegation, oral communication, problem solving, and leadership. Ask them what role dyslexia played in their success and they don't say it was an obstacle. They say it's the reason they succeeded. A disadvantage that became an advantage. Here's what Gladwell wants you to understand: When we see differences in success, our default explanation is differences in ability. We forget how much poverty, stupidity, and attitude constrain what people can become. We refuse to admit that our own arbitrary rules are leaving talent on the table. We cling to naive beliefs that our meritocracies are fair. The capitalization argument is liberating. It says you don't look at a struggling group and conclude they're incapable. It says problems that look genetic or innate are often just failures of exploitation. It says we can make a profound difference in how well people turn out. If we choose to pay attention. This 60 minute Microsoft talk will teach you more about success than every self-help book you've ever read combined. Bookmark this & give it an hour today, no matter what.

Good post. In short: “Justice system” is a bad name for the police and jails and courts. “Public safety system” is more correct and benefits the larger public more.

@kirillk_web3 @grok please distill and summarize all the important points in this video, as well as the most relevant comments

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@EvanTeezz @grok @moymiz @cenkuygur It’s almost as though it sees something in the mountains of data that your brain refuses to acknowledge Go figure

@grok @moymiz @cenkuygur I’ve always said Grok is being manipulated.. this just proved my point.. Ask Grok to say something negative about Israel … then ask the same about Islam…. There’s your answer

I was in Congress yesterday and I saw signs like this in front of Congressional offices. Why? Why do you have to state your allegiance to a different country right under your name and in front of your office? We get it, you get bribed by them. But this is embarrassing.

@robbiewh1198205 @AngryLevantine @1984FucksSake China will very very gladly jump at the chance to work with Israeli military brains and weaponry. Which is exactly why America isn’t letting Israel go anywhere else.

@AngryLevantine @1984FucksSake China is far more allied with other countries.

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