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royiv

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  1. Helicopters can absolutely land after engine failure using autorotation. Have a friend whose son is a helicopter pilot and he went up with him during training when they practiced autorotation. He said it was super unsettling. That said, if the helicopter loses a rotor and tail, well you’re gonna have a bad day.
  2. Keep in mind this is the guy who killed the badass Alaska thread with his shit about his faux chateaux in Montana.
  3. Did he assault a tent?
  4. And it takes a whole lot longer to ramp things up than it takes to shut them down.
  5. It’s a dumb argument. Cuban invested in the business and increased its value more than 10x. He also doesn’t understand that foregoing potential revenue doesn’t equal “losing money.” It was strictly a business decision he would have made to increase the value of the enterprise. Pissing off your customers is a good way to tarnish your brand, as Cuban and the Adelsons are currently seeing firsthand.
  6. This seems like it could be bad for Tesla. EU Negotiating EV Tariffs with China
  7. I would take anything Cuban has told you with a gigantic grain of salt, but what we do know is he bought the team for $285 million. He sold it for $3.5 billion. Explain to me how he lost money on the Mavs.
  8. So I guess Cuban is just a dumbass with poor judgement and bad business acumen?
  9. He never lost a dime on the Mavs. You’re buying the billionaire BS hook, line and sinker.
  10. FWIW, I had season tickets for the last couple of seasons at Reunion and at AAC until I moved to PHX, coincidentally the same year Nash went back for his Suns 2.0 stint. So I’ve given Cuban plenty of my hard earned money, probably a much larger percentage of my income than Cuban ever “sacrificed” for his hobby. I don’t think you understand the vast wealth of being a billionaire and that “sacrificing” $10 million here or there is like a nice night out for you and me. I lost interest in the NBA about 15 years ago and only check the standings every now and then to see how the Rockets are doing since I now live in Houston and have a little curiosity in how they’re doing, but I’ve lived here six years and have been to a total of one game and that was as a guest of a vendor. Cuban cares about money. That’s it. You’ve bought into his persona and I get it since I had, too. He chose one of the worst families in the country to sell a controlling interest in the team to so he really doesn’t care as much about the team as you’ve convinced yourself he does. He got his championship trophy 15 years ago or whenever it was and decided that after another finals run it was a good time to cash out on a very lucrative investment. Trust me, he sacrificed nothing financially for the Mavs. The Mavs made him more money than you and I will ever have in our lifetimes.
  11. Keep telling yourself that, bud. So your argument is that Cuban is a dumb businessman? Do you understand how silly that sounds? He’s just another billionaire. I used to think differently of him back when i lived in Dallas 20+ years ago. I thought he was different, but he’s not.
  12. I absolutely knew of the Adelsons and I guarantee Cuban did, too. Even if for some very odd reason that he didn’t, he would have had a team that did due diligence on them before entering into business transaction with them. They are slimy businesspeople with highly questionable ethics and a well documented history. I’m not angry or irrational. I’m not a fan of the Mavs and think the NBA is boring so I don’t really have a dog in the fight from a sports loyalty perspective.
  13. Dude, he sold the team to the Adelsons, one of the shittiest families in the country. I don’t think Cuban is an unintelligent man, so that points to him knowing exactly who he was selling the team to.
  14. Why would he do that? He already bought the presidency.
  15. Feels like we would have heard about 830 sexual assaults over a single weekend before a post on Surly.
  16. Cuban knew exactly what he was doing. It’s not like the Adelsons are an unknown quantity. He’s just another greedy billionaire like the rest of them.
  17. Man, what a kick to the nuts for the Mavs fans and Luka to have to sit there and watch that knowing what the franchise did to them and him.
  18. Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.
  19. And you got assaulted by an orange man while the lights were off.
  20. I missed it where the tariffs on China are now 145% and not 125%.
  21. Rupar posts on Bluesky and the video has already been posted here via that platform. Get off of Twitter.
  22. No, quite the opposite. Derka owes us an apology for setting the tone in this shitass thread. He doomed it from the start.
  23. I had that same thought, but I think that was in the mid/late 90’s.
  24. Just when I thought this thread had moved on from tent talk.
  25. Pretty easy walk over to MDA from there. Just don’t get mowed down by a light rail train crossing Fannin.
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