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  1. NYK @ $.20 now today so I'm at a 10x return min. I ended up selling off a bit before the game today to get my nut back so it's house money now.
  2. No lies told. Those are all top 10 heaters. Misery and then almost immediately after Water Boy.
  3. I have a super unpopular opinion: I actually think Sanders is going to be a great QB in the league (top 10 QB, if not an MVP candidate one day) and think he’s going to have a 10-year+ career. He’s impressed me with his positive attitude with all the chaos that’s happened and he doesn’t seem to take himself too seriously IMO. If prediction markets would let us buy a stake in a players career he’d be a huge value buy for me, based on how he’s pretty much been buried before playing a snap.
  4. Just realized I’ve been ordering my fried eggs all wrong my whole life. I always thought I was an over-easy guy. Lately been thinking the bacon and sausage doesn’t sop up all the yolk and feels like you need a spoon like it’s egg drop soup on my plate afterwards. Decided to try over-medium and it was deliciously and gloriously the perfect amount of runny yolk to white ratio. I feel like a new man. I’m 66 years old, don’t ever let anyone tell you that an old dog can’t learn a new trick!
  5. Anyone following American business would remember the hoopla of Chipotle having their star CEO poached with record high share price and shareholder value creation (and the controversy of letting him commute with PJ’s). So he comes in with a heroes welcome by shareholders to bring a once high flying company back to their heights, makes some positive (in his estimation) changes like “wear dark clothes for the brand, it’s good and will help with brand and customer experience which translates to value” and is met with a union who wants to stage a walkout and strike over the color shirt they have to wear. Bad union or bad management are the only two options you give in such a scenario, so I’m asking you which is it?
  6. I guess it’s unpopular but I think Kamala wins with a real chance and runway. She was asked to come in down 2 runs in the bottom of the ninth and then gets blamed for not striking out the side and hitting home runs at the same time because the managers left Biden in too long.
  7. Seems foolish to not want to, at an appropriate time and with the right people and good intentions (in this case, The New Yorker reporting) to understand root cause analysis and what went wrong in a look back to try and understand to learn lessons. So as to not repeat the same mistakes or mistakes that rhyme. Kinda weird you’d ask because it’s super valuable and super common to do post mortems on all sorts of projects, cases and deals, especially where the outcome was negative, and is related to feedback. The opposite seems foolish and emotional akin to “I don’t want to talk about it anymore, who cares, what’s it matter, fingers in ears, etc.”
  8. The old CEO(s) who were ousted for a celebratory and celebrity QSR hire to make changes and bring his Chipotle Midas touch to a fledgling business. But you knew that!
  9. I wrote about this in the basketball thread but thought maybe discussion here is better. The prediction market on the Robinhood app is awesome because you can buy “shares” and cash out at anytime or let it ride to fulfillment. For example, before the playoffs I bought NY Knicks to win the championship at $.02 a share. I bought 5000 shares for $100. Today the shares are .15 which means I can sell right now and make $650 (net $550) or I can let it ride out to see if they win the championship at which point each share is worth $1.00 ($100 @ 5000 shares @ $.02 invested means a return of $5,000). Or I can sell anytime before to take the risk off the table, etc. I find it to be a super fun way to gamble as it’s not necessarily all or nothing and the ability to get a 10x-25x return on initial investment is rare outside of crazy parlays Anyone else do this?
  10. Right. I think the argument made was that by concealing it screwed actual D's with a chance (and Kamala specifically) and gave us the felon. From the article: I think we all agree that the first 100+ days has been an unmitigated series of disasters and that Biden's barely awake corpse would have done better, but it's more about how the actions-- and the stench of a coverup/hoodwinking-- was a massive political error. I think a lot of us knew there was more to the story and what met the eyes and it's interesting that now post-mortem analysis and reporting is coming out and the tea is gonna be spilled on some of this, potentially.
  11. Full article if The New Yorker paywalls it.
  12. Seems damning: What the public saw of Joe Biden’s functioning was concerning. What was going on in private was worse. In an exclusive full excerpt from their forthcoming book, “Original Sin,” Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson report on a fateful fund-raising event that revealed the extent of Biden’s decline, stunning George Clooney, Barack Obama, and others—and how the President and his advisers decided to conceal his condition and continue campaigning for reëlection. Read it here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/how-joe-biden-handed-the-presidency-to-donald-trump
  13. I think ztejas is overindexing here but I also agree to an extent to a lot of how ztejas has characterized Kanye and his art. The question for me is actually a more interesting one that cuts across timelines-- knowing more today as we do about mental illness and knowing that Kanye clearly suffers from some type(s) of mental illness-- has provacetur and avant garde art always been undergirded with illness? I always thought the tortured artist was a myth but idk.
  14. Crisp and Breezy banger for the tops down in Galveston this summer:
  15. Is this bad union or bad management when it sounds like a bunch of emo gen alphas who are throwing a fit because they have to conform to a general color scheme (and call it a uniform). "Hundreds of Starbucks staff have walked out of over 50 stores since Sunday to protest the company's new dress code, which went into effect Monday. The union that orchestrated the walkouts hinted that more are planned. It also filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board alleging the uniform changes are illegal, per Bloomberg. The coffee chain announced the uniform updates in April, part of an ongoing effort to revive sales after five consecutive quarterly same-store sales declines."
  16. Is the thinking, if consumer prices have to go up regardless (e.g. tariffs or profiteering or inflation or whatever else comes up), might as well go up in the service of paying the middle class better?
  17. I suspect it's a blindspot for many of us, but what you described as being a virtue of agrarian society (i.e. being unskilled and not very smart, but being able to lift things or carry things or just do things physically) is very ableist. And I know that might make me sound namby-pamby around here, but ableism is a thing and the move of society to use your brains and skills versus just having two working legs or otherwise not being disabled in some way, was very equalizing for a lot of people. It shouldn't be lost that while, you are right, the future of AI and devaluing of skills is a risk for all, it's the differently abled who are hurt the most.
  18. Right, but the point being that "bringing back manufacturing jobs" is going to be expensive relative to the value you get, if you are trying to help humans have a middle class job (versus automation and/or paying a very low wage that is competitive globally and for the skill level e.g. screwing in screws).
  19. This headline caught my attention: UAE - Kids as young as four to learn AI. The United Arab Emirates will roll out AI classes as part of its state school curricula from primary onwards. The Gulf state’s education minister is vowing not to repeat the error of its slow adaptation to social media. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/05/06/uae-to-begin-teaching-ai-in-schools.html
  20. I've shared this before, but I have a friend who does some pretty basic and rote factory floor work at a Peterbilt plant. He essentially screws on 9 industrial screws (I could be exagerating, maybe its 15, but it's not much work) to the chasis or something as it hits his part of the line, does like 15 trucks a night (works the 3rd shift I think which is nights) and between the Union negotiated wages, perks and bennies, OT and 3rd shift stuff makes more than most pediatricians and state attorneys. It's a racket. Soooo....there is that extreme as well, I guess, is my point. But good for him, he just reupholstered his seats on his 2 year old boat. Must be nice.
  21. Trump to "snub" Israel as well as he visits *checks notes* KSA, Qatar, UAE and potentially Turkey.
  22. This is the insane world we live in: Treating consumers badly to boost profits is securities fraud, but treating consumers well and reducing profits is also securities fraud, because everything is securities fraud. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/08/unitedhealthcare-sued-by-shareholders-over-reaction-to-ceos-killing.html
  23. Changes nothing for me. Still out on this team as long as this management team is in charge.
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