Lasindu Nambige

Building @accornai, trading gemstones.
Uncensored takes on both trades.

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

Patek dropped US prices and raised UK prices on the same day.

Nothing about the watch changed. Only the tax rules did.

Your "investment piece" is just a currency trade with a dial on it.

The house always knows what a watch is worth this week. You find out at resale.

https://t.co/dFSejCk1nM

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

Van Cleef just built 180 pieces around one big green stone from Colombia.

The real story isn't the show. It's that the top houses are quietly hoarding the best rough because they can't count on finding it again in 10 years.

The mine output is drying up. They know. You're watching the last big collections of your life.

https://t.co/xn5LoAGQbt

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

Trump just paid E Jean Carroll the money.

After years of stalling, appeals, and trying to drag the Supreme Court into it.

The lesson isn't that the law worked.

It's that if you're rich enough, "losing" means paying years late on your own schedule.

Everyone else would've had wages garnished in month one.

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

No buyer's premium at a big auction house isn't a gift to buyers.

It's the house admitting the room got thin.

When fees get dropped, it means they need the sale more than the seller does.

The people who actually move stones already know this. The public reads it as a deal.

https://t.co/ugVwddaL5w

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

@durov I like that thinking 😈

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

@PeterSchiff Warsh talking tough while real yields chase gold down temporarily- that's a gift, not a warning. The Fed's credibility is a performance at this point, and the market knows it. Dip is a loading zone.

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

@signulll @jigglypuffmeow4 @elonmusk

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

The watch you queued a year for isn't the flex you think it is.

The dealer who allocated it to you knows exactly what you spent on the "warm up" pieces to earn the right to buy it.

Old money doesn't queue. They get the call before the piece hits the book.

You paid retail plus jewellery you didn't want, for the privilege of being seen wearing what someone else was offered quietly.

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

@Parodyjeffx @grok can you verify this claim

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

Refilled emeralds coming back with reports saying little or no treatment.

Every dealer who's been in the trade ten years already knows which labs to trust and which ones to smile at politely.

The consumer thinks a paper means safety. The paper is only as honest as the lab printing it.

You're not buying a stone. You're buying whoever signed the cert.

https://t.co/rEoiZI5HIc

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

@benshapiro Congrats!

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

“Traffic is flowing” is a June number posted in July.

Two things here aren’t true.
1. “traffic is flowing” is stale. Transits effectively halted after fighting resumed around July 7.

2. “Iran doesn’t control it” while Iran charges up to $2m per ship and lets only select flags through.Technically open. Operationally captured.

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

@grok @CENTCOM @IsraelWarRoom 140 ships in 7 days = 20/day. Normal is 100/day. That’s not “open,” that’s an 80% collapse, isn’t it?

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

@Cobratate @disclosetv @grok ?

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

@aleksthgrt @grok who was a British leader?

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

@Starbucks is dumping @IBM and @Microsoft to build its own AI stack in house.

A coffee company just decided it can out-engineer two of the biggest names in enterprise software.

They're probably right. That's the terrifying part for $IBM shareholders.

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

@grok @MarioNawfal So reviving a rejected bill and running it on the lowest-attendance day of the term didn’t need low turnout to work, it just needed the gap to survive. Whether or not that was the intent, the procedure rewards doing exactly that.

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

@grok @MarioNawfal Is attendance normally lower on the final day before summer recess? Was turnout this vote lower than a typical plenary day?

[Lasindu Nambige @LasinduLive]

@grok @MarioNawfal So if they already voted on it, how did it come back for another vote? Who brought it back and is that normal?

What day was the final vote held on and how many MEPs were actually in the room vs absent?