Rick Gissler

Multifamily Real Estate Investor & skydiver

[Oklahoma Baseball @OU_Baseball]

everybody pulled on the same rope 🎥

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@_jimmyshaw Perhaps we should tell the tale of “The day Travis took a day off”

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@HPbasketball Will be interesting if refs allow that level of push off extension both ways tonight. I’m fine with physicality as long as it goes both ways

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@SpaceX We are truly experiencing next level science fiction/space magic to pull off these flights & crystal clear camera work. Absolutely incredible @SpaceX & @elonmusk

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@SpaceX How can I add this directly to my calendar?

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@elerianm This is a lazy take. Spirit already declared bankruptcy before Iran war started. Lost tons of $ in Covid & had too much debt. Then couldn’t secure a Govt bailout. Iran war only seemed to quicken the inevitable closure.

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@AndrewKSchlecht “Hey, it could happen”- Angels in the Outfield

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@HPbasketball The real question is going to be whether this was a culture issue leading from the coach, or if they need to totally reconfigure the team. The drop off from last year to this one needs to be analyzed if it’s a top-down culture or personnel problem

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@SportsCenter Yes, this is a very cool tradition that the Spurs copied from OKC, just like the pre-game drum they tried using earlier this year.

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

To my Oklahoma family;
this piece comes straight from the heart.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt.
Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it.

I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives.

When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more.

I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game.

Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker.

But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go.

He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career.

What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it.

So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down.

There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller.

They belong to children.

There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore.

As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed.

That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present.

The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter.

Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained.

We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection.

When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.”

Then he said something I will never forget.

“Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.”

In that moment, basketball felt different.

Not smaller, but clearer.

Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity.

From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me.

On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured.
https://t.co/XfNLliRVaO

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@_jimmyshaw If this pick somehow slides into the Top 4, the whole league will fully HATE OKC for the next 5-7 years. (They already seem to be starting anyway)

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@_jimmyshaw @nocontextmemes Team J as well. Curious what was 2nd place for you? D?

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@HPbasketball It’s been a masterclass in building redundancies & contingency plans. And they still have Sorber coming (yet to see if he can work though)

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Firstly, this accomplishment is incredible!!! 2nd, I’m realizing how spoiled I’ve been watching the @SpaceX launches & landing livestreams. Those guys are light years ahead of this broadcast.

[NASA @NASA]

LIVE: They are coming home.

Watch as the Artemis II crew returns to Earth, splashing down at around 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11). https://t.co/n3vZE2rcFv

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5 years ago, my life was stalling out & I was in desperate need of a transformational change. I signed up to climb Mt Whitney & then Mt Kilimanjaro w/ @_jimmyshaw & it has truly changed my life

[Ryan @RCAM_Media]

I know @_jimmyshaw personally and I have been on the missions field with him. I couldn't recommend this experience more. I hiked a mountain the fraction of the size of anything you see here with him and it was a mountaintop experience.

10/10 recommend.

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[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

This is a fascinating thread for those wanting to better understand how a pricing algorithm works. Surveillance pricing is going to become a growing scourge on consumers.

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I love how proud the President was & how pumped the team was to get the invitation from POTUS. Gotta love it.

[Harrison Krank @HarrisonKrank]

You can hear the genuine pride in Donald Trumps voice when he called the Team USA Hockey Team

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@dailythunder It’s too bad that the article is hidden behind a paywall

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@moseskagan 2 things can be true: 1) Low interest rates would spur the economy & likely raise inflation (not good). 2) the Fed has not been independent in their decision making when D’s are in power (ie. Fed’s decision to ⬇️ rates right before the ‘24 election despite having high inflation)

[david friedberg @friedberg]

why not just raise income tax rates?

because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.

you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.

you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.)

the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen.

the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure.

it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking.

that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all.

i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%.

want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes.

want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…