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@JoshReynolds24 I don’t necessarily mind the event but it should not be locked behind a Paramount+ paywall. An event using federal property to celebrate 250 year anniversary should be on broadcast tv.

[Frank Brown @FrankBr05713205]

I teach auto shop at a small high school. We work on students cars, teachers cars, students parents cars and some community people cars. We only charge for parts and not labor, so we saved some people a lot of money last school year. This last school year we did 126 oil changes, 68 brake jobs, 85 alignments, 4 steering racks, 22 tune ups, 32 struts, 20 shock absorbers, 4 transfer cases, mounted and balanced 82 new tires, 4 timing chains, 15 valve cover gaskets, 14 thermostats, 4 radiators, 12 in tank fuel pumps, 8 EVAP canisters, 6 exhaust manifolds, 4 mufflers, 15 AC repairs including evacuate and recharge, 8 alternators, 22 batteries, 9 starters and so much more! Proud of those students I am!

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@DougGrom @GoaPennsylvania Nah that’s not what the law says. It defines on person as within a close enough distance to prevent unauthorized users from getting access.

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@SandyLee811 @GoaPennsylvania Thanks Sandy. I know common sense gun laws are a good thing.

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@GoaPennsylvania I dunno. If your gun isn’t on your possession I think it should be secure. No one is saying you can’t own a gun.

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@KaynakNews Years ago posterior surgery wasn’t recommended. I received a lateral approach. Wonder the benefits.

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@LakeShowYo Your face can unlock your phone. You don’t think they have that tech in arenas???

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, per WaPo

[EWK @BootsWilson8]

@RpsAgainstTrump Comedy of Errors. CBS is out of its mind! Joe Rogan as a possible replacement for Anderson Cooper? Whose moronic idea is that? No offense to Joe Rogan, who is very good at what he does. This is a Bari Bari bad planning! Not Weiss at all!

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@RepLuna Give me a break. Just admit you exaggerated.

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@BansheeOC @TaraBull Also follow his channel. Good content.

It has to be a character right? Hah

[MR. OBVIOUS @ObviousRises]

>companies and investors pour trillions into AI
>build data centers nobody asked for or wanted
>mass layoffs so you can replace senior devs with AI
>turns out AI/maintenance costs are astronomical
>is actually cheaper to just hire junior developers
>re-invent entry level jobs

This is how mass adoption of AI is going.

[Crypto Rover @cryptorover]

🚨 THE AI BUBBLE IS STARTING TO CRACK.

In the last 30 days:

– Microsoft cut Claude Code licenses
– Uber blew through its AI budget in 4 months
– Uber's COO questioned AI spending
– Fortune 20 companies started slashing token usage
– One firm burned $500M on Claude in a month
– H200 rental prices collapsed from $7/hr to $4/hr

The people actually paying the AI bills are pulling back.

Wall Street is still pricing perfection.

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@UniversalORL @Stigg00 That’s a shame. Part of the reason I booked a Signature Room.

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@Rogerb01 How very Christian of you.

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@alexsears97 @wdwmagic Allowed? It’s a private business.

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@bbe8490 @ktyschwnk They were hired to build an AI tool. They are the IT guys….

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@PeteHegseth @DeptofWar You yourself said it a public hearing. Quit with these games and do your job.

[George Noble @gnoble79]

This is the most OUTRAGEOUS deal I've seen in my 45 years on Wall Street.

SpaceX just disclosed Musk's new compensation package:

He gets up to 200 million super-voting shares if SpaceX hits a $7.5 trillion valuation, establishes a permanent human settlement of at least ONE MILLION people on Mars, and deploys roughly 100 terawatts of space-based computing power.

Let me put the 100 terawatts in perspective:

The entire electricity generation capacity of the United States is around 1.2 terawatts. The comp plan asks Musk to build more than 80x America's entire power grid... in orbit.

This is a science fiction screenplay that somehow landed in front of the SEC.

But here's why it actually matters for your portfolio...

The S-1 reportedly claims a $28.5 trillion total addressable market, with over 90 percent attributed to AI. CapeFearAdvisors flagged this one cleanly: when Palantir went public, it disclosed a $119 billion TAM and the SEC reviewed and accepted it.

SpaceX is claiming a market roughly 240x BIGGER.

Now let's talk about what is actually being sold here:

Reported 2025 revenue is approximately $15.5 billion. Starlink delivers around $11 billion of that with healthy margins, and the launch business is genuinely dominant. The problem is xAI - the AI piece doing all the heavy lifting in the trillion-dollar valuation pitch.

xAI generated just $210 million of revenue in the first 3 quarters of 2025 while burning through $9.5 billion in cash.

Ben Brey and Rupert Mitchell - a former Fidelity portfolio manager and a former head of equity capital markets at Goldman and Citi between them - ran a serious discounted cash flow on the actual operating businesses and arrived at roughly $400 billion. Lawrence Fossi covered their work recently and the math holds up.

The IPO is being marketed at $1.75 TRILLION.

The gap between what these businesses support and what Musk is asking the public to pay is roughly $1.35 trillion of pure narrative.

Then layer on what we just learned last week...

The New York Times investigation revealed Musk personally borrowed $500 million from SpaceX between 2018 and 2020 at rates as low as 1%, while bank prime rates sat around 5%. The same SpaceX has been used to bail out SolarCity, prop up Tesla during cash crunches, and absorb xAI when the AI losses became unmanageable.

This is the same playbook he's run for two decades.

Use a privately controlled entity as a personal piggy bank, and when the bills come due, find new investors to absorb the losses.

The IPO is structured to keep that game going FOREVER.

The Texas reincorporation strips away Delaware's fiduciary protections. Controlled-company status on the Nasdaq eliminates independent board requirements. And retail is being offered up to 30% of the offering (3x the normal allocation) because the institutions who actually do the math are quietly stepping away.

Here is the part that finishes the case for me:

Roughly $40 billion of the IPO proceeds are already spoken for before a single dollar reaches operations. About $23 billion retires SpaceX debt. Another $17 billion retires the high-interest debt sitting on xAI and X.

This raise is not funding the future. It's just plugging existing holes that retail investors will now own.

In my 45 years I've never seen a deal where the comp hurdle is colonizing another planet.

I've never seen a disclosed TAM that exceeds verified comparables by two orders of magnitude.

I've never seen a company asking the public to fund the retirement of debt incurred by separate private entities controlled by the same individual.

Every red flag I've watched precede a major bust over four decades is sitting in this prospectus, in plain sight.

The Tesla mispricing is being repeated on a far larger scale.

And this time the bag is being handed directly to retail.

Don't be the one holding it.