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[GME DaLoot @gmeorbust0]

@michaeljburry

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@rensole Thinner! Thinner layers mate. Less is more

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@rensole Vrij-mi-bo… zon en schermpjes lezen gaat zo moeilijk

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@rensole Ah shit, was already replied 🤣

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[GameStop @gamestop]

Need some green? Trade your Xbox or PS5 for $420.69 cash from 4/20 to 4/22.

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@Teknium @OpenWebUI @grok I’m running openwebui locally with ollama, is this Hermes Agent of any use to me?

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@rensole Saw this one as well on another platform, next level Reacher it is!

[Larry Cheng @larryvc]

I needed to update a hotel reservation today, so I called them. A prompt asked me to press 1 if I was making a new reservation or 2 if I had an existing reservation.

I pressed 2. It asked me to leave a message, and they would get back to me.

Instead of leaving a message, out of curiosity, I called back and pressed 1. They picked up immediately and handled my request.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - it shouldn't be easier to get to a sales rep than a customer service rep. When this is the reality, it says a lot about a company culturally and what it prioritizes.

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@BillyM2k Yup, we Europeans will finance it with selling ASML machines to China, so we can finance the shit we didn’t agree to start. Meanwhile … someone wants a Nobel peace prize 🤦🏼‍♂️

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@gamestop @greg16676935420 , wasn’t that your pizza 🍕 slide that you said you’d finish?

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@heyitspixel69 Is this the same @heyitspixel69 that has critique on Ryan’s $GME project?

[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

The Hollow Men

American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.

By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.

These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.

In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.

Today, we have severed that link.

We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.

If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.

This looting starts in the boardroom.

We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.

Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.

And for what?

Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.

They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.

And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?

We get the Delegation Economy.

When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.

This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.

They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.

While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.

If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.

The time for polite governance is over.

If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

[greg @greg16676935420]

good morning to everyone except for the people it’s not morning for

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@rensole Djees … I completely missed this one … skipped the PlayStation, but did like the final fantasy movie 😅

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@rensole Pooh, you could try nikwax visor proof. Arai has anti fog visors, not hydrophobic visors as far as I know.

Ah well, I only do kart racing … and those 2 times a year it rains, I just open my visor 🤣

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@rensole After 5 years side lined alignment, you’re more than welcome (butterfly effect next level, algos triggered yet?)

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@rensole I’m not around, I’m randstad, but Hertog Jan is always available here

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@rensole 🤣

Btw, I might have a garage soon for myself. Mostly pointed to German cars, but also exclusive hobby projects. So if you ever reach a problem, reach out and may or may not have an answer