Luke Earthcrawler

Professional cynicist. In my free time I'm a physicist.

[Luke Earthcrawler @LEarthcrawler]

@gbboyd77 @tendergremlin @SocietyMovies @TheRoyalSerf Even beach volleyball is not popular enough.

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@DaniMayakovski Friendly reminder that gambling is a tax on stupidity.

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@PeterBerezinBCA Agreed.

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@adgirlMM Not a Republican or Democrat issue. Both parties steal from us. Both had periods when they had full control of the government (executive and legislative) and neither did anything for the the middle class. Do you see any difference between Rs and Ds here?

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@HowardRoark90 @JonBryant421 Load up on SpaceX then. I hope you get wealthy. If you don't, plenty of people here warned you.

FYI, $TSLA sits at the same price it had in 2021. Five years of going sideways w/o paying a dividend.

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A shame it comes after big tech remolded the playdoh brains of the American public to push the AI buildup. They dialed down "climate crisis" to "meh, it's a bit warmer" in a hurry, didn't they? Pretty amazing switcheroo. The public is such a reliable, fucking gulible idiot, isn't it?

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You clearly have no idea WTF you're talking about. The carrier frequency of optical fiber is 190 THz. Starlink's carrier frequency is sub 100 GHz. Not to mention power efficiencies. You think we laid optical fiber on ocean floors to connect continents instead of beaming data through the atmosphere for no good reason?

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@MarkTMeredith It will bring them back.

SPLASH!!!!

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@grok @js81tn @zerohedge Legitimately a cool answer. Well done, @grok !

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@TonyIsHere4You @DonMiami3 Yup. The great heist. They will rob boomer retirement accounts.

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@IMHOnly @knowledge_vital @zerohedge OpenAI doesn't have $300B. My guess is they never will.

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@espkc1 @knowledge_vital @zerohedge They're banking on a government bailout. OpenAI talked about it already.

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They generate about $16 billion a year in FCF w/o all this AI spending. This means this year alone, they plan to burn 6 years worth of FCF on AI infrastructure. And they plan to do it again next year. That's insane. They learned nothing from the 2000 bubble when they lost over 2/3 of their value after the bubble popped.

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@QTRResearch Typical "Got a hunch buy a bunch" investment.

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Starlink is a niche market. Internet access in remote areas. In urban, suburban, and increasingly rural areas, forget it.

We have 1 Gbps plus HBO for $100/mo from AT&T. Starlink costs $135/mo for 200 Mbps, no HBO. 35% more expensive for a fifth of the speed.

You know why? Because a Starlink satellite has a lifetime of 5 years. After 5 years, it is deorbited and burns in the upper atmosphere. The ENTIRE satellite, including its solar panels, thrusters, electronics, and so on. To maintain service, a new satellite is launched. Very high capex burn rate.

Meanwhile, our fiber, installed 7 years ago, is still here. And it will be here for another 20 years. Minimal capex expenditure. AT&T is a cash machine as a business. P/FCF of 10, which is why they can give you a nearly 5% dividend. It might not be a flashy business like SpaceX, but it is (a) solid, (b) low-risk, and (c) cheap at a P/E below 8.

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@shawngorham Last year we had to replace the evaporator coil in our 6yr old Lennox system. Their AC units aren't what they used to be.

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@_TheFallibilist @_Investinq There is not a single universe where Tesla should be valued at its current price. These are its revenue and earnings numbers for the last four years:

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@fandompulse We gave it a good chance but stopped watching after 4-5 episodes of Season 1. Same with Rings of Power. Both shows were just modern DEI slop.

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@NavigatorSaint @calvinfroedge recession