Ronald Thomson

Your favorite trader is my exit liquidity.

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@0x_Squirrel Parker was Dutch, in the US illegally, and never had a passport. Elvis never played a single show in Europe.

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@kaienphase In 2006 he told ESPN he had a gambling problem, but not a serious one “because I can afford it.” Two years later Wynn took him to court over $400k.

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@GeniusGTX Dealer techs are mostly paid flat rate. No car in the bay, no paycheck. And a lot of new guys buy $20k+ in tools before they ever see $120k.

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@darvinxq And it almost died anyway. Zuffa was around $44 million in the hole by 2004 and the Fertittas looked for a buyer. Then Griffin vs Bonnar aired on Spike.

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@BRitanySHY Steve Albini ran this math in 1993. Band sells 250,000 records, label clears $710,000, each member walks away with $4,031. TLC just did it at diamond scale.

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@scientxbt Paramount ran the same formula on Coming to America. Art Buchwald sued in 1990 and a judge called the net profit terms unconscionable. Five years before Groom.

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@Kv0r1n Jealous wives don’t usually get backed up by an audit. Hers came back with $30 million missing.

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@0vVane The $16.3 billion didn’t hold. FDIC raised its loss estimate to $20.4 billion in February 2024, so those 114 banks kept paying extra quarters.

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Kim Kardashian got $250,000 for 1 Instagram story and paid the SEC $1.26M for it.

June 2021. A black screen. White caps.

“ARE YOU GUYS INTO CRYPTO????”

Below it, a careful line: “This is not financial advice.”

Then the pitch. EthereumMax had “burned 400 trillion tokens.” 50% of the admin wallet.

200M+ followers saw it.

They saw the token. They saw “my friends just told me.”

They did not see the $250,000. No ad label. Just a friend sharing a tip with 200M friends.

The token sank. The swipe-ups held the bag.

Oct 3, 2022. The SEC filed charges.

Kim did not fight. $1M penalty. $260,000 more: the full fee, plus interest.

Total: 5x what the post paid.

Plus a 3-year ban on pushing any crypto.

The fix was 2 letters. She skipped them.

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@vontrixai Heavier kids hit puberty earlier. So a lot of that link is probably childhood weight, not the timing.

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@kurtosxbt Bankman teaches tax law. Per the estate’s complaint, he was also on FTX payroll at $200k a year and pushed for a raise to $1M.

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@Dejisco29 Critics panned Kamikaze in 2018 and it still opened at #1 with 434k units. Hate-listening counts the same on Billboard.

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@Fenzoox John Y. Brown, the guy who bought it for $2M, ended up governor of Kentucky. Sanders got $40k a year and the suit.

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@MarkTaylormmh And the Supreme Court ruling was 9-0. Right on the law, 3 years too late for 28,000 American employees.

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Anna Nicole Smith told a Texas jury it was very expensive to be her. The jury gave her $0.

Houston, 2001. She was 33. Across the room stood Rusty Hardin, the lawyer for her late husband's son.

He asked how she spent $100,000 a week.

"It's very expensive to be me."

An accountant testified she had received $6.7 million in cash, jewelry and homes in 14 months of marriage.

On the stand, she cried about her husband. Hardin let her finish. Then he asked:

"Mrs. Marshall, have you been taking new acting lessons?"

"Screw you, Rusty."

Local news played it on a loop.

He wasn't done. In his closing, he set a boom box in front of the jury and pressed play: "You Light Up My Life." She had called herself the light of her husband's life.

The verdict came on March 7, 2001. Jurors nicknamed Hardin "Bulldog" and later sang the song back to him.

Years later, fans still yelled "Screw you, Rusty" at him at Rockets games. He loved it.

Real tears or a show for the jury: who was acting in that courtroom?

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@koaxbt So “very expensive to be me” wasn’t a joke. It was an invoice.

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@PersonGratt Billy Tauzin helped write Part D as Energy and Commerce chair. Then he left Congress to run PhRMA for about $2 million a year.

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@Plioric89 Mustang is 77 acres and had 23 people in the 2010 census. Whole town basically existed so dry Navarro County could buy beer.

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@xelvoq Funny part is Morris got the same silence in 1987. He pitched Intel and TI to back TSMC and they passed. Philips ended up being the only big name that wrote a check.

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@GnryEx Coke hit about 50x earnings in 1998. Buffett held. Later called it a big mistake in the 2004 letter.

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@DN_degen The Secret Master Plan post went up in August 2006. First Roadster didn’t ship until February 2008.