Robes Tana

[ayo @ayofromthedead]

The jacket power scaling in NYC is so crazy. You think you got a cool ass jacket? Everybody got a cool ass jacket

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.

[sarah guo @saranormous]

you can be maximally long the tech and still skeptical of the price of admission on a given opp. folks who bought Cisco at 200x in Mar-2000 were right about the internet (traffic grew > than even bulls projected) and still lost 85%. right about the tech != right about the surplus

[Chris Patrick @Xchrispatrick]

You either increase your sacrifice or you decrease your desire

[Robes Tana @tana8014]

@fahdananta Mannnnn this is ur first ever miss. Pulitzer for Kendrick? 6+ Grammys a year? Arguably one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time in TPAB? All that means so much more than this.

Also Drake lost, that’s why it’s a footnote

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

the podcaster wants to be a comedian, the comedians want to be musicians and athletes, and those guys wanna be entrepreneurs, and the entrepreneurs wanna be public intellectuals, and the public intellectuals wanna be heads of state, and the heads of state want to be podcasters

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Tucker Carlson challenges The Economist’s editor-in-chief to define Israel’s “right to exist”

[jake rhodes @jakebrodes]

Can’t help but think that in Pete’s mind he’s like one of the old “great drunken war generals.” Patton or Grant or Hooker etc. Aggressive, tactful, and at times foolhardy but ultimately talented. When in reality he’s just dumber than dog dick and drunk as fuck.

[Marko Jukic @mmjukic]

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth CONFIRMS Iran has NOT deployed a HUMONGOUS CORK to PLUG the Strait of Hormuz like a bottle of wine. I repeat, the Strait is FULLY OPEN and there is NO LOONEY TUNES-STYLE GIANT CORK or any other form of blocking element or barrier in the Strait.

[Robes Tana @tana8014]

@erasmuse @dilanesper HAHAHAHAHAHAH. Credentials don’t prove much says the man with every single school he attended in his bio. You truly truly can’t make this up

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

I made the point that “tanking” , IMO, is not as important an issue as affordability. I wanted to give some context.

I think some in this discussion are underestimating the long term value, and importance of families changing from being committed to a team, to following players.

When a family can afford to come to a game, they do. It’s a unique, bonding event, that creates incredible memories.  When they come as a family, they not only become a fan of a team, and the players, they become a “Mavs family”.  

It’s this connection that makes sports different than every other business.  It’s a connection that drives an emotional link, hopefully for decades.   

This is why the Mavs had $2 tickets for a while.  It’s why David Stern put in place $10 tickets after the lockout in the 90s.  It’s why every  Mavs game had 4k tickets under $19.  

The math is the marginal revenue of an increased ticket price vs the incremental value of families committed as “Mavs families “.   I gave up probably $15per ticket or $60k per game.  $2.4m  a year.  

That is a lot of money,  until you compare it to what it costs in marketing, advertising and promotions to try to connect to all the families you priced out of games.  And then add the cost of being able to watch games on streaming and legacy tv.  Also not cheap. 

Which meant we delegated our connection to fans, our ability to connect to families for generations, to social media, streamers, podcasts, email newsletters and the declining influence of legacy media.  IMO, that’s a huge mistake. 

If you look at only this year’s revenue , I was wrong in my approach.  If you look at it across decades, my goal was to make every family in Dallas a Mavs family.  Not to maximize this year’s P&L. I thought that would result in far more than just financial value.

Nothing hurt me more than seeing fans in the other team’s jersey.  Or pricing our tickets so high that fans sold their tickets so they could afford season tickets, or would rather profit than go to the game.  Leading to the other team’s fans being louder than our fans. 

IMO,  this was the greatest insult to an owner and to the players who take the court.  If your home game isn’t a home game, it’s a failure. 

This is why i sat in the stands and not in the suites.  It’s why i made my email public. So I could connect. To ask. To listen. 

One thing about Mavs games during my tenure,  we put affordability and game experience first.   We may not win every game, but we were going to find a way to make sure every parent got the joy of a lifetime,  watching their kids beam the whole game.  Or the couple on a date had plenty to talk and smile about.   The memories we can create, can last a lifetime.  And those memories create Mavs families.  

Thats far more valuable to the team than anything.

No player will play forever. But the pictures in homes of families together at a game, all in mavs gear, when the kids were in school.
Then when they had kids. Then generations and extended families together, all connected by the Mavs. All in pictures around the house. What is possibly more valuable to an organization than that ?

IMO, this made perfect financial sense as well. We live in an uncertain world. Every sport and league will have its ups and downs. Any sport, if it can sustain its connection to families, can survive whatever happens. If it becomes like any other business, maybe not

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨CAUGHT ON TAPE: a clip going viral shows Greg Bovino’s orders to ICE agents in Minnesota, saying “this is OUR fucking city” - and pushing mass arrests. He promises “trailers of that shit,” meaning tear gas.

This is why people are dead. Share this everywhere.

#ICEoffOurStreets

[James Reeves @jjreeves]

This is called "after-acquired probable cause" and is Constitutionally impermissible. Beck v. Ohio is your case.
An officer stops a car because he has a gut feeling the driver has drugs in the car, but no articulable facts amounting to PC. During the stop, he runs the plate and learns the car is stolen. Objectively, that fact would have provided probable cause if known at the time. But because it was discovered only afterwards, it cannot be used to justify the action. The officer got lucky, but the law does not let the government use information the officer did not possess at the time he acted.
Stated another way: An arrest or search cannot be justified by what it turns up, and the government cannot backfill Constitutional justification for a rights violation based on blind luck.
However, even if this information was known beforehand, use of force still has to comport with Graham v. Connor. This would be a non-violent regulatory offense and unlikely, *by itself*, to justify deadly force.

[Peter Schrager @PSchrags]

Macdonald's "We. Did. Not. Care." will go down in Seattle sports lore. Pretty bad ass answer.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

This Minneapolis resident just said what everyone should be feeling right now:

“This started as a pretext about immigration and fraud… it’s WELL beyond that now.

It’s your 2nd Amendment, your 4th Amendment, your 6th Amendment.”

“We’re performing CPR on what may already be a corpse called the Constitution.”

Wake up. This isn’t just Minneapolis. It’s ALL of us.

[AF Stream Watch @AFStreamWatch]

Stabilised version.

One officer takes the gun from the guys holster.

Then a second later another officer shoots him in the back.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Another angle of today’s shooting by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which shows the moment that led to the initial confrontation, one of the agents removing the firearm from the victim’s waistband during the struggle, and finally the shooting that led to the death of the 37-year-old male from Minneapolis.

[Robes Tana @tana8014]

@shaunmmaguire Shaun you sat quietly without a peep when Rene Good was killed. Didn’t come out in support or against. You are a coward. Do not speak out only when it is convenient for your beliefs or your side. Pathetic man

[Robes Tana @tana8014]

@awaken_tom @MattWalshBlog I was going to respond sensibly to this, but looked at your profile and saw that 90% of your most recent posts mention DEI in some way. Your brain is broken beyond repair. And your film will flop because of it