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The first public sale of a Pat Tillman manga just went for $21,600 👀🇺🇸 A collector pulled this 2025 Prizm Black Pat Tillman Manga out of a hobby box alongside an Arch Manning auto, and it just closed at $21.6K on eBay auction via @marketmoversapp 🔥 via Kevin McMican / Sports Cards Nonsense

Conor Neill: "18 years of school trained you to ruin conversations" "You finish your pitch and the customer says, 'Your product is too expensive!' You arrive home a few minutes late, your partner says, 'You are always late.' There's a dirty plate left on the table 'You never wash the dishes.' What do you say in this moment?" Neill explains the problem: "Most of you, me included, went through 14 years of school where we were taught one way to respond to questions. Teacher asks, 'How do you spell cats?' Student: 'C-A-T.' Teacher asks, 'What is osmosis?' Student explains in detail. For 14 years, you've been taught to give answers to questions. If you went to university, you probably had another 3 or 4 years of giving answers to questions." Here's what that does to you: "In real life in persuasion, in getting to what the other person is really about, what their needs really are, the worst thing you can do is give an answer to a question." He gives examples: "If someone says, 'Your product is too expensive,' and you say, 'No it's not! It's only €1,000'; you've lost every chance to understand what else is behind their reasoning. If you get home and your partner says, 'You're always late!' and you say, 'No, no, no, Tuesday I was definitely here on time', you're gonna have a crap weekend." Neill explains why this happens: "When your partner says, 'You're always late,' emotion goes up. And what happens? The thinking part disconnects. The way to make someone stupider is to insult them, object to them, tell them they are wrong. When you're asked a question, there's an emotional reaction, and the higher emotion goes, the lower thinking goes." He continues: "If you don't practice this response, you're not going to be able to do it in the moment. If you don't practice repeatedly how you'll respond to 'You're always late,' 'You never wash the dishes,' 'Your product is too expensive,' 'Your competitor is better,' 'You failed us 3 years ago,' 'I don't trust your company', you're not going to be able to do it in the heat of the moment." Here's what to do instead: "When you are asked a question or given an objection, I want you to say: 'I understand.' And repeat in your words what they're saying. Then give an open question back." He demonstrates: "'Your product is too expensive!' → 'I understand that money is an important factor for you. What other criteria will be used in making this decision?'" Neill calls this "Conversation Aikido": "Martial arts are about using the energy and force of the opponent against them. In Judo, if someone punches you, you pull their arm and allow the energy to keep flowing. In Aikido, the concept is you go toward the punch. You go toward the energy. If someone punches you, if someone asks you a question, if someone objects, the Aikido method is to go toward them and see the world from their view." He explains how to practice: "'You're always late!' → 'I understand you feel frustrated.' 'I understand you feel let down.' You'll have to work on this quite a few times over the next 10 years to find the set of words that captures what the other person feels, what's behind it. Then ask: 'What can we do now?' 'What happened during the day?' 'What would you like to talk about?'" Neill shares what happens when you don't do this: "When a client says 'You're too expensive' and you say 'No, we're not!' you learn nothing about who else they're considering, what other criteria are important, what process they've gone through, who else is involved in the decision." He closes with a guarantee: "By giving the answer, we shut down the possibility of hearing what's really going on in the other person's mind. But if you say 'I understand,' accept the energy coming from the other person, and give back an open question, I guarantee that if you do it 4 times, the answer to your 4th open question begins to be the real underlying need, issue, or interest of the person you're listening to."

Rookie Red Ink Auto 🔥✍️ This 2018 Topps Heritage Shohei Ohtani Real One Red Ink Auto 13/69 BGS 9.5 Beckett Auto 10 just sold for $73.2K at Heritage Auctions 👀

NASA has shared the first photos from the Artemis II crew's historic lunar flyby, including a stunning image of Earth. Read more: abcnews.link/qjHJzhp

NASA releasing some absolute banger images; here is a wider shot of the "Earthset" which is probably closer to what the crew saw at that point

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Kyle Schwarber was so confident in his 3-0 challenge that he just started taking off his gear😭 (via @aokstott)

Get Ready.. Prepare yourself to witness history unfold right before your eyes! 🚀 For the first time ever, the entire Orientale Basin, a massive and mysterious region on the Moon’s surface, has been fully captured thanks to the efforts of NASA’s Artemis II crew. This remarkable achievement marks a huge step forward in space exploration, revealing a breathtaking new view of our celestial neighbor. The clarity and detail in this historic image are absolutely stunning! 🌕🛰️ As we move further into space, it reminds us of the endless wonders still waiting to be discovered.

Shohei Ohtani has homered in 3 of the last 4 games

This is what pilots sometimes see above thunderstorms.⚡️ They’re called Red Sprites — massive electrical discharges that appear 30–50 miles above storms near the edge of space. They last only milliseconds… which is why capturing them on camera is extremely rare. Nature still has secrets above the clouds.

This is the closest footage of the Moon ever captured Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander orbits just 60 miles (100 km) above the lunar surface giving us a breathtaking view like never before

This might be the most detailed Moon image ever captured 1000 frames stacked using a Nikon Z8 and Takahashi TSA-120 telescope, producing a stunning 40MP masterpiece

SpaceX just filed for what could be the largest IPO in history. $2 trillion valuation. $75 billion raise. They hold Bitcoin on their balance sheet. The first trillion company with Bitcoin as a treasury asset is about to go public.

Yes... he's been even better 📈

BREAKING NEWS🚨: Four humans just passed the point where NO person has EVER been. Artemis 2 crew is now officialy the farthest humans from Earth in ALL of history. 252,757 miles from Earth Let that satisfyingly terrify you.

A Jackie Robinson record! PSA has graded nearly 8,000 Jackie Robinson 1955 Topps cards and just one has ever graded higher than this Mint 9 This Mint stunner sold for $231,800 over the weekend, an all-time record price for the card

NEW: $BTQ TECHNOLOGIES PUBLISHES RESEARCH SHOWING QUANTUM BITCOIN MINING WOULD REQUIRE ~10²³ QUBITS AND MORE POWER THAN A STAR AT CURRENT DIFFICULTY