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Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life
“It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again”
“It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused”
“I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”
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@GOP_is_Gutless @topfans I’m surprised this happened. Usually in this country the working man gets fucked.
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It took less than 24 hours for brokers to tighten the belt after the Supreme Court ruled that brokers could be held liable for carrier accidents WOW!
#Truckers #trucking #truckinglife @topfans
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No polemics, no criticism, no judgment, no moralizing
Just a genuine question
Why are the children of celebrities all a bunch of weirdos?
The psychological reason behind this? Is it rebellion?
Why? 🧐

That 1@that_1
something is off here...
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@anishmoonka Imagine going from selling his mama crack to being able to wear something like that. Only in America.
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A standard Rolex has about 200 moving parts. The Patek Philippe on Jay-Z's wrist at the Met Gala has 1,580. Patek spent 8 years designing it. Then over 100,000 hours building the first one. About 11 straight years of someone working 24 hours a day, no breaks.
It's called the Grandmaster Chime, the most complicated wristwatch Patek has ever made. The inner mechanism alone has 1,366 parts. It fits in a circle smaller than an Oreo cookie. The outer case adds another 214 parts, and the case alone took four years to design.
In watchmaking, a "complication" is just any function beyond telling you the time. Most watches in the "grand complication" category have 5 to 7. This one has 20. When it launched, no wristwatch in history had combined that many. It tracks the phase of the moon, accurate to one day's drift over 122 years. It also has five different ways to chime: one that automatically rings the hours and quarters, one that rings only the quarters, one you press a button to hear the current time, one that rings whatever alarm time you set, and one that chimes today's date on demand. The last two had never existed in any watch before. Both were invented by Patek's own president, Thierry Stern, a trained watchmaker himself.
The chiming makes this watch nearly impossible to copy. Inside each one are tiny coiled steel wires called gongs. A single watchmaker shapes and tunes each gong by hand, testing every note with their own ears. Just putting one chime mechanism together takes 200 to 300 hours. Then the watch goes into a soundproof chamber where the chime gets recorded and compared against decades of past Patek chimes. Only then is it brought to Thierry Stern. He listens. If he doesn't like the sound, the watch goes back. Sometimes more than once. A rejected watch can take 500 hours of rebuilding before he approves it.
This watch holds four power springs in total. One is dedicated to the chimes alone, separate from the spring driving the time. Inside the mechanism is a ball bearing 7.2mm wide. It holds seven steel balls, each 0.3mm across, smaller than grains of fine sand. They handle 1,700 gram-millimetres of twisting force from the chime springs without slipping. The case has 11 holes drilled through it for buttons and pushers, and somehow none of them ruin the chamber that lets the chimes ring out clearly. The case itself flips around to show either of its two different dials.
Fewer than five workshops on the planet can build something at this level. Patek Philippe is the one all the others measure themselves against.
Jay-Z's version lists at $6.5 million. The unique steel version sold for $31 million at Christie's in 2019. It still holds the record for the most expensive watch ever sold at auction.
Daily Loud@DailyLoud
Jay-Z wore a Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime at the Met Gala worth $6.5 million
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John Boyega has reportedly held talks with Lucasfilm about returning as Finn in an upcoming Star Wars project.
(Source: @DanielRPK)

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@ArmchairW AW - time for a book series? Like those Russian time traveler books?
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I've been kicking around the idea of a "dark mirror present" story in which the US lost the Cold War and all the well-known Eastern European Russophobes are in Moscow screaming that postwar independent Texas needs T-90s, Su-35s and S-400s to finish off the United States.

Lysander, Y Sinwar I am Legend@Lysander18
@ArmchairW @lostdervishX And if the USSR reappeared today, I have little doubt she would immediately ingratiate herself with the resurrected politbureau and recite the party line like biblical psalms.
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@kekzensky Moses customers are his fans paying 20% more for a mazal and picture. Real ones know where to shop right
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This game is going to bankrupt Rockstar. It has to sell roughly 13 million copies (at $80/each) just to break even. The rising cost in computer hardware has shrunk the potential market of those who even have the necessary specs to play it, and the writing is probably garbage.
Kalshi@Kalshi
JUST IN: GTA 6 estimated to have cost $1 billion
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@TheCinesthetic It was almost redeeming the movie when you thought he was tanking all that laser fire. But then our expectations were subverted again. WAMP wamp.
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Luke Skywalker’s stand on Crait in The Last Jedi (2017) had the whole theater locked.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
Name the most powerful scene in a movie.
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🚨 THE ONLY REASON RYAN COHEN IS BUYING EBAY IS TO UNLOCK HIS OWN BILLION DOLLAR PAY PACKAGE ?
Which he will get if GME hits $2 billion EBITDA, which can only happen after he takes over eBay and transfers eBay's EBITDA to GME.
Ryan Cohen gets zero salary at GameStop. His entire compensation is 171 million stock options that only unlock if GameStop hits specific market cap and EBITDA targets. The first tranche unlocks at $20 billion market cap and $2 billion EBITDA. GameStop currently generates almost no EBITDA and is worth $12 billion. He cannot hit these targets by selling video games.
So he is buying eBay instead.
eBay generates billions in annual EBITDA. The moment GameStop acquires eBay, all of eBay's EBITDA transfers directly onto GameStop's consolidated financials on day one. Cohen does not need to build $2 billion in EBITDA organically. He just needs to buy a company that already has it.
The market cap problem works the same way.
Market cap is stock price multiplied by total shares outstanding. To fund a $56 billion acquisition GameStop will issue hundreds of millions of new shares. More shares outstanding means higher total market cap, even if the stock price drops. His package is not adjusted for dilution meaning he can inflate the market cap mathematically through share issuance alone.
One acquisition solves both problems at once. EBITDA target and Market cap target. 171 million options gets unlocked.
GameStop shareholders issue the shares, take on $20 billion in debt, and fund the entire thing.



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@everyonebpup You mean to tell me someone over there refused to let this retard set another $300M on fire?

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> be Disney executive
> pay $4B for Lucasfilm in 2012
> greenlight a new trilogy to print money
> Force Awakens hits $2B. you are a god
> Last Jedi splits the fanbase
> Rise of Skywalker barely clears a billion
> teens now call Star Wars "out of order"
> Mandalorian and Grogu tracks franchise-low
> can't admit trilogy failed. shareholders watching
> tell Filoni the sequels need to be "branched off"
> cast members at parks start citing a time portal
> May the 4th merch quietly drops the sequels
> rumor leaks: Ahsoka finale severs the timeline
$4B of canon about to get filed under "alternate universe" because nobody can say the word "mistake"
Geeks + Gamers@GeeksGamersCom
RUMOR: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy From Timeline to Resume Focus on Original Characters "If true, this would be one of the most dramatic franchise shifts in modern Hollywood history."
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@nypost Is he of Indian or Nepalese ethnicity?
His alleged actions in the news make him look like a con, and he could become a liability for any company going forward.
(This is an older video of him talking about investment opportunities in Nepal)
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Ex-JPMorgan banker Chirayu Rana pretended his dad was dead to get bereavement leave - but he's alive and spoke to The Post this weekend trib.al/mUjuzOo

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