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@ErikKaiser yeah, they're paradoxically happy when you do that

@Molson_Hart Correct. There has been a debate up until 0800 this morning when I ended it. Final decision. I make 100% the calls. I control the $ tap. This is a man’s job at this point. I think my wife looks relieved when the gender genetics kicked in.

I am incredibly impressed with the addiction to exhaust oneself over the belief their political opinions are so obvious without any actual intel. I’ll keep my dorsal fin underwater and continue to focus on building.

@ErikKaiser 100% the correct call. Only do R&D, design, sourcing, and vendor management. Owning a factory as a foreigner in China does not make sense anymore. Let the Chinese do their thing. They will always beat you on price even with vertical integriation.

It is. I took full control of the entire operation today. I make 100% of the calls. I finalized a plan, put it into motion. I’m going to outsource everything I can now for assembly. Sz will be a small office of sourcing, R&D, ops, and the DG location will be assembly until I find a home for every product. Then I close Dg 100% or decide to keep it to make some products depending on my mood and mgmt drain. That’s it. I’m going full OEM otherwise. Dg makes a lot of sense to keep for certain products and a small staff. But that’s on the chopping block if I feel like it. 100% want to limit my exposure here.

@girdley (unless you're a woman)

@Molson_Hart Corollary: If you're 6'6", 225 lbs, relatively fit. Never get in a physical fight.

Never play a woman or a child at chess. If you win, no one will care. If you lose, you’ll never hear the end of it. And, trust me, women and kids can be insanely good, and no one will ever believe you when you say this.

@ErikKaiser whats her position and whats yours your '08 scar tissue should clearly be making teh call imho

@Molson_Hart I think my wife and I had our last fight about the China ops today. I dropped the Beetlejuice-sized sledgehammer hands. Final decision.

@ErikKaiser Yep it’s been a lot of pain these days and is not getting better Keep going

@Molson_Hart The lacerations resulting from one’s curiosity of the fin edge are especially deep atm during the last 45 days of a two year reorg.

@Hiraweb3 i've pooped in a lot of weird places

@Molson_Hart love the bag flex lol

Story of how I got nasty at chess and won $16,000 in a tournament in 2008: My aunt taught me how to play chess when I was 5. My parents signed me up for an after school class and they put me in the middle section. Despite no practice, I started smoking everyone in middle section and I got upgraded to the top section where every kid had an outside tutor. My parents brought me to 1-2 tournaments on weekends and I was pretty bad, rated 900. At one point my father even beat me in chess and refused to play me again. They didn’t think much of it and even though I loved chess, they didn’t want to invest in it, so that was it. 12 years later I am at a friends house and am now 17 and this guy beats me at chess. It lit a fire in me and I bought some books and started playing online. I would figure out how to go to tournaments and just destroy people mainly because I had that 900 rating from when I was in kindergarten. I would win smallish tournaments get $400 or whatever and they wouldn’t want to pay out, but it was legit. I had a low starting rating and had improved a lot. Then I heard about “the world open” a tournament in Philadelphia held every year which had $16,000 first prize for sections. I had shot up to 1500 or so by this point so I was going to play in the under 1600 section. I went to the world open and I lost. My parents who paid for the trip mocked me asking me if I had “enjoyed my vacation” meanwhile I was trying to win money. Very irritating. I’m in college now and instead of going to class I would just play chess in my room. I once paired with an international master but really had to shit. It was blitz chess (<5 minutes per side) and pre cell phones so I couldn’t run to bathroom and run back to finish the game, so I grabbed a bag I found in my dorm shat in the bag and beat the guy. I kept getting better but I stopped playing in any official tournaments because I wanted to win the world open. Instead I would find cafes with guys literally named scary Gerry and play them for money. 2 years later I went back. In these tournaments, every time you win you face someone else who won so each round gets harder and harder. The games can go 6 hours long. It’s intense. After 8 rounds I haven’t lost. I face @sethbannon. If he beats me he wins $16k. All I need is a draw. Crazy double edged game where he was winning for most of it. I finally defend to the point of taking the initiative and offer him a draw. He takes it winning I think about $7k himself. I get first prize! I am sooooo happy first time I have accomplished basically anything in my life. I call my ex girlfriend. 😊 I call my girlfriend. 😊 I call my mom. “Mom I won.” “Yeah sure. Just come home safe.” 2 weeks later my parents got the check in the mail and got so excited. They didn’t believe that I had won money. When they saw the check the blew it up and printed it out so it was the size of a door. A family friend heard and realizing I wasn’t useless got me a job at a hedge fund. That little tournament really made my life come together. Anyways, I never got good enough to be titled but I can beat anyone without a title and many titled players particular in blitz. I love chess. It teaches you to learn from your mistakes, to not give up, you can play it anywhere on your phone today, and it’s a great mental workout. Highly recommend and my kids may end up being really good because my wife has freakishly good visual pattern recognition like me. We’ll see. And one last thing, never take shit from your parents. Make them eat their words lol

@Mudflood i got badly sunburned and rocked a mullet and this outfit every day

@Molson_Hart I’m surprised they didnt steal that nice looking hat, looks dapper.

When I went to Mexico I did not go to Gringo Mexico and my plan, were I get to stopped by Cartel guys, was to tell them that because I spoke Spanish & Chinese, that I could help them buy tons of precursor chemicals in exchange for my life. Had zero problems with Mexicans!

I need to go on more adventures They make you so happy Make you feel like a man

@agtrader yes, winnign the world open at 1600 needs like 1900 or 2000 performance

@Molson_Hart i still remember us practicing and learning the opposition .. and having that light click

i like mexico x.com/Molson_Hart/st…

One final thing. About 9 months ago I saw a video from @Cobratate saying that the reason he never got better at chess was that he never analyzed his mistakes. I started doing that after the video and he was totally right. It helped me get so much better even in old age. Was funny because I used to try to model my game after his dad’s. I could smoke him in chess by the way, so long as it’s just chess not chess boxing.

@Valuemaverick Nothing too special. Wasn’t very good at that. Not into it.

@Molson_Hart And go to the bathroom before the match to avoid shitting in a bag. So what did you do at the hedge fund?

@Yield_Finder I think I had to shower later

So crazy

I’m back baby!

@AngelicaOung Not how we roll baby

@Molson_Hart It won’t get hot if the west can refrain from violence

If you pay attention you will realize that there is a crazy chess game being played between China and the West. China knew middle eastern oil was their weak point so they imported as much oil as they could for fear the strait of Hormuz could be closed and switched their economy to EVs and nuclear. Now they’re getting as much coal as they can if they can’t secure more oil. Meanwhile the West is scrambling to figure out how to get rare earths and ships built among other things. Big hidden war behind the scenes. Scary but also beautiful. At some point though, it’ll have to get hot won’t it?

@georgecursor False

Women can't beat men at chess anyway