Data Rivers
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Data Rivers
@slowlyexploring
If you’re reading this, there’s help weighing the options you’re struggling with—but not for you
Some time & space Katılım Eylül 2025
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This is INSANE!
🇺🇸 ELON MUSK IS ABOUT TO BECOME THE FIRST TRILLIONAIRE IN HUMAN HISTORY.
SpaceX pre-IPO is closing in on $900 a share.
Elon owns roughly 42% of the equity. 79–85% voting control depending on share class.
At this price, he doesn't just cross a trillion.
He blows past it.
The world's first trillionaire is about to be minted in real time.
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He could do both. Pro golf on Thursday and Friday, and then YouTube on the weekends.
NUCLR GOLF@NUCLRGOLF
🚨😮⛳️ #UNSURE — “I'm in that weird space right now, I don't know what to do, either: Content creation or professional golf. I don't know what to do right now.” @BrysonLegion — Bryson DeChambeau on his future [@katiemillerpod]
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@Gordian__ @Walrus_Moonboy Throat that footlong glizzy in your PFP today bud… we don’t need more CHUDs around unless you wanna be the next example. 🤡
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@Walrus_Moonboy I’m sure white people are pissed us niggers are going to start chimping out the hobby. Hahahaha. We gon get violent over EVERY FUCKING THING nigga. On god.
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@Wario64 Bought in hopes that I can sell the board on Facebook for cost of game.
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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4 Collector’s Edition (PS5/XSX) is $35 at GameStop
PS5 buff.ly/5Sbu1G2
XSX buff.ly/hx2L5Xt #ad

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@Walrus_Moonboy @NoKapRich I’m down for a trip! Just going to be expensive with all the extra luggage I will need to bring it back home!
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@albertyh_ @AthleticsRants Nick Kurtz try to bash me, Nick Kurtz try to run…
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You used to sell stuff on eBay.
Maybe an old camera. Maybe Beanie Babies. Maybe a coat that didn't fit.
You paid a small fee. The buyer got the thing. Everyone went home.
That eBay is gone.
The website looks the same. The logo is the same. The 135 million buyers are still there.
But the company isn't really a marketplace anymore.
It is an advertising business with a marketplace attached for distribution.
Last year, sellers paid eBay $2 billion just to make sure their own listings showed up.
Read that again.
The board calls this growth.
A Canadian who runs a video game store called it something else.
Here is what actually happened.
In 2020 the board hired a new CEO. His name is Jamie Iannone. He arrived with a strategy called focused categories.
In plain English, that means leaning into the stuff people pay extra for. Sneakers. Watches. Trading cards. Auto parts.
The everyday seller, the person with the camera and the coat, was no longer the customer.
The customer was now the seller who would pay to be seen.
In 2025 eBay did $80 billion in transactions. They kept $11 billion of that as revenue. Of that $11 billion, $2 billion came from advertising.
Sellers paid them $2 billion to promote listings on a website those sellers already pay fees to use.
That is the growth story.
In the same year, the number of enthusiast buyers, eBay's own term for their best customers, was 16 million.
It was also 16 million the year before.
And the year before that.
And the year before that.
Four years. Zero growth. They mention this on every earnings call without mentioning it.
So what does a company do when growth stops?
It buys back its own stock.
In 2025, eBay returned over $3 billion to shareholders. Most of that was buybacks. In February the board authorized another $2 billion on top.
Buybacks shrink the share count. Earnings per share goes up even when earnings stay flat. The stock price follows.
The stock was $68 a year ago. It is $108 today.
The company did not improve. The denominator got smaller.
Then a man from Canada noticed.
His name is Ryan Cohen. He runs GameStop. He started his career selling pet food online and sold it to PetSmart for $3.35 billion.
He looked at eBay. 135 million buyers. $80 billion in transactions. Real margins. Real cash flow. A board harvesting the business instead of running it.
He bought 5% of the company through derivatives and stock.
Then on May 4, he offered to buy the rest. $125 per share. $56 billion total.
On May 12, the eBay board rejected the bid. They called it not credible.
The math is credible.
What the board means by not credible is we would have to explain why we sold.
Then Cohen went on Piers Morgan.
He said eBay is run by a bunch of losers with perverse financial incentives.
He pointed out that eBay's CEO has been paid $144 million over six years.
He pointed out that he personally takes no salary and has put $128 million of his own money into the company he runs.
You do not have to like Ryan Cohen to notice he is making a point that is hard to argue with.
eBay used to be a place where regular people sold things to other regular people.
Now it is a $48 billion company whose largest growth driver is charging its own sellers to advertise to a buyer base that stopped growing four years ago, while spending billions a year buying its own stock to make the chart go up.
The board calls this strategy.
A video game CEO from Canada called it what it is.
The market is now waiting to see who else agrees.
Plz fix. Thx.
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You won’t hear this on Fox News:
California just released a balanced budget that wipes out the deficit this year AND next — while protecting health care and safety nets.
Meanwhile, Trump ADDED $2.4 TRILLION to the federal deficit with his “Big Beautiful Betrayal.”
Republicans ruin budgets.
Democrats balance them.
Adulting matters.
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@MaxLonged Fuck you max, hope you choke on your crypto bs. You’re part of the problem.
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@collectdotrip @Pokemon Rippers/streamers complaining about prices is so funny. Fuck you, you parasite
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Hey @Pokemon
Macys is currently selling your product for 3x MSRP.
You can sell us their entire allocation for all future drops and we will not price a penny above MSRP. We'll put it all in writing. Can help you get a handle on your distributors as well.
Let's start getting cards to kids, collectors, and players at reasonable prices.

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@DoubleCCards_ Proof read your posts, Moron. Get a real job, you parasite
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@RhiannonVinado I call bs. A ripping channel farming engagement. Fuck you scum
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So my mother passed away this morning. I randomly stop at dollar general and find some perfect order packs. I rip one and I find this. The card I’ve been wanting since the set came out. I also notice Clefairy is pointing towards heaven. Feel like that’s a sign! Pokemon is more than just a game. It is here for all of us in different ways. Some people are genuinely happy at just enjoying the cards regardless of the price. I know it made me emotional. Hope all of you can share in the true beauty of this hobby. God bless! #Pokemonㅤㅤ#loveyoumom

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@schristensonpga @KylePorterNS Jay Leno’s son disclosure later today
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@KylePorterNS Late night talk show host and classic car collector.
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@dom_lucre The fact that these morons are more successful than me either:
1. This system sucks, so I should suicide
2. I suck, so I should suicide
This life is not worth living anymore
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@TomSteyer You’re either an idiot who knows he is or an idiot who thinks he’s not an idiot
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Would you rather have a billionaire who fights for working people, or a politician who fights for billionaires?
TomHQ@TomHQ
Q: Would you advocate for an increase in oil production in California? Steyer: No Becerra: Yes
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