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Laugh every day or you’re doing it wrong. Vet. Aviator. Trader. Snarkologist.

Texas, USA เข้าร่วม Kasım 2022
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@unusual_whales Forgive her, but she’s just too dumb to be allowed to speak publicly.
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unusual_whales@unusual_whales·
AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people: keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government.
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@TracesofTexas I got to fly one for about an hour that was based out of Spring in the late 70’s. What a hoot!
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Traces of Texas@TracesofTexas·
The Ranger, a blimp on the ground at mooring in Austin, 1949. The Ranger was one of five Goodyear blimps commandeered during WWII by the Navy to patrol the coasts. I've always wanted to ride in a blimp. Would you do it? Courtesy the Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
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@Sandman7591 “But instead of allowing creative destruction to work—letting bad actors fail and good capital reallocate efficiently—the Fed orchestrated a bailout disguised as a sale to JPMorgan Chase for $10 per share”. Key point.
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Sandman@Sandman7591·
exactly so
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Bear Stearns didn't collapse because of "market failure"—it collapsed because the Federal Reserve spent decades pumping artificial credit into the economy, distorting risk calculations across Wall Street. When reality finally hit in March 2008, the investment bank that had gorged itself on mortgage-backed securities became the first major casualty of a crisis entirely manufactured by central banking. The Fed had held interest rates at absurdly low levels following the dot-com crash, driving investors desperate for yield into increasingly risky assets. Bear Stearns leveraged itself 35-to-1 by 2007, a ratio that would be suicidal in any honest market but seemed rational when cheap money flowed like water. The bank's hedge funds collapsed in summer 2007 after betting heavily on subprime mortgages—investments that only made sense in the Fed's artificially stimulated housing bubble. When Bear's stock price plummeted from $172 in 2007 to $30 in March 2008, the firm faced a classic bank run. But instead of allowing creative destruction to work—letting bad actors fail and good capital reallocate efficiently—the Fed orchestrated a bailout disguised as a sale to JPMorgan Chase for $10 per share. They sweetened the deal with a $29 billion taxpayer backstop for Bear's toxic assets. This intervention set the catastrophic precedent for everything that followed: AIG, Lehman, TARP, quantitative easing, and over a decade of zero interest rate policy. The Fed transformed a necessary market correction into a systemic crisis by preventing price discovery and moral hazard from functioning. Bear Stearns should have been a cautionary tale about central banking's inevitable boom-bust cycles. Instead, it became the opening act for the greatest monetary experiment in human history.

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Oil Mutt@oilmutt·
If the gathering pipelines around Amarillo (owned by major gas suppliers) would renegotiate their contracts and reflect real market prices, the helium shortage would be solved almost overnight by American oil and gas companies. Many of the contracts are in fact grandfather’d and pay $1-3 per mcf of helium recovered. If they reflected true value and paid $100-150 for lift grade you would see American companies answer the call. Simple economics here in regards to the Qatar helium crisis.
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@PalmerLuckey Palmer, seriously, we give zero fucks what these Karens say. We got your 6
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Palmer Luckey@PalmerLuckey·
The "But" here is insane. Deadline pressure beyond what is typical in the defense industry? I fucking hope so! This attitude is pervasive through the whole piece. "Sources say" technicians being asked to work 45 hours a week minimum is counterproductive? Okay WIRED. Make sure you don't mention that the team was rushing to get our technology to Ukrainian soldiers who desperately needed it, but definitely quote the expert who actually believes nu-age bullshit like "Just asking them to do work more doesn’t make them work more"
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First Squawk@FirstSquawk·
Russia took satellite images of a U.S. air base days before Iran attacked the site and wounded Americans, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says.
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@MntlMechanics They don’t even need that risk. Just board the tankers leaving Kharg island that have to use the same strait out in the IO and take them wherever the want them.
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Mental Mechanics@MntlMechanics·
Trump's real play on Iran: seize tiny Kharg Island. It ships 90-95% of their oil. Cut that lifeline and the regime's cash, missiles and proxies collapse. No mainland invasion needed. Economic chokehold incoming. Capitulation soon. Let's see how this plays out after markets close Friday.
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@JCChristopher I recommend you avoid spaces. 1/2 those boys will be wanting your number
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JC Christopher@JCChristopher·
Had to go to the urgent care dentist office this morning. Long story short, I had two teeth pulled out of my head. I’m currently sitting in the Walgreens parking lot, with gauze stuffed in my mouth waiting for them to fill my pain prescriptions. I’m going to be out of commission for a little while from any activities outside my house, as well as talking. The latter will likely please most of you on Spaces, as will me looking even more like a redneck until my mouth heals and I can get a couple of implants.
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Nick G.@nickgiva1·
As clear as mud.
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@gtlackey We do not have a shortage of helium. We do need to process more of it though.
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RC@DeepValue47·
4years/$300M - Palantir $PLTR + USDA
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@stevenplace Thx, humor is hard to pull off on X.
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Steve Place@stevenplace·
i know this is hard to believe, but iran is not the driver of the tech selloff today
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@USAC_Bull Correct me if wrong, but isn’t this their pay? I remember reading they take no salary.
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Montana Magnet@USAC_Bull·
🚨 $UAMY 7 Form 144s filed. -727K shares. CEO -400K (16.8%) CFO -30K (11.9%) VP BRZ -34K (53.1%) Mining Director -143K President -120K NYSE uplisting unlocked restricted stock from $2-4. Tax season is upon us. 🤔
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@PolarityRadio Europe is hurting Europe. Crude is just another tell.
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@nickgiva1 2 days ago the IRGC didn’t even know, and denied that there were Iranians in Pakistan negotiating for peace.
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Nick G.@nickgiva1·
It's pretty obvious that there is no "Iran" position. Leadership decimated, it's a bun fight between various lower level factions fighting to climb up the ladder and take power. As they are living in underground bunkers like sewer rats, their grasp of the actual situation above ground is tenuous at best. It will take time (and lots of treachery and much more elimination of problem cadres) for some sensible leader to emerge. Basically, they are living through a modern version of Downfall, moving non-existent forces on some imaginary map. youtube.com/watch?v=VQRDWE…
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First Squawk@FirstSquawk

TRUMP ON TRUTH SOCIAL The Iranian negotiators are very different and “strange.” They are “begging” us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback, and yet they publicly state that they are only “looking at our proposal.” WRONG!!! They better get serious soon, before it is too late, because once that happens, there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won’t be pretty! President DJT

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