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@AllieJade1 Hopefully they won’t be removing the ice till end of June this season…

What happens when hockey season ends, and they don't need the ice surface over the summer? Do you know how it's removed? This is how Ball Arena, where the Colorado Avalanche play their NHL games, removes their ice surface.

@gothburz For your sake I hope Rivian makes it. As someone who follows Tesla very closely, I don’t think it will.

@orijonal A tax loss implies I've accepted the loss. I have not accepted the loss. I have reframed it as a long-term position. These are different things. One has tax benefits. The other has a subreddit.

I bought Rivian stock on IPO day. November 10, 2021. $172 a share. I bought 58 shares. That was $9,976. I remember the exact number because my girlfriend asked what I spent ten thousand dollars on and I said "the future of transportation." She said "you drive a 2017 Civic." I said "exactly." $1,000 invested at IPO is now worth $149.06. I have that number memorized. I check it before coffee. I check it after coffee. I check it during meetings where I'm supposed to be listening. The number changes by pennies. The pennies matter to me now. The thesis was simple. Rivian was the next Tesla. They had the Amazon delivery vans. They had the adventure truck. They had the factory in Normal, Illinois. I told people the factory was in a town called Normal. I thought that was meaningful. A sign. The future of transportation, built in a place called Normal. The factory produced 24,337 vehicles in its first full year. Tesla produced 1.8 million. I called that "room to grow." I have been through six theses on Rivian. Thesis one: they're the next Tesla. (Stock dropped 40%.) Thesis two: the Amazon vans are the real play. (Amazon cut the order.) Thesis three: the R2 platform will be the mass-market breakthrough. (Delayed 18 months.) Thesis four: the Georgia factory changes everything. (Paused indefinitely.) Thesis five: Volkswagen's $5 billion investment validates the technology. (Stock kept falling.) Thesis six: Uber robotaxis. This is the pivot. Every time the stock drops, I find the new thesis. I don't look for it. It finds me. I open Reddit. I open the Rivian subreddit. Someone has written a post titled "Why this is actually bullish." It has 400 upvotes. I read it. I agree with it. I was going to agree with it before I read it. The agreement is the point. The DD is the prayer. My cost basis is $172. The stock is $14.06. I am down 91.8%. I could have bought a used Rivian R1T with the money I've lost on Rivian stock. I have not done the math on this. I'm doing it now. Yes. I could have bought one. A 2022 with 30,000 miles. I would have the truck AND the remaining money. I drive a 2017 Civic. My coworker Dave bought index funds. Dave is up 34% over the same period. Dave brings a sad lunch to work every day. Turkey sandwich. Same sandwich. Dave will retire at 65 with a comfortable nest egg and a lifetime of turkey sandwiches and he will never know what it felt like to be early. I am early. I have been early for four and a half years. At some point early and wrong have the same return on investment. But they feel different. Wrong feels like a mistake. Early feels like a strategy. I feel like a strategy. The Uber partnership was announced Tuesday. I texted three people. One was my brother. One was a guy from the Rivian subreddit whose real name I don't know. One was my girlfriend. My ex-girlfriend. She stopped asking about Rivian in 2023. She stopped asking about anything in 2024. The stock jumped 10%. It gave half back the same day. But for eleven minutes I was only down 81% instead of 85%. I called that momentum. I took a screenshot. I still have the screenshot. Rivian will build robotaxis for Uber. Rivian has not built a profitable vehicle for anyone. Rivian lost $38,784 on every vehicle it delivered last year. That's not my number. That's their 10-K. But I don't think about it that way. I think about it as investment in scale. Scale means you lose money faster until you don't. Uber needs thousands of autonomous vehicles. Rivian needs to not go bankrupt before 2027. These are complementary needs. That's a partnership. That's synergy. That's the pivot. Dave asked me yesterday how much I'm down. I said "I'm long-term." He said "it's been four years." I said "Tesla was down 80% once." He said "Tesla was also profitable once." Dave went back to his sandwich. Dave doesn't understand pivots. I bought more shares this morning. This is the pivot.

@RetireonDividen I won’t tell anyone, but there will be signs

If Bitcoin goes to $1M, what are you doing? - Selling - Taking a loan against it - buying cocaine and hookers - staring at it Let’s be honest here…..

@TheDegenWeekly Henry Ruggs

Let's play a game called: Pick Your Uber Driver Tiger Woods, LaMelo Ball or a Georgia football player. Go!

@dalepartridge The biggest problem with today’s “Christian church” is that pastors are more concerned with fighting each other about “being right” than they are with the actual entire purpose of the church.

Modern pastors have built up such a reputation for being quiet, reserved, concerned, and cowardly that when you meet a pastor who is bold and courageous, he is labeled “mean,” “harsh,” or “disqualified.”

@realannapaulina 💡 Term limits

How to fix the country: 💡Voter ID 💡Ban Insider Trading 💡Campaign Finance Reform.

@jordan_ross_8F Openclaw

The founders who figure out OpenClaw in the next 90 days are going to look like geniuses in 2027. The problem is most agency owners don't have time to figure out the install, the security risks, where to start, or what to actually hand it first. So my team built a 48-page beginner's guide that does it for you. Inside: — The exact prompts to hand it on day one — Plain English setup for Mac and Windows — How to secure it so it doesn't burn your business down — 42 copy-paste workflows across sales, marketing, ops, and finance Your competitors are sleeping on this. Comment OPENCLAW and I'll send it.

@aincomeinvestor Have a day BLOX @DavidANicholas

A portfolio manager who is online with us giving us live action is top tier. $BLOX

Land of the free…

@HustleBitch_ Paying anyone 3-6% of most people's largest asset for the minimal work a realtor does is insane. Probably 2 years worth of payments people sacrifice to make - gone in commission - poof. Almost all of the skilled/detailed risk mitigation is done by title and lending anyway.

🚨 “REALTORS ARE SCAM ARTISTS” — VIRAL VIDEO TORCHING THE INDUSTRY IS GOING NUCLEAR A skit exploding across social media is ripping into the real estate industry, and it’s hitting a nerve. In the video, a homebuyer slowly realizes something about the process that makes it look suspicious. Every time she tries to make an offer, the real estate agent suddenly claims there’s “another bid.” But when the buyer asks basic questions like who the bidder is, what they offered, or if they’re even real, the response is always the same: “I can’t say.” Then the realization hits. If the price goes up… the agent’s commission goes up too. Seconds later the house is “sold” and the real estate agent walks away with a $50,000 commission. Now the internet is arguing. Some say agents protect buyers through complex deals. Others say it’s just the most expensive middleman job in America. Be honest: are realtors worth it… or is the whole system a scam?

@chamath I’m in the process of building something with Readdy.ai - as cool as it is I’m concerned about being able to actually deploy a working product. This looks well supported and more robust. Gonna check it out.

Our cracked team just used Software Factory to rebuild and replace Jira in a little more than a month. We first spent 3.5 weeks planning. This is Software Factory’s superpower. It allowed our lead PM, Designer and Architect to thoughtfully describe and detail exactly what they wanted. Software Factory then did the heavy lifting in filling in the blanks and allowing our senior tech folks to sharpen the direction of what they wanted. Then in 2.5 weeks 2.5 junior devs built a replacement. This will launch as an updated Planner module inside of Software Factory on Tuesday. It’s beautiful, clean and super useful. Try it here: 8090.ai

@NickRogersBTL Progression of about 2 hours today in Inverness. Only proof you need is opening your eyes.

Serious question, how can there be Cloud Seeding deniers still in #Colorado when every day you look up at the skies and see nothing but man made clouds. Let alone, it is public knowledge that Colorado has been Cloud Seeding since the 1950s. The people that deny Cloud Seeding are the same people who think Jean Griswold is honest and Tina Peters belongs in prison.

@BRAVEpastorjeff @BasedPastorTrav @PastorMark @malachiobrien @howertonjosh @DavidJHarrisJr Hey @grok does the Bible say anything about people pretending to be Jews who aren’t?

You can’t trust a Jewish Messiah… and ignore what God says about Israel. Salvation is from the Jews. Stand where God stands. #IsraeI #BiblicalTruth #JesusChrist @BasedPastorTrav @PastorMark @malachiobrien @howertonjosh @DavidJHarrisJr

@Cernovich Already can tell you, the book was better

I have never been so hyped for a movie release.

@PastorMark Checks phone: How can I make this about me?

This is true, I was on this group text and I asked my church to pray for them

I dunno man seems like wars are super easy when the objective is to win and not launder a trillion dollars to your friends in the DC-VA-MD area for decades

To any future historians reading this, this era will make a lot more sense if you remember that every name is the opposite of what it really is. The antifascists are fascists, the antiracists are racists, the fact-checkers are propagandists, etc. Hopefully this has been fixed by your time.

@GovtsTheProblem $14k for us last year

The high property taxes that people in Colorado are paying right now are because of Jared Polis(D).

@HuffPost Go fuck yourself