Thanks for this research and analysis. I took a small position in MO a couple years ago, after I found cigarette butts at the house I rent to college students, for the first time in ten years. My daughter confirmed that it's a trend for young people to smoke again. I know first-hand that it's a bad habit and hard to break, but I think smoking has been normalized by pot. The pouch industry is an interesting development, promising addicted customers without the worst aspects of smoking.

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At his level of capabilities, tokenisation infrastructure (once fully operational and reliable) enables financialisation of absolutely everything, while regulation on tokenisation will inevitably be late by years and decades, due to inner complexities of infrastructure. If a banker can collateralise (via tokens) **everything** and make \~50x in credit funny money, while having little or no regulations (like crypto in early days), that is a business that gets all his attention. Just random examples. A gold mining company (a thing for the next 10 years) needs one or ten billion dollars to build a mine. What do they do today? Sell a stream or royalty, sell equity and warrants, or mostly they get a credit line. Slow, complex and holds them back. Now Mr Fink's minions can make a deal, tokenise the whole contained gold in the deposit (after the usual bankable feasibility study), and with a little bit of banking magic they can sell it today, get the money tomorrow, fund the company's mine build, and get some 0.01% commissions at every step. But 0.01% of a 2Moz gold deposit will be worth $1M soon (almost there), so any further trading in these tokens between holders can bring $1M every day, or every hour, whatever the tading volume might be. Then there are copper mines that are costly to build ($10\~20b), so a major pain to get funding for. And again, Mr Fink's magical tokeniser machine will turn it into tokens available for trading, and backed by real copper in the ground. This machinery unlocks illiquid high-quality assets with guaranteed demand, and once operational and reliable, it does it repetitively like a factory robot makes cars. Mr Fink can replace most of the private credit community that has been funding such mining projects, should he decides so. Next obvious market is real estate: fund the development by tokenising unbuilt buildings, sell it in open market to anyone interested, get his 0.01% on each transaction. In this one, Mr Fink will eat commercial bank's food, all of it, anywhere on the planet, not being limited to one country or something. Another thing is tokenised metals, all of them, from gold to minor metals that don't even have futures. Some XYZ Co may be sitting on several tons of iridium, and the only buyer is a refining company that will not be named here. A call to Mr Fink's minion, and bam! - iridium stash is tokenised, now freely traded by anyone interested, Mr Fink gets his 0.01% from each trade. In terms of financialisation power, this is like a klingon battleship vs blonde in bathtub - who wins is not a probability. Mr Fink wants to win, so he wants his klingon battleship ready asap, and not become the blonde in bathtub when someone else does it first.

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EV enthusiasts pop these numbers out for every make and model that comes along, but the reality is that 10k unit sales per year is not a pathway to profitability. They need to sell ten times as many per year to offset the R&D of battery infrastructure, but those days don't appear to be on the horizon. EVs are fabulous economy cars. Trucks are not economy vehicles. It's just a bad fit.

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I had $500k. In 2021. As a 24 year old. And a woman. That I loved. Even my tinnitus disappeared. For the first time in ten years did I feel a sliver of hope for the future, even though the climate was still fucked.  I was so close to having fucking everything!! Oh well. What the hell.

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He was too busy acting like the world’s nastiest ten year old today.  

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I paid two Chinese dudes a six figure salary to rotate 12 hour shifts boosting my Path of Exile account. Then I claimed to be the world’s best player and people believed me. They also believe I run ten different companies at once. My name is Enron Musk

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just gonna add that thinking a drop of ten not 50 or 80 over a weekend when its not even a bluechip is a major defect in statistics. even smci did that and it was way bigged

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Yep, for the last ten years. About six months ago I got tired of looking at them. Sold all of them. So you are welcome.

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I have realised I am bisexual, what are the top ten things to do as a bisexual?

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Yeah that $10 will make a big difference for my ten million dollar position

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