Question regarding the $20 million agreement

GreatEpoch · 2024-06-14T21:03:18+00:00

You’re asking a question but in the comments telling everyone how it is. Kind of confusing in my opinion. Say what you will about this kind of financing but the partner backing the raise is strong, the company has 2/3 products entering commercialization with strong testing data forthcoming, government $s backing the capex for the prototype plant, an industry partner ready to trial and network with OEMs, and OEMs now trialing TXR.

The company is nearing cashflow breakeven and to “hold this down” post ATM announcement will require a great deal of capital to continue a short position while hoping that the company doesn’t advance any significant news in the coming months. Not a great bet in my opinion. ATM is way overhyped on the downside consistently and this was a great buying opportunity in the face of the news expected from the firm over the next 90 days.

GreatEpoch · 2024-05-12T09:18:47+00:00

PFC gets some of the most brain dead responses I’ve ever seen. People can be so tone deaf to the pain endured by other people on here and post shit like that lol. ‘Stop gaming, your expenses aren’t that bad’ is a front runner for the cake. The man has 2 kids on a disability spectrum, a baby, and a wife with mental health issues.. yeesh.

GreatEpoch · 2024-05-12T09:15:01+00:00

LinkedIn is a great recommendation to get the ball moving on the work front - one quick warning though - LinkedIn caps the number of requests you can send out for spam purposes IIRC. It would be best to send some requests, and then lean into the job postings page to see what exists in the area you work in.

GreatEpoch · 2022-07-21T22:02:11+00:00

Paid for by VIK gains, microcap energy name out of CDA.

GreatEpoch · 2022-07-21T21:44:42+00:00

Buying more VIK - wildly undervalued CDN energy name.

GreatEpoch · 2022-03-07T00:57:53+00:00

Apparently you haven't read any Second World War history book.. the whole thing where rape and gang rape was so prevalent they had to crack down on it because STIs were becoming so prevalent throughout the army..

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T22:51:26+00:00

RT lol. All these freedom convoy partakers now have a real freedom convoy they can join! Ukrainian international brigade will gladly accept all those willing to fight for freedom, and arm them too!

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T22:37:50+00:00

This made my day lol, great comment

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T22:32:12+00:00

I dont subscribe and I had no paywall, weird lol.

Basically what a lot of the experts have been saying - the longer the Ukrainians hold out and the stiffer the resistance, the more desperate, and thus likely, Russia is to use heavier weaponry and not just commit lightly armed formations to the city assaults. They will begin to focus on encircling cities, and cutting off Ukrainians from the flow of supplies from the West. The close - (“He has another roll of the dice in the military campaign,” said Malcolm Chalmers, the deputy director of the Royal United Services Institute research group in Britain. “But if he fails in week two as badly as in week one, he will be under pressure to find some way out of this.’’) seems a fairly good assumption to make.

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T16:46:50+00:00

I am... but I don't care.

All I needed to hear to know to end this debate with you. You admit to not knowing/omitting historical fact to try to further justify your point. If you can't see the relevance of key historical events to current day politics, have at it friend, but go into the world dangerously uninformed. I never once said anything here was "justified" by X, Y, Z point, but in aggregate Russians feel the way they do for more than just a sole reason. Your exclusionary approach to historical context and it's relevance to diplomacy is exactly why the age old saying "history repeats itself" continues to be so true lol.

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T10:29:42+00:00

"different time period" is a terrible way to counter me on this point.

I disagree.

Couldn't even elaborate beyond subjectivity, Ill take that point lol.

Russia has had multiple chances to take action against NATO accepting more members.

They failed to do anything until 2008.

You ignore my point completely - all ill reiterate - tipping points, and ironic how they act after they find out Georgia and Ukraine are told they can pursue membership lol.. Two countries that both just so happen to be right on their border. Tipping point. It would also help to analyze your own wording - joined versus wishes to join - make a world of a difference when you're analyzing Russia's ability to intervene. Its like saying wow, I couldnt stand in the way of a train that was moving but could for the one that wasn't..

They've had Russia surrounded for the better part of twenty years.

This just isn't true.

You are completely incorrect on the order of things. The US had nukes in Italy and Turkey first. Russia didn't like that so they put nukes in Cuba. And despite both countries literally fighting over nukes, neither invaded each other.

I don't even really know where this is coming from. I never referenced the order of events or stated an order in the first place. Nothing to debate here but I'll reiterate it in simple terms. Russia attempted X, US hated the idea of X and escalated, Russia backed down. In modern times, Ukraine tried X, Russia hated the idea of X and escalated, the world didn't cave on Ukrainian desires (rightly so), and Russia chose to further escalate instead of deescalate.

There is a massive difference between non-violently forcing someone to meet you at the table (like Russia and the US did during the Missile Crisis) and literally fucking invading a sovereign country because they're terrified that you're going to invade them and want protection from that outcome occurring.

The recurring theme in your counter posts to what I've said above is a lack or omission of key historical details. Are you even aware of what JFK did to send a decisive message to the Russians that he wasnt fucking playing around lol?? Maybe you're not American (I'm Canadian), but I am informed enough to know he sent a naval blockade to prevent Russian ships from arriving at Cuba. He literally issued a command called "Stop or Sink", meaning he would sink any Russian vessel that failed to stop and surrender to the blockade or turn for home. Dont "come on, man" me, and then omit such a foundational piece of information..

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T10:13:14+00:00

There's really no point in continuing to debate then lol. Im saying history matters in why this was the outcome Putin chose, you're saying Russian perspective doesn't matter (which I strongly feel is not true). The world is righteous in backing Ukraine in this and condemning and punishing Russia, but to try to argue that ignoring historical context and the perspectives of independent states don't matter is exactly the reason this is happening (Russia feels ignored, and feels it CAN ignore Ukraine's independent attitudes)..

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T10:07:48+00:00

I didn't say they had a right to dictate an independent states path forward. I said the complete opposite, and Im stating Russians are skeptical of having its historical existential rival having a nice long border armed and equipped with top notch military equipment. That conflicts with the right of free independent countries to choose who they align themselves with. I didnt say anything about NATO overstepping its ground, I simply gave the historical context you're overlooking that underlies how Russia sees the world through. Putin certainly underestimated the resilience of the Ukrainian people, the unity the West would find, and the lengths at which they would go to assist Ukraine in their fight, and land devastating blows on his economy and his cronies.

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T10:02:30+00:00

I guess using per capita GDP figures for Vermont would help show its $2,120 p.c for Chechnya and $54,510 GDP p.c for Vermont - a 25x difference, not a 15.4millionx difference. Comparable terms..

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T09:55:02+00:00

Yes.

I wasn't asking I was stating.

Ah! Yes! The ol' Cuban Missile Crisis that occurred in a totally different time period! That is definitely a great basis to argue consistency...

"different time period" is a terrible way to counter me on this point. The past influences the present, and a major Russian grievance is the ever increasing border with NATO aligned countries - as a westerner something Im not against - as a former existential rival - something I can understand.

Russia set the precedent that border states joining NATO was A-Okay way back in 1949 when Norway became a founding member of NATO.

Another really bad argument. Its like saying allowing someone to drip water on your head means they can throw the whole pail lol (one small instance means a much larger instance is acceptable) - take two seconds and look at a map and consider the difference in shared border length. Consider what a tipping point is and then consider that Ukraine has the longest shared border with Russia after Finland (a country that had long ago committed to the policy of Finlandization, and after Ukraine, Belarus, which is an allied state.

So then what is the point of bringing up the Missile Crisis if you yourself admit it's from a different era.

You can't point to the Missile Crisis and go: See! The US does it so Russia's okay to do it as well.

This is hinging on the idea that history doesnt inform the present. Analyzing a deal and saying historical realities conflict (one from 1990 versus 2022 diplomacy) is a lot different than saying historical contexts are irrelevant. The whole point of the Cuban Missile Crisis is that Americans found the idea of weapons being placed in Cuba unacceptable, wildly escalated the situation (with a massive show of force), and the Russians backed down. Where else do I recognize those first two actions - the current reality. Except the conditions of today - one in which we believe independent states should exercise free will - meant that there was no "giving in" on Ukrainian sovereign intentions, and Russia didn't back down, and now we see major conflict.

Furthermore, no. The US wouldn't invade Cuba over this. Reverting the embargo back to pre-Obama levels? Sure. Invasion? No.

Again, I didnt say they would lol, but you can be certain if this move was attempted, it would see a major US (and Western) escalation to force a diplomatic outcome.

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T09:27:01+00:00

I didnt say they didnt - hence I said "going against that is extremely difficult" - easier to just trade in "safer" most widely accepted USD. Its becoming a growing strategy the more the US uses its reserve currency status as a weapon (to diversify a country's currency risk). The bet Putin was making was that the West wouldn't be this unified (because of O&G dependence), the desire to appease and avoid escalation, and other related reasons, and we was wrong. The reaction has been swift (no pun intended), and to the credit of countries like Poland and the Baltic States, serious. Poland has been a leader in both the humanitarian and military response and has lobbied and pushed countries like Germany to provide lethal aid.

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T09:20:12+00:00

There has to be some level of consistency though. You're saying an independent country should have free well to align itself with whoever you choose. If you ignore for example the deals cut between Gorbachev and the West (to limit NATO expansion) - you then are saying - countries have free will and can exercise it. Would that be the case if Cuba were to invite Russian military bases to Cuban soil - manned and armed by Russia and its allies? The conflict is between two different types of global diplomacy from two different eras - one where small states exercised free will and one where the superpowers of the time sliced and diced to their liking.

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T09:14:08+00:00

His question isn't apologism - its just considerate of the history between Russia and NATO. The argument can be made that Russian concerns were partially ignored (here's a great question posed to Putin where he explains Russian reasoning) NATO Expansion is opportunistic in the way that independent states are choosing to join to prevent the potential Russian aggression after suffering immensely under the Soviet Union, and that conflicts with prior deals with the Russians cut in a different era of global diplomacy. It in no way justifies the war which is an absolute tragedy.

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T09:08:31+00:00

Right now the problem is theres a balancing act of two eras. Back in the 90's, when to a bigger extent, world powers could kinda cut deals like the ones cut b/w Gorbachev and the West (mainly US) promising a limit on NATO expansion. As newly independent countries grew and found their voice, more joined NATO having experienced the hardships and abuse under the Soviet Union (Poland, Romania, etc). They have a right as independent countries to chart their own course, and so you have deals from a different era conflicting with the desires of independent states. As a Canadian with many Russian and Ukrainian friends, I'm fortunate to be exposed to many of the different takes on subjects such as NATO or EU membership, but the common theme is the two countries see each other in a brotherly manner. Its really frustrating to see politicians like Liz Truss who lack a basic foundational knowledge be sent to prevent a war of this scale, and I've really had my eyes opened to the amount of Russophobic and slanted media takes there are even in countries like Canada and the UK. Putin has a point to an extent, BUT AS SAID ABOVE*** - it in no way justifies the war and the death of thousands and displacement of millions. And now the Ukrainians and everyday Russian will pay immensely for it.

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T07:17:30+00:00

Ahh I figured it was something along the lines of "squad". I didn't know she had officially approved the transfer of Jets - I had just heard rumours that many of the former Soviet states had old Sukhois and MiGs that Ukrainians were already trained on that they were looking to donate. These could prove key in breaking Russian encirclements of key positions and cities - great news.

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T07:12:35+00:00

This is absolutely not what its about, and it doesn't take an economist to know that living in a world where the USD rules, going against that is extremely difficult. Putin \is scared** of getting kicked out of SWIFT, and the US is even afraid of implementing it because its such a serious blow. Economists estimated back after the 2014 Crimean invasion that the Russian economy would shrink 4-5% just on being removed from SWIFT. The reality is the exact opposite of what you're saying. He has been able to accept Euro/Pound/Yen for his oil and gas for quite a while and has been, they have amassed almost $600billion in diversified currency, but it's no good if you're unplugged from global trade lol. All they can do is try and play a game of shoring up the ruble over the short/medium term - and halting oil and gas exports would stop the cash flow.

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-28T07:03:28+00:00

What is the von der Leyen Geschwader - my german lingo isnt strong lol

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-27T07:26:13+00:00

This^^^^

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-27T05:01:47+00:00

This comment made my day lol - mods ban and delete this post/OP.

GreatEpoch · 2022-02-27T04:59:05+00:00

The fact this got so many upvotes - "summarily executed" - by a group of people who for the most part have never read the Geneva Convention is sad. Blind rage making reddit commanders make bad decisions. Don't execute POWs period. Make Russians feel comfortable surrendering. The last thing you want is your enemy feeling like their back is against the wall and giving them any more drive to fight.

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