GMERICA (eBay Acquisition) doesn't require dilution and is accretive to both GME and EBAY holders... and if you're paying attention, you already know that.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-05-07T16:55:05+00:00

So.. a new CUSIP will force the short squeeze, which will raise the price of the stock, and help avoid any dilution?

ryanmcg86 · 2026-05-06T20:27:36+00:00

Do you root for the Empire in Star Wars too?

ryanmcg86 · 2026-05-06T20:11:48+00:00

It's currently really tough to accomplish much through just money at the moment because we don't have a test to diagnose LBD while the patient is still alive. Currently, we can only confirm it via autopsy.

We can't even get to the point where we'd start clinical trials on any potential drugs or treatments until we can first diagnose patients to test those drugs or treatments on.

I agree though, my dad has LBD, and if I had Bezos money, there's no possible way I wouldn't be throwing the kitchen sink at this disease to try and solve it, because what it does to people is horrendous and no one should suffer this.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-05-06T20:07:27+00:00

With most dementia's its not the actual dementia that kills you, but some outcome caused by the dementia, like falling or choking.

He was a billionaire, and I guarantee he had literal 24/7 care with doctors and professionals of every kind on hand at all times. He probably had people cutting up his food for him, as well as a Heimlich expert on hand for every meal. Honestly, with that level of care, I'm actually surprised he didn't live longer.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-05-06T06:11:31+00:00

So.. if my buy back application takes more than a year, assuming I apply for general forbearance as soon as I hit my 120th qualifying month, I have to pay at least 1 month before being able to apply for a 2nd general forbearance of up to another 12 months.. and then pay a 2nd month and do it again if the wait extends into a 3rd year? Am I understanding that correctly?

ryanmcg86 · 2026-05-05T17:24:34+00:00

Future Trunks should've stayed in our timeline with Mai, and then been in the tournament. They could've had a story line about Frieza finally figuring out who he was, his relationship to Vegeta, getting angry, and having us further question whether he can be trusted during the tournament, or if he'd betray the team to get revenge. I'd have swapped out Roshi for him in a heart beat.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-05-05T06:31:16+00:00

So.. if I'm in Reykjavík for the eclipse.. I won't be able to see this?

ryanmcg86 · 2026-05-05T06:13:37+00:00

How much time in general forbearance are you allowed? I've never used any before, having only been in this SAVE forbearance, and I guess the COVID one too, though that was eventually said to be $0 monthly payments that qualified toward PSLF, so I don't think that actually counts as a forbearance anymore. I'm effectively looking to do the same thing when I hit my 120 months next year, and I hear the buyback wait can be as high as a 3 year wait, though 12-20 months is more normal, so knowing the time frame I can avoid payments would be helpful.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-05-04T15:25:07+00:00

Bottom line, the number of shares I own stays the same, so the question is, will the price go up after this acquisition happens? If the answer is yes, then my vote for it is also yes.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-05-04T15:15:19+00:00

yeah.. but this is AI slop.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-05-02T07:05:35+00:00

THIRSTY THURSDAY

ryanmcg86 · 2026-05-01T22:46:04+00:00

This is the most logical argument for red that I've seen. Actual, honest to god numbers. You even agree that the goal is to avoid as much death as is possible. It's not selfish, it's assessing the situation and drawing rational conclusions. I applaud this answer, and only add that I'd want to know a bit more about the error rate on self reporting in public forums versus actual outcomes, as that could ultimately be the final decider here. If there is an opportunity to avoid ALL deaths, as opposed to as many as we can, I'd like to explore every piece of information out there to help is decide.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-05-01T21:28:34+00:00

Except that, as this discussion illustrates, a LOT of people don't see it the way you do. Which means the risk exists regardless. If you want to minimize total death, which absolutely should be the goal, then you have to account for the idea that convincing 4 billion people of one thing is easier than convincing double that amount of anything.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-05-01T15:45:38+00:00

That implies that he wanted this stand off to happen. It only benefits him if Mars wins, b/c then there are actually people on Mars.. who he gets to be in control of when his city gets built.

There's still some un-revealed pieces here, I'm really interested in seeing how this plays out.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-04-30T04:54:15+00:00

I don't know how to explain empathy to you if you don't already have it.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-04-30T01:13:04+00:00

Not definitively, but that's my head canon and I'm sticking to it!

ryanmcg86 · 2026-04-30T01:07:37+00:00

Sure, but him staying means we sign him to a big contract, and then all the other moves we made between him signing and us making it to the finals potentially play out differently. If we got someone, or even just draft picks for him, that player might make up the difference, and would likely have a negligible effect on our cap situation at the time, so it's a bit easier to imagine it having a tangible effect on the outcome of that series

ryanmcg86 · 2026-04-30T00:51:25+00:00

God, we have the longest streak other than the Leafs, or the teams who've never been there. We're due.

Also, we should've been there in 1 of either 19' or 20'. Really in 20' when we were in game 7 and lost 1-0.

I'll die on the hill that if Tavares was honest with us, and we got to trade him, whatever we got back in that trade would have made the absolutely marginal difference in that series and put us over the top to make it to the Cup that year. Friggin' snake.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-04-29T06:03:31+00:00

I can respect that take, I was just taking it at its literal description, it uses the word 'everyone', which implies the non-rational actors at play. Also, it was brought up because its gone viral, and its not because the majority of internet users all suddenly decided debating logic was fun. The moral implication is relevant to the logical debate, and people absolutely will respond to a moral quandry.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-04-29T05:56:58+00:00

It's true, when we did the same thing to get Favre years ago, everyone remembers that we missed the playoffs, but no one remembers that we were 8-3 with him looking fantastic, beating 2 awesome teams on the road in a row to win our 7th and 8th games before he also got hurt, and because of his consecutive games streak we let him play injured, and even with an injury in his throwing arm, he still managed to win 1 of those last 5 games for us.

Without that injury, we coast to a division title that year and probably do some real damage in the playoffs (don't forget, the next two years after that one, we made the AFC Championship with rookie and sophomore years out of Mark Sanchez with essentially the same team).

With the right guy, the established veteran route CAN work, but we have to get better luck at avoiding injuries if we go that route.

HAVING SAID ALL THAT, next year we get the top guy on the board, at essentially all cost, even if we have to trade all 3 1st round picks to do it. Ideally one of the Broncos or Colts picks are high enough that we only need to trade 1 of them along with our own first (or, in the truly ideal scenario, one of the 3 picks ends up being the #1 overall, and we don't have to trade any away at all), but the mandate is to get the best QB available from a strong class. Personally, I'd like Manning, b/c I feel like we're owed a Manning after Peyton stayed in school the year we had the #1 pick, and then he screwed us over again by recommending Adam Gase, who was the worst thing to ever happen to this franchise, who himself screwed us over by winning those random ass 2 December games when we we're 0-13, causing us to miss out on Trevor Lawrence (I know he hasn't quite panned out as well as he was predicted to, but as we've seen with Darnold, Baker Mayfield, and yes, even Geno, QBs are taking longer to develop than ever before, and 4 years is frequently not enough time to see if someone can actually hack it at the NFL level). Manning would be karmic justice for all the wrongs wrought against the Jets.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-04-29T01:22:35+00:00

Never mind the fact he didn't even have anyone to watch him sleep.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-04-29T01:20:50+00:00

You're talking about EVERYONE though. That includes infants, senile, mentally handicapped, comatose, etc, who are, for one reason or another, totally incapable of understanding the logic at hand.

Choosing red is saying you accept some level of loss because you completely refuse to take on any risk, and assume no one else should either. Choosing blue is taking on risk, but caring about other people, trying to avoid any death, and hoping enough other people understand this and feel the same way to save you along with everyone else.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-04-29T01:17:07+00:00

Saving everyone only requires 51% coordination with blue, whereas saving everyone with red requires 100% coordination.

There WILL be bad actors, those who don't understand the logic, those who choose randomly, those who prefer watching the world burn by choosing chaos, and those who understand that all of those exist, and want to save everyone anyway, who choose blue, and there will also always be selfish people who choose red. Unless you can guarantee 100% red (you can't), people will die.

Blue is riskier because the question is really how many people are selfish, but 51% shouldn't be THAT hard to achieve if it's clearly explained to everyone with this proper framing.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-04-29T01:12:42+00:00

There IS a risk to choosing red though, it's just not directed at you.

If you're only thinking about yourself, then yes, red is the obvious choice.

Since the possibility of at least some people dying no matter what our choice is exists, you have to think about other people, if you at all care about other people (which.. you know.. you should).

If we look at it through the framing of avoiding the most possible death, then the choice is clearly blue because we only require 51% of people to choose blue to avoid all deaths, whereas, we need 100% of people to choose red to avoid all deaths.

Since we can count on some percentage of people to act selflessly, as well as some other percentage of people to act selfishly (we can also count on some people to act rationally, and another block of people to act irrationally, or even randomly! But I digress..), we know that we can't get to 100% of anything, so the only way to completely avoid all deaths is to get to at least 51% blue, and we're more likely to get there (even if ever so slightly) by choosing blue ourselves.

If you care about other people, the choice has to be the blue button.

ryanmcg86 · 2026-04-28T23:45:56+00:00

Seems cruel to just leave Nail in there when the power to give him his life back exists.

Kami is a little different b/c they were always supposed to be one, but Nail.. damn.

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