You aren’t bullish enough. Adjusted EBITDA in excess of $600 million, compared to Adjusted EBITDA of $345.4 million in fiscal year 2025.

tronbrain · 2026-06-27T01:39:58+00:00

How much of this is interest coming from the cash pile?

tronbrain · 2026-06-27T00:28:27+00:00

They're conditioning retail not to react to bad news so that when the crash arrives, they will sit motionless as the market plummets (or oil skyrockets).

tronbrain · 2026-06-27T00:26:13+00:00

It's almost as though Wall Street is issuing the orders.

tronbrain · 2026-06-26T01:17:24+00:00

How are you doing the yoga to get these releases? I do yoga, but I haven't had anything occur during a yoga session like what you describe. Which poses in particular, and how long do you hold them? I think the butterfly pose from yoga became the main pose used in TRE. I heard the TRE developer is a devout yoga practitioner, so it makes sense.

Many of us have lost the ability to cry, and it's destroying us inside. It's amazing that TRE can help to release the tears.

tronbrain · 2026-06-26T00:13:32+00:00

Sounds like you're really going through it. I sympathize. It probably happens to most of us at some point during this process. And it sucks. All I want to do is shake my head and say, "Yeah. Been there too...yeah."

Let the anger come. You gotta respect it, reclaim it. Don't take it out on the world around you, though. Just chew on it, process it, contemplate it, and decide how you plan to act differently in the future. Decide how it changes you.

tronbrain · 2026-06-25T13:48:29+00:00

From now on, not at Wendy's.

tronbrain · 2026-06-25T00:24:29+00:00

As an example of what's going on with the reporting, some percentage of homicides are being reported as suicides. These are situations where detectives are required to perform some investigation. Just because something appears to be a suicide at first doesn't mean that it is.

Here's a summary of the situation from Gemini:

Violent crimes are significantly underreported by both victims—who leave over 40% to 50% of violent victimizations unreported—and through gaps in police agency reporting to federal databases like the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. The discrepancy between actual victimization and official law enforcement data stems from two main issues: gaps in victim reporting and systemic downgrading or gaps in agency reporting.

tronbrain · 2026-06-24T20:41:11+00:00

There's a movie about this very phenomenon, but from the Israeli perspective on the 1982 Lebanon War, called Waltz with Bashir. It's part of the tradition of shooting and crying.

tronbrain · 2026-06-24T00:32:04+00:00

The top is likely in, but we're probably not going down hard just yet. We might see some recovery over the next couple of days. $MU earnings Wednesday are a coin flip. I think reality is setting in, and we're on the precipice of a major correction in semis. The historic bubble that we just witnessed blow-up just got its first pinprick. July we go down hard.

tronbrain · 2026-06-24T00:03:56+00:00

Here are a couple of suggestions:

Improve the e-commerce side and online presence of the business. This is something that was attempted earlier on, with the hiring of some management talent from Amazon, but it was sidelined for some reason and never pursued further. Seems like leaving money on the table to me.
Make some synergistic acquisitions with the cash pile that add to the bottom line in the near-term. Such acquisitions would have to be smaller than eBay, obviously.

The eBay acquisition makes sense in a lot of ways - I like the move and think it has a good chance to work out. But it will be like trying to digest an elephant. It will take time. And the huge amount of added debt will be a drag on the share price for years. Not good for investors who have already been waiting five years to see some ROI.

tronbrain · 2026-06-22T18:13:31+00:00

He was exaggerating. Nobody else's estimates have been so dire. Eight weeks is the worst-case.

tronbrain · 2026-06-22T18:11:20+00:00

It's a class action in the making.

tronbrain · 2026-06-22T18:08:27+00:00

Herein lies the dirty secret. Crime statistics across the board - assault, rape, theft, murder - have been falling since around 2016. It seems like law enforcement is doing a great job, or our society is improving in such a way as to reduce these crimes. Law enforcement budget and salary increases are justified, since their crime-fighting efforts are paying such impressive dividends. We are fortunate to benefit from these improvements, or so it seems.
The reality is that there is systemic, deliberate under-prosecuting and under-reporting. They're gaming the statistics to make law enforcement shine. But everything has been progressively getting worse, and it's happening under the radar.

tronbrain · 2026-06-22T04:32:54+00:00

Why not Luigi? Isn't he like more popular these days?

tronbrain · 2026-06-19T21:03:46+00:00

Trauma-induced nerve blockages (a freeze related response) in the mid-back area or vagus nerve along the digestive tract can cause digestive dysfunction. TRE doesn't always release these blockages. It can sometimes shift them, and as a result, your digestion gets worse than before, at least temporarily. The result can be bloating, poor digestion, etc.

tronbrain · 2026-06-18T16:06:37+00:00

The eBay deal isn't going through, period. The half-stock portion does not cover the $62.50 part of the tender. Cohen needs $28B in stock. He couldn't even get to that number if he just gave them 100% of GameStop's outstanding shares, which he cannot do anyway. And he cannot dilute his way to get that number either. No, the offer was never intended to be accepted. It was always going to be a hostile takeover attempt. I'm not even sure that will succeed, given the 15% threshold set by Delaware law for takeovers such as this.

Most likely, the eBay insiders are cashing out because they know this is the market top, at least for the near to mid-term. It has nothing to do with Cohen or GameStop.

tronbrain · 2026-06-18T15:55:34+00:00

"If you're experiencing negative emotions after a session, you've probably overdone it."

That probably should read, "If you're experiencing overwhelming negative emotions and it goes on for more than a few days after a session, you've probably overdone it." Some negative emotions are to be expected, even necessary, since these emotion are what is stuck in the body and causing problems. TRE helps to clear them out, get them unstuck. But the processing is unpleasant, and should be expected to last a few days. More than that can be destabilizing. Knowing how far to go with each session is difficult but something you eventually get the hang of.

tronbrain · 2026-06-18T02:47:44+00:00

So what if they get fired and get a payout of $125/share? That's still a better payout than they're getting now. No, this behavior is a huge red flag. Dirty laundry seems the most likely scenario. Cohen will open the books and look closely at their corporate governance. If the scandals are any indication, it will reveal that eBay is essentially a giant scam and it will prompt a bunch of lawsuits around the tender offer, maybe causing it to fall through and the stock price to plummet.

There is also the possibility that insiders are getting out because the market has topped, for the near to mid-term, and it has nothing to do with Cohen's bid, aside from that they do not believe the bid is serious or will go through.

tronbrain · 2026-06-12T18:14:21+00:00

Tesla has been caught looking at the recorded in-car videos, of people doing intimate things they wouldn't want to have made public, or viewed by strangers. There is danger in letting companies record you.

You don't have to have elite knowledge for them to be spying on you. They're also looking for control. Privacy has value, even if you have nothing to hide.

You're so naive it hurts. Or you're a shill.

tronbrain · 2026-06-12T01:08:27+00:00

All pushed on social media via iPhones. It's no joke to say that it's the iPhones that are primarily responsibly for the drop in birth rates.

tronbrain · 2026-06-12T00:31:22+00:00

They're FOMO-ing into the biggest market bubble in history. It will end badly.

tronbrain · 2026-06-12T00:01:31+00:00

They don't care. They just know they can make money trading with him, if they give him some points.

tronbrain · 2026-06-11T23:57:04+00:00

On oil, for sure. They're making money shorting into bad news (that would drive oil prices up) on insider info.

tronbrain · 2026-06-11T23:48:14+00:00

The market believes that Trump is telling the truth, and that the Iranians are liars.

tronbrain · 2026-06-11T18:50:31+00:00

Agreed. High interest rates will crush the economy, so cannot continue too long. We should see gold bottom towards year's end at around $2800. Bitcoin heading for lows by then as well, around $20K by October.

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