Ad Astra

Joined June 2023
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1 Feb 2024
Replying to @SVG__Collection
We need a Rebirth of Cool
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The chemo place is playing “What’s Going On?“ by 4 Non Blondes. Right now, cancer is the second worst thing I’m dealing with.
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© Wim Wenders - Dennis Hopper, The American friend, New York, 1977
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People don’t hate data centers. They hate tech bros.
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And all of us know that Big Tech didn’t pretend to be “MAGA” because, “Woke went too far.” Elizabeth Warren spooked them with the wealth tax. Democrats began turning on data centers in 2023. Big Tech sees the American right as idiots and rubes. It’s insulting.
Most of the messing I’m seeing from data center advocates is woke style scolding. “You don’t understand anything!” Oh but we do. We understand quite a lot. We lived through the riots, lockdowns, and censorship. All of that was funded by Big Tech.
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Downwardly mobile children of rich or middle class parents are the vanguard of revolutions, not the poor. Remember this.
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"But an IPO when a PE firm owns 80% of the company is not a celebration, it is the beginning of a structured exit." 🎯
$AVEX This could end very, very badly for a lot of people. I am genuinely concerned for the many retail investors chasing $AVEX today because several large accounts were relentlessly pumping it. Before you rotate from $ONDS into $AVEX, you seriously need to understand a playbook that just played out in real time with $RDW. The setup looks almost identical. AE Industrial Partners, a private equity firm, backed Redwire and engineered a $925 million acquisition of Edge Autonomy, a combat-proven drone company. The narrative was compelling: Multi-domain defense tech. Battle-tested autonomous systems. The stock surged on the news to over $20. Then the exit began. In January 2026, AE Industrial sold 14.3 million shares for $150 million in two days. In March, another 10 million shares. Through April, millions more sold week after week into every rally. $RDW is now trading well below its 52-week high of $22.25. The retail investors who chased the narrative absorbed every dollar of that decline while AE Industrial systematically sold into their enthusiasm. Now look at $AVEX: Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity firm, owns approximately 80% of $AVEX. They IPO'd the company at $20 per share and the narrative is compelling enough. Battle-tested drone systems. Sole-source Pentagon contracts. Combat-proven platforms. But an IPO when a PE firm owns 80% of the company is not a celebration, it is the beginning of a structured exit. The tight float creates the initial price surge. A low share count in circulation means small amounts of buying create large price moves. The quiet period ends in May, analysts initiate coverage, the narrative builds while Madison Dearborn begins the same systematic process of selling into every rally that AE Industrial ran with $RDW. And there is a question nobody in the $AVEX crowd is asking. The overwhelming majority of $AVEX's revenue is tied to two programs linked to the war in Ukraine. The U.S. is actively working toward ending that conflict. What does the revenue base look like when it does? That is exactly what institutional analysts will be asking the moment the quiet period ends in May. $AVEX is a legitimate business with an 18-year track record. This is not a fraud story, but there is a significant difference between a great company and a great stock, especially when a PE firm with 80% ownership is on the other side of your trade. Exercise caution or you will be nothing but exit liquidity for these PE firms. $RDW holders learned that lesson already. $AVEX is absolutely NOT a stock I would want to be holding.
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Steve Jobs seeing Siri is the exact same product as he when he bought it for $200m in 2010:
Tim Cook top Apple products (2011-2026): 1. AirPods (2016) 2. Watch (2015) 3. M-Series Chip (2020) 4. Macbook Neo (2026) 5. iPad Mini (2012) 6. iPhone 17 (2025) 7. Apple Pay (2014) 8. Apple TV (2021) 9. Vision Pro (2019) — 99. Apple Intelligence (2024) 100. Apple Pencil (2015)
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And childless GOP senators are hanging out at Disney while the nation is experiencing this crisis Lock it in you clowns
Senate Democrats want to defund the police, open our border, and keep criminal illegal aliens in our communities.
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These are words to live by.
It feels like magic. Once you wake up today and focus on ___, you will find it or it will find you. This is why negative people stay unlucky. They summon this energy every moment of the life. Hence why they say, “guard your thoughts.”
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The people who sold COVID doom are selling Iran doom and call me crazy but I don't buy from them anymore.
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There used to be an FBI warning on every dumb video you rented from blockbuster. Can’t they put warnings on all AI video content and make that a thing so we never have to guess what’s real ever again?
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I asked ChatGPT “why is it tech has so much wealth and yet so punches below its weight politically and culturally” and it showed me this video.
🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”
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Same article, also Schumer: "The electorate is moving in a more Democratic direction. When middle class incomes decline, people tend to move in a more progressive direction.” In other words, even though economy is incredibly strong, make sure our voters have despair....
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Hi @TucsonTomorrow @whatsuptucson @3Strands4now I'm still kinda new to the area. Can anyone tell me why prop 418 and 419 voting guide is the size of a literal friggin' phone book? I know what each prop is about, but this thing is 50x the size of general election voting guides.
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None of these frame-by-frame analysis videos of the Minneapolis shooting are swaying anyone’s opinion of what they think happened or who they think is wrong. Again — it’s the blue/black vs. white/gold dress all over again
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14 Oct 2025
Unbelievable. Time flies.
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this album changed my life.
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It's rare that I LOL but this legit made me LOL
Authorities Warn Katie Porter Has Grown To 600 Feet And Is Currently Rampaging Through San Francisco buff.ly/oe2ie7l
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8 Oct 2025
Couldn't have said it better myself...
Here’s why I basically don’t care about any so-called “abuse of power” by Trump: - I watched the FBI and the media try to ruin his first term with a bullshit “dossier” - I watched Vindman’s phony impeachment - I watched every blue state governor use COVID to steal the election - I watched rioters burn down cities and get bailed out by Democrat politicians - I watched liberal friends of mine laugh while my conservative friends were fired for not getting the vaccine - I watched an obviously senile Biden run the country into the ground while the media lied and said he was fine - I watched the lawfare - I saw his mugshot - I watched the attempted assassinations - I watched every norm imaginable get obliterated over the course of a decade - And now I’m watching the same people responsible for all this bullshit bitch and moan about a “dictatorship” Sorry, but they let the dog off the leash! Power at the highest levels of government has been abused for years, and all in one direction. There’s virtually nothing Trump can do in 3 years that could come close to matching the left’s malfeasance. So I say go off king! Settle your scores. Because the only way to fix the country is to remind everyone that in America you can’t get away with this shit.
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Around 2017 a persons ability to emotionally disengage was being taken away from them places that we used as refuges, both in the physical world and online, were being foreclosed on. TVs everywhere, peers and colleagues becoming militant aparatchiks. There were fewer and fewer places a person could retreat to. Now: Kids that are the product of Covid era lockdowns and the reconstitution of our relationship to politicians, authority figures, learning and so much is mediated thru the highly regulated aperture of technology. These kids have even fewer opportunities to socialize in the real world. Many kids today entire social world is online - and this makes them incredibly vulnerable to ‘group think’ ‘follow the herd’ and a kinda voluntary relinquishment of critical thinking - because the fear of stigmatization and exclusion from their online domains is so profound. Hopefully every parent is aware of this and makes a point of teaching their kids how to play well with others etc. of all the forms of intelligence, I think social is the best yield on life. Add some music and philosophy and stem and athletics and kid’s set for life
Replying to @adamscrabble
True and very sad. Homeschool or do independent schools when feasible. Both venues teach kids how to think — as a skill. Small classes - tailored teaching
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