They are diluting the value of eBay’s shares.

Kinda, but not really. Each share becomes $56 and like 2 new shares. It’s more like a fat dividend than a dilution.

You should look into Cohen’s track record before assuming it’ll go nowhere.

But you won’t think an 11% swing is particularly notable.

The debt is only $20B, even then it still works out to about where it’s trading now, so still not really dilutive. And it’s still under 50% leverage, which is honestly pretty typical for a large company. Assuming Cohen actually has a plan to boost profits, that debt isn’t particularly concerning.

Give it another 84 years, you’ll learn.

Finhle is Einkorn, buy the dip.

It only touched $28 in AH Friday. On the 4th, the high-low spread was not even 10%.

They have like $9B cash, and a note from TD for another $20B, which covers the cash half.

The stock half wouldn’t even really be dilutive, since they would add the balance sheet of eBay to their own, and eBay stock would cease to exist. There are currently something like 450M shares; assuming 1B new shares at $25B to facilitate the purchase, that’s 1.45B shares of a company with a market cap of $11B + $48B = $59B., which is roughly $40/share.

Eh, a big part of GameStop’s recent strategy has been getting into collectibles trading. eBay is one of, if not the, biggest market for collectibles, and they own TCGPlayer. That said, counterfeits and other fraud is a problem on eBay. One of the proposals is to use GameStop stores as authentication hubs, so listings can be verified.

Additionally, eBay spends a lot, arguably way too much, on marketing, not to mention bloated upper level compensation packages. Then there’s the friction of the service itself, like seller caps (ostensibly to combat fraud, but a bit overzealous).

I think there’s far too much potential for improvement to call the claim “delusional”.

Give out all the best loot in the first 20 minutes. You beat a boss at the end of a session? “Alright, we’ll go over the loot beginning of next session”

I was the most conservative I ever was in middle school. By high school I was more “anarcho-capitalist libertarian”. By college I was a social democrat, then a democratic socialist. I’m even further left now.

I don’t know a single person in my generation who’s moved right as they got older, most have moved steadily left.

My point was less about producing life, I agree there are probably countless ways life could develop that would be strange or unimaginable. I’m talking more about convergent evolution for the sorts of species which would interact regularly with the Federation.

But without hands, those shrimp people aren’t going to be able to do much in the way of tool use, which limits their space-faring prospects. If you’re not a warp-capable species, you’re basically nobodyl. I feel like you at least need to kick off the tech-tree with fire and banging rocks together. Fire means air, which means terrestrial locomotion, and tetrapod seems like the most elegant form for that to take off (three legs on the ground while one moves). Banging rocks together means two hands, which assuming we’re developing from a tetrapod, means bipedalism.

Sure there might be some tungsten-based shrimp people who achieve warp through telekinesis or something suitably Traveler-esque, but that kind of hyper intelligence doesn’t exactly lead to involving oneself in the petty squabbles of lesser life forms. They might exist, but they wouldn’t be characters Starfleet would interact with regularly.

never met anyone exactly like me before

Cocky and broke?

Good people don’t vote.

Who told you that?

This isn’t a gotcha. Most ideological demographics are tiny minorities too small to succeed alone, but 3% of the vote could be the difference between a narrow win and a narrow loss for the DNC.

Blatant cheerleader erasure

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If you have no kids, you’re living Homer Simpsons dream

Non-violence is very effective when violence is visibly on the sidelines looking for an excuse to step in.

Women have been trained to see men this way too. I showed vulnerability to my ex one time, and her attitude changed overnight and she broke up with me not long after.

A Marxist