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re: Do you use dates in cooking?

Posted by cgrand on 10/7/26 at 8:45 pm to
we eat a lot of dates. They are good for you and have tons of minerals and fiber. Easy way is a date smoothie…dates, frozen bananas, cocoa powder, dairy or dairy substitute (coconut milk is a favorite)

Also grilled dates stuffed with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon are a fantastic appetizer.

dates are also excellent in a braise, chicken and pork especially
we built a 70x20 floating camp after Andrew, it’s been anchored up near the wax lake delta since then, no insurance. Just make sure it can float with the surge and hope for the best.

Ours has been thru every storm that went thru there since Andrew without major damage. It is somewhat protected tucked into a dead end canal surrounded by trees though

Don’t leave anything out there you can’t afford to lose or can’t replace. And leave the front door unlocked

re: The native plant thread

Posted by cgrand on 10/7/26 at 8:04 pm to
that place is so nice. I may run over there Sunday if it’s not raining

re: WFDT

Posted by cgrand on 10/7/26 at 8:04 pm to
my wife made crawfish and shrimp etouffee and it’s incredible
green salad
garlic ciabatta
blueberry lavender tea
chocolate chip cookies (also the wife’s doing)

was a good day tater

re: a thread for ZETA

Posted by cgrand on 10/7/26 at 2:08 pm to
the options chain is getting spicy. Supposedly there’s another announcement coming at 4pm today.

looks like the announcement is that Alex Karp (PLTR) will keynote the event tomorrow with the ZETA CEO. The topic is enterprise AI sovereignty. This aligns with the anticipated AthenaOS release. Stock is at 34 AH. This is as much momentum as this company has ever had.

re: The native plant thread

Posted by cgrand on 10/7/26 at 1:37 pm to
yes sir, same here
goldenrod, tickseed, boneset all in full bloom and absolutely covered in bees, wasps, flies and butterflies.

Tall asters won’t be far behind.

re: Ram Promaster vs Ford Transit?

Posted by cgrand on 10/7/26 at 12:51 pm to
the gold standard as mentioned earlier is the MB sprinter. The base van is surprisingly not ridiculously expensive and conversions are pretty easy to find on the used market. It is definitely the kind of thing that people buy new then never use, so buying pre owned is the way to go

re: SPCX IPO

Posted by cgrand on 10/7/26 at 12:44 pm to
I think musk himself would prefer a merger it would give him super voting control over TSLA and the combined entity plus would accelerate his $1T plus comp package. The question is whether the mechanism of the merger would put either TSLA or SPCX shareholders at risk.

He can’t lowball the TSLA offer because TSLA shareholders would reject it. At the same time, if he pays the price with SPCX stock it would dilute the SPCX pool. It will be interesting

In other news SPCX is asking Apollo to raise $40B in capital to buy NVDA GPUs. Reactions have been mixed

re: SPCX IPO

Posted by cgrand on 10/7/26 at 10:46 am to
Jesus Christ you all are some snowflakes. Very disappointing

re: SPCX IPO

Posted by cgrand on 10/7/26 at 9:29 am to
BREAKING: SpaceX has secured FCC approval for a 15,000-satellite Starlink Mobile constellation, opening a regulatory path to compete directly with AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile.

Granted October 6, the authorization includes a waiver allowing satellite wireless service without a spectrum-leasing agreement with a terrestrial mobile operator.

That gives SpaceX a route beyond providing supplemental coverage through carrier partnerships.

The satellites are authorized for orbits roughly 326–335 kilometers above Earth. SpaceX targets speeds of up to 150 Mbps per user, and the approval covers frequencies SpaceX is acquiring from EchoStar, alongside spectrum used through T-Mobile.

One important condition remains: commercial operations on the EchoStar frequencies must wait for the relevant acquisition closing, scheduled for November 2027. Until then, those frequencies are limited to testing.


starlink is the business. launch is the operating expense

re: WFDT

Posted by cgrand on 10/6/26 at 9:07 pm to
legs and thighs stewed in brown gravy with carrots
wild rice and green beans
blueberry lavender iced tea
chocolate payday

re: a thread for ZETA

Posted by cgrand on 10/6/26 at 4:53 pm to
handy graphic showing what the two deals are for



both companies were already integrated with ZETA so digestion shouldnt be a concern

re: SPCX IPO

Posted by cgrand on 10/6/26 at 4:05 pm to
no, why would I do that? I own shares.
it is trading at 100x future projected sales. Can’t look at P/E because it doesn’t have any E :LOL:

that is overpriced. Doesn’t mean the stock will go down. It means it’s expensive
“Isaias”? I have never heard that before and I’m old. Are the drug companies naming these now?

re: a thread for ZETA

Posted by cgrand on 10/6/26 at 3:45 pm to
ZETA with another acquisition
quote:

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA), the intelligent AI infrastructure company, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Digital Audience, a data infrastructure company that expands identity and activation capabilities across the digital ecosystem. Already integrated with Zeta, Digital Audience will expand Zeta’s identity and activation capabilities across all channels. The acquisition will also add an experienced team of data and AI engineers, strengthening the technical expertise behind Zeta’s intelligent AI infrastructure.

terms not disclosed either for this or the previous one. ZETA closed on that financing agreement a month or so ago so hopefully they are paying with cash and not stock, though some dilution should be expected. Stock based comp is a big part of why this isn’t $50 already
they submitted a planning commission application for a new two story building on highland near kenilworth. One may assume it will be multi tenant with the pizza place downstairs. So it will be a ways away

re: SPCX IPO

Posted by cgrand on 10/6/26 at 1:15 pm to
quote:

You have been bashing this stock since inception
I have not, I own some. I have been saying don’t buy this at the IPO and to wait and see how the stock trades. I have also posted several times about where I thought a good place to buy is, and I did so. I also know it is eyewateringly overpriced and I’d rather be cautious about its short term prospects.

But yeah if all you hear from that is frick Elon then there’s no point in discussing it with you

re: SPCX IPO

Posted by cgrand on 10/6/26 at 11:31 am to
I wouldn’t be doing any long term victory laps just yet. $80 is about where most models put fair value for this stock. It is the multiple over fair value and the extraordinary price of future earnings that have it where it is.

In the short term you are trading air

re: a thread for ZETA

Posted by cgrand on 10/6/26 at 11:28 am to
this is the second analyst to do this in two days…reiterate or raise a week after doing so before
quote:

William Blair just reiterated $ZETA a BUY 6 days after adding to their “high conviction” list. - Oct 6t: Reiterates Buy - Sept 30th: Conviction List
this new banana fertilizer is the tits. Rapid Intensification





a flower on the shampoo ginger finally