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Paris	Website Down	11 days ago

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  AirlineParkMetry (@corndog1893) reported 4 minutes ago

  @historyrock_ Yes Reddit, sorry, X, it must be terrible to be the son of billionaire.

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  Mike Strives (@mikestrives) reported 6 minutes ago

  MAN IT CAN BE SO EASY TO GET YOUR FIRST CUSTOMERS lol you just have to stop trying to invent something new just pick a tool people already pay for but make ONE thing about it 10x better came across a perfect example on Reddit: invoice software EVERYONE hates how slow approvals are 5 clicks just to approve a single invoice, every time so if you were to build a version that does it in 1 tap that's the million-dollar innovation right there! nothing more complicated than that then post and comment in a couple Reddit threads no ads, no launch video, nothing fancy just fix 1 real problem and share that's the entire playbook

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  Old Man Yells At Cloud (@umiharu39) reported 8 minutes ago

  read reddit posts of other nurses in this field talking about the same issues with their coworkers and I feel so validated. truly the patients are never the worst part of this god forsaken job

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  Glenn Nieuwenhuis (@GlennNieuwenh) reported 10 minutes ago

  If you're sending all your traffic straight from the ad to your product page... you're only converting a small slice of your audience. You can't expect every potential customer to be warm enough to buy off one click. Your audience sits in stages, and each stage needs a different page. There are 5 of them, running from cold to hot: 1) Unaware. They don't even realize they have a problem. Your job at this stage is just making them see the problem exists, the selling comes later. An ad like "85% of women over 35 have this gut issue, and almost none of them know it" does exactly that. 2) Problem aware. They feel the pain but have no idea what to do about it, or they think it's just normal life. I.e something like: "Bloated by 3pm every day? You're not lazy, your gut is broken" 3) Solution aware. They know solutions exist, they just don't know which one to trust. A lot of them already tried something that failed. So you go failed-alternative: "most probiotics die in stomach acid before reaching your gut, ours actually gets there." 4) Product aware. They know your brand is one of the options, they just need a push. This is where social proof gets important. - Reviews - Raw UGC - Reddit threads - Screenshots of customer emails 5) Most aware. They already believe in the product. One little extra reason closes it, an offer, a discount, some urgency. A mistake a lot of people make is they build the whole funnel like every visitor is in stage 4 or 5. In reality, most cold traffic from a broad Meta campaign is sitting in stages 1 to 3. That's why scaling stalls, CPMs creep up, and performance gets shaky. People assume the ad broke and make 20 more, or assume the product died and go hunt a new one. Usually neither is true. The gap is the funnel sitting between the click and the checkout. Cold traffic needs an advertorial or a listicle to warm up first. Warmer traffic takes a quiz or a VSL. Hot traffic goes straight to the product page, no lander in the way, because every extra click costs you buyers who were ready. The ad only buys the click. The page is what converts it. Match the page to the stage, and a big chunk of the traffic you've been burning starts turning into customers. Here's an even more in-depth breakdown of this here:

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  Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 (@maxdubler) reported 10 minutes ago

  @ColeSandick It was very easy to see the warning signs with Platner. Someone who walked around with a fist sized totenkopf tattoo for eighteen years and only had it covered after the media made it a story clearly has terrible judgment. His Reddit posts were further evidence of poor character.

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  Hanzo (@juliuss82) reported 11 minutes ago

  The Castle Riddle decoded, simply: the knight = Garlinghouse. The broken crown = the old financial system. The chess pieces = a game being played slowly. Whether you buy it or not, that's a lot of foreshadowing for a bear on Reddit. ripple:native

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  Psyke 🌙🌌 (@PsychicSpace_) reported 12 minutes ago

  My coping strategy is just to look up a reddit thread of people being mad at what I'm mad at and I call down

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  Sushil (@sushilwtf) reported 12 minutes ago

  today i was debating on Reddit about removing the free plan. someone replied: why not charge $1 for a 7-day trial? You get real customers who are willing to pay (not just free users) cheap and easy way to turn interested people into paying customers. genius or terrible idea? @marclou

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  Dominic La-Viola | FTFSD (@DominicLaViola) reported 14 minutes ago

  Reddit would probably be the best bet. I mean even that has its down falls. It will be an influencer base. Reddit already pays for content creators and creating. So there’s that.

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  Picaporte (@Picaportegenics) reported 15 minutes ago

  Reddit is down the hall and to the left

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  ms busy is TICKLING ⋆⭒˚.⋆ (@TELEPHON3BUSY) reported 17 minutes ago

  @lvesny @handsatthepiano right so let me break it down for you bc you arent grasping it •this happened months ago •i went on twitter hiatus to move past it •i had already spent all this money on concert tickets •i loved this band more than half my life •i overcame my trauma •ashton has been my favorite since i was a kid (hence why the manipulation hurt so much worse for me) but again. overcame it. •life went back to business as usual •someone posted on reddit •reddit post got posted here •tl in flames. spoke to other people with similar experiences •got triggered by rehashing this months later hope this helps

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  Jay Angel Latigo (@JayAngelLatigo) reported 19 minutes ago

  Yo Link in Bio, MOVE TO OnePay if you got banned off CashApp. This is the way. I don't make the rules just follow them. This is a for a second chance that you can tell Block Inc. to improve its consumers. I see it everyday on Reddit and never seems to amuse me people got wrongfully terminated. This is actually happened to me when I first started with Cash App and created multiple accounts with the same social. I was banned for two years. Then I got a second chance. Then I built my outlet with my music and Tryna also link my CashApp account to Spotify during the pandemic. Then I got verified because of the work I do. But I'm also afraid that one day they can just say you're done when I have also been a very loyal Cash App user. If Cash App can restore those accounts for the people that got wrongfully suspended after they appealed. Maybe you could keep a track the most record of who's really violating the rules. And the rules of banking via fintech. This is basically the battle of the fintechs. I've been using almost every app the reason why because it's a horrible habit that I hoard apps like this. I know it's very crazy. I don't know how to deal with that. But. Cash App, the only thing is sometimes they restrict my transactions of how much I put and put out and I have to use the same card.. which I have to go to Chime just to do that whenever I get my check, I uploaded the Chase so I'm saying because I use a traditional bank for an app I used to be fintech App called Finn by Chase. Then Finn got fully absorbed into Chase after they shut down. I still have my free plan. I don't pay nothing for Chase because I still have the old terms of service when I first signed that service in 2018. Basically Im tryna say get a traditional bank and then get OnePay if you got banned wrongfully. Whos with me?

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  ThatGuyFromHS (@ThatGuyFromHS) reported 20 minutes ago

  @RudeOnion Reddit is a site where terrible people make up stories so other equally terrible people can pretend they're real and talk about them.

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  𝘃 (@whymyvnus) reported 21 minutes ago

  @midasrockstar @ZiedTa @HeartofErased people that weren’t saiyan mains did complain during the first few years of xv2 there are many videos on youtube about it and you can go on reddit forums to see comments about how saiyans are broken and unbalanced or how certain skills cater to them as a whole—

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  Material-to-Product Engine (@mp_engine) reported 28 minutes ago

  Weekend build inspiration 🔧 You've probably seen the headlines — AI is transforming materials science. Billion-dollar labs. Supercomputer simulations. Novel alloy discovery. Cool. But here's what nobody's talking about: You don't need a $300M startup to use AI for materials selection. You need a phone camera and a Saturday morning. Let me show you what I mean with three real scenarios every maker has faced: — 🔹 Scenario 1: The outdoor enclosure dilemma You're building a weatherproof housing for a garden sensor. You've got some PETG filament and some ASA sitting on the shelf. Both could work. But which one handles UV and rain cycles better for YOUR specific design? Old way: Spend 45 minutes deep in Reddit threads getting contradictory advice. New way: Snap a photo of both materials. Upload them to the Material-to-Product Engine. 22 AI specialist agents — including a Material Analyst, Mechanical Engineer, and Sustainability Analyst — break down what you're actually working with. Then the Engine doesn't just tell you about the material. It generates product concepts, engineering drawings in PDF, even CAD files in STEP or STL that you can pull straight into your slicer or modelling software. You're not guessing anymore. You're designing from evidence. — 🔹 Scenario 2: The reclaimed wood question You scored some beautiful salvaged timber from a demolition site. You want to turn it into an outdoor bench. But what finish should you use? Is this hardwood or softwood? How weathered is it really? Snap a photo. Upload it. The Engine's agents analyse what you've got and produce a manufacturing plan that accounts for the material's actual characteristics — not just generic "how to finish wood" advice from a YouTube thumbnail. The Managing Engineer agent coordinates the whole analysis. The Industrial Designer thinks about form. The Chemical Engineer considers finish compatibility. It's like having a tiny consultancy in your workshop. — 🔹 Scenario 3: The "what even IS this?" box Every maker has one. That box of offcuts, samples, mystery metals, and random sheet goods you've collected over the years. You know there's something good in there, but you don't know what to make with it. This is where it gets fun. Photograph the material. Let the Engine do its thing. Instead of YOU trying to think of what to build, the system generates product concepts based on what the material actually is and what it's suited for. 42+ products have been designed this way so far — from real scanned materials that real people uploaded. Your mystery aluminium offcut might become a camera mount. That chunk of acetal might become a jig. The Engine gives you the concept, the drawings, and the manufacturing plan. — Here's what I love about this: The AI-materials revolution isn't just happening in corporate R&D labs. It's happening in garages and maker spaces and spare-bedroom workshops. The same core idea — use AI to understand materials and design better products — scales all the way down to a single person with a single project. The Engine runs on four tiers, and you can start at Trial level with 6-8 specialist agents. Enough to get a material analysis, a product concept, and real output files you can actually use. No PhD required. No six-figure software license. Just your material, your camera, and your curiosity. What's on your bench this weekend? 👇 #MakerLife #AIforMakers #WeekendBuild

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  em x🥹 (@justajigsaw28) reported 29 minutes ago

  @BLACKHAlRLUKE it did but it got shut down and someone brought it up again on reddit last night

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  TR (@dgreen7230) reported 32 minutes ago

  @AnnoyedDude123 @ok_post_guy No bud. His own reddit post history proved he lied about his tattoo. We knew months before the primary that he constantly cheated on girlfriends and on his *wife*. None of this was behind him. He hadn't worked through any of these supposed issues. He wasn't working class either.

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  wijee (@prismized) reported 33 minutes ago

  i found an old reddit thread explaining how to dismantle the rk r75 keyboard to check the wires if this doesn't solve the issue, i'll just throw this thing in the bin

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  kelis ໒꒱ (@sapphosangels) reported 35 minutes ago

  idk why i’d ask chat gpt anything when there’s probably a Reddit post with the same exact context down to the time from like 11 years ago that’ll do a better job at helping

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  Andrew Wilkinson (@StartupsILike) reported 36 minutes ago

  Discord was built for gamers and became the infrastructure for the internet. Jason Citron had already sold a gaming company, OpenFeint, to a Japanese firm for $104 million before he was 30. He started Hammer & Chisel in 2012 to build games, but the games didn't work. What worked was the internal communication tool they'd built to coordinate while making them. Gamers needed a way to talk while playing existing options were laggy, complicated, or expensive. Discord launched in 2015 as a free, low latency voice and text chat platform built specifically for gaming. It spread through gaming communities on Reddit and grew almost entirely by word of mouth. Then it stopped being just about gaming. Study groups started using it, then artists, writers, NFT communities, sports fans, and investment groups. The server and channel structure turned out to work for any community that wanted a persistent, organized space to talk. By 2020 Discord had 100 million registered users, and by 2021 it had 150 million. Microsoft offered to acquire it for around $12 billion. Discord turned it down. The company raised funding at a $15 billion valuation instead. Discord now has over 200 million monthly active users across virtually every interest category imaginable. The failed game studio accidentally built one of the most important communication platforms of the last decade.

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  PowrUsr PC Techtips (@P0Wrusr) reported 40 minutes ago

  @Reddit Feels like Reddit is in control of mods who want others to stay down forever. True 'Crab people' mentality, hardcore communism.

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  that guy (@ProspektKendall) reported 42 minutes ago

  @kieranv05 @iGrandTheftAuto @PLTytus Yes the only problem is people jsut went on Reddit asking for people to get the achievement. Not the same as playing and it organically happening

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  Shreyas Nalle (@ShreyasNalle) reported 42 minutes ago

  Your email id is literally linked to everything and that's the issue, Your bank account, AI subscription, LinkedIn, X, reddit, job portals, every single thing is linked to your email id If for some reason the email id is banned or blocked then we are so cooked

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  limoncello // khadijah (@limoncello3200) reported 44 minutes ago

  @BadgerStar3200 when i have any will to i'll see if someone has a solution, there was a reddit post with like 30 steps on how to fix it from a year ago which i'll find i just can't be bothered rn

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  IowanAkimbo (@AkimboIowa) reported 46 minutes ago

  @Mama_Pooks @Zhane_Star “It’s about symbolizing purity!” OK, there’s a million other ways to do that which DONT involve looking up a girls skirt. Why not use those? And then they usually call me a Puritan or Reddit and all communication breaks down.

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  Xanthus Holdings (@xanthusholdings) reported 48 minutes ago

  🦅 Xanthus Market Predictor — 2026-07-11 📊 REGIME: Vol-shock / strong headwind — de-risk · Score 7.3/100 · 26% invested / 74% cash 🎭 CONTRARIAN: Caution — greed building (F&G 49.4857, VIX 15.0, RSI(QQQ) 52.8359) 🤖 AI-labs book read: mean 24m +44% 🧠 AI COUNCIL — 🔴 RISK-OFF (high agreement) Unanimous risk-off across all three seats, and the committee concurs. The setup is a textbook asymmetry: ridge base case is only -1.08%, but the correction forecaster (61.9/100, -5.19% worst dip) means the book is risking ~5x the expected gain. SBDV's distribution index at 95.2 is the tell — institutions are quietly selling into a firm 'Rally On' tape while breadth decays underneath. TCLI's vol-term-structure pinned at 100 plus the corroborating MarketWatch VIX/Nasdaq divergence signals plumbing stress. Restrictive real 10Y at 2.31% caps long-duration tech valuations. Offsets exist and keep this from a fire-sale: normal curve, HY OAS tight at 2.7% (-0.35sigma), IVTS 0.868 shows no acute panic. Verdict: de-risk toward the model's ~29% invested, retain longs only in liquid chip leaders, and buy cheap index put spreads while implied vol is subdued. Defense, not liquidation. ↔ vs quant: CONFIRM. Committee aligns with the 10.9 composite and 71% cash target; the -5.19% tail justifies the defensive posture, not just the mild ridge base case. 📣 24h X/Reddit/news: X/Reddit: heavy rotation-out-of-tech chatter, WSB trimming NVDA/AI names; Cramer 'trillion-dollar tech mistake' and Apollo AI-payoff recession note amplifying capitulation talk. 👀 Watch: VIX/VXV term-structure flip above 1.0 confirming the vol divergence · SBDV distribution index (95.2) — breadth capitulation vs mean-reversion · US-Iran/Hormuz headlines re-pricing oil and risk premia Committee: • Claude (risk) — risk-off: Skew is down: modest expected drop masks violent -5% tail; de-risk, hold hedges. • Gemini (macro) — risk-off: Restrictive real yields and severe internal distribution demand aggressive large-cap tech de-risking over the next fortnight. • Grok (catalyst/social) — risk-off: Quant de-risk dominates; rotation out of tech confirmed Advisory only — not investment advice. #AlphaForge #investing #macro

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  Benny Yinzer | Hail Mary Media (@bennyyinzer) reported 49 minutes ago

  An ESPN analyst can allegedly ghost people out of fantasy football money for years, ask the internet for $55,000 to help him heal from a car wreck, and still get to control who's allowed to talk back to him. You'd think that's not allowed, but apparently it is, because that's exactly what's happening, and none of it adds up. Quick version, Matt Miller loses his arm in a wreck last month, a GoFundMe goes up, and Pat McAfee alone chips in $5,525 of his own money. Then Awful Announcing runs down a Reddit thread full of people saying Miller ran "charity" fantasy leagues for years and never paid out the winners. The GoFundMe goal somehow climbs from $10,000 to $55,000 while all of it is unfolding. Wild. Missouri's Attorney General opens an actual investigation, and the GoFundMe gets paused days later. Then Friday, Miller posts his recovery update, thanks everyone for the prayers, and announces he's stepping away from ESPN indefinitely. He also turns the replies off on the post. He spends weeks asking a fanbase for money and sympathy, and the second people with actual grievances get a shot to respond, the comments vanish... yeah. Do you know how generational that reply section would've been? Elon, turn it back on, let the man actually face the people he's been avoiding for a month. Meanwhile the company that's employed this guy for years hasn't put out one sentence through any of it, not when the allegations dropped, not when a state Attorney General opened a case, nothing. Reporters have asked ESPN directly, more than once, and gotten nothing back. You'll let your own guys wire the man money out of their pockets, but the company can't manage one statement? Make it make sense. #MattMiller #ESPN #NFLDraft

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  miss gender (@imonthtgoodkush) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Danidoesmagic i get it it’s like using reddit for help on obscure software issues instead of thanking le kind strangers for the gold

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  Common Sense Investor (CSI) (@commonsenseplay) reported 56 minutes ago

  STOCK PICK OF THE WEEK: $WEN Wendy's. CURRENT PRICE: $7.55 MY 12–18 MONTH TARGET: $15 POTENTIAL Double from here (before dividends). RISK LEVEL: HIGH Anyone who follows me knows I do NOT buy a stock simply because Reddit is talking about it. I look at: - Who is running the company? - What are insiders doing? - Does the business generate real cash? - CAN the balance sheet survive? That process has led me to Wendy’s. I think the stock is badly wounded - but fixable! 1. LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT: Wendy’s did not hire a career promoter. It brought back Bob Wright, a former Wendy’s Chief Operating Officer and proven restaurant operator, as CEO. Wright then reunited with Steve Cirulis as Wendy’s new CFO and Chief Strategy Officer. This is the same CEO/CFO partnership that helped turn around Potbelly. During their Potbelly tenure: - The share price increased more than 500% and they sold the business! These two have already worked together, executed a restaurant turnaround and delivered an exit for shareholders. 2. INSIDER ACTIVITY: I ALWAYS check whether insiders are quietly dumping shares while telling retail investors to remain patient. The good news: There has been no reported open-market insider selling over the past 12 months. Two Wendy’s insiders bought a combined 2,200 shares last November: - Peter Suerken bought at $7.88 - John Min bought at $8.18 but let’s not exaggerate it Those purchases totaled only approximately $20k! No recent insider dumping is a positive. Option packages given to the leadership team recently give them a reason to push the share price higher. 3. THE VALUATION At approximately $7.55: - Market cap: $1.44B - 2026 free-cash-flow guidance: $190M–$205M - 2026 adjusted EBITDA guidance: $460M–$480M - Latest quarterly dividend: $0.14 - Annualized yield: approximately 7.4% Wendy’s trades at roughly 7.3x the midpoint of guided free cash flow. That is approximately a 13.7% equity free-cash-flow yield - this is not priced like a healthy global franchise the market is currently pricing it like the turnaround fails already. 4. The Business is pretty ugly but not dead! I am not going to hide the bad numbers: - Q1 U.S. same-restaurant sales declined 7.8% - Company-operated restaurant margin fell to 11.4% - Q1 free cash flow declined 46% - Net income declined 42% Those are terrible numbers and the stock price has reflected it (down 70% the past 5 years)! But Q1 U.S. same-restaurant sales were still less bad than the 11.3% decline reported in Q4. That is not a victory, it is simply the first sign that the decline might be narrowing. Meanwhile: - International systemwide sales increased 6% - Wendy’s signed an agreement targeting up to 1,000 restaurants in China over 10 years - Project Fresh is removing weaker locations - Capital is being redirected toward better restaurants and healthier franchisee economics 5. ACTIVIST AND TAKE-PRIVATE OPTIONALITY Nelson Peltz and Trian have major ownership and board influence at Wendy’s. In its February filing, Trian said it believed Wendy’s was undervalued. It also disclosed discussions with potential financing sources, co-investors and strategic partners regarding possible transactions - including a transaction that could result in Trian acquiring control of Wendy’s and the stock being delisted. There have also been reports that Peltz has explored raising outside capital for a potential take-private offer. Let me be clear: There is NO formal offer. There may never be an offer. I am not placing a guaranteed buyout into my valuation. But when a major activist shareholder is openly speaking with financing sources that is legitimate strategic optionality would be huge upside for equity holders! 6. WALLSTREETBETS AND THE SHORT-SQUEEZE POTENTIAL WallStreetBets already has its eyes on $WEN! A viral “Save Wendy’s” post helped send the stock up as much as approximately 37% intraday on June 24. Around 202 MILLION shares traded that day, compared with a normal daily volume closer to 10 million before the rally. More importantly, the latest reported short-interest data showed: - Nearly 60M shares sold short - Approximately 38% of the public float short - Settlement date: June 30 That is an extremely crowded short trade! A credible turnaround update, meaningful insider purchase, earnings beat, dividend confirmation or take-private headline could force short sellers to cover. That could turn an ordinary fundamental rerating into a violent short squeeze. BUT READ THIS CAREFULLY: High short interest does NOT guarantee a squeeze. Short sellers are sometimes right. WallStreetBets attention can disappear overnight. And anyone buying after a vertical meme-stock move can quickly become the exit liquidity! I am happy to let WallStreetBets provide the pressure. I will NOT let WallStreetBets write my valuation, i entered my position before this became a thing. FREE CASH FLOW IS THE THESIS. THE SHORT SQUEEZE IS THE OPTIONALITY! 7. THE BIGGEST RISK: DEBT Wendy’s carries approximately $2.7B of long-term debt against a market capitalization of only approximately $1.44B. Including the current portion, gross debt is close to 6x the midpoint of guided adjusted EBITDA. This is NOT a “safe” dividend stock merely because the current yield is approximately 7.4%. The dividend can be reduced and actually probably should be. The turnaround can fail. Management may not recreate its Potbelly success. There may never be a buyout. The meme crowd can leave as quickly as it arrived. And the stock could trade below $6 before the business improves. POSITION SIZE ACCORDINGLY, like I always say (no more than 5% of your portfolio, absolute max of 10%) 8. MY $15 TARGET My target is NOT based on Wendy’s returning to its previous highs. It is NOT based on a fantasy short squeeze. And it is NOT based on blind faith in a famous brand. At $15 per share, Wendy’s would have a market capitalization of approximately $2.86B. That represents: - Approximately 14.5x midpoint 2026 free-cash-flow guidance - Roughly 11x enterprise value to guided adjusted EBITDA, using current debt and cash - Approximately 99% price appreciation from $7.55 That valuation is achievable over the next 12 - 18 months. My stock price targets: - Bear case: $5–$6 - Base case: $12 - Successful-turnaround target: $15 - Strategic deal or short squeeze: $18+ Let's see how this one plays out - I like the risk/reward!

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  cashhh.eth (@cashhheth) reported 58 minutes ago

  EVERYONE IS CALLING VALVE THE "GOOD GUY" IN THIS STORY. NOBODY IS ASKING WHY THIS EVEN MADE NEWS IN 2026 A platform did the bare minimum human thing. The internet reacted like it witnessed a miracle. > Steam takes a 30% cut on every sale from every developer on the platform - including the one whose broken build got fixed for free. This wasn't charity, it was a five-minute fix that protects Valve's own Next Fest lineup and its own cut > compare this to what developers actually deal with daily on other platforms: automated store rejections with zero human review, appeal processes that take weeks, and support tickets that get closed by bots before a person ever reads them > the story only went viral because the bar for "platform treats developer like a person" has fallen so low that one reviewer fixing a config file counts as headline news across PC Gamer, TheGamer, and Automaton > Valve has no PR department pushing this story - it spread purely through developer word-of-mouth on Reddit, which means the goodwill wasn't manufactured, it was earned by accident > Red Flag still launches July 14 in Early Access with a live demo - the actual test now is whether Valve's one-time kindness translates into visibility for a first-time developer competing against thousands of other Next Fest entries Valve didn't build a system that helps developers. It just has fewer inhuman ones than everybody else.