u/Nerdfighter4

I'm reading the Templars book by Dan Jones, and a bunch of info made me think of KKC's Amyr. Probably obvious to y'all, it's a group of religious armed forces that is surrounded by mystery and secrecy, who had enormous amounts of wealth and power at some point, rumoured to have continued in secret after they got disbanded and prosecuted.

Specifically, it mentions the location of the temple of origin where the first Templars started.

Originally, there used to be a temple there for thousands of years, on the east side of Jerusalem (built by king Salomo (son of David) as described in Bible book 1 Kings). Hidden in the midst of that temple was the most sacred: the hidden windowless room (the Holy of Holies) where God's name 'lived' and where the Ark of the Covenant stood. The Ark is usually described as a wooden storage chest decorated with gold, holding the original ten commandments written in stone.

These elements make a beautiful echo between real history and KKC: hidden windowless room at a significant location, housing (hiding, protecting) a large chest and a name, linked to the origins of the powerful group of religious knights.

(The original temple was reportedly destroyed in 586 BC. After a few hundred years of rebuilding, another destruction, another rebuild, the Templars origin can be linked to the temple at that Temple Hill location.)

I'm seeing other word choices in online sources, such as "presence" of God instead of "name", but I think Dan Jones is very particular in his word choices so I'm interested to investigage further.

I'm only at the start of the book, so I'm interested if there's more links to be found between the real world Templars and the KKC Amyr.

Every day I'm reminded of the Big Short guys saying "now THIS will surely be the last drop". But then the system is so corrupt and fraudulent that it just goes on and on.

The bubble superinflated, then the bonds (= debt) were dumped on new clients, and then everything crashed as people were still openly denying it. So... Where we at now?

They beat earnings per share previous years and continue to expand locations. However, they're still in the negatives for net income, although expected to be getting closer to breaking even again this year. Normalized EBITDA is 2023-2025: +13, 18, 10mil, and 11 mil TTM.

To me, it looks like a good dip to buy, and I lean towards buying today. But it seems like all earning days cause a dip now (looking at you, RDDT) even if beaten.

Who's buying today, and who's interested but waiting for Monday?

I think there should be consequences that Voldemort deals with every day (or at least very often), that would make him wish he'd found another way to survive in book 1. Or is it Quirrel's choice and burden to bear?

And why would Voldy be worried about dying anyway, since Quirrel's doing fine and even Harry's touch doesn't kill the horcrux? Or did the unicorn blood make the horcrux survive Harry, but then why did it not protect Quirrel? Was it only Voldy face that drank it?

Wouldn't it be great if the parseltongue reveal (at the duel) has more impact?

What if:

- Parseltongue is seen as a sign of evil, since Voldemort

- There are rumors among death eaters about Harry being a dark wizard (as explanation for surviving Voldemort), intertwined with parseltongue ability. Draco and other Slytherins know about this.

- Ron very early on makes an off handed comment like "All people who speak parseltongue are evil and should be locked up forever. Preferably as babies." (said with a Ron-shrug)

- Therefore Harry realizes that 1) he has that skill and that 2) it's important to keep it a secret

- At the duel, Malfoy summons a snake, to show off his OWN parseltongue ability (whaaaaat?!) and get school notoriety. He spurs it on to attack Harry (maybe it goes off road and heads for someone else).

[The crowd gasps - everyone goes silent. Even the teachers freeze. Only Snape starts to climb up on the podium.]

- Harry is forced to choose between waiting and hoping for Snape to intervene, (but only Lockhart is within reach, being completely useless), or revealing his ability in front of everyone. He chooses the latter to stop the attack.

- Harry is better at convincing the snake than Draco and saves the day, but does not get that recognition. In fact people are scared and repulsed by the reveal.

- Even Harry's friends don't know what to say to him. Hermoine pretty quickly gets over it and manages to be rational about it, but Ron straight up doesn't trust Harry until he brings Ginny back from the Chamber. And then only after Ginny gives him a howler-level telling off.

This is Hank's video from a month ago. Google didn't have faith in the AI trust with SpaceX incoming IPO (it's partly an AI company, as he points out) and they've been proven right. Oracle is dropping, Micron and Nvidia are done with the growth. I'm not here to argue there will be zero demand for AI, but that's not necessary for a bubble pop. Confidence lost = crash.

Crashes historically tend to happen after (northern hemisphere) summer holidays. Is there any chance it does NOT crash immensely before end of 26?

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Total collection: 107k

Already sold: 25k

Unsold: 82k

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In the unsold 82k:

Legos in store photos on 14 nov: 21k

Of which almost all layaways: 20k (so should not be counted separately)

So missing: 61k

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Within the missing 61k:

Side deal: 15k

POS system (already sold by BAM but not clocked in the consignment overview): 10k

Here coffeezilla counts the layaways 20k again (I don't get why)

And coffeezilla doesn't count the 10k or so Legos that Crys had at her house which she returned to Bryan (perhaps they weren't aware)

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So this comes to ~26k missing, a bit more than coffeezilla's estimate, calculated in a slightly different way than team coffee.

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Can we agree the layaways should be in the store and should therefore be on the photos (and therefore not be counted seperately to add into the missing 61k)? Or am I missing something?

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And did anyone hear a precise estimate of the value of the Legos that Crys returned to Bryan (including Clout city)?