PR

tapmasR

Getting PR in HK may not be that hard. They have clearly defined criteria like working 7 years there to qualify. But Singapore? If you think getting PR is not that hard, you clearly don't know the details. And in any case, you need to get SG citizenship (not PR) and then renounce US citizenship to escape from 15% tax. Getting SG citizenship is near impossible nowadays. You'll have to stay there first for at least 10 years to have even a chance.. and by that time you'd have missed lot of other opportunities compared to staying in the US.

ThanksDependent1001

Ya it’s pulled back hard from the summer but the balance sheet is cleaning up and the PR nightmare has faded. I think the come in over estimate at 113B revenue over the 111.5 estimate. Could be a decent lotto for the week but don’t go ham 😂🫠

PassableForAWombat

Midwest has Minnesota, the rockies, and a buncha corn in between. Clearly the superior zone is PR

SPAC_Time

XRPN is [holding almost $730 million worth of XRP](https://www.coingecko.com/en/treasuries/xrp). It is hard to tell how many shares XRPN has, the business combination won't close until the 7th, so they won't file a Super 8-K for at least a week. However, [check out the table on page 12 of the prospectus](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2044009/000119312526371516/d944435ddefm14a.htm), which shows total shares outstanding at the close, excluding warrants. The XRPN said the cash from [trust was about $48 million](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/shareholders-approve-evernorth-business-combination-transaction-and-related-private-placements-have-raised-over-1-billion-nasdaq-trading-under-xrpn-expected-to-begin-on-october-8-302895260.html#:~:text=approximately%20%2448%20million%20of%20trust%20proceeds). The estimated redemption price was $10.52, so that would be about 4.56 million public shares left after redemptions. If that table is correct, XRPN might have 20 million total shares when it closes. That would be $37.50 per share in XRP. However, again, business combination doesn't close until the 7th. PR and SEC filing didn't say anything about redemptions or redemption reversals; if a lot of reversals occur, the XRP per share drops.

Gunk_Olgidar

Other than "bad CEO choices," Zuck/Meta isn't a great comparison. Zuck is a PR clown/nightmare who gets a VR brainworm every few years and uses his position/power to spend more R&D money than he should on his bad ideas. But he's not a business idiot. But Meta never was challenged by COVID; they benefitted from it tremendously. META did not choose to cancel a primary revenue channel and eliminate free customer acquisition/marketing. Nike did. This was a NKE Board room level fcukup that allowed Donohoe to kill retail brick & mortar. Their BOD hired him and bought into the stupidity of killing off their retail sales channel, which is also a huge part of their customer acquisition and market development. Stock deserves to get crushed as a consequence. In a competitive business with a premium product, new customer acquisition is one of the hardest things to do. Even harder in a market when your fungible product with no moat costs 5x the competition, where your ONLY advantage is brand recognition. NKE completely killed themselves by taking their products off the top shelves at every shoe store everywhere. To kids in middle/lower income families walking around in shopping malls after their parent dropped them off for "free summer camp at the mall," the swoosh was a pinnacle to aspire to. The glowing golden prize at the end of the quest of what "personal success" means to five-to-twenty year old child. Well now that Donohoe yanked their products. NKE is no longer a prize to obtain, and a half-decade of those kids won't aspire to don the swoosh once they get their first part-time job paychecks as mid-late teens. I wore Nike's once as a kid for the same reason, but that was long before they were 5x the cost of other shoes that I outgrew or wore out just the same as any other. Decades later on fixed income, I buy my $25 sneakers from Walmart. NKE will be a business school case study for decades.

Tall-Oven-9571

AI billionaires just warned us humanity may be eliminated in 2-3 years and were worried about stocks? I just recently got into investing and 2 weeks later they throw this into the universe. I had a solid plan now questioning everything. My gawd I hope this was a PR stunt. Prob not.

Orennji

GLAS really seems like they designed their whole PR strategy modeled after Tesla around sucking in dumb tech investor money. The press releases are granular "technical" updates on the greenhouses, to make the investors feel smart. The constant reminders they are supposedly giga-scale (really missed a big opportunity there to call them Giga greenhouses) and disruptive. CEOs are not very charismatic, but Marc Chodes did well enough to fill the role of provocateur.

SignificanceLate7002

OPNW could be interesting. Was VRME and changed ticker symbol this morning after completing merger with OpenWorld. Float lockup gets released in stages with only 4M(30%) shares tradable for the first 60 days. Down 25% from open but official PR just came out an hour ago.

Serenaded

OKLO has not had a PR statement in 5 months or something, I heard (from OKLOstock sub) that last time they did this they made a major announcement that led to large green dildos. I am a bagholder and down 30% with OKLO though :(

Mattagascar

Have they? Your link is just an angry blog post disguised as a PR from a rescheduling opponent. Having 280E liabilities on the balance sheet or seeking refunds is not the same as what you’re saying.

Cold5512

He has never spoken a word of truth. Every single sentence from him is for PR, with zero regard for truthfulness. Sometimes, his words happen to be truth. That is like a broken clock displaying the correct time. He only ever speaks to attempt to make himself seem good or others to seem bad.

EmbarrassedPart1256

& [another $CAPS PR](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/887151/000143774926031664/ex_1021159.htm) 🤙

Suspicious_Parfait36

Pad delivery and first flight are not the same milestone. Hungry Hippo testing is a real hardware step, but Neutron's value is cadence after flight one, not the maiden date itself. Beck's framing around balancing first-launch readiness with systems that do not need re-qual by flight ten is the adult version of the story. A slip into early 2027 is annoying for the tape. It matters less if the vehicle that finally flies is built for high cadence instead of a one-off PR launch.

stockratic

I am very aware of MDAI. I disagree. As I state in the post, depression and suicidality are on the national crisis list for the FDA and are a priority for the military. The PR talks about the fame changer this drug showed to be in the prior trial and will be if successful in this upcoming trial.

MirthandMystery

All too common but the real story is you following X garbage site and taking Logan seriously. Lara Logan is a fraud herself.. and Joseph Burkett, is tied to US military intel. Back in 2011 both used her news presenter role both helped boost the lie she's was sexually assaulted in Tahrir Square by a mob celebrating when Mubarak was forced out. She was manhandled and bruised but not wildly sexually assaulted as claimed. The U.S. right wing news and Bush era guys in key positions exaggerated what happened and used it to demonize Muslims and paint her basically as a white woman targeted by Arab savages. Burkett had just worked at a big PR firm pushing the Iraq war at the time before shifting to defense contractor work and knew how to spin the story. What news stories could achieve to shape public opinion by a few key people then, is what social media does today- creates distorted or entirely fake news that serves as propaganda and disinformation. X specializes in boosting that and giving them legitimacy for those unsavvy enough to scrutinize sources and angles. Most users aren't able or curious enough to know that, many are so young they hardly know how bad X is or how Twitter was never the biased, monetized hellscape that Musk intentionally shaped it into. The Lincoln Group was a strategic communications and public relations firm hired by the U.S. Department of Defense during the Iraq War. Their primary task involved "information operations," which included planting pro-U.S. articles and stories written by American military personnel into Iraqi newspapers to shape public opinion. \[[1](https://www.gawkerarchives.com/lara-logan-s-husband-was-a-propagandist-for-the-u-s-mi-1462275766), [2](https://www.mediamatters.org/cbs/newsweek-was-lara-logans-husband-involved-60-minutes-botched-benghazi-story)\]

Dick_Wiener

Where is the “broke contain and hacked government/corporation” PR that normally accompanies these types of rollouts.

WetThurman216

The gap between a demo batch and actual scale is massive, and most of these announcements deliberately blur that line. I'd look for any mention of gigawatt-hour targets or specific plant capacity numbers, without those it's just a lab project with good PR. The CATL chair saying the chance of millions of vehicles before 2030 is very small says more than all the 2027 timelines combined.

Critical_Bluejay_919

It’s almost impossible to get a Singapore PR 1. You can enter on a work visa and hope the government approved your PR(chances are very less) 2. You invest 20 million dollars or so in Singapore. If you have say 100 million sure this is a good deal. Eduardo Severin one of the Facebook founders did this.

Calamity-Bob

Once you become a US citizen your global income becomes taxable. That includes capital gains. Doesn’t matter if you become a PR is Singapore or HK. As long as you’re a US citizen , it’s all taxable

purplenut1

There’s no requirement to be a Singapore citizen or PR to enjoy the capital gains tax exemption in Singapore. Source: Singaporean

EmbarrassedPart1256

Because it’s one of the best valued penny stocks I’ve ever seen, also with an explosive share structure. At this point, they can’t shake the tree much further, & there’s 3 months before an imminent risk of a RS. They just PR’ed decreased debt in a rising rate environment. I ended yesterday with 34K shares, free, just from buying the ugly dips & trimming into strength. I think I’ll keep accumulating from here, see what I can end up with.

kimysauthor

* **Citizenship-based taxation:** Unlike almost every other country, the US taxes its citizens on worldwide income regardless of where they live. Moving to Singapore or Hong Kong changes nothing for a US citizen unless they formally renounce their US citizenship. * **The Exit Tax (Section 877A):** You can't just hand in your passport and walk away tax-free. If you're wealthy (net worth over $2M), renouncing triggers a massive "exit tax" where the IRS taxes all your unrealized capital gains as if you sold everything the day before. * **Singapore forbids dual citizenship:** To become a Singaporean citizen, you must renounce your original citizenship, and getting PR definitely doesn't exempt a US passport holder from the IRS.

Icy_Display_3548

This is my .02 cents but I listen to him less because he’s an expert and has unique insights but more so because he makes the material easy to consume and I agree with his leanings and perspective on it (similar to Ed). He clearly knows his stuff. Does he copy things from people? Sure! His segment on the OpenAI hacking episode was pretty low quality slop. Ed’s episode on this was great because they clearly destroyed the whole narrative the AI happened to think their poison (I felt this whole thing was BS). I forgot how I actually started listening to Patrick Boyle. It def wasn’t because he happened to be a prof at Kings College for some period of time. I seriously thought that he was a hedge fund / finance dude who had a side hustle doing podcasts. Same thing about Ed: he’s a PR dude who clearly is clever and connect things together and make these topics easy to consume. He brings good guests over and I find that I learn something new every time I listen to him and Patrick. An Ed and Patrick mash up would be interesting!

Gioware

Leaked on Reuters, it is like a PR publication but with extra steps

PaperHandsTheDip

A PR is essentially a change / feature going into the system. Pre AI you'd usually target \~1 / day. I'm doing almost 100 / day via leveraging it.

TheRaccoonReport

Same. Our senior architect & developer and I (i'm the delivery manager/ops VP) spent almost 6 months building out our processes, guardrails, policies, practices, documentation, CI/CD process etc before we connected Claude code to anything. While it does OCCASIONALLY overengineer stuff, its made us better at what we do. We don't know it from a "i talk to it and it tells me stuff", we use every aspect of the toolset. Every time I feel like theres not much else I can learn, theres either a new model that drops, combined features, or my Architect finds a new use case that makes us 1% better at something else. The speed is just absolutely insane. My team could have done all of the work and code Claude is doing, just would take a lot longer. The human in the loop is key, and he still has to approve all PR's that are tagged with moderate to high complexity (or if our client is a regulated business). Low complexity stuff, it just runs once we get a ticket in from the customer, lets us know its done, we do a quick check, push the button and out it goes. Could we function without it? 100%. Without it, could we operate like a team of 20 with only 10 people? Absolutely not. We have tried doing more with openAi, but ultimately, at least in my opinion, its just not the better of the two.

Slabbed1738

Another dilution is PR, right?

Loose_Hornet4126

Ah love a theoretical paper on assumptions they MIGHT be able to on a roadmap. Conveniently times with a stock PR movement. Offering soon?

Life-Trade-6514

a new PR. Have fun.

steppin4it

Did u notice over 5m shares traded today? Thats over 15x regular trading volume. I don’t see the PR as bad news, just an update.

EmbarrassedPart1256

In general, I don't like to ***invest*** in "ideas," & a lot of them are pretty speculative IMO. The reason I'm so obsessed with $CAPS is that they have real revenue, a serious geographic presence, & are in a high-demand, borderline "essential" industry. ***Trading***, on the other hand, is much more favorable to the types of stocks you posted IMO; with rumors, PR, any sort of *potential* catalyst, these things can gain momentum. Regardless, buying low is always the way to go IMO & if you miss out on gains, don't chase them unless you're ready to cut it at a moment's notice.

Arctic_Toucan

I get the sense that somebody in Anthropic’s PR decided they are brilliant and will be able to build trust with the illusion of transparency that is these fantastical AI-risk reveals. Not debating the merit of them; they may pose a genuine risk. I just think leadership in tech companies think they know what is best, full stop. A level of arrogance I can’t even begin to comprehend.

Deadsea3132

It hasn’t moved for months and company isn’t giving any PR, what PT do you think it’ll be at eoy?

mebeast227

His contrast blind AI PR team*

0100110110110111

We almost even stopped PR reviews in my company. Most PRs go straight to production with just some automated AI agents reviewing them. Humans only review PRs that are deemed critical but I doubt much attention is put to them either. Like another commenter said, unleash the slop!

derprondo

I do a lot of rubber stamping to keep things moving, especially if it's a small PR touching non-critical parts. If it's more than I can scroll through in a few seconds I'll have Claude do a review and go from there. We also have a ton of security and code quality tooling that catches a lot of things automatically as well.

FrickenHamster

Unless you start rubberstamping (which I'm guessing the majority of companies that claim 10x output increase are doing), theres no way any team can legitimately review all the code that gets vibed out. You can have half the team do nothing but review code for 8 hours a day, and they won't get through all the PRs before they burn out form doing nothing but code reviews. Velocity is simply a function of how fast the c suite wants to push. If they think you should deploy faster, every PR gets a LGTM within minutes and is merged.

LeetcodeForBreakfast

my coworker asked me to review his PR. A *single line* config file change… with 6 lines of comments from AI. 

HeyitzPeter

Would do my DD on the company. A lot of fluff piece PR, promises, and poor communication (lacks important details).

derprondo

Yeah I just sit around and wait for my coworkers to review my PRs. I tried to make it easier by breaking them up into smaller PRs, but then I just wait even longer. Don't get me wrong I'm way more productive now, but nowhere near what I could be doing if I didn't have to wait on PR reviews.

Borderpotroll

He wears a cardigan because his PR team told him it made him seem like a gentle little relatable computer geek

Wolf_Faust_


Belichick12

People struggle to buy feedstock for a low enough price for their plant to show good economics. It’s like gold - Glencore will sell you as much gold as you want as long as you pay market prices. The PR means nothing, look at the S-4: $0 revenue besides grants. Who spends $20+ million on a demo plant and gets $0 revenue!?

Ethos_Logos

Do you apply the same level of critique to Microsoft (excel) and Google? To Amazon’s AWS? I mean I don’t know you, you may well avoid all tech stocks and all index funds which hold them.  The reason why other companies get a pass in the media is because Palantir is very good at war. And enemies of the West fund 30% of all negative PR toward Palantir.  Palantir does a lot of good in the world. For example, Ukraine would be Russia today, without its tech. There’s a lot of good work they’re doing in healthcare, too, and they get headlines, but headline fade fast without people paying to keep them in the news.

TornadoFalls

That's a vile PR to help pump META. Hit my target to get out of puts and was looking to sell at open too. Still have until EOW on them but might need to settle for break even at this point. Market gonna casino sometimes.

Hot_Marionberry_5613

no real order just PR by their dubai friends

jojo45333

It’s a PR company

Dr_Zoonotikstein

At present, the Republican party owns this colossal shit-show of a failed war. The best thing they could do from a PR standpoint is allow the Democrats to get involved in any capacity in order to blur the lines of culpability. If that blurring happens, this will be a hot potato that the two parties will toss across the isle for years. Dems might just be better off sitting this one out altogether, from the standpoint of political expediency.

New-fone_Who-Dis

So PR and Marketing?

dy-113x

You fell for the PR stunt

doctormink

It’s amazing to see whole fully the geriatric crowd has bought into the idea that the US is the greatest country in the world and the most successful. Greatest at what? Most successful at what? PR, and propaganda, that’s what.

Jerry_Ballstien

Everyone is still caught in Starbucks PR high. This company is ruthless. That 300m charge is the cost to push out competition. It's not a loss. Starbucks has a big picture, big plan, and they've made themselves essentially a bank. They're not too big to fail, but they're big enough to crush with intention. The siren is truly a great representation of Starbucks

dy-113x

Man, where to start with this revisionist history. Facebook is so irrelevant that zuck changed the entire company name for a half-baked idea. Without acquiring Instagram for next to nothing, the company wouldn't even be hanging with the big boiz. How come everyone forgets about Oculus VR as well? Idk what zuck is paying you to suck his dick and do his PR but it must be paying the bills.

Acrobatic-Song-3151

You can get a six flags gold pass for $119 that gets you in some of the best coaster parks in the world. Even a day at Hershey park can be had for 25% of what Disney we’ll cost you. Compared to concerts, sports venues, etc they’re a a deal. Will thinner people drive six flags into prosperity? Probably not. People are glued to their phones and have forgotten the beauty of being outside surrounded by others having fun. Will I invest anyways? Sure, just not with real money.  I also saw what six flags did with pricing this year, closed the loops, and they’re getting enough bad PR right now I’ll buy the dip. 

magalgorithm

Bull case Grml is just getting started. Lots of PR and news is coming out putting Grml in spotlight. It has positioned itself as a distribution pipeline aimed to address critical mineral demands from the west. Grml seem to have local expertise in place who understand the complexities of the region. Trump can label this as a national security issue so administration can push investments and partnerships through quickly. We will see what happens once the UN resolution is ratified by Greenland and Denmark. It will be a win for local Greenlanders and the Danish government . So looks like a win-win situation \~Holding long here.

derprondo

Three years ago we were fighting with LLMs to get one line of code right. Two years ago we were fighting with LLMs to get one function right. One year ago we were fighting with LLMs to get one feature right. Today I'm implementing entire apps in a single prompt, and Claude gets it right. I don't know where we'll be one year from now. It's at the point where if I want something and it doesn't exist or nothing open source is quite what I want, I can just have Claude create it in 30 minutes. I've automated my Claude shit so much at work that I just point it at a user story and it'll crank away and then ask the team for a PR review on its own. I don't have to do shit anymore.

johnny_51N5

Tesla is dying a slow death in Europe. No one wants that shit and people are laughed at driving a Tesla. Any positive movement you see on Tesla is very very cheap cars BECAUSE no one wants them. CEO and face of Tesla elongated muskrat doing sieg heils back to back is not a good PR move. Wtf was he thinking after taking an ungodly amount of ketamine.

RuleSafe6767

I wouldnt mess with nflx. They were the disruptive winner who leveraged the internet against slower incumbents. YouTube is the disruptive winner against the pay-for-media model, and they are winning against the slower incumbents (hulu, roku, netflix, disney, WB, etc). Also, when a company gets multiple negative responses from wallstreet, Ive personally seen upper management "lean into" sand bagging it to basically punish wallstreet even harder in hopes of getting a big sell off in the stock price that it kind of bottoms out. This sounds like sabatoge, but the trick is they get to issue themselves a lot more RSU's (or stock options), because the financial department either had to dillute or buy leaps from the market. So they'll do this for 2 or 3 rounds of performance reviews, and all of the top management, directors, etc all get issued a lot more shares. Then you will see management go on a PR blitz both on the customer side (new shows, finally release some headliners, etc), and PR on the investment side (talking about new organizational improvements, streamlined staff, lower costs, etc). The idea is to cause a big upswing in both customer interest and justify a highrr multiple, and finally land "blow out" numbers at the next W report: combined with all the insiders selling into that upswing strength. I've personally seen these plans being hatched and the strategy discussed at two public companies, however both on the tech side and not netflix. Just be careful, and only put risk on when you see evidence of the pump side materializing (and evidence that they arent shooting themselves in the foot).

Own_Fold_5212

I love so many things about GTI haha But I really wish Ben would stay off social media; I’ll make my peace with their more minutes focus on more broad PR and media like others are doing as that’s in theory about prioritizing execution

Disposable_Canadian

Ahh yes. The work experience argument. Hense the 1 and 2 year programs. 4 year student visa, 2 year program, work for 2 years, apply for PR or refugee application. And you can cook the numbers down, it's well documented in 1 year alone we brought in 1M immigrants. ONE.

Suspicious_Parfait36

The AI power bottleneck framing is the right lens, but the tape tends to treat every SOFC headline like guaranteed megawatts delivered. What actually matters is how fast Bloom can ship and install behind the meter when interconnection queues are multi-year, and whether those deployments turn into repeatable backlog instead of one-off PR. Gas turbines and other onsite options are real competition, and valuation already prices a lot of success. I like the category because power scarcity looks structural for AI buildouts, but I’d treat BE as an execution bet on delivery cadence and customer concentration, not as a free lunch on the narrative.

Disposable_Canadian

Maybe but for us it's awful. 12% for youth right now because student and PR immigrants taking all the entry level jobs. It's brutal.

Few_Move_4594

Remember the AMD dropping support for "old" RDNA versions then coming out with a PR'd up explanation why they really weren't dropping support? You know, when they were still selling hardware with the "old" RDNA versions? Shit like that is mega common with AMD GPUs. It's been that way for a long long time, the driver and game support is far superior in Nvidia products.

sabatiel180

Need to move fast. So many movies that need a new 🥭 "Superior" soundbite taped over. What a PR nightmare. Geez.... 😓

selfemployedsince16

I see us at a crossroads. Either republicans (those in power) show they are good dividers of pie or risk losing the ability to bake due to a burned down kitchen. I advocate for a new homestead act for the masses. And I advocate for a Freedom Dividend. “This is leftism in a nutshell. The right creates something cool, the left feels excluded, they infiltrate something they did not build, they remove the original creators that made it great, they use the platform to push activism/ideology, destroy the entity completely, then leave and do it again elsewhere. It’s locustmaxxing.” \- autism capital on X We have to gear towards prosperity for the masses in action more than propaganda. I see the signs, time to get PR to work. The physiological impacts of the future need funding/studying and a lot of it! It’s going to matter what happens with loss of identity and how we help people feel ok in this economic shift.

selfemployedsince16

@zachweiner on X is asking some great questions with a strong hour long video format (looks weekly) glad I found him but I think he is right when he says “Talking to mathematicians about the feeling of identity obliteration from AI, and I continue to think there isn't enough money spent on the psychological effects of human outmoding and how to deal with it mentally. Sincerely worried about mental health issues in the community.” We really need to get ready for what’s coming I hope our PR teams are ready as all hell.

BenjaminHamnett

I dont think that binary is even useful. Few claim any certainty besides people trying to make names as pundits doing the interview circuit. Also, I think it’s equally likely for them to all be “right” and “wrong” to some degree. I think taking a side is silly and just entrenches people. Almost no one knows enough to take a side and few are incentivized to do so besides the rush of advocating ideology or another excuse to act righteous about what was already convenient for them to believe. My point was that people are being overt cynical that everyone is just making claims for motivated reasons, but they neglect that these people already had more money than they could already spend (this isn’t like the dot coms where random nerds were getting 10-100m windfalls and cashing out). These people were already all on track to make ungodly sums but have taken great risks that aligned with their professed beliefs. Remember “we have no moat” or “investors should see themselves as philanthropists, not speculators”? I think the real potential “moat” for a technology with this potential IS around trust and safety. Talent and customers may not have any angels to choose from, but I think resources, attention and capability will flow toward the lesser evils. I don’t hate on these people the way the rest of Reddit does, but I don’t take their PR personas at face value either. I honesty think we’re very lucky that the crop of executives at the top are as benign as they are. I think Even some of the worst among them aren’t the villains they are made out to be. To get back to my point, most of what they’re saying now is closet aligned with what they’ve always said before they had so much financial skin in the game, and I believe it is WHY they have accumulated the power and capability they have. It seems the theyve all roughly succeeded in proportion to alignment with humanity. (And why I think anthropic and or google are the actual front runners, and even a dark horse like Ilya is more likely to to reach a finish line than grok or maybe even OpenAI) So I think the cynicism is unwarranted because it gets the causality completely backwards. The top talent understand the danger and are aligning with humanity, and their executives are more genuine than they’re getting credit for. For example, I can see why they’re incentivized to seek regulatory capture, but they always thought that would be needed and played the game assuming that. Otherwise would be like starting a debate in the endgame of a chess match whether pawns should get promoted for reaching the other side. “You just think yes cause your pawn is one move away!” Yeah, I played the game. Now I’m just advocating for what’s reasonable after positioning myself assuming that reality

SubjectAfraid

Propaganda of course! Just PR and getting "shitfluencers" to buy as much public perception as possible, but with the ongoing mess in Iran, it's already TOO LATE to save face for MAGAs.

SPAC_Time

[FortuneX Acquisition Corporation and WT Realty Group Inc. Announce Business Combination Agreement](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/09/19/3364987/0/en/fortunex-acquisition-corporation-and-wt-realty-group-inc-announce-business-combination-agreement.html) \- FXAC FXACW Late Friday night PR, no SEC filing yet.

morbie5

> PR and USVI pay federal income tax, no territorial/ local income tax You have that backwards, most puerto ricans don't have to pay federal income tax for income sourced from PR, some people do have pay federal income tax if they work for the federal government or are in the US military, etc. I think everyone still has to pay federal payroll taxes tho

VivianChang_VC

Huawei chip yields are still the bottleneck, not the willingness to switch. If they can't hit volume by Q4 this is more PR for the funding round than an actual supply chain shift.

misanthr0p1c

Did a check and provided I stay on a w-2, PR ends up more due to a higher local bracket. If I were to become a contractor it would be a lot less.

ChrisSlicks

US citizens have to pay income tax anywhere in the world, there are complicated rules around that of course. PR citizens do not pay US income tax but they do pay SS tax and medicare tax. They have their own local progressive rate income tax which hits 33% at $66K.

GratefulDiver74

PR and USVI pay federal income tax, no territorial/ local income tax. The total amount paid is returned by IRS to VI or PR. In the USVI you cannot vote for President, but they do send a non-voting delegate to the house. So it kinda is taxation without representation.

OpenTheBobs

“Many” seems vague and not accurate. Around 60% - 66% of US citizens poll in support of Puerto Rico becoming a state. Understandable that very small territories would not fit a standard of becoming a state. But US citizens generally support PR becoming one.

shiro_1602

So he wants to add new states but PR and DC are too liberal. Adding Canada on the other hand would be fine... What the actual fuck.

Tengo_Caldero

The USA has used PR as its personal piggy bank and bomb testing ground. The list of abuses and exploitative actions is endless. States get more rights than colonies.

TallGuyinBushwick

DC and PR has no senators? This man is delulu

dubblies

alright so heres the Republican play: 1. Do not allow PR or DC statehood and frame them as the devil 2. Maintain control of the voting mechanisms and control the voting systems - Legal or Otherwise

Ambitious_Snow840

It could either be they're position for regulatory capture \[which is a huge mistake\], or this is a PR stunt, or this is some sort of attempt at disclaiming risks prior to an IPO without explicity declaring them in their S1s.

mysterybeef19

It’s a PR move and a competition lockout - not really a sly one either

selfemployedsince16

Now that’s an idea that would work for PR

2020isgreat

What PR person decided having the Paul brothers at the Department of War would be a good idea

Kickboy21

She has PR teams tht wont let her make stupid fucking decision like ed sheeran

thewhitetulip

My fictional company makes higher per employee but it also spends a trillion per employee but because of my upcoming fictional IPO PR campaign is underway 

RioAncho

AI ( Bangalore version not Anthropic ) daily workflow: 50 messages a day of "Can we connect ?" for the most simple of issues, until people mute you on teams Push up code that fixes 1 issue but surprisingly creates 3 new issues in Production (How could it be SARRRR!!! ) Very stressful morning, nobody understands what i have to go through to support my arranged marriage wife Heat up the biryani and eat while scrolling linkeding New ticket/PR just appeared, translate it from english to HINDI using ChatGPT free and reply to GPT in Hindi and ask it to translate again to english and then copy paste it to send to the end-client. Shit!! I need to send the documentation for the PR i sent to Production, quickly copy paste the code to GPT free and ask it to generate the spec. Send email. Leave the building, what a productive day.

EthanielRain

It was always the bottom picture, just with better PR

scrappyai

Uber is way further ahead on their AV rides program. They’re quiet about it because it will cause a PR nightmare with their drivers. They’re quiet have the user base. They’ll rollout self driving in cities, and dominate regions where self driving isn’t possible due to fleet range, docking, charging, etc. the stock will rip when they announce they’re going all in on AV rides. User logs in, can choose between self driving and human. No brainer. Uber will break 100 on this news

LeonardoDaTiddies

It doesn’t help that Americans are propagandized from birth about the benefits of fossil fuel and the folly of renewables. Even fictional TV like Landman has Billy Bob Thornton doing a 3 minute monologue that’s just talking points out of Big Oil’s PR platform. 

Shoganai_Hito

ASTS bagholders relying on PR to drive share price day after day. Bros probably aged 10years this yr alone

i-love-you-sm

They produce these PR releases themselves. They all follow the same template and outline, so it’s pretty straightforward. We’ve really arrived at people critiquing PR pieces about regional beer brands. Not trying to trade barbs with you, but this was just a bit much. Heck, if I lived in bend I’d probably go to this event. Sounds fun

GeoLogic23

They are literally releasing a PR just to be like hey guys we have cash now, remember? Not like they aren't still burning lots in operations though lol just thought of my comment to you when i saw this update. https://www.thenewswire.com/press-releases/1AqRFbZm6-lexaria-updates-financial-position.html "Lexaria is in a strong cash position following both its recently announced Australian tax refund and recent institutional financing priced at US$12.92/share. The combined net proceeds from these two items totaled US$7.9 million. With only 2.1 million shares currently issued and outstanding, the US$7.9 million in fresh new capital plus our pre-existing cash balance represents approximately US$4.60/share in current cash on hand."

GeoLogic23

Appreciate the kind words. I agree the financing is more material for investors. Half of the beverage business is just advertising though, so the PR releases are more about marketing brands than informing investors, imo. An investor who actually makes decisions based on debt-to-equity transactions is already so much more deeply involved than 99% of retail investors. I mean yea I could be totally wrong. Maybe some companies would PR every single transaction. I just think if we expect companies to actually PR everything including "bad" things, then we are setting unrealistic expectations. Would be nice of course. Totally valid criticisms of how much all of this has added up for shareholders. I definitely think that Irwin Simon does not care about retail shareholders at all. I do care about having an accurate discussion about companies though, so I do often try to get people to correct/clarify Tilray information, because its the company with by far the most inaccurate discussions happening. But yea, absolutely get the complaints about the recent deals. Carl Merton is not coming back for an AMA anytime soon lol

Orennji

Just stating the facts. > You still want a higher return on your investment than what Cura is offering.  They offered a premium 45% of the price the day it was announced, and far above EV. For a company with no FCF, impending dilution from ATM's, and a free falling share price. >Cura is trying to thread a very fine line between shitting on Aurora and also saying how valuable their assets will be to Cura. Every interview Boris has done since the offer was announced has been him praising Aurora as a supplier through **Curaleaf's** network and why it would be a good wholly owned asset in **Curaleaf's** hands. As far as I know, no mention about branding or licenses, most of which will probably be written off. Yes, the PR's to be very formulaic and speaking in tropes. >Yes he did aggressively expanded by taking on massive debt lol after seeing how awful it worked out for LPs. Aurora tried to grow in a giant indoor custom built indoor facility with negative gross margins and Canopy *voluntarily* indebted themselves for god knows why. Both were over-building for a market that was way too small anyway. Curaleaf is FCF positive within its existing markets and the majority of the debt is not due until 2028 and 2029. They refinanced their debt without any issue or dilution earlier this year. I went into some detail about what I think might happen with the UTP a few months ago [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/weedstocks/comments/1sw3cwk/comment/oigxok9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button). Just stating the facts.

Amnesia-AI

All good, Geo. Long time reader and a fan of your work. Funny enough, as I was writing my comment, I had wondered if someone would rebut with the point that the financings are too small for a PR. But I gotta tell ya, as I glance over the slew of releases Tilray puts out, it certainly feels like the financing disclosures are more material in nature to an investor like myself, than what’s actually going to print. My brief exposure to that world showed me that you get all sorts of operations. There are the ones that PR only what is absolutely required for them to meet their continuous disclosure obligations and they go out of their way and push many boundaries to say the bare minimum. There are those that try to hide disclosures among fluff PRs (I’m sure you’ve seen many of those in the cannabis landscape too). And then there are those that flood their SEDAR/ SEC folios with ALL sorts of junk to obfuscate the finding of info that might actually matter. These were all strategies regularly discussed, though the last couple are becoming harder to do with the emergence of AI allowing folks to research and parse out the junk a bit more efficiently. And you can say sure, it isn’t a lot of money. But it adds up real quick when you’re entering dozens of agency invoices at the end of the month for this type of stuff. I guess that’s the part that’s annoying to me as a shareholder; it’s how they preach financial prudence but will throw real dollars into what my own previous experience had identified as a gimmick.

GeoLogic23

Please dont' jump down my throat as if this a defense of Tilray, but do you know any company that makes a PR announcement for a small debt to equity transaction?

GeoLogic23

>Are we speaking for shareholders, or Reddit bagholders? What does this even mean? Both are shareholders. It doesn't matter if you're down from years ago, or a more recent investor like me. You still want a higher return on your investment than what Cura is offering. Even if it's just to have lighter bags. >we know the outlook tomorrow is bleak Literally like my entire premise here is that Curaleaf is pumping the idea of international cannabis. So how is the outlook bleak? Cura is trying to thread a very fine line between shitting on Aurora and also saying how valuable their assets will be to Cura. >ACB shouldn't be acquired because it tried really really really hard? lol you're the one anthropomorphizing this comment. I said they spent a long time, not "tried really hard". Half their PR to shareholders is about having no debt. That's literally the reason I invested in them more recently than whatever imaginary "bagholders" you are fighting. > But if there's one thing Boris has been consistent on, it's aggressively taking market share. Yes he did aggressively expanded by taking on massive debt lol after seeing how awful it worked out for LPs. LPs aggressively expanded, drove up their debt, and **then spent years paying it off. Like Aurora did and like Curaleaf is currently doing.**

znightmaree

NVDA bought Hugging Face to control the negative PR from OpenAI’s hack. Squash any possibility of a lawsuit or bad press over it.

dvdmovie1

I don't hate the choices (aside from maybe the cruise name), but would look at some of the Canadian producers over Diamondback and while NVO is cheap I wouldn't use that PR as any sort of thesis - IMO it's a "show me" story that first needs to get the basics right again. If you think rates are going to come down, RKT.

Ok-Replacement9595

The forced adjectives is what really got to me. The "vibrant" and "robust" economy, and the like. Like you said, very political and PR driven. It really gives the impression that he is very vibes driven, not exactly what you want in a fed chair.