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To: towerdog who wrote (85947)	4/18/2024 3:17:28 PM
From: Tweets Boar Hog	1 Recommendation Recommended By ajtj99 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97463

Once upon a time in my younger day, some of us youngs were talking to the old uns, mostly WWII vets. A great bunch of guys, I had the pleasure to work with. One of the young uns said life is just unfair or something like that. One of the old uns looks at him and said, "who said it was supposed to be". Never forgot that. It varies from person to person and family to family. Some yes can have a lot of bad luck come their way. Just by chance it seems. Others can make their own bad luck, or good luck. Oil and gas patch veteran as you know. Been thru so many layoffs can't remember them all. Most of them the result of poor management and planning, no two ways about it. Oil and gas is a LT business if there ever was one. One of they more recent ones they laid off this oriental gal, I knew her and liked her, an ME. I assume pride was part of her culture. No warning really, security goes up to her cubicle and tells her she has so many minutes to clean out and leave, while they watch. I guess they had to drag her out, kicking, screaming and crying. In front of many others. Heart breaking. Known of some suicides over these layoffs. Never experienced being laid off, but I can imagine quite harrowing. In my long post about the oil patch ... I never said much about management. Well I have had a lot more shitty ones than good ones. So I am just not high on management, in general. Because I have the time I follow a lot of news, some just for interest. Like Boeing, what a mess. They will probably come out of it, but they are in deep shit imo. Almost like the company has completely frozen up inside. The worst for them is their product life cycle development is in the crapper, Airbus way ahead and beats em at every turn. IMO the 737 Max was probably a big mistake, but anyway they should have initiated a replacement for the 757 some years ago. I think it would do very well right now. Going to take them years to come out of this. I spent a bit of time in management in the 90's. During the Jack Welch hey dey. What an ahole imo. He did more damage to American capitalism than even his worst detractors have noted. We at that time, because of him, were given his books to read, told we had to re-engineer for the future, in a very long term business, every other week or month it seemed. Sometimes you cannot fix stupid. I took the books home threw them in the garbage. Got so fed up with being part of that bunch of nutzos I went back to being a technical guru. Little further down the road a big massive layoff. Many of those passing out the books got hit. I could ramble on about Jack and GE, I knew a lot of what they were doing and did in the turbomachinery business. Unbelievable, literally. Culp eventually left with the mess, I think he has done ok really. Anyway I don't really like hearing what you just told me, maybe I won't buy Tesla here. Was considering it. But my post was about a chart and a possible setup. Going to keep on eye on it for now. Afa as a country boy buying a Cybertruck. Well I live as far out in the toolies as you can get. About two months ago I am down plowing some snow near the main jag out my way. 20 below. A Cybertruck goes by. Each to his own I guess. Probably burning the juice to keep everything warm. I would not buy one where I now live, not enough range, and not enough charge stations along the hiways. I was a bit disappointed in the Cybertruck range, should have been more. Elon over hyped it, from day one. Tweets

To: towerdog who wrote (85947)	4/18/2024 3:46:43 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97463

I think I've sold enough TSLA, NVDA, and SOX. There are so many others that need my attention. I think tomorrow I will look at XBI, the banks, and RE...anticipating a bounce tomorrow.