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@gothburz GM Ser. Up always.

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million. None of it was real. I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off. I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier." The frontier closed last week. It's a mobile app now. Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me. I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs. The avatars didn't have legs. I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis. I called myself a "digital land baron." I put it in my Twitter bio. I put it in my LinkedIn headline. I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts. My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment. My actual apartment has furniture. Location, location, location. My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court. I held. Diamond hands. That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait. A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users. He said I didn't understand the technology. I didn't. I still bought more. We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts. We voted to "acquire strategic parcels." The vote passed unanimously. I voted four times. My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY." The slide had a rocket emoji. That was my entire financial model. In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000. It's worth $14,000 now. I don't talk about the Ape. I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera. My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was. I said "digital art on the blockchain." She asked why it cost more than her car. I said "you don't understand Web3." She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment." She's not in my Discord. Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million. It's worth about $90,000 now. I felt better about mine after I heard that. That's community. WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero. We're all gonna make it. None of us made it. But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something. It doesn't. But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus. Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse. I need to say that again. $84 billion. More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines. They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets. It lives on as a mobile app. My beachfront villa is now a mobile app. Location, location, location. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that." Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025. That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun. They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables." The pivot took four years and $84 billion. I pivoted too. I'm an AI real estate investor now. I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models." I don't know what that means. I gave him $40,000. He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan. The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank. Q4 is always blank. That's where the exit scam goes. My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes. I said $1.2 million. He said "current market value." I said $6,400. He stared at me for eleven seconds. I know because I counted. He asked if I had any other investments. I showed him my NFTs. He stared for longer. I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance." He asked if I'd considered a 401k. I told him a 401k was "legacy finance." He told me to leave his office. The metaverse is dead. I don't accept that. I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car. Location, location, location. The location is nowhere. But I'm early. I'm always early. That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

@loganclarkhall Wow, he has lost a ton of weight. He looks great, almost Presidential. Won’t get my vote, but he does look better.

Democrats: “lol if we ever come to power again we are going to flood the country with another 100 million illegals and throw you all in prison.” Senate GOP: “Ermmm guys… We can’t break with our precious norms and procedures and pass voter ID…”

@realmjmetax I agree

@DirtysBurner @LasVegasFill It’s the Wynn. Over indulge. Great place to Elope. Ask me how I know

@LasVegasFill this tableside nonsense is getting out of control. I just want to sit at my table and enjoy the company i’m with. cook that in the kitchen then bring it out for that price better be a protein added

The new Sartiano's Italian Steakhouse at Wynn is freaking beautiful. We started strong with the $125 Tableside Fettuccine Alfredo with black truffle, aged Parmigiano, and burro di bufala. Are you down?

@1tinsoldier1 @bennyjohnson But nobody in line can see the screen

@shortstack_dan @bennyjohnson The screen says declined

I will pay.

@bankertobuilder Safety first Ser. Wonder if you put a former investment banker on the job to supervise if a cheaper solution could have been found.

Working on building a small front porch for this house Cost overruns have been crazy on this project Original estimate: $12k Cost so far: $219k Main reason is our team couldn't lift the 2x4s into place because of an uneven sidewalk on the property, so we had to bring in the crane But we don't make excuses - we get the job done no matter what

@GPAIndiana Such a fantastic piece of history, thanks for sharing

🙏🇺🇸🙏 A surgeon demanded General Sherman remove this 44-year-old widow from his camp. Sherman's response: "She outranks me. I can't do a thing in the world." Her name was Mary Ann Bickerdyke. In 1861, Mary Ann was a widow in Galesburg, Illinois, supporting her two sons with herbal medicine. She had no military connections, no formal training, and no official authority. But that changed when her pastor read a letter aloud in church. A young doctor from Cairo, Illinois, where Union soldiers were stationed, described the horrific conditions: soldiers dying from disease, neglect, and filth, not battle wounds. They needed medical supplies and someone to care for them. The congregation raised $500 and needed a volunteer to deliver it. Mary Ann raised her hand. She thought she would just drop off the supplies and return home. She stayed for four years. When she arrived in Cairo, she was furious. Soldiers lay on filthy straw, without clean water, proper food, or competent medical care. Instead of asking permission, Mary Ann started fixing things. She cleaned hospital floors, set up kitchens, organized laundries, assisted in surgeries, and wrote letters for the dying. When bureaucratic obstacles got in her way, she tore them down. Medical supplies locked away while men suffered? She broke the locks. Surgeons refusing to treat the wounded? She got them dismissed. When officers questioned her authority, she boldly replied: "I have received my authority from the Lord God Almighty. Have you anything that outranks that?" The soldiers quickly began calling her "Mother Bickerdyke!" She became a legend, searching battlefields after dark with a lantern, seeking out wounded soldiers that recovery teams had missed. She was often the only woman on the battlefield, organizing field hospitals and confronting any officer who tried to stop her. General Ulysses S. Grant fully supported her, offering her free transportation across his command. General William T. Sherman became one of her staunchest defenders. When a surgeon, frustrated with this widow who refused to follow military protocol, demanded that she be removed, Sherman reportedly said: "She outranks me. I can't do a thing in the world." Mary Ann served in nineteen major battles, including Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Sherman's March to the Sea. Under her supervision, more than 300 field hospitals were built. When the war ended in 1865, Mary Ann didn't stop. She helped veterans with the pension system, advocated for disabled soldiers, and worked with the Salvation Army. She kept serving until her death in 1901 at the age of 84. A statue stands in Galesburg today, depicting her offering water to a wounded soldier. Mary Ann Bickerdyke proved that the most powerful authority isn't always the one you're given. Sometimes it's the one you take, especially when lives are at stake 🙏🇺🇸🙏

@MechanicalGumbo @Shieldmetax @Bombmetax Every couple is childless for a while. Some for longer.

@Shieldmetax What abt the ppl that pay taxes which 2/3s go to a broken educational system when they don’t even have any kids of ther own?? ✊ @Bombmetax @shortstack_dan

@AshtonForbes The nice part about fusion is that we are only five years from this. That said, we have been five years from fusion for the past 30 years.

Told yall we're going to get all the aliens. What we really care about is their technology. Give us fusion and warp drives.

@DailyFindspt @xvipxp Wow, too late for me, where were these when my girls were three?

@shortstack_dan @xvipxp here amzn.to/47RFGtg

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@JoeyMannarino Apparently “Zuck” prefers the opposition candidate.

META is now interfering in the Hungarian elections and trying to get rid of Viktor Orban. Absolutely pathetic way to win an election. How does the Left never learn that we’re onto their dirty tricks?

@longdepzai_n This is how everyone should sneeze.

Newborn sneezing 🤧🤣🤣

@elonmusk They enjoy non profit status. That should be rethought.

He’s such a liar

@xvipxp Adorable outfits. Oh, how I miss when mine were that small. Thanks for sharing.

Good morning 🩵🩷

@GuntherEagleman Source? The panels I am familiar with are not discarded into a landfill at the end of their useful life. Not a big fan of solar - this could change if a new battery technology is invented.

🚨 EXPOSED: First Solar’s CdTe panels leach cadmium at levels that blow past EPA limits, confirmed in peer-reviewed landfill simulations. That cadmium ends up in American soil and water, and stays for GENERATIONS. This is the toxic legacy of their “clean energy” tech. Where’s the outrage?

@Cuddleecute That is one way to co-sleep. Excellent black and white photo!

@LaceeLume1 He is magnificently plump! My oldest used to “help” feed her younger sister. I miss those days so much

When you have an older sister who develops your achiever skills in you 😂

@bankertobuilder This is the kind of visionary thinking that will soon be incorporated into the curriculum of the top interior design schools. Thanks for pushing us all forward.

This open concept kitchen we just did is STUNNING Large center island Beautiful, open dining area Stainless steel fridge in the most optimal location Who's ready to move in?