Ross Macdonald

@dentedbenz @NASA Interesting. I would assume if it’s in orbit and slowing down that it the orbit would decay, the opposite of what should happen. Or sensor malfunction.

@Rossmacdonald1 @NASA it isn’t slowing down rockets like these just don’t speed up in a smooth way. during staging, throttle changes and the shift from vertical to horizontal flight, the visible speed can briefly drop or level off. overall, it’s still gaining the velocity needed for orbit and beyond

LIVE: Artemis leaders are discussing the successful launch of NASA's Artemis II mission and the next steps for the astronauts headed on their journey around the Moon. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@codmgemini @NASA They can’t. Too much chance of a nut asking about something crazy. Sooo many red flags to address. 🚩

@NASA Why don’t they take questions from their live feed viewers?

@NHLFlames Something flames have needed in the shootout for years and years and years. 👏🏼

Kid has ice in his veins.

@gothburz @MsPsychoKitty Crypto was designed for peer to peer transfer of value. The public didn’t adopt. Now it’s Wall Street and shadow states system to offload debt. Pretty fascinating. We dropped the ball. 🏈

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.

@OilyBigDog @JamesJohnsonYYC Don’t forget to enjoy the Oilers playoffs instead of looking back to trash talk. SMH. What’s in the water in Edmonton. 😂

@JamesJohnsonYYC And still won’t get McKenna 🤣

As of right now, #Flames will head into the 2026 draft with: 1st (CGY) 1st (VGK) 2nd (CGY) 2nd (NYR) 2nd (OTT) 2nd (UTA) 3rd (VAN) 3rd (CGY) That would be eight picks in the first ~67 selections right now

@Vivek4real_ The whole reason why BTC is the best performing asset in the last decade is because it can’t be created out of thin air. Governments can’t duplicate it. They can buy/sell and create products around it, but the can’t manipulate it without supporting the BTC ecosystem.

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 BILLIONAIRE CHAMATH PALIHAPITIYA JUST DROPPED A MASSIVE WARNING AGAINST BITCOIN: “THERE’S A STRUCTURAL FLAW IN BITCOIN.” “BITCOIN LACKS FUNGIBILITY AND PRIVACY.” “IT CAN NEVER BE A HOLDING OF A CENTRAL BANK.”

@YFIHQ Take all of that kids money and make him train in Dagestan for three years.

That's a shame.

@barstoolsports Not true. Everyone is happy hockey is getting attention in USA instead of the rest of the boring sports.

Canada Is Currently Flooded With Tears From The Entire Nation Crying About 3-on-3 Overtime s.barstool.link/c/article-3563…

@stoolpresidente Where’s the love for Matt Boldy? @MattBoldy12 walks it in himself when USA were just coughing up pucks and not skating or supporting the play. That kid has mental toughness and high hockey IQ.

If you are mad the Men’s hockey team talked to Trump you are a psychopath

@RGIII That’s fair. We won’t like the curing guy. He should be deported to Australia or something.

Canada cheating to win Curling Gold, cost them the Olympic Gold in Hockey. The ice don’t lie.

@barstoolsports @stoolpresidente This seems better than the Stanley cup in feeling and celebration. But maybe not in other ways. Harder to win gold medal once every four years.

CANADA'S GOT NOTHING USA USA USA @stoolpresidente

@billburr Canadians are fine with USA winning. Great for hockey. 46 years is too long. Maybe more Americans will get into hockey now. USA weathered the storm. The only part that’s tough is Americans keep saying it’s the greatest country in the world. Cmon. Its not 1995 anymore.

Canada fans bitching about 3 on 3! 🤣 Didn’t hear them complaining when they lost to us. They had to beat another team to make it to the final. And then they got to play us for the championship. At that point we had to go 2-0 against team Canada to be declared champs, and all they had to do was be 1 and 1.

@stoolpresidente Canadians congratulating USA. 👏🏼 👌 USA gloating like 5 year olds. 😂 This is USAs chance to stay classy, 45 years in the making.

Send to all your Canadian friends. 💦💦💦💦💦💦🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 store.barstoolsports.com/products/usa-c…

@stoolpresidente Smashed out teeth. Game winning goal. @jhugh86 Amazing. 🥇

Hockey is America’s 4th most popular sport. It is Canadas only sport. And we swept the gold medals from them. Just pure domination. But hey at least Canada has a tainted curling gold. 😂😂😂🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@BizNasty2point0 Why go to the pub when it’s pajamas and coffee. Not too shabby eh?

You guys up? You ready to get this Canada? Let’s have a day folks. 👊🏼

@Romakka The fair call would be high sticking and embellishment. Both to box. Refs sometimes need to take a second to make the right call between the whistle and the box.

MacKinnon himself lifted Niko Mikkola’s stick to his own face - and then won an Oscar for an act. And Canadian referees called a penalty. Followed by MacKinnon scoring a winner. What a shameful day for Hockey. 😢

@stoolpresidente Time for everyone to go watch this again. Essential. 👏🏼

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@stoolpresidente Allow fighting in curling?

We’re not gonna stop till we take it all because of this guy.

@stoolpresidente Most Canadians consider curling to be super lame. Same goes for Lacrosse. We are changing our national sport to Hockey. Research how may arenas we have per city. 64 rinks in my city.

We need to squash this country! I want Marc Kennedy to suit up and have Tkachuk put him through the glass! America is about integrity!