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@CyberMikeOG @elonmusk @LeahLibresco Yes please 🙏🏻

@elonmusk @LeahLibresco You don’t say!? CyberSUV incoming?

MAKE A MINIVAN, ELON.

She was underaged drinking with a fake ID, she should face charges for that, and there should be consequences for whoever served her alcohol. The rest needs background story. If she has evidence that she was waiting for an uber or a ride of any kind, it would become arguable that she got behind the wheel while intoxicated to protect her life. It was not safe for her to stay there waiting in her car, she used her vehicle as a weapon of self defense. There’s so many angles for where this could end in a not guilty verdict. Though local judicial branch in Lexington will likely not rule in her favor.

BREAKING: This is the chaotic scene where 20-year-old Kaydence Carpenter allegedly drove her Tesla into a crowd that was surrounding her car in Lexington, Kentucky early Sunday morning. Reports are that she injured 4 people. She faces 4 counts of second-degree assault, DUI and reckless driving. Many responses think what she did was warranted.

SpaceX exists because Elon risked everything he had to make it work. NASA was thin, slow and expensive. What Elon did with SpaceX revitalized the space industry and saved taxpayers over $40 billion dollars due to significantly more affordable, efficient and timely launches. What Bernie is proposing is a tax on his wealth, beyond his personal income, the value of all his assets at 5% per year. That’s $400 billion over 10 years. Elon would have to sell assets to pay it. He’d be forced to increase costs, especially with government contracts. It ultimately becomes a wash for anything gained for the taxpayers but could really hinder progress on new development at SpaceX and accessibility for many contracts. It’s a ridiculous proposal, it creates failure in every direction and seems to be derived from a hate for the man.

@technopoliticus @unusual_whales right, but that's not the level of wealth inequality bernie is talking about in the op. where would his companies be today without subsidies or over a decade of ZIRP? likely bankrupt or restructured into smaller companies and even musk would tell you that

Bernie Sanders: “60% of our people living paycheck-to-paycheck, and one guy, Elon Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households... Think maybe that might be an issue that we should be talking about?"

In the 60’s, French food was considered the highest quality (think filet mignon, crème brûlée, chocolate mousse, etc.). They were seen as luxury foods and status symbols for wealthy Americans. Everything was being branded “gourmet”. There were non-stop jokes about it too, “call it snails, nobody wants it, call it escargot and it’s $100 a plate”. Chick “Filet” had the French sound, making it trendy and modern. But they hyphenated it so it sounded French but written with a big A to highlight “grade A” quality. Grade A was also a trend. You saw it in eggs, milk, A-1…it was being branded everywhere. Chick-fil-A simply combined both trends in one clever name.

So I guess we jumped timelines… To the one that has a ‘k’ in Chic-fil-a

I waited in line, for my sons that were in school. Most people there were in line for their sons or grandsons in school, several college kids that actually play the card game, and a couple overly excited guys that just wanted the 30th anniversary set for their collection at MSRP. We played Pokemon Go and took down a raid boss while waiting in line. I got a shiny shadow Latias which was met with high fives and fist bumps. So fun. 🥰

honestly it’s genuinely unsettling to me seeing people demean, verbally ridicule, and being so nasty to people waiting in line to catch a Pokemon drop. as someone who has waited in many a line to catch product at MSRP, i would never change any of it or take any of it back. that is MY time. and MY money. you have no right to tell people what to do with their time and money. you do have the right to keep scrolling! block me for gods sake! i will NEVER pay market price for something just because i have a well paying, full time job. if you wanna pay market price, that’s on you! i’m never going to tell people how to spend their money. however, i will say we could eradicate scalpers a LOT quicker if we stopped keeping them in business. 🐸☕️ thanks for letting me vent guys. just tired of seeing so much negativity on the TL.

TT is fine with federal but struggles with state. I used it when I moved too, it was a pain. I also rolled over a 529 to my new state. The new state allowed discount on income tax for that but TT couldn’t provide the option. I found a tax accountant to help me sort it all out, wish I had AI back then!!

@jamesdouma @mdemaster04 @grok Sounds like your sister or her preparer did not answer the TT questions correctly. Many people just click away without reading.

.@grok just saved my sister $1,441 on her taxes. I had it check the turbotax output and it found a mistake. Seriously - 4.20 is very good with taxes.

@SwimminginCrcle @SakurasCardShop I agree, it shouldn’t be allowed and there should be a click to see only retailer options. It’s annoying to filter that with every single search.

@RegardingThat @SakurasCardShop Yeah I know its a third party seller, but it's still on best buy that they allow scalping like this on products that they themselves sell directly.

First Partner Illustration Collection dropped today 👀 MSRP is $14.99 per pack. Expect to pay $45+ on TCGPlayer and your local FB scalper 😂

@SwimminginCrcle @SakurasCardShop A lot of retailers allow 3rd parties to sell on their websites. You must verify you are buying from the retailer or product may be tampered with/opened & resealed. It says, “Sold & shipped by ELEGANT PRODUCTS 757 LLC”. I purchased from BestBuy this morning at MSRP.

@SakurasCardShop Or $90 if you are best buy

@PokeTCGAlerts @btax__ I couldn’t find any at Target so didn’t realize they were selling for more there. I did see pre sells at Target that matched MSRP but they were sold out by the time I found it. I just figured their in store stock would match pre sale prices.

@RegardingThat @btax__ Target and Walmart have slowly gone over MSRP (like $1-$10 over, nothing too crazy). Best Buy I believe is still true MSRP. It's wild

Reminder that GameStop locations should be getting the new Ascended Heroes items and First Partner Illustration Collections tomorrow in-store. Prices will be over MSRP ⚠️ -Ascended Heroes Premium Poster Collection Mega Lucario/Mega Gardevoir $119.99 (MSRP $49.99) - Ascended Heroes First Partners Deluxe Pin Collection $59.99 (MSRP $24.99) - First Partner Illustration Collection Series 1 $49.99 (MSRP $14.99) #PokemonTCG

@Jdcoop555 @Nortier It was one of each. 😞 Still happy to secure it at MSRP. Thank you @BestBuy for being fair!

@RegardingThat @Nortier How many did Best Buy let you buy of each? They only had a few first partner by the time I could get up there and only let me get 1, wanted 2 lol

Launch day and it’s already chaos. Boxes sold out, promos trading high straight out the gate. Question is: → early hype premium? → or real demand with limited supply? Where do you see prices landing?

The fact that Pokemon is still contracted with GameStop and GameStop is selling TCG for 140% over MSRP, makes me think the Pokemon company really doesn’t care.😞 BestBuy, Target, Amazon (as the seller), Walmart, Barnes and Noble, Dick’s Sporting Goods all honor MSRP. Only BestBuy, Target, Amazon and GameStop receive meaningful supply. Pokémon should allocate less supply to GameStop and more to Barnes and Noble or Dick’s.

@RegardingThat @btax__ Yeah I am really hoping for Pokémon to flood the market to the point that flippers/scalpers are in a position that they just can't afford to buy it all so that retailers finally have stock at close to MSRP at least (I think Best Buy might be the last place to charge actual MSRP)

It was a $50k loan for a 4 year degree. She could’ve worked her way through college and paid that in cash as it became due. That’s how I did it, I graduated college debt free. It wasn’t easy, but it’s possible. I don’t have sympathy for people whining about debt they owe. Actually, I do have sympathy for people dealing with medical debt, I would choose debt over death if I had to.

Student loans should not be handled by the government. Before Obama when loans were private, banks wouldn't let students borrow money they knew those kids could never pay back. We had to find another way to pay for our educations. Now the universities get rich and professors make a fortune because they know the government is going to give them all of the money they need through these crazy loans.

American logs into her federal student aid account so we can see her actual loans and payments - She took out a $49,548.74 loan - She’s made 120 payments, paying $25,558.36 - Her current balance is $50,121.33 So after paying $25,558.36, she now owes more than she took out “It's all such a scam”

@btax__ @PokeTCGAlerts I feel you. My boys want Pokemon cards and Nee Doh cubes. Both are sold out or sold at 100%+ MSRP. 😣

@PokeTCGAlerts Where the fuck are normal people supposed to buy Pokemon cards at msrp? I can’t hardly even find them in my whole city anymore and when I do, it’s shit like this. Why pokemon doesn’t print more baffles the fuck out of me. Print this shit into the ground

@RebeccaSobkovi1 Aww, perfect sets for those two, fairy and fighter. 🥰 I have two boys and waited in line to get theirs this morning. I have to decide which boy to give Gardevior to lol.

@alt_accoun84941 @Nortier These look awesome 🤩

@Nortier happy to get these today!

@WLCook92 @TrevorSuchka I know, it’s so sad. Pokémon should stop direct sales with them.

@RegardingThat @TrevorSuchka GameStop is on some BS. Im glad people have stopped buying there. 120 bucks on the poster collection. They can go fuck themselves.

Good morning! PSA this is a $20 after tax sealed product. Can you guys not buy from people at $60? That be great.

Well my boys were in school so I waited in line for 50 minutes for doors to open at Best Buy this morning to get them cards. Talked to a lot of people in line. They were mostly dads and grandpas buying for their kids/grandkids that were in school, a few college kids buying for themselves, and one middle age guy that just wanted to have the 30th anniversary set for his collection. Target and Best Buy are sold out. GameStop still has a lot of stock, they are selling for 60% over MSRP, which should be illegal IMO. They were all very well mannered and respectful at my location. 🤷‍♀️

@gothburz Ouch!

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.