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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.

@WGNNews Do they declare their payments from iran on their taxes?

Chicago vets denounce Iran war, urge current service members to resist wgntv.com/military/chica…

@johnkonrad Wtf is wrong with you guys? We didn't start anything. The Iranians have been attacking everyone for 47 years. Enough.

Dear Europe, I know you feel outrage. I have talked to many of you on the phone. I know politicians and media on both sides of the Atlantic are furious. I attended a conference with mostly Europeans. The worry and frustration was palpable. I get it too. You are dependent on Middle East oil and aluminum and fertilizer and shipping and LNG. Dubai is a vital travel hub for you. Vital. But don’t worry. Trump will lose the midterms and Congress will flip and side with you. Or maybe not… I live in the bluest town in the bluest state, where protests are practically a seasonal sport. I drove over eight hours across New England this week past the usual corners where outrage normally lives. This time? Nothing. Left, right, center. I’m hearing almost no one talk about this war. MAGA doesn’t even care. Ask someone and you’ll get the expected talking points. But in coffee shops, kitchens, real life? Silence. Hard truth: most Americans just don’t care. And since the weather warmed, not a single keffiyeh in sight. So when Trump says you need to go protect the ships and airports that are vital to YOU, I think he means it. Because the vast majority of Americans don’t care. And it’s not that we want to see you spin into an energy and food shortage. It’s that even the most TDS-inflicted liberal American is getting tired of your BS. Hating Trump is one thing. Almost half of America is OK with that. But your anti-American vitriol and arrogance and weakness is exhausting. Nobody likes a needy person who is angry and thinks they are better than you. It’s literally the worst combination in a person. And you might not want to admit it, but you are needy. You need us to reopen Hormuz. You need our banks and our markets. You need a lot. “We will not participate in this war” is fine. Nobody is asking you to bomb civilians. What’s weak is you won’t surge defensive missiles and planes to protect European-owned ships and property. When exactly did defense make you a participant? Defense of innocent life and property isn’t a “war crime.” And you DO own the majority of ships getting attacked. Ships that you are unwilling to defend maybe because you outsource the labor to Indonesia, the Philippines, and Ukraine. You are the wealthy lords who abandoned the mansion but told the help to stick around and defend it. So you might want to send a few warships and missile defense units to protect YOUR property. Or at least leave them at anchor and send the innocent crews home. You want us to defend the Strait because we started this mess? That’s reasonable. Problem is the reaction from most of America to your demands is: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@DrunkRepub Thank you. Grifting all over. I'd have seen Tucker live had i had the chance and the next thing is he's fluffing Putin. Wtf.

I’m serious. Done with these fuckers. Don’t care what show you had on Fox, or what website you ran into the ground. You people are traitorous cockroaches and I cannot wait to piss on your irrelevance.

Me realizing all my heroes are grifting click chasing shitstains

@WBEZ So you have one lunatic. I'll pass. How about "we have laws and we should follow them".

Legal experts say Operation Midway Blitz does not constitute martial law, though one professor argues federal immigration enforcement is "functionally" martial law in Chicago. wbez.org/curious-city/2…

@SteveOnSpeed Addicts.

Legit curious. On a cruise. Saw a woman who was probably 500 pounds, easy. Insanely fat. Needed a scooter to get around. Has 6 plates of food in front of her. Do these folks just,..not care that they are morbidly obese?

@WBBMNewsradio Socialist moron who has no idea how economics works. Can't wait to see an even bigger moron replacing him next election

Mayor: Vote to freeze tipped wage increase "shameful" spr.ly/6010B6nPdO

@Sasquatcher2 @AntiLeftMemes @guarinoeileen1 Aligns with her commie, traitorous background.

@AntiLeftMemes @guarinoeileen1 I'd never really listened to her speak. I just listened to her being interviewed on the red carpet yesterday andI realized she's a complete buffoon. She couldn't form a coherent sentence. Has she always been that way??

Jane Fonda will be remembered as?

@Seamonkeysammy @Gundisalvus @TheTonus A communist bird watcher who thinks French commentary on war matters to anyone. Super compelling.

@Gundisalvus @TheTonus Imperialist designs

Costa Rica closes its embassy in Cuba and tells its diplomatic personnel to prepare to return home. Shills for the Cuban regime have been decrying how Latin American countries have all been walking away from the communist dinasaur one by one.

"Teens"

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@DrunkRepub @RickyBobby_USA They've killed over 1000 Americans. They should have been powdered years ago. I know you are all in on their "death to America" stuff, but try to understand how normal people who don't hate their country function.

@RickyBobby_USA The second they get a bomb yes

47 years is imminent?

@EHansenND He's done right?

Charles Jagusah’s path at #NotreDame has been anything but linear — 6 surgeries in 8 months, repeated setbacks and an uncertain timeline. But what continues to separate the ND O-lineman is a resilience that keeps belief alive, inside the program and within himself, that this comeback still has a defining chapter left. on3.com/teams/notre-da…

@royalpratt Illinois sucks hard in nearly every rational measure. But worry about Dan. You're a moron.

Dan Proft may not know how to win elections. But he does know how to get paid $25,000 a month by Ted Dabrowski’s campaign while helping him get less than 30 percent of the vote.

@CTULocal1 When Chicago goes bankrupt what happens to you illiterates?

Illinois Primaries are a Preview to the Billionaires Trying to Buy Our Elections and the Coalitions and Educators Who Will Stop Them

1. We can all agree SA of all kinds is bad. No one is defending it. No one is making excuses for it. 2. Leftists have been all but encouraging ghetto and hood rat culture since LBJ. Fatherless households leads to bad behavior, leads to gangsta hip hop culture, leads to the glorification of criminal behavior, leads to the acting out and (what should be) shameful behavior you see today. When it’s called out (as I’m doing), deflection, excuses, and whataboutism (what you’re doing) is what happens. This is why it needs to be called out over the few instances of teachers wilding out with their students. Then again, according to the FBA “Blacker Than Black” crowd, I’m not black, so I guess it’s now a “you” problem, huh? 🤣😂🤣

@Reuters @edmundblair You guys are a joke. "The death of Hitler is a major setback for the allies"

🔊 ‘Larijani has sort of emerged as something of a go-between working between the different power structures in Iran.' @edmundblair tells Reuters World News the death of Ali Larijani poses a problem as he’d emerged as a key powerbroker inside Iran reut.rs/4sB1UbH

How much is President Trump willing to forgive Putin? He’s helping the Iranians attempt to kill Americans, and Trump doesn’t seem all that bothered by it at all. It’s not even worth some harsh words. We’ve seen the president rage on Truth Social about Fed Chair Jerome Powell, actor and director Rob Reiner, or New York Times journalists who he keeps giving exclusive interviews. But no matter what Putin does, Trump never seems to get all that angry about him.

Why is that?

And if the Israelis kill all those 1000 new Iran Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatibs, then there will be 1,000,000 new Iran Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatibs rushing in to take their place