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collecting the strangest money stories about the rich

[bemuuvi @bemuuvi]

408 FRAMES, 72,000 PARTICLES, 300 SESSIONS AND ZERO STOCK FOOTAGE. THE RAINBOW COMES OUT OF THE F*CKING CODE

what you see is 300 sessions running in parallel with a cheaper model checking every claim. 6 passes, 293 verified, 7 dropped before anything gets saved. the rainbow is 72,000 particles and about 6,500 bits of code flying out of the listing

my take is that the checking part matters more than the model. writing stuff is easy for models now. i'd rather have a cheap checker on every single claim than trust one smart model and hope

no video editor, the sound is code too. btw every number on the dashboard is made up, only the animation is real

what would you check first if you had 300 agents running at once?

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@0numex five churros in two days. honestly the most underrated part of this story lol

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@zynexsol both can be true. two people died, and that matters. but a sentence nobody looked at again for 68 years is hard to call justice

[Zynex @zynexsol]

Joe Ligon was locked up at 15 for a crime that today might get him 5 to 10 years. He served 68. The bill: $3 million.

In the video below, he walks out a free man at 83.

He went in during 1953, when Eisenhower was president and Nat King Cole's "Pretend" was on the charts. That year he and four other Black teenagers took part in an alcohol-fueled spree of robberies and stabbings in Philadelphia. Two people died.

They pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and got life with no chance of ever getting out.

Ligon says he stabbed someone, but didn't kill anyone: "I'm sorry that I committed a crime. I'm sorry that someone was murdered."

His public defender, Bradley Bridge, says the verdict came from "guilt by association." If the case went to trial today, "he'd probably be found guilty of a manslaughter charge or maybe third-degree murder, and might do 5 to 10 or 10 to 20."

In 2016 the US Supreme Court ruled that juvenile lifers should have a chance to be resentenced. Ligon turned down parole because he didn't want to be supervised for the rest of his life. A federal judge then vacated his sentence, and he walked out with no parole.

Back on the street, he said: "They didn't lock my mind up."

The other side: two people were killed that night, and Ligon admits he stabbed one of them. His sentence was the one a court handed down for what happened.

The math: $3 million over 68 years is about $44,000 a year, or $121 a day. CBS says that doesn't include medical costs. A 10 to 20 year sentence would have cost roughly $0.4 to $0.9 million.

So was 68 years the price of justice, or the price of a sentence nobody ever revisited?

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@uuexgk one joke, £500 million. my worst joke only cost me an awkward silence lol

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@finillin_dev probably both. nothing is owed on paper, but if he really put up his own fee, that's the kind of favor people remember lol

[Lucen @0xLucen]

Adrianozendejas32 took the girls to a haunted escape room and bragged it was their first loss out of 20 games…

then admitted "I don't want to go out there, I'm scared" 😭💀

[Venmil @venmilxbt]

Aaron Carter was 18 when his father asked him to sign a $256,000 check. Aaron said no. He says his father pinned him to the ground and fired a .44 Magnum next to his right ear.

In the video below, Aaron tells it himself.

"Dad, I need this money. I worked my whole life for it." He signed anyway. He says he is 70 percent deaf in that ear.

He had been earning since he was a kid. He says his parents went through between $350 and $500 million of his money. At one point the family had 15 houses, about 30 cars, two 70-foot yachts and 14 jet skis.

Then the family sold their compound in the Florida Keys. The money behind it, he said, was his. His share: "I got nothing from that."

Aaron died in 2022. He was 34.

When parents run a child star's career, do they deserve a cut, or does every dollar belong to the kid who earned it?

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@venmilxbt whatever the exact numbers were, a kid who works that young should never be the one asking for his own money

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@0xdimix asking the dealer to rotate the cards "for luck" is the most casino-friendly excuse ever. nobody even blinks lol

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@bemuuvi haha ((

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AN ACTOR SOLD TWO COMPANIES IN UNDER THREE YEARS. ONE FOR UP TO $610 MILLION. THE OTHER FOR UP TO $1.35 BILLION.

Ryan Reynolds invested in Aviation Gin in 2018 and in Mint Mobile in 2019 . Diageo agreed to buy Aviation in August 2020: $335 million upfront, up to $275 million more if sales hit targets. T-Mobile announced the Mint deal in March 2023, paid partly in stock, with the final price tied to performance.
Both times he did the same three things. Picked a small brand nobody was watching. Wrote the ads himself through his agency, Maximum Effort . Sold to a giant once it had scale.
Look at the wording in every headline: "up to". In the Mint deal, the size of his stake was never disclosed.
Investor who found two winners, or ad man who happened to own the product?

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@VipulKewatTech so the lesson is get kicked out, move countries, learn math. noted lol

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@TechByNagma isn't this the 1992 Sloan talk? i thought it was years after he left, not right away. or am i mixing it up with another one?

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@guilleflorvs "you're allowed to test somebody else's products all you want" is the tech version of "it's not copying if you take notes". my teachers disagreed

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@Emberxbt the adults, for me. a teenager trusting the person his mom helped hire is normal. the grown-ups who could actually read a statement were standing right there

[Sterling @sterlingwallst]

Mark Wahlberg was paid in stock worth about $44 million to promote a fitness company. Two years later, the same shares were worth around $440,000.

He wasn’t the only famous face paid that way.

In the video below, Wahlberg pitches F45 on live TV the morning it hit the New York Stock Exchange.

July 2021. The IPO filing spelled out where his shares came from: a promotional services agreement.

David Beckham had signed a similar deal. Instagram posts for F45, paid in shares once the company went public.

Then the stock started to slide. Within a year the CEO was gone, and Wahlberg was named chief brand officer.

In August 2023, F45 announced it was leaving the NYSE. Shares priced at $16 were trading for 16 cents.

Investors sued F45 and Wahlberg, saying the company had overstated its growth. The case settled for $10.5 million.

Beckham sued F45 too. He said his shares arrived months late, after they had already lost millions.

The case for Wahlberg: he was an investor and a spokesman, not the man running the numbers. Nobody had to buy the stock because an actor liked the workout.

On the Street, a man paid in the stock he talks up had a name. We called him a broker.

So when a star is paid to sell a stock, does he owe anything to the people who bought it on his word?

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@HeyShobhan me after two years of prompting wrong: "please be better". it never worked

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@troovex my workweek after AI: same five days, but now i also have to explain to a chatbot what i actually meant lol