If you are having a bad day
Just remember how Sam Bankman- Fried had the best venture portfolio in history
What SBF bought and what it's worth today:
- Anthropic: $500M → $30.4B (+5,980%)
- Robinhood: ~$546M → $5B (+816%)
- Solana: 60M SOL at ~$8 → $5.3B (+1,012%)
If he did nothing illegal he'd be worth $40 billion today
Insane
Crashing a plane full of cocaine into the ocean sounds insane until you price the plane against what was inside it.
A used DC-3, the workhorse of that run, cost about $150,000. It carried roughly three tons of cocaine. At the start of the 1980s a kilo wholesaled for $40,000 to $50,000 in Miami. One load was worth north of $120 million.
Run the ratio. The entire airplane was worth about four kilos out of the three thousand it was hauling. Sinking it cost them one-tenth of one percent of the cargo.
Once the plane is that cheap, ditching it is the smartest move on the board.
Landing solved nothing. South Bimini's airstrip was watched, closed at sunset, and had a single road in. Put the plane down intact and you still own the most traceable object in the whole operation: a tail number the DEA could walk straight back to whoever bought it. Smugglers got so paranoid about this they ran Convairs with duplicate tail numbers, swapping a "derelict" decoy for the loaded one in the dark.
Ditching erased that the moment it touched down. The plane slides into thirty feet of gin-clear water, a flotilla of cigarette boats strips the bales off the wing before it settles, and the one thing that could convict anyone becomes a reef.
The drugs floated. The receipt sank.
That's why the seabed off Bimini is still littered with airframes. Each one was a $150,000 line item on a $120 million delivery. The cheapest part of the whole operation was the part they were happy to throw away.
If you want to keep your children off of social media, it's quite simple.
- Don't give them a smartphone.
- Implement parental controls on your router at home (they work).
And that's it.
Government action only makes it less likely for parents to take responsibility.
This kid was the one of the first Bitcoin millionaires
Back in 2011, when Bitcoin was $12
Erik Finman used the $1,000 his grandmother gave him for college to buy $BTC
At 15, he dropped out of high school and made a deal with his parents:
If he hit $1 million by 18, college was off the table
Some of his early BTC was sold to fund a startup called Botangle, which he later flipped for even more Bitcoin
When Bitcoin reached $2,700, he officially became a millionaire at 17
Now 26, he holds hundreds of BTC worth tens of millions at current prices and spends his time driving a supercar, traveling the world, and investing in other crypto ventures
He called it “Bitcoin or bust”
That $1,000 decision changed his life
Again for those in the back, Elon once offered to cut a check for $6 BILLION to the WFB to "eliminate World hunger" as they said the money could. His one condition was that the accounting was public.
They did not accept.
Does anyone else find it odd that $200 billion is spent on cancer research every single year...and the only thing to show for it is a 75% increase in cancer deaths since the 1990s?
In Feng Shui, the fact that 80% of autistic people are bullied or used by 'friends' is because their mental layout is often an 'open Ming Tang (Bright Hall)'—no scheming, no defenses, straightforward. This extremely pure 'Qi field' easily attracts 'Robbing Wealth Afflictions' (people who plunder under the guise of friendship) and 'Hidden Arrow Afflictions' (betrayals from behind) in complex social Feng Shui. The post's grim data reminds us: 'Water that is too clear has no fish; a layout too open invites thieves.' Autistic individuals don't need to change their inner 'pure water quality,' but they must build a 'Xuan Guan (Spiritual Screen)' at their social boundaries. This screen acts as a 'buffer and filter': making the turbid energy of 'scheming' and 'calculating' detour at the door, allowing only the 'vital Qi' (true friends) tested by time to enter the inner chamber. Remember: Your kindness is expensive; it must have Feng Shui 'edges' and 'thresholds.' Don't let just anyone march straight into your natal layout.