Tudor is a good place to start for entry level luxury. It’s Rolex’s sister brand. All of the quality of a Rolex at a fraction of the price. Although a g shock is pretty cool too and that’s like $100
@LynAlden has inspired me to do more long form stories on nostr.
It was a random thursday, the summer between junior and senior year of high school.
Me and three of my buddies were getting high in the back of my friend Dave’s mustang, when someone decided we needed to go on a beer run.
For anyone who isn’t aware, a beer run is very literally what it sounds like. You grab a case of beer and run 🏃 out of the store before anyone catches you.
Conversation then turned to who was going to do the beer run. (You only need one guy) My friend Dave was driving so he was out. I had turned 18 recently and I didn’t want to risk big boy jail. Which left my friend James and my friend Brad. James didn’t want to do it because he was wearing flip flops. Brad made up some bs about how he twisted his ankle skateboarding (which was a lie). So ultimately James was like “fine I’ll do it you fucking pussies” and he got out of the car.
So we watch James walk into the grocery store from the car, the plan is to pick him up around back when he runs out.
Here’s where things get crazy. The grocery store is next to a target and as James walk into the store a police helicopter pulls into the sky above the parking lot we’re in.
“Fuck, this is bad. Ok quick call James 📱 let him know that the beer run is off.”
I dial up James on my phone and as it’s ringing I see him bolt out of the store, two angry grocery clerks chase after him. He’s running so fast that his flip flops come flying off behind him and he’s now running barefoot on 130 degree asphalt.
He turns the corner and the police helicopter sees him, and starts yelling at him through the bullhorn to get on the ground. He throws the beer in the air and puts his hands up. 70 cans of beer going rolling down the hill.
We’re in the back of the mustang stoned. Watching all this play out, freaking the fuck out.
We decide we better split, so we quietly drive off and go to my friends house.
A few hours later we get a call from James, the cops are letting him go with a ticket and a court appearance and we can come pick him up from the target.
We go to pick him up and we learn that there had been an armed robbery at the target at the exact time we were pulling off a beer run next door. Two masked men with guns were robbing the registers. They were both being apprehended precisely at the moment we were pulling off a stupid beer run. Talk about bad luck lol
The cops saw him running and assumed he was part of it. They put him on the ground and had the K-9 unit guard him.
After the dust cleared and they realized he was just a dumb kid on a beer run they decided to cut him loose. They had bigger fish to fry that day.
My friend Dave and I still get together and tell this story at least once a year and always compare notes to make sure we remember it correctly.
We joke about how everyone thinks we’re embellishing or outright lying when we tell them about the helicopter interrupting our beer run.
I’ve been telling this story so long it almost doesn’t seem real to me either.
But it definitely happened and was one of the craziest things I’d ever seen in my life lol 😂
lol I’ve had people demand I do more for bitcoin before. Very odd.
Like how about you take that energy my guy and you go do more for bitcoin.
This is a global group project you know.
I had a lot of friends like Jordan. Spent a lot of time in the kind of environments you’re describing. It was sad because you could tell by observing home environments like those that your friends didn’t really have a chance. Their unconscious conditioning had too much gravity and it would be too hard to escape it. I don’t know anyone who did.
For a long time I thought investing in our era was hard and now I think it might be the easiest thing ever.
Long real food
Short fake food
Long hard money
Short soft money
Long decentralized tech
Short centralized tech
Long science
Short scientism
Basically just find a 20th century institution that’s in decay and short it while longing its replacement.
Even weirder is that something is compelling me to keep showing up every day. Almost like what we’re doing matters or will blossom into something more in the near future.
Generally true: Most hodlers got here an epoch too late and they fucked up their stack by an order of magnitude.
And yet they are still massively winning.
During the nostr panel at the bitcoin conference a few weeks back I correctly anticipated and predicted the mounting pressure Elon Musk and X would face from global governments.
https://m.primal.net/KZpF.mov
Compounded annual growth rate in bitcoin is 48% over the last four years.
Wheras it’s only 12% in traditional markets.
Bitcoin holders are making 36% more per year than fiat investors.
I think America really fucked up by not forcing the Marshall plan to be contingent on 1A and 2A.
If you’re going to take American dollars you need to share American values.
This should be our new policy strategy in relation to all foreign aid /protection / trade etc…
You do business with America? You gotta act like America. You need to have American values.
You don’t want American values? Cool fund yourself.
The harsh reality is that tickets were available to everyone on earth with an internet connection. You didn’t even need money early on. Bitcoin was literally free, people were just giving it away. So technically yes you did have the ability to buy a ticket. Even though I bought fairly early, I should have been here even earlier. I knew about bitcoin in 2011 and chose not to act. That’s true for most OG’s. Then when we finally did act we had to endure ridicule about our beliefs in addition to the emotional volatility of our investment. It wasn’t easy in the slightest and most of the people I know from back then are out of bitcoin now. Very few hodled.
Here’s the empathy. The harsh reality of bitcoin adoption was true then and it’s still true now. The same feeling you have about people who were earlier than you will be had by people who were later than you about you. Bitcoin still has 100x + to go. The ultimate kindness is to make people aware of this reality and offer them help and resources to position themselves in order to take advantage.
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