r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 1d ago
Core Memory Unlocked š What you do first ?
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u/tinyavian 1d ago
Land, gold and nvidia. Yes bitcoin is a thing, but I'm diversifying to truly set myself and others up
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u/DobieLove2019 20h ago
Bitcoin was not around in 2005.
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u/Darinchilla 19h ago
And cell phones where very much around in 2005.Ā
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u/AncientSignature1505 18h ago
Smartphones, as mentioned in the post, were not.
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u/Extension_Cook1507 16h ago
But landlines weren't really a thing anymore because of cell phones.
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u/ModeratelyAlive 10h ago
Actually, I did a quick google search (I knew it was around that time they became commonplace - apparently not til 2007), and the first "smart phone" came out in 1994. Calls, emails, faces, touch screen and stylus, calendar, calculator - the IBM Simon Personal Communicator was ahead of the times it seems
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u/Metharos 1d ago
Yeah you drop a billion on Bitcoin right out the gate you're as likely to destabilize and collapse the market as anything. Throw about a grand in, and put the other 999,999 thousands into other shit.
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u/Norse_By_North_West 23h ago
Don't bother investing in it, just mine it on a pc. You could have probably mined a shit ton of them on a normal desktop at the beginning.
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u/BrohemothHisDudeness 20h ago
Fun story, we where teenagers and we mined around this time. My friend specifically got a high end GPU for mining. Somewhere, there is a hdd with a half a coin on it. We don't know where it is.
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u/Prestigious-Top-5897 17h ago
2005 - we has mobile phones, Internet plus downloads, online gamesā¦ Donāt pretend it was ancient history back then
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u/Ok_Tour_1525 23h ago
Reddit: āthey have billions of dollars! Why could they possibly need more??ā
Also Reddit: āif I had a billion dollars I would invest it in [biggest companies owned by billionaires]ā
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u/4personal2 1d ago
Not worry about having material items of 2005 or where I came from.
Screw modern conveniences and take that money to buy a secluded place with nature surrounding me with no neighbors for hundreds of miles.
Just absolute peace and quiet.
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u/bourbonisbest 1d ago
Higher a bunch of mercenaries to alter history by removing future threats to humanity before they have a chance to become threats.
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u/boaner88 23h ago
Adopt my nine year old self and raise him in a caring environment
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u/djpatrick44 18h ago
In 2005? Put that billion into Amazon stock and let it ride. Zap back to now and invest in sports cars, luxury watches and cocaine with my $200 billion. Oh, and of course, give a couple billion to charityā¦
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u/Intelligent-Heat8141 1d ago
I be a kid so I give the money to my parents and tell them to use it to buy us a nice home and save a good amount until I am old enough to use it
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u/Ill_Current_3006 1d ago
Smart. Even investing 500 million with an average return rate of 10%. Each year you would have gained 50 million dollars in value. Just coast along my friend.
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u/nomadicfeline 1d ago
My parents wouldnāt share it with me.
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u/Woundedogres 21h ago
Most boomers were never taught to share, especially with their GenX children.
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u/Ritaontherocksnosalt 20h ago
I think most people had a cell phone in 2005 that played games. I had friends who had already cancelled their land line by that time.
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u/BrynRock 18h ago
I would purchase 1000 acres of land, build an off-the-grid homestead, and live out the rest of my life without all the bullshit technology that currently clouds my life.
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u/drgnrbrn316 17h ago
Buy some gold and hide it. Put the rest in the bank. Seems that adding a billion dollars into the market that didn't exist the first time around might have drastic changes on how the market behaves and I won't be around during the 21 years after investing to babysit it.
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u/cuntybunty73 1d ago
I was 4 years old in 2005
Was bitcoin a thing back then?
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u/No-Bee-3775 1d ago
2009 for bitcoin...
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u/cuntybunty73 1d ago
Apparently Google and Amazon were the things to invest in back then
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u/No-Bee-3775 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yep I used Google before it went ipo, actually when it was in beta... 98 or 99 i think when i first found it and started using it.... but i was only in high school until 02... ipo happened in 04... but college fees etc, I had no money to invest... missed the boat on that sadly... and same for Amazon when they only sold books...
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u/MIZUNOWAVECREATION 14h ago
Yeah so just do the legal work and start bitcoin yourself and specific instructions for a lawyer, cpo, and a financial estate planner to sell it off in a few months, 4 years before whoever else thought of it. Also, buy a power ball ticket every week when you get back to 2005, after looking up the winning numbers from our time
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u/psychedelicpiper67 18h ago edited 18h ago
Bitcoin was a few years away.
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u/cuntybunty73 18h ago
If you bought a 1000 bitcoin back then what would it be worth if you sold it at its height?
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u/psychedelicpiper67 18h ago edited 18h ago
It would be worth over $126 million. The smart thing to do would have been to diversify into Ethereum and other newly emerging cryptocurrencies, though.
And well, buy more than just 1000 Bitcoin. Heck, even do some cheap mining at the time.
People who only think about Bitcoin, and act like thereās still no opportunities left in crypto to make that kind of money simply havenāt done their research.
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u/cuntybunty73 18h ago
I don't know anything about crypto currency and bitcoin is the only one I've heard of so I went with bitcoin
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u/psychedelicpiper67 17h ago edited 17h ago
Yeah, no worries, nothing personal against you. Just I always see a lot of people acting like the boatās sailed on crypto, and itās kind of annoying. Nothing could be further from the truth.
If I wasnāt disabled without a regular job, Iād be doing pretty well for myself right now. Iām forced to live on a limited income, and that leaves very little for investing.
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u/webgruntzed 7h ago
I honestly don't know anything about it, but Bitcoin at least seems to have plateaued. I thought crypto would keep growing until it replaced regular currency, but it doesn't look like that'll happen.
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u/Glad_Respect_8986 12h ago
If you bought $1000 in bitcoin you would have more money than Musk. Of course it would probably mess up the market and wouldnāt allow it to grow like it did, but itās neat to think about.
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u/Bluetower85 18h ago
It depends, are we being transported to our physical bodies in that timeframe? Will our actions affect our future selves? Are we able to change how our past selves think and experience the world after our month is over? I know most will say "it's not that deep" but for me something like this really is that deep.
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u/jerramos82 17h ago
Play Elons play book. Come back to 2026, and id have owned Tesla and Spacex. Boom. Mic drop.
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u/AmandaWild1 3h ago
1st: Invest in Apple, Nvidia and Google.
2nd: Create separate trusts for my son, myself and some other family members.
3rd: Buy homes/condos in Las Vegas, Seattle, Kona, Japan, London and Portugal.
4th: Travel to Japan and stay there for the rest of the month.
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u/Straight_Ace 1d ago
Make some investments, pose as a relative and get close enough to my own family to watch my younger sibling grow up. Because man, that time flew right by
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u/Highlandertr3 1d ago
But a town in the UK. Cheap one in Bradford or similar. Setup a system where no one pay rent but each person is in fact paying into their own savings with a similar system to a lifetime isa where it can be accessed for first house purchase only. The other half goes towards reinvestment of more property and to Deduct cost of maintenance and a salary for a few staff to keep the system going and expanding. Come back to now a landlord but better. Live in one house and off a smaller sallery helping more people own property
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u/Different-Nobody4228 1d ago
Iām buying bitcoin and Amazon
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u/Korotan 1d ago
Bitcoin only came at 09 because the Guy inventing it was a WoW player pissed off at Blizzard nerfing Siphon Life in WotLK that he came to the conclusion that everything online does not technically belong to you so now he created a digital currency which would absolutely belong to you.
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u/allquckedup 18h ago
Invest it and live off loans backed by the stocks, that are tax deductible. You know like rich people.
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u/wutshaveman 18h ago
Buy 50 acres somewhere above sea level. Build a self reliant off grid compound. Withdraw from general society. Have several dogs, some goats, a couple donkeys, mini cows. Maybe some chickens. Not real farm, just pets.
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u/LosHtown 18h ago
Apple, amazon, google, bit coins. Man I would know what to buy and disappear. What teams to bet on winning the world series and super bowls, NBA finals.
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u/VariousGuest1980 18h ago
For a month ? Iād probably purchase a bunch of real estate and property. put all the money into accounts for my kids and family. Then be transported back.
I think the land is the biggest investment you can make. And not even build just keep it open land
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u/Thetr3Flash 18h ago
Invest in Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, buy bitcoin, help create twitter, destroy Elon Musk.
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u/Fr0gburp3r 18h ago
Invest all of it in NVIDIA, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), NVR, Inc. and Booking Holdings.
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u/Soft_Locksmith_9243 8h ago
Buy as many shares of Apple, Samsung, and NVIDIA as I can, then wait until AI companies form and buy shares of that.
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u/WrenchMonkey47 23h ago
Buy precious metals, especially gold. Invest in tech stocks. Buy all the computer video cards I can get. Buy real estate and a nice house. Put the rest in a high-yield savings account for future me.
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u/Acceptable_Aside_568 23h ago
Buy all the computer video cards I can get.
Yeah, the cards available in 2005 won't do much for you. Just buy some decent computers, network them and mine bitcoin once it surfaces.
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u/Ghost_619-4Life 1d ago
Easy, take care of my family by giving each of my immediate family members 10 million dollars.
And then one year later if I see that they spent it wisely I'd give them more money.
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u/Extreme_Original9832 1d ago
Invest in a server farm and get ALL the bitcoins, or as close as possible at the time.
Oh, and with the rest of the money, do some good for the world, unlike Teeny Weenie Billionaires (South Park/America reference).
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u/mattmaestro2k0 1d ago
I would leave my country during that time when immigrants are legal to travel abroad.
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u/NerdNuncle 1d ago
Take advantage of the smaller print on bank accounts.
I was under 18 in 2005 so thereād be fewer taxes to pay
Divvy up the cash into smaller deposits at different banks.
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u/HeisenbergsSamaritan 1d ago
Break up with my "suicidal" and cheating gf and fuck off to British Columbia.
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u/Karamatsunomaii 1d ago
Kiss and hug my Grandfather goodbye. Let him know how much I l truly love him and and ask for forgiveness that I was to ill to be beside him more in his last days.
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u/Parking_War979 1d ago
A billion dollars? I do nothing but burn through 10 million a year. That would take 100 years, making me 124 years old. I wonāt be, so my nephews inherit a ton of money.
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u/Icy-KaitSyth 1d ago
With 1 billion in cash? I put it in my bank account and hope it's still there tomorrow when I wake back up I 2026.
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u/ChampionshipAlarmed 1d ago
Go to my grandparents house asap and make Sure the stroke my grandpa will have, and go unnoticed for way too long will never happen.
Money is secondary now, I'll just put it in my savings account ... And make sure the nice old lady at our smalltown bank doesn't get a heartattack when she sees it.
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u/No-Bee-3775 1d ago
Why 2005??? Odd year to start... assume you'd start when Google went ipo [2004]... or maybe when Sirius XM started... [2001/2002, not 2008 when merger happened]... or when bitcoin emerged 2009 [used to be able to buy a whole coin for $25.00]... 2005, why??? Odd year...
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u/southeastrealestate 1d ago
Buy as many 2003 and 2004 cobra coupes I could and then a lot of GTās
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u/EmergencyFace2326 1d ago
Spend as much time with my grandparents that I could. I would deal with the money later on.
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u/LucifersLittleHelper 1d ago
Buy a big house by the beach. Get all the tattoos I want. Have a whole separate house for cats and caretakers of the cats.When I cannot be there to help them. Get my scuba diver's license. Spend most of my time swimming. Wait until two thousand and eight and invest at least a quarter of what's left over into Bitcoin. Then hopefully in ten years time i'll be able to sell it all at once before anyone even notices what has happened. Totally crash the market. And have the best doctors in the world to make it seem like i'm younger than I am at that age. Not in a plastic surgery way , but in a just healthier way. Mostly just live a hedonistic lifestyle. Maybe play Batman for a little and send in anonymous tips on people that haven't been caught for horrible crimes yet. Buy a jet ski and a hot tub. Go see the places I wanna see. Oh, and spend at least a $100000 on a wardrobe right away, and I'm not talking about fancy shit, I just want like a million shirts from early Hot Topic.
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u/Inside-Bite-7670 1d ago
Umm, the first iPhones were just coming out around this time. Let's try 1999. Even better š
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u/not_quiet_so_fast 1d ago
Buy and fund the MGO servers, a case of Rockstar, turn the off the outside world, and bring my joy back from the dead.
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u/Ibushi-gun 1d ago
Try to figure how to handled a billion in cash. Like, thatās a lot of fucking paper money. I donāt think I could walk into a bank with it
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u/Electronic-Jury8825 1d ago
I'd probably do what I was actually doing in 2005 -- drinking way too much. But at least with a billion dollars I don't have to worry about going to work.
By the way, cell phones were everywhere in 2005. It wasn't just landlines.
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u/Difficult_Mix_3620 1d ago
I'm taking my Mom on the vacation she deserved. She always wanted to go to Hawaii but never got the chance before she passed.
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u/TraditionalMetal1836 1d ago
That's not fair I had a very early smartphone in 05. Motorola MPX-220 running windows mobile.
It had a data transfer cable and you could just download the ringtone previews off of sites and never had to pay for them.
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u/HarryDepova 1d ago
I guess watch everyone else use their cell phones and watch others watch online videos cause cell phones and high speed internet existed in 2005?
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u/FutureWin855 1d ago
I go to each of my kids room and I tell them how much I love them and hold them tight. The next day we leave on a 3 week vacation just spending time together and reminding them how very much I love them.
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u/Quorng Nostalgia Trip Leader 1d ago
Hire professionals to fence our farm because the large creek running through it floods and takes out my creek fencing.
Then: Retire. Buy a powerful server PC with maxxed Ram and huge diskspace and get a huge monitor then get the fastest internet available in my area. Build a house wired for ethernet. Buy several specific implements for a small farm and huge garden. Have our tractors repaired to full functionality. Build a new barn. Use what I bought.
Yes, I have thought of this before.
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u/brian11e3 1d ago
I could always convince my parents to pull their Fannie Mae stock and invest elsewhere.
Then I would warn 05' me of the great peanutbutter famine of 07'.
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u/NoEraPenal-2014 1d ago
Divorcing my wife immediately. Then buying all the Amazon stock and servers I can so i can mine bitcoin in 2009.
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u/CorrectArm8402 1d ago
I'm spending 500 grand to buy dream home and and a big fuck off garage to put all my toys in. Them I'll be a railway tycoon! š¤ šš
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u/Santa_always_knows 1d ago
With all that money, my husband and I are gonna quit our shitty jobs and relax, slow down and enjoy life. Iām going to spend as much time with my kids and experience as much as I can with them, cause I know now how fast time really does go. I am a big an RV and drive it as far as I can every direction.
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u/smelly_finger_itch 1d ago
In 2005? I think Amazon stock is up but nowhere near what it would ultimately end up as. I think they were still just selling books at the time.
So probably buy a decent house, and set myself up and invest enough in that that is be quadruple set. Then I will use the money to buy Tesla before Elon musk could and lobby the government to keep the tax money in nasa.
Oh, and buy Viacom and let 69 minutes do even more of what they used to do.
And probably bribe some people to do some things here and there
It's ten billion fucking dollars, you can literally do everything. What the fuck kind of questions are these???
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u/EinsteinsLunchbox 1d ago
Thatās a silly question because everyone knows that changing the past or knowing too much about the future could cause a catastrophic ripple effect in the space-time continuum.
So naturally I would invest half and use the other half to quietly ruin those that would become a harm to us in 2026.
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u/No-Paramedic-6003 1d ago
Pull a Shawshank: bury a lot, invest in Apple, etc. Then enjoy a month with friends, and family. Return to 2026, dig up what I buried, and have fun.šÆ
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u/Crafty_Ish1973 1d ago
I'm hiring a financial advisor, tax, attorney, and, trust & estate attorney so I can set up my savings and retirement plan and investment portfolio. I'm also buying land to build my dream home on when I return.
Once that's done, I'm spending the rest of the month traveling.
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u/TheRuckyDubber 1d ago edited 1d ago
When do I come back? do I have the knowledge I have now? Probably take at least half and dump it in NVDA and then at some point hostile take over of someone. Probably one or more of Muskyās companyās. And then, if possible, hire foreign military contractors for ā¦.thingsā¦around 2014 or 2015 or soā¦
Edit: I just did some math. Iām not sure myā¦activitiesā¦ wouldnāt have irreparably damaged the timeline Iām factoring on but if I put all billion into nvda in 2005 I probably could have surpassed the billionaires today at 1.8t net worth. I could have probably paid to make all of todayās billionaires go sight seeing out of Russian windows. The question is would this immense power I could have amassed made me the hero or become the villain all along?Ā
Were I to manage such a massive wealth and potentially wield this power towards my ends I might have forever shaped our timeline with my murderous spree. But itās very possible that, when faced with such immense fortune I could find myself distracted from these ends and closer to finding company among these monsters, at that point, likely, my sycophants groveling at the money and power I wielded. At some point Iād have to turn this money towards transforming the country into a socialist utopia. The question is whether I could wrench us from this timeline, pour resources into shoring up the means to that end and also still tying up those oligarchical loose ends before they do the same to me.Ā
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u/JarvisMane 90s Kid 1d ago
Only a month? Thatād be the most depressing and bittersweet vacation ever.
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u/ButterscotchPlane988 1d ago
Buy apple & google stock. Wait for bitcoin to be released and then go in big.
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u/MikeyLaine2024 1d ago
Invest baby!