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Billionaires' embarrassing moments.

This can be old money, new money, or anything in between. Let's wait until they're adults to make fun of them though.

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The timing of the boat’s arrival in Seattle and the job cuts was coincidental, but the irony was not lost among the people who hustled down to the locks to see the giant yacht after word spread through the neighborhood and online. Some booed from the shore and heckled the crew.

Bumpers on the side of the boat were about the size of small SUVs, while the back deck had a covered pool and hot tub. More than a dozen crew members were visible, many enjoying the trip through the channel on a partly sunny evening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12acDjXRKog

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SpaceX may have failed to get Starship V3 off the ground on Thursday, but the company revealed some interesting information in the lead-up to its launch attempt. With less than 15 minutes left in the countdown, commentators introduced the man who plans to lead SpaceX’s first crewed mission to Mars.

During the live webcast, SpaceX played a video of cryptocurrency billionaire and civilian astronaut Chun Wang speaking from Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Wang, who has gone to space one time before, explained that he will embark on a Starship flyby of the Moon and Mars. SpaceX has not shared a target launch date for the mission, but it could be the world’s first interplanetary human spaceflight.

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I really feel like this should be acted out. Worth a read.

Every answer leads to more info coming out that he did business with him and interacted socially. I stopped posting at page 30. I wonder how his kids feel about having had lunch with Epstein.

The email reads, "Hello, Mr. Lutnick, Jeffrey Epstein understands you will be down in St. Thomas some over the holidays. Jeffrey requested I please pass along some phone numbers to you so the two of you can possibly get together. Any numbers you wanted to pass along to Jeffrey would be great as well."

Sure. So it's 14 years ago. So it's not -- I went for lunch with my wife and my four children, my friends -- a couple and their four children -- and staff and boat staff. So it was probably 15, 16 people went for lunch.

We sat outside, had lunch. It was boring. We left.

And the reason we ask is there was a stock purchase agreement that was released aspart of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that you signed on behalf of CVAFH and Mr. Epstein signed. Did you know that Mr. Epstein was an investor in this company AdFin?

No.

Q When did you learn that he was an investor?

A To the best of my knowledge, when these documents were released. Best of my recollection.

But it says -- you want me to read just --

Q Just what you sent.

A Oh. "Producing revenue finally. This is their year. Next 12 months they need to become economically self-sufficient."

Q And Mr. Epstein replied to your email and said,

"Thanks. How long until Sherry is ready, and can I buy my guesthouse?" To which you responded, "Probably 4 years," in parentheses, "Pierre."

What is Pierre?

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“I’ve always loved Meebits,” Weitsman told Decrypt in an interview. “They’re actually the reason I got into Web3 in the first place. This purchase is my way of showing confidence in the team.”

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He saw that he was being followed by a photographer as he was surfing, so he thought he could disguise himself with extra sunscreen.

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“Are Colleges Undermining Education with Easy A’s?”

“DEBUNKING: The Rich Don’t Pay Their Fair Share”

“The Politics of Conversion Therapy”

Those are real video titles from Make It Make Sense, the Washington Post opinion section’s new flagship podcast, which the paper officially launched on Monday, a day after the media newsletter Status reported that the section had spent $80,000 (!) building out a new podcast studio. The show is hosted in rotation by opinion editor Adam O’Neal, deputy opinion editor James Hohmann, and columnists such as Carine Hajjar, Kate Andrews, Dominic Pino, and Jason Willick. Most of them are recent hires, part of the section’s hard pivot right under Bezos.