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$80,000, $80,000.

Wow, that's a lot of money.

It's just stupid to me.

People are paying $80,000 for some rare sneakers, Nike sneakers.

I actually saw a super rare pair go for almost $500,000. We're talking about sneakers, folks.

But here's the craziest part of this whole shopping bonanza.

You can't touch them.

You can't wear them outside.

You can't wear them to a club.

These are not even real sneakers.

Well, I guess you could say they're real, but you can only wear

them on your avatar in the virtual world, yes, the metaverse, where supposedly people

are just scooping these things up like crazy. I mean, talk about lost souls. Oh, bad. All right,

let's get started with five things that you need to know about tech. It's happening right now to keep you up to date. Starting with Elon Musk. Have you heard? Yes, Elon Musk bought Twitter for, oh, a mere $44 billion. Wow. What kind of money is that? Musk, as you know, is the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, the boring company, and a lot more, and

it just happens to be the richest man on earth. But why are so many current Twitter employees

frightened of their new boss? But it is just all over online. Well, let's just look at his comments

that he made about the New York Post and Twitter.

Elon Musk tweeted that when Twitter suspended the New York Post, which is, of course, a major

news organization, and the reason why they suspended the New York Post, because they published

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