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I'm always surprised why the Koreans didn't get richer
I studied there, I lived there and I don't really have a real strong reason why
They work really hard
I guess one thing that could be a barrier is that in public life nobody can be direct and everything is ruled by unwritten rules of behavior (a lot like Japan) that they can only escape in private settings or when they get drunk
Not being direct slows things down a lot especially in innovation
In Korean startups I remember they'd use English names to avoid the hierarchy that came with Korean names (like you add words to the name for people older or younger than you etc. which would mean you can't rly go against ppl older than you)
In China everyone I meet is hyper direct, pragmatic and very open (kinda like how I try to be on here and IRL)
Maybe that's part of it?
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I meant biggest physically not biggest selling
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Ratio'd the 🇪🇺 EC gg 😂👌
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I meant that $1,000 to fly somewhere is never cheap if most people make $2,000/mo
Not that Qatar isn't cheap, yes it's actually affordable for business class, I agree
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About $1B to $3.5B invested per year in startups by the Saudis
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One of the main things I learnt from the fall of the Spanish and Portuguese empires is that they both never re-invested their wealth
They instead built gold plated palaces (see the one in Mafra full of Brazilian gold) and other types opulence
And they thought the colonies would remain forever so they were fully dependent on the wealth from there (sugar, gold, silver, coffee)
But once they became independent, they lost a large share of their GDP overnight, Portugal lost about 80% of their income after Brazil went independent in 1822!
If they would instead have re-invested the wealth, they could have developed industry and new businesses but they became resource dependent instead
One interesting thing about the relatively young states of UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia is that they do exactly that. UAE and Qatar heavily invest their oil money to become destinations to live and Saudi Arabia is one of the top investors in tech startups worldwide
On a personal level I also learnt from this to do the same, don't waste the money you made on assets that don't return (like cars, boats, general opulence)
Instead try to re-invest most of it so you get income from new sources so that if the income sources that made you the wealth (for me my startups) eventually dry up (almost guaranteed in business, see the business or "product life cycle") you have already switched to the new industry
I personally do that through ETFs, stocks, real estate and a little bit of startup investing
So yes don't be like the Spanish or Portuguese empire 👌
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No way https://t.co/ZqhhuHCDGT
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Once you look you start seeing Chinese vehicles everywhere around the world, here the Yutong electric bus in Qatar https://t.co/TH7WJx2TBW
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🇶🇦 If you fly business class with @qatarairways, you get this special arrival reception, passport control and security
They have some snacks and fresh coffee and a lounge you can chill after a long flight if you want
Very nice
Business at Qatar starts at about $1,000, not cheap (but business class never is), but it's fully worth it especially for seeing Doha's amazing airport and getting the business class facilities there (like the jacuzzi!)
In my opinion the #1 airport in the world and #1 airline in the world, which is why I always try fly with them
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RT @gaulicsmith: https://t.co/eojUyCSEcO
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RT @TheFP: You’ve been lied to about Africa.
@MagatteW: “Africa is not poor because of colonialism. Africa is poor because we have made it…
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We have a new guy doing the thing
Let's see where he gets in 6 months
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✅ Fixed https://t.co/vwaJlQgLOO
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💯 https://t.co/Exbd6DWWla
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📡 I got 100+ mbps plane internet on @qatarairways with @Starlink 😊
Very cool!!!!
And the coolest was no annoying login, just straight connecting to the WiFi and you're in
Great work Qatar + Starlink, this is how every airplane WiFi should be, fast and simple 👏 https://t.co/183jAGM51M
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Grok puts China in 2025 at about Japan in 1970
So just before their boom to high quality and world dominance:
"In summary, China has largely moved past the "purely low-quality" phase (like Japan's 1950s) and is in active ascent (like Japan's 1970s), with full reputation reversal likely in the coming decade if trends continue—especially as brands like BYD, Huawei, and Xiaomi gain more international traction. The journey isn't complete, but the momentum is strong in priority areas."
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🇨🇳 Another very popular EV brand in China (and elsewhere) is NIO
Apparently this is the biggest EV on the market now https://t.co/8Qlj15JnCq
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Japan was famous for extremely low quality goods, until they were suddenly not, China is the same:
"Japan was historically known for producing low-quality goods, particularly in the immediate post-World War II era through the 1950s and into the 1960s
In the late 1940s and 1950s, "Made in Japan" often signified cheap, shoddy, or imitation products, similar to how "Made in China" is sometimes perceived today. Japanese exports, such as toys, textiles, transistor radios, and ceramics, were mass-produced quickly to rebuild the war-devastated economy, prioritizing quantity and low cost over durability. This led to a widespread international reputation for poor quality, with goods frequently seen as unreliable or knockoffs
The perception began shifting in the 1960s as Japan adopted advanced quality management techniques, influenced by American experts like W. Edwards Deming and Joseph M. Juran. Japanese manufacturers embraced concepts like Total Quality Management (TQM), Kaizen (continuous improvement), and statistical process control, focusing on defect prevention rather than inspection."
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And here's the photo pack if you wanna try it with yourself https://t.co/ekhXnCKora
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RT @alightinastorm: @levelsio fun fact, "made in germany" initially started as a label for cheap copies of british products
germany was se…
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Every single time they're German 😂🇩🇪 https://t.co/o7Hxy0Ilk9
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Yes, big cognitive differences without creatine, I'm more forgetful, less sharp, less energetic
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🇨🇳 Chinese EVs have been taking the world by storm, whether you like it or not
When I look around here on the street in China I try recognize the car brands and I see so many brands I don't know
One brand I see a lot is LI, but also BYD, Zeekr and XPeng
Apparently there's now 129 (!) EV brands in China producing cars, which kinda shows the massive scale of the EV boom here
There's a real historical parallel here with the US a hundred years ago, where there were about 2,000 new American car companies in America. Of course most failed, and only a few remained
The same is predicted for China, where only 15 EV brands are predicted to survive in a decade, so a real battle is going down here now to see who will win
One interesting thing is that there is one American brand that is remarkably present here, and that's Tesla, you see Teslas everywhere, the Tesla Y often holds the top spot for most cars sold in China, and you see Tesla superchargers here a lot
What's also interesting is that where Elon Musk gets so much hatred in the West (not from me), in China he's revered as a hero. Elon is a high IQ engineer and successful entrepreneur. And it's a real artefact of the culture that Chinese respect that kind of person while in the West if you're rich, successful and smart you're seen as a bad person by at least half of society. I think that says a lot about our society and how we educate people in the West and we should really reconsider that. Engineering and entrepreneurship are the key stones of a functioning society. Engineering invents new things and entrepreneurs turn those inventions into businesses that bring them to people. Without both, you don't have jobs, money, and well, prosperity! Chinese culture seems to understand this well, which is why they like Elon Musk and still drive Teslas as one of the few Western cars here.
Anyway to continue, in this video I visited the Huawei store and I have to add a correction, because due to new Chinese regulation that requires car brands to fully own their manufacturing, Huawei has "officially" separated their car business, but in fact they still fully design the car, sell the car, and get most of the profit from it. They just can't call it a Huawei car anymore
Huawei is interesting because they produce everything, phones, tablets, watches, laptops, and, well indirectly, EV cars too
A similar brand is Xiaomi, who actually do own the manufacturing of their EV, and their EV is one of the fastest growing in sales in China
It's a real slap in the face for the West I feel that Apple, the creator of the iPhone, wasn't able to produce a car and cancelled their car project, when many of the Chinese phone companies are producing their own cars now with relative ease
Of course the iPhone is produced in China, and manufacturing is in China, so being closer to the manufacturing physically, it must have been easier to design a car, than try to do it remotely from Apple's office in Cupertino
But it does seem significant that we couldn't do this
While I'm writing this the news comes in that Germany's car and greater manufacturing industry is tanking, their energy costs have gone up 2-3x due cutting off the Russian gas, and they've simply become too expensive overnight
Germany's car industry, the historical center of car production in the world with BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Volkswagen, has started laying off 100,000+ employees and scaling down their production due to declining sales, which are a direct result of the competition from China offering cheaper, more advanced EVs with better software than the Germans
And I mean you can feel it, I walk around in EV car stores here and the cars look great, the interior looks modern, the software is miles ahead of the clunky interfaces of German cars, most EVs here have a little cute robot on the dashboard that you talk to, so you never have to touch the screen anymore to do anything, like "switch on the wipers" or "route me to my hotel" etc. The EVs here honestly do not feel cheap, they're well built and comfortable
Europe has tried to stop the rise of the Chinese EVs in the European market with a 45% tariff, but even with that tariffs, many Europeans still prefer to buy Chinese EVs over others, and they're still cheaper than the German cars! The US went further with a 100% tarrif, and that stopped them from being sold mostly in the US because it's not profitable anymore for the Chinese
One thing I have to add which you probably know is that the Chinese government does heavily subsidize their EV industry (with about $230B+ in the last decade), it's not a secret and their subsidies do not compare to the ones the US and EU provide for their industries, which gives Chinese EV companies the (unfair) advantage to produce them at a discount and sell them abroad cheaper, which is exactly why the EU and US put tariffs on them
Even with the subsidies, the engineering and production and software is impressive and feels very modern, I'm a Tesla fan, own a 2025 Tesla Y, but the Chinese EVs feel and look more modern to me. They usually have more screens, more features etc. There's real innovation happening here it feels like
And that's kinda the conclusion you get being in China with every industry, they've already by far departed from being cheap clones of Western products, they're now at the next stage of adding their own features and ideas, which is what we always criticize Chinese on "they're not creative", well they are creative, they just start from the point where Western products are now, and then start innovating from there (instead of starting from scratch fully, I mean, why would they?)
If you ask Grok how does the future of the Western car industry look like, especially the European/German ones, it's pessimistic. The only positive it can find is that maybe European brands can focus on premium and exclusivity. Like they do with Hermes hand bags, but then do the same with cars. BMW and Mercedes-Benz are of course luxury brands and they could survive by remaining premium and make money that way. But the regular middle and low end of car production in Europe (and America?) will most probably be wiped out and replaced by the Chinese I think
That is if the Americans and Europeans will keep allowing them into their markets
But even if they don't, the Chinese are happily going to the rest of the world like South America, the Middle East or the rest of Asia where you see BYDs literally everywhere
As a European this does feel bittersweet, but then again we've all been shouting from the roof tops for years that this would happen if you didn't create a pro-business climate where startups would sprout, so now it's kinda "I told you so"
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by @vpavlin
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🇨🇳 Amap (in Chinese 高德地圖 Gaode Map) is my favorite navigation app in China
Google Maps essentially really doesn't work in China, the location of our hotel Aman in Beijing for example was completely wrong, when we told the staff they said "yes Google Maps isn't used in China", it is so useless in China that even the city grid and roads are positioned wrongly on top of the satellite map, so it doesn't seem to be maintained at all by Google
But Amap is great! Especially since it can be used in English and I think it transliterates your searches to Chinese and the Chinese place names back to English
It also has more features like cute 3d maps and showing the live status of the stoplight like many other apps in China do too
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Fixed it https://t.co/ZH2ruAPnJP
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I feel like a junkie measuring out my 🍚 creatine on the hotel room floor https://t.co/Lcx5I6sgZ3
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Ok for some reason 'model'=>'grok-4' is very slow
But 'model=>grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning' is as fast as the chat!
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People don't know this but
If you tweet your thoughts and it goes viral, many times it ends up in the meetings of BigTech or politicians
And sometimes they tell you https://t.co/KzQNsm9zFM
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This is so good
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Actually this took less than a second in SuperGrok @xai
But 29 seconds on the API! https://t.co/MBBCOqtpR0
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Here's the pics https://t.co/Jb6NOXQDTO
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This actually looks like the famous Ellum from Maceo Plex's Boiler Room set (I'm probably the only one who knows this lmfao)
https://t.co/l1xoMJL0UY https://t.co/ZNeHANZSaG
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🎧 So I made a DJ photo pack on Photo AI
Then I tried to turn the photos into videos to see what would happen
I was expecting to be bad, some cheesy EDM stuff, but it actually created kinda experimental weird still good sounding techno, very different
The second video especially is some weird semi syncopated beat, I love it, very different
The third video is panic attack inducing techno, very dark and also nice
👌
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This seems to happen often these days when I'm in a plane
Especially during boarding or taxiing, there's engine bleed air that smells like heavy kerosine
I always try cover my face with my hoodie tightly which @grok says reduces your intake of the toxic fumes by 50-80%
Because the particles are relatively big so simple thick fabric stops it quite well
The risks to your brain of toxic bleed air are real, so better not inhale it
Plane maintenance is suffering in many places which is another part of enshittification
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RT @jrfarr: Me and @levelsio 5 mins after meeting each other IRL 💪 https://t.co/0hpxONjRJF
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It was really nice hosting @javilopen a few weeks ago
And he wrote a little story about it, which shows you a little bit of my life when we're at home and not traveling/nomading 😊
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Okay I made the whole button become a 🍌 banana now 😊 https://t.co/ea2KDBrErr
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Oh wait it's like SUPER old unread DMs???
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I keep getting this things showing I have DMs on iOS
Then I check and there's no new DMs https://t.co/t7cr5d9688
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🇵🇹 It's been an amazing few weeks in Asia and what I noticed is I'm not complaining about anything here
Things. Just. Work.
We still have to deal with some stuff in Portugal though because we live there
We ordered furniture and it arrived broken
And it's almost the exact same experience every single time when you buy something in Portugal, the sales is excellent, they promise you the world and respond fast, they come to your house with beautiful iPad presentations "oh yes everything is possible"
Then once you pay, things rapidly change
They stop responding fast, or responding at all, the promised dates of delivery aren't made at all, things get delayed for weeks or many many months, and when things arrive at all, half the time (at least!) they arrive broken or wrong
And then you're in a real sour spot because in Portugal after sales service literally just does not exist, like really, it does not exist, you simply won't be able to reach anyone, which is what we experience almost every single time here
And before people say I'm making this shit up, these days I just screen record everything to prove you as I did with this furniture store
In this case as you can see, the official after service phone line simply does not exist 😂 (very common in Portugal) and the main store doesn't ever pick up their phone either (also very common in Portugal!)
I'm not a complainer, I'm a very positive optimistic guy
But I hope it's a warning to anyone considering moving to Portugal
It's a beautiful country and it has its merits, but Portuguese businesses are not one of them, and their culture of doing business is downright robbery
"Take your money and disappear" is the motto!
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RT @jeremykauffman: This is my nomination for the scariest graph in the world.
Every western democracy continues to vote for more social w…
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!!!! https://t.co/qktGlyLpVD
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RT @Molson_Hart: People misunderstand the society wide enshittification that we are all seeing.
1. It’s not just software
2. It’s everythi…
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The blue zones are not real, they're pension fraud
https://t.co/mXYP1DN3rw. https://t.co/Y7lsjzST3C
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I think you should always try to get your T up naturally with exercise, good sleep and a whole foods diet first
My T is 860ng/dl which is high naturally, which is because of lifestyle and diet and a bit of lucky genetics
Only if it drops even with good lifestyle I think you should consider TRT as a last resort
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RT @paultoo: It was always possible to clone software, but doing so was costly and time consuming, and the clone would need to be much chea…
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High T fixes everything
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RT @kenwheeler: holy fuck lol https://t.co/eXVV7denSj
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RT @cursor_ai: You can now design directly in your codebase.
Select elements, modify them visually, and Cursor writes the code. https://t.…
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RT @lkr: @levelsio I would say the women's equivalent of the hormone advice is get off birth control
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cut*
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Yes I got really deep into sparkling water and then you cute a lemon or lime and squeeze a lot into the cup and drink it
Only thing I drink pretty much
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No, creatine does not ruin your kidneys, it's debunked
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✨ I updated Photo AI's video model to @Kling_ai 2.6 now
By default it also generates audio (like Veo 3 does) and if you prompt for it it also produces voice, and it's pretty realistic too
I'd say the cadence of the voice can be improved to be a bit more real, but it's definitely getting there
It's just one click, just generate an AI photo first then hover over it and press [ 📼 Make video ]
It's 3x more expensive, but I sell it below cost (5 credits) so that you all sign up to Photo AI and generate your UGC influencers with me 😊
Here's my 100% AI influencer telling what she thinks of the @EU_Commission
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This doesn't work because a "product launch" isn't what it was 10 years ago anymore
Back then you'd launch on Product Hunt and you'd get thousands or tens of thousands of users overnight and journalists would pick it up after
A lot has changed since then
Firstly, nobody cares anymore, there's too many products and things launching and unless your product is completely groundbreaking and new, a launch won't get much attention anymore
Secondly, these days you essentially should be launching every day non-stop: you try get attention from potential new users, posting new features you build based on user requests, tapping into trends you see and then jumping on them
You even see it with AI companies now, they just add the new version like Grok 4.1 or ChatGPT 5.1 without a big presentation. Just roll it out and improve the product for users
So yes launching is dead I think
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No because solar energy is essentially free
When you launch data centers into space your only cost is the hardware + launch
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This is/was the case before AGI and robots
When robots can do anything and you have essentially free energy from the sun
The cost of everything crashes to close to $0
And there will be few things produced by humans I think
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No I always book hotels or apartments with gym in the building
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This could be easily fixed by an AI vision model that's prompted against clickbait thumbnails
YouTube can score each and then derank if it's clickbait
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Anecdotal but I know way more people with knee injuries from running than weightlifting
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Seeing this damn 🍃 leaf anywhere I instantly get PTSD something is definitely not going to be working properly
Like an AC or coffee machine or anything
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This is why I avoid running like the plague personally
High odds you position your feet wrong and then running on asphalt makes it worse because it doesn't bounce like running on sand or grass would
I can't count how many people I know who have knee injuries from running, it's not worth it for me
I do cardio on a Concept2 bicycle in my gym and have never had any injury in my life
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RT @kenwheeler: you can just make a drone in threejs and have it fly around map imagery and put a camera on the drone and pipe its feed to…
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If money doesn't exist or stops existing post-AGI
Maybe real human social following will become the currency because everything else will be AI bots
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That's 10.5%/year which is the average S&P500 return over 100 years, some say 11%
https://t.co/jRlY9wcAxU
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No because compounding interest makes that $100/mo into millions in decades!
Start as early as possible with saving and investing
Doesn't matter if you can only save $100/mo, compounding interest means earlier is better and also you learn how to spend less which is a great skill
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Crazy thing about making money is if you don't spend it you just keep getting richer
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We should be bottling sparkling water and storing it for years so you can buy like an expensive 1972 bottle of sparkling water and you can say "what a fine year for sparkling water that was" like a sparkling water afficionado
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Me 5 minutes after meeting somebody new: it's of utmost importance for you to
- open a broker account and buy Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (USD) Accumulating (VUAA), and
- take 10g creatine per day yes 5g was the previous recommendation but after 5g the benefits are cognitive and in studies it delays Alzheimer
- start lifting weights 3-4 times per week, strength training avoids guaranteed age-related muscle atrophy and bone density loss, no running is not enough, you need both strength training and cardio, get a personal trainer to check your form
- build a business or SaaS so you can escape the system of employee servitude which is generally built to exploit you, the only way to get really rich is own your own business and the earlier you start the sooner you'll succeed because it takes years to understand how to do a business so better start now
- as a guy you probably have low testosterone, it's an epidemic due to our processed food and soil depletion due to intense farming, you don't realize this is completely affecting your identity and behavior as a man, and in turn your relationships with women, and as a woman similarly your hormones are imbalanced too
- fix your hormones to how they should be (like they were 100 years ago) by working out, lifting weights (both for men and women), cardio and a clean diet of whole foods (meat, veg, fruit, eggs, water) and no processed food (whatever is made in a factory, eg 90% what's sold in stores)
- get therapy if you need, it's good if it solves things (like cognitive behavioral therapy) but it should always be combined with heavy workouts and a clean diet
- live near your friends because especially for men of middle age (your future) there is a loneliness epidemic, so to avoid this hang out with your friends every week (even if your gf/bf blocks this, override it, it's of utmost important for your mental health)
That's it for now 😊
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They're gonna ban GTA 6 aren't they
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RT @elonmusk: The EU Commission should be disbanded in favor of an elected body and the EU President should be directly elected.
The curr…
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Me 5 minutes after meeting somebody new: it's of utmost importance for you to open a broker account and buy Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (USD) Accumulating (VUAA)
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RT @bscholl: A new product, a new customer, a new financing!
Introducing Superpower: a 42MW natural gas turbine optimized for AI datacente…
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100%
Skinny body = neurotic mind
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RT @jrfarr: From “what if” to reality
One of the most exciting things we’re working on @stripe https://t.co/nGKOI6GPfW
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https://t.co/e5NHLiVotN
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RT @dhh: "These should all be sobering numbers to any European. Whether it's the 10K/yr arrests in the UK for social media posts or the ris…
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| Dec 09 |
Okay let's try 😂👌 https://t.co/CLs0HAjt96
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✨ People liked these prompts, so I made it into a [ TikTok Carousel Generator ] photo pack / sub page so I can rank for it a bit better on Google
https://t.co/RMUktacNVq
The photo pack auto enables 🍌 Nano Banana Pro so it's a bit more expensive (5 credits vs normally 1 credit), but it lets you instantly add text overlays too, and you can change them to whatever you like
These carousels (or slideshows) are very popular and seem to do really well on TikTok to tell stories (kinda like we do here on X with a long post but more visual)
At the end of a slideshow you can actually convert users with a slide about your app or product that solves the problem told in the story
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Most European democratic nation states are much younger than the US though!
They're older if you pre-democracy as kingdoms etc
But younger than US in the modern nation state concept
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Don't throw out the baby (a federal European union) with the bath water (the corrupt and undemocratic European Commission) https://t.co/4N6NodVrIf
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An example is the state-funded Dutch broadcaster NOS, which every Dutch person reads or watches, for example my mom and dad watch the 8pm NOS news ("NOS Journaal") every night religiously
They don't and won't report bad against the EU, they won't report anything you see here on X
A few weeks ago they even went as far to leave X permanently, reasons cited that X was full of "disinformation"
Okay
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Yes, absolutely
X is the #1 news apps in most European countries
It's one of the few ways Europeans can read news and opinions from different sources than national (and EU!) funded news organizations which all the lean into the same direction and will never criticize the EU
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Because the EU is a good thing if it'd be democratic
The US is also a federal union of states and seems to work fine
Europe is much better if it's not fragmented in lots of separate countries
There's little difference between me a Dutch person or German or Spanish in modern identity, we should keep our traditions though, just like Texas has its traditions while having a federal union called the United States of America
But right now the European Union obviously does NOT function and is NOT democratic, because it's been taken over by an unelected authoritarian group of career politician cronies called the European Commission
They stole the power from the people and we have to reform the EU to take it back
Long term a federal European union of states is preferable
Especially if you want to compete with China
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🇪🇺 So good to see the world wake up to the terrors of the European Commission
I hope all the attention helps European people via their country's governments force the European Union to reform and redesign its structure to one that's actually democratic
No indirect appointment of corrupt cronies but actual democracy close to the people
It also makes no sense to have 720 members of the European Parliament, it's simply too much and makes it too inefficient
The real cancer rotting the EU from within though is the European Commission which should be disbanded and replaced with a democratic body
FYI the European Commission consists of 32,000 paid civil servants and all it does it create laws that nobody agrees with
Europeans, you should keep posting about the terrors of the European Commission and vote parties into power in your country that can put real pressure on the EU to change and reform
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RT @da_fant: EU makes more from fines on US tech, than tax from ALL of public European tech
in 2024 EU fined US tech companies €3.8B meanw…
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| Dec 08 |
A nice way to use Nano Banana Pro is to de-marketing marketing pages of hotels
Because you know the hotel won't look like this https://t.co/7cgX8CdtMu
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Anyone know how to see your History in Grok in the X iOS app? @nikitabier https://t.co/vDRdNP2nx7
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🇨🇳 I was expecting the air to be better because they said it was improved a lot with electric scooters and public transport all electric
And it was better but still bad, we're in winter now so that doesn't help
To compare like 10 years ago in China I'd see 250 AQI, now it's 100 to 150, so yes better but still unliveably bad essentially!
I hear in the spring and summer it's better
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The European Comission is unelected and increasingly acting more and more authoritarian in recent years
As Europeans, we have nothing to bring in and it's confirmed they don't listen to us
I believe in the EU but the EC is a cancer that's sadly destroying it from the inside out
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RT @FischerKing64: Americans probably don’t know the European Commission is an unelected executive body of the European Union, that also ha…
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RT @MattWalshBlog: It's an empirical fact that basically everything in our day to day lives has gotten worse over the years. The quality of…
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🇨🇳 China can be very very cheap, I'd say hotels and accomodation can be cheaper than Thailand
We had a 63rd floor Chongqing hotel suite with 2 bathrooms, 1 living room, 1 bedroom for just $300/night
Normally suites in other places easily go for $1500 and up
And I've seen other hotels with regular good rooms that go for $20 to $30/night
Food can also be very cheap, but not a lot of Western food to be fair, so you gotta be open to new flavors 😋
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🇨🇳 To show how helpful people generally are here
Here's the China Railways train lady running us through the station because we were a bit late
We arrived on time and made the train
Yeehaw 🤠 https://t.co/ZTvEocLCxw
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A great post related to this https://t.co/AwvAL1432L
China has its own local economic demand now, and it does not necessarily need Western demand to keep going https://t.co/AWqMpLEvqq
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