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Dec 12 !!!! https://t.co/qktGlyLpVD 433 8 91 133.4k 28 .
Dec 12 The blue zones are not real, they're pension fraud https://t.co/mXYP1DN3rw. https://t.co/Y7lsjzST3C 307 7 28 96.7k 100 .
Dec 12 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 311 6 38 77.6k 313 .
Dec 11 High T fixes everything 481 8 24 144.8k 23 .
Dec 11 cut* 8 0 6 13.8k 4 .
Dec 11 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 189 4 54 53.2k 152 .
Dec 11 No, creatine does not ruin your kidneys, it's debunked 426 9 59 89.5k 54 .
Dec 11 ✨ 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 [ πŸ“Ό 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 790 83 66 320.8k 613 .
Dec 11 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 2.1k 97 156 397.9k 885 .
Dec 11 No because solar energy is essentially free When you launch data centers into space your only cost is the hardware + launch 147 5 40 38.1k 124 .
Dec 11 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 134 4 34 38.8k 225 .
Dec 11 No I always book hotels or apartments with gym in the building 173 1 25 45.1k 62 .
Dec 11 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 210 6 52 47.6k 151 .
Dec 11 Anecdotal but I know way more people with knee injuries from running than weightlifting 82 0 21 27.5k 87 .
Dec 11 Seeing this damn πŸƒ leaf anywhere I instantly get PTSD something is definitely not going to be working properly Like an AC or coffee machine or anything 608 15 47 53.4k 152 .
Dec 11 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 1.5k 25 274 615.5k 385 .
Dec 11 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 240 2 72 49.6k 149 .
Dec 11 That's 10.5%/year which is the average S&P500 return over 100 years, some say 11% https://t.co/jRlY9wcAxU 37 0 8 20.2k 110 .
Dec 11 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 413 14 35 102k 281 .
Dec 11 Crazy thing about making money is if you don't spend it you just keep getting richer 3.2k 66 220 209k 84 .
Dec 11 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 564 12 58 49.2k 225 .
Dec 11 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 😊 10.2k 499 299 1.14M 1.9k .
Dec 11 They're gonna ban GTA 6 aren't they 1.4k 19 73 123.3k 35 .
Dec 11 πŸ’― 464 10 17 35.2k 1 .
Dec 10 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) 2.5k 66 126 1.01M 164 .
Dec 10 πŸ’― 493 14 19 80.8k 1 .
Dec 10 100% Skinny body = neurotic mind 1.6k 22 84 300.5k 33 .
Dec 09 https://t.co/e5NHLiVotN 75 8 19 70.7k 23 .
Dec 09 Okay let's try πŸ˜‚πŸ‘Œ https://t.co/CLs0HAjt96 377 4 92 613.7k 41 .
Dec 09 ✨ 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 282 14 27 249.4k 678 .
Dec 09 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 117 2 21 40.3k 183 .
Dec 09 Don't throw out the baby (a federal European union) with the bath water (the corrupt and undemocratic European Commission) https://t.co/4N6NodVrIf 724 28 73 72.6k 146 .
Dec 09 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 60 3 12 15.3k 400 .
Dec 09 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 588 73 48 50.3k 276 .
Dec 09 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 2k 109 334 172.6k 824 .
Dec 09 πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί 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 13.1k 2.2k 1.2k 26.49M 906 .
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 558 19 69 79.4k 151 .
Dec 08 Anyone know how to see your History in Grok in the X iOS app? @nikitabier https://t.co/vDRdNP2nx7 116 3 56 74.2k 97 .
Dec 07 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ 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 330 7 90 90.3k 385 .
Dec 07 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 3k 193 182 166.9k 280 .
Dec 07 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ 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 πŸ˜‹ 2k 136 177 2.22M 450 .
Dec 07 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ 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 1.6k 38 99 316k 217 .
Dec 07 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 76 2 11 27.2k 184 .
Dec 07 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Chinese tourism is 95% domestic: this means most of the tourists you see in China are not foreigners but just other Chinese Even if we'd visit the most tourist places in China, we'd see maybe 1 Westerner (if we're lucky) vs. 10,000 Chinese Which honestly makes it a more fun place to visit to Maybe the most fun place I visited since I became a digital nomad in 2013 I thought about WHY I liked this so much, and I think one of the reasons traveling for me as a digital nomad starting 10+ years ago was so magical, was because it was NEW and there was barely anyone doing it, like there'd be 20 other digital nomads in Chiang Mai You felt a lot like Ernest Hemmingway, traveling to far away countries, interacting with people and observing the differences in culture and learning from them But things have changed a bit. There's now 2x more people traveling in the world than 15 years ago (from 900 million to now 1.8 tourist trips per year). By 2035, that'll be 3x more Now that everyone can travel anywhere (and also bring their laptop), travel has boomed, and there's a lot less places where you're still the only foreigner visiting Even if you go to some remote non-tourist place, you're bound to run into another Dutch, German, Brit, Spanish or American traveler every 5 minutes China feels like you are the only one there, and due to geopolitics it's more isolated from the West than ever, and many Westerners are scared to visit (whether that's valid or not) This makes people also really super super nice, because you're the odd one out, and they know that, so they'll do everything to help you and be very pragmatic at that too. And they're not tired of tourists/foreigners yet, more like excited to see you (because there simply is barely any) This video is obviously a very tourist spot, but most of the non-touristy things you see in China are not crowded like this, actually more like very spacious and not busy, which also makes it a very comfortable place to visit, because other places have become so crowded with tourism and just general travel, that they're overcapacity, and it's not fun China is generally under capacity, and that makes it generally smooth to travel here (okay maybe except this tourist spot :D) This spot btw is the Hongya Cave famous for being built into the rocks and full of lights, it actually looks sick from inside too, imagine building a house in Minecraft into the rocks, very cool and full of food and shops inside the rocks (it's where I took the food video from below) 1.8k 158 142 1.69M 2.5k .
Dec 07 ✨ You can now make TikTok carousels with Photo AI! I like seeing @onlinedopamine's tips how to do TikTok/IG slideshows so I thought it'd be nice to add this He says they get way more views than videos these days and if you do them well convert well also The cool thing with Photo AI real influencers can use it to make pics with themselves in it, so it's not artificial AI characters, they can actually use it for their content Prompts: 1) model with ponytail and white cap wearing pink string bikini, in a balinese coworking studio, bamboo walls, lush tropical plants, sunlight pouring through high windows, vibrant tropical decor, wearing relaxed business attire, thoughtful expression, soft natural lighting, candid workspace vibe. text overlay: "insane things i did as a digital nomad to become a self-employed baddie" and small letters below "(from a just graduated uni student) 2) photograph of model woman in a tranquil loft, warm amber glow from dozens of flickering candles, ornate sacred symbols etched in wood and glass, TikTok text overlay: "how i actually found myself spiritually again after being lost for years" 3) low angle view of model looking down into camera as corporate girlie in sleek high‑waist navy trousers, crisp white blouse, minimalist silver necklace, in a modern glass office. soft diffused daylight filters through windows, casting gentle shadows. background of city skyline. style: polished realism with subtle cinematic depth. TikTok text overlay: "best skill to surviving corporate?" . smaller text below (from a 5+ year corporate girlie) 523 34 26 348.8k 1.6k .
Dec 07 ✨ Photo AI already supported JSON prompts But now you can [ JSONify ] your regular prompts also into JSON with one-click, for better understanding with 🍌 Nano Banana Pro Whether AI models actually like JSON more, I doubt it, but it does force people/AI to be more descriptive and specific with the photo you're trying to create Like it defines pose, clothes, expression, backgrounds etc. all very detailed 426 35 35 91.8k 408 .
Dec 06 πŸ’Œ Sending emails on https://t.co/M1hEUBB6da also works again It's a massive undertaking because Eudora from 1995 only supports port 25 but Hetzner blocks port 25 So me and @bai0 had to IPTABLES forward the port 25 in the ISP to 587 to make it work But now you can send and receive emails to web@pieter.com again 79 3 13 114.6k 314 .
Dec 06 🍌 This also works for people on Photo AI, you can essentially 🩻 X-Ray people with it: "Model presented in a high-contrast scientific studio render against a pure black void. The photo features false-color thermal X-ray aesthetic, where the transparent shell reveals a sharply detailed internal architecture of body, using a vibrant heatmap gradient. The colors shift from deep cool blues to intense yellows and red highlights, creating a futuristic, clinical look with orthographic perspective and a soft, neon-like glow." Or if you want only bones and nerves: "Keep pose. Model presented in a high-contrast scientific studio render against a pure black void. The photo shows ONLY the internal skeleton and bones and nerves of the body. The colors shift from deep cool blues to intense yellows and red highlights, creating a futuristic, clinical look with orthographic perspective and a soft, neon-like glow." 350 34 22 103.7k 912 .
Dec 06 The more upscale restaurants here do the same as Japan: the food is shown as artificial plastic dishes in front πŸ₯˜ 106 1 17 48.2k 113 .
Dec 06 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ I love how almost every restaurant in China just shows their menu as photos and some print them out massively on the wall too In the West I'm always staring at some bland text on a menu not having a clue what I will get once I order it In China you know immediately πŸ˜‹πŸ‘Œ https://t.co/cLUFpLS73v 2k 95 171 2.04M 297 .
Dec 06 🍌 You can run Nano Banana Pro with people and no restrictions with one tap on https://t.co/1vEawpIDkJ Super easy and also one of the cheapest places to run it as I sell it below cost https://t.co/xJn5i7rXpu 196 7 19 102.6k 207 .
Dec 06 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Yesterday @peacel1ghter in the replies invited us for hotpot We went to a World War 2 bomb shelter (I saw it somewhere) with hotpot inside, there's like 30 of these and it's kind of a tourist trap but this was one of the better ones Chongqing was the WW2 capital of China when the Japanese invaded, so there's a lot of bomb shelters here We ate beef stomach (tripe), pork intestines, chicken feet and lots more food in the extra oily Chongqing-style hotpot @peacel1ghter grew up in America and now lives in China so he's a great balanced source of what's really happening here The TL;DR is essentially you have to come visit China to really understand it in every context like social, cultural, economic and geopolitically and you can't believe everything you read in the West about it As I guess you can't believe everything about the West in Chinese media, same same! US and China as I said before are more similar to each other than different, both very ambitious, pragmatic and masculine cultures that both want to win in every aspect And to better understand that, going for hotpot is a great start 😊 737 17 110 550.4k 1.1k .
Dec 06 Next few days I'll be in Shanghai and Hangzhou, I'd love to visit AI and robot companies, if you work there or know anyone let me know! 562 14 105 105.2k 135 .
Dec 06 πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Ή If you're flying to Portugal from outside Europe, NEVER fly directly into Lisbon Fly into a different European airport like Amsterdam or Paris Then take an EU flight with EasyJet/RyanAir to Lisbon, that way you can skip the 3+ hour immigration queue because intra-EU flights don't have immigration checks This has been my workflow the last year or so πŸ‘Œ 7.4k 540 265 1.48M 358 .
Dec 05 It's actually described in RFC 1661 as the PPP protocol https://t.co/dETAFZASnD 10 0 2 12k 80 .
Dec 05 Try: > websocat -b wss://pieter.net/ You'll get back this: ~?}#?!}!}!} }8}"}&} } } } }#}$?'}%}&-??}!}'}"}(}"??~ Which in HEX is: ⎿  00000000: 7eff 7d23 c021 7d21 7d21 7d20 7d38 7d22 ~.}#.!}!}!} }8}" 00000010: 7d26 7d20 7d20 7d20 7d20 7d23 7d24 c227 }&} } } } }#}$.' 00000020: 7d25 7d26 937d 3fd6 a97d 277d 227d 287d }%}&.}?..}'}"}(} 00000030: 22d8 377e 0a ".7~. Decoded: 7e = PPP frame start flag (~) ff = Address field (broadcast) 7d 23 = Escaped 0x03 (Control field) - 7d means escape, 23^0x20=0x03 c0 21 = Protocol: LCP (Link Control Protocol) 7d 21 7d 21... = LCP Configure-Request packet (escaped) 7e = PPP frame end flag (~) This is the same data sent back from an ISP to a modem on a real dial up connection Just this dial up connection is via Websockets and to https://t.co/M1hEUBB6da! 14 0 2 14.4k 805 .
Dec 05 ☎️ Dial up internet is restored, I migrated it to its own domain from https://t.co/m2bzvbH0k8 to https://t.co/I1CzsNTkC5 now https://t.co/du8CG9m48m 83 5 17 88.2k 148 .
Dec 05 Baijiu η™½ι…’ has hit https://t.co/uGE1rAycEk 424 5 62 171.5k 41 .
Dec 05 Slightly less followers actually (except for Dec 1) with a girl as avatar, funny experiment πŸ˜‚ https://t.co/azwZbgCBNm 316 4 63 149k 117 .
Dec 05 Actually this is an Asian thing, generally people are happy to get feedback about their countries and culture Maybe except Indonesia, they also have a big "go home foreigner" internet army :D 144 1 11 21.7k 192 .
Dec 05 The general response from the Chinese to my honest China posts have been great To compare in Portugal I literally got hundreds of death threats for critical posts And after posting how great Spain was @ky__zo got death threats for that too I don't know what to conclude here 526 16 67 100.6k 277 .
Dec 05 You can criticize most ordinary things pretty fine actually, like me here talking about some of the infrastructure being rusty etc. Chinese also criticize it and it gets fixed, there's municipality phone numbers where you can report broken potholes etc. Regarding actual politics it's smart as a foreigner to stay the fuck out of it, which I think is common sense in most of Asia 503 8 45 82.5k 380 .
Dec 05 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Chongqing in the day without the lights honestly looks a lot different It's more gray and dare I say a lot of the buildings look quite derelict, kinda like when I visited Mongkok in Hong Kong A lot of spots need some heavy maintenance, the stairs in this square have broken tiles, the main bridge of this square that's I think at the 22nd floor and full of tourists all day has its cables and bolts rusting away, I'm not a structural engineer but looks dodgy to me I do think the lights at night are cool and impressive though but it'd be even more impressive if Chongqing would also be beautiful in the day without them One relatedd thing I noticed that many Chinese cities and stations and airports do not have a lot of trees or plants, and it makes everything look kinda cold and functional. Like compare Singapore's Changi Airport with any Chinese airport or train station, it has much more aesthetic I do know that Singapore is respected here a lot, as it is in the West, and I think in many things China can model itself after Singapore. Singapore is a strict rule based society which it needs, and China needs too, or it'd turn into chaos. And Singapore isn't perfect, but it's quite pretty and comfortable to look at aesthetic wise with plants everywhere and even on top of buildings and inside their architecture But then again maybe we're just at the start. Start with some fancy lights, and then start cleaning up the city and doing more maintenance I feel China is great at rapidly building new stuff out of the ground but then I don't see them maintaining it so well. In Chongqing particularly, I see so many things rusting or chipped and broken and it shouldn't be like that I think Chengdu felt much better maintained, I wonder why? Another thing is I see is that you don't see this stuff on YouTube Shorts or TikTok because it's short videos and then the fancy lights get easy views (like my video below of course too!) because you don't need to show many of the details 1.1k 43 211 406.7k 2k .
Dec 05 A lot of posts now that I'm some paid China shill Of course to be expected if you travel to China But I'm already rich, I'm not paid to be here, I just like to travel and tell my stories like I did the last 10+ years! 173 2 16 22.7k 219 .
Dec 05 The true beauty of Florence in 2025 https://t.co/8RO3BDvY8t 286 2 31 151.4k 59 .
Dec 04 I just dislike many in West always measuring China with a different ruler than for example Japan If Japan has lights, omg it's soooo futuristic UwU If China has lights, it's a waste of energy, light pollution and unhealthy It's so intellectually dishonest https://t.co/wW3WAY8B6C 5.1k 318 366 439k 282 .
Dec 04 I want to classify replies like these as "extreme naivety with good intentions" You know that every train ticket you buy in the West is directly tied to your payment and with that you? The Visa/MasterCard system is essentially a co-op with gov and they know exactly where you are, where you go, what you buy and what you do at all times if they want Not that I think that's good at all btw, I think the gov shouldn't know much at all, but you can't act all superior about China when we pretty much do the exact same 1.1k 33 96 125.5k 518 .
Dec 04 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Arriving in Chongqing is craaaazy, they designed it well so you drive into the city from the airport immediately seeing the crazy lit up skyline They just put a LED strip on literally every edge or line or road in the city and lit it up It's so funny seeing Europe try to save the climate by using less energy when obviously China could not give any less fucks (as they should) and just spends more and more energy (because they know to develop society you have to spend energy, as the Kardashev Scale describes) 5.2k 337 360 2.12M 517 .
Dec 04 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Many people don't know this but Chinese high speed trains are now the fastest in the word and officially faster than even the πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japanese Shinkansen Chinese trains go 350-400km/h (217-250mph) depending on the model While the Japanese Shinkansen goes 320km/h (200mph) max So I went to try it from Chengdu to Chongqing (just $80 for biz class) This one is the slightly older 350km/h model The business class cabin has 5 big seats that can lay flat with a stewardess dedicated to the cabin who serves you drinks like coffee, water, orange juice etc. I guess if it's a longer trip you probably get food served too The journey was very smooth and very fast, it maintained close to 350km/h at all times and there wasn't many stops or breaks (good) It didn't have WiFi, which is kind of a miss but it seems Chinese just use 5G for everything which worked fine for me without interrruption too I'd say the interior could be a bit more beautiful and modern. I usually say things in Japan look ancient but I think the Shinkansen interior there looks a bit more modern than here The trip took 1 hour and it passed about 300km in that time, roughly equivalent to the width of my country the Netherlands πŸ˜‚ Anyway solid experience (and cheap!) πŸ‘ 1k 60 101 2.01M 1.2k .
Dec 04 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ πŸš†I took the high speed train in China today We booked business class tickets, which was relatively cheap, just $90 for 3.5 hours You could get 2nd class tickets for just $20 by the way Also this train is the fastest train in the world now, faster than Japan's Shinkansen that I took a week ago Here is the business class lounge, it's a special entrance at the station with its own security, and free coffee and snacks, it does have a bit of a 1970 North Korea aesthetic which you honestly don't see here a lot, everything is modern. I think because the train company is state owned? But then the station itself does look hypermodern, any Chinese know why? Of course the video starts with a cough πŸ˜ŠπŸ‘Œ Today was a bit of an ordeal, we went to the station before, we didn't get tickets because there's so many "official" restrictions on luggage and we already lost so many things (like powerbanks), and gf was understandably scared to lose more stuff So we thought we'd first try enter the station and pass security and if we got through fine then by tickets on Trip app But then the Didi driver drove us to the dodgiest entrance of the station called West Squate (not the most popular one) where it was a crowd of ppl trying to enter, we were stopped and couldn't enter and the old man started yelling Chinese at us A group of Thai behind us were also yelled to leave by him So then we and the Thai were outside We then discovered it was because you need a ticket to enter the station in the first place, which again is pretty unique to China In Japan, you just walk in, buy a ticket 20min before and board, not in China Anyway a lot of lessons learnt again today, and that's why traveling in China is hard but also fun, but once you get it it's actually easier than abroad, like there's no train tickets at all, not even digital! You just scan your passport as it's all tied to your ID Very cool 857 65 127 652.4k 1.9k .
Dec 04 πŸ’Ύ https://t.co/M1hEUBB6da now has a persistent file system that syncs locally to yours @bai0 worked his crazy magic and added IDBFS and you can try it here https://t.co/UqGTWmUXAZ (the progress bar doesn't work yet so check your network tab, it should pull the 300mb drive in first and then boot) Now whatever you do on the computer, is saved forever via IndexedDB locally in your browser, even after closing the tab/browser And then when you come back, it'll be in the same state (at least file wise), so you can play Command & Conquer for example, and come back later and continue where you were, or write documents, send emails, browse the web, add bookmarks etc and everything stays persistent It's crazy to me this works because this builds a virtual JavaScript bridge between a DOS FAT16 emulated drive and IndexedDB running in the browser, it's just as crazy as the virtual modem that dials up via a fake COM 1 port that's then routed via Websockets to a PPP daemon It's still beta and for me it somehow nuked c:\windows\system.ini, but it did save the image file at c:\docs\fstest.bmp so it's a good start 😊 Let me know if it works (or not) 80 5 11 80.9k 1.2k .
Dec 03 If a @waymo gets dirty, it detects it with cameras and sensors and drives back to get itself cleaned And probably, the previous customer who made them dirty isn't going to get another ride again 789 14 58 819.4k 195 .
Dec 03 Ride hailing must be the first industry where the robot experience is now not just equal but highly superior to the human experience Ubers have become smelly, dirty and low quality, esp in Europe but not just I have friends who don't let their teen kids take Ubers, makes sense My Uber in SF was reeking of urine, my Uber in Amsterdam tried to fight me and my Uber in Portugal bragged he didn't sleep for 32 hours, and I have 100s more Uber stories like this Pre-Uber around 2010, I remember filing a complaint because the taxi driver in Amsterdam forced me to tip and when I didn't, he became violent and then actively reversed into me I'm so happy there's now a viable replacement that lets you transport yourself around a city in a comfortable, clean and most of all safe way Amazing work @Waymo 1.8k 51 126 255.2k 804 .
Dec 03 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ DHL China delivery guy came by to ship the Japanese kitchen knife to Europe and rejected it as he said it would get confiscated by Chinese customs even going outside of China We had help from the Chinese hotel staff and it was impossible So last thing we'll try is flying with it as check-in luggage Which went fine flying Beijing to Chengdu btw eventhough it seems also banned the airline woman let us through I feel they've made this way way way too difficult, you gotta leave shipping as the alternative and they don't Maybe cause they use πŸ₯’ chopsticks mostly? inb4 racis Anyway NEVER EVER bring a knife to China FYI!!!! 255 8 88 635.7k 632 .
Dec 03 He's so productive, really good to see An acquisition marketplace that actually works and is nice to use (unlike that one that forces you into low multiples) would be a great addition to the world And it's a great business to be in too Brokers usually take 5-15% in sales price as commission Marc should undercut that, maybe go 0% first to get traction 1.1k 28 73 230.7k 356 .
Dec 03 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Thanks for the tips Shun Fong Express and the Chinese train company consigment both denied it because the knife as a whole is >15cm So I think we're out of luck Maybe we can ship it OUT of the country back to Europe with FedEx though Even the domestic airlines ban knives from check-in luggage! Anyway good lesson here: never ever buy a kitchen knife and think you're gonna travel with it in China, our hotel guy said Chinese never ever do this either cause they know how strict it is here 201 3 43 273k 497 .
Dec 03 Honestly it reminded me of COVID in intensity a bit 50 2 8 20.8k 51 .
Dec 03 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ We want to take the high speed train in China The problem is we bought this kitchen knife in Japan (not the smartest decision of my life), which was fine to fly into China with btw, but you can't take it in your luggage in the subway or trains as they're hyper strict You can't even have a mini scissor in your suitcase! What's worse is China leaves you with no options here, because you can also not really ship it domestically, unless you are a Chinese business yourself and it's a commercial shipment and then you still have to do a lot of negotiation in Chinese I wonder how Chinese do this, they just buy mini scissors and nail clippers again in every city they go by high speed train? If you thought TSA security was strict you have not experienced China's train security πŸ˜„πŸ‘Œ P.S. I get the rules, you just gotta make sure there's then an alternative to get your things to the next city in another way 528 13 93 339.1k 915 .
Dec 03 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³πŸ₯΅ This China flu was hardcore af Days of sweating, especially night sweating (absolutely the worst), then showering to cool down or heat up, and fever kept going away coming back but it's finally finished now and I feel good again, yeeehaw 🀠 Some people said when they come to China after a year away or so, they always get sick the first few weeks as they have their own localized flu strains, big if true Definitely recommend wearing an N95 mask if you just enter China and go on planes at least during boarding because a lot of people are coughing and they don't wear masks so odds you catch something is high I think Comparatively: we were in Japan for weeks just before China, there was lots of coughing there too, but they all wore masks so I didn't get sick Now the China video posting shall continue.... 220 8 42 319.2k 819 .
Dec 01 people* omg 24 2 4 111.8k 11 .
Dec 01 Something about traveling makes my views and follows explode every single time We started traveling to Asia on November 6 I guess I'm more boring when I'm at home and when I travel my brain gets stimulated by whatever I observe https://t.co/oEFez9HpDk 708 9 149 181.9k 253 .
Dec 01 OK 🀝 https://t.co/UjqxS14tED 19.7k 150 600 7.06M 28 .
Dec 01 And peoole say X doesn't have discoverability It does! 294 9 36 342.1k 55 .
Nov 30 This is the way to go Instead of changing to shitty alternatives like paper straws, wooden cutlery, and cassava bags that disintegrate and are all inferior to plastic You gotta make something that's good for the environment AND as good or better than plastic (cheap and strong) Also bacteria that break down plastic seems to be promising That's why I hate the performative eco stuff, it makes our lives worse when instead we should be looking at making our lives better while caring for the environment And you do that by inventing new technology instead of limiting the AC and making us suck through paper straws 939 30 74 315.9k 618 .
Nov 30 Even the socialist mayor of New York City is cutting regulation 9.2k 305 142 987.5k 63 .
Nov 30 Does somebody work at Taobao? I'm locked out of my account and already did all the verification steps and passport etc. but can't get it to work :O 209 3 64 123.4k 147 .
Nov 29 Is Vietnamese Pho just Chinese beef noodles or are Chinese beef noodles just Vietnamese Pho??? https://t.co/A3qg8x24qn 490 10 264 249.6k 118 .
Nov 29 Not at all anymore in 2025 I was in Beijing in 2009 (so like 16 years ago) backpacking Everyone was clearing their throat and spitting everywhere We saw ONE old guy do that IN the mall this week actually But it's mostly the old generation like I'd say 70 years and up 440 9 59 139.9k 272 .
Nov 29 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ 🀧 Aiaiaiai I got the China cough, runny nose and mini flu after 4 days in China One benefit of Japan was (where I noticed a lot of people coughing too) that they wear masks when they're sick so they don't really spread it Not so much here, it's not really the culture I think Lots of coughing everywhere and I guess immune wasn't so strong from all the flying! 440 7 87 316.7k 366 .
Nov 29 I meant to ask about "Japan bashing" Obvi Asia works harder 18 0 3 36k 60 .
Nov 29 Related this week it came out Luckin is trying to buy Costa https://t.co/A4jed2fCeF 22 1 5 30.5k 84 .
Nov 29 Ok I knew about Bezos wife and Gates wife obviously but the rest? 296 2 12 40.1k 65 .
Nov 29 @grok is this true (in 70s and 80s) 90 1 23 139.4k 35 .
Nov 29 Rich BigTech wives destabilizing society from 2016 to 2023 via giant donations to NGOs was not on my bingo card 9.6k 868 135 948k 111 .
Nov 28 So well made and fun https://t.co/ajnmd7lyB2 Of course I love the 3d computer, now I need to improve my https://t.co/GGhB9z2Ksz too to make it pretty like this 😊 https://t.co/6Epqzhi7QP 943 35 18 431.8k 187 .
Nov 28 I'm so happy AI models still sometimes produce stuff like this I know @yongfook was always a big fan of these πŸ˜† https://t.co/1H8e1TplQB 176 2 40 108.5k 136 .
Nov 28 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ The DJI store in China is called DJI Hasselblad "Hasselblad was a Swedish manufacturer of medium format cameras, photographic equipment and image scanners based in Gothenburg, Sweden" They made the cameras used to fill the πŸŒ– Moon landing and lots of Hollywood movies Anyway from 2015-2017 drone and camera maker DJI bought Hasselblad And now they use that name in China (and in the London store I checked) Another example is Volvo which was bought by Geely, a Chinese car producer It's kinda similar to what happened in the 1980s with many American brands being bought up the Japanese like 7/11, Columbia Pictures, etc 2k 155 133 1.65M 629 .
Nov 28 I like this vlogging in China and I hope you like it too What do you want to see more of that I can show you? Someone said the Sesame credit score thing for ex 353 3 129 51.3k 161 .
Nov 28 This one came out great I actually looked like this around 2001 https://t.co/x4f9zL0BtA 317 2 36 232.8k 88 .
Nov 28 Honest answer: I think just competing with them on the same things like cost and quality and brand as Western brands always did The Luckin example is one where you see a 3x cheaper competitor quickly takes the market from Starbucks though Western brands might be too expensive (especially if tarrifs are involved) 133 9 32 88.1k 315 .
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