Society

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2026

17 Jul Good guy Google removes 151 to 200 reviews from kebap haus due to defamation complaints 𝕏
17 Jul Google Maps in Germany now shows defamation complaint amounts, so here's a calculator to find a place's real rating
14 Jul How they want you to live tiny windows no AC vegan food nonstop work and medication 𝕏
7 Jul One more week to escape the underclass 𝕏
1 Jul Foreign funding is behind the degrowth movement in Europe 𝕏
29 Jun Degrowth killed 250,000 people by avoiding ACs in Europe 𝕏
26 Jun Degrowthers are literally opposed to life 𝕏
25 Jun Bus driver in France crashes after fainting from heat with no AC 𝕏
25 Jun How did AC become the political battleground of choice in Europe 𝕏
24 Jun Europeans will ignore anti-AC rules and buy air conditioners in 2027 𝕏
16 Jun America still has post offices unlike most of Europe 𝕏
29 May Luxury brands like Rimowa and LVMH are mostly a scam 𝕏
28 May EU AI fund is all cronyism and taxpayer money burnt 𝕏
28 May Western Europe is so fucking tiring 𝕏
27 May Hotel in the Netherlands sets AC minimum at 23°C and locks windows for security 𝕏
26 May My friend's Lisbon office got burglarized and Portuguese police refused to recover his Airtagged Apple display 𝕏
21 May Luxury products are really just meant for poor people to fake they're rich 𝕏
17 May Barcelona has drug dens and violent crime in El Raval that Google Maps won't show 𝕏
17 May Hoodmaps.com now has crime data 𝕏
15 May Ignoring mind viruses leads to a slippery slope of meat allergies from engineered ticks 𝕏
9 May Most EV chargers in Portugal are out of service thanks to EU subsidies 𝕏
5 May My gf banned from reviewing places on Google Maps in Europe after one 1-star review 𝕏
16 Apr Europeans are all captivated by the mind virus 𝕏
5 Apr Tech insiders avoid touchscreens and smart homes because they know the downsides 𝕏
2 Apr Brazil's CPF catch-22 makes booking hotels impossible for tourists 𝕏
1 Apr April fool's pizzas in US are real pizzas in Brazil 𝕏
30 Mar Why Portuguese businesses don't want more customers or to grow 𝕏
28 Mar Give us more data to make sure it's you after we've been breached 𝕏
27 Mar Argentinean meat is one of the worst in the world now 𝕏
14 Mar European governments reject net positive Italian brazilians but welcome culture destroying immigrants 𝕏
9 Feb Things in your house slowly poisoning you and what to change them to 𝕏
5 Feb My dad the cardiologist got free family holidays from Pfizer to prescribe their drugs 𝕏
4 Feb My friend on SSRIs tried to convince me I have generational trauma 𝕏
3 Feb EU countries are now trying to censor speech on social media nationally after DSA failed 𝕏
2 Feb You absolutely cannot trust Germans with nukes 𝕏
2 Feb I'm so done with real estate agents 𝕏
20 Jan Europe's tax system discourages hard work and new businesses 𝕏
15 Jan The era of fake e-girl influencers has started 𝕏
12 Jan Women are most attracted to men who believe in astrology 𝕏
4 Jan Luxury is absolutely done in the West but still exists in Asia and the Gulf states 𝕏
3 Jan Map of South America as the United States of Amazonia 𝕏

2025

23 Dec I glued an AirTag to a yogurt box to track if recycling is real 𝕏
23 Dec The oceans are full of plastic exactly because you recycle 𝕏
15 Dec Sergey Brin got so bored of his $450M yacht he had to create things again 𝕏
14 Dec Why Koreans didn't get richer 𝕏
13 Dec The EU is in control of what you see online thanks to the Digital Services Act 𝕏
11 Dec Advice i give 5 minutes after meeting somebody new 𝕏
9 Dec The European Commission is the cancer rotting the EU from within 𝕏
7 Dec Chinese tourism is 95% domestic making China feel like the only foreigner there 𝕏
6 Dec Restaurants in China show their menus as photos on the wall 𝕏
5 Dec Chongqing looks gray and derelict without its night lights and needs better maintenance 𝕏
4 Dec Arriving in Chongqing and China's LED lit skyline versus Europe saving energy 𝕏
4 Dec Western double standards on China versus Japan city lights 𝕏
29 Nov Rich BigTech wives destabilizing society from 2016 to 2023 via giant NGO donations 𝕏
28 Nov Chinese brands replacing Western brands in China 𝕏
28 Nov Rentable powerbanks in China scan with Alipay but would get stolen in US or Europe 𝕏
28 Nov Western people used in Chinese marketing to represent quality 𝕏
28 Nov We've literally just lost power in Europe 𝕏
27 Nov The Russian connection in China doesn't stop 𝕏
26 Nov Russians are traveling to China a lot because they're blocked from most places 𝕏
17 Nov Only the US and China have actual substantial startup activity now 𝕏
13 Nov EU ChatControl is back with even more far reaching surveillance through the back door 𝕏
10 Nov Singapore too is now compromised by degrowthers 𝕏
28 Sep Counter-law to let all European citizens read any EU politician's chats 𝕏
24 Sep CdK Podcast: A brutal foreigner's view on Portugal
18 Sep It turns out Mark Manson was mostly right about Brazil 𝕏
11 Jul Europe must stop restricting air conditioning or heat deaths will hit 500,000 per year 𝕏
6 Jul Chinese pigs are treated better than the average European 𝕏
6 Jul Spain's meteorological agency says healthy people should not use air conditioning 𝕏
5 Jul Silence is high IQ 𝕏
4 Jul More Europeans die from heat than Americans from shootings 𝕏
2 Jul My friend lives in a tent in his house in Portugal because neighbors ban real AC 𝕏
17 Jun South Asian immigrants in Portugal game welfare for passports and EU access 𝕏
26 Apr The only thing young people in Southern Europe can do is drink and smoke 𝕏
9 Apr So Trump is vibe presidenting 𝕏
3 Apr Europe is cooked as Italy bans AC below 26°c 𝕏
28 Mar Being an entrepreneur now has more job security than a job 𝕏
25 Mar What ChatGPT says the devil would do to keep an entire nation sick 𝕏
16 Feb Man investigated after calling German vice-chancellor ‘idiot’ 𝕏
29 Jan We need a federal union of Europe to compete with US and China 𝕏
26 Jan Europeans have collective memory loss from just 35 years ago 𝕏
19 Jan Dating apps don't work in 2025 so meet people through hobbies and friends 𝕏
17 Jan Meeting Bryan Johnson at Din Tai Fung and his don't die health cult 𝕏
12 Jan Make Europe great again 𝕏
11 Jan Europe slowly realizing it's losing the last control it had on the world with ignored censorship requests 𝕏
9 Jan The Brazilian real currency should be on crypto exchanges because it's the biggest shitcoin ever 𝕏

2024

22 Dec A tractor is a great parallel to AI because it helps people do their work easier and faster 𝕏
19 Dec Renting saves you money over buying if you own the house for less than 15 years 𝕏
14 Dec Europe is ruled by rich nepotist families and unelected corporatist cronies killing startups 𝕏
9 Dec I got 1 billion views on X in the last 12 months 𝕏
8 Dec I put an AirTag in my plastic recycling to see if it actually gets recycled 𝕏
2 Dec OnlyFans just hacked basic human biology 𝕏
24 Nov Europe's end game might be to become like Japan a cheap tourist destination 𝕏
6 Oct Macron warns EU has only 2 or 3 years before total US and China dominance 𝕏
5 Oct The poor get free gov money the rich avoid taxes and the middle class gets rekt 𝕏
2 Oct Surround yourself with builders not talkers 𝕏
30 Sep Travel and fitness are two of the most important things you can do for your brain 𝕏
26 Sep Sam Altman will give himself 7% of OpenAI worth $10.5B 𝕏
23 Sep Nomad List is one of the first network states 𝕏
22 Sep Fireside chat with Balaji Srinivasan at Network State Conference 2024
16 Sep Thierry Breton resigns after EU AI Act and DSA criticism 𝕏
8 Aug I only wear Alo Yoga shorts but they are made from polyester that disrupts your endocrine system 𝕏
8 Aug Someone needs to invent cotton yoga shorts 𝕏
6 Aug Europe's governments made energy expensive on purpose to stop you from using it 𝕏
5 Aug Could air conditioning explain why more top US companies were founded after 1950 than in the EU? 𝕏
5 Aug If you wanna get rich install AC 𝕏
9 Jul If cars were invented today the European Union would have regulated them out of existence in favor of horses 𝕏
7 Jul Imagine traveling to Europe to spend your hard-earned money and getting sprayed with water guns by degrowth protesters 𝕏
5 Jul American restaurants kick you out after one meal unlike Europe 𝕏
4 Jul Japan is not futuristic it's a fossil stuck in 1990 unlike China Korea and Vietnam 𝕏
24 Jun Everything in Europe comes from Germany and everything in Germany comes from China 𝕏
17 Jun Degrowth propaganda is everywhere you look now 𝕏
19 May US bans Chinese companies after they become market leaders 𝕏
17 May The euro kinda destroyed southern Europe's economies 𝕏
14 May EU company landscape is run by dinosaurs founded 50 years before US ones 𝕏
14 May My first interaction with a WIRED journalist 10 years ago 𝕏
5 May New York City was founded by the Dutch as New Amsterdam 400 years ago 𝕏
29 Apr Most Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has become 𝕏
7 Apr South America uses remote security people and doormen 𝕏
21 Mar Got scammed with the extra zero trick at Órale Juanito Palermo in Buenos Aires 𝕏
10 Mar British people are now the 2nd most miserable people in the world 𝕏

2023

9 Dec There are more regulators in this room than AI scientists in all of EU 𝕏
2 Dec You're just lucky 𝕏
1 Nov Nestle's Nesquik gets nutri-score a from EU Commission and WHO 𝕏
5 Oct If i was 18 today i’d skip uni and go nomad building startups 𝕏
6 Sep Why national postal services are so bad at delivering packages and Amazon is so good 𝕏
24 Aug Office trends cycle every 7 years from cubicles to open offices and back 𝕏
2 Aug Why fold into wall beds never became a big thing 𝕏
29 Jul $1,000,000 mortgage costs $2,217,160 total with interest 𝕏
13 Jul Luxury restaurant in Portugal won't accept Visa or MasterCard but barefoot food cart guy in Brazil does 𝕏
13 Jul MacBook adaptor costs $220 in Brazil instead of $99 due to import taxes 𝕏
13 Jul Portuguese have a weird love/hate obsession with Brazil 𝕏
29 Jun Aspartame is proven to cause cancer in soda drinks 𝕏
24 Jun Wagner coup is like when you hire a web dev and give GitHub access and he takes over your site 𝕏
22 Jun Almost nobody I know in Asia wants to move to America anymore 𝕏
17 Jun While the EU fights about nuclear energy China plans 150 new reactors 𝕏
5 Jun US flag stripes come from Indonesia's Majapahit empire 𝕏
4 Jun Drinking alcohol negatively affects the liver and leads to fatty liver called cirrhosis 𝕏
20 May Thailand is a third world country 𝕏
14 May Only losers go to networking events 𝕏
5 Mar We need more makers less coaches 𝕏
11 Feb Digital nomads you are fucking disgusting graffiti in Portugal 𝕏

2022

29 Dec Airbnb hosts with strict rules and deposits versus easy hotels 𝕏
2 Dec Indonesia makes sex outside marriage illegal even in Bali while Thailand gets more progressive 𝕏
19 Aug Non-alcohol socializing will be a big industry as people drink less alcohol now and in the future 𝕏
31 Jul Edgy opinions that will be mainstream within 10 years 𝕏
5 Jul The secret of Portugal is to leave Lisbon as fast as possible 𝕏
6 Jun European sign calls remote workers a plague and tells them to leave 𝕏
16 Apr Flying is so stressful it's not a luxury product anymore 𝕏
28 Mar How to avoid microplastics 𝕏
24 Feb I just became a supporter of Ukraine's army for $1,000/mo 𝕏
21 Feb EU will require all job postings to show a salary range from August 𝕏
7 Feb A crazy thing I realized about people more and less successful than you 𝕏
25 Jan A corner office in 2002 vs 2022 𝕏
11 Jan What advertising wants you to think makes you happy 𝕏

2021

15 Dec If you have $100,000 in savings you're losing $2,000 per month from inflation 𝕏
23 Nov Web4 will be finally closing our computer and going outside 𝕏
9 Oct The more I learn the less advice I want to give 𝕏
6 Oct Rich and anonymous is the new rich and famous 𝕏
26 Jun 3 of my close friends were hacked this month because they didn't have 2FA 𝕏
25 Mar Why I'm unreachable and maybe you should be too
8 Mar Why coliving economics still don't make sense
14 Feb Inflation Chart: the stock market adjusted for the US-dollar money supply

2020

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2018

5 Dec Why is our entire society built around the idea that sleep literally doesn't matter? 𝕏
23 Nov Beijing air turned into hell on earth this weekend from weekend driving 𝕏
19 Nov Beijing today 𝕏
18 Nov The foundations of geopolitics by Aleksandr Dugin describes our current world with scary accuracy 𝕏
2 Sep The more religious a country, the less productive it is 𝕏
18 Aug Why Europe can't do tech: low risk tolerance chart 𝕏
11 Aug Top 5 regrets before death 𝕏
29 Jul Internet speed vs murder rate 𝕏
18 Jul The internet complains about facebook selling data but wants indie apps for free 𝕏
14 Jul The first trillion dollar company is Norway's oil fund 𝕏
8 Jun You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together 𝕏
23 May Blocked by a member of the European Parliament 𝕏
7 Apr Sitting in traffic each morning to stare at a screen for 40 years is capitalism's greatest con 𝕏
1 Apr People forget how much advantage you have in 2018 as an indie business 𝕏
6 Mar Brazil hackers built an AI bot that finds anomalies in public spending 𝕏
2 Jan Money should buy freedom from employment not Bentley cars and Rolex watches 𝕏

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2012

30 Dec Unless the job itself is your dream, stay the fuck away from salaried jobs
30 Nov Success is One Big Hoax
18 Oct The death of the corporate drone
13 Oct The West's unemployment problem is permanent
5 Jul I love minimalist living
19 Jun Today is the first day of the rest of your life
17 Jun Happiness maximization vs. profit maximization
16 Jun Music genres are dead