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@GermanSimply_ This is stupid as it depends on the dialect. Germany was the unification of many regions with varying cultures and languages. Languages evolve and change. Some regional accents absolutely pronounce it differently. In many German dialects you're correct, but in many others not.

Every German learner mispronounces this. And almost nobody corrects them. Words ending in -𝗶𝗴: 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘨. 𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘨. 𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘨. 𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨. 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘨. Every beginner pronounces the ending as -ig. Like the English word "big." That is wrong. In Standard German, -ig at the end of a word is pronounced -ich. The soft CH sound. The one from 𝘪𝘤𝘩. 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘨 - RIKH-tikh ✅ 𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘨 - FER-tikh ✅ 𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘨 - VIKH-tikh ✅ Not RIKH-tig. Not FER-tig. One pronunciation rule. Hundreds of German adjectives corrected instantly. Native speakers hear this immediately. Now you know what they hear. 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆 🇩🇪

@barnc0re Damn this is interesting. You certainly are on the bleeding edge of all these ai changes. Thanks for sharing dude.

For anyone using AI in their trading research who hasn't seen this yet, there's this new-ish workflow concept/idea called "Karpathy's Wiki" that's worth knowing about... Basically instead of the RAG-style of AI digging through your documents from scratch every time you ask a question (how NotebookLM or ChatGPT work when you upload files to them), you feed an agent your docs once and it builds + maintains a structured interlinked Obsidian vault out of them. New docs don't just get dropped in as files, the AI actually writes & updates existing pages in its own words with new info and re-links related concepts as it goes. Then you query the vault, not the raw docs. It adds, self-edits, consolidates, and can even scan the whole vault for contradictions and stale claims. So it ends up being this living breathing Obsidian vault that evolves & compounds over time as you feed it more knowledge. For trading the use-case kind of jumps out i reckon. Most of us have years of fragmented stuff (research notes, MT posts, journal reflections, spreadsheets, screenshots, transcripts, saved articles) sitting in folders and bookmarks doing nothing. This is a way to wire it together into something you can actually pull on. Could be really useful for structuring all the trading research you accumulate into an integrated actionable strategy, or catching where your methodology has drifted or contradicted itself over time. Haven't built one for trading yet (i just found it), but planning to. Sharing in case it lights a bulb for anyone else 💡 (i'll put the resources in the comments)

@hispanicnomad Africa is even more fun. It's unnerving coming from a functioning orderly rules based system. But once you learn to navigate the chaos, you adapt and it becomes fun.. liberating even. Then going back to Europe seems stifling. Both have their pros and cons!

Things that are completely normal in Latin America and would cause a national crisis in Europe: ✅ Paying a doctor in cash and walking out in 20 minutes ✅ Building a second floor on your house without telling anyone ✅ Negotiating the price of literally anything ✅ A business being run entirely through WhatsApp (this particularly pains me as a web designer!) ✅ Power going out for two hours and nobody filing a complaint ✅ Showing up to someone's house unannounced and being fed a full meal ✅ Fixing a car with parts from three different decades ✅ A government office being closed because the person who has the key is running late (although this happens in Spain too) ✅ Starting a meeting 40 minutes late and nobody mentions it ✅ A family of five on one motorcycle, helmets optional Look, Europe has been optimized for systems... and Latin America has been optimized for people Both approaches have obvious failure modes... but I know which one I like the most

@CryptoJGeorge @Albert_618 You thinking of moving?

@Albert_618 Swiss wants 10 mill of what?

Maybe nothing but… Hmmmmmm

@hispanicnomad One thing I never understood is that if you don't want anyone to park in front of your drive way you need to apply and pay for a Vado. Yet if you don't pay to get one then anyone can park there and block you in.

Let me tell you a funny story about Spanish bureaucracy 🇪🇸 In most "big" cities, the government has decided that we can't freely park our car on the street. That's f*scist or something So, in my parents' street, now you need a permit in order to park. Which I don't have because I don't live there anymore BUT Cops are so incompetent, people keep parking there as usual... And the police just shrugs and tells you, "what are we going to do, fine them?" So this is yet another case of incompetence saving us from the government's crushing bureaucracy

@melovemoney1 Very impressive man, good to see you thriving.

Month 4 Report: + $51,000 (8% return) Month 1 + $70,000 (9% return) Month 2 + $50,000 (6% return) Month 3 + $24,000 (5% return) Month 4 + $51,000 (8% return) 4 Month total: + $194,000 with about 7% return on capital deployed Originally was going to wait and just do a quarterly and final 6 month report at the 6 month mark, but I've had trouble purely playing HTF like I planned I've improved, I'm not micro managing my HTF stuff as much, but playing purely HTF and touching nothing is too boring for me - I need to be somewhat active in my HTF trades is what I'm learning (for now) I picked up on my LTF\MTF trading this month and pulled another +$10,000 there, but I'm not including in this report bc this is just my HTF spot account (purely buying spot on bullish assets) That is exciting because my LTF trading account has less than 5% of the funds of my HTF spot account, so the return there was over 10% on the month - I will be doing more and more ltf\mtf trading with more capital soon Had more than half my HTF capital sidelined this month...much of profits came from swing on oil which I'm now out of Starting to slowly load up on some metals Expecting May to possibly be a lower profit month with June being a potential higher profit month, but need to see more PA in the metals space Metals\energy continue to be my main HTF focus or my spot, although I am working in other plays Shout to the people I have learned from (either with a mentorship or watching a lot of their content) in the order I found them\studied them: @Moneytaur_ - wouldn't be in trading without him - my introduction to real trading, taught me too much to list @ChainHubCT - same - first person I hired to learn Taur @MoneyTaura - same - second person I hired just to learn deeper Taur stuff @venture_charts - most responsible for getting me to look outside of crypto, intro'ing me to time cycles and a unique way to look at charts, taught me too much to list @Larskooistra_ - intro'd me to wyckoff\liquidity\ranges @mr_abundance_ - my connector, my psychologist - taught me too much to list - Mr A brought everything together for me that I learned and added quite a few key things @Trader_Vantage & @Albert_618 (Vantage currently helping me with advanced MS\POIs\liquidity and I'm starting to lurk on 618er stream replays and learning some good stuff from Albert) This is my team so far All people you should follow & study - these have been the most important people in my journey and have taught me 99% of what I know I have one other person I want to learn from and am just starting with @BraveFutura - his first 30 mins of content has already impressed me, and I'm excited to learn more from him After Brave (within the next 3-6 months) I will cut the studying way down and be wayyy more actively trading (hence moving capital from HTF account to LTF\MTF trading) 3-6 months away from having a unique system of my own based off the above people who I will always give credit to, without them this wouldn't be possible

@renideas @ZoeGutier It's amazing how people are so conditioned to feel an emotional response to this without thinking it through. Yet they are blind to the fact that in many western countries bankers have pushed the financialisation of property to the point it's unaffordable for the common person.

@ZoeGutier Cuanto falta para que la gente se de cuenta que es mejor no tener expectativas de hacer negocio con bienes raíces Hacer negocio con la vivienda no es bueno para la sociedad.

Piso en la costa de Alicante. Alquilado a 800€, comunidad incluida. Precio de mercado: 1.500€ + 180€ de comunidad. Le regalamos al inquilino 880€ cada mes. Durante 4 años. 42.000€ de favor. Mi abuelo fall3ce y queremos vender. Hay cláusula de rescisión. Avisamos con 30 días y listo. Le decimos: —Activamos la cláusula. En un mes tienes que salir. —Sin problema. 2 días después nos dice lo siguiente 👇👇

@MoneyTaura Ha.. and here I am training the algo by clicking on dad jokes

The moment I open and read any post that hooked my interest next thing my feed is full of similar spins. The variety disappears. I am watching only a trickle of same info from different accounts. If I wanted to see more I would go and search for more. I feel flooded and overwhelmed with the same stuff. Brain is rotting even faster with the amount of post shown + all the same = making you scroll even more killing even more brain cells.

Why has X become so much like other SM platforms with their suggested posts? If I wanted to see the same news over and over I wouldn’t be on X - I’d go to the lousy FB and IG where I am fed one same tendentious feed. Here I expect and want to see a variety of content from all over the niches. Not be stuck in one bubble. It is really is annoying and starting to make me dislike X more and more.

@hispanicnomad Asturias is great. A hidden part of the world with wonderful people, amazing food, rugged beaches, gentle rolling hills with cattle and snow capped mountains. It's actually a lot like New Zealand.

Most people think of Spain 🇪🇸 and immediately picture: - Sevillanas - Paella - Toros - Sun & siesta - Marbella What if I told you that there's a WHOLE DIFFERENT side to the country... That can compete in beauty with the Alps? I'm going to Asturias, my favorite spot in the country, this weekend Really can't wait

@Sergio94891245 @Moneytaur_ Good thing it doesnt rain too much. Calima + rain = everything dirty AF!

@Moneytaur_ Unfortunately, we're having a bit of a "calima" right now. You did well to go up there, where it's cooler. But it should pass in the next few days. So you can go down to the beach and get some sun. Go to Los Gigantes, it's beautiful.

Mars, on earth.

@Albert_618 Anyone else see the volume on the current 3D candle on USDC.D?

USDT.D demand at 6.38% USDC.D demand at 2.76% Weekly Doubletop… lose the lows I could imagine the numbers I mentioned are important.

@CocaColaKid_OG What are you referring to kind ser?

@Albert_618 The problem with opinions is they are always right. And they are mostly meaningless. I think Albert has zero tolerance for bullshit

The Potential Power of Putting Out Your Opinion Monkey See, Monkey Do… Monkey Die The Werther Effect - to make clear how powerful it can be. This is - again - not meant to offend anyone. If you feel offended, we have a saying in German for that: only affected dogs bark. Yeah it’s written provocative - but for a reason. If you survived the first lines, I think you ready for the read. What I wrote is based on facts. You can find the Facts in "Influence - the Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert B. Cialdini. And if you are interested you can just look it up and check the facts elsewhere. The Werther Effect: „Die Leiden des jungen Werthers“ (The Sorrows of Young Werther) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from 29. September 1774 is telling a story about a guy called Werther. The Book was very successful when released and provided Goethe with fame. Werther - the main role - committed Suicide in the Book. So Goethe got his fame. A crazy byproduct was a wave of suicides across Europe. Why? To make that understandable we need to understand the human behavior. Many of us look for confirmation and - I know you believe you are super individual (me too btw) - are part of a herd. It can be a herd in the herd in a form of subculture but you are still looking for people that you can identify with. It’s not always bad. It’s just what it is. We can identify best with people that share similar attributes. Age. Clothing. Origin. Whatever. But why are we doing it? We are looking for Social Proof. And thats a very strong Effect. Definition: Social Proof is a psychological and social phenomenon where people mirror the actions of others to reflect correct behavior, especially in uncertain situations." When is the principle of Social Proof and its effect the strongest? When people are unsure of themselves - thats when humans tend to follow the lead of others. You will find a lot of more examples, let me give you one: On March 31 in 2017 Netflix released a series called 13 Reasons why. In the series a young high school student commits suicide. She leaves thirteen tapes behind with reasons for doing it. In the next thirty days the number of suicides among young adolescents rose by 28.9 percent. So the persons committing suicide all identified heavily with this actress and did what was kinda the „right thing“ to do?! Now you see how strong social proof really is. To give some less brutal examples from the daily life: Why do people often queue at a red light in one lane but the other is free while both lanes pointing same direction? Why does it always take someone "special" in supermarket who is "brave" enough to ask for a second cashier? Now I want to come back to why I am a strong believer not everybody should have and post an opinion. And yeah I love to discuss, but pretty often it’s absolutely useless and a waste of time, because a lot of discussions would never happen if we just check the facts before. But the discussion isn't an issue if we just accept the Facts after discussing. Once we accept the Facts we can start to really discuss and look for more facts that might lead to a theory. Problematic are discussions that happen where people just deny facts, too lazy to look them up but still allow themselves to speak. To compare the behavior, it's similar like waiting in the long queue and stating the empty queue will take longer time. The problem is not the discussion itself, but that people gonna join the uneducated opinion camp and design their choices by that - you want that? But thats not why I’m posting this. And when you ask yourself why I discuss - to put out facts. Only st*pid people don’t accept to be wrong - so if you have a fact that proves me wrong, please drop it! I post this, because some are maybe not aware what they can cause with putting out their opinion. Now we make a small thought experiment: Let’s just say its the last Month before Germany is absolutely cooked and it happens - man will be forced into military service. I mean it’s not that long time ago but yeah… Okay we are now in this last Month. And Albert makes this post that he did… Albert did his research and only released facts, nothing else. Some people might identify with the Persona Albert and grab the opportunity and do whatever they believe is useful to do. Leave the country maybe, find an alternative, get super fat to not be considered by the army (come on a small joke here n there huh?) So all these people are now feed with something that secures their future - we still in the thought experiment ok? But now you release your opinion in the comments. Maybe someone is in there who identifies heavily with you and you just say thats not true, or whatever. We now conquer a fact based post with an opinion based on something thats - what? What is an opinion? "An opinion is a personal belief, judgment, or sentiment about someone or something that is not based on absolute proof or certainty. It reflects feelings, attitudes, or interpretations, as opposed to objective facts. It can also refer to a formal expert appraisal or public consensus." First it isn’t a problem. But the effects of Social Proof turn it into one. The month passes. All Albert followers, packed with the fact, left the country. All of those who identified with you are now in a very bad situation. Why am I typing this? It’s not about a single situation. It happens very often and the more you get into the thought process the more you maybe stumble over some things the government, the media, the world itself you live in, has installed only to… (mis)lead you? What if you heavily identify with persons between 18 and 25 that trade crypto? What if you buy always when they buy and sell when they sell? What if thats a perfectly installed and prepared trap you get rekt in every time it’s placed in front of you? Now think more - how many times you heard „if you want to be wealthy in life you have to go to school, university bla bla bla“… Maybe you did. How does the average life taste? Nothing bad with it, but you follow me because you don't want to live that life I think. I mean you did what everybody else did or told you, now you are here. Someone had an opinion, but instead of a 911 in Heidelberg you are driving a Passat in Leipzig because your Boss, the person you really studied for, says thats where you have to work the next month. This could have been avoided with just checking the facts. Its not that complicated to look the average income of someone who studied what you thought gonna make you rich - while you nosedived into the rat race. You don't identify with the 911 driving Boss, but with your public transportation user coworker. Social Proof confirms that you do right - while you failed your target. But the Social Proof was so strong, you haven't been able to do your research. My life was kinda different, I nosedived into a different problem. But same effect. So you maybe discuss things for the sake of discussing, but before you really release an opinion out into the world be very clear to yourself, that you maybe influence people in their decision making. Now think about people that post only because they look for validation - and now think about the people that identify with those people. WTF. You get the point? With the post that I released about the facts that I researched before I just stated something that is what it is: A fact that is public black on white written down in the law and is freshly changed. Some nice people discussed and accepted the facts. Some didn't. Thats not too important, whats way more fascinating is if you look into society how they handle these facts. Same like Covid lovers, they now say it’s „fake news“ or „click-bait“ - and thats dangerous. Why? Putting out that opinion will lead to a domino effect - we had that in the past and we gonna have that in the future. So Imagine someone who says it’s „fake news“ is a person that thousands identify with - they spread it and find per person another 500 who identify with them. This is how weak societies are build. This is why people still send their children to Wing Tsun Courses - yeah your son is gonna get beaten up, send him to real combat sports ffs... that waving hand BS wont scare anyone. No he wont disarm anybody. Yes he gonna get stabbed if he believes he can. Combatsports are factchecked via MMA and Wing Tsun doesn't exist there but people still pay coaches for - what!? You can put the whole text over everything we are witnessing. Be it in social media, in real life, in your family, your society or whatever. The Werther Effect is the evil brother of the Bannister Effect. Both are triggered by Social Proof. Conclusion: If you really have checked the Facts and you are aware of the power your opinion carries, that you put out into the world, the things you have to say might be important - or it might be important to say nothing. If you didn’t check the facts, you might start a negative domino effect that, if you are a good person, you would avoid to kick off. Now the most important question after we have an understanding of the Effects: Why are people defending the German Government without a Factcheck? This is not a fact but my opinion: it's a form of defending - spreading wrong things in favor of the government. I would even go a step further - its close to Stockholm Syndrome if you live in Germany. What does that say about the collective intelligence we (should/could) have as a species? There is something installed in our brains - and that happened with a force btw (you are forced to bring your kid to school here) - that lets many people identify with the system. Why people are instinctively reacting? Is it so hard to accept that the war machine just rotates? Gaining data of the available future Soldiers and war participants is a form of preparation. Same like a Shopowner checks the inventory before he opens. If I would like to control the Society and create behavioral patterns there are a lot of ways. Let's do another small thought experiment: We have a plan. The plan is to test how far we can go and if people really stay locked up at home. First we create uncertainty - not that hard... Flood them with a lot of different perspectives and those who carry their opinion do the rest - everything unclear = uncertainty. We go to the next step. We use the effects Social Proof for it and let strong Personas just lock themselves up, use masks and so on. But you have to think further. The conspiracy theorists who release things first are very often people that I would be embarrassed to show myself with. Weird people that are super uncomfortable to listen to, that I would never identify with transport sometimes an important fact - whats the effect? The Social Proof Effect gets inverted. It's pretty easy if you understand all that to discover how often you get influenced/controlled. Important questions that should be asked: Why does the Media spread the news right now? To be honest I don't know it, but it isn't random as usual. The law is active since 1. January 2026. It's a fact and not deniable before you argue please read the law - but why did it got spread right now? Why am I typing all this? In my life I often got affected by that. I grew up in uncertainty and it was easy for me to jump into the next best Social Proof situation to feel good. Many people suffer this and are mislead into a Life full of pain. In an optimal world, only those who have a fact speak about something. There would be only truth, nobody would be mislead. I know it's utopian to think like that. But if I do one step into that direction it gets a bit more real. Discipline your words. You might save someone. And reflect your decisions. Too many people just say "yes" to things that are super easy to fact check. In the Picture is a small example how the Truth dies.

@hispanicnomad Have to disagree with you there. I've traveled much of the world and would prefer to live in Spain than most places. Though where I live isn't typical Spain, so maybe it doesn't compare. Locals have the same opportunity to earn good cash, so it seems moot point to me.

A lot of people ask me why I'm so harsh with my home country, Spain 🇪🇸 I mean, it's such a great place to be, right? Second most touristic country in the world and all Here's my reply. It IS a great country, but life as a local is hell

@hispanicnomad In CDMX now. Don't have comparisons to other LATAM cities, but I like it. Very international, walkable streets with lovely mature trees. Lots of restaurants. Completely safe in the right places. It's expensive though. Also, I'm not a city person, but I enjoy it for a short trip.

VERY TEMPTED… Thinking about finally making the trip to Mexico City 🇲🇽 Every single time I post about Latin America someone’s in the comments saying the same thing: “Have you been to CDMX?” I wanna know… Whether the hype actually holds up for someone who’s lived across Latin America for years And if it can compete with the cities I already call home Might be time to find out for myself

@hispanicnomad Indeed you can. I just haven't yet found a low tax county I would prefer to live than the few high tax options I have. Obviously it's a personal choice. And I suppose there is the rub. They'll make you pay for that choice.

@DeCodeTheAlgo Right. The secret is, you can live a great life in low tax countries, too

The flag theory framework, explained in a few sentences: ✅ Live where the quality of life is best ✅ Bank where your money is safest ✅ Pay taxes where the law is most favorable to you ✅ Hold the passport that gives you the most access ✅ Run your business where the structure makes sense And these don't have to be the same country Most people assume they do because they were born in a system that told them loyalty to one place was a virtue But putting yourself first is not disloyalty but being smart

@hispanicnomad Yeah, I just paid that too. They change the autonomo fees to be adjusted to your earnings so that you pay more anyway. And then say, oh yeah, we didn't charge you enough! Super, thanks. Pleasure doing business. The autonomo system is a joke!

I just paid what I hope is my last Spanish tax... A full TWO YEARS after exiting the country And the way it happened tells you everything you need to know about what a sh*tshow taxes are in my beloved Spain 🇪🇸 I received a notification today (on Sunday of all things) warning me that I have 10 days left to pay a surcharge they had notified me of a month ago Thing is, they had never notified me. They're supposed to send you an email AND an SMS, and I have neither of them Great start Then, it turns out they claim I owe them money from 2024... not because I didn't pay or anything, but because I paid what they asked me to that year, and then they decided to revisit my "autónomo" monthly fees and figured they were too low So now I have to pay for the difference Sigh Alright, it's not a big deal, I'll just treat them like the mafia they are and pay them so they go away But then... ... The website where I have to pay doesn't work if I'm abroad. Need to use a VPN ... They need a bunch of data for me to pay that they DON'T provide in the threatening email they send me, so I have to start looking for it for about half an hour ... They don't confirm whether the payment has been successful or not, so I'm not even sure I'm off the hook I knew this one was coming so at least it was not a surprise But man, what a joke of a country

@hispanicnomad Illetes Formentera <3

I've been to 60+ countries and spent time on a lot of the world's best beaches Here are my favorites, and why each one is worth the trip 🌊🧵