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@yaohuiji @TripInChina You cannot be arrested if your country does not condemn it.
Your country does not condemn sexual relations over the age of 13.
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中国的威权体制并未改变,但政府的外宣手段变得更精明了——比如,简化外国游客来华手续。大多数普通游客不会接触到这里令人窒息的政治管控,反而能与形形色色的普通中国人交流。访客常惊叹于这里日常生活的平凡景象。
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To whom it may concern... A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Gaza right now.
Now
Heavy rainstorm is hitting Gaza..These are my children’s tents
All I ask is that people share the post.
3 replies — even dots — can save my children 💔
donation
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The attacks on Europe I've seen here the last couple of days, including from people I've generally considered interesting and sophisticated, have been getting unhinged...
I get that EU has problems - GDPR clickthroughs are dumb, Chat Control is awful, they need to be less bureaucratic and supportive toward entrepreneurs, its kindness toward Ukraine often doesn't extend well to Gaza or Sudan or other places, people saying mean things about criminals getting longer sentences than the criminals is just crazy - but the apocalyptic attitude about the issues, evoking imagery of barbarians pillaging Rome etc, seems really over the top.
It feels more like a coordinated attempt to delegitimize than constructive criticism.
(I don't believe the line that "the target is not Europe, it's the EU": I've seen many instances of London specifically being targeted in the hate session, so no, much of it is an attack on Europe)
It just does not match my experience from spending an average of two months every year there for the last decade.
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@poordart Different countries in Europe have very different policies, and Europe also hosts ICC, which is under a lot of pressure (see: judges being financially deplatformed)
So it's a genuinely mixed bag on that issue from what I can tell
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Farcaster is admitting what everyone felt for a while.
The decentralized social network never found real PMF. Despite 4.5 years of trying and a few successful adoption spikes.
X networks effects too hard to break free from.
Instead, Farcaster will focus on being a wallet first, social network second.
>user signs up
>funds wallet
>uses the wallet
>finds it useful
>while using wallet user finds social features
"It’s far easier to add a wallet to a social network than a social network to a wallet." - DWR
“come for the tool, stay for the network”
It seems the same strategy Base app is built on.

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🇨🇳 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)
@levelsio@levelsio
🇨🇳 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 😋👌
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