Alper
308 posts
Still can't believe I now actually really enjoy using Google Meet.
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My @openclaw now adds groceries to my shopping list in foreign countries where I don't speak the language. It acts as translator in between my and the search queries. Meanwhile I'm learning some new words
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How come no climate groups have the courage of their convictions to make the case for prolonging the war and keeping the strait closed?
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@BrianMcDonaldIE Varoufakis worked at Steam. He married the woman from the Pulp song. This guy is winning at life entirely.
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A viral track repeating just two words,“Yanis Varoufakis,” is spreading across Russia's clubland.
Created by a Moscow DJ, the tune has taken off among zoomers, with critics linking its appeal to a revival of 90s/early 2000s techno. The irony is that most listeners likely have no idea who @yanisvaroufakis is, they just like the rhythm of the name.
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@NewLeftEViews Everything that Afroman did there would be illegal in Germany.
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I asked AI:
Who benefits financially if Europe brings in low/no income low educated non-culturally aligned welfare seekers from the third world?
"There are identifiable financial beneficiaries, and this is well-documented in immigration economics literature. Here's who actually profits:
1. Employers in low-wage sectors
- Construction, agriculture, food processing, cleaning, logistics
- Labor supply increase suppresses wages, boosting margins
- Reduces pressure to automate or improve conditions
2. Landlords & property owners
- Housing demand spikes in urban areas → rent increases
- Existing homeowners see property value appreciation
- Slum landlords and housing associations benefit most directly
3. Migration industry
- Lawyers, NGOs, translators, integration consultants
- This is a multi-billion euro industry in Germany, Sweden, Netherlands alone
- NGOs often receive per-head government funding — direct financial incentive to maximize intake
4. Retail & consumer goods
- Raw volume of consumers increases
- Governments often provide vouchers/cash that flows directly into consumption
5. Governments (short-term optics)
- GDP headline number goes up with population growth
- Politicians can claim “growth” while GDP per capita may stagnate or fall
Who Bears the Costs
- Native low-skilled workers — direct wage competition, most economically vulnerable
- Taxpayers — welfare, housing, education, healthcare, judicial costs
- Public service users — longer queues, diluted services
- Lower-middle class neighborhoods — concentrated social externalities
It’s essentially a privatization of gains, socialization of costs structure
Employers and landlords capture upside; diffuse taxpayer population absorbs downside. This is why mainstream economists who focus on aggregate GDP often support high immigration while working-class populations in receiving areas oppose it: they’re experiencing completely different economic realities.
George Borjas (Harvard) vs. Card/Peri debate covers this empirically in depth if you want the academic trail."
Hispanic Nomad | Remote Work, Travel, Growth@hispanicnomad
@levelsio It's crazy because every time it looks like a European country is reclaiming its sanity They pull something like this off What's the reasoning behind this?
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Anybody know where I can get a wider spectrum blood test in Berlin?
@levelsio@levelsio
Get your blood tested every 3-6 months Include T!
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The German people keep electing people like this and then you wonder why nothing ever becomes better.
(It is us who wonder. Germans don't seem to think anything can ever become better and accept this status quo.)
Ottilie Klein@Ottilie_Klein
Die Debatte zum #Buchhandlungspreis irritiert. Selbstverständlich werden Verfassungsfeinde nicht mit Steuergeldern gefördert oder ausgezeichnet. Eine wehrhafte Demokratie stellt sich klar gegen jede Form des Extremismus. Und wenn verfassungsfeindliche Institutionen keine steuerfinanzierten Preise bekommen, dann ist das nicht das Ende der Kunstfreiheit.
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I was never able to do blood tests when I asked for it in Netherlands
Doctor asked "why? you're not sick?"
Then I tried in Portugal (at Germano de Sousa) but they never picked up the phone or when they did were so slow and unhelpful I gave up, they also require a doctor prescription btw
The first place I could get my blood tested was Thailand in 2018, I just walked into Bumrungrad and asked for it, amazing experience
Last few years we just fly to Brazil and do it here, the nurse comes to your home/hotel at 8am and takes your blood, same or next day results online
I find it funny I keep having to fly out of Western Europe to do blood tests, they make it impossibly hard to do them
Which is retarded
Nuno Guerra@nunowar
@levelsio Who is your doctor in Portugal who can prescribe all the tests you want to do?
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@ArneKuilman The Netherlands (and the Nordic countries) are tame compared to less developed countries.
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@alper I've been driving for Pieter's whole life in the Netherlands without any issues. (Daily motorcycle driver)
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I wanted to see wait till you see motorists in Berlin and forgot that Pieter is in Portugal, a country notorious for its traffic deaths.
@levelsio@levelsio
Now that I got my driver's license Seeing people drive like complete goons every day now I think our #1 priority should be to get every car brand to self driving ASAP on a worldwide gov mandate Humans are way too retarded to drive
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Five days a week in office (or on video call), 10-6 hours, phones in your locker near the entrance/kitchen.
That would be more productive than 99% of all teams.
Mitchell Hashimoto@mitchellh
This is how you get dumber btw, true even before AI. Turn on DnD, put your phone in a drawer. The best option if you can is to separate work + personal devices so your work device can't even see personal stuff. This is also partially why Pomodoro was all the rage a decade+ ago.
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@derJamesJackson kind of hilarious that they asked him to illustrate for 100€
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Dutch illustrator Zeeloot refuses to work for Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung and other papers “because they have manufactured consent for the genocide in Palestine”
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I don't think anybody needed Perplexity to conclude that MCP is dead. In Dutch we say: 'spuit 11'
Morgan@morganlinton
The cofounder and CTO of Perplexity, @denisyarats just said internally at Perplexity they’re moving away from MCPs and instead using APIs and CLIs 👀
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Irgend so ein Hochstapler hält für Ronzheimer und Co. her, um gegen Sozialhilfeempfänger:innen zu hetzen. Jetzt entschuldigt man sich beim Jobcenter Hannover.
Die Niedertracht ist offensichtlich.
faz.net/aktuell/feuill…
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