@visegrad24 Free movement in EU will be so over. Time to introduce travel pre approvals check at borders of Poland
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Ivan Garif
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New info released on the viral news story about 4 Swedish citizens arrested in Poland for robbing a Norwegian tourist under knife threat
One of the attackers, 23-y-old Arran Acib Ahmed turns out to have killed a man in the past.
In Poland, he attacked the Norwegian tourist together with his friends, 3 other Swedish citizens named Mohamad H. (17), Jabril H. (18), and Senal Saned O. (19).
In Sweden, he has a long criminal history having been sentenced in court 7 times for various crimes.
On October 15th, 2023, he and 3 other friends attacked a 40-year-old man, beating him to the ground and stomping on his head.
Arran Acib Ahmed was sentenced on aggravated assault charges to 2 years in prison for kicking the man in the head as he was on the ground.
The man died from brain injuries just hours later.
Arran Acib Ahmed was released from prison after serving 1 year and 4 months of his sentence.
He now risks 20 years in Polish prison for robbery with a knife.
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🇵🇱 Poland's eastern border has officially reached 100% integrity.
Poland's government formally declared that its external borders had finally achieved "full tightness" (100% integrity), according to a report released by the Polish Ministry of the Interior and Administration.
This means Poland's border patrol has a 100% success rate in detecting and intercepting illegal migrants attempting to cross the borders.
This is possible due to strong border walls, thermal cameras, motion sensors, and ever-increasing military personnel.
The upcoming summer season is expected to bring a spike in illegal border crossing attempts in Eastern Poland.
The Polish military is seeking to secure an additional 200 kilometers of border under the "East Shield" initiative by the end of 2026.
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SpaceX is considering several locations domestically and internationally to build the world’s most advanced spaceports!
SpaceX@SpaceX
It’s no secret that we intend to launch Starship a lot, targeting thousands of flights per year. That cadence will require the ability to launch from many different locations, so we are constantly exploring to find viable sites to expand Starship operations in the future, both domestically and internationally
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We evaluated an early version of Claude Mythos Preview for risk assessment during a limited window in March 2026. We estimated a 50%-time-horizon of at least 16hrs (95% CI 8.5hrs to 55hrs) on our task suite, at the upper end of what we can measure without new tasks.
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Red squirrels 'close to extinction' in England bbc.in/3ODqZ75
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@Dorota031765206 @visegrad24 @NawrockiKn @donaldtusk Pamiętam historię, ale myślę, że ostatecznie dostali zwolnienie z paktu migracyjnego UE gov.pl/web/mswia/pols…
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@igarif26 @visegrad24 @NawrockiKn @donaldtusk Donald Tusk to zdrajca, podpisał bez zgody Sejmu w tajemnicy pakt migracyjny, w Polsce uważany jest za pachołka Brukseli, nie ma mu za co dziękować, to on chce tysięcy nielegalnych w Polsce
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The overwhelming majority of Polish people, regardless of political affiliation, oppose the forced relocation of migrants to Poland.
During my successful election campaign, I announced that my goal was for Polish men and women to feel safe in their own country.
One element of this security is undoubtedly the absence of the risk associated with illegal migration, which has been flooding Western Europe since German Chancellor Angela Merkel's memorable decision in 2015,"
says Karol Nawrocki, President of Poland. 🇵🇱
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An invasive type of squirrels is about to wipe out England’s native red squirrels.
The grey squirrels, native to North America, were introduced to the UK at the end of the 19th and have been taking over in the past decades.
The larger, bolder invaders are quickly outcompeting the smaller native red squirrels.
Greys are better at foraging in broadleaf woodlands, consume more food including unripe items reds cannot eat, steal cached supplies and reproduce faster with larger litters.
They also carry squirrelpox virus, which is harmless to them but fatal to reds, causing populations to crash up to 25 times faster where the species overlap.
Red squirrels, once widespread, had faced some habitat loss from deforestation, but the grey invasion accelerated their decline dramatically.
Today, only small populations survive in parts of Scotland, Ireland, and a few isolated English sites, while greys number in the millions and dominate
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@denisyurchak I... gdzie właściwie tkwi problem? Przyjeżdżasz do Polski, więc ucz się polskiego. A w międzyczasie czekasz na decyzję z urzędu, masz mnóstwo czasu, żeby się go nauczyć.
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MOVING TO POLAND IS A TERRIBLE CHOICE FOR 95% OF PEOPLE
Poland is the fastest-growing economy in the EU. It’s modern and has world-class services. But people who overhype it don’t tell you one thing - if you don’t have an EU passport (and 95% of people in the world don’t have one), Poland is gonna turn your life into a living hell.
The reason for it is not its people or nationalism. The reason is bureaucracy.
Poland wasn’t built to host a lot of foreigners. For the best part of its history after communism, it’s been a poor country, and hardly anyone wanted to move there.
Then the Ukraine war happened. Millions of Ukrainians and Belarusians flew into the country. Poland’s immigration authorities became overwhelmed. 4 years flew by, but the situation didn’t improve.
When you move to Poland, you need to get a temporary residence permit. It lasts between 1 and 3 years. Getting it now is not feasible.
The wait for a Polish temporary residence permit is between 8 and 12 months. In most cases, you get your first residence permit, called pobyt czasowy, for a year. Then you need to renew it.
You will need a long-term apartment in Poland and a source of income in Poland. Your company’s registered in the US or Singapore won’t do.
After 3 years, you can get a pobyt stały (permanent residency) - and wait 12 months again. The situation is better in some regions like Krakow, but in Warsaw, where most people go, it’s the worst.
While you are waiting for your residence permit, you can’t leave Poland. If you leave after your visa-free days in the EU or your visa expires, you won’t be able to come back without a Schengen visa.
To get a residence permit, you need to file an application. This requires either sending all your documents by traditional mail or scheduling an appointment.
Getting an appointment takes 8+ months. You have a question? Get ready to wait up to an hour in the telephone queue. Hardly any immigration workers speak English. Most government websites and documents are in Polish only as well.
There is a new system where you can file an application online. But using it requires a government ID number called PESEL. You can get it in Poland, but it requires a Polish address.
Alternatively, you can convince Polish authorities that you have a valid reason why you need a PESEL. This typically requires employment or business. Both will have real consequences for your life and potentially make you liable for Polish taxes and health insurance contributions.
This is what US and UK founders get wrong – you can’t just come to Poland with your online business and live here. Poland doesn’t have digital nomad or independent entrepreneur visas.
In Poland, you need a visa sponsor. That means that you either need to find a regular Polish job and employer that will sponsor you or found a company with substantial capital, employees, and real service to sponsor yourself as a director.
Want to start a company? All the tax and company registration portals are in Polish. Getting a Polish accountant and tax advisor will be your only option.
The situation is not likely to improve in the future. The Polish politics are dominated by right-wing anti-immigration sentiment. Under the right-wing influence, even the center-left are introducing laws that make it harder to immigrate and get a Polish citizenship.
For everybody cheering for anti-immigration and thinking it only applies to the people from the Middle East and India, bad news. If you have a UK or US passport, you will fall under the same rules.
Some categories of people, mainly people with Polish roots, will have it much easier. But for most people without an EU passport, moving to Poland will turn into the toughest bureaucratic challenge of their lives.
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I’m giving away my personal copy of
Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
This book has tied together the history of distributed technology, the present of how AI is being used both the good and bad.
It has influenced a lot of my worldview and career trajectory.
Comment to enter 24H
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@denisyurchak The “anti-foreign sentiment” you complain about is shielding Poland from the mistakes the West made by opening their borders up to millions of unproductive people from the Third World and systemic abuse of their welfare systems.
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I love being in Poland because there is no deficit of capitalism here
You want to buy something at 10 PM?
There is a Zabka convenience store on every corner
(some of them completely automatic; Poland has the biggest network of human-less stores in Europe)
The cafes are full of people working on their laptops
You hear folks discussing tech and products on videos calls
(and nobody is trying to usher you out because you are not sitting with a book or a paper newspaper on Tuesday 11 AM like in Germany or Austria)
When you look at the ads on the street, you actually see interesting creatives and products
(unlike Vienna, where the subway, the most expensive place to advertise, is full of the ads of lawyers and dentists that look like are from the 80s).
Of course, there is a lot of downsides to the Poland system too.
The political system is quite broken, with two personalistic parties fighting for power (one slightly more corrupt than the other).
There is a lot of anti-foreign sentiment, the country is visibly less international than Germany, Austria of France.
Both parties push for stricter immigration rules, while you already wait on average 12 months to get you residence as a high-qualified worker
And lately they had some of the protectionist mind virus developing as well, prohibiting trade on Sundays for example
Overall tho, if you live in the Western Europe and forgot how good capitalism feels, Poland is an awesome country to come and remind yourself of it
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Children are the future
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NEWS: Europe is running out of people. EU’s population is projected to collapse by 50+ million this century as birth rates hit record lows. • Fertility is ~1.4–1.6 children per woman, far below replacement • Deaths outnumber births in many countries This is exactly the civilizational demographic collapse @elonmusk has warned about for years. Low Birth Rate = Decline of Civilization Humanity is dying.
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Repeat after me: there is no such thing as “free healthcare.”
Just the income taxes and contributions Europeans must pay make them significantly worse off than Americans after their healthcare expenditures.
And then add 20-25% VAT on top of that. Got it now?
Michael A. Arouet@MichaelAArouet
This chart makes me laugh every time I see it. The UK, France and Italy are poorer than the poorest US state, Mississippi. Canada and Germany are poorer than the second-poorest US state. The gap will widen. And don’t come with “free healthcare.” You pay for it with absurd taxes
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@MichaelAArouet Michael is writing data manipulations all day long, because probably he has to pay a high tax in Maine or California later this month. While we Europeans can easily move to a reduced tax state in the EU 😅
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Next time you see a naive leftist arguing that Europeans are better off than Americans because of "free healthcare," show them this.
Nothing is free, you pay for healthcare with absurd taxes. Net disposable income after healthcare expenditures is higher in the US than in Europe.
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@MichaelAArouet When you say high taxes in Europe do you mean the absurd 10% of Bulgaria or the wild and greedy 10% in North Macedonia? 😅
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@igarif26 @ErikFossing Yes, that is clear. We have very different philosophies.
Americans are building the future, Europe is enjoying the fruits of past labors.
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Wow Mr Headline reader …
The US pulled away in US dollar terms during past 15 years almost exclusively because EUR/USD moved from roughly 1.50 to 1.15.
Meanwhile, the US net foreign debt (NIIP) went from 10% of GDP to 85%. Europe increased its net asset to 10%
Tom Harwood@tomhfh
Europoor is an entirely accurate phrase. America is simply in a different league.
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@ShafronTom @ErikFossing In Europe we care about quality of life, I don't give a single fuck about my productive output 😉
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Depends what your trying to measure.
For typical quality of life yes.
If you're measuring productive output per person then no.
The fact the US has far more unequal distribution but similar levels of median income is stunning and proof the system is superior.
The US is growing faster, if this continues he's like that last 20 years then US median will be far higher too.
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@ShafronTom @ErikFossing Median is way more interesting for most people. If I have 1 person earning 1 million and 9 earning 10 thousand, my average(mean) salary is 109,000. The median salary meanwhile is still 10,000
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