Miguel Duarte 🇵🇹🇪🇺🌍🌞🌌

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

@Felix_Nuno It already works that way. Only EU citizens have freedom of movement. Non citizen residents do not.

I can get behind this

I was "pro Israel" for most of my life. Somehow saw the economic development and technological progress as virtue and wrote off everything else. Then I started paying attention. I now carry the shame of my past blindness. Not blind anymore (thanks @nntaleb ). No longer afraid.

@Felix_Nuno We did forgot the distinction between good and evil. Got to give him that. But we're slowly figuring that out. All that is needed is to listen to what they actually say to themselves and watch what they really do on the ground.

Nice Association agreement you got there….

@Felix_Nuno We all can be blind to injustice. Or chose to look the other way not to see it. But when it pops out in the spotlight like this it is really hard for the average decent person to ignore. Some so drunk with power and hate that they don't notice the tide shifting beneath their feet

My man…. Golden rule of politics: never play politics with the Catholic Church.

@Felix_Nuno O toque de Midas do JD nao desilude

@Felix_Nuno “Os resultados falam por si” envelheceu bem esta

Diz-me com quem andas e diremos quem és.

@Felix_Nuno Seems the seeds of regime change are taking hold. Just not where originally intended.

@Nick_Delehanty @Felix_Nuno isto foi falado no início

Tankers carrying diesel to Europe have changed course. Several tankers carrying diesel from the US to Europe have changed course mid-Atlantic. The Aliai, Minerva Vaso and Grand Ace6 all loaded in the US and were initially bound for Europe, with destinations including Amsterdam and Gibraltar. Their routes have since shifted. The Grand Ace6 is now signaling Lomé in Togo, while the Minerva Vaso is listed “for orders,” indicating no fixed destination as traders wait for better pricing. The Aliai has also diverted southeast, away from its original European route. The Atlantic is now a “floating market. Europe diesel shortages will cause collapse of industry.

@levelsio It would be interesting to look at PPI numbers excluding housing. And then we can have a conversation about the actual problem

🇵🇹 If you have ever dealt with any Portuguese business (and I have with many in my 5 years here) you know why Portuguese in Portugal simply do not care about work, some foreigners find that refreshing, but it results in a country where you can't find anyone to do work because nobody wants to work And when they do work, the work is generally bad, like imagine stepping into a time machine back to 1970s bad, they also can't follow the spec you agreed upon beforehand, and then when it's 60% done they disappear and ghost you When we did home renovatiom, you hire ppl, they arrive late at 9am (you agreed 8am), they then drive away to get materials, come back 11am, do actual work for an hour, then at 12noon announce they go for lunch, come back around 2.30pm, walk around a bit, do some work, and then leave early at 4pm It's not just construction workers, it's almost every interaction you have here with a Portuguese business, the quality is just low, the service non-existent or customer-hostile, and it's not the language, I speak fluent Portuguese, I'm respectful and friendly which is why I never ever had this amount of issues elsewhere in the world And I know it's not just my experience, it's everyone I know here, even Portuguese complain about Portuguese! It's not completely their fault though, the hostile tax system for both people and businesses literally gives you an incentive to never ever scale your business beyond I believe around €150,000/year, because you end up in a completely different category and tax tier that decimates you with more taxes and more bookkeeping So every business tries to stay small, and doesn't want more customers (how many times have I walked into a Portuguese cafe or shop and the staff or owner *sighed* "not another customer") Add decades of socialist governments that hand out free money to 50% of the country (and even the right wing parties here are socialist btw, they have to be or they don't get votes) and you don't have any incentive to work left Why work when you don't need to work? The majority of the young smart Portuguese people with actual ambitions understandably move elsewhere, because if there's no incentive to grow a business, there's also no jobs for them, and the whole thing becomes a vicious cycle of increasing poverty Which is why I said Portuguese in Portugal at the beginning of this tweet, because Portuguese outside of Portugal are ambitious, want to work, want to improve their lives! Bringing in lots of foreigners like me by the government as a way to pump money into the system, we spend a lot and it pays for the welfare, healthcare and retirements of Portuguese now, but it's not a structural solution (and we also instantly became the scapegoat for the government's decades of mismanagement) It'd be relatively easy to fix this though if people in Portugal would put on their thinking hat: 💡 Make Portugal a great place to start and run a business, model yourself after Singapore but with extremely low taxes (maybe 5-10%) for companies/startups and make it easy for them to hire (and fire) people, the money you lose in taxes you will get back in increased economic activity over time (but it will hurt for a little bit) Because even the foreigners who move here and start businesses get caught up in the reverse incentive spiral of Portugal: Why even work?

A gesture in ink for someone who has touched generations!!! #chucknorris #streetart #graffitiart #urbanportrait #sprayart #rinchoa #Portugal 🇵🇹

@camalees E para manter a consistência o estado de Israel apoia eleição de Orban, que muito tem feito pela causa Ucraniana

Muitas pessoas não se apercebem do quão importante é a guerra com o Irão para a Rússia e para a sua guerra contra Ucrânia. O Irão fornece à Rússia uma significativa quantidade de material de guerra, nomeadamente drones e munições de artilharia. Os EUA e Israel têm bombardeado instalações de produção e perturbado a logística do Irão, prejudicando não só as capacidades militares do próprio Irão, mas também as da Rússia. Israel bombardeou o porto iraniano de Bandar Anzali, no Mar Cáspio, que é um importante centro na rota de abastecimento entre o Irão e a Rússia. Não muito longe das linhas da frente ucranianas. Se alguns comentadores tirassem as palas anti-Trump dos olhos e se cingissem aos factos no terreno teríamos uma análise mais séria do conflito. Ainda bem que não havia X na WWII ou teríamos quem escrevesse que os aliados não tinham um plano ( falhou muitas vezes) ou que o melhor seria apaziguar a Alemanha nazi.

Trump is finding out the hard way that you can’t tariff Europe, abandon Ukraine, praise Putin, threaten to invade Greenland, constantly insult Europe, and then expect Europe’s support in an illegal and badly planned war built on lies that he launched without warning us

@theluisribeiro Talvez ajude certas personalidades a repensar porque eixo estão alinhadas as prioridades do estado de Israel

Netanyahu publicou um vídeo a apoiar Orbán nas eleições da Hungria. Orbán apoia Putin. Putin está a ajudar o Irão a atacar Israel. Vivemos tempos muito estúpidos.

@camalees @Felix_Nuno @jmedeiros71 Esta tragédia é a última coisa que quem defende a Ucrânia desejaria. Está a fortalecer a Rússia pela dependência energética forçada, a sugar recursos que fazem falta à Ucrânia e o a crise económica que daqui vai resultar vai tornar ainda mais difícil o apoio à Ucrânia

Ora aqui está um post não apenas anti-semita como disparatado de um analista milhar. As pessoas pensam com a própria cabeça Nuno e não recebem ordens de ninguém. A ameaça é real e quando começarem a explodir coisas na Europa os anti-semitas vão se lembrar da quantidade de asneiras que disseram. O Irão é um aliado da Rússia, sempre pensei que defendias a Ucrânia porém o teu preconceito fala mais alto que a racionalidade.

I see every Israeli mouthpiece got the same marching orders. Trying to scaremonger Europe into helping.

@theluisribeiro @AMBCaldeira É a táctica de supressão para opiniões que são seja o apoio cego à agenda do estado de Israel. Até porque o povo semita são os habitantes daquela zona do Médio Oriente. Que podem ser Judeus, Muçulmanos, Cristãos ou outra coisa qq. Parece que só a vida de uns conta.

@AMBCaldeira Lamento, Ana. Ela acusou-me de ser antissemita, o que é um insulto particularmente insidioso. Mesmo assim, em vez de responder na mesma moeda, respondi de forma bem-humorada. Se tivesse respondido à letra, teria sido muito, muito pior.

Was it something I said?

@Joaogalamba Desde o apagão que existe pelo menos uma central a gás sempre a bombar em Portugal. Mesmo quando preço de venda é negativo. Não deve ser por acaso

As renováveis em Espanha estavam impedidas de prestar esse serviço. Em Portugal passa-se o oposto. É um problema regulatório e de desenho de operação, não um problema das renováveis.

@Felix_Nuno Not surprising. poppy growth in Afghanistan kept going even during Nato occupation. The spice must flow…

This 💯

@Joaogalamba E sabemos se os custos de desmantelamento das centrais francesas que se aproximam do final já foram imputado nos custos da electricidade vendida ? Tento seguir o tema mas esse detalhe nunca me ficou claro

Ponto muito importante: “Daqui a 5 anos, o cenário será melhor”. Razão: o novo nuclear é muito mais caro que nuclear amortizado (preços em França vão subir face a Ibéria), mais renováveis, mais baterias e menos gás vão baixar preços na Ibéria (em termos absolutos e relativos)

@joxventura E ainda não saíram de lá

Está muito bem mas faça-se o paralelismo completo: os aliados tiveram que ocupar Berlim, reconstruir, gerir, julgar e ficar lá por anos.