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@llallawg Haven't been in years tbf!

@teodorio Not too many people?

Istanbul is amazing because it is also aggressively smug european and warm middle eastern at the same time. Incredible city I should go back

@signoremosca @Xilo_K go back and give him a sprit mensch

@signoremosca @Xilo_K he simply degayed him and made him a proper husband material

My gay barber shaved off all my curls because he is jealous of my youth and beauty

it's more of a vibe thing, there's a ton of unemployed tech bros that are working on "the next thing" too

@Miles_Brundage @47fucb4r8c69323

Many of you are vastly overconfident in Pangram

@gurenyov @Revolut @NStoronsky there's no fast track period unless you know someone or have a shitty "saphire" credit card from a local bank

There are no Fast Track option for Bucharest airport for Ultra plan users in @Revolut app btw No hard feelings but it’s getting harder and harder to justify that subscription price tbh cc @NStoronsky

@47fucb4r8c69323 it's too late the cat is out of the bag

I've been doing this for two years and people are now catching on, but it's the peak human experience. This is how you're supposed to live in the automation age not cooped in a bedroom with 3 other couples in SF

@gurenyov dude that's the national airport not the international one lmao, you're fine it's a 15 min ride

Apparently, there are 2 airports in Bucharest and I came to the wrong one Still have 44 minutes before my boarding ends so you know the drill chat Wish me luck 😅

The only civilized Anglos are the Normand descendants (French)

We all secretly know that the only civilized nations here are the Latins, specifically the Italians, the French and the Romanians. The Spanish and the Portuguese are borderline

Patriot

@karl_eats last time I took the tube was when I went to an Arena Nationala game with my dad when I was in university, the crowds don't help

As someone who tends to Uber everywhere in Bucharest, I must say, I find the metro system actually surprisingly smooth and efficient. The rundown stations are also a nice throwback to the 90s/early 00s

@dionizije_fa a lot of stuff but mainly their modern art museums, the old insa-dong area, yongsan village, buchon hanok village

@teodorio Will be there in July. What's must see and experience?

seoul is one of the best cities I have been in

@davidtoniolo this is mostly the reason why I moved my tax residency from Romania too - I cannot and will not pay abusive taxes to incompetent governments that are literally only interested in looting me "for the sake of the common good" (their consulting companies)

I moved away from Australia, officially migrating to Switzerland, and it happened to land just before the CGT changes passed. Very happy with my decision. I'd only been residing in Australia a few months of the year for some time now. My business is international and does nothing in Australia - its customers are European and Asian. None of our staff are Australian anymore (aside from myself). The move was mostly about life. I ski, I hike, I ride downhill - Switzerland wins on all of that over the other low-tax options. It puts me around people I'm more aligned with: pro-capital, optimistic, building things. And it has me far closer to where the work actually is - half my client visits are in Germany. Tax was a factor too, I won't pretend it wasn't. But it was the last reason on the list, not the first. I love Australia. I was prepared to pay high taxes there to do my part. But its general and increasingly recent disdain for capital, for economic freedom, and the cultural shift against "the rich" had become too great for me to tolerate. I can pay high taxes. But I can't pay high taxes to people who hate me for the success I've happened to find. I worked very hard, took a lot of risk, and dealt with the shame of making what were seen as ill-advised life decisions in the eyes of my family and many of my friends for years. And on the other end, I found myself with a little luck that carried me through to a place I couldn't previously have imagined. I don't take full credit for my place in life. I was born in the right place to the right people - not rich, middle class, an accountant father and a stay-at-home mother, good parents who raised me right in a stable household - and even at the right time. But I took the opportunities luck gave me and ran the best race I could from there. I want everyone to reach financial independence. I want the world to grow wealthier. I can contribute to that vision. I will not, however, do it for people who despise the journey it takes to get there. Because that's what the resentment really is. It isn't principle - it's pessimism and envy. And more often than not it's fomented by people who were ambitious themselves, who set out to build something and fell short of their own expectations, and turned that disappointment outward - onto the people who made it, and onto the system itself.

@47fucb4r8c69323 there is no such thing as time as observed by us either. When you notice the passing of the time that nanosecond is already gone. you live in a sort of experiential bubble in time space!

If you put a male sparrow in an audio booth and play a recording of another male sparrow's mating call, you can see activity in the amygdala suggesting that it feels a threat. And if you give it testosterone before hearing the song, then hormone levels are heightened and worsened. It seems to me that what we're seeing here is a paradox and a puzzle. Does the bird have the feeling that then triggers the chemical, or does the chemical trigger the feeling? And this is not an empirical question, this is a philosophical question. This is a question of ontology: what is fundamental, the feeling or the biochemical expression of the feeling? And we can dissolve this paradox entirely just by looking at the bird's behavior not as a bird object, as a thing that exists, a thing that is being and is then experiencing the sense data of the world that then produces a feeling within the ontologically fundamental being of the bird as discrete object in the world (another discrete object). Dualism fails. If we rather see it from a process philosophy perspective, there is no paradox. The bird is constantly becoming while never being a being, and we can ground this empirically in the observation that an absolute stop of time is impossible and absolute zero Kelvin is impossible. A discrete being separate from its world is, scientifically speaking, nonsense. Then we can argue that what we're observing is not so much a question of what comes first, the feeling phenomenon or the physiological phenomena, but rather both are expressions of the same phenomenon: constant becoming of a dynamic continuous universe. One is an affective description, one is a physical description, and both are equally correct, just in different grammars. And then if we look at it this way, and we extend it to an ontological question of what is fundamental, the answer is simple: becoming. And thus we get a philosophical theoretical bridge between Wittgensteinian or late Wittgensteinian theory and Buddhism that dissolves our confusion about how the body and mind/spirit (these are the same word in most languages) relate to each other. They're both the same picture.

I thought this was already cleared when @tszzl and @sama were Bhagavad Gita posting on the timeline?