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Priest ᡕᠵデᡁ᠊—
@LowLevelPriest
$ETH genesis. $BTC, OG Silk Road. Running Ethereum.
🇪🇺 Entrou em Nisan 2023
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Why all digital nomads keep lying about those places and basically unnecessary pulling other people in while there are plenty of good places.
Why do people feel the need to follow what's written on the internet instead of having their own opinion.
Had the same feeling for Thailand. It was fun but I have a lot of "buts", and I will tell you them if someone asks me about Thailand \0/
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@JayVander_ @levelsio My guy, your take was probably the worst ive ever read on this platform
How do you even get by in life?
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@levelsio "The average digital nomad earns $85,000/year"
yeahhh that's not the 20yo guys with the backpacks filming themselves on an airport because they can't afford EU with 500 MRR
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Nice hot take but structurally false I think
The European immigration debate is about mass, permanent, involuntary immigration: people fleeing poverty, settling permanently in Europe, heavily using welfare systems and changing demographics irreversibly
Digital nomads are voluntary, usually temporary, high-income and pay their way. They're more like rich tourists who stay longer than any regular immigration archetype. Digital nomads don't claim welfare, they don't affect public housing queues, and because they're not resident, they need to keep having income remotely to pay for most things privately (like healthcare)
There's no data attributing any significant crime to digital nomads in South East Asia. Actual crime there comes from different sources: Chinese-origin criminal networks (see the kidnappings in Thailand brought to Myanmar and Cambodia to scam people.
Westerners on laptops drinking their iced latte are not showing up in any crime data in particular. Maybe some Russians in Bali for sure but that's not most digital nomads, and that's just because they're Russian!
The average digital nomad earns $85,000/year and spends about 35% of that into the local economy: on housing, coworking, cafes, food, transport, directly supporting local jobs and small businesses
Many countries around the world are trying to attract MORE digital nomads not LESS, like Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia rolling out special digital nomad visa for them, governments generally like digital nomads. They're a good contribution to the countries bringing lots of money, high tech (and high IQ) tech workers which can rub off on the locals
The only argument you can make is gentrification, more digital nomads and tourists in a place can gentrify a place. See what happened in a place like Canggu in Bali. But that's more about too many hipster cafes, coworkings and brunch places and overbuilding of houses, which can be avoided by better regulation and zoning. Thailand for example has barely any of these issues. Luckily Bali is big so most of it is unaffected
Anyway, apart from that digital nomads are generally a net positive contribution, while the current mass immigration in Europe is a net negative. And that's now provable with data.
I'm an immigrant myself, and digital nomad, and we should change the narrative not that immigration is bad, but that there's good and bad immigration
Europe is getting mostly bad immigration now which is causing severe social and economic issues now
So yes it is completely logical and not hypocritical to see DNs go to South East Asia while they complain about immigrants in Europe, you just have to look at the data to get it

Jay Vander 😎@JayVander_
digital nomads are like "I hate it here in europe with these immigrants ruining our safe and friendly culture, and take advantage of our economy" and then emigrate to south east asia to ruin the safe and friendly culture and take advantage of their economy 👍
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@BeastmodeBox @WorldByWolf How is that working out so far?
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@WorldByWolf No you said that.
What he said was that you need political experience to handle the system.
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“Crypto primitives are no longer crypto. New generation is not comfortable with existing intermediaries. Eg: asset manager in your wallet.” says @joechalom @ethereum Institutional Forum

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Citat från Lars :
Jag heter Lars och är 68 år gammal.
I fyrtiotvå år har jag varje morgon stämplat in på en fabrik i Västerås. Jag har betalat skatt ner till sista kronan, stått ut med dimman, den fukt som tränger in i benen, och vintrar då elräkningen tvingade mig att hålla inomhustemperaturen på 18 grader jag gick runt hemma i fleece och dubbla strumpor.
När dagen för pensionen kom satte jag mig ner och räknade. Jag tittade på min pension från Pensionsmyndigheten, på matpriserna och avgifterna i bostadsrättsföreningen.
Och jag tog det enda rimliga beslutet för att rädda både mitt liv och min ekonomi.
När jag berättade för mina gamla vänner på kvarterskrogen att jag skulle sälja bilen, säga upp abonnemang och flytta till Tenerife, tittade de på mig som om jag hade blivit galen:
”Har du tappat det helt? I din ålder? Men sjukvården? Om du blir sjuk? Språket? Vad ska du göra där ensam? Här har du ju dina vanor, kortspel på fredagar, torget…”
Svensken är ofta rädd för förändring. Hellre klaga i åratal på vädret, skatterna och priserna än att köpa en enkelbiljett. Jag log, sa hej då, packade mitt liv i två resväskor på 20 kilo och satte mig på ett lågprisflyg.
Jag landade på Tenerife i mitten av januari. I Sverige var det minusgrader, slask och folk svor medan de skrapade is från rutorna klockan sju på morgonen.
Jag vaknade, öppnade fönstret 22 grader, luften doftar hav, och jag tar på mig en t-shirt.
Jag går ner till hörnbaren – en cortado kostar knappt en euro. Uppvärmningskostnader? Ett abstrakt begrepp här. Element finns inte, och momsen är mycket lägre.
Efter bara några dagar förstod jag något viktigt: det var inte jag som var fattig – det var livet i Sverige som långsamt tömt mig under fyrtio år.
Mina vänners största oro var sjukvården.
”Tänk om något händer dig där nere?”
Tre månader senare behövde jag göra en blodtryckskontroll. Jag gick till vårdcentralen och förväntade mig långa köer, stress och väntetider.
På tio minuter var jag inskriven. Läkaren tog emot mig, bokade prover till veckan efter. Medicinerna kostade nästan ingenting. Ingen stress, moderna lokaler – och märkligt nog försvann både oron och blodtrycket av sig självt.
Min mest ironiska tillfredsställelse idag är vår gamla WhatsApp-grupp.
I februari, när vintern är som värst i Sverige, skriver de:
”Fy fan vad kallt det är, trafiken står still, elräkningen är helt sjuk…”
Jag svarar inte med ord.
Jag går till en liten restaurang, beställer grillad fisk och potatis, en kall öl med havet i bakgrunden. Tar en bild. Skickar.
Tystnaden som följer är den vackraste musik jag vet.
Jag har arbetat ett helt liv i svartvitt.
Nu har jag bestämt mig för att leva resten i färg.
Slut citat.
@SwedishPM @BuschEbba @jimmieakesson @SMohamsson @moderaterna @kdriks @sdriks @liberalerna @Sverigesriksdag @ElsaWidding @ambitionsverige @chrisforsne @JosefinUtas @lizamaria80 @nikeorbrink @LouiseHammargr1 @weimers @BeatriceTimgren @denicewesterb @ChangFrick @katjanouch


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@BlacknessinXtra @MorEdge_Insight We conquered you by cheer force and superior technology
Like you guys were some peaceful humanitarians over there. If you could build, you would conquer too. But you couldn’t, and still can’t even today. A waste of a fine continent and vast resources
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@MorEdge_Insight America, Africa and the Caribbean never asked nor invited the British or Europeans to come to our lands.
Yet they still imposed themselves on us. Now complain.
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@anon_jerik @Aktiepappa Lol, extremt starka argument du lägger fram
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Historisk högersväng i Tyskland - AfD rusar i västra delstatsvalen.
AfD krossar allt motstånd i Västtyskland. +11 procentenheter. Platserna i parlamentet fördubblas. Den där "brandmuren" mot realism och sund migration? Den brinner nu ner till grunden.
Globalisterna i Berlin trodde de kunde tysta folket med censur och stämplar, men verkligheten hinner alltid ikapp. Nu börjar den riktiga utrensningen av "naiviteten".
Om Tyskland kan vända, vad stoppar då Sverige från att gå hela vägen? Tror ni det här är den slutgiltiga dödsstöten för den liberala migrationspolitiken i hela EU?
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@0xAbhiP Nah, standard on international food has been going up for reals the past years imo
Have had arguably the best napolitan(peppina), tapas(bar sociedad) and burger(barneys) in Bangkok recently
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@Croxaki @Pickle_cRypto Rust vs Solidity (coding languages)
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@Pickle_cRypto Can you ELI5 to me the difference and how Solana couldn't have problems like that?
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Ethereum / EVM / solidity is not secure, never will be
This adds to idea that Solana / SVM / rust will be the chosen (public open) chain for finance/RWAs on a long enough timeline
Resolv Labs@ResolvLabs
Resolv has experienced an exploit that allowed the attackers to mint 50mn of unbacked USR. The team has currently paused all the protocol functions to prevent further malicious actions and is actively working on recovery.
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I just tried wallet.tempo.xyz, made a wallet and I will probably build some stuff over the weekend. However, the login experience made me reflect on some things:
1. Account abstraction is actually as easy as the Paradigm bros were telling us.
2. Ethereum needs this ASAP. we can't wait for a bunch of wallets to slowly integrate this. strongly starting to believe that this needs to happen fast and waiting is increasingly a mistake.
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@walsxbt Im really tempted to move there and enjoy their new no-tax for crypto initiative
The thing is you have to go through their thai-exchanges. I guess that would be very risky/not optimal if you’re planning on a fatFIRE-exit, ie larger sums
Whats your thought here Wals?
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@ASvanevik Alex, can I PM you?
It’s off topic but a quick relevant thai question
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Thailand is amazing yes.
At Nansen if you work in Product/Engineering/Design we’ll give you $20,000 to move to Bangkok where our Product Hub is.
And you’ll save even more on taxes by doing so.
Wals@walsxbt
Thailand is the best country in the world I like it all: 🇹🇭 culture 🇹🇭 people 🇹🇭 food 🇹🇭 nature 🇹🇭 affordability & comfort 🇹🇭 freedom Name a better country, I’ll wait
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