mattgm

in the arena trying stuff

[mattgm @MParrika]

@SparkingFIRENC 100% true

[mattgm @MParrika]

looking forward to flying to the amazing helsinki airport soon. my favourite airport in the world.

[mattgm @MParrika]

@beniduboss great post. been living here for 10 years and proud to call switzerland home

[Alexander Stubb @alexstubb]

Finland is the Happiest country in the World for the 9th year running. We also climbed up the world brand index from 7th to 5th.

I am often asked why we do well in these rankings.

I do not think there is a magic potion, but it helps to have a society which strives towards freedom, equality and justice.

The basis of it all is a welfare society, a robust education system, a sense of security and a close attachment to nature.

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy society, but providing some building blocks that give us a chance to live a meaningful life, to help others, will nudge us in the right direction during the journey of life.

[mattgm @MParrika]

Sold 50% of my HYPE at 50%+ profit, perhaps too early but we'll see

[mattgm @MParrika]

heavily long btc and hype now.

[mattgm @MParrika]

big milestone crossed today. for the first time ever I hold more than 1 BTC

[mattgm @MParrika]

@benjamincowen fully agree on this!! (ps. not a an AI bot :))

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @JDVance: As a congressional democrat, I will answer your question.

The reason investigations are conducted before reflexively making a judgement is because no one knows all the facts in the immediate aftermath of a tragedy. You unfortunately have already concluded, without all the evidence, that the victim was a deranged leftist trying to run the officer over, and that the officer was defending himself.

New evidence, however, suggests the victim was a U.S. citizen, a mother of three, a Christian and had recently dropped her child off at school.

Additional video footage also suggests the second and third shots fired by the officer occurred when the officer was to the side of the vehicle as the car was driving away. Under the law each firing of the gun is analyzed separately.

Witness testimony also suggests one of the ICE agents told the driver to MOVE, MOVE, MOVE. The driver may have been trying to comply with potentially conflicting instructions from different agents. Slow motion video from various angles also shows the vehicle appears to have been turning when the officer fired the first shot, and certainly that was the case by the second and third shots.

Your reflexive never admit wrong approach is not only based on zero investigations, it also leads to increased risks to federal officers. The American people will get increasingly agitated and angry if they believe the Trump Administration will never hold anyone accountable ever.

If you want to bring down the temperature, if you want to reduce the risks of violence against federal officers, then you need the American people to believe that you and the Administration will make decisions based on facts and will comply with the rule of law.

It is also highly suspicious that the Administration is refusing to cooperate with local and state officials as they conduct their investigations. There is no reason to make the American people think there is some sort of coverup. Allow all the investigations to be conducted fairly and with transparency.

So I respectfully request that you and the Administration stop pre-judging this case, and stop making incendiary or smear the victim comments that appear to be contradicted by additional new evidence. I also request that the federal officials cooperate with all the state and local officials. That is the American way, and will help calm the situation down.

[mattgm @MParrika]

@JDVance You people are deeply sick. Kind regards, a very happy European

[mattgm @MParrika]

@AviFelman I loaded up on march $70 ibit calls, hope we print mate

[Dutch 🇳🇱🧡 @Mio_Mind]

X is swamped with Americans claiming Europeans are poor.

Zoom out. It’s so ridiculous.

It’s like Elon 🇺🇸 sitting on a yacht with Bernard Arnault 🇪🇺, where Elon is claiming Bernard is a Europoor.

Meanwhile the yacht is off the coast of Africa where everybody is poor.

[mattgm @MParrika]

@dgardner I sure am happy to live in Switzerland. Americans who shout here the loudest about Europe being dictatorship have probably never left the country.. so sad and pathetic lol

[Dan Gardner @dgardner]

Re: Europe is "among the least free peoples on Earth".... Here are the rankings produced by Cato, a right-wing American think tank. There are many more such lists but this one is weighted toward right-wing preferences.
The level of delusion of these people...

[VEO @vrexec]

There’s this recurring trope that Europe is overregulated and the US is this sort of free-wheeling world where anything goes.

As with everything, the reality is far more nuanced. I used to believe this trope myself… until I actually lived in Europe and experienced it.

In Europe, regulation often operates at the collective level.. think healthcare, labor protections, food standards, infrastructure. These regulatory frameworks are heavy by design in that they create stability by increasing broad citizen-level confidence in them actually functioning.

But at the individual level, daily life can be far looser. There are playgrounds in Europe that would be illegal in the US due to their “danger.” People rarely wear helmets.. not even toddlers.. on bicycles in many places. Kids climb trees higher and parents barely care or even notice. Farms are open.. kids can climb all over haystack mountains and nobody asks if their farmer is insured.

There is a playground in the NL of *literal* piles of discarded shipping pallets and construction debris with rusty jagged nails sticking out everywhere… and little kids climb all over them with hammers connecting random pieces together. One false step and you’re slicing an artery or losing an eye. Yet there is barely any adult supervision, parents don’t care, and nobody is signing any paperwork or waiving liability.

We bring American friends there and they literally cannot believe what they’re seeing. And they don’t let their kids.

Activities proceed on the assumption that risk is visible, understood, and partly if not mostly your responsibility.

Menanwhile… in the US we paradoxically flip this culture.

Collectively, we resist broad social regulation writ large. Individually, though, life is wrapped in micro-regulation everywhere… liability waivers, warning labels, signage, insurance restrictions, endless legal disclaimers. Every activity sees to have some paperwork. Everyone is covering for something.

This is a cultural thing. The US actually uses the legal system as a cover for social risk-sharing.

In much of Europe, the downside of injury or bad luck is partially absorbed by healthcare systems, disability supports, and social insurance. The cost of risk is basically capped for you. The system carries some of the shock.

In the US, harm can be financially catastrophic. When something goes wrong, someone has to pay, and courts become the primary mechanism for redistributing that risk after the fact… not “the government.”

The you had to layer in contingency-based personal injury law and jury trials, and blaming someone else for your problems becomes economically logical. There’s little downside to suing, meaningful upside if you win, and enormous unpredictability for defendants.. hence why insurance costs have become comically absurd.

So what happens…. Businesses respond long before anything reaches court by engineering out risk in daily life… more warnings, more forms, fewer “at your own risk” type playgrounds or other environments.

So Europe can feel more regulated on paper… but in actual lived experience that matters to your day to day existenxe, in the US we are often navigating a far narrower acceptable window of risk.

In many ways, the US is the most highly regulated place in the entire world, by far, it’s just not “the government” doing the regulating.

[mattgm @MParrika]

@TheSuiLegend 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭

[mattgm @MParrika]

@Rewkang why are you like this?

[mattgm @MParrika]

@trevorsumner @Jason @theallinpod fully agree. TBH i have kind of stopped listening the pod as chatmah and sacks are increasingly becoming maga / trump parrots, very little original thought there. Kinda disappointing as i used to listen every episode until 2024

[mattgm @MParrika]

@Route2FI Dude you are tweeting the same tweet several times a week, very repetitive. unfollow