This seems similar to the seal-breaking behavior of:
Revoking US treasury bonds in 2022.
Once you start charging tolls, govts needing cash due to large scale deficits will explore and then implement similar tolls.
Gibraltar
Malacca
Bab al Mandab
Another siphon from private to govts.
Super inflationary.
Long term: Bond yields ⬆️ across the board.
@FmrRepMTG Finally, a group of people no grape, bribery, or criminal “prosecution” can muddy up.
The final test of how much America still believes in the constitution vs Fox News.
@Wise@richardquest Send an email out explaining this, would help your customers, and ITS FREE to advise,
I saw my trap messages in Portugal all last week.
Thankfully I rejected and paid euros.
It was 5%
Disagree.
Half of Spain, especially in the north is communist and don’t realize it.
Half of Portugal is the same.
They complain, but secretly:
1. live their lives wanting the govt to take care of them “govt should pay for this and that”
2. always trying to take down attempts at improving socio-economically “this new idea is just another dumb idea”
3. Think working for the state is the highest achievement of “I’ll do less and get paid more — usually for life, as long as I do just enough to not fk it up”
Sorry, but they deserve his dumb ass.
They just don’t like the current iteration of how it looks magnified by a FULL BLOWN communist.
They act communist lite, and they “hate”communism.
Ofc.
Just like Americans who are capitalists but block Chinese EVs and Chinese AI.
We want the best , but not those dangerous Chinese products who can overtake our economy.
KPG is also a tiny spot that is an outlier to most of SEA.
It’s similar to stating that because Miami is in the US, all of the US must be similar to Miami.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
And yes KPG is also a spiritual hub, which naturally attracts more women. There’s a few of those spiritual hubs, and they usually attract more women to your point.
But they are few places like this in Sea and worldwide.
To think that the Chinese would not have run game theory simulations across many models to see who would eventually win the market LONG TERM.
Open Source (Free Now -- subsidized until American Models go bankrupt)
vs
Open AI/Anthropic (Billions upfront, high burn rate, must have captive market within 5 years)
Its an easy waiting game for open source...
The Chinese govt sees 20 years as short term.
@mohithegoat every sport forces announcers to say:
“OH MY GOOOODNESS”
— awkwardly —- while forbidding the most normal English phrase, when you’re excited.
“OH MY GOD”
MLS, UFC, etc etc
I wonder which group made this an unspoken rule
@baumga34559 You are buying peace with that money.
Take it away and watch CH turn into UK.
The federation knows peace costs money.
Be careful what you ask for...most of them have permanent residency.
@thsottiaux Would be nice to have Codex create usable front end design.
Currently: Still prompting Claude or Kimi for a render and some UI/UX help and them importing the images and prompt into Codex.
You don’t “escape” Cuba, via the airport.
They LET you leave.
Nice twist to drum up viewership.
This country has inteligencia that kept Fidel alive through 49 years of attempts.
If they want him out, they apply a bit of pressure, and show him the door, with a bit of “theatre” to make it interesting.
Don’t be fooled.
Escape…lol
Make this kid look like he’s Rambo n shit
They will also hold the record for most trips to a consulate (averaging one a year) plus applications and the dreaded “are you a resident? Issue”
If you hold EU or any other western country and you’re not registered in the current country you are in - as a resident (you aren’t able to renew your passport)
Ex: French citizen must be registered as a resident of Turkey in order to renew his French passport at the Consulate in Ankara.
If you’re in New Zealand for 2-3 months, you gotta leave back to turkey for the renewal appointment.
Totallly kills the point of freedom to have so many paperwork responsibilities that you’re always planning how to renew redundantly.
Headache having too much of a thing.
(And your assistant isn’t able to make it happen —- requires you to be present)
@MikelCobian keep going, Mikel...i last year when i tried to open a TT for marketing from outside the US.
Shadowbanned.
Watching your experience to see how it can work.