I liked this chart so much I had to recreate it

I flipped the axis so that top right is best (tip by @marckohlbrugge and @daniellockyer)

My chart is based on http://Nomads.com data, which for quality of life includes people actually liking the place, climate, healthcare, schools but also air quality

You can also select [ X ] Only places I've been and it checks your travel history and shows you those, in my case, I've barely been to places in the bottom left (high cost, low quality)

https://nomads.com/best-worst-value-cities

P.S. places at war get a reduced quality of life score on https://Nomads.com as they always have been, doesn't matter who started it, which is why Israel shows as low, without conflict it'd be in the top left (inb4 cancelled)

𝕏 @ThierryBorgeat: https://x.com/ThierryBorgeat/status/2088713999600746527

Here's places I've been mapped

So I barely been to bad value places, except SF!

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Oh dudeeee no way!

So me and @theannalux our trip in December last year was:

🇨🇳 Fly into Beijing (we came from Japan)

Stayed in Aman Summer Palace was a cool experience (now ex Aman)

Then after 2 days flew to Chengdu, stayed there a week, very fun city, we also went to see the pandas, and try the best hotpot in the world

Then high speed train to Chongqing, quite a tourist place but cool for a few days, then high speed train back to Chengdu

Then we flew to Shanghai and an AI company guy there kindly drove us too Hangzhou to check the AI companies there, we visited Alibaba AI very interesting

If you wanna see more tourist/nature stuff Guilin is cool (big mountains)

One thing to know is Google Maps is all wrong in China, because they use some GPS encryption for military reasons, so use Amap! And install Alipay, connect your payment card, via Alipay you can use lots of apps like Didi (Uber of China), many of these apps inside Alipay won't work for foreigners outside of it (or not easy)

Also internet can be challenging, I got an eSIM from Airalo for Asia and it worked to go outside the firewall

Also if you go with family maybe helps to find some local fixer or agent, nobody speaks English (but ppl helpful), so sometimes you can have a difficult situation if you have no Chinese speaker with you. Normally I'd not book tourist tours to for ex Chinese Wall but in China I would because it means you get essentially a local fixer/translator

Food can be difficult too but if you get a good hotel you can just eat Western food there. A good China-only hotel is called Niccolo Hotels, very luxurious, clean and actually great prices too

Have fun!!!!

𝕏 @dhh: https://x.com/dhh/status/2087903552228278677

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One of the best coffee machines in the world is the Moccamaster

It's fully plastic and they don't sell any non-plastic options in 2026

Shows a complete disconnect with the market or just contempt for their customers

Someone should make metal/steel/glass replacement parts

You can't have hot water running through plastic in 2026 anymore, it's just really a dumb idea

𝕏 @micheloosterhof: https://x.com/micheloosterhof/status/2088222225656848684

You look at Fellow, another premium coffee machine brand, and all their stuff that touches water is high grade stainless steel

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I used to put blueberries in there

Until a few weeks ago

When I discovered that blueberries are some of the most pesticide contaminated things you can eat

They have thin skin and are tiny so they're pesticide bombs

The thicker the fruit the better I learnt: pineapple, papaya, mango, banana, cantaloupe or honeydew or water melon

𝕏 @tonyszko: https://x.com/tonyszko/status/2089054547465359481

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I appreciate his honesty

"Personally, I'm just starting to turn a profit now. If you look at the amount I’ve invested over the last 6 years, I'm in the red for now."

Would he have invested his money 6 years ago in the S&P500 he would have now more than doubled it!

But he's only lost money because he chose to study day trading and technical analysis

Both are proven to be bullshit by endless amounts of studies

𝕏 @ImNotAV1rus: https://x.com/ImNotAV1rus/status/2089395637468934152

𝕏 @jiratickets: https://x.com/jiratickets/status/2089380519439937752

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Helicopters are a fundamentally unstable design

@grok fact check me

𝕏 @Globupdate: https://x.com/Globupdate/status/2089675466844127339

✅ Fact check: TRUE https://x.com/i/grok/share/3d9ea996850e425aba3da8fd5273c6fb

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The chart of housing affordability is almost a direct inverse of how many new homes are built

It's that simple

Build more houses!

𝕏 @mfariacastro: https://x.com/mfariacastro/status/2089307324422738126

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🇹🇭 Nomads and expats in Thailand seem to be in the crosshairs of the Thai government and Bank of Thailand this year

Foreigners who have a bank account on a DTV visa are getting them closed, and those trying to open new bank accounts are getting rejected

Also foreigners who own real estate in Thailand through joint ventures with local Thai (a decades long loophole to own real estate where it's actually illegal to own real estate as a foreigner) are now getting forcefully liquidated all over the country

𝕏 @nomadscom: https://x.com/nomadscom/status/2089809482075496896

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This food is super basic, super healthy, super nutrient dense and takes only 1 minute to prepare

But there's no restaurants in the world even serving it

I agree that's a massive gap in the market

𝕏 @DaveySwift: https://x.com/DaveySwift/status/2089777049145880593

1 minute of prep work with airfryer (add salt and pepper and flip after 8 minutes)

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Related @GeorgesStPierre one of the greatest UFC fighters ever doing his first 100kg/225lbs bench press PR

It shows how completely disconnected most people's perception is of strength

If you can do this you're stronger than 99% of people in society!

𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2089870269636641257

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I have data on this

Being without gf (home alone) decreased my recovery by 17%, my sleep by 4% and my resting heart rate by 1%

But it also increased my productivity by 31%

Kind of expected, gf keeps me healthy and if I'm alone I work harder

The more data I collect the more it sticks out though that flying long haul to conferences is the worst thing I can do to my health!

http://caltrack.levels.io

𝕏 @creatine_cycle: https://x.com/creatine_cycle/status/2090336960716120093

Correction: resting heart rate went up 1% without gf (bad)

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Like @lulumeservey says

"Everything is fake now. Fake content by fake influencers with fake engagement from fake followers, launching fake products with fake testimonials. A Potemkin village on a global scale, a glossy facade propped up by heaps and heaps of beige slop. Temu for content."

Being real on the internet is special!

𝕏 @zachmoskow: https://x.com/zachmoskow/status/2090227583874900270

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I remember as a PC guy how I bought my first Apple device, a MacBook Pro, in 2013

I bought it because that's what my brother had (a pro VFX guy) and also a lot of people in startups around then switched to MacBooks

Back then Windows had become such a POS to use

I'm starting to feel we're reaching a similar moment with Apple

I just saw @dhh's Omarchy's foundation announcement and this video by @theo is also accurate

Apple has given a consistent big F U to developers for over a decade, but at least their software worked well enough. The last few years that changed and you start seeing really dumb and messy bugs everywhere especially in iOS but also MacOS

As an example every time I open my camera from my iPhone's homescreen to quickly picture somethig that quickly happened (like a plane flying by slow) I miss it because my Camera app goes into a weird blur freeze or just stays black

Just basic software things Apple can't even do anymore

A big reason for this of course, may I say it, is Steve not being there. Steve was obsessed about details. Modern Apple doesn't care about details at all

Developers are just a tiny sliver of society but they are trend setting and if you lose them, there's a good chance the rest of people will move on to other platforms too

Apple should be studying what's happening now because add this to also investing $0 into AI (which people call a "great move" as models go open, I'm really not sure about that) they might not have a moat left

I know for sure if I switch from a MacBook Pro running MacOS to a Dell XPS with Linux that will be a gateway drug for me to also move my iPhone with iOS to some great hardware phone running a great custom minimal Android install

And I never even considered switching before this year!

𝕏 @theo: https://x.com/theo/status/2090528543746965991

flying by low*

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I was in Lisbon yesterday where we were literally chased by drug dealers because they asked me if I wanted to buy and I said "no thanks"

I try avoid the city, obviously it's localized to a few parts, but I'd also add, not really, it's kinda spreading out to all over the city

There's an entire "crackolandia" now near Campo de Ourique if you drive off from there to the highway, full of crack zombies

Police generally do nothing

Odd about that part btw is it's literally a mix of I think social housing and crack addicts, so you see families having lunch outside while people a few meters away are shooting up

And that part isn't even the worst

𝕏 @RadioGenoa: https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/2090373728664158542

And 6 years ago there was also drug dealers, but they were chill

They'd whisper "cocaine" and you say no and that was it

Never been chased like this

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He's completely right!

Germany does NOT take 50% of everything you make

They take 49.3%!

Source: @OECD

𝕏 @zilvestro: https://x.com/zilvestro/status/2090963475665227868

https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2026/04/taxing-wages-2026-country-notes_491a0e97/germany_649f0784/ca03c391-en.pdf

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This is very interesting and expected

European governments and thus the EU too is losing lots of tax income from Europeans fleeing

Next on the agenda is the European Exit Tax and after that I think they will try to add Worldwide Income Tax (like the US already has) meaning it doesn't matter where you live in the world as a European citizen, the EU will tax you for your entire income!

It's the only way for the EU to stop the financial drain of so many high skilled Europeans physically leaving and setting up companies or finding better paying opportunities elsewhere due to the EU's anti-business regulation

And their increasing expenses of paying social welfare for low quality and low IQ mass immigration they brought in which didn't have the payback they expected!

𝕏 @wilderko: https://x.com/wilderko/status/2090593257201729785

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I think most high skilled Europeans are happy to pay (even high) taxes

That is, if the government does a great job like Singapore or Dubai or Korea or Japan and most things work well

You pay the government for a service and you get safe cities, great public services and great healthcare back

Oh and letting people just be entrepreneurial and improve things themselves by starting businesses, taking a risk and getting rewarded for that

I don't think many people in Europe can say they get any of this now though, so then your highest skilled people flee to elsewhere

You can try chase them around the world and collect their money but it's kind of a scarcity/loser approach, wouldn't you want them to just not flee in the first place?

𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2091474481554334169

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𝕏 @RadicalFalk: https://x.com/RadicalFalk/status/2091529391021146474

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We have to study why progressives will blatantly lie about the current state of their cities to maintain acceptance in their peer groups

I can never figure out why it's seen as inappropriate to them to point out the problems in a city (like homeless, junkies and drug dealers)

Don't they want liveable cities too?!

𝕏 @Fricoben: https://x.com/Fricoben/status/2091227450889982181

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I normally don't do these things but this guy is really special!

His name is Lito (@avioesemusicas) and he's famous in Brazil for making really fun airplane videos, I watch them all the time too

He explains how airplanes work in normal ELI5 language, and also explains airplane crashes etc, lots of people credit him for helping them stop being scared to fly as Lito showed how safe it is

If you ever read Hacker News, you know about prions, which they love to discuss, they're one of the scariest things you'll ever read about, as they can flip seemingly at random in your body and cause Creutzfeldt–Jakob, a terminal disease

I'm Dutch so we had a big outbreak of mad cow disease in the 1990s when I was a kid and I remember it well. You can get it from eating infected meat (but it's very rare), or prions can flip in your body randomly and cause it, or you can have surgery and one of the surgery tools can have it on them from previous patients

The issue with that from what I read is that it's close to impossible to wash off, and it won't die at extreme heats either, you just have to throw away all surgery tools (which you can't)

85% of Creutzfeldt–Jakob is a randomly flipping prion though, so that's most probably

Anyway, Lito here can participate in a promising trial by @Harvard @broadinstitute @ionispharma @mayoclinic but the next batch is only in October, so he's hoping the internet (like this tweet) can help him get in earlier, so he has a chance

And that trial hopefully helps us find a cure for this crazy disease

So if you can spread this, do so! This guy is really awesome, THANK YOU ❤️

𝕏 @canalantenados: https://x.com/canalantenados/status/2091579678167322976

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The more dysfunctional public services are the more you force people to go private and fend for themselves

This moves you into the direction of Brazilification

Rich people will pay for their own walled condos with private security, bulletproof cars, private healthcare, and everything will be high quality but only for the rich. At the same time the rich will build constructions to not pay tax or just flee the country because why would they not?

This pushes down tax income for governments meaning they will have to increase taxes to pay for the already dysfunctional government services

Meanwhile poor people get further isolated, they don't have money to go private so they rely fully on public services which are now worse than they were before. And they get isolated even more and now you have a 2-tier society of rich and poor fully divided

This forces the poor to start robbing the rich and now you get even more private security and rich fleeing the country and less tax income

"Brazilification"

It's a vicious cycle

Now if you had safe cities, great public services, great healthcare, you would never have this problem. You'd have both rich and poor participating in the functioning system. And rich would be happy to pay more because they get a great liveable society!

𝕏 @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2091476185876254816

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I think if you make a sportswear brand that is not plastic but organic materials you will become very rich

They exist but they mostly all suck

I can't find non-plastic swim shorts, gym shorts, and gf can't find non-plastic bikinis, yoga shorts, leggings, etc.

𝕏 @IvanLandabaso: https://x.com/IvanLandabaso/status/2091597966255460431

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