The chart of housing affordability is almost a direct inverse of how many new homes are built
It's that simple
Build more houses!
π @mfariacastro: https://x.com/mfariacastro/status/2089307324422738126
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It's that simple
Build more houses!
π @mfariacastro: https://x.com/mfariacastro/status/2089307324422738126
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πΉπ 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
π @nomadscom: https://x.com/nomadscom/status/2089809482075496896
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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
π @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
π @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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But there's no restaurants in the world even serving it
I agree that's a massive gap in the market
π @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!
π @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2089870269636641257
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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!
π @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
π @creatine_cycle: https://x.com/creatine_cycle/status/2090336960716120093
Correction: resting heart rate went up 1% without gf (bad)
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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
π @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!
π @zachmoskow: https://x.com/zachmoskow/status/2090227583874900270
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"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!
π @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!
π @theo: https://x.com/theo/status/2090528543746965991
flying by low*
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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!
π @theo: https://x.com/theo/status/2090528543746965991
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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
π @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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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
π @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
π @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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Germany does NOT take 50% of everything you make
They take 49.3%!
Source: @OECD
π @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!
π @wilderko: https://x.com/wilderko/status/2090593257201729785
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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!
π @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?
π @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2091474481554334169
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π @RadicalFalk: https://x.com/RadicalFalk/status/2091529391021146474
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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?
π @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2091474481554334169
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π @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?!
π @Fricoben: https://x.com/Fricoben/status/2091227450889982181
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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?!
π @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 CreutzfeldtβJakob, 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 CreutzfeldtβJakob 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 β€οΈ
π @canalantenados: https://x.com/canalantenados/status/2091579678167322976
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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 CreutzfeldtβJakob, 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 CreutzfeldtβJakob 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 β€οΈ
π @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!
π @levelsio: https://x.com/levelsio/status/2091476185876254816
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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!
π @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.
π @IvanLandabaso: https://x.com/IvanLandabaso/status/2091597966255460431
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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.
π @IvanLandabaso: https://x.com/IvanLandabaso/status/2091597966255460431
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π¬π· Greece now has the highest AC adoption rate in the entire Europe
85% of homes have AC installed, compared to a still measly 20% on average in entire Europe
They love AC so much here that they even installed it at the ποΈ Acropolis! π
Some countries like Spain have pretty good AC rates too at ~41% but they usually set it at a still pretty hot temperature of 26C
Not in Greece, everywhere I go they're blasting freezing cold air and it's set to 18C
An example for the rest of Europe π
π @Arnold_Platon: https://x.com/Arnold_Platon/status/2070057667662406127
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85% of homes have AC installed, compared to a still measly 20% on average in entire Europe
They love AC so much here that they even installed it at the ποΈ Acropolis! π
Some countries like Spain have pretty good AC rates too at ~41% but they usually set it at a still pretty hot temperature of 26C
Not in Greece, everywhere I go they're blasting freezing cold air and it's set to 18C
An example for the rest of Europe π
π @Arnold_Platon: https://x.com/Arnold_Platon/status/2070057667662406127
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Airbnb deletes negative reviews so everything is always 4.7
Google Maps removes negative reviews in many countries as defamation so everything is always a 4.7
Booking sites want you to book so will also happily remove negative reviews for their hotels so everything is always a 4.7
I made a site called http://Hotelist.com (or http://HotelList.com whatever you prefer, I have both!)
It gets ratings from all booking platforms, normalizes them to show the actual score (eg a booking site where most hotels are always between 4 and 4.7 means you can normalize that to a 0 and 5)
It also uses AI vision models to rate hotels based on how they look
And it browses the internet for actual experiences (think blogs and Reddit posts) to get the real opinion about them outside reviews
And it's starting to work, I just stayed in this beautiful boutique apartment hotel called Woo Suites in Athens for $400/night. Clean, nice minimalist interior, working cold AC, central, excellent staff, great healthy breakfast, and we found it through Hotelist!
It's free, I don't make any money on it (actually I lose thousands per month on it to collect data via APIs and web scrapers) and there's no affiliate money bs like other booking sites (they will increase ranking of hotels if they pay sites a higher commission!)
http://Hotelist.com
Tell your friends please!!!!!! π
π @PascalLindenau: https://x.com/PascalLindenau/status/2091778565482094964
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Google Maps removes negative reviews in many countries as defamation so everything is always a 4.7
Booking sites want you to book so will also happily remove negative reviews for their hotels so everything is always a 4.7
I made a site called http://Hotelist.com (or http://HotelList.com whatever you prefer, I have both!)
It gets ratings from all booking platforms, normalizes them to show the actual score (eg a booking site where most hotels are always between 4 and 4.7 means you can normalize that to a 0 and 5)
It also uses AI vision models to rate hotels based on how they look
And it browses the internet for actual experiences (think blogs and Reddit posts) to get the real opinion about them outside reviews
And it's starting to work, I just stayed in this beautiful boutique apartment hotel called Woo Suites in Athens for $400/night. Clean, nice minimalist interior, working cold AC, central, excellent staff, great healthy breakfast, and we found it through Hotelist!
It's free, I don't make any money on it (actually I lose thousands per month on it to collect data via APIs and web scrapers) and there's no affiliate money bs like other booking sites (they will increase ranking of hotels if they pay sites a higher commission!)
http://Hotelist.com
Tell your friends please!!!!!! π
π @PascalLindenau: https://x.com/PascalLindenau/status/2091778565482094964
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I can confirm @xAI was the only Western AI I was able to use when I was traveling in China
Because my eSIM was routed through Hong Kong
Both Anthropic and OpenAI fully block Hong Kong
Again, it's not Hong Kong blocking them, it's them blocking Hong Kong
Also did you know Elon's mom lives in Shanghai?
π @damonchen: https://x.com/damonchen/status/2091726363506123053
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Because my eSIM was routed through Hong Kong
Both Anthropic and OpenAI fully block Hong Kong
Again, it's not Hong Kong blocking them, it's them blocking Hong Kong
Also did you know Elon's mom lives in Shanghai?
π @damonchen: https://x.com/damonchen/status/2091726363506123053
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This is exactly what annoys me about Claude Code
You're treated like a child getting lootboxes just to be able to do your work while you pay massive amounts of money for extra usage tokens
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49413750
I won't use SnekAI but I'll probably switch to @xAI soon
I already run all my sites on them and I trust them as they don't lie all the time
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You're treated like a child getting lootboxes just to be able to do your work while you pay massive amounts of money for extra usage tokens
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49413750
I won't use SnekAI but I'll probably switch to @xAI soon
I already run all my sites on them and I trust them as they don't lie all the time
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Testosterone is the hormone of honesty
π @Templarpilled: https://x.com/Templarpilled/status/2091450874069680156
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π @Templarpilled: https://x.com/Templarpilled/status/2091450874069680156
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I kinda missed at what point the Linux community turned into cosplaying furries
Nice to see Linux will be healing from now on!
π @dhh: https://x.com/dhh/status/2091390705360867525
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Nice to see Linux will be healing from now on!
π @dhh: https://x.com/dhh/status/2091390705360867525
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