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It's tweets like this that promote Poland :)
Come and visit! It's nice!
🇵🇱 Okay my final Poland video because we're leaving soon!
It was really fun and we had a great time
I liked Warsaw most to be honest, a very modern city, a bit like East Asia in terms of modernity, with rapid delivery services and apps, everything just works great and fast
I'm not saying it's perfect btw, there's moments where you still realize it's Eastern Europe (or as they'd like to call it Central Europe) but then the difference is they generally solve problems fast and pragmatically
Many shops you go will actually have a long line at the checkout, annoying, but usually there's a second checkout but it's closed
That's because Poland too has a big labor shortage, one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe, so they too kinda have to import people, but they choose to import them from Ukraine and Belarus (and some South Asians actually too)
But wait, so that checkout line is closed yes? I'm so used to Portugal where there is zero incentive to then open another checkout counter but in Poland usually within a few minutes they notice it's busy and open another counter. I know, basic stuff but hard to come by these days. They're fast and pragmatic
Ordering flowers for my gf was easy, the flower shop has an IG (but I don't) so I msg them over Whatsapp, they immediately respond, give me some options, I say what I want, address, payment link with Stripe (!) and done delivered at my hotel by a nice guy. All soooo smooth. Fast response, friendly people. Things just work here!
Poland has done a great job keeping bad immigrants out while bring good immigrants in. The Ukrainians and Belarussians are neighbors and their cultures overlap strongly with Poland. So they fit in easily. Same cultures, same religions, same routines etc. for the most part
A young Polish Uber driver I talked to said to him Krakow (his city) looks just like Lviv in Ukraine, so it's easy for Ukranians in Poland to integrate
There's a lot of police presence in places, and military vehicles also (probably cause of the Ukraine war), the security at the Warsaw Airport is not done by some 5 layer outsourced company with staff that hates you, but by friendly people from the Polish Border Guard (Straż Graniczna) wearing military uniforms
Warsaw has lots of skyscrapers now, and actually the tallest in Europe now at 310 meters is the Varso Tower, crazy!
Poland is a booming economy and growing fast. When you're growing of course it's easy to make things go well. I'd say it's important for Poland to look ahead carefully and don't make the same mistakes that Western Europe did when everything was going well and we were very rich
We became complacent, stagnant, added regulatory burdens, became overly obsessed with climate change and the environment, and imported the lowest quality tier of people from cultures that hate our guys and are diametrically opposed to Western culture
That last part is especially interesting considering Poland's history, where 6 million (!) or 20% of the country was ruthlessly murdered in World War II
I think that gives them the power to not have to be politically correct about immigration like Germany, because Poland after all was the victim, while Germany then was the purpetreyor. Which is why Germany does have to be so politically correct about it, due to extreme historical guilt
You walk on the streets of Poland in the day and at night and you see the difference what sane policy does to daily life
We're all dealing with the echoes of history
So my message to my Polish friends: don't make the same mistakes Western Europe did and you will soon be the richest, safest, most modern country in Europe and hopefully then have the power to be the new leader of Europe
And maybe you can then save Europe as a whole!!
Niech żyje Polska! 🇵🇱
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Hubert Kowalski retweeted
To jest mój Prezydent ✌️
A o aktualnej sytuacji gospodarczej w Argentynie można mnie posłuchać na kanałach @PBPaszportu oraz u @drPNapierala
‘Los impuestos son un robo, y lo digo yo que soy el Jefe del Estado’
Señores, @JMilei me representa.
Miałem coś do załatwienia dziś w @zus_pl - przy próbie logowania żadne smsy nie dotarły a na koniec "Błąd komunikacji z serwerem, spróbuj później"
ECH...
Hubert Kowalski retweeted
Experience gives perspective. Programming is not dead, and never will be.
It's late September 2026. Sometime in September 1976, just after I entered college, I wrote and ran my first serious program. I have now been a programmer for literally 50 years.
And man, I have seen it *all*. Punched cards to glass ttys on minicomputers to workstations to the earliest micros. I've written business software, communication programs, development tools, games, language implementations, kernel device drivers, graphics libraries, a few critical pieces of infrastructure, and all manner of odd programs for which there is no taxonomy. Coded in a score of languages some of which are now forgotten. I've run over 70 open-source projects and contributed to at least as many more.
Along the way I noticed a few things, and wrote about them, and that made me famous. But I'm not here to write about that today. I'm here to write about what it means to be a programmer and a technologist with the Singularity upon us.
I have lost count of the number of times I have been told "programming is over". You kids may think this is a new claim that came into the world with LLMs. Hah! There's been that kind of talk at every step function in the quality of our programming tools. I first heard it when compilers were replacing hand-hacked assembler in the early 1980s, and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if somebody said it earlier when in-memory code replaced plugboards.
One constant amidst all this change is that the intentions in a user's head do not magically turn into executable instructions that a computer can run. Another constant is the mindset of the people who specialize in bridging the gap between wish and algorithm. A programmer is a programmer is a programmer - the tools are secondary.
"But it's different this time!" some people will say, "AIs are superhuman now!" So? What did you think the optimization stage of a compiler was, chopped liver? We've been relying on tools that exceeded human capabilities all along - we built them precisely because our meatbrains could not otherwise keep up with the demands of the job.
It's been a hell of a ride, that 50 years. I've succeeded and failed and succeeded again. Done a lot of work I'm proud of. Built at least a few things that look like they're going to last. None of that goes away because, hypothetically, an AI might have made me faster.
The work is never done, even if the tools can talk to us now. Because intentions still have to be communicated; people who specialize in that and develop right mindset to do it still have a major advantage over people who don't.
If you're feeling depressed because you spent years or decades developing hand-coding skills that are obsolete now? Buck up. You still have the most important asset - a mind that knows how to think that way.
I'm facing the winds of the Singularity with a smile. Because 50 years and I'm still standing - still shipping code that people can use, still learning, still refusing to be paralyzed by the pace of change.
The best therapy for your uncertainty? Get to work on something.
Hubert Kowalski retweeted
It's really crazy how strongly wealth inverse correlates with regulatory burden
If you make it easy for people to start and run businesses and don't get in their way too much, everyone gets wealthier
If you make it hard for people to start and run businesses and get in their way constantly, everyone gets poorer
You can see the effect clearly within the EU:
Countries with low regulatory burden like Switzerland and Ireland have much higher incomes than places like Spain or Hungary where its regulatory burden is high
nomads.com/europe/chart?char…
PCC (podatek od czynności cywilno-prawnych) to czyste skurwysyństwo: płacisz dochodowy za zarobki, odkładasz na konto gdzie zabiera podatek belki, kupujesz coś (a podatek od dochodu za sprzedaż płaci sprzedawca) a te gnoje myślą że im sie jeszcze 2% z tego należy...
Hubert Kowalski retweeted
W Polsce mamy drogi prąd i paliwa przez niekompetentnych kretynów, oszustów, złodziei i celowo działających szkodników, którzy nami rządzą.
W każdym razie jesteśmy zarządzani tak żeby tak było.
To się nazywa negatywna selekcja postkomuny. Taki system kolonialny.
A ludzie nadal ich wybierają…🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Jak się traci ponad miliard z pieniędzy Polaków?
Ano właśnie tak:
Jakieś patałachy z Pcimia chciały się zabawić w traderów na międzynarodowych rynkach i kryptowalutach, nie mając do tego żadnych kompetencji, doświadczenia, obycia i ogólnie zielonego pojęcia o tym jak to się robi.
Oczywiście nie można wykluczyć, że chodziło głównie o to, żeby te pieniądze ukraść – a do tego przecież nie brakuje u nas różnych cwaniaków. Ale niekompetencja i ogólne prostactwo tej poprzedniej ekipy jest także oczywiście niepodważalne. Dali się wciągnąć w te kryptowaluty jak jakieś dzieci, gdy już każdy rozsądny człowiek widział jak to się musi skończyć…
I tak właśnie Polacy tracą miliardy, zarządzani przez takich kretynów, prostaków i złodziei. Zresztą jednych i drugich.
Czas na kompletną wymianę pokoleniową. Tych wszystkich dziadków i baranów bez pojęcia o niczym trzeba czym prędzej wysłać na niezasłużoną emeryturę.
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Socjalizm, czy to narodowy, czy międzynarodowy, czy oparty na walce klas, czy walce ras, jest całkowicie ekonomicznie nieopłacalny i jednocześnie jest, bo zawsze był, niemoralny. Hitler go stosował, bo nie miał oporów, by stosować niemoralne metody. I to samo Stalin. Obaj to socjaliści, czyli lewicowcy, tylko Hitler to narodowy socjalista, a Stalin to międzynarodowy. Obaj doprowadzili swoje państwa i narody do ruiny, bo do ruiny prowadzi każdy socjalizm.
Does the fact that the Third Reich experienced an economic boom under Hitler prove that socialism is an economically viable system that breeds prosperity? Let’s put that to the test using slavery.
For a hell of a long time, running a slave-labor cotton plantation was a booming business. Enslaved people were treated as capital assets performing simple, backbreaking labor, while the slaveowner pocketed the profits. The system worked, it raked in cash, and it went toe-to-toe with free-market economies—and sometimes even beat them.
Does that mean slavery was an economically superior system? Hell no! All it proves is that, given the technology of the day, that specific way of organizing labor was profitable.
Then along comes the mechanical cotton picker. One of those early machines could do the work of up to a hundred men. Suddenly, the whole economic paradigm flips on its head. You no longer need a hundred cheap laborers you have to house, guard, and force to work. You just need a handful of guys, some capital, a machine, a little know-how, and the right incentives to get the job done.
You have to apply that exact same logic to the Third Reich. In 1933, Germany was sitting on millions of unemployed workers, idle factories, and an economy still in the gutter from the Great Depression. The state turned on the money printer, poured cash into deficit spending, public works, and above all, massive rearmament, rapidly eating up all that slack in the system. Of course production skyrocketed.
But that doesn’t mean they discovered a magic bullet or a superior economic system. Just like the fat profit margins of an 1850s plantation didn’t prove the superiority of slavery. It merely shows that a specific system performed well under a highly specific set of conditions: massive unemployment, idle factories, a command economy dictating resources, and a colossal surge in government demand financed by debt.
The real acid test hits when you run out of that economic slack. And that’s exactly when the Third Reich started hitting a wall with raw material shortages, depleted foreign exchange reserves, financing crises, and inflation, all while the economy was being entirely hijacked by the war machine.
The Third Reich is not proof that socialism—whether it’s national, international, rooted in class warfare, or rooted in race warfare—is a better economic system than free-market capitalism. Just as the profitability of 19th-century cotton plantations and the lavish lifestyles they afforded their owners didn’t prove that slavery made any economic or rational sense. And that’s putting aside the moral issue entirely, because even if something is more profitable but morally bankrupt, a civilized society should stomp it out of existence.
But as it happens, modern socialism is completely economically unviable today, while also being—as it has always been—flat-out immoral. Hitler used it because he didn’t lose any sleep over using depraved methods. Hell, if you try hard enough, you could make the economic case for cannibalism just so the meat doesn't go to waste.
Also - "2 days ago" in Date column is so absurdly wrong it's unspeakable... But SOME people for SOME unknown reason like it and put it in software with no way around it. No option, no format setting...
Hubert Kowalski retweeted
Dear socialist friend,
Nothing is stopping you.
If collective ownership works so much better, you can prove it by next Tuesday. Pool your savings with your comrades. Elect a planning committee. Run a bakery, a farm, a repair shop – shared ownership, equal pay, decisions by vote. All of it is fully legal, today, everywhere in the West. No revolution needed.
And yet.
You want the workers to seize the factories – but you won’t open a food truck with three people from your group chat. You demand collective housing – but you won’t sign a joint lease with people who agree with you about everything.
People have tried voluntary socialism for two hundred years. The communes keep dissolving – the members simply walk out. The only socialist countries that lasted were the ones that locked the borders.
That’s the whole story. Where leaving is allowed, everyone leaves. Socialism only survives where leaving is banned. The people voted – on foot.
Just do it. Or admit that "collective" was always just a word for other people’s property.
