aldomilyar
3d ago
I hit a pretty solid exit from a tech company a couple years ago so day to day expenses are well within passive income. Also some occasional remote consulting if opportunities pop up since my ex-field is still very much in the 'sell pickaxes to hopeful VCs' space.
Genuinely it doesn't take much to exist in Malaysia, though. I don't really track spending religiously but I'm living a very nice upper-middle class life for maybe 1.5k USD a month inclusive of a bunch of regional travel.
aldomilyar
4d ago
Yeah I've moved from Australia to Malaysia with admittedly a decent amount of accumulated savings and it's crazy how I can carve out essentially the same existence here for a third of what it'd cost in Australia to get anything barring tech items. Plus the upper-middle class cohort of high school/university friends I had in Australia is very decidedly not buying property or reproducing whilst my wife's about-equivalent cohort has a bunch of property and children at the same age.
aldomilyar
4d ago
I think most of this can be explained by the fact that Thailand is a country who's economy is heavily dependent on tourism. When that's the case, they will optimize to make tourists happy over other concerns.
Shouldn't this be the opposite? The place that's massively dependent on tourism with no real domestic economy should be rorting the fuck out of Rich Westerners whilst the place that actually has a diversifed economy should just have more of a fair market price for things?
aldomilyar
13d ago
I feel like Foot Fetish is its own kinda weird thing where it's either a hard yes or a hard no for people. Maybe I'm totally off-base but I don't think it's the sort of fetish you slippery slope on it's more binary and inbuilt.
aldomilyar
14d ago
I think you're vastly underrating how much easy sex is available in the Gulf if you've got a decent amount of money.
Gulf's probably more unique for amount of random familial-based money (especially from a source that renews like an allowance rather than allowing an enterprising degenerate to blow it all at once)
aldomilyar
14d ago
How exactly?
The 'money laundering' thing for crypto is just as much about people with vast amounts of money essentially stuck on the blockchain whether it be due to difficulties of offshoring or just already having bought a 10/10 lifestyle in their developing economy of choice and not really having any further utility from money. Who then get bored and yeet it on random shit since it's just numbers at that point.
Onlyfans doesn't really let you ingest money outside of the electronic banking system practically and even if you did it's taxed as regular income.
aldomilyar
14d ago
20% still isn't that bad. Opening a hair dressing shop in order to launder money is a lot more work.
Yeah but a lot of that is frontloaded and once you've got it ticking over you've got a very viable platform for turning dirty cash into bankable money. Also in a lot of Western countries you can potentially double dip by getting 'skilled employee' visas by curating your business to fit into whatever the overlords are saying is undersupplied, which opens up plentiful revenue streams on that side.
aldomilyar
14d ago
I don't think Saudis/Middle East familial money types are necessarily unique in those qualities but they're definitely the usual suspects when chasing down insane pareto spending on something like this.
aldomilyar
15d ago
Yeah. The chavette's likely a member of the permanent antisocial underclass. On the other hand, what world view is going to suggest that shipping in members of Europe's permanent antisocial underclass to live on government handouts next to the antisocial underclass is going to accomplish anything especially positive?
aldomilyar
15d ago
Also it feels like MtF are more likely to try and achieve some sort of performative attractive sexbomb femininity, whilst FtMs acknowledge they're not going to be Arnold Schwarznegger even with Estrogen blockers so settle for the invisibility of a 5'5 chubby guy.
aldomilyar
15d ago
Maybe he meant 'child rearing' and married with many kids.
aldomilyar
15d ago
Putting on my ecommerce hat and looking at the graph in https://instagram.com/reel/DN6HkAKDhYp/ from ostensibly the biggest Onlyfans seller. I'm kinda surprised how consistent the monthly earn looks to be aside from that one huge spike. I do suspect that a girl like Sophie's probably powered by a few whales (and having worked in online gambling it is frankly insane how whale a whale can be).
aldomilyar
15d ago
Having worked in similar vice industries I feel like that's surely gotta be some sort of insane relationship with a singular whale to make the majority of that (who could frankly be taking a sexual thrill in her publicizing the numbers). Sophie's pretty but I'd be gobsmacked if that was sheer weight of $50 users.
Having worked in online gambling a fair bit I'd kinda love to know the distribution of who's actually paying these sums.
Surely Sophie's gotta have some insane pareto principle where she's got some Saudi Paypig who's absolutely blasting on the dream.
Though looking at the payment graph from https://instagram.com/reel/DN6HkAKDhYp/ it seems remarkably flat aside from that one big month.
aldomilyar
15d ago
Yeah once you're in the electronic payment loop it's fairly hard to engage in anything too discrete. The hard part is getting the cash and/or crypto into that loop, not channeling it once it's already in there.
aldomilyar
16d ago
Yeah. Considering how unsympathetic the protagonists of 'unfair self defense/police violence' media circuses have been in the last few years I'd be shocked if a literal 12 year old girl didn't get the full weight of the media in her favor regardless of whatever she'd been up to prior.
aldomilyar
16d ago
"Officer, these kids were waving around what looked like sharp weapons, and threatening me directly. I don't want to have to kick them in the face, so can you please make them stop this bullshit?"
Have you been to the planet Earth? Is he sending this through to 911 via telepathy, or somehow this police officer is standing near enough to watch the video and yet not already intervening?
aldomilyar
16d ago
Short of like an active assault or murder attempt I can't really imagine trying to film a low-grade violation with any pathway to reporting it to anybody.
aldomilyar
16d ago
Yeah but he's very firm on trying to escape India (for a myriad of justified reasons inclusive of locals)
aldomilyar
21d ago
Yeah my understanding is that even in a lot of gerrymandered situations the boots on the ground for the party that's losing out would frequently rather have one ultra-secure seat to enable a 30 year tenure in the House versus 2 55-45 seats in which they've got competition coming both internally and from the other side. Plus more vulnerable to random macro upheavals.
There's a reason a bunch of the longest house tenures are Southern Democrats who essentially sit in Rotten boroughs.
aldomilyar
24d ago
Personally my view on the white collar replacement thing is more that AI can replicate most of the beige do-nothing-particular existing that defines a huge chunk of the white collar economy for far less per head. I don't think that AI's necessarily gonna launch a new frontier, but there's so much essentially complete dead-weight in the white collar economy and that might be a catalyst towards rationalization.
aldomilyar
1mo ago
I agree that Malaysia walkability is generally awful, but I've been to about 60% of the country's major cities and have only seen pockets of what I'd consider proper Poverty. Even places like Sabah and Sarawak tend to have a floor of 'okay' housing, for a given value of okay. I've lived in Darwin and spent time in Broome & a few other parts of Northern Australia and I've seen a lot worse than the typical Malaysian dwellings in a similar climate.
Personally I'd consider KLCC a bit of a confusing dump. Petaling Jaya is where most of the best areas for livability are, partly due to demographic reasons and there's islands of gated communities practically everywhere in the greater Klang Valley. Also the vibes in Putrajaya where it's the government swinging around large amounts of oil money and still a bit of a ghost town are quite different to the affluent suburbs of PJ.
aldomilyar
1mo ago
Yes and no.
I live in a 'demographic outpost of Singapore' suburb in the Klang Valley which is nice for that reason. Kuala Lumpur City Center is an outpost of oil money and is also pretty nice without being a demographic outpost of Singapore perse. Malaysia's rich enough and construction's cheap enough that the better areas are on par with what's available down South. The gap's closed in a lot of ways
I've got a 1 year old.
If a magical pill existed that instantly flipped my daughter's gender to male and then society proceed to see her as a male and she went from quite-likely to commit suicide with 'gender dysphoria' to absolutely cured of 'gender dysphoria' by the pill. I would probably be a little put-off by her taking the hypothetical magical pill when she's an adult, but largely fine.
Alternatively if we existed in an alternate universe where gender was solely defined by what color badge you wore, and everybody was happy to change their perspectives of an individual's gender if they swapped from the blue badge to the red badge. Bit weird, but nothing fundamentally wrong with it.
Unfortunately the current gender-transition thing is an insane death cult that overwhelmingly leads to suicide and invasive surgeries that create a very distant proxy of the target gender appearance.
I was aware of Kirk but more as 'Shapiro clone with a moon face' and some vague Prager-associated memories of him getting lashed for something about Slavery (but I may have misremembered them) but now I've done a bit of research he's less obnoxious.
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