Message from @Trunksüchtig
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yeah that's what I told the investor
Visegrad Post ran out of money in 2017 and had to fire everyone
now they just run badly-translated opinion pieces
People don't read them to get informed, they read it to assure they are right, and that market is full on both sides
I tell people the same thing when they ask me if I'm going to report on the 2020 presidential election
there's no way for me to do it without a big paycheck and no one's going to give that to me
unless I sing their tune
I like Mariann, she's a friend of mine, but Magyar Hirlap is incompetent
I have another friend at PestiSracok, they have the same problems
Yeah, that's right. And 888 is intentionally insane
Good right wing or even unbiased journalists are hard to find
moreover any attempt at honest reporting, if it gets traction, will just make me a target
for example I'm not going to Poland this year for the independence celebrations
not after Jared Taylor was banned and the government is probably on high alert for foreign "extremists"
it's high-risk, zero-reward
I would rather sell weird novels about sex addiction
Yes, that is how it is, unfortunately
there's more money in running a book and merch publisher
I am prob going back to Budapest soon once the merch store is online to get some models for a store shoot
Melissa used to do that for a living, I'll ask her if she can hook me up with some photographers etc.
ah cool
this project's not coming to fruition for a few months
the first book hits the production line, then I talk to my friend at the merch store and he gets the shirts etc. up
he uses generic models but I want to go the extra mile because I have the money
Isn't it feasible to run it from there? Lack of models?
I looked into it, the scene in Georgia is a joke
everyone with a clue has moved to Russia or Europe
the economy here is in freefall after Putin's flight ban
that's good from an expat perspective because the value of the lari has sufficiently declined to make Georgia one of the cheapest expat destinations in the world
but it's bad because human capital is fleeing left and right
also Georgians are...incompetent
to put it mildly
starting to suspect those "low corruption" indices are goosed
How so? Lazy?
it's very clannish and everything here relies on familial connections
Tbilisi is a bit better than the rest of the country
The latin American model, I see
but in general the economy is very cartelized
not as bad as Armenia but still very annoying to deal with it
Hungarians and Poles are more on the ball