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Simo East

@SimoEast

Truth seeker.

Eastern Victoria, Australia Katılım Haziran 2010
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Simo East@SimoEast·
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Massimo@Rainmaker1973·
Did you know? Australia is on the move fast enough to throw off GPS system. Most people think of continents as fixed in place. But Australia is moving northward at a pace of 2.7 inches (7 centimeters) per year – faster than any other landmass on Earth.
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Batman.🇦🇺
Batman.🇦🇺@Batman2242·
Stop thinking up new ways to tax us, and start thinking up new ways of running the country better.
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Simo East@SimoEast·
RESIST the urge to teach anything to anyone unless you’re asked.
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka

When someone teaches you something you didn't ask to learn, your brain reacts like it's in physical pain. UCLA scientists watched it happen on brain scans in 2003. The same wiring that fires when you stub your toe also fires when someone treats you like you need fixing. Naomi Eisenberger and Matthew Lieberman ran the study and published it in Science. The brain region is the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, which is just the fancy name for your main pain alarm. It doesn't care whether the threat is a hot stove or a friend telling you how to live. A neuroscientist named David Rock built a framework around this in 2008. Five things make the brain feel safe in social moments: status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, and fairness. Take away any of those and the alarm fires. Rock wrote that one of the easiest ways to dent someone's status is to give them advice they didn't ask for. Even hinting that they're doing something wrong is enough. When people are told what to do, they often do the opposite, even when the advice was good. The psychologist Jack Brehm noticed this in 1966, and sixty years of follow-up have confirmed it. The brain is trying to keep your life feeling like your own. Close friends cut each other off with unsolicited advice in about 70% of supportive conversations, often before the friend has even finished explaining the problem. That number comes from a 2016 study by Bo Feng and Eran Magen in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. The closer the friendship, the worse it gets. And the advice tends to make them more stressed, more depressed, and more lonely, not less. Giving advice gives the giver a sense of power, even when nobody asked for it. Michael Schaerer and his co-authors, working across Harvard, Duke, INSEAD, USC, and Singapore Management, published this in 2018 after four experiments with about 700 people. People who chase power volunteer advice more often than others. Whether the student actually improves is a side effect, if it happens at all. So when you feel the urge to teach somebody who never asked, that urge is mostly about you. You walk away feeling a little more powerful. They walk away feeling like they were just told they can't run their own life. Most uninvited teaching is one person's ego dressed up as kindness.

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Matt Van Swol
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol·
It is nearly an impossible task to convey just how amazing kids are to someone who doesn’t have any. The best way I can describe it is this: You spend your whole life thinking you understand love. Then one night, you’ll find yourself standing in a room at 2 a.m., just watching your newborn baby breathe, just to make sure they are still alive. And you realize in that moment that you would burn the entire world to the ground for the slow rise and fall of that tiny chest. You become braver and absolutely terrified at the same time. You start looking for exits in restaurants and worrying about that weird stranger in the parking lot. You discover a capacity for anger and violence you never knew lived in you until you think you might need it because someone might hurt your kid. The first time you see your kid, the entire world changes. You realize you are meant to live for them… not for you. And it feels good. It feels right. Like a key to a door you have always been looking at but could never open. And one ordinary afternoon probably while you’re folding socks or something dumb, it will hit you… This is how your parents loved you. This is what she felt watching you sleep. This is what your dad felt every time he watched you walk out the door. And you had no idea. You spent your entire childhood with no idea.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ It’s so beautiful, words fail to describe it. It’s just right, it was always meant to be this way. ❤️
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Mario Nawfal
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal·
Photographer Phil Thurston shot a wave. Slowed it down until those few seconds became 40. Turns out the ocean is doing something extraordinary every single moment. We're just moving too fast to notice.
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Brian Roemmele
Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele·
“Here’s the secret, you don’t have to play…”
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James Clear
James Clear@JamesClear·
The best view of the game is probably from the stands. But that's not where the action is. And so you have to decide, do you want a nice view or do you want to be in the thick of it and playing the game?
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James Clear@JamesClear·
In the gym, if you experience no stimulus your muscles won't grow. If you step under 10,000 pounds your body will break. Life is similar. Too much challenge makes life hard, but so does too little.
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Simo East@SimoEast·
Fed Budget night is so discouraging. 1. Get taxed more 2. Government spends even more than it brings in 3. Country goes into increasing debt 4. Rinse and repeat 😒 Well at least we’re not getting taxed on unrealised gains. Yet. 🤪
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Rebekah Barnett
Rebekah Barnett@dystopian_DU·
‘Fuel relief’ cash payments of $100 for West Australians. The catch? You need to sign up for digital ID to get it.
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Sahil Bloom
Sahil Bloom@SahilBloom·
A few "boring" things I love: - Going to bed early - Waking up early - Eating simple foods - Saving money - Moving my body - Walking in silence - Reading old books - Avoiding drama Boring is seriously underrated.
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Alex & Books 📚
Alex & Books 📚@AlexAndBooks_·
One of the best feelings from reading is when you find a sentence so good that you have to close the book and stare at the wall for a minute.
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James Clear
James Clear@JamesClear·
You can take things seriously without taking them personally. Our tendency is to turn any criticism or complaint into a personal attack. We reply to it, defend against it, build a counter-argument, lose sleep over it. You don't have to eat everything that is served to you. You can respond to criticism without digesting criticism. Take what's useful, do your best to improve, and leave the rest.
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Simo East@SimoEast·
US oil price is heading back up again. I don’t think we’ve seen the end of the fuel crisis yet.
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James Clear
James Clear@JamesClear·
A Monday morning question for you: Which activities are the best expression of you? Can you spend five minutes doing one of them today?
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Willis Eschenbach
Willis Eschenbach@WEschenbach·
The clearest and most complete disassembling of Marx, socialism, and communism I've ever read. Gold stars for that man. Followed, w.
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans. Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable. Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale. Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné. Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut. À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol. Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée. Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit. Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie. Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags. Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle. Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère. Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision : "La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne) "La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek "Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

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Simo East@SimoEast·
@MarioNawfal The chart includes tourist/visitor visas which are not technically “migrants” unless they overstay their visa. And I don’t think it shows emigration (migration outwards), does it?
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Simo East@SimoEast·
@FuelAustralia Wow. Incredible presentation. Beautifully done. 👏 How’d you create this?
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FuelAustralia.org
FuelAustralia.org@FuelAustralia·
Everyone's seen the charts of tanker flows through the Strait of Hormuz dropping off a cliff in March. Well, here's what you haven't seen: the Strait of Malacca — my research has found oil tanker tonnage through the Strait is down 42% vs pre-crisis levels. Why does this matter? The Strait of Malacca is the chokepoint that feeds the Asian refineries producing ~73% of Australia's refined fuel imports (South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Brunei). Plus a further ~12% from India, which depends on the same Persian Gulf crude but via the Arabian Sea. What does this mean? Less oil is reaching the foreign refineries that supply Australia with refined fuel — and we might not be feeling that yet. This is an early signal I have been watching for. Thread below 👇
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