Simo East

@EvanWritesOnX @dystopian_DU There’s partial truth to this, but Grok explains the nuances: x.com/i/grok/share/6…

Australia was not established as a nation-building project. It was established as an extraction platform. The British did not colonize Australia to build a civilization. They colonized it to extract l; first convict labor, then wool, then gold, then minerals, then gas. The political architecture was built around that extraction logic from day one, and it has never been restructured away from it. You assume the state exists to serve the population, and therefore bad outcomes must mean the state is being run poorly. Australia is not a sovereign state that happens to have a mining sector. It is a private sector extraction platform that happens to have citizens. Every Australian who “owns” a home is servicing a debt instrument that enriches the FIC. The minerals get dug up by foreign-owned multinationals. The profits get distributed to global shareholders. The taxation office is structured; by design, through decades of lobbying, to ensure the extraction proceeds leave the country with minimal sovereign capture. The politicians are doing exactly what the structure requires of them: absorbing public anger, rotating every few years to reset the pressure valve. Australia is not mismanaged. Australia is managed perfectly, just not for Australians.

@SWGoldReport Junior explorer? 😄 I was picturing someone like this:

Junior Explorer Discovers High-Grade Copper-Gold Targets in British Columbia ow.ly/6Mu050YCyqq Golden Sky Minerals Corp. ( $AUEN.V $LCKYF ) reveals five high-grade copper-gold zones in BC, signaling upside potential and exploration growth.

Things might get worse, soon. Be prepared.

@Teslaconomics “Sucking in” can have two different opposing meanings. I thought it referred to “hoovering up”, but it seems to mean the opposite. 😝

For anyone that thinks Tesla is sucking in EV sales… you should take a look at Q1 2026 pure EV deliveries of other companies: • Tesla: 358,023 (*official today*) • BYD: 310,389 • NIO: 83,465 • XPeng: 62,682 • GM: ~25,900 • Rivian: 10,365 • Ford: 6,860 • Lucid: ~4,985

One of my hopes is to age into a better mindset. The general trend seems to become less open minded, less resilient, less capable of handling change with ease and flexibility as the years roll by. I hope to grow in the opposite direction. How can my mindset be better today than it was yesterday?

In my opinion, forcing prices to stay low is going to worsen the supply issues. Higher prices is the only real method of balancing supply and demand, without stepping into forced rationing.

@AvidCommentator Agreed. Here’s a post of mine from a few days ago:

In the coming weeks more folks are going to understand the concept of a crisis of availability vs solely a crisis of prices. People cannot sell things that they physically dont have.

💯

We’re are at the point of history where most April Fool’s jokes are indistinguishable from totally real things that happen regularly now. 😅

@australian “Don’t take more fuel than you need.” Wasn’t that his govt stockpiling strategy that is now terribly inadequate? And we’re supposed to replicate that?

Anthony Albanese calls for calm ahead of the Easter holidays, as he tells people not to load up on fuel and consider public transport. Read more: bit.ly/4m3ffH7

@australian x.com/simoeast/statu…

@ellymelly x.com/simoeast/statu…

Albanese should be in Washington right now. Why isn’t he? 🫤 At 7pm, this National Address will be broadcast across all TV and radio stations. Which means that no one under 40 will hear it. We can expect zero solutions and a whole lot of Covid-style ‘voluntary’ guidelines and future restrictions that will almost certainly be in place by the end of April. When you hear phrases such as, ‘All in this together!’ and ‘Play your part!’ you know the government has no idea what to do except apply the iron fist of government control. Article | spectator.com.au/2026/04/the-cr…

None of these are fully open source, but they offer excellent free plans: @Github - repos, site hosting @Cloudflare has heaps of free services and free tiers on DNS, attack protection, pages, cloud workers, etc. @Figma free version is brilliant. Use it regularly. @Trello and @Grok also offer very capable and generous free tiers.

What free software is so good you can't believe it's free?

@readswithravi Unless you’re a perfectionist, in which case you might need to just chill a little and be OK with 80-90% because perfecting takes you the rest of the day! 😅 Guilty.

James Clear on having high standards:

@AlboMP x.com/simoeast/statu…

We've just introduced laws to crack down on petrol price gouging with huge fines.

@philcip17 @andrewbogut @AlboMP Selling a product at the cost of replacing it is not “taking advantage”. x.com/simoeast/statu…

@philcip17 @andrewbogut @AlboMP How is it gouging when there’s high demand and less supply?

Hey @AlboMP Fining for fuel gouging is all good and all but perhaps read the tweet below........ Might work better.......

@r0ck3t23 Can’t tell if you’re agreeing with Andreeson or not.

Marc Andreessen just said something that would end most public figures on contact. He practices zero introspection. And he believes the entire framework was invented and sold to you. Andreessen: “Zero. As little as possible. Move forward. Go.” Not a calibrated amount. Not a healthy minimum. Zero. The man who has deployed more capital into transformative technology than almost any living person does not look backward. Does not dwell. Does not self-examine. He builds. So why does everyone else think they should? Andreessen: “All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy are kind of manufactured in the 1910s, 1920s.” Everything you were taught about psychological self-awareness is not ancient wisdom. It is not a universal law of the human mind. It is a framework. Built in Vienna. About a hundred years ago. By one man and the movement he started. Before Freud, no one building anything real thought this way. Andreessen: “Great men of history didn’t sit around doing this stuff.” They did not journal their feelings before making decisions. They did not run ambition through a filter of guilt before acting. They saw the thing. Built the thing. Moved. David Senra has read over 410 biographies of the world’s greatest builders. Every single one runs the same way. Senra: “Sam Walton didn’t wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and kept doing it over and over again.” No emotional audits. No existential loops. No self-examination before execution. Just the work. Every morning. For decades. Then Andreessen named the mechanism. Andreessen: “The individual needs to self-criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt. It never resonated with me.” He called it a guilt-based psychological update installed across Western civilization. One that convinced ambitious people their first instinct should be self-doubt. Then the line that lands hardest. Andreessen: “I find people who dwell on the past get stuck in the past.” That is not philosophy. That is pattern recognition from a man who has watched thousands of founders win and fail up close. The ones who dwell do not ship. The ones who loop on self-criticism do not scale. The ones who relitigate every past decision cannot move fast enough to matter. Look at who is actually building right now. Not pausing to assess implications. Not waiting for public consensus. Not scheduling emotional audits before the next product cycle. Running the same operating system as every builder Senra has ever studied. See the thing. Build the thing. Wake up and do it again. A hundred years of therapy culture told ambitious people their biggest obstacle was inside them. The builders didn’t listen. And you’ve spent your whole life learning their names.

Why does everyone want stricter fuel price gouging measures? Frankly, I would rather have expensive fuel than none to buy at all. If some companies decide to raise their prices in order to be able to source fuel from alternate sources and not run dry, then they should be able to.

We’re also cracking down on petrol price gouging with huge fines. Because there's no excuse for increasing profits at the expense of Australians.

We're halving the fuel tax for three months to save you money when you fill up. Conflict overseas is pushing up prices at home. And we know Australians are feeling the pressure.