Simon Manning

I'm here to learn what's going on.

[Joshua Riley 🇳🇿 @VoteSovereign]

Nat/Lab/Act's India FTA, with negligible economic value, was a Christmas tree used to hang globalist agendas - entrenched in a treaty:

1. Mass immigration
2. Paris carbon grift
3. UNDRIP
4. CBDC
5. $33B FDI to India

These were not merely "slipped in" by some rogue activist

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

That's wonderful however could you please clarify:

How many jobs that used to exist no longer exist because of Net Zero?

How many jobs that would have been created in Britain have not been created because of Net Zero?

What portion of consumer and industrial energy prices do Net Zero taxes and related costs make up?

Had we not pursued Net Zero, would we be lifting sanctions on Russian energy exports as we're currently doing?

And finally, what impact has been made on global CO2 emissions as a result of our pursuit of Net Zero?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good Starship highlights video

[Simon Manning @_Simon_K]

@FutureJurvetson @SpaceX @VisualCap The legacy space is the Milky Way and SpaceX is Orions Belt

[Simon Manning @_Simon_K]

@2ETEKA Work visas and jobs are call options on citizenship in nz and aus. The going rate is $NZ 44,500. What do you need to cash in? A lawn mowing franchise or a pizza franchise...

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The West has created an utterly evil state religion where an accusation of “racism” is the gravest offense that can be committed, even worse than rape or murder!

So if police show up at a crime scene and a British boy is bleeding out and an immigrant says the British boy is racist the cops will cuff the dying British boy.

[🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋 @DeepBlueCrypto]

@C_3C_3 X >> Legacy Media

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Legacy Media did not want us to know about Henry Nowak’s murder.

Legacy Media did not want us to see the Henry Nowak murder.

Legacy Media did not want people calling for justice for the Henry Nowak murder.

But Legacy Media does not control X.

We are the Media now.

Be loud.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Unless you become the media, you will never know the truth

[Simon Manning @_Simon_K]

@2ETEKA I've long said Muldoon was the last PM to genuinely support ordinary new zealanders. 😳

[Holyhekatuiteka @2ETEKA]

Muldoon vs Luxon.
Immigration & Nuclear Energy.

In 1975 Robert Muldoon launched Nationals campaign for Government, he filled halls the country over, campaigning on reducing immigration, infrastructure, increasing exports and generating energy.

The Clip below reminds us of how strong a political performer NZ’s last PM who served in WWII Muldoon was. Luxon may bear a resemblance to him, but has none of his political prowess, or balls.

“We will not be told by academics about this new society, No! what’s wrong with the one we’ve got?! we have built this over 150 years, I will preserve our New Zealand Society, I assure you! that’s why our slogan is NZ the way YOU à WANT IT!
… not the way some person we’ve accidentally imported want to change it into” he barks to Rapturous applause.

“The world wants our lifestyle, and high immigration takes that from our children, I will cut immigration from all countries”

Muldoon was a man of contradictions, hated by some (biggest disaster was getting rid of compulsory super) however he believed in this country, the need to be self resilient and developed energy projects and importantly Hydro which if we didn’t have today, we would be really stuffed.

He also initiated a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Nuclear Power Generation in NZ .It was established in September 1976 (during Muldoon’s term) to examine whether NZ should pursue nuclear power for electricity generation, amid concerns about future energy needs after the 1970s oil shocks. The commission reported back in April 1978.

Main conclusions: No immediate need for nuclear power (New Zealand could rely on hydro, geothermal, coal, etc., for the time being), but it should be kept as a future option, possibly with a plant commissioned around 2005–2007 if the population & demand grew. The report found no environmental,economically, safety barriers that would rule it out.

Today National are a bunch of gormless dullards, too afraid to try new things, call a spade a spade or ditch the Paris Agreement. Luxon could learn from Muldoon some valuable lessons, 1) What the NZ society is 2) What the term ‘Nation State’ means.

Well worth a watch.

[Simon Manning @_Simon_K]

😳

[Holyhekatuiteka @2ETEKA]

Muldoon vs Luxon.
Immigration & Nuclear Energy.

In 1975 Robert Muldoon launched Nationals campaign for Government, he filled halls the country over, campaigning on reducing immigration, infrastructure, increasing exports and generating energy.

The Clip below reminds us of how strong a political performer NZ’s last PM who served in WWII Muldoon was. Luxon may bear a resemblance to him, but has none of his political prowess, or balls.

“We will not be told by academics about this new society, No! what’s wrong with the one we’ve got?! we have built this over 150 years, I will preserve our New Zealand Society, I assure you! that’s why our slogan is NZ the way YOU à WANT IT!
… not the way some person we’ve accidentally imported want to change it into” he barks to Rapturous applause.

“The world wants our lifestyle, and high immigration takes that from our children, I will cut immigration from all countries”

Muldoon was a man of contradictions, hated by some (biggest disaster was getting rid of compulsory super) however he believed in this country, the need to be self resilient and developed energy projects and importantly Hydro which if we didn’t have today, we would be really stuffed.

He also initiated a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Nuclear Power Generation in NZ .It was established in September 1976 (during Muldoon’s term) to examine whether NZ should pursue nuclear power for electricity generation, amid concerns about future energy needs after the 1970s oil shocks. The commission reported back in April 1978.

Main conclusions: No immediate need for nuclear power (New Zealand could rely on hydro, geothermal, coal, etc., for the time being), but it should be kept as a future option, possibly with a plant commissioned around 2005–2007 if the population & demand grew. The report found no environmental,economically, safety barriers that would rule it out.

Today National are a bunch of gormless dullards, too afraid to try new things, call a spade a spade or ditch the Paris Agreement. Luxon could learn from Muldoon some valuable lessons, 1) What the NZ society is 2) What the term ‘Nation State’ means.

Well worth a watch.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tesla IPO market cap was 0.1% of its current value

[Simon Manning @_Simon_K]

"They don't magically come up with new ideas.
They recycle existing ones."

They have recently solved high level maths problems.

If they have the data and you ask the right questions, they undoubtedly will offer new ideas, in as much as all ideas build off earlier ones. Even Newton had foundational knowledge to build from.

[Simon Manning @_Simon_K]

@SimeonBrownMP I miss being able to call a doctors office and get an appointment in less than 3 days. Why did that change.... oh yeah, right. We need so many people here now.

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

Euler went blind in 1771 at 64. He published 1 paper per week in 1775. After dying in 1783 he published 228 more papers.

A third of all papers on math, mathematical physics & engineering mechanics in the latter part of the 18th century were his.

If he was still being cited, his h-index would be around 850.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A British biologist looked at 200,000 years of human history and found that the entire reason humans broke out of poverty was not intelligence, not language, not even agriculture, but one mechanism so simple a 6-year-old could explain it.

His name is Matt Ridley.

He is a zoologist by training, an evolutionary biologist by career, and in 2010 he wrote a book called The Rational Optimist that quietly argued the most important fact about human progress had been hiding in plain sight for the entire history of economics.

Naval Ravikant has been telling people to read everything Ridley has ever written for the last 15 years. The reason is the argument inside this one book.

For 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans walked around with the same brain you have right now. Same skull size. Same neural architecture. Same raw capacity for language, planning, and abstract thought.

For roughly 190,000 of those years, almost nothing happened. Generation after generation lived and died inside the same Stone Age toolkit their great-great-grandparents had used. Then somewhere around 50,000 years ago, the line on the chart of human progress started to tick upward. Then it bent. Then it exploded.

The question Ridley spent years on was the only question that mattered. What changed.

It was not the brain. The brain had been the same for 190,000 years. It was not language, which had existed long before the takeoff. It was not even agriculture, which arrived only 10,000 years ago and was actually preceded by the upward bend, not the cause of it.

What changed was that humans started trading with strangers.

This sounds too small to be the answer. Ridley argues that it is the answer to almost everything. The moment one human exchanged a useful object with another human from a different group, something happened that no other species on earth had ever done.

Two ideas that had developed in isolation came into contact. The flint knapper learned what the spear maker had figured out. The fisherman from the coast learned what the hunter from the forest had figured out. The two pieces of knowledge fused into something neither side could have produced alone.

Ridley calls this ideas having sex. The phrase sounds frivolous and it is meant to. The point is that ideas, like genes, get better when they combine with other ideas from different lineages.

An idea sitting inside one head, no matter how brilliant the head, eventually hits a ceiling. The same idea exposed to ten thousand other ideas does something genes do under sexual reproduction. It mixes. It recombines. It produces offspring nobody planned.

The cleanest proof of this argument is the most uncomfortable case study in the book. Tasmania.

Around 10,000 years ago, rising sea levels cut Tasmania off from mainland Australia. A population of roughly 4,000 humans was now isolated on an island, with no possibility of contact with the rest of humanity. They had the same brains. The same language. The same starting toolkit as their cousins 150 kilometers north. The natural experiment was now running.

What happened next is something no economist or geneticist had ever predicted.

The mainland Australians kept inventing. Boomerangs. Spear-throwers. Fishing nets. Bone needles for sewing fitted clothes. Watercraft with paddles. Their technology compounded slowly across the centuries.

The Tasmanians went the other way. They did not just fail to invent the new tools their cousins were developing. They started losing the tools they already had. Fishing was abandoned within a few thousand years. Bone tools disappeared. Fitted clothing disappeared. They forgot how to make fire from scratch and started carrying lit firebrands from camp to camp instead, relighting their fires from a neighbor's whenever their own went out.

By the time European explorers arrived in the 17th century, the Tasmanians had the simplest toolkit of any human society ever recorded. Their material culture had gone backward for 8,000 years.

The archaeologist Rhys Jones called it a slow strangulation of the mind.

Joseph Henrich at Harvard later proved with formal mathematical models that there was nothing wrong with Tasmanian brains. There was something wrong with their network. A toolkit requires a critical mass of people exchanging skills to maintain itself.

The act of teaching a skill is imperfect. Every generation loses a small percentage of what the last generation knew. If your population is large enough and trading widely enough, those losses get caught and corrected by someone else who still remembers.

If your population shrinks below a certain threshold and stops mixing with outsiders, the small losses compound until entire technologies disappear.

This is the part that should haunt anyone reading this in 2026.

Intelligence is not a property of the individual brain. Intelligence is a property of the network the brain is connected to. A genius in isolation will produce less than a mediocre thinker inside a dense exchange of other mediocre thinkers.

The thing your ancestors needed in order to break out of 190,000 years of stagnation was not better brains. It was better connections between brains they already had.

The implication for any individual is direct and uncomfortable. If you are smart and isolated, you will be outproduced by people half as smart who are connected.

The most successful people in any field are almost never the smartest people in it. They are the ones positioned at the intersection of the most idea flows. They are reading more authors than their competitors. They are talking to more people from more disciplines. They are in the rooms where ideas from different lineages bump into each other.

Ridley ends the book on the line that sounds optimistic but is actually a warning its this "The future will be invented by people who connect ideas, not by people who guard them."

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

This is a real father.

He's not going to stop fighting until he gets justice for his son.

The whole country is behind him.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! American film icon Clint Eastwood turns 96 today!

[Simon Manning @_Simon_K]

@EmmaVitz @JosephMooneyMP For absolute rubbish!

[Simon Manning @_Simon_K]

@EmmaVitz @JosephMooneyMP As a consulting engineer working for myself I was pretty productive, and very cheap!

When I joined a large firm I learnt that certain clients, (local governments) can be induced to pay by the pound.