No study needed.
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Heard the rich are fleeing using private jets
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Political regimes around the world mapped by type of governance.
#education #geography #map
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In 1973, a scientist had a crazy idea: put 10 strangers on a tiny raft for a 101-day, 6,000-mile journey across the Atlantic.
The goal was to study the root causes of human violence.
The scientist running it was named Santiago Genovés and he believed if he found the reason humans are violent, he could solve world peace.
He believed that human violence stemmed from sexual frustration, and he thought if he put young, conventionally attractive people in a highly dangerous environment, they would revert to their baseline, savage instincts.
His plan was to sit in the corner and take notes as the chaos unfolded.
But a few weeks in, Santiago realized he had a major problem.
The group wasn't fighting. They were actually getting along too well. They were cooperating, bonding, and peacefully navigating the ocean.
Santiago was furious that his hypothesis was failing.
So, he decided to manufacture the violence himself.
He started playing mind games. He took over command of the raft and began reading the participants' private, anonymous daily surveys out loud to the group, desperately trying to turn them against each other.
And it worked. He finally sparked violent thoughts.
But the violence wasn't directed at each other. The group despised Santiago so much that they held a secret meeting. They actively plotted to murder him, throw his body overboard, and tell the authorities it was a tragic accident.
The experiment was supposed to prove that humans are inherently violent beasts.
Instead, it proved that humans are naturally prone to cooperation... and violence usually only occurs when a toxic authority figure tries to divide them.
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75 years ago, one bureaucrat's ego at Bretton Woods put America on a path to hollow out its own manufacturing sector.
Keynes warned it was a poison chalice. Harry Dexter White wanted the trophy. America chose the trophy.
3 empires have now made the same mistake. The Dutch. The British. The Americans.
The reserve currency does not make you powerful. It makes you dependent on finance and blind to decline.
Full breakdown here -
#NewWorldOrder #Dollar #BrettonWoods #Economics #PostKeynesianEconomics
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I’m seeing a theme today (Stortzy) #idsicbiss
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Um debate inusitado ganhou força nas redes sociais nos últimos dias: relatos de mulheres afirmando que estariam omitindo ou adaptando suas posições políticas para parecerem mais alinhadas à direita com o objetivo de ampliar suas chances em aplicativos de relacionamento. A justificativa, segundo postagens que viralizaram, seria simples: “Eles rejeitam mulheres de esquerda”.
O tema surgiu após vídeos e publicações sugerirem que parte dos homens que se identificam como conservadores estaria priorizando parceiras com valores políticos semelhantes. Em resposta, algumas mulheres afirmaram que passaram a suavizar opiniões, evitar temas ideológicos ou até se declarar “de direita” para não serem descartadas logo nas primeiras conversas.
Críticos da prática apontam que transformar posicionamento político em estratégia romântica revela um ambiente de forte polarização, no qual afinidade ideológica se tornou critério central na escolha de parceiros. Especialistas em comportamento observam que compatibilidade de valores sempre influenciou relacionamentos, mas destacam que a atual divisão política intensificou esse filtro.
Por outro lado, usuários nas redes argumentam que preferências ideológicas são legítimas, assim como acontece com religião, estilo de vida ou planos familiares. O que chama atenção, porém, é a ideia de encenar uma identidade política para atender expectativas, o que pode gerar conflitos futuros quando diferenças vierem à tona.
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“Libertarians are concerned, first and foremost, with that most valuable of properties, the life of each individual.
Property rights pertaining to material objects are seen by libertarians as stemming from and...secondary to the right to own, direct, and enjoy one's own life and those appurtenances thereto which may be acquired without coercion.” ~ Karl Hess
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Did you know a Kiwi tourist once got detained in Kazakhstan for nearly 2 days because officials allegedly didn’t believe New Zealand was a real country… and then it got even more cooked.
Her name was Chloe Phillips-Harris and she arrived at Almaty Airport in 2016. She said staff told her she needed an Australian passport, because in their minds New Zealand was basically “a state of Australia.” Brutal.
Then comes the part that sounds like a skit.
She said they took her into an interrogation room and asked her to show New Zealand on a world map to prove where she was from… except the map on the wall didn’t include New Zealand. Like, mate — how are you meant to win that argument?
It’s basically the physical, real-life version of that whole “maps always forget NZ” meme.
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One thing that bugs me about this political map of South America is that the left and right are each on the wrong sides of the continent.
credit: The World in Maps
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Facts
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