@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-10-05 23:46:43
Buccaneers-Seahawks takeaways: Baker Mayfield, Lavonte David spark Tampa Bay's walk-off win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6692149/2025/10/05/buccaneers-seahawks-score-result-takeaways-nfl/
@timfoster@mastodon.social2025-11-01 17:50:24
I had a cracking time at https://www.supercarexperienceireland.com today.
Highlights for me were the manual 997 Carrera and the 458 Italia. Along with time behind the wheel of an Aston Martin Vantage, a Mercedes AMG GT-R and a 991 GT3 RS, it was the perfect day out for the petrolhead in your l…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-09-22 16:08:45
Tampa Pride sparks anger for cancelling parade due to hate from DeSantis: You're "letting him win" - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/tampa-pride-sparks-anger-for-cancelling-parade-due-to-hate-from-desantis-youre-letting-him-win/
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-11-07 11:12:38
Der Hektoria-#Gletscher in der #Antarktis hat sich innerhalb von zwei Monaten um über acht Kilometer zurückgezogen.
Das Tempo ist möglicherweise höher als je ein anderer auf dem Meeresboden ruhender #Gletscher
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-10-02 19:43:19
"""
[…] Paradoxically, the more a population grew, the more precious it became, as it offered a supply of cheap labour, and by lowering costs allowed a greater expansion of production and trade. In this infinitely open labour market, the ‘fundamental price’, which for Turgot meant a subsistence level for workers, and the price determined by supply and demand ended up as the same thing. A country was all the more commercially competitive for having at its disposal the virtual wealth that a large population represented.
Confinement was therefore a clumsy error, and an economic one at that: there was no sense in trying to suppress poverty by taking it out of the economic circuit and providing for a poor population by charitable means. To do that was merely to hide poverty, and suppress an important section of the population, which was always a given wealth. Rather than helping the poor escape their provisionally indigent situation, charity condemned them to it, and dangerously so, by putting a brake on the labour market in a period of crisis. What was required was to palliate the high cost of products with cheaper labour, and to make up for their scarcity by a new industrial and agricultural effort. The only reasonable remedy was to reinsert the population in the circuit of production, being sure to place labour in areas where manpower was most scarce. The use of paupers, vagabonds, exiles and émigrés of any description was one of the secrets of wealth in the competition between nations. […]
Confinement was to be criticised because of the effects it had on the labour market, but also because like all other traditional forms of charity, it constituted a dangerous form of finance. As had been the case in the Middle Ages, the classical era had constantly attempted to look after the needs of the poor by a system of foundations. This implied that a section of the land capital and revenues were out of circulation. In a definitive manner too, as the concern was to avoid the commercialisation of assistance to the poor, so judicial measures had been taken to ensure that this wealth never went back into circulation. But as time passed, their usefulness diminished: the economic situation changed, and so did the nature of poverty.
«Society does not always have the same needs. The nature and distribution of property, the divisions between the different orders of the people, opinions, customs, the occupations of the majority of the population, the climate itself, diseases and all the other accidents of human life are in constant change. New needs come into being, and old ones disappear.» [Turgot, Encyclopédie]
The definitive character of a foundation was in contradiction with the variable and changing nature of the accidental needs to which it was designed to respond. The wealth that it immobilised was never put back into circulation, but more wealth was to be created as new needs appeared. The result was that the proportion of funds and revenues removed from circulation constantly increased, while that of production fell in consequence. The only possible result was increased poverty, and a need for more foundations. The process could continue indefinitely, and the fear was that one day ‘the ever increasing number of foundations might absorb all private funds and all private property’. When closely examined, classical forms of assistance were a cause of poverty, bringing a progressive immobilisation that was like the slow death of productive wealth:
«If all the men who have ever lived had been given a tomb, sooner or later some of those sterile monuments would have been dug up in order to find land to cultivate, and it would have become necessary to stir the ashes of the dead in order to feed the living.» [Turgot, Lettre Š Trudaine sur le Limousin]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza2025-10-20 16:16:57
¿Os acordšis el episodio de Doctor en Alaska en el que muere el novio de O'Connell aplastado por un satélite y le tienen que enterrar con las antenas sobresaliendo del ataúd?
Pues tiempo al tiempo, tiempo al tiempo https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/115402095920518997…
@der_raddler@dresden.network2025-09-15 06:52:23
"Dazu kommt, dass kein Autofahrer weiß, wo die Tempo-30-Zone endet"
Na doch, steht direkt drunter. Als Autofahrender wird man doch wohl 150 Meter abschätzen können. Notfalls muss man zur Sicherheit eben etwas länger 30 km/h fahren.
https://www.
@arXiv_mathAT_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-17 08:08:30
A new approach to (3 1)-dimensional TQFTs via topological modular forms
Sergei Gukov, Vyacheslav Krushkal, Lennart Meier, Du Pei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12402 https://…
