João Mendes

[Martin Sonneborn @MartinSonneborn]

@gandalv7 Illegaler Geschäftsordnungstrick der Parlamentspräsidentin - Eilantrag, der die Qualifizierte Mehrheit (360 Stimmen) GEGEN die Chatkontrolle gebraucht hätte, an einem Tag, an dem nur knapp 600 MEPs vor Ort waren, wegen Urlaub etc…

[Carlos Guimarães Pinto @cgpliberal]

Pagar um salário líquido de 3 mil euros custa 6194 euros por mês ao empregador.
Pagar três salários líquidos de mil euros custa 4618 euros por mês ao empregador.

Não será a única razão, mas é um incentivo perverso aos baixos salários e fraca produtividade.

[Luís Galrão @LGalrao]

O que fazem aí essas imagens, @SICNoticias? Têm a certeza que isso é dos tumultos da última noite? A @PSP_Portugal já usa pick-ups como essa da Polícia da República de Moçambique?

[Tiago @Lukaks99]

Portugal arde todos os anos e os incêndios são cada vez mais destrutivos. Que culpa tem o negócio do papel?

1. Produção de papel exige mt área de eucalipto (e algum pinheiro) e é detida maioritariamente pela Altri e Navigator
2. O eucalipto arde facilmente e causa incêndios

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

That's because this dude doesn't know what education is.

He speaks of growing wheat, herding sheep, riding a horse, and so on, but in the era of these skills, this was the kind of education given to slaves.

Only a slave, a person who was owned as property, and used as a machine for a task, could be expected to do one task for his whole life.

A gentleman, or even a freeman of the lower classes, was not a machine for labor, but a person who could be expected to act in his own interests, and thus would need to do many different things throughout his life, depending on what served his goals at the time.

And he would need to be able to independently learn these tasks, rather than needing to be taught them in childhood.

Therefore if a boy was to formally educated, that might include some of gentleman's skills (riding, fighting with a sword, the management of finances), but his education was centered around what education really meant:

A fundamental grounding in how to live and thrive as an independent and free-willed person.

Thus, he was taught the seven liberal arts of classical antiquity:

- Arithmetic
- Geometry
- Music
- Astronomy
- Grammar
- Logic
- Rhetoric

These were not trade skills in the sense that they did not enable the performance of any particular trade or task, but that wasn't the point.

The point was that they taught the young gentleman how to think and learn.

By contrast, modern government schools were founded to train clerks and factory workers at public expense... a servant class with the specific skills necessary to be useful workers, but not the general education to be independent or question their betters?

Have you noticed which two of these arts are utterly absent from a modern government-school "education"?

That's right, logic and rhetoric. Logic is how to arrive at true conclusions from known facts. Rhetoric is how to persuade.

A servant educated in logic might notice that the things he is being told are false. A servant educated in rhetoric might notice the techniques that are being used to persuade him to act in the rulers' interests instead of his own.

If you conceive of your children's education as training in career skills, whether that be growing rice or programming a computer, you are preparing them to be slaves, not free men.

If you properly prepare them to be free men, what skills will be lucrative or useful twenty years from now is irrelevant, because they will be prepared to learn them.

In my opinion, the seven liberal arts of the modern world are:

- Logic: how to derive truth from known facts
- Statistics: how to understand the implications of data
- Rhetoric: how to persuade, and spot persuasion tactics
- Research: how to gather information on an unknown subject
- (Practical) Psychology: how to discern and understand the true motives of others
- Investment: how to manage and grow existing assets
- Agency: how to make decisions about what course to pursue, and proactively take action to pursue it.

Notice that you didn't learn any of these things in school, even if you went to a so-called "liberal arts" college. Instead, they taught you things about mitochondria and calculus and symbolism in Jon Steinbeck novels where a boy has a dog, and the dog dies.

That's because liberal arts, whether you define them as I have, or slightly differently, are the arts of the master, the arts that make one a master, and therefore not be taught in a school for slaves.

Worry less about which "career skills" AI will take over, and more about whether you are training to be, and training your kids to be, high-agency, perceptive, self-motivated people who can navigate an unknowable future with an adaptable mind.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

How to Get to Orbit Cheaper than SpaceX's Starship

Ian Brooke has developed a new kind of jet engine that can act as the first stage of a rocket.

I get brunch with him every Sunday and have grilled him for hours on how it works.

Adaptive Cycle Jet Engines, the primer 🧵

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Why I'm interviewing Vladimir Putin.

[Miguel Poiares Maduro @MaduroPoiares]

A confirmarem-se as notícias de hoje estas declarações de há poucos dias do Presidente do STJ adquirem outra leitura (é ele que válida as escutas num processo destes): Presidente do Supremo denuncia corrupção instalada em Portugal e critica poder político https://t.co/BS4xlyWTcC

[Gonçalo Aguiar @GoncaloAguiar]

💡PREÇOS da ELETRICIDADE 2024 💡
A ERSE publicou ontem a sua proposta para as tarifas para 2024.

Vale a pena dissecar o anúncio porque impactará todos os consumidores, quer no mercado regulado, mas em particular no livre. ⚡️

TLDR: Indexados terão aumentos até 43%! 📈

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[Islamicat 💣😾🕌 💥 @_Islamicat]

Here is three-part insight into the bleeding heart mentality of the crazed Western virtue signallers. Furk my life

[Pelham @Resist_05]

Holocaust survivor Gabor Maté describes the Israel 🇮🇱 Palestine 🇵🇸 conflict as the longest ethnic cleansing operation of the 20th 21st centuries…

Please watch…🔊

[Gonçalo Pinto @goncalo_nspinto]

A nossa justiça numa foto 📸

🌳🪓A empresa Álvaro Matos Bandeira & Filhos, Lda está a abater árvores numa Reserva Ecológica Protegida Europeia apesar de ter sido alvo de:

- 1 auto de contraordenação
- 2 embargos administrativos
- 1 queixa-crime
- 1 providência cautelar

[The Minimalists @TheMinimalists]

What part of society disappoints you most?

[Perico @caropericolo]

Un músico descoñecido que morre nun accidente de tráfico e tres casetes esquecidos nun piso abandonado durante décadas.

Onte faleceu Rodríguez, protagonista de Searching for Sugar Man. Portugal, en 2023, ten un caso ben similar...

Vai fío coa incrible historia de José Pinhal 🧵

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Humans were meant to be tribal groups where our activities meant something.

Now we:
• Work where we can't feel our impact
• Buy from companies we know no one at
• Hardly know our neighbors

You make poor decisions when you’re not responsible for the outcome.

[Júlia Guimarães. @TheRealJuliaG_]

O fotógrafo Maximiliano Jonas publicou um vídeo filmado com drone e que mostra uma baleia a dançar com um surfista junto à costa da Argentina.

[Alejandro Jodorowsky @alejodorowsky]

Todo es relativo...

[pipa @filipaccrosa]

posso ser cancelada, mas isto não é normal, não é normal ter o comportamento que ele tem e achar uma cena meramente normal, deu-me nojo ver as merdas que ele escreveu e dá ainda mais ele achar que o problema está nas mulheres que não gostam de o ouvir (?)

https://t.co/3MPVAHbnQw

[Alejandro Jodorowsky @alejodorowsky]

INTELECTO Y CORAZÓN

[Carlos Guimarães Pinto @cgpliberal]

Hoje foi assim, em defesa da ciência, dos cientistas, e da independência dos centros de investigação de agendas partidárias.
- O CES de Boaventura Sousa Santos recebeu entre 2020-2023, 3,6 milhões de euros do FCT, mais do triplo do que recebeu o Centro de Investigação do Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto.
- De um centro de investigação espera-se pluralismo, mas o CES é um viveiro ideológico focado em desenvolver - sem contraditório - teorias contra o capitalismo, contra as democracias ocidentais e instigador de agendas sectárias e intolerantes assentes na ideia de conflito permanente.
- Por exemplo, um dos próximos eventos do CES é dedicado a debater o neoliberalismo em que os participantes têm todos ligação ao Bloco de Esquerda. Ciência é contraditório, é pluralismo, não é isto.
- A avaliação dos centros de investigação é, supostamente, independente, mas aquela avaliação que deu estes fundos ao CES foi liderada por uma pessoa que logo a seguir à avaliação assumiu uma posição num órgão do CES num óbvio conflito de interesses.
Continuaremos na nossa função de escrutinar a forma como é despendido o dinheiro público por muito que isso custe a alguns interesses instalados.