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econ, finance, sports & policies

[Julius Kölzer @Julius_Ktxt]

Es gibt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Aber es gibt auch Mecklenburg und Vorpommern. Wie wir heute Abend voraussichtlich wieder sehen werden, unterscheiden sich beide Regionen deutlich in ihrem Wahlverhalten. Woher kommen diese Unterschiede? Ein Thread. 🧵

[Alessandro Palombo @thealepalombo]

Singapore's Prime Minister will earn S$3.6M a year from October 15th. That's about $2.84M, equal to a 64% raise.

Before someone feels outraged by that, let me remind that this was Lee Kuan Yew's recipe to avoid corruption. The logic was simple. If you pay ministers at market rate, nobody needs to buy them.

Personally, I've never understood why, to be an accountant reviewing and filing accounts with the State, you need a degree, exams passed, continuous education etc. To run the State itself: nothing.

Doesn't make too much sense, no?

Not to sound like a broken record, but Singapore's model is extremely reasonable: 35% of ministerial pay is variable. The National Bonus, as it's called, is set by four indicators: real median income growth, real income growth of the bottom 20%, unemployment, and real GDP growth.

So their pay is tied to how the country actually performs. Not to how well they campaign.

[Olivier Blanchard @ojblanchard1]

A propos nothing (or maybe not).

First, an oped arguing the earth is flat.

Journalists, who smell a good fight, set up a debate. They invite the flat earth guy and find a round earth one willing to come and debate.

The flat earth guy explains that, if the earth was round, people on the other side would be walking upward down or would fall. This is just common sense.

The round earth guy explains that there is something called gravity, and so this is not what happens.

The flat earth guy says that this is all high brow academic stuff, and common sense should rule the day.

Anyway, he says, there is a Nobel Prize in chemistry who agrees with him. And a letter signed by 27 artists who agree.

The debate becomes more and more incomprehensible. At the end:

People who believed the earth was flat still believe it,

People who believed the earth was round still believe it.

And the rest, who tried to understand, is thoroughly confused. Suspect that earth specialists really don't know nothing.

Serious question: what are round earth guys supposed to do?

[Matthieu Gariel — eu/acc 🇺🇦 @MatthieuGariel]

Pierre, retraité, 2’000€/mois. On lui propose un gel d'un an de sa pension :
- « Non, non. Les jeunes, ils peuvent travailler, non ? »
- « Il ne faut pas y toucher, terminé. »

Sa petite-fille, juste après :
- « S'il faut mourir au travail, on va mourir au travail. »

🤡🤯

[News from Google @NewsFromGoogle]

For the first time, scientists have mapped the complete brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly — a key model organism in science. 🪰

Working alongside HHMI Janelia Research Campus and the scientific community, @GoogleResearch scientists and researchers used AI to combine millions of 2D images into 3D neural shapes, reconstructing a record-breaking 166,000+ neurons. This foundational map of the adult male fruit fly brain can help accelerate our understanding of the brain, and is a major milestone in neuroscience.

[PMR @RandomPaulicies]

@BayesReality À nuancer légèrement, il n'y avait que des data très partielles ou biaisées sur cette évolution.
La plupart des sources viennent des projections revus (P. Manning) ou de sources faibles (sondages coloniaux..)

la population de base pourrait largement supérieure! Still impressive

[Bruno Tertrais @BrunoTertrais]

Cette affaire est un scandale d’ampleur nationale.

[Vilain Syndicaliste @VL_syndicaliste]

La question assassine la meuf du RN s'est décomposée

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

This is an ad made by a top cabinet member of the governing coalition of Israel. I'd encourage people to watch it. It's very illuminating on the state of Israeli politics.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

And just like that… everybody stopped talking about the Epstein Files.

[PMR @RandomPaulicies]

@cortisquared Je me joins à tous si je suis dedans aussi.

[French Response @FrenchResponse]

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[space cadet 🇪🇺🌐🇩🇪 @actsmaniac]

Truth nuke in the FT comment section on Berlin rent control

[Benjamin Fogel @BenjaminFogel]

Seppt Blatter seems like a more wholesome era of corruption, like having a neighbourhood bookie or numbers guy compared to online casinos and sportsbetting websites

[William Marx @william_marx]

On a beaucoup trop peu parlé du vol du torque en or de la Dame de Vix, il y a trois jours, au musée de Châtillon-sur-Seine. La perte de ce chef-d’œuvre de l’art celte m’a personnellement bien plus ému que celle du diadème de l’impératrice Eugénie lors du cambriolage du Louvre, car le torque a tellement plus de valeur esthétique et historique. Créé au Ve siècle av. J.-C. pour une princesse gauloise, il témoigne de la sophistication d’une orfèvrerie jonglant avec virtuosité entre les traditions grecque, étrusque et celte. On y admire en particulier le petit cheval ailé posé sur un entrelacs de fils d’or, lui-même soutenu par une patte de lion. Ces 480 grammes d’or, par la cupidité qu’ils suscitent, auront peut-être eu raison de la forme artistique dont ils n’étaient que le support. Tout cela risque en effet de finir en lingot. Pour nous consoler, il ne nous restera que des photographies et des reproductions. Où sont les barbares, au Ve siècle av. J.-C. ou au XXIe siècle ?

[Philippe Lemoine @phl43]

Le simple fait d'imaginer que cette pièce inestimable a peut-être déjà été fondue juste pour récupérer 480 grammes d'or, ce qui doit rapporter 50 000 balles à tout casser, me rend malade.

[PMR @RandomPaulicies]

Seeing the 🇩🇪 /🇧🇷 /🇮🇹 debacles, I wanted to build a men's World Cup all-time ranking model w/ a discount factor for how old each result is.

Below: 1930 results account for ~34% of 2022.

Pretty neat!

My French and Germans can only be pleased 😇

Link:
https://t.co/gVckMFWcIe

[PMR @RandomPaulicies]

@theiaincameron Yep!
It gets even better as for some reason the first floor was Swiss territory but the ground floor was French. Border in the stairs. Germans were prohibited from going up; Jews and resistants would be up when Nazis would be down... & powerless

Go:
https://t.co/7cF2MXMzHG

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

Letting the ball’s inner experiences decide whether a goal is offside is a huge step forward for object-oriented ontology