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Andy Fletcher

Which store gives best value on your receipt?

I just bought an ice cream cone from IKEA for OMR 0.100 (euro 0.22). The receipt was almost 500mm long.

This works out as Euro 0.50 per metre of receipt.

Anyone seen a better deal?

#ikea#value
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Eric Maugendre

Paolo dos Santos: “Stubborn patterns of underdevelopment and differences in labor productivity, living standards, and political power across national economies, have persisted across the history of capitalist development. For radical political economy, those differences are a feature of global capitalism, not a “bug” due to the idiosyncrasies of developing economies.”

via Michael Roberts
thenextrecession.wordpress.com

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Michael Roberts Blog · AHE 2025: imperialism, China and financialisationLast week the annual conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) took place in London.  I quote from the AHE website: “Formed in 1999 to provide an annual conference where all …
#value#economicTransfers#imperialism
Joseph Simons 🍁 🌱

"Value-per-acre analysis is powerful because it reveals what raw numbers often miss: how efficiently #land contributes to a community’s #financial #health. It doesn’t tell #cities what to build or where to build it. But it helps communities see which investments generate lasting #value, and which ones may quietly drain #resources over time."
#urbanism #yegcc

strongtowns.org/journal/2025/4

Strong TownsThis Small Restaurant Outperforms Walmart — Here’s WhyWhat do a taqueria, a bike shop, and an art center have in common? They’re all outpacing a retail giant when it comes to property tax revenues.
Space Environmentalism

"We argue that a one-dimensional hierarchy of #moral value misses the interconnected webs of nature’s generative forces. More-over, it fails to acknowledge that many entities can express several forms of #value at once. In the case of #SpaceExploration, it misses the important possibility that inanimate entities and extraterrestrial systems can have tremendous moral value; certainly, we have yet to see proof that they don’t."

nature.com/articles/d41586-025

www.nature.comHow to chart a moral future for space explorationExpanding human influence in outer space will require an ethical compass that is more expansive than the one conventionally used.
#SpaceEnvironment#Space#Ethics
Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:

I have spent a frustrating 'day' reluctantly doing two main tasks:
1/ Purchasing/speccing parts for an experimental electrical build.
2/ Working with the suppliers of a failed piece of electrical hardware to get a warranty replacement commissioned and working as required.

In both cases I have been dealing with Chinese suppliers because the price &/or availability makes them the only real option.

In both cases the documentation is woeful and so I spend too long in back-and-forths. "How do we do x?' 'What is Y?'. 'The old one had these same settings and worked, what is not right here? How can we even tell?'.

This is the price of cheap. It is not because it is Chinese but because it is cheap and that is sadly what we value. Cheaper is not better value.

I am not a coder but I feel this is what coders are worried about with the advent of AI code. Stuff that seems cheaper but is a joyless pain in the butt to maintain & work with.

#Value#Price#CheapNotGood
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