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Belgian scientists are participating in the BepiColombo mission, which marks a key step in the exploration of Mercury, the least known and most mysterious planet in the solar system, in order to reveal its geophysical and atmospheric secrets. (translated)

Des scientifiques belges vont percer les secrets “de l’inconnue du système solaire”

Scientists have discovered a mechanism by which mosquito saliva facilitates infection by viruses such as Zika and the West Nile virus, thereby paving the way for the development of new vaccines. (translated)

Une piste prometteuse pour développer un vaccin contre les virus transmis par les moustiques

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Monviso is in danger: a recent collapse has rekindled concern for the permafrost that is rapidly melting, increasing the risk of landslides in the Alps. (translated)

Il Monviso si sgretola: il grande crollo e l’allarme per il permafrost che scompare
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AD 8h

During the extreme heat this summer, more than 2,935 people died in Belgium, with June 27 being the deadliest day, according to figures from the Belgian health institute Sciensano. (translated)

Duizenden Belgen overleefden extreme hitte niet deze zomer: 27 juni was de dodelijkste dag

An experimental collaboration has reported what may be the first detection of a dark matter particle. I have a brief summary: https://t.co/MhATDW74nc #DarkMatter #Physics #ScienceNews #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.

44Crew_PL 13h

@rafal_zaorski zatrzymany, a mimo to z jego adresów od niecałych 2h zrzucane są tokeny BigSB (na 100% to są jego adresy, bo to z nich były wykonywane transakcje dodawania i ściągania płynności z poola). Wychodzi na to, że Farmazoniarz od dawna miał przygotowany plan w razie gdyby został zatrzymany, osoba do której ma zaufanie ma zrzucać tokeny i wyciągnąć ile się da. I właśnie to robi. Przykładowy adres jeden z wielu, który wyciągnął już 90.000 USDC z poola: https://t.co/YzOYXvbLLT @bigshortbets GAME OVER! Niech już nikt nie ma złudzeń! TO KONIEC! Drugi raz ta sama historia! @GdzieJest15M @SzymonMachalic1 @Mikey_Satoshi @MgShelby @thepolandnews_ @tomasz_swaczyna @Jakub_moscicki #Tokeny #Kryptowaluty #Farmazoniarz

BFMTV 14h

Accused of monopolizing the online advertising market, Google escaped a dismantling of its advertising business after an American judge opted for regulatory measures to oversee its operations instead of breaking up the company. (translated)

Accusé de monopoliser le marché de la publicité en ligne, Google échappe au démantèlement de son activité publicitaire après la décision d’une juge

Vi sblocco un ricordo: Angelo Bonelli è stato condannato dal Tribunale di Roma a pagare oltre 7.000€ di spese legali all'Avvocato dell'Atomo, il quale aveva criticato la posizione di AVS sul nucleare con argomenti scientifici, definendoli “irresponsabili e imbecilli”. Sublime. https://t.co/1wdXE7GKNv #nucleare #giustizia #politica

SandroSca 16h

Stranamente - Corsport - Repubblica Sport - Corriere Sport - Sportmediaset hanno tutti la prima pagina online ora. Gazzetta no Gazzetta risponde ad altri padroni 👅 https://t.co/SciNB3q6dR #sport #giornali #notizie

Są prawa dla samorządów w ustanawianiu stref wolnych od airbnb. Są prawa mieszkańców w decydowaniu o tym, czy mają burdel/hotel za ścianą. Taki projekt wyszedł dziś z Rady Ministrów. A już jutro będziemy konsultować zaproponowane rozwiązania w Sejmie z mieszkańcami, posłami i ekspertami. Wszystko jawnie i transparentnie:). Piszcie też tutaj co Waszym zdaniem warto jeszcze „doszlifować”. Tak działa polityka robiona z ludźmi i dla ludzi. #Samorząd #Polityka #Mieszkańcy

Di.se 16h

For Swedish life science to continue being a key sector for the country's prosperity, health, and growth, the next government must make important decisions regarding leadership, responsibility, and a strategic overall structure. (translated)

Besluten som stärker kraften i svensk life science

PiS had no qualms and withdrew subscriptions to Wyborcza and other media for offices, Orlen and state treasury companies. We are keeping this worst, sewage-like cesspool for "state" purposes. Seriously, it is so embarrassing that it couldn't get any worse. (translated)

"- Dowiedzieliśmy się, że [Kral] docierał też do ludzi czy polityków związanych z Campusem Polska Przyszłości Rafała Trzaskowskiego. Nie teraz, wcześniej. Jego ludzie, pośrednicy niemal natychmiast odbili się od ściany - przekazała Zalewska. Zdaniem dziennikarki wynikało to z "ostrożności" organizatorów wydarzenia. - Do żadnej umowy, żadnej rozmowy nie doszło - zaznaczyła." https://t.co/mgJ8dkt7JW #polityka #dziennikarstwo #CampusemPolskaPrzyszłości

😂🥳😂🥳😂🥳😂🥳😂🥳 Meet @mkeulemans, schetenwapsjournalist… “Deze arts…” Beste dr. Kullemans, WF*, Ik wil je niet beledigen dus ik gebruik graag de juiste titulatuur. Ik leg het je even uit: in de Verenigde Staten wordt een arts aangeduid met de afkorting MD. Van Medical Doctor. Dat staat dan achter de naam. Als zo’n dokter gepromoveerd is, komt daar nog PhD achter. Zoals bij @JonaWalk: Jona Walk, MD, PhD. @angie_rasmussen is geen arts. Nooit geweest ook. Dit leven niet en in haar vorige leven als de heks in Hans en Grietje ook niet. Gewoon niet. Rasmussen studeerde Biological Sciences. Da’s net even wat anders dan geneeskunde. Je moet dan af en toe aardig doen tegen mensen. Soms. Alleen daarom kan Rasmussen geen arts zijn. Want aardig doen zit niet in haar repertoire. Nou ben ik ook wel eens niet aardig. Maar wel tegen patiënten. Dat wel. Ik ben alleen niet aardig als ik pantoffeldiertjes bestudeer. Dat geeft niks, want de meeste pantoffeldiertjes vinden dat helemaal niet erg. Op een enkel pantoffeldiertje na dan… Dag Maarten. Dag hoor. Gewoon dag. *Wetenschapsfantast #geneeskunde #wetenschap #humor

Il problema non è chi, lasciata la pista da ballo, decide di fare irruzione nella scienza senza averne gli strumenti. Il vero dramma è il gregge di analfabeti funzionali che trasforma un post in un trattato scientifico, una convinzione in una prova e l’ignoranza in una competenza. Il folklore è innocuo finché non cominciano a metterci in mezzo la salute dei più deboli e indifesi #scienza #ignoranza #salute

Vasja 21h

Da povzamem 1 minuto blebetanja: Vse je bilo idealno, varnostna razdalja primerna, samo v zadnjem dejanju je bilo med prvim avtomobilom in kombijem premalo razdalje. Normalen clovek bi rekel, da ce se nekdo zaleti v avto pred njim, ki zavira, to po definiciji pomeni premajhno varnostno razdaljo, ker varnostna razdalja sciti ravno pred tem. Ampak nam strokovnjak pove, da to ne drzi. Vse idealno, nesreca se pa pac zgodi. Resevanje vojakinje NPM se nadaljuje. Iz davkoplacevlaskega denarja se na RTV delajo norca. #VarnostnaRazdalja #Promet #Nesreče

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Sandfeen 22h

“Socialism Was Good in Theory” That sentence assumes the theory was never seriously challenged. It was. Long before the Soviet Union existed, before Lenin seized power, and before socialism had been tested on a national scale, major thinkers were already attacking its foundations—from very different directions. Five of them stand out. Tocqueville: Equality Can Become Servitude In 1848, Alexis de Tocqueville drew a sharp distinction between democracy and socialism. Both spoke about equality. But Tocqueville believed they pursued it in fundamentally different ways. Democracy, in his view, sought equality while preserving individual freedom. Socialism risked achieving equality by expanding the power of the state over the individual. His warning was essentially this: equality is not automatically liberty. A society can pursue equality so aggressively that it begins sacrificing the independence that makes political freedom meaningful. Bastiat: Follow Where Redistribution Leads Two years later, Frédéric Bastiat attacked socialism from a different direction. His question was deceptively simple: What happens when the state acquires the authority to take from some people and give to others in the name of justice? Bastiat called this “legal plunder.” His concern was not merely that redistribution might be expensive. It was that once government becomes the instrument through which competing groups obtain benefits from one another, politics can turn into a permanent struggle over who controls the machinery of redistribution. The problem, therefore, wasn’t simply how much the state redistributed. It was the principle that made redistribution legitimate in the first place. (bastiat.org⁠) Nietzsche: Equality Can Become Resentment Nietzsche approached socialism neither as an economist nor as a constitutional theorist. He attacked its psychology. He saw modern egalitarian movements as part of a much older moral impulse: resentment toward exceptional individuals and suspicion of strength, ambition and hierarchy. For Nietzsche, the danger was not simply that everyone might become economically equal. It was that a culture could begin treating excellence itself as something morally suspect. The goal would cease to be lifting people upward. It would become bringing the exceptional downward. Böhm-Bawerk: Challenge the Economics Then came Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. In 1896, he turned his attention specifically toward Marx’s economic system. His criticism was not primarily moral or political. It was technical. Böhm-Bawerk argued that Marx’s theory of value did not adequately explain how the labor values developed in Capital could be reconciled with the actual prices Marx subsequently needed to explain. In other words, he attacked socialism where it claimed to possess a scientific economic foundation. The argument became one of the central criticisms of Marxian economics and helped launch a debate that would continue for generations. Mises: The Calculation Problem Then, in 1920, Ludwig von Mises attacked an even more fundamental question: Even if socialism is morally desirable, how would a socialist economy actually know what to produce? A functioning economy has millions of competing uses for scarce resources. Build a bridge or a hospital? Use steel here or there? Produce more machinery or more consumer goods? Under private ownership and markets, prices for capital goods provide information about relative scarcity and opportunity costs. Mises argued that abolishing private ownership of the means of production also removes the genuine market prices necessary for rational economic calculation. The problem wasn’t simply that socialist planners might make bad decisions. It was that the system deprived them of the very economic signals required to systematically compare those decisions. (Mises Institute⁠) And that was the sequence. Tocqueville challenged the political premise. Bastiat challenged the moral and legal mechanism of redistribution. Nietzsche challenged the psychology behind egalitarianism. Böhm-Bawerk challenged Marx’s economic theory. Mises challenged the possibility of rational central economic calculation. Five different thinkers. Five different objections. And all of them came before the Soviet Union had demonstrated what large-scale socialist government would actually look like. So “socialism was good in theory, but bad in practice” is not an argument. It is a historical claim that requires you to explain why these theoretical objections were wrong. The interesting question isn’t whether socialism had critics. It did. The interesting question is whether socialism ever adequately answered them” - ChatGPT