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This would be economically illiterate & environmentally disastrous - and makes us less secure: undermining efforts to reduce energy bills by reducing dependence on gas, increasing vulnerability to global dictators, driving climate emissions & knee capping a market that’s just beginning to take off

Curtains to the Contrary said that he had just finished reading *The Death of Ivan Ilyich*, which he considered a beautiful book. According to the author, the work made him rethink his life journey, and the emotional ending made him cry, even though he already knew how the story ended. https://t.co/5jpjlANuPi #IvanIlitch #Literatura #Reflexão (translated)

Il-kalkulatur jgħid: 0,025 €. Il-kont jgħid: 250 €. Lil min temmen? 100 tifel u tifla li jinsabu fis-Science Center joqogħdu mal-imwejjed għal pawża. Jinġiebu 100 meraq, wieħed għal kull tifel u tifla. Meraq wieħed jiswa 2,50 €. Student joħroġ il-mowbajl u jiftaħ il-kalkulatur biex isib kemm jiswew b’kollox il-100 meraq. Iżda, minflok jagħfas ×, bi żball jagħfas ÷. Fuq l-iskrin jidher: 0,025 € L-istudent jaħseb li r-riżultat jidher xi ftit stramb, iżda n-numru qiegħed fuq l-iskrin u ma jiċċekkjahx mill-ġdid. Sadanittant, il-100 meraq diġà jinsabu fuq l-imwejjed u t-tfal jibdew jiftħuhom. Wara ftit minuti jasal il-kont: 250 € L-istudenti jħarsu lejn xulxin. Xi ħadd jgħid minnufih li bilfors hemm żball. L-istudent jerġa’ joħroġ il-mowbajl u jiċċekkja x’kien għamel. Minflok għafas ×, kien għafas ÷ bi żball. Għafsa waħda ħażina kienet bidlet 250 € f’0,025 €. U l-100 meraq kienu diġà nfetħu. Meta l-kalkulatur jagħtik riżultat, huwa biżżejjed li tara numru fuq l-iskrin — jew għandek tistaqsi wkoll jekk ir-riżultat jagħmilx sens u x’inhu l-ordni tal-kobor tiegħu? L-illitteriżmu funzjonali ma jfissirx biss li ma tifhimx test. Xi drabi jfisser ukoll li tara riżultat assurd fuq l-iskrin u ma tindunax li ma jagħmilx sens. Fejn taħseb li tinkiser il-katina: fil-kalkolu nnifsu, fil-fehim tar-riżultat, jew fin-nuqqas tad-drawwa li niċċekkjaw it-tweġiba? ======================= Kif wasalt għal din il-post? A. Minn Trending B. Mill-profil ta’ Mr. Numberwise C. Minn hashtag D. Mill-feed / rakkomandazzjonijiet E. Permezz ta’ repost F. Mod ieħor F’liema pajjiż tinsab? Ikteb l-ittra u l-pajjiż fil-kummenti. #Bongu #IrRepubblikataMalta #Malta #edu #edukazzjoni #illitteriżmufunzjonali #PISA #pisa2025 #diżinformazzjoni #MrNumberwise #Malti #20260915_0009 #0128

The calculator says: €0.025. The bill says: €250. Which one do you believe? 100 children at the Science Center sit down at tables for a break. 100 juices are brought to the tables, one for each child. One juice costs €2.50. One of the students takes out a phone and opens the calculator to find out how much the 100 juices cost altogether. But instead of pressing ×, the student accidentally presses ÷. The screen shows: €0.025 The result seems strange, but the number is on the screen, so the student does not check again. Meanwhile, all 100 juices are already on the tables and the children start opening them. A few minutes later, the bill arrives: €250 The students look at one another. Someone immediately says there must be a mistake. The student takes out the phone again and checks what had been entered. Instead of pressing ×, the student had accidentally pressed ÷. One single wrong press had turned €250 into €0.025. And all 100 juices had already been opened. When a calculator gives you an answer, is it enough to see a number on the screen — or should you also ask whether the result makes sense and what its order of magnitude is? Functional illiteracy does not only mean failing to understand a text. Sometimes it also means seeing an absurd result on a screen and not realizing that it makes no sense. Where do you think the chain breaks: in the calculation itself, in understanding the result, or in the lack of a habit of checking the answer? #sabotage #PISA2025 #education #edu #pisa #pisastudie #MrNumberwise #English #20260910 #0058

Kulturpasset blev en kæmpe økonomisk fiasko. F.eks. blev 16 mio. kr. brugt på IT og administration - og med godt 7.000 aktiverede kulturpas svarer det til omkring 2.300 kr. pr. bruger. Det er vel og mærke for administrationen af kulturpas med 1.000 kr. på. Hvorfor skal danskerne betale for dyre systemer så unge kan komme i biografen? Hvorfor ikke bare sænke skatterne over en bred kam, såsom ved at hæve bundfradraget? Så kan de unge få råd til biografbilletter, og helt uden at vi andre skal betale for det. Den socialistiske velfærdsstat er så økonomisk illitterær og ulogisk, og det koster os ufatteligt mange penge som samfund. #Økonomi #Kultur #Velfærd

America’s ruling class has performed another miracle. They took the most basic truths in human civilization ... crime needs punishment, borders need enforcement, schools should teach, welfare should be temporary, families matter, merit matters, and taxpayers should not be looted by professional parasites ... and somehow rebranded all of that as “extremism.” Incredible work, really. Apparently, a “compassionate” society is one where the violent repeat offender gets another chance, the victim gets a candlelight vigil, the taxpayer gets the bill, the schoolkid gets passed along illiterate, the fraudster gets a grant, the NGO gets another contract, the illegal alien gets services, and the working American gets told to shut up and be more inclusive. What a beautiful system. Soft justice did not stay in the courtroom. It metastasized. It became soft borders, soft schools, soft parenting, soft welfare, soft standards, soft men, and soft bureaucrats explaining why every obvious solution is “too harsh.” Lock up predators? Cruel. Deport illegals? Hateful. End generational welfare? Lacking empathy. Punish fraud? Complicated. Restore merit? Problematic. Teach kids to read? Probably colonialism by Tuesday. A serious country protects the innocent from the guilty. A decaying country protects the guilty from consequences and makes the innocent finance the experiment. That’s America’s real crisis. Not poverty. Not “root causes.” Not another fake expert panel. Consequences. We stopped imposing them on the people destroying the country, so now the country imposes them on everyone else. https://x.com/FloppingAces/status/2071298317452234938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2071298317452234938%7Ctwgr%5E437b8e842447602b831fedbcf5c5855b30e505ba%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F806889%2F

This irresponsible initiative by the EU Commission needs to be nipped in the bud: it has no mandate for such a divisive and strategically illiterate move. There is no rational reason for breaking 🇪🇺 policy on isolating Moscow. Putin's regime will just use it for propaganda.👇 #EUCrisis #StopPutin #EUPolicy #EU #RU

🚨 Confira o MV teaser de “ICONIC BY MISTAKE”, colaboração entre KATSEYE, ILLIT e LE SSERAFIM. — O MV será lançado em 10 de junho, às 12h (BRT), enquanto a música chega às plataformas digitais em 12 de junho, à 1h (BRT). ICONIC BY MISTAKE MV TEASER KATSSERALLIT GOES ICONIC #ICONICBYMISTAKE #LE_SSERAFIM #ILLIT #KATSEYE https://t.co/qnO05Tivjc #ICONICBYMISTAKE #LE_SSERAFIM #KATSEYE

🚨 VAI SER ICÔNICO! “Para proporcionar uma diversão especial aos fãs globais neste verão, planejamos apresentar não apenas performances de alto nível, mas também diversos conteúdos, então pedimos muito apoio. LE SSERAFIM, ILLIT e KATSEYE estarão no ‘M Countdown’, da Mnet, no dia 11, onde apresentarão ‘ICONIC BY MISTAKE’ pela primeira vez.” — Source Music, Belift Lab, HYBE e Geffen Records para a Imprensa coreana. #MCountdown #LESSERAFIM #IconicByMistake

Incredible what is happening: Delcy Rodríguez confirming as president of the TSJ the same illiterate who illegally certified a false electoral victory that Maduro never obtained. (Original: Increíble lo que está ocurriendo : Delcy Rodríguez ratificando como presidenta del TSJ a la misma iletrada que delictivamente certificó un falso triunfo electoral que Maduro nunca obtuvo.) #Venezuela #ElectionFraud #PoliticalCrisis #VE