toot.wales is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
We are the Open Social network for Wales and the Welsh, at home and abroad! Y rhwydwaith cymdeithasol annibynnol i Gymru, wedi'i bweru gan Mastodon!

Administered by:

Server stats:

640
active users

#value

3 posts3 participants1 post today

"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.

"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.

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.

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

There can be nothing more utterly subversive of all that is really valuable than the suppression of honest thought. No man, worthy of the form he bears, will at the command of church or state solemnly repeat a creed his reason scorns.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

Attention
#Demisexual-
#Poll
(POV)
Demisexual:
Having an emotional #connection.😬
I.E. this is kit kin feeling network?

We all know that there are many other types of demisexual so , the #question is

do you seek out other people who appreciate and mesh with your #lifecycle. Well because we are in this #together.

See I think people are #networks of complex systems and well if we all share in this reality and society.

Is #money the true currency in a #democracy? 🤔To me people= #VALUE.