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#wants — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wants, aggregated by home.social.

  1. The EU wants to demand a single train ticket for all companies and multiple journeys

    BrusselsThe European Commission wants to continue promoting the use of trains across the European Union. And, to boost…
    #Economy #All #And #Companies #demand #EconomyofEU #EconomyofEuropeanUnion #EconomyoftheEU #EconomyoftheEuropeanUnion #EU #EUeconomy #Europe #for #journeys #multiple #Single #the #ticket #TO #train #wants
    europesays.com/2986499/

  2. The EU wants to recover €600M in funds that it believes were used irregularly

    BarcelonaThe European Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF, has urged the European Union to recover almost 600 million euros from European…
    #Economy #600m #believes #EconomyofEU #EconomyofEuropeanUnion #EconomyoftheEU #EconomyoftheEuropeanUnion #EU #EUeconomy #Europe #funds #in #irregularly #IT #RECOVER #that #the #TO #used #wants #were
    europesays.com/2933501/

  3. The EU wants to recover €600M in funds that it believes were used irregularly

    BarcelonaThe European Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF, has urged the European Union to recover almost 600 million euros from European…
    #Europe #EU #EuropeanParliament #600m #believes #funds #in #irregularly #it #recover #that #the #to #used #wants #were
    europesays.com/europe/18301/

  4. 🥰 Ever the romantic, I look under the covers at the calculus of matchmaking.

    philosophics.blog/2026/04/16/d

    It should be no surprise to most that dating is not an economic endeavour (with some obvious exceptions). In this blog post and associated podcast, I articulate why.

    #philosophy #economics #psychology #signal #noise #markets #attributes #efficiency #optimisation #dating #shopping #wants #needs #menus #heuristics #evaluation #romance #preferences #blog #podcast #expectations #value #reality

  5. 🥰 Ever the romantic, I look under the covers at the calculus of matchmaking.

    philosophics.blog/2026/04/16/d

    It should be no surprise to most that dating is not an economic endeavour (with some obvious exceptions). In this blog post and associated podcast, I articulate why.

    #philosophy #economics #psychology #signal #noise #markets #attributes #efficiency #optimisation #dating #shopping #wants #needs #menus #heuristics #evaluation #romance #preferences #blog #podcast #expectations #value #reality

  6. 🥰 Ever the romantic, I look under the covers at the calculus of matchmaking.

    philosophics.blog/2026/04/16/d

    It should be no surprise to most that dating is not an economic endeavour (with some obvious exceptions). In this blog post and associated podcast, I articulate why.

    #philosophy #economics #psychology #signal #noise #markets #attributes #efficiency #optimisation #dating #shopping #wants #needs #menus #heuristics #evaluation #romance #preferences #blog #podcast #expectations #value #reality

  7. 🥰 Ever the romantic, I look under the covers at the calculus of matchmaking.

    philosophics.blog/2026/04/16/d

    It should be no surprise to most that dating is not an economic endeavour (with some obvious exceptions). In this blog post and associated podcast, I articulate why.

    #philosophy #economics #psychology #signal #noise #markets #attributes #efficiency #optimisation #dating #shopping #wants #needs #menus #heuristics #evaluation #romance #preferences #blog #podcast #expectations #value #reality

  8. 🥰 Ever the romantic, I look under the covers at the calculus of matchmaking.

    philosophics.blog/2026/04/16/d

    It should be no surprise to most that dating is not an economic endeavour (with some obvious exceptions). In this blog post and associated podcast, I articulate why.

    #philosophy #economics #psychology #signal #noise #markets #attributes #efficiency #optimisation #dating #shopping #wants #needs #menus #heuristics #evaluation #romance #preferences #blog #podcast #expectations #value #reality

  9. this is how the EU wants to boost the creation of new businesses

    BrusselsThe European Union wants to boost community business activity and increase their competitivenessEspecially in the face of powers…
    #Economy #100 #48 #And #Boost #BUSINESSES #creation #EconomyofEU #EconomyoftheEU #EU #EUeconomy #Europe #hours #how #in #IS #just #less #new #of #than #the #this #TO #wants
    europesays.com/2855852/

  10. Boxing: Mea Motu signs with US-based promoter linked to Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions

    “Those are the people that have put female boxing on the world stage and really showcased us females,…
    #NewsBeep #News #Boxing #action #CA #Canada #jake #linked #mea #most #motu #pauls #piece #professional #promoter #promotions #rise #signs #Sports #to #usbased #valuable #wants #with #Women's
    newsbeep.com/ca/281572/

  11. Time is elastic by Laura Vanderkam [Shared]

    Basically, time is elastic. When we decide that we need to do something, we find the time to do it. Other stuff either doesn’t happen, or it takes less time, or it gets punted forward. Much other stuff turns out to be more malleable than we might have imagined. And so, of course, the key to time management is treating the things we *want* to do with the urgency of the things we *need* to do. We make time for them first, and let everything else take the hit.

    welchwrite.com/blog/2025/02/01

    #Time #elastic #timemanagement #life #career #goals #wants #needs #desires #shared #video

  12. Emelyne Museaux:

    #Nobody #wants to work #anymore.”

    Nobody #ever wanted to work at #all. We wanted to be #productive, be #creative, be part of a #community, be #supported, be #validated, and have the #time and #space to #truly #rest. No one #actually wants to #trade in #hours of their #life to “#earn” necessities.

  13. @temporal Intent behind or consequences of.

    You're hitting on a concept I've been trying to refine for a couple of days, it's an answer to the "but we're just giving people what they want" canard.

    And I think I've finally worked out what's wrong with the logic.

    Wants are a means to an end. They are not the end itself. That is, wants are evolutionarily-derived (or sometimes culturally-instilled) drives or motivators which should result in improved fitness.

    Think of these in terms of emotional drives, tastes and our responses to them, favouring aesthetics (symmetry, balance, smoothness, etc.) Those evolved in an environment which was itself not counterevolving to feed those drives faster than they could emerge.

    That's not to say that there isn't co-evolution occurring: fruits, say, evolve to be sweet to attract animals which will eat it and spread seeds. But *there is no "fruit sector" specifically engineering high-sugar fruits with a response cycle of days or weeks or months. Even human breeders typically take years or decades, and natural selection generally takes much longer.

    Motivators evolved to find things in the environment which improved overall fitness.

    "Give them what they want" is engineering rapidly to appeal to psychological behaviours in ways that exploit them specifically to the interests of the engineer. (Or more likely: the investors / shareholders / VC behind them.)

    If you're gaming the want itself directly, you lose the argument that what you're providing is at the choice of the target, because you've coopted that choice to your own interests.

    I think I need to work on the concept and argument a bit, but I think that's the heart of it.

    I'm also sure (as usual) that someone's beat me to it, and would love to know the literature on that.

    #GivingThemWhatTheyWant #BehaviouralManipulation #Manipulation #Wants #ABTesting #AdTech #Advertising #Propaganda

    @vortex_egg @ArneBab