➗ Hoje é o Dia do Pi, na sua versão aproximada e melhor adequada ao sistema de datas adotado no Brasil. A razão é que a fração 22/7, correspondente à data de hoje, resulta em 3,14 – o valor de Pi, se ambos os números forem arredondados para 2 dígitos.

Em 14 de março (3.14, em países que representam datas com o mês antes do dia) é comemorada a outra versão deste feriado geométrico cuja importância não é comprometida nem mesmo pela conotação negativa que ganhou no Fediverso BR.

"Of the dozens of policy proposals in Zohran Mamdani’s platform, few have generated as much debate as the Democratic mayoral nominee’s call for city-owned grocery stores.

"Progressives, food policy professors, and left-leaning publications have lauded the idea. Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Adams characterized the plan as a “false promise,” while Mamdani’s opponent Andrew Cuomo dismissed the idea as a “slogan” that couldn’t come true. Gristedes owner and major Republican donor John Catsimatidis has threatened to close his stores rather than compete with subsidized city grocers.

"Both sides have largely missed a crucial point: New York already has a version of city-owned grocery stores. Namely, the six markets overseen by the city’s Economic Development Corporation, a nonprofit that manages city-owned property to boost economic development. These grocers include Essex Street Market on the Lower East Side, Moore Street Market in East Williamsburg, and others…"

gothamist.com/news/zohran-mamd…

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Over these 25 years online, I've seen many sites come and go, and they all fail in these ways:
: The community breaks up because they forget they need to stick together
: it ends up infiltrated, filled with illegal content, or downloaded via DDOS attacks
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Vigilance for entry, handling invitation requests, and community care and supervision: everyone supports keeping their site clean, with clear and detailed rules
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A summary and model/idea for how to reconfigure the instance's TOS and community system:
1) Gatekeeping: Income is handled by invitation
2) If you break the rules, you're out
3) Everyone supports each other
4) Specify your niche:
Example
Otaku: Lolicon subspecialty:
The following are prohibited under penalty of expulsion and blocking from other instances:
Any user promoting or sharing illegal content for reasons of disloyalty:
Photorealistic or Idol Grabure*
Other examples:
Political subspecialty:
Political jokes or memes that clash with this or that Green Party?
If you want to express a political comment, you must do so without crossing a red line, for example, not promoting inflammatory comments or anything like that...?
5) Observe for a period of 40 days whether the user under observation exhibits irregular behavior such as provoking fights, inciting anger through content considered extreme?
Report, block and expel from said instance and notify other instances as a measure of precision

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Panic swept through a California school after staff spotted what they believed was a mountain lion roaming near campus grounds. The school immediately went into lockdown. Authorities were alerted. Students were secured indoors. Wildlife officials prepared for a possible capture. But when the “wild predator” was finally cornered, everyone burst into laughter. It wasn’t a mountain lion at all, it was a very large, very fluffy house cat.

Yes, that’s right. The terrifying “beast” that sparked a full emergency response turned out to be a chonky feline with a serious attitude and a suspiciously wild look. In fairness to the school staff, the cat’s orange-brown fur, stocky build, and confident prowl did give off big cat energy. But once animal control arrived and got a better look, the case of the mountain lion was quickly closed with a purr.

I find it funny how age erodes reason. You'd think it would be the other way around, that children are aesthetics-oriented and adults are logical, but that's just not the case. As adults we have taste, and then that taste in aesthetics heavily influences everything even logic faculties. I asked "but why" and "why not" a lot more as a child than I do as an adult; I'd like to fix that. I don't want to be an obstinate old geezer.
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I am not sure it is just a youth versus age thing. The amount of even clever people, even here, capable of subjecting their own assumptions to the same scrutiny to which they hold others is quite small, and I think some people are ill suited for the cognitive load to handle that anyway

"Democrats are already suggesting Republicans may have poisoned the well and are countering by playing hardball. One particular demand they’re making as a condition of engagement: a costly extension of expanded tax credits for Affordable Care Act insurance premiums that are set to expire at the end of the year."

politico.com/news/2025/07/21/r…

#healthcare #ACA #insurance #DrugPrices #medicaid #cancer #CostsOfCare #UScongress #USpol

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That's a nice example if also a part of the indictment. Healthcare should be a right--and their crappy insurance probably won't help prevent bankruptcy let alone worsening mental health, if they face a crisis. It's measly and overall, we're the only industrialized nation where people go bankrupt and families destroyed while we spend more than anyone else in the world. So--Medicare-for-All is a WINNING way to go to get Dems elected PRECISELY because of that example and MILLIONS more.

youtube.com/watch?v=scnYVZyJ28…

I give credit where credit is due regarding the fact that focus on careers creates fewer children (though not explicitly stating it is more a problem with women), as well as pushing against the idea that "we should have policies like the Scandinavian countries" as a solution to birth rate issues when those countries are also below replacement rates.

No solutions beyond "changing the culture," but we all know why that is the case.

Patrick Lawrence: Sun Valley vs. Queensbridge consortiumnews.com/2025/07/21/…

Hydrogen fuel cells are enabling extended flight durations drones. Unlike traditional lithium battery-powered drones, hydrogen-fueled counterparts offer superior energy density, allowing them to stay airborne for hours rather than minutes.

citynewsservice.cn/news/Hydrog…

#technology

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@DBG3D again what exactly are you suggesting here, stop all technological progress or what exactly?

It's also pretty clear that China is putting these advances towards civilian use. Perhaps being a European it's hard for you to imagine that a nation can develop peacefully. Certainly not something Europe has ever been capable of doing. So I can see why you'd be projecting here being a product of western civilization.

Interviews de salarié·es sans-papiers
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"Dans le nettoyage ou la grande distribution, la sur-exploitation des travailleurs et travailleuses sans papier décrite par ceux et celles qui la subisse.

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Immigration
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Colonialisme, Racisme
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Lutte de classes"

The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 09 No. 19 - 22 July 1922)
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CHANGE OF DATE: Who Really Won the US-Israeli War on Iran? iacenter.org/2025/07/22/change…