I love architecture along with the feelings and tones it can create. I heard one of my favorite buildings, the Burroughs-Wellcome Building, is up for demolition. The first time I saw it glinting in the setting sun, I thought I had slipped into Blade Runner. Wish I could tour it before it goes.
https://www.archpaper.com/2020/09/public-opinion-has-softened-on-brutalism-isnt-enough-to-stay-the-wrecking-ball/
Here is the location, check out the 3D if you can.
https://goo.gl/maps/jNUkv4bx2ydyAN1K7
It's decisions like these that separate good leaders from the bad ones. Emotions can't come into the picture on scales this large. They have to look at the data and put a value on a life. This is tough and necessary. My great grandfather, though he wasn't really a farmer, grew and sold peanuts and it helped get my family through the Great Depression. If you really want to help the poor, peanuts are a good way.
https://www.pb4h.org/
My toddler has started 3hrs of daycare a week to get her out of the house and expose her to others and I was pretty surprised to find out about the nut ban that is pretty much everywhere these days. I didn't have to deal with all of this with her older sister. Nuts, and peanuts in particular, are probably the healthiest food around, especially when cost, availability, and environmental impact are considered. These policies MIGHT save a few lives, yet they eliminate great benefit overall.
This might be the key to getting through a game of Monopoly.
https://thelandlordgame.com
Will give it a shot this weekend, but that description on the website...
I think one of the best ways to work towards more privacy in various areas is simply to ask the people in charge.
Today I got the answer from a request about the app of my health insurance about "Why does it contain Firebase Analytics and Google AdMob?" and "Why does it require Google Play services?". It helps. One doesn't have to always go into full debate mode. Instead: Ask questions, be friendly, make informed decisions.
So for anyone who wasn't following, Google pressured a bunch of #fediverse app developers to do an impossible thing and in the end they had to delete their app off the Play Store
Here is a good synopsis by @SubwayTooter
http://subwaytooter.hatenadiary.jp/entry/2020/09/01/161533
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