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@geordinhl @CityofCT @Our_DA @WesternCapeDA @alanwinde We need like a "Fist Bump a City Worker" campaign for these guys who do such amazing work. They are the best municipal workers in the country!

Our City of Cape Town teams are out working across the city during the #CapeStorm ⛈️👷‍♂️ Teams are dealing with flooding, downed power lines and clearing fallen trees. We know this terrible weather has been disruptive and we thank you for your patience as our City teams continue assisting residents. ☎️ Report dangerous situations to 021 480 7700

@agostino_harry @PopePiusIXStan Like at night?

@SealeWade @PopePiusIXStan What’s an “hour” without the motion of the sun across the sky?

Christian scientists say that too

@agostino_harry @PopePiusIXStan A day is "24 hours".

@PopePiusIXStan What is a “literal day” before the Sun was made?

@honorablesaint Catholicism is not one thing. It is universal, and therefore encompasses all. And it is certainly bigger than individuals' preferences for boomer rock or chant, respectively.

I swear Catholics are the worst at evangelizing online with videos like this. You have a beautiful video of the faithful being baptized into the Catholic church, and you overlay it with 1980 boomer parish rock beats that are nauseating to listen to. This is where the Orthobros dominate. They'd have a video like this and overlay it with Agne Parthene or Psalm 135 Byzantine Chant. Catholicism has some of the most profound and richest Gregorian Chants, Holy Week Chants, Organ/piano choir music by some of the greatest musical minds in the history of the world (Franz Liszt for example)..... And this is the music you overlay over these type of videos. This is two I have seen today. This music is perfectly represented visually in the picture below.

@DonEscobar1 @MarioNawfal A war crime is a war crime. A war crime is not justified because it is retaliatory.

@SealeWade @MarioNawfal Difference is Iran is doing it as a retaliation action, in response to US/Israel attacks on non military targets

🇦🇪🇮🇷 Iran attacked the port ships were using to avoid Iran's attacks. Khor Fakkan in the UAE handles 5 million containers a year and sits directly on the Gulf of Oman, outside the Strait of Hormuz entirely. When Iran made Hormuz a no-go, global shipping rerouted there. Cargo gets offloaded, moved overland to Jebel Ali or other Gulf ports, and continues on its way. It became the workaround to the world's most important chokepoint. Then today, projectiles landed in the water next to a docked container ship. This is the third escalation in the same pattern. Iran disrupted Hormuz. Shipping moved to alternatives. Iran attacked those too. Now it’s hitting the ports those alternatives rely on. Iran is not just closing the door. It is blocking the emergency exit. Source: Al Jazeera

@TheVixhal Does this apply to 0.777... as well?

0.999... (repeating forever) is exactly equal to 1. It is not approximately but precisely the same number. Most people assume there must be some infinitely small gap between 0.999... and 1, but there isn't. One simple way to see it: If x = 0.999... then 10x = 9.999... Subtract: 10x - x = 9.999... - 0.999... So 9x = 9, meaning x = 1. The reason this feels wrong is that our brains want to imagine 0.999... as a process that's approaching 1 but never quite getting there. But it's not a process. It's a completed, infinite decimal, and it lands exactly on 1.

@FeserEdward When I saw that I thought the whole "first duty" formulation would have been my way out of that spot as a Democrat. "Sure I stood up and clapped: Trump is right, we have duties to all people, but the first duty IS to Americans".

It's actually even worse than that. Trump's exact formulation was that "the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens." He didn't actually deny that the government has duties of some kind to those here illegally (whether or not he believes that), but said merely that the first duty of governments was to their own citizens, which is obviously true. Yet they couldn't muster even lukewarm agreement with that. And the refusal to join in the condemnation of child mutilation was even worse. The Democratic Party remains degenerate and beyond the pale.

@BigGxabashe @Askash This is the best post I've seen this week! We should never take work for granted. Congratulations bru.

@Askash Proud to be a subby in this project ✌️we have a ton of work ahead of us

My friends in hospitality always say that if you want to see where the hotel industry is heading over the next few years, pay close attention to developments at the V&A Waterfront. And boy oh boy is the V&A Waterfront going large with their newest series of developments. Their R20 billion coastal expansion in Granger Bay, where 3.81 hectares of land will be reclaimed from the sea, is moving along swiftly. Permission has been granted by the local council to enhance V&A’s development rights, and the expansion project has now commenced. The 440,000 m2 of reclaimed land is shown in the image below. The first phase of the project (known as Phase Zero) will take 3 years to construct and includes the following: •⁠ Tidal pools •⁠ Public coastal walkway •⁠ Landscaped promenade •⁠ Slipway and fixed quayside •⁠ Construction of a 540-metre seawall •⁠ Open public spaces and pedestrian paths •⁠ Two breakwaters extending into Table Bay •⁠ A new harbour for boating, kayaking and swimming We will then see the development of additional hotels, residential and commercial space, and leisure offerings. No major new road upgrades are expected.

@LibertarianZA Yeah this is an interesting observation. It has to do with how things start getting taken for granted as they become a part of daily life. It's the Ricoffy->Nescafe->Nespresso journey. We can't imagine drinking chicory now, but that was standard back in the day. And cheaper.

People complain about the cost of living but if you think about it we weren’t spending even half of what we do today on what are ultimately unnecessary luxuries and conveniences. The average car was very basic, a box on four wheels with plastic seats. We certainly didn’t pay taxis to go out as we do with Uber, or spend the equivalent cost of a house on some high performance, battery driven behemoth. We didn’t spend fortunes on phones and airtime and internet and app subscriptions and gaming consoles and laptops etc etc. There was one TV (with free to air channels) not half a dozen in the house, and we kept our appliances for decades. Nobody ordered in food, or even ate out that much - it was usually a special occasion when we did. We bought fresh groceries and ingredients from the local supermarket instead of processed foods. We’d certainly never pay what we do today for a fancy coffee. Few people ever flew anywhere unless it was for business or that once in a lifetime overseas holiday. We certainly never flew domestically. The annual holiday was more often than not a road trip and the accommodation quite basic. Kids went to public schools and we often used public hospitals, or paid once off to see the local doctor. There were no crazy medical aid premiums. Sure, some of those things aren’t feasible any more, but when you take the long view it’s clear that our standard of living has increased significantly. Speaking for myself, if I reverted to as much of my pre 1990 standard of living as possible with my current income I’d suddenly have a ton of spare cash. Food for thought.

@elonmusk @grok Isn't this a fail though?

The other AIs would STILL rather nuke Earth than misgender Caitlyn Jenner, something Caitlyn has said is nuts! This is why @Grok must win.

@LibertarianZA ...makes more sense ja. As you were...

@SealeWade Let me be more precise: "you did not agree to be taxed on unrealized gains based on a fluctuating property market".

Municipal rates, if they cannot be avoided at all, should be calculated on the value you paid for the house, adjusted for inflation. That is the understanding that you entered into when you bought the property - not a scenario where the municipality unilaterally decides what your property is worth today so that they can tax you more on it. If your neighbourhood suddenly becomes "sought after" why should you have to deal with your rates doubling or tripling in a short space of time because more people like your area? You did not agree to be at the mercy of a fluctuating property market. If you sell your house, the new owners can start paying rates based on what they paid for it.

@RyanCoetzee What will become of all those, big and small, who feed at the trough when the taps are closed?

On the contrary the country will only be able to thrive when the ANC is no longer in power. South Africa is not ungovernable; it is, to the extent that the ANC is involved, ungoverned.

@RyanCoetzee ...and having internalized the responsibility of paying wages/salaries on weekly/monthly basis, which entire households depend on. Appreciation of that responsibility would go a long way.

How many people in South Africa’s cabinet have run a business, or a P&L within one? I don’t mean board memberships. And I don’t mean working for a business. I mean being the person responsible for the numbers every morning when you wake up and every night when you go to sleep. How many?

@BizNewsCOM I remember when he was elected Mayor an old friend of his (from university I think) likened him to Gramsci. Funny.

Geordin Hill-Lewis’ shift from right to left sparks debate over DA policies, migrant impact, and the party’s Western Cape future. biznews.com/leadership/ghl…

@BishopBarron And then such people proceed to appoint others who are ideologically aligned to them. Is it that there are there no faithful Catholic academics? What is wrong with us?

I want to express my strong support for the statement that Bishop Kevin Rhoades made this morning concerning a controversial appointment at the University of Notre Dame. Please read his communication in full, for he makes the case more completely and eloquently than I could. Suffice it to say that the woman proposed for a key leadership position at Our Lady’s University is not simply “pro-choice” on the question of abortion; she is a sharp critic of the pro-life position and those who advocate it. She has gone so far as to characterize the anti-abortion stance as rooted in white supremacy and racism, and she has insinuated that the Catholic commitment to integral human development implies the support of abortion rights. Like Bishop Rhoades, I speak as someone with strong connections to and deep affection for the University of Notre Dame. I believe that going ahead with this appointment is repugnant to the identity and mission of that great center of Catholic learning.   diocesefwsb.org/statement-of-m…

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How many people went for the picnic?

@whotfisjovana @PopCrave Oh so you want him to air his family issues out in public like his son did? No you definitely are stupid

@michekyakeymii I blame David Beckham who clearly neglected his responsibility to smack his son in the back of the head when the moment called for it, as those moments arise in the life of a growing boy.

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz are living proof that a life without adversity produces people who confuse inconvenience with trauma. They genuinely believe they are suffering—not from war, hunger, displacement, or loss—but from a wedding dress disagreement and a painfully ordinary in-law squabble. That’s the hardship. At the same moment millions of people worldwide are starving, being bombed, or buried in mass graves, Brooklyn and Nicola were navigating the emotional devastation of a billionaire-funded wedding not going perfectly. So devastating, in fact, that they coped the only way people of limitless privilege can: by organizing another multi-million-dollar wedding. Yes—two luxury ceremonies, because someone said something unkind, a sibling caused tension, and a mother danced at the wrong moment. This is not resilience. This is not struggle. This is what happens when a lifetime of insulation convinces people that mild discomfort is a crisis worthy of public sympathy. When your worst day costs eight figures, you are not traumatized—you are simply untethered from reality. Thoughts. Prayers. Perspective. 🙏 #Privilege #CelebrityCulture #OutOfTouch #BillionaireProblems #FirstWorldProblems #RealityCheck #WealthBubble #SocialCommentary #CulturalDisconnect Do you think extreme wealth actually destroys a person’s ability to understand real suffering?