If you say ok-top-o-dees, you’d better be prepared to deliver this spiel at a moment’s notice

HA! That video was really good. Extremely quick and to the point, great linguistics content, and funny to boot!

Please share them if you can. I would love to know which users on Lemmy World have shared the “exact same nonsense text three times.”.

You did. The title, the picture, and the text.

I am for educationing

Doubtful. If you were, you’d be in favour of “educationing” people about how the electoral system works. It’s got nothing to do with “not being for the duopoly”. You can be against the duopoly while also recognising that voting for a third party under FPTP is counterproductive. It’s not about ideology, it’s about basic maths.

Also maybe “educationing” yourself about the language you speak.

https://youtu.be/BFgg-Gy0E2g

Why did I just read the exact same nonsense text three times?

What exactly do you want people to do? Your country has a shitty undemocratic FPTP voting system. Not voting strategically is equivalent to not voting at all, is equivalent to stating that you’re totally fine with the greater of two evils.

It’s been a long time since I read those books. If my googling & memory is correct, they at some point during the 74th Hunger Games announced that two victors from the same district would be allowed, then revoked that to ensure Katniss and Peeta would kill each other, then backflipped to allow the original agreement when they threatened a double suicide. Have I got that right?

I haven’t put a huge amount of thought into this, but I suspect their iconicness would be much lessened, and thus their ability to inspire rebellion in the future.

based on elements from J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 collection of supernatural stories In a Glass Darkly.

I wanted to know why it was described in that specific way, rather than saying it was based on Carmilla. Wikipedia says:

Dreyer draws from two of the stories for Vampyr, one being Carmilla, a lesbian vampire story and the other being The Room in the Dragon Volant about a live burial.

FQOT

That title doesn’t seem true. I zoomed in on the text above and took a screenshot, then zoomed in even more on that screenshot and edited in some marker lines:

Maybe some fonts do that, but not the default one used on Lemmy. Nor, I suspect, most common web sans serif fonts.

Oh neat, I’d never thought of that before. Woulda been handy back last time I was working on a PWA!

200 OK (from service worker)

So yeah, getting it from the cache.

If you’re on linux

I’m not, but I do have WSL installed. It returned “Can’t find pathfinder.social: No answer”

Out of interest, I tried the same command in Microsoft PowerShell, I get:

Server:  dns9.quad9.net
Address:  9.9.9.9

Name:    pathfinder.social

That’s the full output. No actual list of returned addresses.

I’m guessing my system just has pathfinder.social cached.

I’m actually not really clear on what the status of that instance is. Like, for me, when I browse to https://pathfinder.social, I actually see what looks like an empty Lemmy instance running 0.18.2. Some communities show the same for me, while others show a generic error message. So I don’t know whether it’s running in some failed state due to caching, or deregistered, or what.

Yes, that’s the full domain. It used to host communities such as !pf2general@pathfinder.social. Unfortunately it’s been dead for 9–10 months now.

Out of interest, is pathfinder.social among those snatched up by these?

The reference, for anyone who needed it.

I dunno about the other arms, but BT has actually become really quite good over the last year or so.

Plus, it’s unclear to me whether they want us to boycott Channel 9’s TV coverage of the Olympics or not. They did say we should avoid their Olympics reporting, but never specifically called out TV. That’s a much bigger ask I’d say.

Here’s their request from the MEAA’s Facebook page:

Journalists at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Financial Review, Brisbane Times & WAtoday.com.au are now on strike until 11am Wednesday. Freelancers are standing shoulder to shoulder with them. Here’s how you can support them:

1. Sign and share this petition: http://meaa.io/3SoUHem
2. Post a message of support to social media using the hashtag #DontTorchJournalism
3. From 11am AEST on Friday, July 26 until 11am AEST on Wednesday, July 31, don’t cross the virtual picket line. That means do not click on any articles from Nine mastheads and don’t buy the papers.
4. Donate to support the more vulnerable, insecure workers who are giving up their pay while on strike: https://meaa.io/3zYyjCo

More information from the ABC

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-26/nine-strike-the-age-smh-afr-watoday-meaa/104145884

The claims of violence are whatever. Seeing as it’s mostly coming from the LNP, I’m inclined to believe it’s grossly exaggerated if not entirely fabricated.

But ECQ really did stuff up the Council election earlier this year. They were grossly understaffed, resulting in exceedingly long lines and a ridiculously slow count process. Hopefully they’ve realised their error and October’s State election will be smoother. I’ve put my name forward to assist.

Brisbane City Council has since vowed to bring forward annual driver health assessments from 75 years of age to 60, prompting the bus drivers’ union to declare timetable pressures a bigger issue deserving attention.

This is the third bus driver to have killed someone in recent memory, so more health assessments is probably a good idea. So too would be reducing the stress drivers are under to maintain strict timetables. For example, by hiring more drivers. Which might require paying them more.

But even better would be if our whole transport network were made safer. Pedestrians are much less safe crossing our wide 4 lane CBD roads and frequent 6 lane suburban roads than they would be if they only needed to cross two lane lower speed streets. Putting more of our transport network on rails and keeping them separated from roads would be even better.

It’s pretty disgusting that she’s making elite swimmers speak up in her defence and get involved in her bullshit. And disappointing that they’re stooping to that level.

We need our government to step in and create a situation where we don’t need environmental vandals to prop up our sports.

Pretty sure the above quote was about the fell beasts, not Shelob.