https://youtu.be/BFgg-Gy0E2g

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

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.

I genuinely don’t have any clue what you’re trying to say here, sorry.

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That’s true.

The Greens proportionally deserve 18.4 seats, but have only 4.

Labor deserves 48.9 seats but has 68.

LNP deserves 53.6, but has 58.

One Nation deserves 7.4, has 0.

It’s actually a very easy calculation to do yourself. Literally just 150 × percentage 1st preference votes. Obviously it’s not perfect, because if you change the voting system you also change how parties campaign, which changes how the votes turn out. But it’s a good rough idea.

But uhh…I’m not really sure how this is relevant to this thread.

I’m struggling to understand what’s going on here, even if I click up to view context. If we’re talking “two republican parties” with a lower case R, I’d think that would be Greens and (some of) Labor.

If we’re talking about analogies to American politics, surely that would be LNP, One Nation, and United Australia Party, but the latter has just 1 Senator and zero state representatives, so maybe we’re ignoring it to get to 2 Republican parties. Or maybe they meant Liberal and National as two parties?

Tagging @stepchook@mastodon.au, your interlocutor, for visibility.

No, it’s a joke when it’s…actually a joke.