Huh? What nonsense. The LNP started falling in the polls right when Trump got into office and started destroying America. They tried a few Trumpian policies and were forced to backflip because of how unpopular it made them.

Dutton’s attempt to replicate Trump was roundly rejected by Australians. And rightly so.

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Hopefully it’ll have search that isn’t completely unusably bad, like letting you navigate to an address while knowing if you’ve actually got the right one, instead of blindly guessing one of a dozen streets with the same name.

The !dailygames@lemmy.zip bot works very well.

Yeah same. I think I had vaguely heard about it before, but I have no memory of them being here despite living in Brisbane at the time.

I assume they’re what the Goodwill Bridge is named after.

That story was so beautiful. I’m tearing up now. Thank you for sharing. 🫂

The demonstration he gave of fighting under a fortress, and just how incredibly ineffective the fortress is, was extremely disappointing. The devs really need to improve this.

There are some very interesting discussions in the comments on YouTube that are worth reading. Both around the static defences issue, and the other things Magic discusses.

I’ll attack our voting system.

It’s better than FPTP, but that’s like saying the meal your restaurant is serving is better than literal cow shit. It’s not the compliment you seem to think it is. The latest election results do a pretty damn good job of showing the problem. The fact that a collapse of the vote for the right-wing party resulted in a collapse in the number of seats for the left-wing party, to the benefit of the centrists, is a completely aberrant result that happened because of the odd ways IRV behaves. Even other preferential systems might not have had that effect.

But the real answer is that single-winner systems like both IRV and FPTP are poor fits for a diverse population. What we really need is a proportional system, like the Mixed-Member Proportional that they use across the ditch, as well as over in Germany.

Absolutely true, but in this case they seem to be trying to wiggle out of even that minimal notice period. A promissory estoppel case would probably, if the plaintiff won, see damages in the form of payment equal to the salary that would have been earned in that minimum notice period.

Oh damn, that sucks. D’ya get up to something else fun instead?

There was a little rain this morning, but I didn’t find it too bad most of today. Which was lucky, considering I was at a fencing event outside most of the afternoon.

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Green was dumb today.

omg that’s a fantastic question. I can’t believe it never occurred to me.

One thing I noted in this read-through that I’ve never noticed before is that one of the brides is pretty clearly meant to be foreign. Two are described as having the same complexion and nose shape as the Count, while one is pale, blonde, and blue-eyed. Possibly she has come from outside of Transylvania? Perhaps she has been the Count’s English tutor. The dialogue between the brides does seem to be centred on her, and her behaviour (as well as their dialogue) seems to imply she may be less experienced as a vampire than the others.

I did a search and unfortunately most of the results that came up were actually about how Dracula speaks English…despite this being pretty clearly explained earlier in the book. But I did get one old Reddit thread which was quite helpful. Its author (sadly now suspended from Reddit) posits a link between the blonde Bride and a character in Dracula’s Guest, a sort of prequel short story to Dracula sometimes believed to have been originally planned as the first chapter of the main novel, Countess Dolingen. He encounters her in Austria, and so the language she would be speaking (and the other Brides to her) would be German, which we already know Jonathan can understand. The link is interesting, because some of the physical descriptions of her match, and it helps explain the meaning behind

I seemed somehow to know her face, and to know it in connection with some dreamy fear, but I could not recollect at the moment how or where.

I’ve never read Dracula’s Guest myself, but perhaps it could be a book club after the main novel, or for one of the many gaps in passages.

Oh yeah, sorry. That one was actually explained in the end notes of my copy, but I didn’t bother sharing it because I already knew it. Thanks, Age of Empires! In aoe3, it’s a long thin cannon with bonuses to other types of cannons, meant as counter-siege. In aoe4 it was originally the same, but got reworked so now they’re good at countering buildings and fortifications.

But I suspect, based on the comparison to slings and bows, that the hand-held weapon is probably what was meant. Something that would be a threat to a person standing next to a window within range, and not necessarily a threat to the building itself.

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In such a case he should sue the recruiting company

IANAL, but it certainly seems like he may have a case for promissory estoppel.

Teflon itself is perfectly safe. It’s far too large for your body to absorb.

But many of the byproducts involved in the production of teflon are much less safe.

In other words, if you already own a teflon pan, you’re fine. Keep using it. But if you’re considering buying a new pan, there are good reasons to avoid teflon.

Recent Veritasium video about “forever chemicals”.

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It seems to depend on who you ask. Teeth are not bones, absolutely, but I’ve seen sources that say they are part of the skeletal system, as well as sources that say they’re not.

The skeletal system definitely includes more than just bones, since ligaments and cartilage are definitely part of it. So where exactly the line is drawn is up to interpretation.

That’s funny, because my problem is the exact opposite. Especially later in the book, I have a hard time remembering that parts are actually taking place during the day.

Well, I didn’t want to correct that because frankly “design is a function of graphics” is arguably true. The biggest problem with that notation is the possible implication that it’s only a function of graphics, which is obviously wrong, but as an informal notation I see no reason to insist it must be interpreted that way.