I had to recheck what month it was when i saw this headline. This sounded like it had April fools written all over it.

There you go; hadn’t even considered the wider implications of this, such as fears around simply static electricity.

Um, wow. Thats a hazardous connection i’d not readily notice looking about a place like that. It’d be the heavy, falling stuff i’d be examining with my Inspector Clouseau magnifying glass.

Huh! Thats a bit of a populist swing. Not necessarily bad, just populist. Could work with voters. Might be an expensive ox-cart to pull on the otherside though.

Haha nice!

I know it was a bit of a tack on at the end there, but there are a lot of other possible set ups the Olympics could introduce to lower costs for cities, while also keeping it interesting.

The one I like most is switching the games to a home city every second time, it reduces the pressure on cities every four years, and that decrease in supply of event slots could increase the value to cities of hosting the Olympics every eight years. As ongoing venues obviously Athens, Greece would make sense for the Summer Olympics, and maybe Stockholm, Sweden or Chamonix, France could become the Winter Olympics home city. (Just basing that on a quick search of the games history)

Just had a quick look, can’t believe it had all passed me by. 570 users isn’t nothing, especially sonce i’m thinking they all signed up in the last few weeks.

I did notice the Megathreads aren’t pinned, could that be making them less visible? I know i initially scrolled right passed them, and i’s specifically looking for them.

To enable this service, the Lemmy admin needs to add a couple of docker services to their setup and needs to get their own Reddit API key (which is used only for authentication, so well within the rate limits and certainly not incurring any prices).

If i’ve read your post correctly, it seems @lodion or @nath need to weigh in on this one, before anybody else could take any actions themselves in support of your project?

What is/was FIDO. I looked up http://fidoalliance.org/ , is that what you mean?

It looks like they do some kind of passkey instead of password service, did they start as a security focused forum or something?

Haha, i hadn’t even noticed !olympics@sh.itjust.works on my feeds damn! I wonder why that hasn’t gained traction?

If one of Frances special sports was a Linux Power User comp, i reckon that would’ve lit up lemmys Oympics megathreads! :p

Got a bunnings snag and a couple raffle tickets today. Had that familiar mild panic at the back of the brain as I walked up and couldn’t immediately see the card reader. All good in the end, the raffle tickets were disguising it.

ps, the bunnings snag was delectable. No word on when i’m going to pick up my prize yet though, maybe they’re having dinner then calling…

I’s over at !avatar@lemmy.world the other day, love your work!

I noticed the same fact and wondered about posting myself, but i had a quick and i know super basic question, where do you find those panelled cartoons?

Hmm, LGA elections are hard because they’re already optional, so its generally the more active voters that participate. Most active often goes hand in hand with most partisan. But as you say, definitely indicative. And all the more reason to not wish for their return!

I’ve found it a harder listen since the doyenne, Katherine Murphy, left. Lewis and Murphy had a rapport that hasn’t yet been replaced. Remeikis’ performance wasn’t bad this week though.

I reckon people are agreeing with the patently simple and wrong ideas for the same reason the world over. We all know somethings not goin right, and theres no one offering us a genuine answer.

The idea that we should be waiting for someone to offer us the answer is patently absurd though. But we are all highly risk averse creatures, lounging in our comfortable information ecosystems, so too few of us are sticking our necks out with genuinely different ideas and going far enough to test them… and here i go again sorry.

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Dutton and his flock

Its surely the unopposed platforms they constantly get. Same reason that side of politics hate QandA. Their arguments constantly fall over when they’re not in situational control.

Optional preferencing, why hasn’t that set the socials on fire! That’ll lead to disenfranchisement through neglect of less civically focused population segments. I can’t even see it being good for lib/nats just reduces democratic participation for those who might need a nudge to be more engaged.

That might bite them on the arse!

Sometimes I end up preferring my previous ignorance.

So, you comment put me in mind about the latest Gaurdian essential poll podcast I listened to tonight.

Lewis and Remeikis in their discussion really hit on Dutton’s strategy. And discuss why he hasn’t tacked back toward the Teal vote. Just like the revanchivist style populists he’s connected with around the world, neoliberalism is quickly being discarded for more authoritarian power structures. So maybe in Dutton’s mind, and those like him, socialist v capitalist has ceased to be an argument that can sway them.

I don’t know, don’t think i’ve got that quite right. But theres something in amongst all of it.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vDPkKWkUgBJszOW2jGglw?si=dnamuUj8SVmlq4tuFlOO8A

p.s. Sorry about the spotify link, tried to get the RSS link but something went wrong with it, (maybe my phone browser, DDG, and the Guardian website?), and it ended up loading the document tree.

Well, i was thinking the modular/prefab home style the Minns government announced trials of,

Modular homes to deliver more social housing sooner

But seeing as i’m not in construction, and therefore can’t really say whether modular is the answer, I left the comment a bit vague to see if anyone had any other ideas.