The whole show is great, if you haven’t seen it.

I’m confused, why do you think “stop providing aid to assist in genocide” is the take of a tanky?

These rules really worry me. I think it’s really good in theory and we should be protecting kids more, especially from the big personalised algorithms of Facebook, Tiktok, and the like. Curated feeds like that of Lemmy and Reddit concern me less.

But the issue is…how do you prove age, while still enabling people the right to anonymity? I don’t want to give my ID to Facebook.

Ok this got a chuckle out of me. But yeah, I don’t see any problem with people expressing agreement verbally.

Imagine a real conversation where you’re only allowed to agree with someone with nods, never saying “yeah I agree completely” or any other verbal feedback.

Honestly I didn’t even read the article. Shared it purely based on the headline.

You say “handful”, but it still hand thousands of players, and the thing that makes me sad about this screw up is that of those who played it, it was probably someone’s favourite game…

…Is what I was going to say, until I looked at the Steam charts. It hit an all-time peak of 607 players, with estimates of total ownership ranging from 9.5k to 25.1k. It very well still may have been someone’s favourite game and I feel really sad for them that it’s gone, but wow the game still did so much worse than even my expectations based on the reporting.

See also: Born Sexy Yesterday

Oh neat. I should get around to watching it.

I’ll admit I’ve never watched Stargate, but I thought it was scifi? I didn’t realise it engaged with Egyptian mythology.

See that Celsius graph is precisely the nonsense I’m trying to point out. 0 ℃ isn’t “fairly cold outside”. It’s literally the definition of freezing cold. 0 ℉ is “dead” if you’re not wearing quite heavy clothing. 0 ℃ is “really cold outside” and still understating things.

I mean, I deliberately avoided using terms like “hot summer days” and “usual winter day” because that’s far more dependent on where you are. Where I am it’s:

• Really hot summer days (35 ℃)
• Usual summer days (30 ℃)
• Room temperature (24 ℃)
• Spring / autumn days (25 ℃)
• Chilly outside (18 ℃)
• Cold outside / usual winter days (15 ℃)
• Winter nights (10 ℃)

So I used words that are about the experience of a person in those temperatures in comfortable light clothing, rather than times of year. And obviously there’s some subjectivity there, with some people being more comfortable in cold temperatures than others. But still, we’re talking about the comfortable mid point varying from mid 20s to high 10s. There’s no reasonable world in which 50 ℉ (10 ℃) is the midpoint.

It’s just the zero that’s absolute

Right, that’s what makes Rankine and Kelvin absolute scales, while Fahrenheit and Celsius are relative.

x_0 - delta and x_0

Lemmy actually supports proper subscript (though not not clients do). Surround with tildes (single tildes, rather than the double tildes of strike-through).

x₀ - δ is x~0~ - δ

Edit: and now, at least on Jerboa, the code block version is displaying incorrectly, although it now does support the actual subscript…

I’ve always hated this justification of Fahrenheit. For it to be a good argument, 50 °F would need to be the ideal comfortable temperature. But instead 50 is really fucking cold. 100 just isn’t as hot as 0 is cold.

Also Rankine, being an absolute scale, theoretically shouldn’t be in ° anything, and it’s only some weird historical quirk that is the reason it usually is called degrees.

!aom@lemm.ee leaking

Both images work just fine on my phone. It’s just on the web that it doesn’t work for me. So obviously it’s a problem with the web client, not the server.

It’s the new caching system. Our server detects images uploaded to other instances and goes to download them itself, caches them, and serves them to you.

Frustratingly, your images aren’t showing up for me. Neither the one in this post nor your recent !perth post. All I can see is the title & text.

Yeah, it’s one of the very few advantages of the fact that their elections—even federal elections—are not actually standardised nationwide. States run them according to their own rules. Mostly this is a bad thing, but it does mean that one place can improve their system like this as an experiment, without needing to convince the entire country to do it at once.

So I think there are 2 states that do IRV currently. And there might be a few more places where IRV is used in non-congressional/presidential races.

Oddly, IRV is actually seeing some success, slowly growing across the States. But compulsory voting is basically a non-starter over there.