You might be missing the context, which is that an Australian childcare worker, who is a man, and who was in the industry for about a decade and had access to over a thousand children in that time, was recently arrested on child sexual abuse charges relating to a number of those children.

This has prompted a lot of editorial inches on the myriad problems in the for-profit childcare industry and how they compounded to allow this situation to occur for so long. I haven’t seen any coverage that blamed men, but there have been a few talking about the prejudice against men who want to work with children and the suspicion directed at them, especially right now.

Nobody sensible is actually suggesting that the solution is to vilify men who work with children, that’s just a side effect of the revelation that a man who worked with children was a child molester. This piece is simply trying to redirect some of that reflexive distrust toward reforms that could actually make childcare and similar industries safer for children.

Same here basically, cross-eyed viewing is super easy for me but I have to work for minutes to perform wall-eyed viewing. I was really excited to see a post with cross-eyed stereograms.

I AM THE PARK!

But if they were just re-using old recordings of her as Peach saying “Yeah!”, there’s every chance she wouldn’t get a call for that at all. Not getting a call back for the new Mario Kart doesn’t immediately mean “I’m not Peach any more,” until the game comes out and it becomes clear they haven’t used archive recordings and somebody else is Peach in it.

On the day before launch, she was basically Schrodinger’s Peach: “I haven’t recorded any new lines for this one, so I’m either in this game via archive recordings or I’ve been replaced.” She doesn’t need a phone call for either of those to be true.

I feel like Mario Kart is a bit ambiguous, there’s always the potential they could just re-use voice work from a previous entry rather than bringing all the actors in to go “Whoa! Ha-ha-ha. Luigi number one!” I don’t know if they still do this, but in the N64 era a lot of the same samples were used for Mario Kart, Mario Party, maybe other stuff, so the actors wouldn’t have been involved after the original recording sessions.

One thing I did say in my other comment is I like lemm.ee admins federation policy of block the spam and illegal instances and letting me block NSFW and bots

Ah, right. I was talking more from a broader software perspective rather than individual instances; I’m not sure what individual instances’ federation policies are like. Probably the big three that people want to know about most of the time are lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net. I know the mainline instance piefed.social allows the first one but blocks the other two, so that probably extends a bit further than what you’re looking for. I’m not sure if there are any other instances that have looser federation settings.

I also remember hearing about the Mbin version when the Kbin dev fell off the face of the earth and meaning to check it out (I’m sure you can guess how that went) mind telling me about that. Again like piefed all ik is it’s a separate platform that can view lemmy content

I’d say the most significant feature Mbin has over Lemmy is microblog support. You can switch between threads (Lemmy/Reddit-style) and microblogs (Mastodon/Twitter-style) and post or read from both “sides” of the fediverse. If you have people you’re interested in following but don’t want to set up a whole Mastodon account, etc., Mbin allows you to do that. For example, I follow a couple of celebrities with fediverse accounts, some software developers (web browsers, games, emulators) and a few friends who post.

The other big thing Mbin has currently is that it automatically translates remote links to their local equivalent. I’m on fedia.io but if somebody from a foreign instance or even foreign software links to a post on their server, Mbin will link me to the local version instead so that I can immediately vote and reply, without having to track it down manually.

Something big that Mbin is lacking currently is the ability to block instances you don’t like. You can block individual users or communities, but if there’s an entire instance you want to get rid of, your only option is to petition the instance administrators to defederate from it. Since that’s an important feature for you, I don’t think Mbin is right for you, at least until that feature (which is planned) gets added.

Cook’s razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by screwing up git commands.”

As you’re kind of implying by putting “app” in scare quotes, it’s really an entirely separate platform. Any service that implements ActivityPub can theoretically access any part of the fediverse. There’s a subset of the fediverse (sometimes called the threadiverse) which platforms like Lemmy and PieFed are built to work with, where you have threads organized into communities and up- and downvote stuff.

PieFed and Lemmy have largely similar goals in the sense that they’re two ways to join and interact in the same threadiverse communities, but PieFed’s development has been characterized by rapid growth, as indicated in the meme. This means it can do most or all of what Lemmy does, plus extra stuff that’s exclusive to PieFed.

Right now, that means things like anonymous voting, de-duplication of posts (they get combined into a single post with separate comment sections of each repost), filtering of “bad” images (like in the Nicole gore saga), warning labels on link posts with unreliable sources, support for “topics” (like multireddits from the old place), a marker for consistently low-reputation users; basically, it’s a bunch of quality-of-life stuff. In theory, rapid development could also mean things breaking more often, although I haven’t seen any of that personally.

I’m commenting from Mbin, a whole separate platform again, so arguably I’m impartial. I don’t have an account on either Lemmy or PieFed.

I don’t think I understand what “screenshot” means in this context.

You might want to add Murderbot to this list, since it’s currently releasing weekly on Apple TV+. I’ve been mostly enjoying it so far, at least as far as the story it’s telling. My only problem is with the episode length/structure. It’s a 22-minute show and I always feel like I’m just getting into it by the time it’s over, with the episodes tending to end very abruptly; there’s rarely a satisfying conclusion to the story elements introduced in that episode.

I don’t normally mind having a week to digest an episode, but with this show it feels like reading a few pages of a book once a week, without the benefit of finishing a chapter. I think the show would be far more enjoyable if watched once all the episodes are available. That said, I find most of the characters likeable and the titular Murderbot’s arc is a unique take on the “android develops humanity” trope. Their behavior is already very human at the start, with the major shortfall being their difficulty/discomfort when relating to people, in a way that’s very autism-coded.

Not even fake, here’s a news story from 15 years ago featuring the same image: https://phys.org/news/2010-12-million-years-oxygen-drove-evolution.html

That’s eight years before Among Us was released. I checked archive.org as well because … well, it’s sus. But they have captures there too, it’s not a backdated modern post.

The last subheading in the article is “Who cares?”, by which they mean “Which chimpanzees within the social group are responsible for providing medical care?” I didn’t notice the final section initially, so I thought I had reached the end of the article then there was just an exasperated large print:

Who cares?

Neat. 📸

Not mentioned in the article, but director and EP Rhys Thomas is also known for co-creating Documentary Now! with Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and Seth Meyers. And directing that MCU Hawkeye show on Disney+, which industry sources are telling me “exists.”

I think what they mean is more that when the Coalition does better, the Greens have a better chance of winning than when they do poorly. In theory, the Greens could lose a seat not because Labor did better, but because the Coalition did worse.

Imagine at the 2022 election, the Greens win a seat on an election that goes like this:

• Liberal: 10,000
• Greens: 9,000
• Labor: 8,000

The preference flows from Labor go mostly to the Greens and the final 2PP is something like this:

• Greens: 15,000 (+6,000)
• Liberal: 12,000 (+2,000)

Then, at the 2025 election, the Liberal vote collapses. In order to keep the Greens and Labor counts the same, assume the Liberals all just moved out of the district.

• Greens: 9,000
• Labor: 8,000
• Liberal: 7,000

In this case, after preference flows, the result looks like this:

• Labor: 13,000 (+5000)
• Greens: 11,000 (+2000)

The only change in the primary vote is that Liberal lost 3,000 supporters, but as a result, Labor wins. That’s how preferences work, but it is at least kind of weird that the right-wing vote collapsing moves the whole district further to the right instead of the left as you might expect. In a single-seat election like this, the ultimate deciding factor is “Who came third?”

Viewed another way, if your preferred candidate ultimately lands in second, then your vote was effectively not used at all. Your preferences were never taken into consideration because your candidate never got knocked out. Coming in third at least means your vote can still have an impact on the result.

The proportional representation system is more intuitive in cases like this. A right-wing collapse simply means that more of the left-wing candidates are elected, at the expense of the right wing. Instead of a right-wing collapse moving the district right, it moves to the left.

Second-last update of the night, unless the last one suddenly takes a lot longer. No significant changes, still close on primary/not close on preferences.

EDIT: Actually, I guess we’re done, the tracker updated to show 40 of 40 polling stations reporting without the figures actually budging at all. And we’re out of here.

12:04 PM AEST
40 of 40 centres reporting primaries

We’re coming to the end now, with another recovery for Ali France’s primary vote putting the candidates back within spitting distance, with Ali of course well ahead in 2PP.

11:37 PM AEST
38 of 40 centres reporting primaries

Bit of a recovery for Ali France’s primary vote in this update as the 2PP softens slightly.

11:22 PM AEST
36 of 40 centres reporting primaries

11:04 PM AEST
35 of 40 centres reporting primaries

Don’t stress or anything, he’s still out, but for the first time in the night, Dutton has managed to drag his way into the lead for primary votes only. The result after preferences remains practically unchanged.

10:34 PM AEST
34 of 40 centres reporting primaries

Definitely. And while the Liberals have tried to claim they’ve been unfairly tarred with the orange brush, they deliberately tacked that way and it did not work. You had Dutton threatening to get “the woke agenda” out of school curriculums (notably set by the previous LNP government, so the woke agenda of … Scott Morrison???) and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price literally saying MAGA.