Do you mean @morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de? Or does that Community actually exist?

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”.

One other suggestion: let the real Puffing Billy know and suggest they make a trademark complaint.

I made a report to scamwatch as @dumblederp@aussie.zone suggested, via their “report a scam website” beta. Here’s the text I used, if anyone else wants to take the basic skeleton of it and tweak it for their own report:

Pretends to be the Puffing Billy Railway (real domain: https://puffingbilly.com.au/)
Uses fake AI imagery to advertise and pretend its association with the real railway
Advertises “our coupon price” prices above those offered on the official site ($72 for an adult return, official price is $64)
Advertises that the “normal price” is above their coupon price ($80)
Website owner has also created false entries on mapping & business directory software Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/fxVNa5w4SbZ7V1Qi9, https://maps.app.goo.gl/YB7w8NzmbtMJbdmf7. These entries promote the fake business as if it were the real one, and link back to the scam website.

One weird caveat…I don’t understand what the scam actually is here. I could not find anywhere on their website to actually do anything. No call to action. No link to order tickets. No contact details. Nothing. Just a list of their prices and two fake photos.

There was added to these causes of offence his insult to the tribunes. It was, namely, the festival of the Lupercalia, of which many write that it was anciently celebrated by shepherds, and has also some connection with the Arcadian Lycaea. At this time many of the noble youths and of the magistrates run up and down through the city naked, for sport and laughter striking those they meet with shaggy thongs. And many women of rank also purposely get in their way, and like children at school present their hands to be struck, believing that the pregnant will thus be helped to an easy delivery, and the barren to pregnancy. These ceremonies Caesar was witnessing, seated upon the rostra on a golden throne, arrayed in triumphal attire. And Antony was one of the runners in the sacred race; for he was consul. Accordingly, after he had dashed into the forum and the crowd had made way for him, he carried a diadem, round which a wreath of laurel was tied, and held it out to Caesar. Then there was applause, not loud, but slight and preconcerted. But when Caesar pushed away the diadem, all the people applauded; and when Antony offered it again, few, and when Caesar declined it again, all, applauded. The experiment having thus failed, Caesar rose from his seat, after ordering the wreath to be carried up to the Capitol

— Plutarch, The Life of Julius Caesar

Some believe the event was staged by Caesar to gauge how much support he would have to name himself king. Had he not received sufficient push-back, he’d have gone ahead with it.

It’s a phenomenon that has been studied by psephologists and political scientists. Ultimately, it’s because IRV is a single-winner system. And single-winner systems have a strong preference for 2 party systems because at the end of the day, if one person wins, it’s likely to be from one of the largest groups.

Our Senate doesn’t use a single-winner system. It uses STV, which is a proportional system. Unfortunately because we only elect 6 Senators per state, there’s not a lot of room to create proportionality, so there are still only a relatively small number of groups represented. Contrast with the MMP system used in New Zealand and Germany, or direct proportional systems like the Netherlands and Norway, and you get much better truly proportional results.

Read as in, with their eyes? Or how to ingest it into some other app/script? Cos I’m vaguely aware that awk can be used in some way for this, but wouldn’t have a clue how.

Not exactly. Everything counted on election night gets recounted later. All the counts done on the night are basically unofficial counts for the media and the convenience of the politicians. They’re a little more official than that makes it sounds, but only a little.

More similar to yours than one could possibly imagine.

• A centre-left incumbent that seemed on track to lose, as of February.
• Thanks in part to Trump, the incumbent saw huge swings towards them in the polls during the campaign.
• So much so that their conservative opposition lost his own seat.
• The unfortunate harm done to a real left-wing party as a by-product (in your case it was because of FPTP and strategic voting. In ours it seems likely to be an unintuitive byproduct of how IRV works).
• Your left-wing party lost his seat. We’re still counting but it looks very possible that detail could be replicated here.

This would just be another parallel between us and Canada. Yes, Pierre Poilievre losing his seat, and Dutton following in his footsteps, has gotten most of the attention. But New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh also lost his seat in Canada.

I suppose “loose” in this context could also be a much nicer euphemism for “knife”. As in “free him of the obligation of being party leader”. But that context would be if he retains his seat, but they’ve decided they no longer like his leadership.

It’s about time the AEC adopts a 3CP count on election night for 3-way seats.

For those unaware, on election night, AEC workers count the 1st preferences of votes, and then conduct a 2CP count to the 2 candidates the Commissioner (or the Division Returning Officer, not sure which…but it’s someone high up in the permanent AEC staff) has decided are most likely to win. This is great in most cases, but if the AEC gets it wrong it can lead to wild results where the person who was believed to have won on the night has actually lost, and either the 2CP loser on the night actually wins, or even the winner can be someone who made no appearance in the 2CP on the night.

I don’t know who the 2CP was between on election night in Melbourne (I was too busy doing that counting in Ryan—ours was between Greens and LNP),* but the need to “re-throw” between Labor and Greens implies it was probably Greens/LNP? If so that seems strangely out of alignment with previous results so I don’t understand why they did that. If they did in fact 2CP between Labor and Greens I wonder why the recount would be so far off of what was declared on the night.

Doing a 3CP count on the night, only in seats where this kind of thing is considered likely, would give a much better indication. Yes, it would be more anticlimactic because you’d lose the ability to confidently declare who did win, but it would at least mean the numbers you’re seeing on the ABC (or your media source of choice) are definitely accurate and unlikely to change by large amounts over the coming week. And you can just make an estimate of how preferences will flow from the 3rd in 3CP to the other two. (Before anyone asks, it would definitely not be viable to do a 3CP and then a 2CP on the night. I didn’t leave the booth until 11:30 pm last night as it was; extending it too much more than that would be unreasonable. Besides, you couldn’t start a 2CP until every booth had done its 3CP, including the postal votes and prepolls. And that’s just not how it works. Each booth does their own thing based on guidance set out ahead of time.)

3CP would actually speed up the result, allowing workers to get home earlier and the media to get reliable answers sooner. Each ballot would take a bit longer to count, but the number of ballots to be counted is absolutely decimated (in the modern, not Roman, sense). Instead of counting nearly 700 2CPs, we’d be counting less than 250 3CPs at my booth. The disadvantage is the potentially higher error rate. (A less important disadvantage is the lack of ability to use the 3CP to find errors in the 1st preference results…but you only lose this ability in the 1 candidate that would have undergone 2CP redistribution but is now part of the 3CP…in my booth our redistribution of the Labor candidate results meant we noticed we had undercounted her 1st preference results initially by 1.)

So in summary:

• 3CP would reduce post-election-night surprises
• 3CP would give the media accurate, if incomplete, results that can be used to make informed speculation about the final result
• 3CP would speed up the count on election night, saving the AEC money, their workers sleep, and giving the media information faster

I don’t know if this would require legislative change, a directive from some Minister, or just an internal AEC policy change. But whatever it is, it needs to happen.

Ok I found the ABC liveblog from last night which said this:

the electoral commission was counting preferences between the Liberals and the Greens because they were the final two parties in 2022

I don’t understand this, because the AEC Tallyroom website says the final two were Labor and Greens. But at least I now know who they were counting…unless the ABC was wrong on both points.

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* Ok I found the ABC liveblog from last night which said this:

the electoral commission was counting preferences between the Liberals and the Greens because they were the final two parties in 2022

I don’t understand this, because the AEC Tallyroom website says the final two were Labor and Greens. But at least I now know who they were counting…unless the ABC was wrong on both points.

What did it originally say?

Btw it now says “loose”, when presumably you meant to say “lose”.

Since it was meant as satire

If it was satire, why is it in !nottheonion@lemmy.world?

It does? The Hopi Reservation and US/Mexico border were brought up in that Reddit thread? Discussion of the humorous origin of place names, and of how train schedules are the reason behind the time Eucla time zone happened on /r/perth earlier in the week?

Oh shit you’re right. It just says genetic material. I was interpreting that as “reproductive material”. Which was giving them too much credit, because that’s not the same thing.

discharge genetic material

Could you not argue that a woman is doing this every time she has her period?

Good post.

Wrong community.

A hilarious take (with some really interesting asides) on Australia’s weirdest time zone.

Transylvania at the time of Dracula? It was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, so it would be Franz Joseph I (yes, that Emperor Franz Joseph). Romania has a very tumultuous history, having been stuck on the frontier between Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans for most of the modern era. In Vlad III “Dracula” 's life alone it switched sides multiple times, and he was made Voivode of Wallachia and deposed at least 3 times. Voivode being roughly equivalent to Prince.

I’d regularly see near-militant comments to anything even remotely suggesting cars had a place

That tends to be pushback against anyone saying their specific use case requires a car, rather than saying nobody should be allowed to like cars as a hobby.