This video raises some interesting theories, but unfortunately it doesn’t have any data to back up the more controversial ones. I’m inclined to agree with it, but I’d rather see actual evidence to back that up, if it’s possible for that kind of evidence to be collected. Did the Greens’ strategy during the campaign and during the last term of Parliament lose them a significant amount of votes? It’s hard to say.

The summary being that the Greens were always going to lose seats as soon as the LNP slipped backward into 3rd place and got eliminated, giving votes to Labor, and that nothing the Greens could have done or not done would have changed that, is the most important piece of it, though.

Omg thanks for linking that thread. The amount of removed and deleted content on Lemmy is so frustrating. I hate the fact that removed or deleted posts also completely nuke all the comments on it.

Reddit’s approach is so much better in this respect. A removed post removed the OP’s text, but if it’s a link post the link remains, and all the comments remain.

Happy cake day!

That was my exact response, too. Apparently he’s the NZ PM and leader of the conservative National Party, in coalition with the far-right libertarian ACT and the far-right populist NZ First.

Yeah exactly. He chose to get rid of it 40 years ago this year.

Not nearly to the same extent as America, but in general, yes. Same direction, just less extreme.

Hey now, he might have been born here, but he’s not our arsehole. And he hasn’t been for 40 years.

just use double-sided tape

Could be a good use for one of those cases with slots for cards. Slide the drive in the slot, cut a hole for the USB C jack at the bottom, et voila.

Oh huh. The message is in French, so I guess they’re banned from their own instance? I feel like the “banned” message should make it clear whether it’s a community ban, a ban from my instance, or a ban from their instance.

Didn’t you come in a Commonwealth car?

Huh? How come @daniel_callahan@jlai.lu got banned? Their history doesn’t look particularly problematic?

Great to see the AEU come out explicitly calling it a genocide.

Shame on SBS for hedging their comments so much. It really isn’t relevant; they had to go a long way out of the flow of the article and this news story just to say “hey, Israel doesn’t like it when you point out their genocide”.

That’s definitely at least a 2nd rank spell.

Reread the comment you replied to. Not one word of it was in there accidentally.

Thanks for joining us, but we’re out of time.

Dental and mental health in medicare.

People suffering from health conditions are not being “economically productive”, so by your own goals, the government should be helping ensure people can be at maximum health. And last I checked, my teeth and brain were part of me.

Oh yes, that’s a very good point, actually. That actually seems such a fundamental use case that you could almost justify it being available without a permission.

No u in Qantas. It’s an acronym. The Q stands for Queensland.

I just find this story so bizarre. Why bid on a property that’s got such little utility? Heck, why does the property have separate title to begin with?

Maybe, but I’d like to see a concrete example of how they are “designed to talk to each other” that couldn’t be achieved by the extension just reading the DOM.

I agree with you about dropdown menus being something that could/should be natively available to HTML, but I’m less convinced about form submission. Sure, if we assume everything is happy path it’s a great idea, but a system needs to be robust enough to handle a variety of cases. Maybe you want to redirect a user to a log-on page if they get back a 401, or present an explanation if they get a 403. A 5XX should usually display some sort of error message to the user. A 201 probably needs to add an element into the page, while a 200 might do nothing, or might alter something on the page.

With the huge range of possible paths and desired effects, it pretty quickly becomes apparent that designing an HTML & CSS–only spec that can meet the needs is infeasible. There’s definitely a case to be made that JavaScript has become too powerful and can do too many potentially dangerous or privacy-invading things. And maybe a new range of permissions could be considered to limit a lot of that at a more fundamental level. But what we’re talking about here with the form submission stuff is the real bare-bones basic stuff JavaScript was designed to make easier—alter the contents of web pages on the fly in response to user actions. And it’s really, really good at that.