perviouslyiner @ perviouslyiner @lemmy.world

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Here's a story on their app to track this stuff, which doesn't work in rural areas: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/14/trump-ground-game-smartphone-app

They "have little way to know whether canvassers are actually knocking on doors or whether they are cheating – for instance, by “speed-running” routes"

jwz.org/blog, for obvious reasons.

30 years ago today - some cinemas are marking the anniversary with a showing.

"We still never talk sometimes" - Swanson

His telling of this event [severely jetlagged] adds even more to the story.

So what was the “little incident in Arizona”?

There's a UK scheme called Flood Re that does this kind of thing. If you're more than a certain probability of flooding, you need to go with an insurer that's backed by the government's reinsurance policy.

There's an "editorial complaints" link at the bottom of BBC news website.

So, you already pressed the button?

Agnes Nutter, Good Omens.

Alternatively, "The most powerful person in Discworld is Granny Weatherwax"

Your last example reminds me of someone editing Wikipedia to list Ronnie O'Sullivan as the winner of the World Open, about 20 minutes before the final match finished.

They were right, and anyone would agree that it was all-but-certain, but it hadn't actually happened yet.

Right, an original at Mosaic [Netscape] before it got into that fight with Internet Explorer, went open-source, and became Mozilla.

The original developer has a great blog, and has commented on this

This computer.

I have no idea - I saved the picture with the idea of making a JavaScript image-map replica to play with, but haven't been able to find any documentation or manuals for it yet?