agamemnonymous @ agamemnonymous @sh.itjust.works

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I mean, ACAB, but law enforcement is notoriously very proud when it comes to jurisdiction. Generally they're not fans of feds steamrolling their authority.

Yeah he's an idiot and his party is stupid, but I see it as a net benefit. He'll either peel votes off Republicans, or he'll get RCV.

Yes, they do. The voters get a chance to decide who those two drivers are, and 85% of them stay home. Then they got to choose between the driver that wants to drive off the cliff, and the driver who swears they'll go get ice cream. And then 40% of the voters stay home.

Now the driver's taking us off the cliff, and you're whining that the driver that got the most votes is doing exactly what they said they would.

They have every reason to care, but they don't anyway. You can't abdicate your power and then complain no one listens to you. We had a chance to have better choices, but no one but retirees reliably show up to primaries.

The voters are not the problem. They have zero reason to trust the bus driver. Because the bus driver refuses to throw the cliff voters off the bus.

The voters chose the bus driver.

I'm up to 2x on anything that isn't already pretty fast to begin with. 1x is exclusively for music content.

It is not free, but well worth the cost if you're a deep sleeper. I've been using Sleep Cycle for years.

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I've grown my hair from very short to shoulder length multiple times. You're gonna suffer until it's long enough to tie up, then everything's fine. That mid-length basically sucks the whole time. And the worst part is that if you try to make it more cooperative with a haircut, you're just stretching out the fundamental suck even longer.

314253 is acceptable for lefties.

Sounds like a twist on an Aboleth

I mean if you actually read it, basically every point you made except transfiguration is addressed in the conversation Harry has with a goblin at Gringott's. And transfiguration is addressed later in the book, it's actually a really crucial plot point. Long story short, no, you can't just summon more without the philosopher's stone, which is exceedingly rare.

The angle taken, that from currency to time turners the setting is poorly constructed, is valid. Incidentally, HPMOR Harry suffers due to his "I'm so much smarter than everyone" hubris multiple times throughout the story. Once the story really gets going, Yudkowsky doesn't really shy away from pointing out when Harry's absolutist rationalism comes across as childish, impractical, or straight up unethical.

The whole basis of that scheme was the different relative exchange rates in the muggle and wizard world. There are I think 17 silver sickles to 1 gold galleon, but in the muggle world gold is more like 50 times the value of silver. The plan was to take a galleon to the muggle world, melt it down and sell the gold, use the proceeds to buy silver, bring that silver back to the wizard world and have it minted into 50 sickles, and trade those sickles for about 3 galleons.

Like many scenes in HPMOR the author is mostly just roasting Rowling for lazy world building. He didn't have to build a world where everyone else was stupid, the point is that Rowling's wizarding world already fulfilled that requirement.

If you think the Democrats will change without serious challenges to their hegemony, then you really haven't learned.

Correct. Not sure what that has to do with voting for 3rd parties with no chance of winning though. That's not even close to a serious challenge, and all it does is strengthen the hegemony of the actual fascist party.

This country is an aircraft carrier, not a canoe, and the only way it drastically changes direction in a short time is if someone starts blowing holes in the bottom of it.

A perfect illustration. Politics is slow. It may seem like things are moving quickly in this administration, but the groundwork to get to this point took generations of propaganda and power concentration. Even if by some miracle, a leftist third party won the White House, they wouldn't have the foundation necessary to actually do anything. The push to the left is going to be a slow process, and the first several election cycles are going to look a lot like milquetoast liberalism.

It's almost as if corrupt sociopaths are drawn to positions of authority regardless of stated values, and a vanguard party is no exception. Church, State, HOA, offer a crumb of power and bastards will say anything they can to snatch it up. The value of an organizational system has very little to do with its aspirations, and everything to do with the obstacles it erects to obstruct corruption. Build a dictatorship of the proletariat, and the proletariat will be abandoned by the dictatorship.

It is not, it has a tower agitator and works great.

Maytag has one good model too.

Very poetic, but most of these guys are numbnuts. Yes, smoke and mirrors is the intent, but I sincerely believe that the majority of the people you can get into this movement are straight buffoons. Nepo babies playing geopolitik. Obviously there are influences behind the scenes, but these idiots are just too chaotic to stick to the evil plan. I played a low INT goblin fighter based on that premise once, super fun to play, not so much for the rest of the party if they were actually trying to do something.

Extreme strictness is a form of abuse. These symptoms are particular, though not individually exclusive, to strictness. As long as you "behave" you avoid the material effects of the abuse. Other forms of abuse typically have fewer "rules" that can be used as safeguards.

You asked friends, neighbors, coworkers, other parishioners, what they thought, because that shit better last!

You can still do this, I use the Internet tho. There are still brands here and there for each appliance that put the work in on some models, but you have to find them and you'll pay more. But that $1000 washing machine will easily outlast three $400 machines.