Just hold out the finger in the air for when there is a change in the intensity of propaganda

You must not be just a troll… but a mountain troll

Did they ever consider the implications if Trump was president? He is a Russian Asset. So Putin is going to start rubbing his hands togethrr at the prospect of another cold war if trump is elected.

Is that you J.K Rowling?

Well you don’t have to witness utter morons destroying the planet…

I thought we lost you … Jia Tan!

Not OP but: It may not be assumptions but personal anecdote. I guess it takes concerted effort by significant number of individuals to find out if this is happening.

They can just fuck off

What’s sad is her anti-trans position bewildering considering the morals in her books. Hermoine is called a mudblood and outcast and she works hard to be accepted as a witch in the magical society. The trio befriend Hagrid. I don’t see anybody else visiting him for a cup of tea as frequently as these 3. Dobby the house elf is surprised and shocked to find that Harry frees him just to be a friend. Neville is mocked for all of 7 books and we learn that his circumstances aren’t that far off from that of Harry’s.

The whole fricking book is about showing kindness and accepting people as they are. Given all of this, I don’t quite get why JK Rowling is filled with hatred.

Not really. We believe in what we believe. You’re the goblin who sticks on to consistency.

Piracy is a service problem. If you want it to disappear, corporate greed got to disappear.

That’s like saying everyone should let people enjoy their kinks and you come in and say "aha, then pedophilia is allowed, ya?

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." His point was that only small-minded men refused to rethink their prior beliefs.

Works for infrastructure, not user facing applications.

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The conversation is actually about manufacturer greed (w.r.t sale prices going past $1000) and audacity to ask customers to pay that much for a less than perfect (their marketing material, theur words) device.

If we can’t expect excessive perfection then manufaturers should sell it at 70% discount.

It’s still shaking my money loose from my wallet

Very beautifully said by him:

“As soon as you recognize that you are not self-made, you realize that you have to give something back. And when you recognize how good it feels to actually do something for someone else, it gets in your blood”