Code switching.
SnotFlickerman
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That's literally what makes it a fucking Tory wet dream. This gets missed on a lot of American readers.
A uniquely special boy (gotta be a boy, this ain't for girls!) from birth, he did nothing to achieve that specialness. Somehow, despite being an orphan, he is actually absurdly rich. Everyone knows of him even though he has done exactly nothing himself to justify it. He is somehow destined for greatness despite being a fucking fumbling, middling wizard. He will be the "hero" by banishing "evil" from the world because everything is in black and white and evil people are always evil and good people are always good and never the twain shall meet. There are never broken people who make mistakes, no, just good or evil.
A boy after Boris Johnson's own heart.
Absurdism > Nihilism
We may be in hell, but at least I can laugh at the existential horror of being alive.
The biggest plot hole is how new spells are even made. It seems all spells are pre-existing and they just study how to do them, not the "science" behind how they work.
We get no doses of "wizarding science" showing wizards testing theories for new spells and throughout the books whether you even need a wand or to say a spell out loud seems to be always in flux based on what is useful to the plot.
In other words the world has no internal consistency. There are not firmly set rules to the world of Harry Potter.
She literally made it up as she went along so it all gets pretty confused and stupid pretty fast.
No watch history plus subscriptions is the way to go.
I turned off watch history which disables recommendations so my youtube homepage is blank but I always get notifications from channels I'm subscribed to
Underrated perspective. Absolutely a big part of the problem.
I fucking knew this story was bullshit, and the scientist emailing a random plebe at Google (like some low level employee would know or be allowed to be honest about AI shitfuckery) all shocked was a joke, too. Pretty disappointed with a scientist feeding into this horseshit.
When it first ran, I posited that if they had emailed their documentation to someone with a Gmail address, it might have been up for grabs for sucking down the maw of Google's AI monstrosities.
Finally, even when it comes to the "right" answer there is no way to know if it hallucinated it's way to such an answer! Which makes it getting the "right" answer effectively pointless.
That's the point, always.
When it comes to displays of hypocrisy, it's a show of power. I get to do this, you don't. It's on purpose to show you that they're in control and they get to do things you don't even though you're actually following rules and decorum. They don't have to and they want you to know it. "Hypocrite" is not an insult to them, it just means they've shown you their power and are happy to be called such.
It's just like with bosses and workers. Workers do all the real labor that makes a business function, but the bosses take all the winnings. Bezos can't deliver all those packages or roll out all those AWS servers on his own, but he gets to brutalize his employees and basically do fuck all not working because the real people who don't actually want to fucking work are the wealthy.
Yeah way more likely he's going to use mass protests as a pretext for Martial Law and canceling elections indefinitely.
How about this:
At the apartments I recently moved out of, there were no quarter slots on the washing machines. They were an app that required a bluetooth connection to pay.
So if you lived there and didn't have a smartphone? Go fuck yourself, you don't get to do laundry.
Unless you bothered to check the laundry room when you were looking at the apartment, you wouldn't know. No warnings.
"Might?" He's only been saber rattling with allies since day one.