[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

The VA did the same thing in a newsletter they send out.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Considering what the original seal looks like, it's obvious they've made some changes to simplify the design. But I wouldn't jump to AI, especially since the fabric it's printed on is distorted.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I'm not actually trying to argue one way or the other, but

No, the cart always has to be voters. Actually showing up to the polls has to be the cart. Anything before that is nonsense.

You're literally putting the cart before everything else, including the horse. Work on your metaphors a little.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

The tangent of all points along the line equal that line

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What, like the pinned post on the smyths reddit page?

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

You don't understand why there's so much fear, uncertainty, and doubt about an on-by-default program that records everything you do? Are you being serious right now?

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Unless I'm mistaken, they're talking about Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Even if I ignore you moving the goalposts, would you really look at a graph like this

that's a few years out of date and assume the total deaths settled back down into the old pattern?

I'm not finding a more up-to-date data source for deaths per month, but it's not like you're providing any kind of data that covid isn't still killing a lot of extra people per year.

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

I think that's the point: that a state-owned operation wouldn't brick their own products because they're afraid of losing money

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

[Hermione] explained the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare to a bemused Ron and Harry, saying that when they joined, the society will have three members. Ron protested that the House-elves are happy as they are, but eventually joins.

Hermione managed to get several students, such as Neville Longbottom, to join (paying a fee of two Sickles), though they only did so to stop her from badgering them. These students included a reluctant Ron Weasley (who thought S.P.E.W was a joke because its name reminded him of gagging) and an indifferent Harry Potter.

She also offered it to Hagrid, but he refused as well, saying that the elves liked to work. Fred and George Weasley also put in that the house elves were happy to work at Hogwarts.

Becoming infuriated with Hermione's "obsession" with the Society, Ron Weasley started calling the group "spew" and, on occasion parodied the name by inventing S.P.U.G., "Society for the Protection of Ugly Goblins". Hermione angrily replied to this by pointing out that goblins, unlike house-elves, were capable of defending themselves against wizards on their own.

Around 28 June 2011, when a Hogwarts student noticed a S.P.E.W. badge amidst Winky's stuff, Winky explained the organisation to them and how house-elves should be ashamed of it.

Taken from the wiki. The house elves were seen as happy to be slaves, and any attempt to free them was both unnatural and misguided. If you're looking for a more in-depth review of why the Harry Potter series was problematic, Shaun made a video about it about a year ago, and he actually (re)read the books before talking about it, unlike you or I. The section on slavery begins at 37:47.

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