Duamerthrax @ Duamerthrax @lemmy.world

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I also run a lot of ad blockers and tracking blockers as well as educate myself on how advertisers use people's insecurities against them. The "How TV Ruined Your Life" series is a pretty comprehensive. Coercion by Douglas Rushkoff is also great for immunizing yourself.

edit: Updated with links. The core of Coercion is still relevant, but it's tech/internet perspective was from the early 2000s.

Oh, no. The Ghost Stories English dub was very much intentional. It was part of a package deal for ADV and were allowed to do with it as they pleased to market it.

Post about it on it's anniversary then. Don't bring it up as a whataboutism in unrelated threads.

I knew far, far too many people in HS that just hit the power button without actually shutting it down.

China is also doing anti-American/anti-West propaganda. It's just favored differently because of different cultural values of the target audience. Still stinks the same.

So is China.

That shit gets brought up all the fucking time, in their own threads. Notice how people don't bring up Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, Tibet, Hong Kong, the Uyghurs, or the many other atrocities the CCP has committed whenever an American atrocity gets mentioned.

This sounds like how conservatives rationalize the Kent State massacre by claiming that the protesters were throwing feces.

You're not radicalized. You just switched which authoritarian you swear fealty to.

I fucking hate the gamification they did to Khan Academy. Just give me the knowledge map back.

Pride is one of the Seven Deadly Sins. So is Wrath.

misspelling. I meant Wrath.

Happy Pride. Or Wrath as the case may be.

I had a HS teacher say the the 2nd to 5th richest people were the Walton(of Walmart) family heirs. I knew this wasn't right because at the time, Steve Balmer(of Microsoft) was the 5th or something. I printed out the Forbes list and brought it in. The teacher coped by saying that if you combined the Walton wealth, it would rank that high. He was a POS teacher for more significant reasons than that though.

More relevant, but less annoying than you are.

No, Hagrid is a very angry person. He just angry on behalf of the MC most of the time, so we're routing for him. I found it weird how quickly a grown adult was to attack a child despite not really knowing them or being a threat. If it were an illusion or temporary spell Hagrid used on Dudley, it would be a little different, but he needed an operation to get fixed.

Also the Irish kid blowing up things is from the movies, not from the books.

Still has her name on it. Also, that floor in the bank in the movie wasn't a good look when you're already under criticism for the goblins for being a Jewish metaphor.

"they wouldn't know what to do with freedom"

That's a line straight out of the anti-abolitionist in America and many, many other places that have slavery or caste systems. Harry Potter kept almost being interesting and I had assumed that the story line would go somewhere before dropping for other reasons. I was pretty surprised when Hermione's SPEW just fizzled out. I really should have know with a name like that.

If the house elves worked like where she supposedly got inspiration form, they'd be far, far more interesting. Like I said, Harry Potter is one of those stories that kept almost being interesting.

It's a grammatical mess and hard to tell what they're actually trying to say. Apparently though, asking for clarification in a sarcastic way was deemed too uncivil.

No, because you can just ask and pay for the one you want.

The thing about the House Elves is, she introduced the concept in one book without thinking too much about. Fans then asked her for details and instead of taking the easy route and saying that Slavery is Bad, she doubled down and said that it was perfectly fine. She tends to have petty responses to criticisms and questions. In one book, she introduces Time Travel and fans asked why the following book didn't have time travel, so in the next book, the fat kid knocked over the table that had all the time travel on it, so no one could use it again. She also wrote a whole book about an author who was being bullied on social media.

Tolkien used his fantasy races as metaphors for real life races/ethnic groups, but was fairly kind to them, considering his time. IIRC, Dwarves were repressive of Jews and while it doesn't look good that the Dwarves greed for gold was their downfall, a deeper read, it was specifically a certain king that lead them to their downfall and not a trait of the race itself. I'm not a Tolkien head, so I might be getting some wires crossed.

I started looking further into this because a friend of mine, which is a total HP nerd, was trying to give me some context on where her anti-trans activism comes from.

You deliberately found someone with strong bias to get info from? Maybe you should think about that.

I also understand that sex and gender are separate, and Rowling seems to be on the train that conflates it, which might be the basis for her position.

I think you need to back up a little more on Rowling. If you start dissecting her works, you'll see she has born/birth/blood nature being a reoccurring theme. Hagrid is naturally angry. Voldemort is evil because he was a rape baby. House Elves are natural slavesservants. The Weasley family will always be poor(even when Harry should be paying rent or at least buying them a new car). Hell, the Irish character keeps blowing things up. Things are the way they are at birth and anyone who pushes against the natural order is wrong. Hermione Granger, the other outside to magical society took issue with the House Elves being treated as slaves and everyone, including the House Elves and Harry Potter, the first outsider and someone who should have no bias for slavery, treated her as being annoying and wrong for caring.(Also remember when JK implied that Hermione could be Black? Yeah, this isn't a good look.)

If you want a deep dive into Rowling's writings that isn't centered on the trans issue, check out Shaun's review of her total body of work at the time.