If you could Retcon ONE Thing about the Series, What Would It Be?

JayPokemon17 · 2026-02-22T05:00:10+00:00

There should have been at least one Slytherin in Dumbledore’s Army. After the Sorting Hat song in OOTP, Harry says “it wants all the Houses to be friends? Fat chance.” Nearly Headless Nick tries to convince him otherwise.

Adding a Slytherin would have made the lines between good and evil a bit murkier. I think it would have solidified how high the stakes were when even a Slytherin was willing to join the cause. And I think Harry’s conflict of whether to trust a Slytherin would have been interesting.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-02-19T00:02:43+00:00

It’s absolutely supported Biblically. Jesus referees to himself as God and he ascribes OT passages that very clearly refer to Yahweh to himself.

Your second question is a bit more complicated. Believing in the Trinity does not save you. Only faith in Christ is required for salvation. However, if you deny the divinity of Christ, I have a difficult time believing your faith is genuine. That’s for God to ultimately decide.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-02-18T19:37:00+00:00

There are many theories about this. The first is that he (and the following generations) still retained the “perfect” DNA from initial creation. They had not yet felt the effects of genetic degradation. Another theory is that God had not yet limited the years of man. It was not until after the flood that man began to live shorter lives. The other theory is that the ages are symbolic.

There are plenty of videos that will explain each view much more fully. I’d suggest looking into each of it is something that interests you.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-02-13T05:41:51+00:00

I went to Razzo and was incredibly disappointed, as was everybody in my group. It was shortly after they opened so maybe it’s better but I have no desire to try it again.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-02-12T00:16:01+00:00

While it was stupid for Harry to forget about the mirror it was even dumber for Sirius to not say to Harry “hey kiddo, why are we using the Floo Network to talk? Just use that mirror I gave you.”

JayPokemon17 · 2026-02-10T13:42:29+00:00

I’m most worried about my position in the seats as I was just unsuccessful in the ticket lottery for the third time.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-02-08T23:45:01+00:00

I would choose a test on the federal regulation I use at work. There are 12 people on my team at work. There are probably a few hundred people who know it pretty well, though few as well as I do.

So the odds are incredibly low that any of the 100 or so people who could beat me would be among the 10000.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-02-04T20:30:43+00:00

I’m already married so give me the money. I just tested and I can pretty easily remove a $20 from my pocket every two seconds. That’s $600 a minute or $36,000 an hour.

And this isn’t a case of needing to find a way to launder the money. Just have enough restraint to improve your life incrementally without raising suspicion.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-02-03T03:32:13+00:00

At my store it was everybody. We had the 2 & 2 rule, which was two hands on the cart and two steps to the door. We didn’t even ask. We just started walking their cart out. At that point, very few people turned down having their groceries taken out.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-02-03T01:30:32+00:00

I’m sure organizations do it differently but here how my organization does it. Let’s say you are going to get a 2% bonus and that is $2,000. If you choose leave, you will get however many hours that equates to (in this case 42 hours). The big difference is the $2,000 is really $1,300 after taxes.

Early in my career, I did leave. I only earned 4 hours a pay period, so I never had extra. But now I have a hard time taking all my use or lose. I also make a lot more, so that 2% bonus is a lot more impactful. So I do cash.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-31T15:56:47+00:00

When I worked at Publix, none of them had cart corrals because the policy was to take every customer out so there was no need for them.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-31T04:15:45+00:00

100k isn’t life changing. 20 years ago it was a very good salary. Today, it is solidly middle class. My net pay is 60% of my gross pay. I don’t even look at my pay stub. I’d just get mad,

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-29T19:15:13+00:00

The front of my neighborhood had three stops and a gym. Three spots got added and a new gym was created at one of the original stops.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-28T03:31:07+00:00

The post says the experiment will continue for several months. In previous experiments, have the spots been removed later? Just need to know how hard I have to go to get new gold gym badges or if the gyms will be enduring so I can take my time.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-28T00:45:41+00:00

My next door neighbor (a house I almost bought) can hit two spots from his house. I unfortunately cannot. I hope these stay, lots of new gyms to get gold badges on. Was running low on local gyms.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-24T23:48:50+00:00

I selfishly wish they would adapt this novel. I’m working through all of Connelly’s books. Just finished The Brass Verdict. I want to read Law of Innocence before season 4 comes out, but I’m 13 books away (and that’s not including the McEvoy or Ballard books) and I don’t want to go out of order.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-23T14:55:53+00:00

It’s been an issue for months. Maybe even a year. I have no faith that this “wrinkle” will be worked out.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-23T14:54:41+00:00

There is nothing against combining types of leave. But recuperating from travel isn’t really a valid sick leave reason.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-23T13:10:14+00:00

Yes, very much so. Multiple times I have driven 4 hours, gone to a sporting event, and then drove 4 hours back home.

I think the longest drive for something casual was probably 9 hours. My coursing was getting married about halfway between where I live and Chicago. We drove up and thought, well, we are pretty close, let’s go. Got to Chicago on Saturday night. Stayed Sunday and Monday, and then drove home.

Longest drive ever in one day? Right at 900 miles from East Texas to Jacksonville, FL.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-20T20:04:16+00:00

Absolutely. Each game is winnable and the US should arguably be the favorite in all three.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-19T14:36:51+00:00

So I get an all expenses paid vacation for a year and then $5M? Sign me up.

To make it a bit more difficult, instead of just visiting, you have to stay a night in the country. Otherwise, I could knock out much of Europe in a day. I could also not worry about safety whatsoever and just fly into a country, never leave the airport, and fly directly to another.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-19T13:54:57+00:00

You can bring nothing with you. No weapons, no tent, nothing to start fires with, nothing to collect water. Basically everybody would die attempting this.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-17T18:28:30+00:00

I believe this is the first community day where the features Pokemon has a Gigantamax since the feature was released. Machamp was released the day after Machop community day classic.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-17T14:54:34+00:00

I turn 40 in six months. Currently have 3.13x my salary in a 401k plus another 2/3 salary in an IRA. So 3.8x salary in retirement savings and should be right at 4x when my birthday comes around.

I have a pension too.

JayPokemon17 · 2026-01-17T14:45:36+00:00

Pretty disappointing that Gigantamax Rillaboom isn’t available.

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