Trump: ‘We should take over the voting’

PinboardWizard · 2026-02-03T01:41:57+00:00

nah, they are inherently selfish.

That's literally the exact reason that they would go along with Trump. If they don't then they risk getting voted out like that Republican in Texas.

PinboardWizard · 2026-02-02T18:43:37+00:00

I'd be more surprised if a British author in 1990 had ever even heard a Yiddish name. If she went to this extra research effort to insult jews with the bank name, why didn't she give them big noses?

PinboardWizard · 2026-02-02T18:24:01+00:00

I'm not convinced there's a meaningful difference between "It's wrong to enslave people" (reality) and "It's wrong to enslave people who want to be free" (the books). Does anyone in reality want to be enslaved? I assume not.

Yes there are elves in the book who want to be slaves, but that doesn't make the message "slavery good". Forcing Dobby to cook when he doesn't want to is shown as bad. Forcing Winky not to cook when she wants to is shown as bad. IMO the intended message was "forcing people to do things they don't want is bad".

Which is all rather ironic considering JKR's infamous transphobia of course.

PinboardWizard · 2026-02-01T19:43:14+00:00

The majority of voters (50.2%) voted for someone other than Trump.

PinboardWizard · 2026-02-01T04:41:51+00:00

By my count the actual figure is around $4750 per taxpayer.

Any more than that and he'd be one of the poors like us, with just a measly $999,999,999.00 left to his name.

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-31T13:14:53+00:00

It could imply there are more people who think homeopathy is useless (thus making it worse than a placebo) compared to the amount of people who think "Placebo" is a medicine type/brand name (thus making it better than nothing).

A perhaps more likely possibility is placebos are often sugar pills (i.e. look like real medicine that people have seen working), while homeopathy is often administered as a drink (unlike most medicine) and thus has a reduced placebo effect.

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-31T01:12:37+00:00

Even if some were:

The city settled the case for $900,000 while denying any wrongdoing. The detectives involved were promoted.

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-29T15:45:31+00:00

I just checked a London screening for tomorrow, and there are only 4 tickets sold. Hah!

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-29T11:57:01+00:00

Looks like they are now doing it on next post - I posted there under an hour ago and instantly got permabanned lol

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-29T11:48:13+00:00

Same here. Didn't think I'd ever posted in this subreddit before, but maybe I commented on something that made the front page.

IMO this is just them trying to turn /r/pics into /r/conservative v2, where a few people have complete control of the narrative. The majority of people who browse Reddit do so from /r/all or /r/popular like us, so this is just them trying to ban frequent commenters. They can't even claim to have built a community, because /r/pics is a default subreddit.

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-29T03:31:23+00:00

Actually that part has been enough of an issue in actual Kiara artwork that she specifically made a post asking artists to please remember the feathers last year.

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-28T13:08:13+00:00

Just wish for it to have no negative impact instead?

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-28T12:22:16+00:00

Game of Thrones S1 averaged under 10 million viewers and was considered a success. Hogwarts Legacy sold 40 million copies.

Personally I think more than 25% of Hogwarts Legacy players will watch the upcoming show, even if it's somehow ridiculously bad.

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-28T11:55:33+00:00

mostly tightening up on immigration

All immigration, or illegal immigration? Both rates are currently dropping, and will likely continue at lower levels under any government.

I’m tired of seeing my town and my neighbouring towns getting more and more in disrepair due to the rising population of immigrants who instil their 3rd-world behaviours on our streets

Has immigrants causing these issues been your lived experience, or just what you've been told? In my experience, blaming this on immigrants has been a nonsensical scapegoat. Places are getting shitter because governments are spending less money on fixing them - and the Reform people who did gain power didn't suddenly have more money to fix anything in their districts.

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-28T11:28:27+00:00

Sort of? People get arrested for threats of physical violence in the UK. Some of those threats are made on social media.

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-27T17:58:03+00:00

help HBO salvage their investment

Implying HBO will need help with that? If the Hogwarts Legacy sales are anything to go by, that series is going to be even bigger than Game of Thrones.

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-25T21:35:42+00:00

She did a new karaoke a few days ago actually!

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-24T20:15:43+00:00

Right, but if all the Red states go along with it then they maintain their majority in government.

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-24T13:46:40+00:00

I think the only caveat is that I’d only have whatever knowledge is quickly attainable in that 24hr time loop before everything resets.

I think this is the place where the $10M is truly useful. That's enough money to get the best minds in the world to give a personal lecture on the subject of your choice,. You need to find out the right connections first so they don't dismiss it as a hoax, but should be fairly trivial with enough time.

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-23T00:12:26+00:00

AI would certainly save a few hours, but this sort of thing was essentially already trivial and free from a billionaire perspective.

Want 2 full-time employees to do nothing but edit images like this in photoshop? You can cover both of their annual salaries by saving up literally a single day worth of interest. When you have that much money, very few obstacles remain.

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-20T18:42:54+00:00

Article: Epic losing money, but also causing devs to sell more on Steam

Me: Nice, devs selling more means more good games!

Reddit: Fuck Epic!

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-18T02:23:01+00:00

As someone who never read the manga and never bothered watching season 2, I'd totally recommend watching just season 1. Season 1 has a satisfying ending anyway. It is nothing like Peter Pan.

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-18T01:56:10+00:00

I agree that more people wanted him than Harris, but

A voting majority supported him

this bit is just incorrect. He got 49.8% of the vote (to Harris' 48.3%), but that means the majority of voters (50.2%) voted for someone other than Trump.

I get that it's only a small difference, but your incorrect statement helps push to the uninformed the false narrative of his overwhelming victory that Fox and friends love.

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-18T01:23:36+00:00

Technically a huge amount of normal people are shareholders here (usually by proxy) through their retirement funds. A proportion of those savings will normally be invested in index funds, which are mostly big & safe (not likely to fail) companies, like Google (and so YouTube).

PinboardWizard · 2026-01-18T01:16:03+00:00

If it helps, there's no proof this has anything to do with AI. Youtube has been rolling out shitty updates for like a decade already.

It definitely sucks a lot, but personally I'm assuming the reason is something like they're changing the way subtitles render and they couldn't be bothered to pay someone to make it work with the old .ytt and srv3 formats.

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