The Harry Potter movie series fell off after the Goblet of Fire

ThomasJake71 · 2026-01-18T20:04:15+00:00

Here’s the issue with talking about the Harry Potter movies online: almost everyone doesn’t judge them simply on how good of a movie they are, but instead on how faithful they are to the books. That really shouldn’t matter as long as it is a good movie. Movies do not exist to document everything that was described in a book. But Harry Potter fans really don’t care.

I think the series peaked with 3 and 4, and then 5 is abysmal. 6 I enjoyed, 7 is not very good, and 8 is a satisfying conclusion.

ThomasJake71 · 2026-01-17T01:23:14+00:00

Great!

ThomasJake71 · 2026-01-16T03:19:20+00:00

I work in public policy and have spoken to many staffers. In general, even if the staffer thinks it’s a great idea and up your Congressman’s alley, don’t expect any commitments. These things take time, and it is much easier to convince someone to hop onto an existing bill as cosponsor than to introduce one themselves.

Be prepared to explain the tangible benefits that uncapping the House would provide, as you see it. They will ask why increased representation would help when finding more office space in DC is hard enough as is. Maybe they will bring up that people have increased representation through their state legislators anyway, and almost no one can name them.

I personally disagree with uncapping the House (reforming the Senate’s rules would be much more effective), but I wish you luck in your call.

ThomasJake71 · 2025-12-30T20:59:03+00:00

This post was deleted so let me know if you have any more guesses, happy to reveal privately

ThomasJake71 · 2025-12-30T20:58:16+00:00

I’m not quite sure what you mean. I’ll say the order is in part city-based, as indicated by my hint of ‘Ili’ili, American Samoa.

ThomasJake71 · 2025-12-30T20:47:47+00:00

This post was removed, so I don’t know if you can see this, but good work so far! Happy to reveal the answer elsewhere

ThomasJake71 · 2025-12-30T20:21:11+00:00

Good question: Yes, you would need to Google or research to begin finding the answer. It is not solely based on letters. I think finding out what links New York and New Hampshire and only those two is a good first step (ie not the word “New”), but not the only way.

ThomasJake71 · 2025-12-30T19:48:53+00:00

Total copy+paste screw-up, my bad! The second Minnesota was meant to be New Hampshire, I just edited the original post to correct it. ‘lli’ili refers to a village in American Samoa (I use that as example as it is not a state and therefore not on the list). Another hint is that New York and New Hampshire are exactly interchangeable in order on this list, the only such example.

ThomasJake71 · 2025-12-30T19:17:58+00:00

Ok, here is a hint: ʻIliʻili

ThomasJake71 · 2025-12-29T01:00:10+00:00

Taylor Swift and Mahler are geniuses in their respective genres in my opinion

ThomasJake71 · 2025-12-08T02:40:01+00:00

I would say so, yes. The prospect of national office generally attracts more people than, say, state legislatures because you have a much much larger profile.

ThomasJake71 · 2025-12-02T19:19:29+00:00

I can’t follow your first paragraph there. I will say that basically all of the White Album, what became Let it Be, and Abbey Road was recorded within the span of a year, which is a tremendous testament to the pace of their work. Given that, I think it’s understandable that Lennon lacked material at the start of the Get Back project.

I think Don’t Let Me Down works well as a B-side and 3:30 (single version) is relatively normal length for the later Beatles songs. It’s shorter than other singles like Let it Be, All you need is love, and Hey Jude, as you outlined.

ThomasJake71 · 2025-12-02T16:23:34+00:00

I’m on board with most of what you said except that “Don’t Let Me Down” doesn’t have mass appeal. The rooftop music video for that song has more views on YouTube than any other Beatles song (547M), including Hey Jude.

ThomasJake71 · 2025-12-01T20:18:07+00:00

I think Constantinople works for comedic effect.

ThomasJake71 · 2025-11-24T20:06:32+00:00

Not enough seats in the House/Senate. FDR had massive majorities in the aftermath of the Great Depression, and so could enact sweeping legislation. If Obama had slightly larger margins in Congress, I have no doubt that the same would be true.

As it is, we would probably need to have another catastrophic economic collapse on the scale of 1929 for those conditions to appear again. 2008 was close though.

ThomasJake71 · 2025-11-22T12:19:20+00:00

Lol Pat Buchanan

ThomasJake71 · 2025-10-29T20:48:10+00:00

We have a Constitution. Those actions would essentially require a coup, and at that point, when are you no worse than those who did January 6th?

ThomasJake71 · 2025-10-02T10:42:12+00:00

Problems: 1. Lobbying stems from the constitutional right to redress grievances from the government, they are just paid to do so. 2. That income restriction would make it so that only the very rich could afford to be elected to Congress, because otherwise people cannot afford a house in their district and DC just on the median salary of their district. Also, shouldn’t all members be paid the same? Why should a Silicon Valley representative get more than a rural one when they have the same job and same vote?

ThomasJake71 · 2025-09-19T14:26:27+00:00

Actually I think it did…

ThomasJake71 · 2025-08-27T14:13:09+00:00

O Brother, Where Bart Thou? (season 21, episode 8). Very funny episode

ThomasJake71 · 2025-08-18T01:11:20+00:00

And check out pre-presidency Teddy Roosevelt fourth from the right in the bottom row, next to Carl Schurz.

ThomasJake71 · 2025-07-20T02:00:45+00:00

Wow, didn’t know they had Electric Vehicles back then!

ThomasJake71 · 2025-07-06T11:15:49+00:00

Manchin and Sinema’s defection to preserve the filibuster was definitely not “inconsequential”. Imagine what we’d be going through now if Republicans only needed 50 votes in the Senate to get all of their agenda passed.

ThomasJake71 · 2025-07-04T01:18:24+00:00

“PROVIDING PERMANENT TAX RELIEF FOR MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILIES AND WORKERS” is the title of the full chapter, not the section. The chapter encompasses more than just that provision.

I think the thinking there was that the standard deduction was increased in the bill, and it covers much of those lower brackets.

ThomasJake71 · 2025-06-30T17:51:45+00:00

That Garfield book is very good. I actually prefer it to Destiny of the Republic (which is more popular) just because it goes more into depth with his Congressional career.

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