in a heavy Russian accent stupid Canadian wolf-bird

or? AND.

It was also fan service delivered well. Which is super important. You can do fan service without delivering anything else, and you can do a good story that ends up being fan service. This was firmly the second category.

It's a do it once thing, though... ESPHome essentially keeps everything updated and secure.

"no smart home crap" except smart home "crap" can be quite secure today... but please go on.

(80% of my smart home "crap" runs firmware I compiled, communicates only with a local server and have no internet access)

Can we please burn Palantir to the ground already?

Congrats, you found him quicker than the entire 700bn US military apparatus

Me neither, brother. Well technically I'm not, but still, strong women bess.

Watch out, some sensitive manchild with the fragilest masculinity in the world will start labelling you gay the moment they see this comment...

"You know what else than the DOW is over 50000? my fucking monthly medication bills"

Don't forget, the fascist rallies also had one incredibly important thing that drew in more people than the free food and free beer - a simple, targeted reason WHY they're in the shitty situation.

You can throw as many economists and scientists and such at the problem and they'll (properly) show the reasons, but there won't be a simple solution. There won't be a singular "here do this and it will magically fix all your issues" point. Even the simplest fixes to the situation will be overwhelming for most people.

And most people just want that: a leader who promises to solve the crappy situation, without making them feel stupid, without convoluted long drawn out plans. A simple solution, a simple fix.

For Hitler that was "get rid of the Jews". For mango mussolini that's "get rid of the illegals".

And people liked the simple solutions so they signed up for the ideology.

Well no surprise there, Harry was essentially a jock who only excelled in two things:

• magical self defence
• sports

And he was good enough in magical self defence that he took down the biggest baddest wizard with just the disarming spell. Literally a magical "put yer gun down".

He could've gone into sports but hey, he just finished off the "big bad" shortly after he turned 18, so of course he'd chase that high. Especially when his girlfriend went into sports and they could hardly both play, that would be constant tension.

So yup, he went on to be a cop. And I see a lot of people claiming that ooh, the wizarding world is different, the police aren't sent after innocent people, their justice system isn't rigged, there's no discrimination, yada yada... Hello??? Magical SAPIENT creatures are routinely enslaved, Dumbledore, someone people thought to be above reproach, was constantly accosted by the very same cops, Harry himself was accused and dragged into a kangaroo court over DEFENDING himself, the aurors have proven time after time that most of them are just as ineffective as the typical Murican doughnut-muncher mall cop, and about discrimination... "mudbloods" need a reminder? Or how Filch is treated?

The wizarding world is the last living remnant of the elitism of the British monarchy/nobility, and if you don't see this, you lack practically all comprehensive reading skills. Put down those rose tinted glasses and read Harry Potter while paying attention to the social narrarive. It will open your eyes.