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>Hogwarts is too white!

Meanwhile, I found that the demographics in the UK in 2001 was 88.5 percent white British. And given the first book was written in 1997, this would mean that the population was probably a slightly higher percentage white. So having just a few confirmed non-white characters in a mostly white school is quite accurate.

It seems someone has been taking Netflix adaptations too seriously when they show the racial makeup of countries in the past.

@MCMLXVIIOTG @deprecated_ii >but a kid who just likes getting the high score can as well

I was this kid for most of school. So I know this mindset exists. Some people also just like learning and schoolwork just because.

@deprecated_ii And yet we will still have most people insist that Harvard is an elite school. They really are riding on their name recognition and "elite" status hard.

@deprecated_ii Even worse, the guy thinks it would be a good idea to make Hermione dyslexic, as that would serve as a strong motivator for her to try hard and acheive in her academics.

J.K. Rowling was not masterful writer one bit, but I most certainly prefer her simple and flawed writing to the ideas this "well ackchyually" guy thinking that overcomplicating a story makes it better.

Credit to @deprecated_ii for this find. He may not watch it, but I will (my autistic curiosity curses me to do so). I do not advocate that anyone else does so.

While there are plenty of moronic ideas this guy has, one of the worst I have seen so far is "There needs to be a deeper motivation for Hermione to so focused on academics at Hogwarts."

Maybe some people are just wired that way. Do we need to make it more complicated than that? Apparently we do, according to this faggot.

I just thought of something regarding the elderly being prone to becoming victimized by phone/online scammers. Many of these older people grew up in an era of relatively high trust (at least much higher than what we have now). The idea that you cannot trust someone to be sincere may not come across some of these people.

Not saying mental decline is not a major factor too, but I think that the lack of awareness a low trust society plays a more significant role.

@lord_nougat @charlie_root @Humpleupagus @RichardKuklinskisIcyGlare Hump married a giraffe, clearly.

When it comes to storytelling, I think too many detractors of the "morality is not black and white, there are greys too" forget that there can still be a proper story without having grey areas of morality be prominent.

Not everything has to be subverting our expectations and be convoluted to please the moral relativist crowd. Sometimes you just have an evil character who does not have proper justification for being evil.

@deprecated_ii I already know you are correct watching the first couple of minutes of the video having "J.K Rowling is a transphobe."

And not that much later he laments J.K Rowling being fatphobic, misogynistic, and writing "cultural problems."

You were absolutely correct.

Seeing the news on the market crash got me curious on my work retirement account. I can confirm that it went down about 10%. Since I am nowhere near retirement, I am not worried. Though I do see where some might not take such news well.

It has only been a few days, so I am not going to see this as the worst thing ever just yet. Though since I was still in school during the housing crash, this might be the worst thing I have experienced myself. But it is still not having me worry yet.

@internetfreak What came first, the barriers that separated the customers from the workers or the frequent robberies and assaults on those businesses?

Putting up those barriers comes at a cost, and it would not be done if there was not a need seen for it. The alternative is that the business no longer stays open, which would then result in complaints of "no businesses are willing to serve us in our neighborhood."

@deprecated_ii it's also a lot easier to get a ton of gasoline versus getting a ton of lithium. But the resident midwit here would not account for that either.