Anyone who complains about having to wear a condom is going to be a bad partner.

It would be way easier to be a cardiologist if there were only one.

He is now back home with his family after turning himself in Friday.

I’m so happily surprised. Not that he’s in the clear, but I didn’t expect them to let him go at all.

A fitting end

If you’ve voted, you’ve essentially agreed to the ToS

Tja

All EU citizens can vote in local ballot measures.

Edit: but not for Berlin, Bremen or Hamburg. Womp womp

Gardner is seven months pregnant, but remains hopeful that her husband will be with her when she gives birth.

“My heart is broken,” Gardner told the outlet. “Our baby shower is going to be next weekend, and he’s not going to be at home to go to that with me.”

He’s missing the baby shower?? You should tell ICE, maybe they’ll release him.

I don’t think being a sex symbol is something you need to grow out of, but you absolutely need to grow out of relationships where you get slut shamed and I’m glad she did.

Her first husband, yes

And some people are wild mages

My dad used to say that it was more of an incentive to get the masses to actually work instead of just subsisting and bringing the general level of the economy down to the point that it can’t support UBI anymore.

I don’t see how anyone can worry about that when we look at how people behaved during the pandemic. Lots of people around the world were paid their normal wages and not allowed to work, and yes, Netflix was used a lot more, but labor intensive hobbies absolutely exploded. People aren’t happy just doing nothing all the time.

I don’t really think so, the whole plotline revolves around magic and its use highly influences the story.

I don’t think you’re wrong at all, but I would pick at it a little, because it’s more the definition of macguffin that’s problematic for me than the role of magic in HP. This is more a thought experiment to push at the boundaries of what a macguffin is.

AFAIK, JKR hasn’t explained how magic actually works in any way. It could be that aliens with super advanced technology came to earth thousands of years ago and mingled with the local population, thereby losing the knowledge of how their technology actually works. Today’s “wizards” are people with a sufficient proportion of alien heritage for the technology to recognize them, but because they have no real understanding of it, they call it magic.

Like the other commenter referenced, think of the contents of the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. Much of the action occurs as a direct result of people trying to get or keep the briefcase, but we never even find out what’s actually in it. The real story is about the characters and the things that happen to them. The climax of the movie isn’t someone getting whatever was in the briefcase out and using it just in time to stop the city blowing up or something, y’know?

I feel like this also applies to HP/*, because the whole plot revolves around magic, how to learn and use it, but we don’t actually know what it is. There’s even a concrete aspect of some magic use (flying, patronus casting, and unforgivable curses, for example) wherein the caster’s emotions, intentions, and beliefs are required for it to work. There’s also the choice between Harry and Neville that Voldemort makes, which is entirely internal to him, and drives the story forward because of Voldemorts own beliefs.

I do see how the characters literally do get things out of magic, but magic or certain types thereof (I’m thinking about Harry’s

in the final showdown, but I might be misremembering) is sometimes just the end goal in itself.

/*I swear I’m being earnest, but I feel guilty about not just accepting the answer that I can conceptualize and know is right. Normally I would just compartmentalize a little bit between my internal understanding of things and the accepted definition, but I also really enjoy this type of discussion and I already gave the autistic disclaimer, lol.

I’m autistic and things like this always reaffirm it for me, but isn’t everything only as important as people make it?

Like, Harry Potter could have been about aliens with very advanced technology and anachronistic style or communication with nanobots, it didn’t have to be magic, but somehow I don’t think that would fit as a macguffin.

Oh that’s some bullshit. I honestly just assumed that wasn’t a thing because obviously that’s not a reasonable thing to expect from residents.

Edit: the tiniest reassurance: it doesn’t apply to student visas

(vaguely!)

I diagnose you with thirst

You made me look it up and holy fuck is this a dick move:

The couple, who married just four months ago, reportedly got into an explosive argument at Universal studio chief Ron Meyer’s house two weeks ago. Meyer screened Borat for Rock, Anderson, and several others, and Rock considered Anderson’s performance, of which he apparently knew nothing whatsoever, so embarrassing and infuriating that he reputedly called her a “slut” and a “whore.” Since then, relations between the two have gone from bad to worse, and Anderson announced that the split was for real on her website Monday (Nov. 27).

I figured kid rock just had a dumb sense of humor and thought it was funny to repeatedly call her “my wife,” but apparently he preferred slut shaming her. I’m also confused about how you marry Pamela Anderson without being cool with her doing sexy things on camera.

That said, it’s nearly twenty years ago and was initially reported by the New York Post, so take it with a grain of salt.

Permanent resident, not a citizen. He wasn’t eligible to vote, do jury duty, or be drafted, but after all that time, those are basically the only differences.

F, M, or J

Teachers and students.

Xerox has entered the chat, with the first commercial photocopier, the GUI, laser printer, and computer mouse, in addition to the ones you think of.