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[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

You don't. Part of love is openness, you can't love a person while not being willing to share the fact that you love them. Pretty much by definition

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's literally a core facet of dumbledores character that he's always genial and calm, even in the face of total disaster. It's part of what made him an intimidating wizard.

Even besides that though, why wouldn't he ask calmly? One of two things are true

  1. Harry did put his name in the goblet and is lying about it, in which case going full on "DIDYOUPUTYOURNAMEINTHEGOBLETOFFIRE!?!?" is only likely to put Harry on the defensive and make him less likely to own up.

  2. Harry didnt put his name in the goblet and is being setup by voldy or his buddies. In which case Harry is a victim and should be handled as such. At this point Dumbledore had very good reasons to think this was the more likely of the two.

Dont get me wrong, if you wanna talk about JKRs shitty writing, I'll happily join you, but this is actually an example of good writing on her part, given that the character in question is supposed to be the smartest wizard alive, it makes perfect sense that he'd react rationally instead of lashing out emotionally

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's awesome, but the real question is - will we be able to buy one for MSRP?

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've never thought to ask this before, but is seating for congress preassigned? Or is it a "first come first serve" deal?

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

6 months or so, I'd say

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What are "business certificates" and what does it mean for Trump to have them revoked?

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you're asking this because you're considering starting - dont. I vaped for a little while in college, started out with the 0 nicotine juices, but after trying a few nicotine ones I found I liked the "throat hit" you got from the nicotine versions, as well as the head high.

One day I lost my vape and that's when I realized how unexpectedly I got hooked. I stopped then and there and it's only because I hadn't been at it too long that I was able to quit cold turkey and permanently (10 years since then now).

The fact is that on the "pro" side, you get a mild buzz, and only when you're vaping stronger concentrations than you're used to and that's about it. I started because I thought it was cool and it was a conversation starter at parties (vaping was more novel then and college freshmen are easy to impress), but I'm so glad I knocked that shit off before it really got it's hooks into me.

On the con side its expensive, unhealthy (only considered "healthy" when compared to sucking smoke), uncool to everyone over the age of 20, and highly addictive (if using nicotine, but even if you plan to stick with 0 nicotine juice, you may eventually cave, I did.)

Basically there's very little reason to start and a lot of really compelling reasons to never pick it up

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because despite how the internet likes to talk, you can't generalize an entire generation in a single lemmy comment while still being accurate

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, I'm not anti-sex-worker by any means, but hero?

Genuinely curious how you came to that conclusion

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

YNAB

Always takes like 20 seconds to load a super simple web app

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago

The thing is though, Low effort, high special effect action, action over plot moviesis nothing new, before marvel it was transformers and so on all the way back to shoot em up westerns at the dawn of cinema.

Its not like before the MCU, you're average movie goer was watching super artistic cerebral movies, and comic book movies took that all away, like this guy is acting

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah unless you're partner is inconsiderate and/or doesn't pull their own weight, being in a committed relationship should be much cheaper. Fact is, two people can live for only a little bit more than it costs a single person to live

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