lucullus

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[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The bee die-offs, that one typically hears about, has nothing to do with honey bees. Honey bees don't show any signs of going extinct. Its may of the other bee species, which are dying off. And that is bad because of the species liking different specific plants, which often rely on this bee species to be pollinated.

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago

Surely, this is a this-is-why-we-can't-have-nice-things situation. Fuck Putin

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago

Ooohhhh, now I see that it is Ellen. I first thought it was Bernd Höcke, a current polititian for the nazi party AfD in germany XD

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 5 months ago

Sorr-, you are already way too deep in your rabbit hole. Nobidy of us will get you out there. Probably truth.social is a better platform for your views (judging from your profile).

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

I read like 4 Vonnegut books (Galapagos, Sirens of Titan, Cats cradle, slaughterhouse nr 5), and honestly all if them were pretty weird.

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I vaguely remember some sentences mentioning how incompetent some wizards and witches can be.

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

What do you mean by mercenaries? The magical government has its aurors, which is kind of a police force working against the dark arts. And they caught many deatheaters, though were beaten from within the ministry.

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think he meant that kind of cursed.

Probably more important is why Dumbledoor wasn't able to get even ONE fitting DADA teacher, meaning without something making him unfit for the job, seemingly or inreality, after Quirrel (and we don't know if Quirrel was a good teacher before he got Voldy in his brain).

Lockhard was an obvious fraud, Lupin was a great teacher but unfortunatly a werewolf, Mad Eye was mad/a disguised deatheater and Snape was a bad teacher all along. (Umbridge was bot chosen by Dumbledor, so she doesn't count).

Hell, what is he even doing all day? Couldn't he just do the DADA classes himself, if he didn't find anyone fitting for the job?!

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 5 months ago

She does! She could have emptied multiple supermarkets, but nah, who needs food if you have books to read. Everytime I really doubt, that Hermione wouldn't think of stocking food in her bag. So much conflict, so easily preventible...

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

Point taken - it really doesn't seem thought through by Dumby. But I think its funny, that Harry is basically ruining Dumbledoors plan of protecting the stone, because he cannot stop being a hero. Yeah, thanks Harry for "saving" the stone from Voldemort -.-

[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I always cringe with the 7th book, where the trio is hiding and searching for horkruxes, and for some weird reason they don't have enough food and are constantly hungry. From the reading perspective I understand, that the hunger is a device to generate conflict and make their time hard to endure, but it always baffles me.

  • It is mentioned, that Hermione pulled out all her muggle savings, so why didn't she think about going to a supermarket and buying all the conserved food (cans and such) she can before they got on the run? She even mentions, that food can be multiplicated, just not created out of nothing.
  • When they are hiding they sometimes get to a store or supermarket. But that only brings food for like a few days max. Why not more?
  • And when there where too many dementors in an area to get more food, why not going really far away. We know Hermione was at least one time in France with her parents. Why not going there? Probably the war-like situation was not spread over the complete world that seriously. At least we are not hearing any of that in the books (JKR probably didn't even thing much about international things when writing this)
[–] lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I always thought of the polyjuice to be a restricted substance, that you can't easily buy. And making it yourself is not easy and takes like 2 months. That would severily limit the cases. I mean, like how often do school kids in our world put drugs in food or drinks of their classmates? I'm sure there are some cases, but probably nothing wide spread

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