That’s litteraly Rowling’s explanation, that becuase the act came from her mother’s love of her daughter it could not be completely bad. But that’s also kinda weird becuase we’ve always been told that the spell itself is inherently bad, and that good wizards simply don’t use it. Sure, they fight and at times kill, but…

Well first of all, I’m perfectly fine with not catching the wallet thief at all, that’s just common sense. And second of all, you’re not going to let literally everyone go. Not everyone is in a car to begin with, and you can safely pursue those that are for a while without getting into a high speed chase. Yes, those…

We all REALLY wanted the prequel trilogy to Star Wars, and while it ended up fairly good at the end I think it’s fair to say a lot of people were disappointed by it. There are a couple of really big reasons why prequels are hard to pull off, all of which potentially apply here. First of all, It’s really hard to live…

No, I saw the comments, and responded to one of them disagreeing with it. my point is that there’s nothing wrong with people criticizing things that I like. It doesn’t harm me at all. Nothing really gets “canceled”.

You are absolutely, 100% wrong. In what way is it accurate to say that poking fun at stereotypes is not allowed? I can stream Airplane at a moments notice or buy a copy on Blu-Ray from any number of online or brick and mortar stores? The reality is that criticism of racially questionable content, even when that…

i disagree. Political correctness is largely a matter of common courtesy. There's no harm in it at all. 

Pepe deserves to be “canceled”; he sexually harrasses and assualts that cat in every damn cartoon. if that’s “cancel culture” I’m 100% in favor of it. 

Not making as much as you can IS a loss, if you’re looking at it from a strict business perspective, and if (this is the really big if) it was reasonable to expect the other investment to return what it did. Actually you should apply that to both sides of the decision as well. surely the GT was going to appreciate,…

The trick is to compare the return against what one could reasonably expect an alternate investment to return. Dogecoin would obviously be a poor comparison. The S&P 500 has historically been a pretty good representation of the stock market as a whole, but the annual return since 2005 has been 9.74%. That’s probably a…

Now I’m kinda wondering what part of Airplane people thing is racist. The jokes are poking fun at stereotypes, and the mom from Leave it to Beaver speaking “jive” is hilarious.

Growing up as a Mexican American kid in the 80's I LOVED Speedy Gonzalez. watching some of those cartoons now, a few of them were pretty shitty. most were more or less positive though. But he was pretty much the only Mexican on TV that wasn’t a drug dealer, so personally, I would not have been offended at all by kids…

yeah he’s probably overreacting, but at least he gives a shit enough to think about how it could have impacted them. 

Teslas are electric, so wouldn’t that be Radio Shack?

You’re missing the point of what I’m trying to say. I’m not arguing whether or not their safety measures are adequate. There’s honestly no objective answer to that question at the moment. Ultimately market forces will reflect the level of risk that people are willing to accept for convenience and industry standards…

I don’t understand why plug ins aren’t already the industry standard. I guess they are more expensive to build with the two motors and all that, but aside from that they really do seem to offer the best of both worlds. 

But you do realize the range is much longer than 21 miles, right? Personally, my commute is about 25 miles round trip; with this I’d consuming 5 miles worth of gas instead of 25 each day, which is a pretty significant reduction. 

That’s the catch, the savings is coming from replacing three cars with one, not from the wrangler specifically. 

That’s a pretty weak strawman argument, there pretty straightforward ways to distinguish between the two issues. Some of the questions that I would ask about this include: Are there obvious, reasonable steps that manufacturers could take to limit the dangers of drunk driving? do other manufacturers commonly include…

Actually, any manufacturer should be blamed for stupid things customers do with products that are inherently dangerous and don’t have industry standard safeguards in place. We can argue about whether Teslas have enough safeguards against people misusing AutoPilot, but I think it’s pretty damn obvious that there are…

There honestly aren’t many people who are really that great or that horrible. most people are pretty complicated and people who achieve great wealth and success tend to be even moreso. A more impartial, nuanced take on Musk might be worth considering. his companies have attempted a lot of REALLY ambitious things. Some…