I don’t control what Rowling said or what she wrote in the books.

Okay, if you think it’s wrong for me to bring up this particular thing that Rowling said, tell me which other public statement that Rowling has made where she contradicts what the books say about Hermione should i have referenced instead?

I didn’t focus on skin tone. I referenced where a public statement about the character by Rowling contradicted what’s in the books.

This news comes immediately after they floated the idea of embedding AI, you say?

What an odd response

Does the fact that a character isn’t real mean that we can’t point out when an author contradicts themselves? Even if she claimed that the contradiction doesn’t exist?

Does referring to someone in a thread about that person mean that you’re a fan of them?

Does mentioning where someone has contradicted themselves mean that you’re complaining about the thing that they contradicted themselves over?

Did you put any thought whatsoever into your post or was it just a knee-jerk response?

And as having pink cheeks

She also said that she was Black, so I’m not sure how trustworthy she is on the subject

What they mean is That they’ll give you “insights” and “recommendations” which they absolutely know people are going to treat as gospel and medical advice at least as good as that from a doctor, but that their legal team has advised them that having disclaimers and caning it something like “wellness” will be enough to avoid legal responsibility when people inevitably die

Here’s the thing that doesn’t often get noted with this story - the Serpent tells the truth. God lies. And, again, the Serpent is the bad guy?

I don’t know if I’d go as far as to call it copaganda, but it’s definitely true that it downplayed the anti-fascist satire of the original source material

The sun is blowing up

Why does something need to be done with Mexico?i thought there was a big beautiful wall keeping all the drugs and crime out?

Yeah, the whole “achievement unlocked” thing is from when Flash games were king

it’s pretty much because of that. Mostly through happenstance we had the most advanced navy when there was the cutting edge of warfare and therefore we managed to have one of the largest empires ever. So there’s a deeply ingrained myth of exceptionalism in the British psyche, where a lot of people still believe that we’ve got our position in the world because we deserve it as birthright

See also: Brexit

I wouldn’t call anything a clanker because I’m not a Boomer

Never argue with an idiot. The best possible outcome is that you’ll win an argument against an idiot

I understand what you’re saying and the political point you’re making but welfare, in political terms, is defined as state intervention via public institutions to ensure the economic and social wellbeing of its citizens.

Oh that looks interesting, thanks

That over-simplifies the definition of neoliberalism, and the contested nature of definitions of that term. It also ignores the differences between the liberalism that Thatcher claimed and her actual policies (although I’m not claiming that Hayak, for example, wasn’t part of the then-current definition of liberalism), particularly her social policies.

I promise you, despite what Wikipedia claims, if a British newspaper were to refer to a liberal politician, they would not include Thatcher and Johnson.

Firstly, the social aspect of the term liberalism is more prominant than the economic. And secondly, it would be rare in the modern age to see it applied to Hayakian economics as opposed to Keyensian.

Neoliberalism, as a term, is to liberalism as Libertarian is to liberalism. They share a root and you can point to similarites, but once you scratch beneath the surface they aren’t all that similar and have important areas of opposition.

To be more specific on the capitalism front, liberals generally support a well-regulated market which also has safety nets like welfare. As opposed to positions like neoliberalism which supports As opposed to positions like neoliberalism, which supports laissez-faire markets and opposes welfare.

Liberal in the UK definitely doesn’t mean neoliberal