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Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2026
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I don't give a fuck about HP Whatshercunt, but I do love this story. Because it shows that collectively we have more power then these companies. If we could get our shit together and stop fighting each other we could bully them into litterally anything we want because THERE ARE MORE OF US. It's so dumb that we have let a tiny group of people convince us, the larger group that massively outnumbers them, they have all the power in the relationship.
It was a … power cable. To connect the Irish grid to the welsh/English grid. To allow for more efficient transfer of power between renewable generation to the respective grids based on availability and need.
It was actually a good project? Like unironically. It was going to allow for further decarbonization. Now it’s been delayed and going to cost a lot more, and may have to go through a Bronze Age burial site now.
The people who blocked the project were also disturbing the local environment by leaving huge amounts of synthetic fiber socks at the beach.
Just another story about people making the real world a little worse because they're disconnected from reality.
Do you also applaud antivaxxers get together and bully people? Same thing isn't it? People disconnected from reality bullying people.
Sorry, but people disconnected from reality aren't capable of making any improvement in the world.
"Sorry, too busy attacking political allies for disagreeing with me on a point or two."
Which two points are you talking about? Would it happen to be:
Because people who support those things are not allies.
A brief glance at their profile shows they mostly spend their time on the fediverse dropping incendiary comments in politically charged threads; we may never get clarification.
I'm here. Just waiting for you to answer the question.
It didn't seem like a good faith question so I didn't bother answering, but it seems at least one person in the shadows thinks it was, so I'll answer it:
I was thinking of people who think the Uyghur genocide is fake news, the Holodomor was an accident and Ukraine ought to be a Russian territory again, and the DPRK is a wonderful place to live. If you disagree with that on the fediverse, there tends to be much gnashing of teeth from certain people who otherwise make sane political arguments about the biggest evils we currently face, at least in my country (e.g. Epstein Class Bad, Trump Bad, Fascism Bad).
As for your two points, I haven't met anyone who supports genocide or the blocking of labor strikes, so I don't know why you thought those up.
You accuse me of asking a question in bad faith and then act like you're living under a rock? Labor issues and genocide support are at the forefront of current political discussions. I can't remember the last time an American politician mentioned the Uyghurs.
Joe Biden went around congress twice to ship weapons to Israel in support of their genocide. Joe Biden, 44 Democratic senators and 36 Republican senators passed a bill to block the rail strike in 2022. Were you unaware of this?
Yeah, I totally get it, you're trying to wrestle control of the wheel to divert the discussion into something you want to talk about instead. That's called a "Red Herring."
But look at how red this herring is! How can you deny this?
I made it very clear what I wanted to talk about in my first comment.
I find it interesting how much you don't want to talk about those two subjects. Is that because you support blocking strikes and Israel's genocide?
Yeah I know, and my point this entire time has been that's not what the rest of us were talking about, so it's bizarre to see you ignore the topic at hand to divert discussion to yours.
Ironically, you've kinda made my point by trying to fight me with zero information to go on.
Nope.
Can't help but notice that you haven't mentioned you dislike child predators once this entire comment chain. I find that very interesting. Is that because you're on the Epstein List?
I feel like you over-specific'ed my meme into an apparent attack on me or my position(s)?
I don't see an answer to my question anywhere in this comment.
It didn't seem like a good faith question so I didn't bother answering, but it seems at least one person in the shadows thinks it was, so I'll answer it:
I was thinking of people who think the Uyghur genocide is fake news, the Holodomor was an accident and Ukraine ought to be a Russian territory again, and the DPRK is a wonderful place to live. If you disagree with that on the fediverse, there tends to be much gnashing of teeth from certain people who otherwise make sane political arguments about the biggest evils we currently face, at least in my country (e.g. Epstein Class Bad, Trump Bad, Fascism Bad).
As for your two points, I haven't met anyone who supports genocide or the blocking of labor strikes, so I don't know why you thought those up.
Yeah, it's a pretty wholesome story about a group of fans caring about something fun, the company playing along ... and everyone ended up happy in the end.
Well, not entirely ... one small comment section of indomitable lemmies still holds out against the joy!