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And that’s basically it!
They’ll do anything but acknowledge they’re funding the legal discrimination of trans people in the UK.
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.
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh 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.
This is actually a win. The original site was going through an ecological sensitive area. People fought to protect the "grave" of a fictional character but accidentally protected a delicate ecology. That is more important than protecting the dead, real or not.
Fans of the wizard series come to leave stones reading “Here Lies Dobby” despite being asked not to by the land owner, the National Trust, because the beach is an ecologically sensitive site.
The HP obsessive are also littering that sensitive sight with a bunch of socks.
Also the cable was for sharing load between grids to account for variability in power generation in renewables. It was literally being built to support further decarbonization of the grid.
Oh and now the cable might have to go through a Bronze Age burial site.
Like, this is not a win, this is idiots making a good project more expensive and difficult and potentially causing the destruction of an archeological site.
Gotta love that a fictional character created by a transphobe carries more weight and concern than the further destruction of our biosphere.
People are leaving rocks at the site of the "grave", which they've repeatedly been told not to do, specifically because of concerns about harm to the environment. So they might have accidentally helped in some respect, but it doesn't exactly mean much when they're showing up themselves, and fucking it up anyway
"How did Donald Trump win in the US? How could so many people be so stupid and out of touch with reality?"
Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
Fans of the wizard series come to leave stones reading “Here Lies Dobby” despite being asked not to by the land owner, the National Trust, because the beach is an ecologically sensitive site.
But apparently not so ecologically sensitive that an undersea cable couldn't run through it.
You only have to lay a cable down once and it'll work for however many decades. People trudging through on a regular basis to leave rocks would be an ongoing concern.
This assumes a lot of things about the installation and longevity of the cable and its jacket, and forgets that some of these things have been so magnetically interfering to their surroundings that sharks have bitten them.
Who the fuck cares about Dobby's grave!
Jesus Christ, they're not even good children's books
The first four are decent monster of the week fare.
The last three remind me of bad fanfiction. The attempt to pull it all together into some sort of grand storyline is pathetic. The Horcruxes and Deadly Hallows crap was clearly pulled out of her ass at the last minute.
Plus the Author is a bigot.
It's, of course, a matter of taste whether or not you find them good. But let's not pretend that we're not talking about one of he most popular, best-selling children's book series of all time that spawned a 30+ billion dollar franchise of movies, merch, games, and a theme park. Plenty of people found them plenty good enough to generate that big of a financial success.
They are quite shit. They are easy reads, and it gets children to read, that's pretty good. But damn, shit makes no sense, and harry potter adults are pretty damn weird.
Cult behavior.
In the end, he said, “we went quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobby’s grave”.
The Bronze Age remains include urns associated with human burial.
Priorities are in order!
This is fucking pathetic
At least no actual harm was done to a site of archaeological significance to placate a bunch of fucking nerds
Tasteless transphobic nerds.
This is so frustrating. My sister loves HP and refuses to discuss Rowling. While still buying merch that directly supports her.
a bunch of fucking nerds
Lol Harry Potter readers being nerdy kids may have been true in the late 90s or early 00s. Most fans of the movies are normies.
It wasn’t even true then. Harry Potter was the flagship of the Scholastic book fair at the time along with books like Animorphs.
I for one am glad they're leaving this gender neutral toilet alone
Okay yeah Harry Potter fans need to fucking stop. Just fucking stop. Read a book that isn't fucking shit.
probably not true, fortunately: https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1vjde6y/rumours_speculation_questions_and_reaction/p2t4b8m/
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wow this sucks
What I don't get is, how did Dobby get so much love in the Harry Potter fandom while Jar-Jar Binks in Star Wars got so much hate? They were both insufferably annoying characters.
I get that Dobby has fans; what I don't get is why the same wasn't extended to Jar-Jar.
Jar-Jar didn't die, I guess, but I feel like even if he did, fans would glaze him over decades later. They'd say "good riddance" and that would be that.
Dobby was a pitiful creature enslaved by a bad guy who dies saving the main characters
Jar Jar was a stupid alien added to the prequel for comedic relief
y'all i was a mega harry potter fan growing up and even i think this was pathetic; READ ANOTHER BOOK
