In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, when the Dementors search the Hogwarts Express, Professor Lupin derisively says that none of them in the compartment are hiding Sirius Black in their robes.
But Ron has Scabbers in his robes, not knowing his “pet rat” is the actual murderer who committed the crime Black was wrongly imprisoned for!
If they were looking for the fugitive mass murderer, they were in the right place after all.
You needed to fix your car. You could have gone to the established shop, but the new guy told you they were crooked. You went with the new guy.
Now he’s stripping your car, telling you he’s doing a great job & complaining about the cops investigating a stolen car parts ring.
A family member was incorrectly removed from the voting rolls. She hasn’t moved in about 7 years, hasn’t done anything to lose eligibility, and has been active in every election during that time. Even the local ones.
She cast a provisional ballot and is trying to sort out what the hell happened to her registration.
Lessons learned:
What happened?
It’s not clear what caused her case, but she was far from the only one with similar problems in this election.
Santa Clara county dropped voters from the rolls through a broken de-duplication effort. And in Los Angeles County, over 100,000 registered voters are missing from the rosters due to a “printing glitch.”
I don’t like to be paranoid, but one of the two major political parties in the US loves suppressing voter participation in areas and demographics that lean toward the other party.
And San Jose and Los Angeles do lean toward that other party.
The first time I played mobile Minecraft, I ended up stuck in a tree all night, trying not to move so the skeletons wouldn’t shoot me down. Every time I ventured down to try to finish my shelter, I got killed and re spawned in that tree, so I finally just set the phone down and waited for daylight.
Minecraft’s hierarchy of needs:
Once all those are taken care of, you can start exploring and building.
I hate when any organization preemptively sends a membership card in the mail hoping to guilt you into joining.
But an environmental group?
On plastic?
Not. Cool.
Remember when we’d talk on topic-focused message boards? Flame wars got heated, but rarely spilled over.
If you dared, you could also visit the off-topic boards, at the risk of seeing people at their worst.
Social media dispenses with topics. It’s all the off-topic boards now.
