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  • Wenn ihr auf Weltraum und Technologiethriller steht, dann kann ich die Delta-V Reihe von Daniel Suarez nicht genug empfehlen (Delta-V und Critical Mass). Es geht darum, wie mutige Menschen bei der ersten Asteroidenbergbaumission der Menschheit am Ryugu Materialien abbauen um damit eine neue Expansionsphase der Menschheit einzuleiten und nebenbei den Menschen die Möglichkeit bieten, mithilfe von nicht-erdbasierter Energie den Klimawandel zu stoppen/zurück zu drehen.

    Wie die meisten Bücher von Daniel Suarez in naher Zukunft angesiedelt mit Technologie, an der jetzt schon entwickelt wird. Da ist es auch spannend, sich die Infos auf seiner Website durchzulesen, mit Bildern, Links und Interviews.


  • Hey, can you provide a source for that? I just tried to find something on wikipedia about it. While the organizational form positions DW significantly nearer to the government than the rest of german public broadcasting, it is not like the government does the journalistic work or has a direct say in it. So while a critique on DW being too close to the federal government seems fitting, calling it propaganda and the literal governments news outlet seems far fetched.












  • I don’t think he meant that kind of cursed.

    Probably more important is why Dumbledoor wasn’t able to get even ONE fitting DADA teacher, meaning without something making him unfit for the job, seemingly or inreality, after Quirrel (and we don’t know if Quirrel was a good teacher before he got Voldy in his brain).

    Lockhard was an obvious fraud, Lupin was a great teacher but unfortunatly a werewolf, Mad Eye was mad/a disguised deatheater and Snape was a bad teacher all along. (Umbridge was bot chosen by Dumbledor, so she doesn’t count).

    Hell, what is he even doing all day? Couldn’t he just do the DADA classes himself, if he didn’t find anyone fitting for the job?!




  • I always cringe with the 7th book, where the trio is hiding and searching for horkruxes, and for some weird reason they don’t have enough food and are constantly hungry. From the reading perspective I understand, that the hunger is a device to generate conflict and make their time hard to endure, but it always baffles me.

    • It is mentioned, that Hermione pulled out all her muggle savings, so why didn’t she think about going to a supermarket and buying all the conserved food (cans and such) she can before they got on the run? She even mentions, that food can be multiplicated, just not created out of nothing.
    • When they are hiding they sometimes get to a store or supermarket. But that only brings food for like a few days max. Why not more?
    • And when there where too many dementors in an area to get more food, why not going really far away. We know Hermione was at least one time in France with her parents. Why not going there? Probably the war-like situation was not spread over the complete world that seriously. At least we are not hearing any of that in the books (JKR probably didn’t even thing much about international things when writing this)


  • To be fair: With Dumbledoors measures with the mirror of erised they had kind of a trap. The philosophers stone obviously hidden behind some challenges, that are not really that strong, so an attacker would think the last one would also be easy. But there you only got the stonen if you didn’t want to use itn ruling out people with nefarious intentions (Dumbledoor didn’t know about Voldy in Quirrel at that time). To bad some first graders thought they needed to safe the stone. Quirrel would have been still thereuwhen Dumbledoor arrived, but Harry gave him and Voldy the opportunity to get the stone from him instead from the mirror. A bit of captain hindsight here. He maybe should have thought of that. Or maybe it is understandable that he didn’t foresee Harry fucking Potter


  • lucullustoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldwho is dr bollock?
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    Surely not relevant in this case, but in the german novel “The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear” (by Walter Moers) a Bollock is a giant, very dumb creature (as in multiple km high), who at some point in his life takes his head of, puts it on the ground and spends the next centuries searching for his head. I think that is funny.