u/Oldtreeno

I'm always surprised that I end up engaged and enjoying the show. That said, the very name reminds you of some of the limits, in the tasks they're almost always entirely on the same team trying to get things done

There sometimes is a bit more tension if players need to achieve something to in some way protect people, but shields as that mechanic is a bit weak because they can usually just pick someone without a shield anyway. It's quite rare to have the traitors actually try to sabotage the faithful, but much more fun when they do, or murder in plain sight

The pensive itself is objective, but if you look closer at the base of your one you'll probably see the small runes noting the manufacturer takes no responsibility for the quality or accuracy of the memories used in it. Alas I don't currently own one to check myself.

I agree Snape had no reason here to deliberately change anything, and what we see is likely to be accurate. I was simply questioning the outright statement that the memory must be accurate, given I'm fairly sure the books don't discuss that, the points I made above about the memory including information that couldn't have been known in the original memory, and some consistency with the fact as far as we know trials aren't just a case of watching a few pensive showings of what happened.

The pensive is described as showing memories, with Dumbledore even commenting that his would be particularly good quality ones I think, rather than being a magical snapshot of history around the person producing the memory. I couldn't personally remember details of something that happened 15 years ago, even if it was a significant event I'd expect to remember the main points and the gist of what happened.

While Snape had no reason to lie in the memories he probably had no reason to extract and preserve them in the days following the events - although he does like torturing himself so he might well have done.

Do we have any basis to conclude that pensive memories are wholly accurate and objective?

We know where Slughorn deliberately tampers with his memory it leaves clear marks, so at least poor modifications by Dumbledore's standards are obvious.

However, there's content in some memories that the person couldn't have known absolutely, such as what Dippet was doing in his office before letting Tom in or what James was writing on his exam paper, or just what's happening behind them. So there's necessarily something filled in by assumption, or magic of some type in some cases. Eg Snape, busy on his own exam, would 'know' that James had finished early, because everything was always easy for him in Snape's eyes, and probably doodling about Lily because that's the sort of thing Snape is sure he'd do. So parts could perhaps be filled in based on the person's interpretation or expectations - probably not the viewer's expectations given Harry had no idea what was going on.

If someone stores a memory after some time of reflecting and dwelling on it, why would it remain accurate or objective - even if it it 'honest' (in comparison to Slughorn wishing he remembered something differently)?

If it's made out of ruby, could it not be a ruby-red ruby Rolex?

The article just says British artists.

It might be meant in a racist way perhaps, as all of the other comments seem to assume.

I thought it sounded interesting as a 'buy British' idea, but without needing to actively pay for things (where other 'buy from not the cheapest source' plans founder) so checked it given how outraged the top posts all were

I might be biased towards the idea by the school my children go to where the choir is actively pushed to singing in harsh American accents because the teacher leading it seems to have been trained that way (not an American). At the last concert they did "Here comes the sun" but in American accents and it was really really weird.

I doubt GB News would fix that

You get the same, ish, outcome and a lot nicer feel by messing with tax rates. Rather than 'we take your pension away while you pay for everyone else's' you pay say 10% extra on top of the tax rate (possibly and the NICs equivalent) on income and gains. It would need around 100k income outside the pension to fully cover the pension - going up as pensions increase - but you'd see a reduction in net payment through the chain

The only things really separating it from means testing are the description, the recovery mechanic and needing to keep the marginal rate sensible - unlike the stupid 100k level. If the 100k point was addressed by bringing the 45% rate earlier instead, a pension top-up rate would hit a top band of 55% in my example - or a stupid 70+% if it's as it stands

If it's done any other way with means testing the marginal rate could be ludicrous

What do you mean you didn't realise we'd taken a couple of the steps away for cleaning? We put clear signage up - in company standard transparent ink written on one of the windows.

It also makes Hannah look a bit sus - why would the traitors let the stronger player live? A) to mess with the faithful; B) because she is a traitor.
Jerry only has limited suspicion on her (traitor ensuring there's a victim?) if Hannah goes

But then again, they didn't murder Ross on day one, so who knows

New game for the rest of the series - what can we put on Ross' head? Culminating when he's murdered in plain sight and fairly much all the faithful were seen doing it the same day

Not choosing Ross, or from what we were shown even discussing him, was crazy when there were two people on a plate to really muddy the waters

It's probably like this https://youtu.be/1K17tnZ9S6Y?is=bNk1a-Dx9vnK2Wwr

Strenuously deny anything is going on in Luton I'd say, any time the topic comes up, then possibly set up an exclusion zone to present fake news stories about there being something important there. Then deny the exclusion zone exists.

You can sit there bewildered thinking 'Shirley, this can't just be that the boy is the surgeon's son?' Or the perhaps less likely, 'Why does the only surgeon in the hospital prefer to watch her son die than operate to save him?' Really doesn't make sense as a riddle

This might depend on supplier, but (1) any warranty work would have the homeowner responsible for providing a platform or similar for them to work from; (2) for the above, the installer I spoke to was the local G1 network firm so it's likely they'd be assigned and said they'd probably work from a ladder anyway - but you'd need to know you could be required to sort / pay for something; (3) for servicing, again there's a question of whether the installer is happy doing necessary checks on a ladder.

The other point about wall mounted to be aware of is that with 290 pumps there are rules on spacing from windows and doors.

We haven't had it installed yet so can't chip in on comments for noise

Almost certainly not what you're looking for (but still a very good and surprisingly not crack fic) but I think Harry is a Dragon and that's OK has Dumbledore teaching alchemy - it's a fairly gentle low stakes story so less 'that will help in any war' than you might want

His past wasn't really set out in the books as that scandalous - beyond the idea of thinking that fixing the world's problems by force, while using the minimum force needed and where it's justified by utilitarian morality, was a good idea. The then baulked at it when judging the actual absolute cost that would mean and realising he valued life over other things. He then went the other way and refused to impose his will on people even when they were dumb, aiming at convincing (manipulating?) them instead. He wasted a tonne of opportunity to do better, but nothing screams 'he was intentionally an arse' there.

I'd say Snape's past is objectively worse, even if he has reasons for falling into it and a nice interesting character and arc.

The wiki explanation is making me start to question my memory or possibly the wiki explanation - I'm happy with a finite set of countable sets being countable, but would have thought that even a countable infinite set of countable sets breaks that

If we'd done that in 2016 the Brexit negotiations could have been a lot more like they'd been advertised

At least they're consistent - the way everyone opposed Thanos was the civilised Wakanda way, ie fight and whoever wins is right. What it really needed was someone with a couple of flip charts to sit him down and explain his idea is bobbins. Silly beans

There are various sectors with lower yields, eg Knight Frank shows 4-5% yields on prime sites.

A key point on that for 'passing it on' - or even swallowing it - we're not talking a 2% uplift in rents, it would be say 50% uplift to keep the same 4% yield at the same property value (or 'only' 20% in your higher yield example) or to keep the same yield with the same rents, property value dropping 33% (I think, again a lot less for high yield)

I haven't looked into the proposed mechanics of a land tax, I assume it applies to gross value but it it's to net then it decreases the effective cost of debt and the numbers would vary much more by structure than property

Edit: the above rough calcs being an example of why a tax would probably at least initially need to be quite a lot lower than 2% as you say. You'd mentioned yields which I thought OP had overlooked

I stupidly can't recall which one it is, but there's (well known author I think) a book that did that to an extent with one side (humans) having had their stationary warp/teleport tech nicked by the aliens (weird Blobby hive mind thing) and then get the initiative back by mounting it on a ship, but they end up in some weird warp dance fight with space being messed up as a way of tying the ship down.

Bonus points if anyone can name the book from that awful description. Umm, one of the main characters meets the Scientology alien accompanied by Dougal from the magic roundabout (but alien) (?!)

Kick starting nuclear winter to bring balance to the global warming?

Maybe the BBC was asked to report on Trump's peace prize

If there's someone in business, as well as assets there's income (and a lot of income tax paid by the wealthy) and various employers (NICs, income tax, local spending) that are usually built around them

If the founder moves to UAE, chances are the C-suite wholly or mainly goes, their main hires might well go and so on

The more of them do go, the less reason other people who like selling to investors etc have to be in the UK market

So, some areas (wealthy overseas holding UK property as an investment) probably wouldn't be bad to lose, but a few would

I'm not sure how you get to the 'more tax paid' conclusion.

Assuming the transfer pricing is right (ok, fairly big assumption, but one tax authorities could challenge under current rules) the profit of the UK Amazon warehouses is probably broadly reasonable for what they do - so if Amazon span off its fulfilment arms into a new group say 60% listed 40% retained by the main Amazon group, with a nice long-term exclusive Amazon contract subject to performance conditions etc and oversight, that probably ought to be seen as a good investment by the market (if the profit level is fair for what it's doing)

Apportionment for tax then (without really weird rules) wouldn't bring the high profit-per-person income of the website into the people-heavy fulfilment business, presumably similar with the data centre business

That sort of seems to be what you were saying with Amazon UK, but I miss the 'more tax' outcome

Most comments rightly say the US wouldn't let this come in - see Pillar One, amount err A I think - but even if it did it would mainly discourage integrated groups across lots of tax rates, where splitting things out could avoid a big hike in tax, or shift hiring and firing decisions by tax rate eg the cost of offshoring work to India would look at dragging more profit into Indian tax rates (30%) as well as the lower salary cost. Not necessarily bad from a UK perspective, but quite complex. Conversely, highly profitable companies might start buying cleaning businesses in hax havens

It could be interesting but hard to predict