rockbier1218
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rockbier1218
1yr ago
I'm re-working my way through the Harry Potter series for the first time in about a decade.
Currently about halfway through Goblet of Fire and overcome with nostalgic love.
Her prose is pretty basic but the humor, imagination, and world-building are top-tier. As an adult looking back, you can really see the depth of the British influence on these books. Boarding school, dry humor, Dickensian names, some undertones of Arthur Conan Doyle mystery, etc.
I really hope that the controversy around her political views doesn't start to overshadow how incredible these books are. I already see it happening on Reddit whenever Harry Potter is brought up. People are starting to memory hole Harry Potter as if it wasn't one of the biggest cultural phenomenons of the past century.
rockbier1218
1yr ago
Finished that a few months back. Fantastic, fantastic book.
One thing that I didn't realize before actually picking it up was how much time he spends on the landscape descriptions.
It's probably 40-50% of the book, and while I didn't know most of the plants and geological formations he described it was still totally gripping and reminiscent of the best kind of Romantic-era writing.
rockbier1218
2yr ago
I can imagine that this religious/secular divide will only continue to get worse. The ultra-orthodox are projected to be 25% of the population by 2050, apparently.
How will the body politic handle 25% of the population being exempt from military service and essentially living off of the productive capacity of the other 75%? Especially with Muslim birth rates outpacing the secular Jews?
The secular Jews of Israel will probably experience a massive leftward shift and true coalition with the Muslim population once the ultra-orthodox drag on GDP and military becomes too big to ignore.
Just my two cents, but I think this rightward shift won’t last beyond a decade at most.
I'm planning to start one of these next year but have run into confusing information regarding how to handle taxes (on a taxable brokerage account, not an IRA).
Is it better for the completely lazy investor (me) to put the money into ETFs vs the index funds like VTSAX? I want to minimize any time spent dealing with paperwork or tax bullshit and it seems like index funds aren't as "set and forget" as I thought in that sense.
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