One of the reasons I feel so comfortable using Tumblr over other social media is because this site is clearly too incompetent to be evil.
The basic business model of a social network is to harvest commercially valuable personal data and sell it, most famously via targeted ads. Anyone visiting my blog can clearly see that I am a queer furry who’s into video games and art. And yet I am only served ads for funeral homes, Bible story DVDs, and the current president’s reelection campaign (in 2018 for some reason)
Needless to say my click through rate has not been very good
Me: Runs a blog dedicated to dungeons and dragons and anime Tumblr: You know what, you strike me as a sporty type
I’m a social media manager for my day job and Tumblr is literally the only social media platform I can relax on anymore because it’s so incompetent when it comes to exploiting my personal data.
The tumblr personal data algorithm, trying to make sense of the hot mess that is my blog:
is refreshingly devoid of the usual man vs. man conflict, it is filled with conflict of other varieties, notably man vs. self (the contestants vs. their knowledge of baking) and man vs. nature (the contestants vs. the time limit)
Man vs. the forces of evil (the contestants vs. Paul Hollywood)
Based on the calculations of an inspired fan, we put together a list of how many galleons you can expect to shell out to peep the next Chudley Cannons game.
I’ve been rereading the series and like … this makes sense for the most part except that Percy Weasley bets Penelope Clearwater 10 Galleons on the Gryffindor/Ravenclaw Quidditch match and like … what 17 year old would bet $250 on a school sporting event ???
one who thought he would win i guess
and also it costs almost $20 to ride the bus???????
Also also are these prices adjusted for inflation?
(Also also also does the knight bus have youth/elderly/disabled/student discounts?)
Based on the calculations of an inspired fan, we put together a list of how many galleons you can expect to shell out to peep the next Chudley Cannons game.
I’ve been rereading the series and like … this makes sense for the most part except that Percy Weasley bets Penelope Clearwater 10 Galleons on the Gryffindor/Ravenclaw Quidditch match and like … what 17 year old would bet $250 on a school sporting event ???
one who thought he would win i guess
and also it costs almost $20 to ride the bus???????
Right??? Although I think it’s a fancy bus that goes all over maybe, instead of your regular old city bus that costs a couple dollars? I don’t know a thing about British infrastructure tho, I suppose.
right but like isn’t the Knight Bus literally wizarding England’s only non-train form of mass public transit? (There’s the floo system but since each individual has to travel on their own & depending on the size of the fireplaces in question may not be able to bring larger items with them it’s not quite the same thing?) And I don’t know *exactly* how it works (in the books, I mean, not the movies) but iirc the bus charges a flat rate to take you anywhere in England, so presumably they’re not spending a significantly different amount of money on fuel going from one part of London to another vs going from southern England to the Scottish border, so like ?????????????? obviously they have the market cornered to some extent, but in an economy that also has a functioning train system, floo, portkey, and apparition as a options, how on EARTH are they able to get away with charging so much?
Based on the calculations of an inspired fan, we put together a list of how many galleons you can expect to shell out to peep the next Chudley Cannons game.
I’ve been rereading the series and like … this makes sense for the most part except that Percy Weasley bets Penelope Clearwater 10 Galleons on the Gryffindor/Ravenclaw Quidditch match and like … what 17 year old would bet $250 on a school sporting event ???
one who thought he would win i guess
and also it costs almost $20 to ride the bus???????
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