Given the fact that was the eastern borderlands of the Franks and covers roughly Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands I’m gonna assume the only connection to Austria these territory has is the Aust portion. Also Austria evolved out of Otto the Greats Holy Roman Empire not the Carolingian Empire though admittedly it does have its roots in Charlamagnes campaign against the Avars.

Point is East is relative, the East Coast of Asia is to my West.

It makes sense when you consider that the Osterreich was a border princedom against the Magyars originally before growing into something far more notable. Same thing happened with Brandenburg and Pomerania with the Old Prussians.

No but RC cola is pretty good if you want something that tastes similar to coke. My hick is showing ain’t it?

Also Helios One from Fallout: New Vegas is based off of those, though I don’t think we’ve figured out how to make an Archimedes mirror out of one and a reflection satellite yet.

Sure but even that isn’t all encompassing. I’m from SoCal and my accent/dialect has so many archaicisms that I’m probably one of the only people under 50 with the damned thing. What I get for being around old people I guess.

Though I do suppress into something approaching the general accent when talking to others, mostly because for example Mountain Dew gets mangled into münten doo.

In the mildest defense of Rowling she actually did put it into the books that you can’t just poof food into existence. Summoned food has no nutritional value and duplicated food has its nutrients halved, the food was cooked by house elves and teleportex to the dining hall. It’s explained somewhat similar to how folks can starve on lean meats, you are physically full but without something in addition you’ll just starve to death, it’s actually an element of the last book that the main cast are slowly starving to death for a bit.

Though none of that stops them from producing food via other magical means such as what amounts to magical automata. Pretty sure the car in book two had animalistic sentience by the point of the spider subplot, so there’s nothing stopping them from making magic farming tools that do that all automatically. They really should be a post scarcity society, but well Rowlings a shit world builder.

It kinda looks like her outfit is multiple components. An undershirt skirt and vest, that is unless this is a Fred from Scooby Doo situation where they have a visually identical outfits that are all mechanically different. Regardless she probably just rolls up the skirt, source I have gone to the bathroom in both a toga and a kilt.

Best part is I’m the only living person who witnessed the whole situation. Note the microwave caveman is the son of my great uncle, so cousin once removed if memory serves right don’t really keep track of trite terms like that. But my great grandfather and my uncle (mother’s brother) just were watching the whole repeatedly microwaving thing just kinda waiting to see what would happen, took about 20 minutes but it resulted in the so called microwave incident.

This whole thing will be with me for the rest of my life despite happening when I was 4, I am now 26. You may see why I directly associate microwaving water with unga bunga caveman energy. It ain’t just cultural it’s probably part of my personality foundation.

It really was. If he had just microwaved it once or twice I would assumed bad luck, but I’m pretty sure he was on his fifth or sixth time by the point the glass shattered. I even asked him a couple years ago if he remembered that whole thing and according to him he only remembers the fire, though according to his dad he was probably high on edibles.

Probably my older cousins back in the early 2000s when I was like 3. Watch one of them repeatedly microwave a bowl of water till the glass fractured causing the water to all spill into the microwave which long story short resulted in an electrical fire inside a camper trailer. No I don’t remember what the fuck he was trying to do, may have been as mondane as making top ramen.

I meant in a they don’t even make enough money to qualify for taxes type of way.

Fair enough. Should probably note I’m Californian and derived from non tea drinking stock, that’s for the Asians and Brits or my grandmother since she picked it up from her very British grandmother.

Eh it only really a factor for heating up water in particular due to the square cubed law. Doesn’t take that much energy to reheat leftovers or nuke two hot pockets.

Well also I’ve grown up around microwaves with questions wattage so rather than boiling or near boiling water you get slightly hotter than the tap water.

Pretty sure there are some struggling artist who also don’t pay taxes. Mostly because they are too poor but still.

The micro rollercoaster radiated “This damned thing has been sitting storage the fuck are we supposed to do with it” energy. Someone had a micro rollercoaster probably for festivals and things bad did not want to store it.

I didn’t know a mime getting hanged was in the Bible. Gotta feel bad for the French even their god hates them.

I know why hammerheads evolved like that and I know that there have been far dumber looking sharks but they looking like they’re playing pong between their eyes.

I’m aware but there’s this weird visceral unga bunga energy to it. It’d be like using a diesel generator to farm crypto it just feels fucking weird.

Hence why Lilly triggering some time of ancient ritual or creating a new ritual to counter the killing curse makes sense to me. Mind you Rowling is shit when it comes to in depth world building, but what she does set up even unintentionally is that the wizarding world is on decline possibly in a 40k type way where they are simply losing more and more knowledge after each generation. Having Lilly create or activate an old ritual either intentionally or not doesn’t remove the sacrifice it simply remove Rowlings stupid power of love trite. The power of love is still present but more symbolic in Lilly using her and possibly James as a catalyst to protect Harry.

Also I have accidentally pointed out the flaws of Rowling writing just to nerd out about magic systems. I don’t even dislike soft magic it’s just Rowling did it badly, aight gonna go read Yojou Senki.