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His family's politics are built on survival.

Cassius understands it - to a point. They didn't join Grindewald. They didn't pledge Loyalty to Voldemort. They've never been anything but mocking and dismissive of Dumbledore.

His family has guarded their neutrality even to their own detriment. Refusing to align themselves means none of them go very far in politics, no matter the faction in control. Several of his family members have died for refusing to take a stand when war comes - from both sides.

The Weasleys and the Prewetts are have never been neutral.

They're all liberal, and always have been, back when they had the money and power for that to piss a lot of people off. It's part of the reason they've lost it. They can't even make themselves stick to ideology, always taking up their wands and their swords and sticking themselves on the front of every battle line.

It's how they'd gotten their power, initially. Godric Gryffindor had been a fan of both lines.

A son of Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett can never be anything but exactly what he was born to be.

Cassius knows this. He knows it so well that it stays his hands and his heart every time they want to stray.

He too is a product of his family's choices. If he chooses George, he either makes a target out of the people who raised him or forces them to cut ties with him entirely. They might not be at war now but peace never lasts.

They've given up more than a son for their neutrally. He knows what they'll choose.

He's proven right. Peace ends. Voldemort returns. It's time for his family to raise their wands in defense of never having to choose.

Cassius knows he can never ask George to be anything but exactly who he is.

The hyena biologist that arranged for Disney animators to come sketch captive  hyenas for The Lion King film (Laurence Frank) was so incensed when the animals were depicted as villains in the movie that he later included boycotting the film on a list of ways the average person could help hyena conservation.

Though it’s commonly known that Charles Darwin’s distaste for parasitic wasps played a role in his development of evolution theory (since he felt no loving God would create animals with such a disturbing life cycle), the biologists who study these wasps find it an unfair characterization. When they were tasked with coming up with a common name for the family of parasitic wasps (Ichneumonidae) that old Charles so disliked, they proposed the name “Darwin Wasps” to spite the famous naturalist who had insulted their beloved family of insects.

Parasitologist Tommy Leung was so frustrated with the way people write about parasites to evoke horror and gore that he started writing a Parasite of the Day blog, that specifically avoids inflammatory or unsettling language to describe them. He also illustrates different species in colorful anime art on Twitter in a series called Parasite Monster Girls—which he calls his “love letter to parasites.”

The Monty Hall problem states that you should always switch your pick, and that by doing so you will double your chances of winning the car.

Which, intuitively, that's nonsense. Your choice has no actual impact on the reality of the situation. You're guessing blindly the same as before, it's just now that you have a one-in-two chance of guessing the right door instead of a one-in-three chance.

EXCEPT

During your first round of choosing, you had a 1/3 chance of guessing the car vs a 2/3 chance of guessing a goat, if you were only allowed that one guess. But once it's narrowed down to two doors, one with a goat and one with a car, you're now guaranteed to get the exact opposite outcome of what your original guess would have been if you switch. So if you stick with your first choice, you still have a 1/3 chance of getting the car and 2/3 chance of getting a goat. But if you switch, then suddenly that becomes a 1/3 chance of getting a goat, and a 2/3 chance of getting the car.

The trick to it is that you're technically playing two games in a row, and the second one is the only one that you actually have to win.

In the first game, you have two chances to lose (picking a goat) and once chance to win (picking a car). Worse-than-even odds. But the important thing is, you don't actually get a prize for winning this first game. It's just set-up for the second one.

In the second game, sticking with your door is basically saying "I think I made a lucky guess in the first game, I'm sticking with that decision." Switching doors is saying "I don't think I got lucky in the first round, so I'm going to change my decision." You are gambling on whether you won or lost the first game, and what wins or loses you the prize is guessing correctly whether you were lucky in the first game. And because the odds of the first game were worse-than-even, guessing that you lost the first game is the safer bet, because you probably weren't lucky.

Also we never really see him do any really impressive firebending apart from when he has magic comet power, I guesss he shoots some lightning at Zuko, but that’s it and Azula is still better at the lightning thing. Azula has blue flames. Zuko can do firebreakdancing and bend with his swords. Does Ozai, who is not 14 years old, have blue flames? No he doesn’t.

He didn’t even do his coup himself, Ursa had to kill Azulon for him! Could have just challenged Iroh to an Agni Kai for the throne but he didn’t bc he knew he’d lose.

And then he only ruled for like 6 years! He lost a war that had been going on for 100 years bc of a bunch of kids.

#see i guess i need someone who is wise and has learned the art of abstaining control to the universe and going with the flow

#in a way this is truly nature’s balance isn’t it that the one I’m meant to be with is janyu a monk with a silence vow right well

#cut to jason after kissing chidi full on the mouth BRO THIS IS GAY FOR REAL YOU’RE JACKED TOO IT’S SO HOT

#shsjdhdhaj SOMEONE PLEASE WRITE THIS FOR ME

#the hilarity of chidi accepting his gay enlightenment by falling for a monk only to be hit in the face with a florida man

the scene where lucius finds jim’s clothing, he looks like he’s been strolling for a while (probably walked past here already) and looks confused as to why there’s suddenly clothing on this rock.

there’s a specific detail abt this scene that makes me lose my fucking marbles, though

do u see it?

DO U SEE IT???

LIKE?????? HELLO?????

THIS WAS IN EPISODE 2!!!! BEFORE THEY HOOKED UP IN THE RATIONS CLOSET IN EPISODE 5!!!

Which makes it either 1 of the following:

- Lucius and Pete have been dating for a while, and they just haven’t had sex yet which is why they had that awkward thing at the end of their “rations rump”

- They HAVE had sex, and they’re just awkward idiots in love by default

- They have not been dating yet, but Lucius developed a crush on Pete in the meantime (supported by the fact that homeboy can not stop staring at him in the first episode) and he put this down bc Pete can’t read anyway and so won’t know what it means