This sounds reasonable to me. Starbucks is everywhere. But when you do have options they're far from the top choice.
You could have a look around to see if you have any local coffee roasters and then find out who they supply to try and get something a lot fresher.
I know too many people that think Starbucks is the only place that makes good coffee and refuse to go anywhere else. No, you like strong roasts, lots of sugar, and plenty of advertising, most of which you can get anywhere else if you just ask.
In Rowling's case it seems to be due to her being alive and directly benefiting from the financial success of her work. Pirating seems like a fair compromise. "I like what you make enough to consume it, but don't like you enough to pay for it"
Maybe good creators are just horrible people
I don't agree that this type of response is productive, there's a lot more nuance to these arguments. It is however interesting which things we're no longer allowed to like. Disney for example, despite their history of anti-Semitism don't nearly get as much hate as they deserve and at a time where even suggesting something that Israel did to Gaza is bad becomes conflated with hating Jews
Thanks for the perspective. I'm not a member of the community (or much of a potter fan, other than enjoying the movies as a kid. Nostalgia) so it's probably a lot easier for me to separate author from work.
It just concerned me that people would be unintentionally flagging themselves as an adversary. The generalisation also seemed unfair and alienating in the same way many marginalised groups are. I do understand though that one side is something you enjoy and the other is something you are.
Is it really? Can someone not just like the potter series and either disagree with or ignore the politics of the author?
Because the genetics that build the vocal tract could be different, which in simple terms could mean a change in pitch. There are also more cultural differences such as speech cadence, accent, and inflection.
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Thinking that it's cheating sounds like you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself. Well done for finding a way to get past that. You should try thinking more about the outcome than the activity. Say you didn't have the energy to use soap, you're still going to be cleaner than before you went in. Making each activity as frictionless as possible (maybe though 'cheating') helps build it into a habit and once the task has been habitualised you'll be doing it without thinking.
Well done again for problem solving your issue.
I think enforcing some universal API for this would be a decent compromise. This would allow browsers to handle the UI which means the user can set a global preference or set it per site. At the very least the UI would be uniform so you wouldn't have to fight dark patterns trying to disable them.