u/lovely_psycho

Okay, this is just a strange hypothesis, but hear me out. In the story Harry realises pretty quickly that reality has to compute the future when a time turner is involved. So if Harry travels 6 hours back in one go at say 8pm then reality has to be computed to 8pm at 2pm already. However, Harry isn't the only one with a time turner. Since we know that time turners are handed out to students who are responsible enough, then it is pretty conceivable that in Britain alone and maybe even in the whole world there is always someone who is time-turned.

So let's imagine that Harry goes from 8pm to 2pm, but at 7pm his first version interacted with Dumbledore, who had time-turned from 11pm to 7pm. That would mean that at 2pm reality has to be consistently computed up until 11pm, so we're over the 6-hour limit already. It is also conceivable that politicians and generally important people use time-turners regularly enough, so that there is a loop of time-turned interactions that create a continuous line from the future into the past. With enough time-turners, it might be the case that reality has to compute a stable history for years and centuries into the future.

Now a lot of the weird stuff in HPMoR is connected with either Atlantis or Merlin. And time-turners seem sophisticated enough that they would qualify as Magic. So suppose that Atlantians invented time-turners. Then it is possible that before the invention there was no need to compute the future, so there were several possible ones and only the present was being computed. But then the moment a time-turner appeared, the future was forced to compute up until the end of the world, or the universe, or something (maybe destruction of time-turners). And the only stable continuous future turned out to be one where Atlantis was destroyed.

If that is what happened, then the world would be deterministic, and all the prophecies and decisions are just part of the stable time loop.

I joined postcrossing last winter so I have no reference point, but I feel like postcards are taking much longer than usual. I don't have that many spots yet, but the majority of them are close to expiring and I have a few expired postcards already. And for all except one case, people register postcards regularly. Are summers always slow?

This happened a while ago, but I wondered whether others also had similar experiences. It's basically what the title says. My trauma kinda sat in my ribcage, or maybe muscles in general, I'm not sure about that. But it was the case for years that I couldn't take a deep breath or yawn because my muscles were so tense that my ribs couldn't move enough. And then once I started really processing the trauma I noticed that I started yawning again. Not every time, but bit by bit it came back and now I'm at a point where I know how to relax my ribcage when I feel it tensing up, so it's not really a problem anymore. Has someone else experienced that too?

I'm pretty new to postcrossing and I only have 6 spots, and 4 out of the 6 are now occupied by Russia. I also don't have the preference of several postcards going to the same country activated, I checked that. I'm just kinda annoyed because Russia has super slow post so I very much have to wait for those postcards to expire and if they get lost I won't get any in return. And also I'm wondering how the hell I have so many cards going to one country. Even if Russia has a lot of members, shouldn't I have roughly the same number of cards going to each bigger country?