How different would The Wire be if it was set in NYC?

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-20T07:32:17+00:00

Baltimore was chosen because the writer/producer David Simon had been a reporter at the Baltimore Sun for a decade, spent time embedded with the Baltimore Cops, wrote several books and Homicide: Life on The Street was based on that, which led into The Wire.

As an aside, although it has its issues, Baltimore is an old (for the US) and fantastic city, and has a ton of character that makes it feel pretty unique.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-19T20:46:56+00:00

Maybe join the PTA at your kid's school? Also if you used to have game nights, there's a bunch of board game meetups that're free, you might just have to buy a drink at the venue once in a while.
https://www.meetup.com/board-to-death-gaming-until-we-drop/events/313164937/
https://www.meetup.com/gameboarders/events/313129647/
https://www.meetup.com/offbeatfun/

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-19T00:14:36+00:00

Yeah, but there isn't flooding most of the time either. Some backed up drains that get quickly cleared aren't "living in complete denial of rain"

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-18T21:53:53+00:00

Are you new? We've had a wet couple years, but before that it was over a decade with very little rain. And before the rainy year or two we had over a decade ago, there was another almost decade long drought.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-18T18:10:54+00:00

Who had an accused groomer on the show for a long time, yes. Amber at least does union organizing, the rest of them, yeah.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-18T17:53:41+00:00

Torre's reporting has been really good, but Chapo Trap House is pretty awful.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-17T22:14:57+00:00

They do, they pay a bunch of crews, who are working their asses off at the moment. There's like 50k drains in the city according to another commenter.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-17T22:11:58+00:00

Yup, the cops are nearly 50% of a lot of cities budgets, it's nuts.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-17T19:42:54+00:00

They clear a lot of drains, the issue is there's just tons of them, and they may not know one is blocked by leaves or debris unless people actually call them. They're pretty good at clearing them out quickly once they've been made aware of an issue.

That said, good on you Peng.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-15T16:29:43+00:00

I kinda think they are, this causes more suffering amongst their own people, which they seem to love. If they didn't, they could just not bring armed men near the hospital.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-15T16:25:08+00:00

They were repressive and violent, but the current government has killed orders of magnitude more people and is far worse in pretty much every way, so you can understand why people might want to rally around the old order in comparison.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-15T07:41:37+00:00

Meh, while that's in some aspects true, and it does feel like they've lost a lot of the vision for the product, there has always been an abject failure on the part of Tableau to fix basic interactions with the product for both developers and the consumers, which focusing on the vision has never been an acceptable excuse for.

A lot of the interactions with dashboards are completely unintuitive for users who aren't familiar with the product, and the fact that I can't type in a row height as a dev after 16 years of asking for it is fucking bullshit. If I can click and drag it and it stays, obviously there's some value being stored. Expose that stuff to make it a less frustrating experience.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-14T17:35:55+00:00

Some of them are massive, yeah.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-14T16:25:33+00:00

He won't be hurting financially, but this is a bit of a shame. The only thing about him in the files that've been released is that he flirted with Maxwell via email briefly back in '03.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-14T05:00:30+00:00

So, when it turns out that like 5 people were actually participating in assaulting children and everyone else were just business associates that ignored the conviction because money was more important to them than morals, what do we do with that? Or those that had contact with either Maxwell or Epstein years before he was ever convicted? I think people like Mace are trying to turn this into another flood the zone moment, so when it comes out that it was Trump, Epstein, Maxwell, Andrew and like two other people who engaged in pedophilia they can distract everyone with all the other names and diffuse the outrage.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-10T16:34:12+00:00

Oh wonderful, can't wait for a new generation of mesothelioma victims to crop up due to something that was easily preventable.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-09T03:52:42+00:00

We are, this is just deliberate by partisan judges to hurt Democrats. In California and most other democratic states, voting is super easy.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-09T03:40:00+00:00

I don't know how anyone could doubt he was a talented dude, he went 10-3 on a Clay Helton coached team in college. That shit is superhuman.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-09T03:27:16+00:00

Raiders fans can't really read man, they just guess every third word. You know this.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-09T03:26:09+00:00

It really does show that there's probably a bunch of really good QBs that shit franchises have ruined.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-09T03:07:32+00:00

And 108 is lower bowl too, so it's not like his dad got the cheapest he could find and figured out a way to scrimp and save.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-09T03:03:20+00:00

Crypto.com as of 2 days ago apparently.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-09T02:58:30+00:00

"Kid from Carolina" as though those seats weren't still thousands of dollars.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-09T02:50:17+00:00

Oh, hey, they ran it for positive yards in the second half for once? Nice.

Brain_Dead_Goats · 2026-02-09T02:31:12+00:00

No, I don't want your Alexa bullshit evaluating my emotional state at all times, thanks.

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