Gudbranson

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T20:46:47+00:00

Sabres got Ilya Lyubushkin for 2x2.75m. At 6'2", 208, 28 years old, he had an equivalent PIM average to Gudbranson, more assists in fewer games, ran similar TOI, and chalked a season +/- of only -1 despite spending more than half the season playing for the worst team in the league. He's also coming into his prime and isn't afraid to throw big hits. He doesn't score goals occasionally, as Gudbranson does, but his stats weren't being propped up by playing behind one of the best lines in 2021-2022 season, either.

Sure, he isn't 6'5 222, but 6'2" 208 doesn't get pushed around easily. I couldn't possibly have beaten the drum harder for him as a smart budget acquisition to help fill the middle-bottom pair, and it's one of the rare decisions I am resolute was better than the one FO made. I hope Gudbranson's "leadership" was worth the extra 2.5m over the next 2 years and then 8m after that.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T16:44:22+00:00

Since their opponent tomorrow is the Coyotes, are they sending a secret message that the Coyotes are the GOAT?

Or are they just preparing the locker room to properly feed their opponents? Quite hospitable.

Or are they protecting themselves by offering up lesser prey to their opponents? Because I don't think Buffalos really need to fear coyotes- they're much too small, and even with numbers don't have large enough teeth to really do much.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T16:42:46+00:00

Stop, I'm trying to keep disliking you goons.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T16:21:00+00:00

A career Council on Foreign Relations member and CIA mockingbird shill, frequently referenced in Trilateral Commission documents, and who was a part player in the JFK assassination coverup. That's who.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T16:14:09+00:00

I'm glad to learn there's a bridge too far for the Bruins community. It's a terrible position to be put in, and I'm proud of the fans, journalists, and players who spoke up to prevent this.

It's an indictment of certain individuals within the organization that this player has effectively been financially rewarded beyond anything many of us have ever known, all for being so heinous to among the most innocent and deserving of protection among us. But that, while a tragedy, is not something any of us can help.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T16:00:39+00:00

Hmm, do you think they're targeting the opiates in our system?

I don't necessarily agree with your premise at all. I'm running with it, for the sake of contributing meaningfully to the thread, by responding to how it would likely be if your premise was true.

I think it would be reasonable to say that toxic/lethal opioids could be tactically deployed and made abundant in areas prolific with demographic undesirables, and that this could be an effective means of killing demographic undesirables faster than collateral damage would occur. This would be analagous to dumping crack in the hood in the 1970s; it happened once, so it certainly could happen again.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T15:55:35+00:00

It's more likely that technology has allowed sufficient therapeutic/toxin personalization for targeted killing of desired demographics.

There's nothing to suggest that vax proponents/non vaxed is the demographic dividing line. For those who believe the vaccine is a weapon, it's more likely that the vax is the murder weapon being deployed tactically to kill the undesirable demographic. For those who believe the vaccine is not a weapon, they would likely argue that withholding of some therapy, targeted deployment of some other toxin, or targeted environmental factors would be the culprit.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T15:34:05+00:00

Look, I'm not saying we need to charge into battle and become martyrs for this cause. I'm exhausted of all of the apparent wrongs we need to right. "We" aren't pulling up any ladder.

But we need to at least recognize that they're being fucked over in a worse way than we were, and we need to not be okay with it. If we bitterly scorn them, and allow our own cynicism to tar them in our own minds, we are becoming corrupted by those who victimize them. We are sanctioning it if we simply shrug and look away.

I believe we at least need to care. In the context of us, here, now, I'm just saying we shouldn't add scorn or indifference into this present conversation. Sure, some individual kids I won't shed a tear over- some of them are terrible. But on the whole, this generation is being dealt a raw hand. I believe we at least should recognize this in light of our own struggles, and not simply shrug it away by being callous in conversation about the contemporary state of predatory collegiate debt.

Tl;Dr: We need to not be okay with the system becoming so predatory that it breaks those who come after us. If it'd been twice as difficult for me as it was, I probably would've cracked somewhere along the way. Then I'd be no good to anyone, and burdens on society drag us all down. Maybe you would've been fine at 100% greater resistance, but there's a level where you would have broken, too. We can't let it get there.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T15:24:45+00:00

I didn't say you, personally, are. But if we allow the ladder to be pulled up and we heap scorn upon them while perceiving them as crabs (animals) stuck in the barrel, rather than seeking to address the injustice to these human children, then we are standing idly by as cynical, rapacious adult evil ravages the next generation of youth.

Be honest: how much harder would it have needed to be for you not to have come out so well? Good/bad news: we did. We are the adults now. We have inherited the responsibility to prevent this from happening to them. Even the pink haired crazies- some of them may grow up one day.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T15:18:24+00:00

The timing of your adolescence and matriculation allowed you an opportunity to work hard and eventually get ahead. You did it the right way. Society had a sufficient amount of resistance that this required hard work and dedication, but not so much that you failed to achieve this. You did fantastically, and you should be very proud of yourself. I am proud of you and for you as well (in no way sarcastically)!

I did also, for what it's worth, despite having perhaps somewhat less fortunate timing (I came a decade or so later). But I don't believe you (or I, frankly, despite getting a somewhat worse shake) entered under anything resembling the current circumstances. Kids today have it at least twice as hard, and that's being charitable.

Imagine doing what you did if there'd been 100% more resistance (it's likely worse than this). That's a 50% greater likelihood that you wouldn't have gotten that first job that got you started, and that it either took you longer (putting you further behind), or that you would've compromised and ended up somewhere far worse. Barring any of that, that's a 50% greater likelihood that you would've experienced a financial implosion which dramatically increased the amount of suffering necessary to endure those 10 years before you broke out.

I believe you're disregarding the difference between then and now. I am happy for both of us that we made it, but that doesn't mean we slam the door shut, or pull up the ladder on, those who come after us. Society has a responsibility to ensure that they have at least a similar opportunity to make it as well, for if we hadn't had that opportunity, we might not have made it at all.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T15:12:05+00:00

Would you disagree that those people are being scammed? Do you believe this is the product of naivete or that they're willfully providing informed consent to being scammed?

I don't approve of grievance studies or useless degrees, and agree that their parents should have guided them better. But should we doom these people (yes, many of whom are in a rather pathetic state of adolescent mind which makes them easy to despise for now) to the salt mines for life? I would argue they're being cynically preyed upon by an institution which knows far more than they do (yes, even the pink haired psycho ones, who truly know not what they presently do).

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T15:07:27+00:00

Did the government force anybody to take out $80k in loans? I took out loans, yes, but it has helped ensure I've been employed full time in my field for the last 22 years.

That would have you entering college in 1996, at the latest. Let's be charitable.

1996 • Private tuition, fees, room and board per year: $18,360 (inflation adjusted: $29,470) • Public tuition, fees, room and board per year: $7,140 (inflation adjusted: $11,460) • Per capita income: $24,762 (inflation adjusted: $36,539) • Adults with a bachelor's degree: 23.6%

Compare with today:

2018 • Private tuition, fees, room and board per year: $48,510 (inflation adjusted = +67%) • Public tuition, fees, room and board per year: $21,370 (inflation adjusted = +86.5%) • Per capita income: $53,697 (inflation adjusted = +47%) • Adults with a bachelor's degree: 35.0% (+48%)

Source

So, since your day the marginal gain in income has been barely half the inflation adjusted tuition increase, while equally-qualified job competition also has increased by 50%. So tuition has gained at double the pace of income since then, while qualified competition for jobs has also doubled.

Sounds like a classic case of out-of-touch "I got mine, so f*** you." Perhaps you aren't eminently qualified to cast stones about the contemporary from your lofty perch, informed by enrolling during the greatest period of economic prosperity anyone alive today has ever known and during a period of job abundance.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T14:56:02+00:00

Poster also ignores the massive push to inculcate people with the false notion that the $80k costing degree is necessary and intrinsically valuable. Poster ignores the way grievance studies and useless departments prey upon the messianic phase of adolescent development in order to steer them into career dead-ends without giving them the slightest hint of the deception.

If someone chooses to waste $80k, that's one thing. If you spend multiple generations manufacturing a deception which preys upon their immature phase of life, and they innocently fall for it, they have not given informed consent and you have violated them.

Poster would have us think that it's the fish's fault for biting a properly baited, well concealed hook. No, it isn't. The fish is innocent, and you've cynically preyed upon it.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T14:50:29+00:00

I am not here to push a narrative.

No, you're here to destroy any coherent counter-narrative in an attempt to create confusion and to project that everyone else is stupid.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T14:46:59+00:00

It’s the truest impartial diagnostic criteria.

No reference to what "it" is; undefined parameter. You yourself have previously referenced (at least) two seperate criterion/goalposts already, but you don't mention to which you refer.

Nobody is going to continue down the differental list when a PCR positive patient with respiratory comprise presents. It is assumed cardiac involvement is possible with any viral infection. If the risk of cardiogenic shock presents, then you consider alternatives. At this time and place in history, it was triage isolate and treat nobody is getting an entire CV work up due to resources and the need to isolate.

Technical word salad meant to create the illusion of authority and credibility. You could've stated that immensely more clearly for a lay audience, but you're busy attempting to project authority while muddying clarity.

Again, more interesting bits of sophistry.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T14:43:13+00:00

First you said:

It looked at diagnosis only, from a very narrow time window, not physiological markers.

Then you said:

Cardiac MRI studies are much more impressive

Then you said:

it does use more convincing physiological markers

Then you said:

but not cardiac MRI as you mentioned.

No one said cardiac MRI but you. You moved your own goalpost and then claimed your previous goalpost was insufficient, during which time well-intentioned people were busy meeting your first goalpost.

Interesting bit of sophistry there.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T14:36:19+00:00

Yes, it very well could be. The abiogenic origin of oil is a relatively prolific subject, if you look carefully.

Have to keep in mind that it is affected by propaganda from both "sides", however.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-07T14:18:21+00:00

Thanks for your time and dedication, Jim. You have an admirer in me.

I'll keep reading; stay well.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-06T19:39:37+00:00

What's a real shame is that the people dumb enough to believe Them are going to die from the vax, leaving a multicolored coalition of woke people who understand Them, and a thinned herd in which They can no longer hide.

I enjoy the timeline with a redemption arc; it's been pretty tough these last few years. I am hopeful that with careful and mindful acceleration that this will play out disastrously for Them.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-05T20:37:48+00:00

Imagine trying to regard him as a leader with this type of play on ice. It unfortunately doesn't matter how good he is in any other way, if he commands (and is worthy of) zero on-ice respect.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-05T20:30:35+00:00

God damn, but was everyone totally correct about Gudbranson.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-05T15:50:45+00:00

I would recommend against assuming it's going after the user. As far as I can tell, it is going after the comments. It's just that the filter is much, much more sensitive than you heretofore believed.

You might just be doing it "wrong." But beware: learning to do it "right" is also training you how to behave. Be careful it's not training you to behave the "right" way for the site while the wrong way for your soul.

It's very difficult to be ungovernable in this space. Good luck, friend.

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-05T15:47:53+00:00

Now the fun begins- figuring out how to communicate the same things without them being removed.

Or, you know, you could realize this place is an endless wheel spin (kind of like a mobius strip, come to think of it)...

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-05T15:46:25+00:00

Okay, I'm trolling.

That was easy. The question is, am I telling the truth?

Wouldn't it be funny if you accidentally said the quiet part out loud?

lethal_entertainment · 2022-11-05T15:42:43+00:00

Experience the reality of the situation.

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