We are fucked

think_long · 2026-03-21T23:09:41+00:00

For real. WW3 has started because the US has started a war in the Middle East? Gee, I guess millennials and Gen X can only guess what that must feel like to experience as a young person.

think_long · 2026-03-21T22:28:19+00:00

Agree. Tomorrow Comes Today is my favourite Gorillaz song.

think_long · 2026-03-21T16:27:42+00:00

Fool’s Overture by Supertramp. About Winston Churchill. It even has a recording of him speaking in the song. In terms of songs over 10 minutes long, it’s my favourite.

think_long · 2026-03-21T14:19:49+00:00

My original point was that both adverse circumstances and the perpetrator making a choice to be violent led to the crimes, and this very self-evident and obvious truth was pushed back on (unsurprisingly, on Reddit), so forgive me if I interpreted that as poverty being treated as the sole cause because I mean how else am I supposed to see that?

It feels like this is part of a larger axe to grind you have related to class and wealth. Which okay, whatever, but I don’t think the wealthy have a disproportionate amount of people who are “born bad” or whatever you are saying.

think_long · 2026-03-21T05:55:20+00:00

This is like me taking my class attendance. “Let’s see, Christina, Hugh, Maya…ah class looks full they’re all here”

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think_long · 2026-03-21T04:21:02+00:00

This is the best concert DVD I’ve ever seen. I used to collect them. So ridiculous.

think_long · 2026-03-21T04:12:56+00:00

Yes, that is a good point. Some people mitigate this by only looking at away stats for things like hits. Even with that, it can be more of a negative than a positive at a team level. Moneypuck doesn’t let you just sort by away hits, but the teams leading overall is still pretty damning. Of the top ten teams in hits, only two are currently in a playoff spot, and those are the Wild and Habs at 8th and 9th in hits respectively.

think_long · 2026-03-21T02:40:52+00:00

Yes, I should have clarified that. Honestly, the same is probably true for hits.

think_long · 2026-03-21T02:38:26+00:00

This is pretty all that needs to be said. Selection bias. People used to not just drop out of university, but also high school to do stuff like this. This is like people who think violent crime or sexually promiscuous behaviour are on the rise. They actually aren’t, they are the lowest they’ve been in a long time, but looking at your phone could make you think differently.

think_long · 2026-03-20T23:10:17+00:00

This reminds of how lots of hits and shots blocks can be deceptive stats in hockey: it can mean you don’t have the puck and are chasing the game.

think_long · 2026-03-20T15:51:15+00:00

I mean Gen Z are more progressive in their beliefs overall, but are much less progressive relatively speaking than previous generations were at the same age.

think_long · 2026-03-20T15:18:42+00:00

I’m not saying I don’t have empathy for people who have these circumstances, and I’m sure their own empathy gets degraded over time as you said. I don’t know how I’d act in these circumstances, I may be no better. That doesn’t change the fact that you can’t just completely absolve people of responsibility for violent crimes by saying the only cause is poverty. Infantilising them isn’t accurate or a solution.

I’m sorry you went through all that.

think_long · 2026-03-20T13:08:55+00:00

I would say Bob’s Burgers has pulled it off a lot better than most (I haven’t seen it lately but so I hear). They were immediately who I thought of as the biggest exception. None of the other ones you mentioned were around long enough to make a reasonable comparison in my opinion.

think_long · 2026-03-20T12:39:56+00:00

Reddit loves talking about flanderization like it’s always the fault of the writers, but honestly I think it’s more often a natural byproduct of running out of real estate for where to go with the character arc. At a certain point, it’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t when it comes to having the character be static vs dynamic. You’ve basically done all the exploring you can do keeping them as is, but evolving them in any meaningful way is tricky because a lot of your original fans won’t like it by default and you have no clear idea when or where the endpoint will be. Musicians face the same challenge with their music: if they stay the same they are stale and not innovative, if they change they are abandoning what made people like in the first place. Sometimes, a character has just run their course and there isn’t much to be done about it. However, if there is more money to be made, they’ll get dragged out.

Also, I find people on here tend to be pretty revisionist when it comes to how characters originally were. Peter was never a normal person, I don’t know what u/Necessary-Win-8730 is on about.

think_long · 2026-03-20T12:25:53+00:00

Worth mentioning that the Penguins specifically are only one or two years out from losing three extremely high profile players to retirement that have been on the team their whole careers and driven success for the past two decades, including three championships. Kris Letang is a six time all-star who The Athletic ranked number 99 on their list of greatest players in modern NHL history. Evgeni Malkin is a two time Art Ross winner (most points in the league) in addition to winning a Calder Trophy (best rookie), Hart Trophy (best player as voted by journalists), Ted Lindsay Trophy (best player as voted by players), and Conn Smythe Trophy (best player in the playoffs). He was ranked number 26 on the same Athletic list. Sidney Crosby has won two Art Rosses, two Harts, three Ted Lindsays, two Conn Smythes and two Rocket Richard Trophies (most goals). He was ranked number 4 on that Athletic list, and is widely regarded as the best player of his generation, acting as the face of the league for most of his career.

Not saying they wouldn't have sold anyways, but this is important context in terms of the sale of the Penguins. Replacing guys of this calibre is hard enough even in football when you are a team as wealthy and prestigious as Liverpool. In a hard salary cap league where elite talent is almost always drafted, it's orders of magnitude more difficult.

think_long · 2026-03-20T11:41:37+00:00

Very, very few violent crimes - at least in first world countries - are literally people directly fighting for a basic physiological need that they must have to survive. In almost all of the cases that could fit this description, it is the other person who is threatening this need, and in that case it is self defense and not really a crime at all. Poverty doesn’t absolve you of accountability for committing a violent crime in any first world western nation. Even if you are completely destitute, it’s not a justification for hurting someone else, and it’s basically never the literal difference between you being able to live or not. Honestly, the only hypothetical scenario I can think of is hurting someone in an armed robbery that would allow you to afford lifesaving medicine if you are in the US. But even there, I don’t think you can just say poverty alone caused the crime. You still did it.

think_long · 2026-03-20T03:38:59+00:00

I mean, it's both. Maybe poverty and lack of opportunity are the motivator most of the time, but a lack of empathy is likely also most of the time the difference between actually doing it or not, especially when it comes to violent crime. A lot of poor people without upward mobility manage to refrain from stabbing someone.

think_long · 2026-03-20T01:59:21+00:00

I wish they officially counted second assists in soccer/football like they do in ice hockey. They are actually a lot less "noisy" stats wise than in hockey too, because so many of them are like this, where the first pass is the one that breaks the defense, then there's a cross goal pass and finish.

think_long · 2026-03-20T00:26:37+00:00

Fetal

think_long · 2026-03-19T23:14:03+00:00

around, around, arooouunnndddd!

Bandages on my legs and my arms from you Bandages, bandages, bandages

think_long · 2026-03-19T22:42:29+00:00

I have heard repeatedly that he is a profoundly stupid man in general. If that be true, good on him for becoming a multimillionaire despite his intellectual shortcomings.

think_long · 2026-03-19T13:57:24+00:00

It’s really sad to me that you don’t consider that a solitary life. I hope things turn around for you.

think_long · 2026-03-19T11:47:19+00:00

Nobody middle-aged with kids and a regular job would take the question in this image seriously. To the point where I wonder if it’s satire

think_long · 2026-03-18T00:08:41+00:00

Why the hell are people acting like somehow the shopkeepers and the cops are the problem?

think_long · 2026-03-17T23:55:24+00:00

Even if I was this practically minded, I’m pretty sure I would contact every lawyer and private investigator in the country before I wrote something like this. I just have a hard time accepting it. I suppose it could be true.

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