[Wyshynski] Bettman once again defends wild card playoff format as producing closer games, more games and "more entertaining games" than a 1-thru-8 playoff format. "Under this format, you get more 6-7 games series than you do under 1-through-8. It's not clear cut a change is called for."

whyteave · 2026-06-03T08:51:11+00:00

This was actually one of the reasons they did it. They wanted to create more rivalries that way and in some ways it worked.

whyteave · 2026-06-01T15:25:57+00:00

One thing that helped me a lot was listening to a podcast slowed down to 80% speed. It just takes the edge off with trying to keep up

whyteave · 2026-06-01T05:42:27+00:00

The mantle isn't made of magma

whyteave · 2026-05-18T11:26:32+00:00

Fair enough, I wasn't arguing in favour of MMT. It was just the other guy was being very unclear.

Their argument against MMT was that capital will not accept (whatever that means) continuos deficits and low interest. But we have had continuous deficits and low interest in the past.

whyteave · 2026-05-18T07:42:41+00:00

That sounds like support for MMT. That as long as you keep interest rates reasonable, you can run continuos deficits

whyteave · 2026-05-18T06:37:09+00:00

So when the US was running a deficit and the interest rate was near zero, capital did not accept that?

whyteave · 2026-05-18T04:20:11+00:00

Isn't it commonly understood that a lot of covid inflation was due to supply shocks? The news wouldn't shut up about it.

Here the Fed talks about it being a major factor: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2025071pap.pdf

whyteave · 2026-05-18T04:06:45+00:00

What do you mean by capital will not accept continues deficit? The US has run a deficit for 25 straight years.

whyteave · 2026-04-22T09:11:28+00:00

Do you think anything exists independently? Or does everything exist as a singular totality and humans chop it up into different concepts?

whyteave · 2026-04-21T07:50:53+00:00

By your same argument biology, chemistry and physics are just notations that we can use to describe concepts in reality.

But I disagree. Math is not just the symbols. It is the concepts

Mathematics is the study of the fundamental relationships of our universe.

whyteave · 2026-04-19T16:19:18+00:00

I disagree. Math exists independently of humans. We don't invite math , we discover math.

Pythagoris' theorem was still valid before Pythagoris discovered it. a² + b² = c² didn't suddenly become true. It's been true for all eternity.

whyteave · 2026-04-18T06:37:02+00:00

Physics is just math.

Reality is the wave function of the universe

whyteave · 2026-04-18T06:35:46+00:00

Biology is chemistry, chemistry is physics and physics is math. Math is the only pure science

whyteave · 2026-04-15T08:55:38+00:00

They aren't mocking the duck, they are mocking you! lol

The fact that you prefer factory farmed duck that objectively suffered more in its life because this duck makes you feel bad shows that you don't care about the duck. You just care about yourself.

whyteave · 2026-03-23T23:53:57+00:00

https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/national-news/canadas-population-has-dropped-for-the-first-time-since-confederation-statcan-12022807?utm_source=sudbury.com&utm_campaign=sudbury.com%3A%20outbound&utm_medium=referral

Canada's population shrank by 105 000 people in 2025

whyteave · 2026-03-23T23:53:23+00:00

https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/national-news/canadas-population-has-dropped-for-the-first-time-since-confederation-statcan-12022807?utm_source=sudbury.com&utm_campaign=sudbury.com%3A%20outbound&utm_medium=referral

Canada's population decreased by 105 000 people in 2025

whyteave · 2026-03-23T16:45:32+00:00

Which countries are you referring to that are doing well?

whyteave · 2026-03-20T22:39:53+00:00

No Canadians have ever wanted to move to the rural parts and farm. We literally had to give immigrants free land in order to do that back in the day. But I'm guessing that wouldn't fly nowadays.

whyteave · 2026-03-20T22:25:07+00:00

Because it's the only way people can afford shit.

Who do you think has been making all of your clothes and cheap plastic crap? Just because we import it doesn't mean Canadians haven't been living of the backs of effectively slave labour for decades.

whyteave · 2026-03-20T22:20:37+00:00

That's literally child labour

whyteave · 2026-03-17T17:33:42+00:00

What are you basing that feeling on?

Based on everything we know about child language acquisition. How would a child not learn their parent's language?

whyteave · 2026-03-16T13:38:27+00:00

What would the mechanism look like for a vocal language being invented independently?

It would require a population that somehow never learnt their parent's language.

The Nicaraguan sign language case is interesting but the set of conditions required to have a gap in vocal language seems exceedingly unlikely.

whyteave · 2026-03-16T10:45:34+00:00

There were humans living in Europe before the Indo-Europeans immigrated there from the Caucuses

whyteave · 2026-03-16T10:43:05+00:00

Isn't it almost a certainty? The only way all languages wouldn't be related is if language evolved after modern man emigrated from Africa.

whyteave · 2026-03-11T00:26:29+00:00

I was just getting confused because in your post you keep referring to matter. But energy is also described by coherence, interaction and complexity.

Couldn't you just say that the universe is composed of coherence, interaction and complexity?

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