I agree, in the 2000's cities like New York were doing great. Michael Bloomberg was amazing. Arnold Schwarzenegger was awesome for California. Massachusetts also had republican governors during that time as well. Everything was pretty great, all around. TODAY though? CA cities are dumps, the 'punching game' is a thing in NY, and MA has the most expensive everything... Things can regress when stats stop being reported...

You never had any brothers or cousins doing double suplexes to each other after watching WWF? Your anecdotal evidence is discounted by mine. And since mine is real I think I have a case.

And WWF wrestling as well. My cousins would destroy each other playing WWF. Where'd they get THAT idea? Oh right... TV.

PS5 if only for the incredible controller.

False (I think) - Can you remember when the baby from Dinosaurs was responsible for causing a kid to wack someone in the head with a frying pan in real life? It was in the news back in the 90s... Most people can tease out fiction, but half of us have IQ's below 100 and can't.

D&D players usually role play as heroes... Rock and Roll, i don't think is as degenerate as your average rap music but I can see your point. And I DO think RAP is where this brand of degeneracy began back in the 90's.

What pushes some demographics to participate in street take overs, twerking on police cars, looting stores in cities, robbing from walmart, target, and pushing people onto subway tracks then? Just the larger urban culture? Where do people get the idea that that is fun/acceptable? It's got to come from somewhere, rap music is a big suspect, but video games like GTA make it much more 'real'. I don't think it's coming from rampant reading of books...

I bet a lot of kids idolize Franklin. He's the 'every man' protagonist as far as I can tell.

Crime stats look great when big cities don't report them.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2022%2F10%2F05...

It is a fact, undeniable, that cities are inundated with crime. Also a fact that democrat cities don't report it.

That glamorizing this sort of game is directly responsible for the recent phenomenon of crime in US cities? Street take overs, rampant looting during peaceful protests and even sports team wins(or losses), shoplifting, carjacking, etc?

I could get behind GTA3 back in the day, and even Red Dead Redemption, but I think the evidence must be SOMEWHERE that kids, sadly, glamorize this type of behavior and emulate it in their every day lives.

They needed a 20K Slate Truck (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.slate.auto%2F) and instead gave us something that costs as much as a condo. No, just no.

It doesn't have the passion either!

Look at the love poured into this Fall of Civilizations channel. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...
Where else are you going to get a passionately researched and wonderfully presented 7 hour video of the fall of the Mongol empire? This is like the best college course on the subject, for FREE!

Or where can you find a better presented 'Battle of Midway ---- FROM THE JAPANES Perspective' https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Nowhere, that's where... Or maybe the History channel had things like this, all packaged into a 40 minute show, which is nice, but we all know sometimes there really was 6 minutes of content padded out (Think of Americas Funniest Home Videos and how much time they wasted between clips...) Now we have Daily Dose of Internet, which has a whole AFV episode in like 2 minutes.

TV is dead. Passionate people with lots of creativity have realized the barrier to entry is 100 bucks and they can have a shot at big money through Youtube ads.

MAYBE we'll get VR or something that can also be the next media, but I think Youtube won all media. I use it for songs all day, videos at night.... that's it, folks.

All that said, my mom still loves dancing with the stars and watching the news... so maybe i exaggerate, but youtube is pretty great.

Seriously though... There's going to be 2 types of engineers in the not-so-distant future. Those who embraced AI and integrated it into their workflows, and those looking for a job.

I've seen people drinking raw milk before. My father in-law drank raw goat milk every day in Greece growing up. I think industrial scales could increase the odds of it being tainted, and I personally don't want it, but it's not CrAzY to think raw milk is ok in some situations... Some people eat raw beef, another thing I wouldn't do. I'm proud that he recovered from his addictions - the man had a hugely traumatic start, you know.

Maybe the news I watch is being sanitized... It's possible. Just saying that the policies I hear (even the ones I hear on NPR) don't sound too terrible to me.

By the way, your sig is pretty disrespectful. Charlie was a good man.

Fine. Keep on being a victim, I guess? Teach your children the white man is evil. Let the cycle repeat over and over. Or you can say, "You know, that was 150 years ago and a lot of white people fought and died in the civil war to end it. Maybe we can get along if we stop constantly reminding ourselves of 200 year old injustice.".

You don't see Japanese Americans still salty about being put in internment camps in the 1940's. You don't see Chinese Americans pissed off about being used to build the intercontinental rail road. You don't see Irish Americans complaining about the Irish racism in the early 1900's... But here you are, completely hell bent on keeping it going, not even admitting that in the 1990's we were making real progress. And yeah, for normal white Americans to see black doctors, police officers, engineers and think nothing of it WAS progress...