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I have a friend that's just inside the 1980 millennial designation and he's always talking about how horrible millennials are. If I'm not happy with my job I sound like a millennial. If I'm complaining about relationship issues or say I feel socially isolated I sound like a millennial.
I have a friend that's just inside the 1980 millennial designation and he's always talking about how horrible millennials are. If I'm not happy with my job I sound like a millennial. If I'm complaining about relationship issues or say I feel socially isolated I sound like a millennial.
It's easy to feel contempt for a generation who's response to a generation-defining economic collapse was as toothless and misguided as Occupy Wall Street. It's absurd to draw that equivalency, but good, bad, or indifferent, that is what society at large sees as the Millennial generation's only foray into public life.
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It's important to consider reality even if it seems unpopular. Blacks are convicted of more crimes in the US, that does not mean they commit more crimes. Just look at all the collage students not busted for drugs. We have a long history of intentionally creating systemic issues.
Racial discrimination may play a role, but it does not explain the discrepancies in crime rates that we see: https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-black-amer... I'm not saying that black people commit more crime because they're black. In fact, that's exactly the point I was trying to make: blaming black crime on their skin color is bad because it ignores the socioeconomic forces causing them to commit mor…
Not saying the stats are worthless; just biased.
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Source of stats on CSGO finals?
Seems like this was note quite true. CSGO finals had about 3m https://www.dexerto.com/news/e-league-csgo-major-breaks-view... The 2017 Superbowl as one example, had 114M. http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/06/media/super-bowl-ratings-pat...
It seems the stats for CS:GO (Concurrent viewers at least) is even lower - https://esc.watch/tournaments/csgo/eleague-major-2017
Personally, as a Millennial, I blame Boomers for everything.
Personally, as a Gen-X, I blame Boomers for everything, and especially Brexit.
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It's important to consider reality even if it seems unpopular. Blacks are convicted of more crimes in the US, that does not mean they commit more crimes. Just look at all the collage students not busted for drugs. We have a long history of intentionally creating systemic issues.
Racial discrimination may play a role, but it does not explain the discrepancies in crime rates that we see: https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-black-amer... I'm not saying that black people commit more crime because they're black. In fact, that's exactly the point I was trying to make: blaming black crime on their skin color is bad because it ignores the socioeconomic forces causing them to commit mor…
If you look annually their are ~17,000 reported murder and non-negligent manslaughter cases in the U.S. However, that excludes for example a significant subset of the ~32,000 traffic facilitates in the US that could be classified as Murder with slightly different laws. (Call it 1/4 from thin air and those murder statistics look different.) Importantly, they are generally both crimes, but while someone still ends up dead legally they are very different.
Another issue is if a factory kills thousands from pollution is that one crime, thousands of murders, or millions of assaults based on different interpretations of the law.
PS: Why are most serial killers in the US white? Is it because they actually kill more people, or because gang violence is not counted.
PPS: I am not sure why so many people are down voting you, it's reasoned argument even if I don't exactly agree.
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Racial discrimination may play a role, but it does not explain the discrepancies in crime rates that we see: https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-black-amer... I'm not saying that black people commit more crime because they're black. In fact, that's exactly the point I was trying to make: blaming black crime on their skin color is bad because it ignores the socioeconomic forces causing them to commit mor…
As long as we are discussing systemic issues I think we need to go deeper. The article lists someone being killed, yet the death is not part of the murder statistic. If you had said Blacks committed statistically more murders based on the current legal definition that's more defensible than crimes because total crime is a very different beast. We don't really keep track of the total number of crimes in any real way.…
I'm going to quantify the people whom I blame for everything as those with a net worth equal to or greater than an arbitrarily determined net worth of $10 million. If they're going to own everything, they need to take responsibility for everything--own it, in the colloquial sense, as well as the literal.
I am not suggesting that we "eat the rich", as it were. They seem to have some sort of brain-eating prion disease, and I don't want anyone else to catch it. Probably best that we just put down the ones that show symptoms, and burn the bodies.
As a class, they only number about 1.2 million. The rest of us are about 7.6 billion strong. We could take 'em. We know they don't know how to fight, because they always send young poor people to do it for them, and seem completely unfamiliar with self-sacrifice for the common good.
Why $10 million? Because that's "enough", in my opinion. You can retire on it, withdraw the "safe rate" of 3%, and live on this year's equivalent of $300k--which is 5 times the median household income--every year, forever (within a reasonable statistical confidence interval). You get too far ahead of that, and you start to lose touch with people who don't have "enough", at lower levels on the needs hierarchy. At that level, you still need to know how to play well with others, and not be a %%%%%% tyrant, in order to accomplish the great works that require large concentrations of capital. Above that, you start to grow less fearful of losing the trust of others.
If there is anything wrong with the Millennials, it's that they haven't yet applied their talent for killing off societal staples and institutions to quite the right people and practices. If you're a Millennial, think long and hard about your student loans and your healthcare coverage, and the people who made a conscious, calculated choice that you don't deserve to have nice things unless you serve, consume, and obey.
Put on the glasses. Just put on the f'ing glasses.
Well, shouldn’t things that can’t sell their stuff anymore fail? In Denmark where I’m from, municipalities have grouped together to build open source software as a response to a market which fails to deliver the products we want. The industry response has been lobbying the government and trying everything in courts because it’s viewed as “job theft”. Well, not all industry, some companies have figured out software as…
Source of stats on CSGO finals?
Beating the Olympics but likely not our national soccer team which I haven’t been able to find numbers on.
It had more than 90.000 viewers, or between 14 and 15% of the age group with 19% of the males in the age group watching.