They really should have ref cams in the NHL. It makes them so much more sympathetic. They’re not always right but how could you be when you’re basically trying to manage the world’s most violent kindergarten class
@nateb2399@JonathanWillis@KevinMcCurdy Kulak is the first defence man in NHL history to start 0-17 and score a game winning OT playoff goal in the same year.
People forget that Mikko's best years were when he was in Colorado and would slowly lumber up to the net with one of his skates untied and then open up his phone and browse instagram while Nathan MacKinnon would grab the puck and skate a million miles an hour around every defender and then bank the puck off of Mikko's left buttcheek into the net and Mikko would get credit for the goal despite the fact that he forgot there was a hockey game going on and now there's no Nathan MacKinnon to do that for him so he's worthless.
🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.
The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.
Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.
If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.
The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.
They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.
The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.
The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.
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When I told my wife about this game she asked something I haven’t heard at all in the discourse: how would you tell our kids (ours are under 7) to vote?
🚨HAPPENING NOW: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC"). Our indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.
Such a funny picture of playoff hockey. Player gets penalized. Player is pissed, screaming “IT’S THE EFFING PLAYOFFS” at the ref. Coach is pissed. Fans are pissed.
Replay shows the most obvious, violent penalty possible, with multiple uncalled follow-up cross-checks.
LES SABRES DE BUFFALO : UNE TRADITION UNIQUE DANS LA LNH ET LE SPORT PROFESSIONNEL AMÉRICAIN
Les Sabres de Buffalo occupent une place unique dans la Ligue nationale de hockey (LNH) et même dans le sport professionnel américain en général à cet égard.
Alors que la règle standard de la LNH veut que l'on chante l'hymne national du pays de chaque équipe présente sur la glace, les Sabres sont en effet la seule équipe américaine à faire chanter le Ô Canada avant tous leurs matchs à domicile, peu importe si l'adversaire est américain seulement ou non.
Plusieurs raisons expliquent ce lien privilégié avec le Canada :
•La proximité géographique : Le KeyBank Center de Buffalo est situé à moins de 10 minutes de la frontière canadienne.
•La base de partisans : Une partie importante des abonnés de saison et des spectateurs des Sabres provient du sud de l'Ontario (notamment de la région de Niagara et même de Toronto). Chanter l'hymne est un signe de respect et de bienvenue pour ces partisans qui traversent la frontière.
•L'influence canadienne : Le nom même de l'équipe utilise l'orthographe canadienne (Sabre au lieu de l'américain Saber).
Les propriétaires fondateurs des Sabres, Seymour Knox III et Northrup Knox, ont choisi cette orthographe délibérément pour rendre hommage à leur importante base de partisans canadiens.
De plus, l'histoire de la franchise est profondément marquée par des légendes québécoises, notamment la célèbre French Connection (Gilbert Perreault, Rick Martin et René Robert).
Pour de nombreux amateurs de hockey, Buffalo est affectueusement considérée comme « l’autre équipe canadienne » de la ligue.