The Pile: A Piling List

Dayton just touched on what I was going to say - perhaps living in poverty you are often surrounded by people with poor impulse control and lack of positive role models and other factors that cause the crime/poverty cycle to repeat.

While I’m sure that may happen, the number of incidents would be statistically insignificant (laughably so) compared to car thefts that are motivated by money. Statistically insignificant even compared to vehicle theft for the purpose of joyriding.

Give it up. You're grasping at straws.

That's right. The correlation between crime and poverty does not necessarily mean that one causes the other. There could be an underlying cause (or causes) for both.

Frankie Shaw, showrunner for the series SMILF has her show canceled over accusations of sexual harassment. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...s-a8815186.html?amp&__twitter_impression=true

This is true. At this point, the whole argument rests on how likely anyone thinks that a person who desperately needs money, and commits a crime to get money, might have been motivated by the former to do the latter. In the same sense, people who take the bus, and who desperately need to get to the place to which the bus is headed, might have just taken that bus by coincidence. Not once, but two thousand four hundred and fifty-one times, for each population slice of 100,000.

We will never be able to tell.

R Kelly gets someone to bail him out again.

Lest we forget, Stephen Collins belongs on the pile.

And Jeffrey Jones.

And Pee Wee Herman.

So is this one of your "I'm not saying all Asians are perverts, but..." riffs?

Forgetting that the vast majority of poor people don't steal, so it would seem poverty only has that effect in a very small number of individuals.

not at all. I've never even implied asians are perverts. I just thought a George Tekei meme would be funny in this case. Are you catching a case of the "tereruns" but with asians instead of blacks?

What's the ratio of crimes committed by poor people to wealthy people? And one would need to account for folks who commit a crime, but are able to get the case thrown out on a technicality. (Like OJ, for example.)

Depends on the crime, I suppose.

But if wealthier people commit fewer crimes, does that mean poverty causes crime or that wealthier people have more to lose in committing it?

Good question. Ever read Predictably Irrational or Freakonomics? In one of them, they talk about how a researcher discovered that wealthier people were more inclined to petty theft than poor or middle class folks in certain situations.

That's a completely different question. What does it have to do with the argument?

Unfortunately, the statute of limitations ran out on his cases, so that fucker will never get the justice he deserves

It makes this scene so much more creepy in retrospect:

That scene is, and was, creepy even without Stephen Collins being a pervert.

Too old for him.

Tucker Carlson.

There's a lot of assumptions about crime and poverty, the main one being that the link is a direct correlation. That's actually quite a way from the truth, often the poorest communities are those with the least crime. Often the key factor isn't any absolute measure of status per se but the visible disparities between members of the community.

Not to mention commercial television with its promises of fame and riches (Publishers Clearing House for one needs to have a stake driven through its heart)...not to mention all that yummy fast food.

Fox will air the new season of Cosmos and Nat Geo will air the 13 remaining episodes of Star Talk, but isn't saying anything beyond that. This tells me that they didn't find anything like a smoking gun in their investigation, but they also didn't find anything to exonerate Tyson. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...e-tyson-cleared-nat-geo-investigation-1195140

So he has sort of a quantum presence on the pile where he might be there a certain percentage of time.

Yeah.

So it sounds like they want to finish up the seasons and than "move on" to other things without Tyson.

Some guy who was on That's So Raven is being sued for sending dick pics to a 14 year old. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainme...gedly-sending-lewd-photos-videos-to-minor.amp

wow. If this illicit relationship would have progressed further the show would be called That's So Rapin'