A huge pet peeve of mine is that literally the oldest and most basic genre of storytelling, the tragedy, has entirely vanished from mainstream big budget media for inscrutable and baffling reasons. The most recent original example I can think of that isn’t a remake/prequel might be Breaking Bad!

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We really did blow a once in a century dip in interest rates on various digital forms of tamagotchis and casinos, huh

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*wildly misunderstanding* so what, bros can't be bros now? I have to "disavow" the Muslim Brotherhood just because they're men?

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I remember getting into an argument on here with someone who just refused to accept that Americans, on average, were wealthier than Canadians.

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Feels like the phenomenon haunting every culture war narrative in the press is growing individual incomes and financial independence. A century ago most everyone would just have to grit their teeth and suffer their relatives/ partners as a matter of survival. This is no longer the case.

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