timmy_dean_sausage

@timmy_dean_sausage@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we improve the judicial system that monitors our politicians deals (spotting for fraud, corruption) when it is not in the interest of anybody involved?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, I’ve voted in every federal, state, and local election since I turned 18, but my state is heavily jerrymandered. What now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you? Houston isn’t the “concrete jungle” it was in the 80’s… I personally prefer it over NYC and LA. Chicago is a close second to Houston for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Department of Justice is preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Livenation was founded in the mid-late 90’s, but didn’t hold significant power in the live music industry until the mid-2000’s. Before that, a pricey ticket for a national act was anything over $25. When I started my career in live production, in 2010, many venues were still putting on local/national act shows for $5 - $20 a ticket. Since then, I’ve seen ticket prices for the same type of shows double, in non-LN venues, and triple or more in LN venues. Same thing for drink/concession prices. If you were a teen/young adult in the 90’s you likely had better access to affordable concerts than people these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mhmm, sins of the parents pass down and all that. That’s sky daddy justice right thurr.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I love circular connectors that screw onto the receptacle or have locking tabs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leftists as soon as some right winger posts some dumbshit meme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re welcome. ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you resold Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets, the IRS is watching — A new rule from the IRS is punishing those who resold tickets for more than $600 in profit with a tax penalty⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To add a bit more context to this for the unaware: LiveNation is the umbrella Corp that owns TicketMaster as well as over 70% (IIRC) of the live music industry in the U.S. They’re making a killing on tickets, alcohol sales, backend software licensing, and many different artist/event management firms. They also pay their employees the lowest wages relative to the rest of the live music industry, which was already a vastly underpaid industry before Live Nation came to power in the 2010’s. Further, the CEO’s salary increased by 1000% between 2019 and 2023 while the peasants got a meaningless raise from pre-inflation starvation wages to post-inflation starvation wages. They’re the epitome of an exploitative monopoly, at every level.

  Source: Current part time employee of LiveNation and 14 year veteran of the live music industry.

  A list of their subsidiaries: …livenationentertainment.com/…/dex211.htm?TB_ifra…