
From grassroots gigs to stadium shows, there’s no escaping the ticketing giant, making billions from hiking up prices (and whacking on fees)

I shaved your mom last night, but not her head.
Everything means butt if you believe strongly enough.
Same 😁🥳
When you can do differential equations in your head, but you're not sure how to spell "cat"
“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case
That, or they got the names from the NLRB data that DOGE stole. Could be a combination of both.
I was going for clarity over brevity lol, I do that sometimes 😁
If you're a deranged culinary masochist, you can substitute the tablespoon of salt with a medium sized sardine or 30 pounds of coarse sand.
Step 1: Go to bakery, café, coffee shop, or grocery store
Step 2: Buy muffins
Step 3: Ignore this grabs crotch
the only thing baby metal has similar to Kpop is that it's an idol group, but their genre is not pop at all.
That's not quite true. In the beginning, the vocals were strictly Jpop while the instrumentals were metal with some more poppy passages.
Even now, though they've evolved a lot and one of them has even started to incorporate some false fold vocals, there's still some undeniable Jpop elements contrasting the metal.
I'm pretty sure that's just how you pronounce "bun" in J-Popian 🤷
And then the rock started tweeting about how Elon Musk and the Mango Mussolini are perfect and never wrong about anything.
Under Pressure is a great song, no doubt about that, but like Queen's best song, which is also the best of all songs (Bohemian Rhapsody, in case there's any doubt), this has SO many disparate elements that are individually great and shouldn't fit together but just do PERFECTLY.
Which is a big part of why I'm gonna go out on a limb and declare this even better than the immortal collaboration between some of the greatest musical geniuses the world has ever seen that is Under Pressure.
Best collab ever rule
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BABYMETAL x @ElectricCallboy - RATATATA (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
The most psychologically/philosophically heavy song I know is probably the downright comically morose Kummer by Trio
Sounds like he's got awful taste or is excellent at sarcasm 😉
Yeah, probably.
I know, right?! ❤️
Scott Specula
after pouring over missing person records and studying underwater pig carcasses and regional tides, researchers think they have their answer to the mystery of the severed foot case.
Just your average 9 to 5! 😄
Bun bun bun! Shaking!
BABYMETAL x @ElectricCallboy - RATATATA (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
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Pumpkin rule
Source: one of the funniest blogs ever, Hyperbole And A Half
From grassroots gigs to stadium shows, there’s no escaping the ticketing giant, making billions from hiking up prices (and whacking on fees)
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/37274125
You may know the drill. You get online at 10am, several months before the show, and receive a place in the virtual queue. Perhaps you notice with dismay that your number is larger than the capacity of the venue. Perhaps you then lose your place because you’ve been misidentified as a bot, or the site crashes altogether. If you make it to the front, you may well wonder why £100 (plus about £20 in opaque surcharges) now qualifies as a cheap seat. And that’s if there are any cheap seats left, not just inflated VIP packages. And you may ask yourself why it has to be like this.
When you don’t get what you want, you tend to look for someone to blame. That someone is usually Ticketmaster. The company, which merged with concert promoters Live Nation in 2010 to form Live Nation Entertainment, sells about 70% of all concert tickets worldwide, and an even greater proportion of the arena and stadium market. In 2024, Live Nation genera
The sheer scale of oblivious stupidity is fucking breathtaking with these fascist morons! 🤦
“This is the new model, where you work in these plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29037456
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UN Officially Accuses Israel of Genocide in Gaza
All my investigations are free to read, thanks to the generosity of my readers.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29307388
On March 22nd, this journalist detailed the findings of a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on “Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023.” That investigation focused primarily on the hideous, industrial scale rape and sexual abuse of male and female Palestinian detainees in Zionist Occupation Force prisons, a phenomenon so pervasive it can only be dedicated, determined policy, signed off upon and directed by the highest levels of the Israeli government.
Reinforcing that horrifying conclusion, buried within the Commission’s report are bombshell passages unequivocally charging the Zionist entity with deliberately committing “genocidal acts” in Gaza, con
UN Officially Accuses Israel of Genocide in Gaza
All my investigations are free to read, thanks to the generosity of my readers.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29307388
On March 22nd, this journalist detailed the findings of a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on “Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023.” That investigation focused primarily on the hideous, industrial scale rape and sexual abuse of male and female Palestinian detainees in Zionist Occupation Force prisons, a phenomenon so pervasive it can only be dedicated, determined policy, signed off upon and directed by the highest levels of the Israeli government.
Reinforcing that horrifying conclusion, buried within the Commission’s report are bombshell passages unequivocally charging the Zionist entity with deliberately committing “genocidal acts” in Gaza, con
A forthcoming ruling could allow federal agencies to skip climate analysis when approving major projects — with wide-reaching consequences.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29208277
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4713217
A forthcoming Supreme Court decision is poised to weaken a bedrock law that requires federal agencies to study the potential environmental impacts of major projects.
The case, Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, concerns a proposed 88-mile railroad that would link an oil-producing region of Utah to tracks that reach refineries in the Gulf Coast. Environmental groups and a Colorado county argued that the federal Surface Transportation Board failed to adequately consider climate, pollution, and other effects as required under the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, in approving the project. In 2023, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the challengers. The groups behind the railway project, including several Utah counties, appealed the case to the highest court, which is expected to hand down a deci
Prison Guards Burn Another Pile Of Used Underwear Sent To Luigi Mangione
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21330498
Walther the grass enjoyer
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TIL that "cock" has been used as slang for penis for several hundred years
Next pope suggestion rule
Pictured: future pope Zendaya
Speculation of Tesla CEO’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28539608
Speculation of Tesla CEO’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane
Elon Musk is reportedly set to leave his government role because he’s tired of the what he sees as a litany of vicious and unethical attacks from the left, according to a report from The Washington Post.
It remains unclear when Musk will depart as head of DOGE; his special government employee status will expire at the end of next month. A person familiar with his thinking told The Post that Musk thinks that his work at DOGE won’t be diminished because of his departure, noting that staffers have already established themselves across a slew of federal agencies.
But speculation of Musk’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane. The New York Times reported last week that the acting commissioner of the IRS was being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complai
Pope sends deputy to lecture Vance on compassion at Vatican
Vance had an “an exchange of opinions” with Cardinal Pietro Parolin that touched on migration, the Vatican said.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28461506
Summary
Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with J.D. Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement.
The statement said there was “an exchange of opinions on the international situation… with particular attention to migrants, refugees, and prisoners.”
Pope Francis has repeatedly rebuked the president’s mass deportation effort, calling it a “disgrace” and a “grave sin.”
The Pope corrected a Catholic concept Vance had invoked to defend the administration’s deportations, ordo amoris (order of love). In a February letter, Francis pointedly explained, “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups.”
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say - CBS News
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28461146
Making Salmonella Great Again