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There’s more to the case than that. Sole presence in a market does not make you a de-facto monopoly.

What makes [Ticketmaster+Live Nation] a monopoly is its mass-acquisition of venues, which are rented out with contracts that stipulate that the event must sell admission through Ticketmaster. This is why performers like Taylor Swift call out Ticketmaster publicly, while still selling tickets through them. For most stadium events; if you don’t use Ticketmaster, you don’t have a place to perform.

I agree all of those are terrible, and I hope it’s clear I didn’t ever even remotely consider voting for the guy; but you realize why none of those things really matter to the average American who is struggling to get by every day, right?

Like: mocking leaders’ deaths, mocking people with disabilities, having affairs with porn stars… – those are all terrible, inhumane, and “un-professional” things for the person to do; but when you’re desperate for some change and lost faith in the other party, it makes sense that voters would be willing to ignore those. Perhaps these aspects are indicators of what the guy would do in office; but most people in this country don’t think that deep into anything.

The involvement in Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring is a powerful point because it hits just about every group with disgust. For the rest of this, I’d just focus more on Trump’s ties to Big Tech and Big Finance; because that’s the avenue that people feel the effect of. That and this country’s shitty Medical system.

This is a valid and essential role. Remember when the corporate media was spamming out all those articles on “quiet quitting”? This is exactly what they fear. If you show up to work, clock in, do nothing of value, and clock out, you’re costing your workplace money AND denying them that role.

If I could, I’d do the same. Apply to be some office grunt at Meta or Amazon, sweet talk my manager, do a bunch of meaningless work like configuring things on the PC and taking inventory of random shit, and then clock out. Gamify metrics. Plan stupid projects with the corpo chatbot. Burn money and time. It’s one of those “death by 1000 cuts” actions, and it benefits each individual person because you still get paid. Win-win.

ohhhh fuuuuck the “troubled teen industry”. This is a nightmare of a can to crack open and the more you learn about it, the more you’ll hate the medical and legal systems in this country. Reader beware.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/945530/Bohrdom/ <- This game was made by Cole Tomas Allen, if you want to support it.

Sounds like we have the same observations and feel the same frustrations about them. I look forward to being branded an agitator :')

Okay this is great that she’s free and all, but can we stop for a second and think about what happened here? A woman was grabbed off the street, beaten and brutalized (I’ve seen the arrest footage), and ripped out of her life, while being 100% peaceful and obedient.

I’m so sick of the one-sided violence, while we’re told to obey and be peaceful and whatever else.

A dozen will be an understatement. The tournament games span over a week. I think 100 is a closer figure, if FIFA doesn’t get their wish of ICE going on ‘vacation’.

I really hope fear of a terrorist attack shuts the event down. Not an actual terrorist attack—I don’t want ordinary civilians to die—but if Iran purposely “leaks” plans to bomb the stadium to the media, I hope that might wreck the World Cup attendance; or even better, get teams to pull out.

Probably 99% of the people who go to the World Cup will be fine.

Brazil has a huge Football (USA Soccer) scene and makes up a large percentage of World Cup tourism. Being dark-skinned Hispanics, they are exactly who ICE targets.

To be fair, a few teens rocked his shit. That aside, I’d copy your sentiment for every one of these murderous CEOs, politicians, and oligarchs. I’ll note that some brave souls do seem to be fighting back.

Yes. The forcing of Korean captives into Japanese soldiers’ “comfort women” is a common sore point in geopolitics between both Koreas and Japan. Japan has refused to give a real apology, and occasionally South Korea and Japan have visible clashes over the topic.

so there’s a lot of speculation that [Kick is] owned by one or multiple of the big gambling platforms and it’s operated as an advertisement for online gambling

It’s not speculation. Kick is backed by the online crypto gambling platform Stake, which you may know as the site that streamer BossmanJack loses all his money on in those viral clips.

Whether you are planning on using Windows 11 or Win10 or Linux, I would recommend doing a clean reinstall from an ISO. You can download a fresh ISO from Microsoft’s own website. This way, if there is any bloatware from your manufacturer, university, or benefits organization, it will be wiped.

I absolutely do not. I’m focused on one in-road to AI usage. My mind has been gravitating toward schools as they are run according to local government boards that people can reasonably challenge and get a seat on, and to whom the representatives are much more accountable and much easier to persuade.

It’s a lot more difficult to stop, say, a corporate middle manager from pushing AI on their employees. Though, to that point, employees can leave jobs, where students have much less agency over what the school curriculum is, and could be coerced into AI dependency by that school authority (which I have heard happening). Child and young adult brains are also far more malleable, and I fear AI dependency would have a worse, perhaps irreversible, effect.

Thank you for prompting me to clarify ^^

Perhaps they will. You will always have bad actors. My suggestions are really more focused on the messaging those kids get from schools.

I have heard that many students have gotten assignments on which one of the requirements is to use Text/Image generation, or for which they are a suggested tool. Stopping students from being encouraged to use AI is far more important (and far easier) than stopping every kid from cheating on assignments with it.

No, please don’t do any of that?!? What is it with this push to isolate children from all resources online?!? Were none of you a kid on the internet? Why are we damning the ostracized and struggling children?

Please consider the LGBTQ+ kids, neurodiverse kids, kids growing up in regressive households, child abuse survivors, lonely children, and all of the utility that computers decide. Isolating kids from “not approved” voices is a key dream of the Heritage Foundation and the other think-tanks of big tech, corporations, and Christo-fascism.

No Clue how anyone can support letting the US government of propaganda, queer erasure, burying unpleasant history;have MORE control over kids. They’re already putting PragerU propaganda in schools. Let’s not close off another source of information.

I am once again asking you to petition your local school boards to block generative AI usage by students and teachers alike. AI is being pushed on these kids at a young age, and I feel with the downward-trending attention span of Gen Alpha and Gen Z, that will form into a lifelong dependency. Plus, the loss of the licenses from the school system will be a significant dent in the AI metrics.

Here are some demands: block ChatGPT/Gemini/Copilot/DeepSeek on school networks (like porn and gaming sites are blocked); prohibit use of AI-generated images and text on assignments and teaching materials; ensure no assignments will require or recommend the use of AI output at any point.

These suggestions are based on reports I’ve heard from students. Please feel free to comment your own recommendations or information.

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A sick population is easier to control. I know our oligarchs and 95% of the Republican party are networked with the best science-following doctors around.