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foldingcouch t1_j0vzwef wrote

Reply to Rly nothing to be done about Ticketmaster? by [deleted]

Because Ticketmaster (through Live Nation) has exclusive contracts with every major concert venue in North America that they and only they can sell tickets to concerts in those venues.

So if you want to do an arena show, you MUST let Ticketmaster sell your tickets.

And that means that no matter how shitty Ticketmaster service is, and no matter how much they gouge you for tickets, they're still the only game in town - it's literally impossible to compete.

Also, for things like those "platinum" tickets, the artist (or since it's KPOP, their label) gets most of that money. Part of the Ticketmaster model is that they allow artists to charge more for tickets by dressing up the increase as "Ticketmaster bullshit" so they absorb the blame and the artist's reputation doesn't take the hit.

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foldingcouch t1_j0iv584 wrote

Reply to comment by xenocles_the_lesser in [OC] Provisional weekly death counts in Canada (all ages, both sex, from 01/2010 to 08/2022) by OlibriusR

Two things:

  • Hospitals everywhere in Canada are short on staff and high on cases as COVID continues to be a thing and ...
  • The flu is particularly bad this year, with a ton of pediatric patients eating up a lot of hospital beds and resources

So we have a double-hit of COVID season and flu season hitting at a time when hospital resources are already stretched beyond capacity - people are going to die.

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foldingcouch t1_iye0cbc wrote

Reply to comment by thisispainful76 in China's Zhengzhou, home to world's largest iPhone factory, ends Covid lockdown. Other cities do the same by KingSash

Because the Republicans realised that it was a lot easier to convince people to vote against Democrats than for Republicans.

Tribalism is exactly what they want. The goal is to have their supporters reject anything that comes out of the mouths of Democrats solely on the basis that a Democrat said it.

The goal of the GOP is to turn the US into a one party state like Russia and Hungary. That's not an exaggeration, that's stone cold facts.

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foldingcouch t1_ix6hdsg wrote

Reply to TIL singer songwriter Leonard Cohen claimed to have written approximately 150 draft verses of his most famous song "Hallelujah", a claim substantiated by his notebooks containing manifold revisions and additions, and by contemporary interviews. by big_macaroons

Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan were sitting in a cafe in Paris. Dylan asks Cohen, "how long did it take you to write Hallelujah?"

"Seven years," said Cohen. "How long did it take you to write Like a Woman?"

"About fifteen minutes."

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foldingcouch t1_isx6ebg wrote

Reply to comment by Fetlocks_Glistening in TIL that in an effort to save $43.5, the Canadian Mint mailed the dies of the new $1 coin via a discount courier over using an armored car- which were promptly stolen and have never been found. This would lead to the adoption of the Loonie design as an emergency replacement. by Padgriffin

When the Hope Diamond was being transported from South Africa to England, the authorities published a detailed plan of how they were going to ensure it's security. The diamond would be kept in a locked strong-box, then carried on a combination of sea and rail, accompanied at all times by two armed guards.

Then they put the diamond in the post and mailed it.

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