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- Comment on What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades 2 months ago:
This is an interesting perspective, thank you. I definitely learned where Live Nation was getting most of their profits from when the water fountains were hidden on the other side from the food and drink vendors, and wanted $8 for a bottle of water (or $16 for a PBR!)
I do think that part of the Ticketmaster hate is them being the bad guy for the venues or artists with the prices etc, but they can definitely be doing more. My main issue is that venues can either exclusively use Ticketmaster or not at all, and all the hidden fees. Granted, if the artist chooses “all-lin” pricing it includes the fees, but it feels manipulative that I have to mentally add 30% to the price of tickets when I’m looking.
- Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha 2 months ago:
I can invite too if people need it, shoot me a DM
- Comment on Anon checks out mobile gaming 3 months ago:
Golf peaks was great, if I ever get play pass again or want to buy a new game I’ll check the others out. Thanks!
- Comment on JetBlue makes you watch an ad to connect to wifi 3 months ago:
I flew on Porter and their “ad” was just a 30 second thing about how they’re a cool airline. That’s fine, although the real cost is that they make you have a rewards account
- Comment on The taste of 🦅🇺🇲 Freedom 🇺🇸🦅 3 months ago:
The pain that would come after eating that followed by a fantastic nap
- Comment on 25% of Housing Purchases in 2023 were Private Investors 4 months ago:
I think a better solution would be a progressive property tax that goes up the more properties you own. But since property tax is a local/state tax usually, it would be hard to implement without it just being a new federal tax. Also, she’ll companies etc
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 4 months ago:
In the US, delivery drivers are paid below minimum wage, not to mention they’re usually using their own cars, so it is expected to tip them to make up the difference. The flyer was saying that the delivery fee doesn’t directly go to drivers, if it did then the tip would actually be optional.
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 4 months ago:
The only way to order from Dominos is to use coupons, and even them I feel like I always spent more than I intend to. I remember a handful of years ago they were putting flyers on the pizza box saying that the delivery few doesn’t count as a tip. Then what’s the delivery fee for???
- Comment on Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit 5 months ago:
My company has a large presence in India and exclusively hires there now as far as I know, but I will concede that the employees from there are very good in general. They’re actual employees though, not contractors. And there are a lot of issues that arise from the language barrier, timezones, management etc
- Comment on YOU. 5 months ago:
I have the basic $3 one, I just call it my shitposting tax. Longer messages, using emotes in any server and larger files. I use it a lot since my friends haven’t warmed up to Matrix yet, might as well support them while its not total trash
- Comment on For security reasons 5 months ago:
My friend uses me@<their name>, wonder if that would work better
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 6 months ago:
When I have a concert I usually install the app, load the ticket into my mobile wallet, and delete the app
- Comment on Thanks to everyone who suggested i play Titan fall 2 1 year ago:
It’s excellent