Sometime later (and deeper): “hmm… seems very uneven… going to have to use a self leveling magma…”

Indeed. Which makes it an even bigger problem that there are hardly enough moderate politicians saying “here’s what we hear you saying about migration and he’s what we will actually do to rectify that”

I didn’t mention the censorship because he is wrong about that

I also don’t agree with his quote about “no need for barriers”. I wasn’t aware he had said that.

He is referring to the poor handling of migration in Europe, which is true. And the general ignoring of popular outrage at how migration is managed.

That he is a fascist dickhead is indicative of the problem. Many many people who are not racist think migration is handled terribly in Europe and the problem is moderate politicians are hopelessly slow to engage with this and as a result the only people talking about it are fascist nutbags…

mishandling migration, and ignoring populist concerns.

I think Vance is a tool, but can someone explain how these two points aren’t objectively true?

hahahahahaha nope.

Rotating barcode is the key here. Ties the purchase to a ticketmaster account and requires a phone be presented at the gate. All perfectly doable, if they were so inclined.

Just because some unnoticed game implemented some fairly easy to conceive game mechanic doesn’t make that game influential. It just makes it first. To be influential you have to show that later game developers had played it and been inspired to build on it.

And I can confidently state that without 005, there would be no Metal Gear.

Ah c’mon

I mean, Ticketmaster are greedy bastards, that’s why they do what they do. But I think a part of a the veneer of respectability they present is based on the truth that you’ll never really be able to stop scalpers, so Ticketmaster might as well be the legal scalper of choice. There will always be a blackmarket for popular tickets (so the reasoning goes). Since reselling isn’t illegal then it’s hard to force eBay and gumtree to disallow it. And there’s nothing to stop touts in person. So Ticketmaster says “fine, we’ll host the reselling at whatever the bidding goes up to”. They get to make some more money on it and disallowing isn’t going to much improve things for the average concert goer…

I think probably one actual solution is to sell tickets linked to your mobile device (somehow). That’s probably still vulnerable to being hacked / faked so maybe that’s why they haven’t done it (aside from them losing out on that resale margin, obvs).

How could it actually work though? Without checking ID at the gate you have no idea if the ticketholder is the original or has bought from a scalper?

Oh I see, you mean ban legit reselling?.. could do. no chance of stopping unofficial reselling though (gumtree whatever). It’s a terms of service thing not a legal thing. So gumtree, eBay etc are not obliged to take down such things. And of course they would never stop touts doing it in person on approaches to a venue…

Without ID on the ticket you don’t know it’s been resold. All a venue sees is someone presenting a valid QR code (or whatever)

make tickets non transferable

This sounds sensible, but in practice ID checking however many tens of thousands of people on their way into a venue would take forever. (Not to mention now having to deal with the portion of genuine customers who’ve forgotten to bring Id etc)

Reads like someone took an English Lit major, switched to Philosophy, failed both, and is currently at a STEM major college party talking wank…

https://youtu.be/LWhxU7XvSZs

Believe it or not… Inflation

and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a denarius, and six pounds of barley for a denarius…” - Rev 6:5

checks to see which chapter of Revelation we’re in

or “How to Lose a Country in Ten Days”

Way more public maneuvering to go before that I think…

Didn’t have “NATO deployed against America” on my bingo card. Plenty of other batshittery, but not that one.

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