Live nation entertainment is the company formed after Ticketmaster merged with live nation. Concert promotion and ticket sales. So they have a long rap sheet of alleged but obvious price fixing and anti competitive lawsuits and allegations.

As for not knowing who kanye west is… Let’s just say he is a mentally unstable black hiphop artist and self confessed nazi, as per his last unmedicated manic episode and subsequent album. And media interviews. And vocal trump support. Its a roller coaster of a ride. Also he married Kim Kardashian and that’s not even the top ten of questionable decisions he’s made in the past decade.

Yeah. That’s unfortunate. An absolute travesty. But we’ve found a way to fix what we have fucked up. And that’s good. Don’t minimalize it.

We’ve broken the system. That sucks. But we’ve found a way to fix it for now. Not as good, but we are trying to do something.

Give some credit to the folks that are trying to fix our fuck ups. God damn it some people have realized what a mess we’ve made and are trying to do something to fix it. Small wins may just save our asses if we let them stack up enough.

Especially if your niche hobby is birdwatching!

If I paid a thousand bucks for a flagship phone, I should be able to install whatever the fuck I want. Full stop.

If I paid twenty bucks for a secondhand basic bitch ass phone I should be able to install whatever the fuck I want. Double full stop.

What’s your argument? I can’t do whatever I want with my device? Fuck off.

Yeah we can do that. What do you think side loading means? Changing the name of an install doesn’t make it different. Back in my day we called it installing a program. Things changed. Then we called it downloading an app. Things changed. Now if it’s not approved it’s called side loading? Blow it out your ass.

Its a program. Take the training wheels off of the Internet. I grew up when this was a cautionary tale. But up and deal with the consequences or get out.

For small an medium sized businesses, especially in agriculture, it has a real utility. Hedging commodities I need to buy to feed my animals has made the difference between break even and deep in the whole some years.

Yes there is market manipulation for some of these buyers, but I would say for the vast majority it is an asset in a very tight margin game. But I’m here producing a product and feeding into the whole economy, not just extracting resources and capital as some useless day trader.

I buy mine third party refurbished off of Newegg.

That good enough?

As a farmer who warned my friends and neighbors about this fact during and after the election, the déjà vu of all of this is absolutely not worth the wait. We’ve literally been here before. And it was bad bad.

I’ve never wanted to say “I fucking told you so”

I still don’t.

But here we are. And they still somehow have no idea. Its fucking wild.

The worst part is knowing and being powerless despite it all. The most frustrating ones are the people that see the signs and are preparing. Hell they will probably survive it too. Lick their wounds and trudge on again. But they never once hit the point where they realize their actions are the reason this is happening.

I’m hitting the point where I don’t dread the collapse anymore. In the most nhiallistic of senses, Im starting welcome it. And I’m so damn disappointed that it’s gotten to this point.

As someone who uses H2A labor and has for years. Let me just say that the damage this administration has done to the legal migrant worker channels is absolutely insane. Ignoring the illegal immigrant abuses happening, methods to bring in legal workers were clogged, inefficient, and burdensome before these fucksticks were in charge. Now it’s broken so badly that I have multiple persons in multiple countries that have every bit of paperwork approved, but the gov still will not put that final signature on their visa. For three god damn months! I had to send three of my employees back to their countries of origin because the gov broke the seasonal rollover program. I have two more that couldn’t get their passports stamped at the border to prove they left on time, and therefore cannot prove they abided by the rules of their visa. And another two who’s spouse visas are not being processed because that’s not something that’s essentially automatic anymore for some fucking reason.

I’ve busted my ass to take care of my people and this fucking administration finds new and creative ways to break down an already shitty system. Its fucking disgusting. I have valid visa holders scared to go to the god damn grocery store because ice does not give a flying fuck anymore. Ghhaaaa!

Not a lot of fans of The Smiths over here apparently.

Meat is Murder was an album they put out in 1985. Its not my favorite album by morriesy but it’s not bad.

It’s wild. I complained to a friend the other day. I said “This winter has been weird. Maybe that whole thing about global warming was right”

The dude was incredulous.

“I don’t know about that” he said. And then dropped an entire ten minutes of absolute nonsense defending why climate change is fake.

Like, mother fucker this has been established for decades at this point and you have seen what’s been happening! To say it’s widely accepted is an absolute understatement!

The blind eye folks are are willing to turn is insane at this point. My comment was just a lead in to gauge what the current response is.

I think we are absolutely fucked.

I think it’s the overall consensus that no normal person wants the data centers in the first place, and we want any justification possible to stop them. It’s not the actua reality that’s the issue. Cool water goes through pipes. Warmer water goes out back into the river. Sure. There’s a whole list of potential issues depending on the execution, but they can be properly and legally mitigated. It’s public sentiment that is the real issue. And I agree with that sentiment.

I still have some trump ones in a drawer somewhere. Pissed off half the damn town last time I broke them out. Though they never knew who did it!

Not Chuck Finley!

My point stands. 10% loss against a woman. 9% against a black man. Let’s take those 2018 numbers and not shoot ourselves in our own foot by doubling down. The electorate already spoke. If Beto had the closest numbers despite his shittery, let’s get a more viable candidate without the sexist and racist baggage. I apologize, but it seems obvious to me.

Once again. This is Texas. I am perpetually disappointed by my state. But the numbers don’t lie when it comes to a general election.

The GOP actually supported Crockett as a winnable opponent.

I’ve already voted for Beto multiple times. On the political scale the man was luke warm and because of ego and funding, we got jack shit. Give me the most milquetoast dem candidate possible so I can actually have a chance here. Beto fucked up one interview. Just one. And we are still recovering. I’ll take the most basic ass bitch dem over “revolutionary” any day of the week in regards to Texas politics. Because the boring one may actually have a chance. This is not a paradigm changing situation. Hell I’d take newsom over here in Texas. And I fucking hate that guy.

Picking candidates in a primary is not about electability. It’s about party representation. And it takes more than that to win an election, especially in Texas. This isn’t a swing state where we get that sort of luxury. This is a fight where it’s a 60/40 split in an average year. Cross over votes and mobilizing the independent demographic is our only chance.

If Crockett gets the nomination, I have low expectations of a dem victory. I see better odds where we can pick up the disgruntled Christian old school Republican vote. And talerico can do that. Crockett cannot.

Talerico is more electable by the simple fact that he is white and a male. He is inherently a bigger threat to the GOP in Texas.

This is fucking Texas. You don’t want a firebrand because they will never get elected. This seat hasn’t been held by a dem since LBJ for Christs sake.

You want the boring Christian white boy. And then you can build off of that.

Don’t get me wrong. I like Crockett. But in a general election against a GOP party that has held this state in a stranglehold for the last thirty years, I’m voting on electability. Those independent voters are worth a hell of a lot more here.

Aw come on. You can put more effort into a rebuttlal than that. I used all those fancy words to explain my opinion. Don’t just cop out and fold like that. It’s lazy and trollish behavior.