I feel like the problem has gotten so ridiculously out of hand that hopefully other artists jump on board. It just takes one or two artists to jump on board for everyone else to pile on.

Also maybe now with the internet, large groups of angry fans can have a bigger impact. Swifties will do anything for their girl lol

That is a part of it but a very small one compared to other aspects. For the most part is it because languages mix a bit when moving.

The people occupying america before the british got there spoke different languages, and a lot of the people that moved there during the colonies and helped shape the region also spoke other languages. The people growing up in these areas heard different pronunciations and for whatever reason some stuck and some didn't. Rich and poor people do sound different, but that is just part of the local differences, and it is mostly because of the people who surround you rather than anything else.

Australian accent is very rooted in the older british accent because they were a colony, but they also had some mixing and ended up with some different consonants. American accent also rooted in british but also affected by french phonemes and in some areas even phonemes from italian and spanish.

You can also notice scottish and Irish accents have very noticeable phonetics because the original people of those regions spoke languages that used very different phonemes than the rest of western europe, their accents are remnants of their origins.

Regional accents within countries also exist, and are usually traceable to immigration or foreign cultural bubbles. Think new york accent being influenced by italians, or how we use different language words for live animals and their meat.

PJ also ran the flux variable pricing scheme (an optional selection) on their last tour via TM...

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Given the history, why y’all gotta store that shit there? Lol come on, man!

For the most part the other comments are correct, however in most of these systems the lock has the ability to store the valid keycards and their expected expiry date. This is in case the server or the network go down, the lock will still work.

When a change is made, like a card is lost and replaced, the 'server' will send the lock the new information. So in a way OP is correct in that the locks aren't constantly talking to 'the front desk.'

BTW many office buildings, warehouses etc use the same systems. They just have much longer expiry dates for pemanent employees.

The Parthenon is an interesting one. It was mostly intact until 1687. The Ottoman Empire controlled the city and was using it to store gunpowder. The city came under attack by the invading Venetian army, and the Turkish garrison withdrew to the Acropolis, at which point the structure was struck by mortar fire causing a massive explosion that killed 300 and destroyed the Parthenon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_the_Acropolis_(1687)

That all makes sense. It is quite the stinker that places like Parthenon will never again have its beauty as depicted in so many stories and drawings.

The settlement of a civil case typically includes a provision that neither party admits liability. Have you ever been involved in a significant lawsuit over a large sum of money? You can easily spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a lawyer, or a team of lawyers and sometimes more. You can easily spend hundreds of hours a year with these lawyers or on your case. You may have to turn over personal documents such as health and financial records to the other side. Plus there is significant worry and stress. If you are a rich celebrity and can write a check and make it go away, many will do that, even if they aren’t liable.

capitalism

There some examples of accidents, but also thousands of festivals without any. Not to mention that similarly there's plenty of accidents in closed venues. Call me crazy but It's almost as if there was a general rule: large gathering of people, electricity, equipment, temporary structures equal heightened risk of accident.

There a many old buildings that have been repaired and restored (churches, mosques etc). Broadly speaking, these might have some CURRENT cultural relevance and use. Expensive though. Very expensive.

But there are some sites that are historically significant but are not really "useful". The Parthenon and Colosseum are not going to be of much use even if they were restored. And it would pretty much destroy their historical value. So the benefits of a full restoration certainly don't seem to be worth the cost.

The easiest way to think of equity is as market value - debt. In accounting ,

>Assets = Liabilities + Owner's Equity (OE)

If your home is the asset, then the liabilities are the liens (which I'll simplify to just mortgages) and the owner's equity, which balances the accounting identity. You can think or Owner's Equity as the business owing the owner.

An implication is that OE can be negative. For example, if the Market Value on the asset (the home) is less than the mortgages, then the owner's equity balances the equation. If owners try to sell a home that they're "upside down" or "underwater" on, then the owners would have to take money out of their pockets. If owners are underwater enough (have too much negative equity), they might consider "mailing back the keys" to the mortgage holder.

You surely are aware that there are hundreds of large scale open air music festivals happening every year all around the world which don't end with people dying of heat stroke or lack of facilities?

Woodstock was a shitshow in that respect because it was planned for 50k and 400k attended.

Nowadays there are festivals with over half a million attendees that happen on annual basis. I believe the tomorrowland comes close to 600 000 attendees.

Recent studies of sperm whale communication suggest it’s as complex as human language.

They even want to try using AI to talk with them: https://hakaimagazine.com/features/are-we-on-the-verge-of-chatting-with-whales/

Not a defense of Ticketmaster, but I worked for a large ticketing company and feel like it's important to point out what Ticketmaster does offer that a smaller ticketing company can't (and a big artist needs). For example, protection against online bots buying up tickets, a website with a waiting room to handle massive amounts of interested buyers, a website that won't crash for massive on-sales, ticket verification mechanisms (to discourage reselling on the secondary market), electronic ticket transfer via secondary market sites (so buyers don't get swindled and receive fake tickets), and so much more. There is a ton of technology enabled by Ticketmaster running in the background that enables these massive on-sales which usually run flawlessly (except Taylor Swift recently). IMHO, it doesn't justify the insane fees or ticket prices (though the prices of the tickets themselves are usually set by the artist, FWIW). I do agree with what's already been said about TM being a monopoly, etc. Again, not defending them in particular. Also worth noting, but would create an insanely long post if I get too in the weeds, is the revenue model in event ticketing. Often the ticketing company takes the upfront risk. Example: Ticketmaster says "X venue, I will pay you $20M over 4 years for exclusive rights to ticket your events." Then Ticketmaster has to earn back that $20M just to break even, and they earn it back solely via the fees. Imagine if Venue X books shitty artists no one has ever heard of... And ticket prices are $5 per seat for the Des Moines Rodeo or whatever they book. Makes it really hard for Ticketmaster to earn back that $20M. It's a lot of upfront risk... Doesn't always pay off for every venue/contract... And generally a weird business model that I'm not sure is used in many retail verticals.

> What's to stop a really major act (e.g. Taylor Swift) from performing in venues that are not controlled by Ticketmaster

There aren't any worth playing at.

I mean, maybe you could throw a concert at a convention center or a local park or something, but purpose-built venues and basically all sports arenas are owned or have exclusive contracts with Live Nation.

Importance, take Greece for example temples to the Greek Gods fell into disuse when Greek Orthodox Church became the main religion and therefore that church wanted the money from worshippers to build its own places of worship and would discourage belief in what went before. This allowed older religions structures to fall into disrepair (much like the in the uk when monasteries were dissolved by Henry VIII) helped to highlight they were failed institutions.

However it’s worth noting that in Italy and Greece there is evidence in history that earthquakes led to much of the initial damage leading to the buildings being unsafe and too expensive to repair and from there the time weather and deconstruction did the rest. obviously really tall structures still standing are much harder to steal stone from than the bits that have collapsed which is why some bits still stand and some bits are gone completely. We must remember though that some of what we see today in the colosseum is due to reconstruction works done over the last hundred years.

Buildings like the colosseum in Rome once damaged simply fell out of use because they had no further use, they were to big to take down and it was easier to let them decay. The once flooded and abandoned parts of New Orleans or the car factories in Detroit are chilling reminders that abandonment is something that even happens today.

All of these examples and places like the great pyramids are structures that fell out of use and much of their decay following their abandonment was because local people used them as sources of building materials almost like a quarry only the stones were already cut and piled up.

Remember with many of these old buildings disuse allowed soil/sand to build up and structures slowly being lost under the ground and out of sight. much of the ancient Roman architecture we see in Rome today was only “rediscovered” through excavation in the 18th/19th centuries.

Eventbrite and other ticketing companies own those places too. They form an oligopoly with Ticketmaster by also charging bullshit fees. Since the ticketing companies own all the venues aside from campgrounds that host a few thousand people, you're SOL if you want to sell 10k tickets.

How can any company own congress in a proper democracy, it’s ridiculous.

We're not, there are many other species that are sentient. Certain birds exhibit the signs of sentience. Many mammals, including the great apes, pigs, dogs, whales, dolphins, and manatees can be self-aware. It has been suggested that even squid and octopi can be self-aware, although it manifests itself a bit differently than mammalian self-awareness. It is suspected that humans became better at language than other species (whales can rhyme and they give each other names, but don't have languages at human level), which allowed us to conceptualize at a much higher level and conceptualization lead to higher creativity, and our opposable thumbs allowed us to develop tools in a way other non-primates couldn't

This is incorrect, or at least incomplete.

You are correct in that it isn't recommended to give rescue breaths for untrained people, or even trained people who are rusty. Trained first responders DO give rescue breaths. There are a few reasons the general public is advised not to give breaths:

• There's a certain subset of the population who just won't give CPR at all if they think rescue breathing is required, and compression-only CPR that they are willing to do is infinitely better than perfect CPR they will not.
• Most people suck at both rescue breathing and chest compressions, and time spent poorly cycling the air in their lungs that is still mostly oxygenated because their blood hasn't been able to circulate well is time better spent trying to circulate it better.
• There's a risk of transmitting disease without certain equipment that bystanders aren't likely to have on them.

That said, trained first responders are still taught to give rescue breaths, because when done properly, it safely enhances both survival and recovery rates.

So even further, why not restore some of it? We have pretty good guesses and good historical backing on what it might have looked like, why not bring these places back to that now?

You stop eating for a day. Total caloric deficit.

Your day to day energy is stored in glycogen a kind of easy to access sugar that is stored for a bit but easier to metabolize than body fat. This is replenished from food you eat. So if you don't eat then your body will start pulling energy from your fat stores. This small amount of energy is basically packaged with a bunch of water for important chemical reasons but the water makes it heavy. Your body also keeps water based on your current salt content.

So what has happened at the end of your one day fast it that you have used up all of your glycogen releasing all that heavy water it was tied too and your salt content has dropped because you haven't eaten anything to replace it. So you'll pee out more water so you body keeps the salt concentration it likes.

Your day of burning calories burned some fat depending on your level of activity. But less than a pound. For most people significantly less than a pound of fat per day of complete non consumption.

But when you step on the scale you and most other people will see that you have lost somewhere between 2 and 5 pounds. Because you pissed them out for reasons only tangentially related to your goal.

That's water weight. Your body will hold on to that same amount of water the very next day when you celebrate with one slice of salty pizza and make it look like you've lost all your progress. Thus why understanding water weight can help someone trying to slim down because it can be really demoralizing not knowing why daily results seem to bounce around so much.

Resources. These constructions represent somewhat of a pinnacle of entire empires. So there is this vast foundation that is needed for any society to build stuff like this.

If a society expends 95% of their effort merely to give basic food and shelter to their populace, they won't have resources left over to build or maintain such structures. Apart from a few notable empires (and in historic times, it TOOK the resources of an empire), most of the time humanity could basically only get by.

So underlying these things are conquests, slavery, and much looting etc. Once an empire collapses, it basically cannot afford the resources.

This was mostly true until the Industrial Revolution when humanity started to use a lot of non-muscle based energy on demand (not like wind energy for sails, windmills etc). Think of it this way, until the mid 1800s the vast majority of humanity had to engage in agriculture and livestock rearing just to feed itself. Today, modern economies have less than 10% of their human population engaged in agriculture. This frees up a lot more resources to build and do stuff.