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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • I can assure you that first-run sales and presales ticket costs are still outrageous. We’ve been to quite a few concerts over the last several years and even if you play the “sign up early and get the presale code and wait in the queue online as soon as you can” game the tickets for any popular band will not be below 3 digits for a seat from which you can see the band without binoculars, some venues won’t have any sub-$100 tickets at all. Best thing to do is see small-but-good bands at smaller venues if you can find it, those tickets are usually way more affordable. We’ve seen some older bands this way and it’s worth it.

    The legalized double-dipping resale scalping provided by the likes of ticketmaster absolutely send prices sky high and out of reach for the majority of people.






  • Gotta love everything being “stock-market-ized”. Where did it start at the consumer level? I wanna say solidly with entertainment industry. The one that simultaneously sells tickets to events and also operates the resale business. Sell a shitload of tickets to scalpers, then people have to pay extra to buy the “market” price for the ticket. Uber and Lyft certainly had to contribute with their “surge” pricing methods. PC parts were a big one with the shortages of everything from GPUs to HDDs over the last decade plus, but those didn’t affect the general public.





  • Most anything, home made, not from a box or frozen, just do a good job. People are not used to well prepared home cooked food.

    However, these always work well:

    Sous vide salmon, pan seared, with asparagus and hollandaise.

    Beef Bourguignon.

    Shrimp Étouffée.

    Pan seared, oven finished steak or loin of some sort. Pork loin works well. Home made skin-on mashed potato and pan roasted bacon parmesan brussels sprouts.

    All of these are relatively easy to make, and if done well, go over fantastic.

    Want to really wow them? Bake a cheesecake for dessert, especially with a fruit topping.




  • YES. But a big chunk of people have been sheltered from that fact.

    That’s why we have people: wanting civil war, because they’ve never had to personally suffer the loss, privations, and terror of a real war. Are anti-vax, because they haven’t had plagues of smallpox, the flu, or polio kill their kids, friends, and relatives. Pro-authoritarian, because they’ve never lived under a series of shitty power grifters and a corruption-based economy where absolutely nobody does well except the richest. Anti-social programs, because they’ve never faced homelessness or a disability.

    There are so many things that people have had the luxury of avoiding that they’ve forgotten how shitty the world is. Spoiled children, they are.