@Mik great pun

Seems to make sense

@Mik said in Anybody ever get seats from Vivid Seats?: Since when is Seat Geek any more than a reseller? A lot of venues and tours have given up their own ticketing and contract it out to Seat Geek and others.

@jon-nyc said Except no, we're now paying the 10% when we buy anything British. The cost to you is reduced sales. True. Yet I'd predict that because of this international trade shitshow, my outgoings over the next year will rise more than the 5-10% they went up last year. The only winners are your Federal Government raking in new taxes, and those few who can take advantage of stock market liquidity.

The MTG stuff isn’t as obviously bad though it may well be insider trading. The more obvious stuff is people buying way out of the money calls expiring later that day and making 20x on them. Which seems to be happening ahead of news.

No silver bullet?

george

the US is one of the few countries that does not have a passport check upon exiting a country Yeah, when I was younger I felt slight disappointment for not being able to collect passport stamps when I leave the country.

My guess is scotus won’t go for this invasion/AEA bullshit. Between 7-2 and 9-0.

That would kick gasoline’s ass.

NItrogen FTW. LOL I know a guy who got gassed by it. He was in a refinery in Indonesia and entered a vessel that had high nitrogen. Next thing he knew, he woke up in a hospital in Singapore. Said there was absolutely no sensation of anything wrong. One minute, breathing normally......... and then remembers nothing.

I enjoyed the story a lot but did not really need the fecal urgency part. We’ve all been there.

I just finished watching Succession (loosely based on Fox News/Corp and Rupert Murdoch), great show… amazing music… and slightly similar to what we are seeing now.

Well within his rights says mouthpiece of Trump(CF). Fired for being woke? The Evil Trumpire is almost beyond satire. The farce be with you.

@Axtremus But I was mentioning the exception to Horace’s post, you were simply providing an example of what Horace covered in his post.

Dude, it's Friday afternoon. The only question I'm asking at this stage of the week is whether to get the expensive IPA in a four-pack or the cheaper one in a 12. And I have to say, it's a pretty challenging question.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/acting-fema-chief-abruptly-ousted-ahead-us-hurricane-season-2025-05-08/ Cameron Hamilton, the acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has been ousted from his position by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a day after he told lawmakers in a hearing that he did not support eliminating his agency. The leadership change comes at a time when the agency, which is in charge of coordinating the federal government's response to disasters, is helping states and local communities prepare for the onset of hurricane season on June 1.

This may be way off base, but it seems like more so recently, presidents try and pick a Supreme Court judge who is like them. They probably did so before also, but it was not quite as detailed to try and do so. But still interesting when a president (or presidents after him) picks someone and they do not turn out how they expect.