Late Stage Capitalism

The account is called SpaceX.cn, but it's using the Twitter/X logo. Most of the posts seem to be personal videos of the biIIionaire. The rest are similar videos of 4 7. Then there's SpaceX and NASA merch you can buy directly from the chinese marketplace. Seems bizzare this administration would treat china like an enemy but then post content and items for sale on their platform. Many of the comments on these posts appear to be bots as well.

geteilt von: https://lemmy.ml/post/28879338

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28879290

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/35906527

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/29979229

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The reddit version of Late stage Capitalism perma-bans anyone that dares to be critical of Hamas.

I understand that Israel's treatment of Palestinians is pure evil, but does that fact imply Hamas has to be defended as an entity, regardless of its actions and global views?

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/37274125

You may know the drill. You get online at 10am, several months before the show, and receive a place in the virtual queue. Perhaps you notice with dismay that your number is larger than the capacity of the venue. Perhaps you then lose your place because you’ve been misidentified as a bot, or the site crashes altogether. If you make it to the front, you may well wonder why £100 (plus about £20 in opaque surcharges) now qualifies as a cheap seat. And that’s if there are any cheap seats left, not just inflated VIP packages. And you may ask yourself why it has to be like this.

When you don’t get what you want, you tend to look for someone to blame. That someone is usually Ticketmaster. The company, which merged with concert promoters Live Nation in 2010 to form Live Nation Entertainment, sells about 70% of all concert tickets worldwide, and an even greater proportion of the arena and stadium market. In 2024, Live Nation generated a record $23.2bn (£17.5bn) in revenue, with Ticketmaster selling 637m tickets. Rivals such as See Tickets (owned by Germany’s CTS Eventim) and AXS (the ticketing arm of promoters AEG Presents) aren’t exactly minnows but Ticketmaster has become a synonym for ticketing: a lightning rod and a punchbag.

In the US, Ticketmaster’s current problems stem from a cardinal error: getting on the wrong side of Swifties. In November 2022, the company failed to stagger the presale for Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, listing all 2m tickets simultaneously. The colossal demand overwhelmed the servers, causing myriad problems. Swift expressed her disappointment. Ticketmaster grovelled. Last May, the US justice department (DOJ) filed an antitrust suit, now backed by 39 states, which alleges that Live Nation and Ticketmaster use their “power and influence … to freeze innovation and bend the industry to their own benefit”.

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Should we also boycott companies that basically do what Trump wants by making other nations pay the US tariffs? E.g. in the link you can read about Sony (Japan) and Xbox (Microsoft - US). I know Microsoft is already American, but it is another major manufacturer that is hiking prices globally.

Those are so far few companies, but I read that some clothing brands and even food markets are discussing about this option.

What do you think?

I feel like this is relevant to the sub. If not, feel free to remove.

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/25670159

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/25670115

The masks are completely off. Nothing learned from Holocaust 1.0.

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One night ICE will see her and she'll probably disappear

Just your favorite Multi-billion dollar corporation owned "small brewery"

I am so sick of the trend of massive companies pretending to be small companies to extract that last 2% of people trying to support small businesses still.