
laid_back_allen
152 posts




#BREAKING: Spirit Airlines is now officially preparing to shut down.













This is like the classic dril bit >I can't find workers for my farm >Offer a higher wage >No



Fifth-grade teacher charged with 25 sex crimes, including rape, of 2 of her young students trib.al/tHe9I2d






A federal jury just found Live Nation has operated as a monopoly and broken antitrust rules. Potential remedy is divesture of Ticketmaster (argument is Live Nation forces venues to use its ticketing service or else lose concert tours). Ticketing is cash cow: while only 12% of sales ($3B of $25.2B), it is 37% of operating profits ($1.1B) in 2025. Conversely, the concert division — which is world’s largest promoter and producer of live events (booking, marketing, logistics etc.) — does 83% revenue ($20.9B) but operating margin is tiny at 3% ($687m). The company dominates right now. In 2025, it put on 55,000 events and sold 646 million tickets (Ticketmaster sold 10x more than #2 service AEG). Live Nation will try to fight the breakup but industry will almost certainly end up more free-flowing. Fewer exclusive events and concert venues can shop other ticketing services. Just chill on the fees, dude. *** NYT on court case: nytimes.com/2026/04/15/art… Sherwood on business model: sherwood.news/business/the-d…




A lot of people seem to think I'm referring to the onboards. While better onboards would be amazing the real problem was the frequent crowd shots. This is not the view i want during SRB seperation.



Costco Gas Lines Surge As Drivers Hunt For Cheaper Fuel zerohedge.com/markets/costco…




WOW Professor Jiang explains how the US economy is a giant Ponzi scheme dependent on Gulf nations investing in American tech. If Iran forces the Gulf to abandon the petrodollar for food security, the US economy will face total collapse and revolution in the streets.









