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@PhilGorman8 That may be true but did festivals budget for that increase? Most of them are cancelling days before already anyways. Festivals are usually shit shows of mismanagement.

@SoundPhysicsGuy This was the average durning bidens presidency and similar to obamas

Extremely high fuel costs means many music festivals are gonna struggle to afford running generators for stage and vending power.

Ok @Ubiquiti you need to CALM DOWN. Your software team can’t be out here just throwing out banger update after banger update for free. (Network 10.2 is 🔥🔥🔥🔥) Y’all making the other vendors look bad.

A1 shit posting

Nothing irks me more than people pestering me asking for guestlist, getting listed, and then not showing up. Shit happens sometimes but you could atleast message back and say thanks anyways for the slot. It's always younger ravers doing this shit and it is so annoying.

@thisisclouds_ @svddenstache Just ask. The worst that happens is you get told no.

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@14Niksta If you have time for that, you are truly blessed.

sometimes i lay in bed watching my old videos from music festivals for hours

so glad I grew up and realized going out everyday is unnecessary

@shyriisounds Propaganda land now

Tbh I’d rather be on Substack or threads than this app anymore. I used to love it here 🥀

@dirtmonkeymusic Was a fun time!

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Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends. A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets. Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses. The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits. A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days. Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive. The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away. The investing angle nobody talks about. Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in. Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies. The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates. Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try. (a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)

@faroutfae333 My cats are my best friends

i love being roommates with my cat

A good leader is always learning.

@stevengower @Victoria00025 can we just stop doing statues of people entirely anyways?

@Victoria00025 Hell no Charlie Kirk was a brainwasher

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@dirtmonkeymusic I joined

Who here is on discord? I’ve got one set up for my patreon ppl but am considering starting up a general one as well if people seem into it