wait… TARS was an in camera model? what?!

Sometime later (and deeper): “hmm… seems very uneven… going to have to use a self leveling magma…”

Indeed. Which makes it an even bigger problem that there are hardly enough moderate politicians saying “here’s what we hear you saying about migration and he’s what we will actually do to rectify that”

I didn’t mention the censorship because he is wrong about that

I also don’t agree with his quote about “no need for barriers”. I wasn’t aware he had said that.

He is referring to the poor handling of migration in Europe, which is true. And the general ignoring of popular outrage at how migration is managed.

That he is a fascist dickhead is indicative of the problem. Many many people who are not racist think migration is handled terribly in Europe and the problem is moderate politicians are hopelessly slow to engage with this and as a result the only people talking about it are fascist nutbags…

mishandling migration, and ignoring populist concerns.

I think Vance is a tool, but can someone explain how these two points aren’t objectively true?

“retention bots” of some description wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest…

endless wars of who’s federeated with who

i’ve been here for months and months, i might have seen this mentioned as an aside once or twice. but “endless wars”?

Practically speaking since war is unthinkable is would result in as much economic isolation as Europe can bear. It would be the end of NATO. Almost immediately there’s be European voices saying ‘What’s the real harm?’ and other appeasers. I think the political lash back would only last 5-10 years as parties opposed would find the only tool at hand - economic punishment - to be unsustainable. It would legitimise nationalistic sentiments in Europe even further. Britain would, naturally, talk of betrayal but not be able to make any resistance of any substance.

♫ … Now don’t be sad, 'cause two out of three ain’t bad… ♫

And as a result there are 8 or 9 rivers called “Avon” in the UK…

I’ve heard various explanations, I don’t know how accurate the following is. I’d be interested to learn more:

• the very earliest colony settlements had to bargain hard and with precision in order to survive. It began a contractual culture that eventually extended into litigation

• due to high immigration from many differing backgrounds, disputes had to be settled in litigation rather than relying on social understanding

• the religious culture was largely inherited from the Puritans who had a legalistic and inflexible reading of the new testament. (This unwillingness to compromise is why they were persecuted in Europe and fled to the new world)

• the American identity is ‘invented’ (in the sense that’s it’s an abrupt mixing of many old world cultures) and so national identity was initially based on cerebral activities (the Constitution, Bill of Rights) rather than evolved from a very long history of social bonds found in old world ‘nations’. This required a cerebral precision to be at the heart of identity which easily extended to legal rights and relations

As I say, take with a pinch of salt. But this is the gist of what I’ve heard from people who know more than me.

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Rotating barcode is the key here. Ties the purchase to a ticketmaster account and requires a phone be presented at the gate. All perfectly doable, if they were so inclined.

I mean, Ticketmaster are greedy bastards, that’s why they do what they do. But I think a part of a the veneer of respectability they present is based on the truth that you’ll never really be able to stop scalpers, so Ticketmaster might as well be the legal scalper of choice. There will always be a blackmarket for popular tickets (so the reasoning goes). Since reselling isn’t illegal then it’s hard to force eBay and gumtree to disallow it. And there’s nothing to stop touts in person. So Ticketmaster says “fine, we’ll host the reselling at whatever the bidding goes up to”. They get to make some more money on it and disallowing isn’t going to much improve things for the average concert goer…

I think probably one actual solution is to sell tickets linked to your mobile device (somehow). That’s probably still vulnerable to being hacked / faked so maybe that’s why they haven’t done it (aside from them losing out on that resale margin, obvs).

How could it actually work though? Without checking ID at the gate you have no idea if the ticketholder is the original or has bought from a scalper?

Oh I see, you mean ban legit reselling?.. could do. no chance of stopping unofficial reselling though (gumtree whatever). It’s a terms of service thing not a legal thing. So gumtree, eBay etc are not obliged to take down such things. And of course they would never stop touts doing it in person on approaches to a venue…

Without ID on the ticket you don’t know it’s been resold. All a venue sees is someone presenting a valid QR code (or whatever)

make tickets non transferable

This sounds sensible, but in practice ID checking however many tens of thousands of people on their way into a venue would take forever. (Not to mention now having to deal with the portion of genuine customers who’ve forgotten to bring Id etc)

If anything like this was ever done it’s more likely it would be independent drones flying ahead of the plane at its 10 and 2 o’clock

https://youtu.be/LWhxU7XvSZs?si=ehmc7HpQYTKIZHro