Where would one read about how the system works here? I’m not understanding why a lending body would lend against the theoretical value of a buildings rents
rather than the actual
maximum monthly rents over the last ~3 years.
Agreements forcing artists to only use LN locations and TM ticketing in markets where possible.
Ticketing is relatively easy since the early days so competition should help.
We also need better laws defining what can and cannot be a fee. Fees should only be for things which are truly optional and declinable.
The AT&T breakup was a lie. Dividing the country into regions so as to not compete is what collusion looks like. Hopefully they don't do that this time.
No doubt but land ownership doesn’t have the same network effects as telecom. Assuming there is a clean cut between ticketing and venues it would also be helpful to see breakups of LN property between regions.
To be fair “no drums” is not a modern take. Also drums would not be as useful as accompaniment for as piano and organ for the old hymns which used to be sung.
Is it not? Psychedelics are being tested for treating PTSD. What is chronic PTSD other than a stable mindset? The point of psychedelic treatment being to destabilize an unwanted mindset.
PTSD is anything but stable. It's highly volatile and extremely unpredictable day-to-day, hour-to-hour.
It's not only "unstable" matching the classic example of a small force on an inverted pendulum will topple it over in dramatic fashion, but it's also "chaotic" -- "exhibits sensitive dependence on initial conditions, which can often lead to seemingly random or unpredictable behavior over time, despite a system's deterministic nature."
Thanks. I see my comment was lacking. I intended to say something closer to returning a chaotic state. An inverted pendulum will become stable but someone with ptsd will continue to be chaotic. Saying psychedelics are dangerous for a stable mind doesn’t mean much if the mind is experiencing chaos and the danger has a chance to reduce the chaos.
I don't think I'd put it that way. They make you more receptive to/show you different perspectives that you would not experience sober. You're supposed to return to sobriety with the same stable mindset plus a new perspective to consider. Hopefully that combo leads to new and better behaviors in the future.
I took this as a tongue-in-cheek remark akin to "dead patients are stable" - the implication being of course that "stable" doesn't mean "good" or "healthy".
Not tongue in cheek but you basically have my meaning. Reaperman was closer with his statement that they’re chaotic. I mean to say they are stuck in a chaotic state which they wish to escape but cannot.
I think about what drug caused the burned out hippie vibe and between weed and psychedelics I think it’s the psychedelics. I think that because any drug that helps one draw new connections eventually starts drawing potential connections that aren’t there resulting in needing excess consideration.
I’m pro psychedelic legalization and think they should be available behind the counter. I just also think they should be feared and thought of as medicine.
I'm thinking more about business processes rather than protocols. I don't think most project involve devising new protocols. If I want to diagram the steps involved in, say, onboarding and nurturing a user, then the flow will rapidly approach a cyclic, undirected graph.
Can tax payers also take ownership of the physical plant and sell access like we do to public airwaves? States rights should allow at least some states to do the right thing.
> I'd argue its because its just the flipside of the Prosperity Gospel.
I loathe the prosperity gospel too, and never miss a chance to blame its preachers where I can. But in this case I think glorification of suffering can’t be blamed on them because suffering was also fetishized by mother Teresa.
It does seem to be a uniquely American problem though.
I don't disagree that others outside of the US have taken up the cause of the holiness of suffering. I'm arguing that only the US has taken it and injected it into every aspect of our culture, because we have taken the Prosperity Gospel and injected it into every aspect of our culture.
Scratchy robes for monks in certain orders has long been a thing all over the world. But successfully banning comfortable clothing for all, regardless of religiosity, is really more of an American thing.
