Neal ☮️🍻🎶🚴‍♂️🍁

Might be better than watching the Ravens game - which I'm not! (Sunday afternoon hockey time here in Canada!)

Yeah, but.....maybe they would have been IN the poll with a win!

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well that story has taken a turn!

hopefully you can keep that profile pic up until at least Nov 1st!

meanwhile, Louisville fumbles away 7 pts. 😒

ours are all gone, but a good bunch of rose hips this year!

I give him the can't figure out PDT off the top of my head smiley. Would have been much worst had he put the smiley after "I look forward to the call"!

he did. although supposedly was a verbal miscue.

holly shit......90 all the way up to Fargo, N Dakota.
That just ain't right!

Friday = lawn mowing day!

ahhh, would not have guess that in a million years (unless the conversation was about Grateful Dead songs). Was thinking flower/garden related!

From way out on the Rock - Fuck Donald Trump!

oopsie!

Okay.....I got to ask - don't tell anyone - what does TLEO mean?
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(almost all gone here in Newfoundland! 🙁)

Indeed pretty cool! Send along birthday wishes! 🎂🎉

I second that headline....so happy to be here! 😄

and at what cost to the government. Easily millions in plane tickets to get them all there?!

yes, not one of the elite players that come to mind to earn that type of money! Granted, I don't follow the Wild, and he had missed about half the season, so didn't really hear much about him.

to take the picture, yes - but probably not to eat it! 😜

Really! And separate stops at EACH of the twin cities no less! 🤔

I'll be installing new smoke detectors in my home soon as per code requirements (I had other electrical work done which forces the issue.) They need to be hardwire with battery backup. Probably go with the costly 10 yr Li ones...I figure in 10 years I'll be too hard of hearing to hear it beeping! 😜

I would say good morning m, but.....
(I'm sure you headed straight to the coffee!)

And most shockingly

- Ticketmaster and Live Nation even offer technological support to brokers through a software platform called TradeDesk, which enables brokers to track and aggregate tickets purchased from multiple Ticketmaster accounts into a single interface for simpler resale management.

- In fact, ......the companies “turn a blind eye as a matter of policy” to brokers’ violations of posted ticket limits. For example, an internal review showed that just five brokers controlled 6,345 Ticketmaster accounts and possessed 246,407 concert tickets to 2,594 events.

-Ticketmaster nevertheless allows brokers to post these illegally obtained tickets for resale on its platform, then profits from the additional fees and markups it unilaterally adds to the resale tickets. (although interestingly, no verified TM resales for Phish have been listed yet)

A few of the more interesting FTC allegations:

-Despite implementing security measures, Ticketmaster is aware that brokers routinely bypass such measures by creating thousands of Ticketmaster accounts and using proxy IP addresses in order to purchase event tickets.

FTC Sues Live Nation and Ticketmaster for Engaging in Illegal Ticket Resale Tactics and Deceiving Artists and Consumers about Price and Ticket Limits The Federal Trade Commission and seven states sued Live Nation and Ticketmaster for tacitly coordinating with brokers and allowing them to harvest millions of dollars worth of tickets in the primar

Just heard about this on one of the law nerd shows my wife watches. Timely, considering how quick #phish tickets disappeared last week.....

#fuckticketmaster #fucklivenation

www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

I had cataract surgeries in both eyes in 2023. Blown away by the color and clarity gained when they did the first one! Opted for no glasses outcome (toric in right for distance, no correction in left for reading), but unfortunately the right eye has changed over time and has lost some sharpness. 😵‍💫