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I feel this question is going by a very antiquated assumption. Lots of animals are sentient. Dogs are sentient, cats are sentient, cows, pigs, chickens... and the list goes on and on.

Celebrities can also afford to take time off for mental health whereas us plebs have to keep heading in every day for work.

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I'm not sure if what you described is possible, but I will say that The Cure handled Ticketmaster pretty well with their current tour. They insisted on affordable prices, and to manage demand they restricted resale or transfer to face value or less. It makes the tickets accessible to normal (i.e. not rich) fans and removes all motive for resellers.

I even got a refund for part of the Ticketmaster fees because The Cure says Ticketmaster overcharged from what the agreement with the band was.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.twincities.com/2023/03/25/the-cure-robert-smith-ticketmaster-concert-prices/amp/

> Knotfest is a metal festival run by Slipknot

Oh thank god.

An exhaled breath has enough oxygen in it for a second person to breath.

To those saying rescue breaths are no longer recommended, they still are recommended, just not for untrained bystanders like someone being instructed by a 911 operator.

There have been lots of successful outdoor concerts since though

You ever had a group of close friends, where over time you develop in-jokes and anecdotes together until one of you can say "umbrella!" and you all break out laughing while everyone else thinks you're crazy?

Humans form bonds and shorthands together. Keep a group of humans in relative isolation for a long time and they'll personalize their own method of communicating with each other.

Yup. They’ve got just about all of the major league and university arenas and stadiums in the country.

This is the right answer, hopefully gets the upvotes it deserves!

> The closest thing to "settling" a criminal case is to take a plea deal, meaning you do admit guilt, usually in exchange for a lesser sentence than you might receive if found guilty at trial.

In most US jurisdictions you can actually "plead guilty" while still maintaining innocence. It's called an Alford plea, and it's basically saying, I didn't do it, but if we went to trial you could probably get a conviction based on the evidence you have, and I'd rather take the plea deal and reduce my sentence.

It's an important thing to allow because you shouldn't have to admit guilt if you aren't guilty, but you also deserve the same ability to reduce your sentence as somebody who pleads guilty. Why would you want to accept a sentence when you are innocent? Well, the system isn't perfect. Sometimes the police fixate on the wrong suspect and fail to investigate everything. Sometimes the evidence is misleading. And while the law requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt, sometimes genuinely unreasonable things happen.

How did it hurt their career? Those guys love small venues. Eddie and his wife played behind a sheet at Satyricon just to feel connected. Jeff had a 3 fish show on the second floor of some random building. It was lit by candles and like 100 fans sat crosslegged in a small candle lit room. This was around the time of either vs or Virology, I can't remember.

No, it didn't hurt their career, it hurt their fans access to them. They had achieved more fame and money than they would have ever imagined. They just cared about their fans.

John Oliver did a great piece about it. I believe its this

We don't have to change the laws - just enforce the ones on the books!

But I agree. Not going to happen.

>Isnt the air you exhale CO2?

No. It has a little less oxygen and a little more CO2 than what you breathe in, but still much more than enough oxygen to be more useful than nothing.

• Regular air (what you breathe in) is 21% oxygen and about 0.04% CO2.
• What you breathe out is still 16% oxygen, and about 4% CO2.

So what you breathe out is still only 4% CO2! And it still contains about 3/4 of the oxygen you breathed in, too. Yes using fresh air would be better, but there's no good way to force in fresh air with no equipment. Delivering 16% oxygen with 4% CO2 by mouth is the best available easy option and better than nothing.

This is the main thing.

Years ago, many venues, especially medium sized clubs, got sick of ticketmaster so many in the bigger cities started going to more customer-friendly alternatives. Many alternatives have started, as the online ticket-selling business isn't that complex. Many venues even signed exclusive contracts with these alternative companies.

Thing is, Ticketmaster hates competition, so it would borrow cash to buy the alternative companies. At this point they've bought pretty much all of them out. And when buying them, they get the exclusive contracts that they had with the venues.

Thus Ticketmaster doesn't just eliminate competition, it receives exclusivity. This has been going on non-stop that last 15 years or so, and it needs to be stopped. Even the venues hate Ticketmaster but they have no choice.

Ticketmaster bribe the big acts' management teams by sliding them tickets that they can sell at huge markups through scalpers. Tax free, of course. Some bands know about it but I think many don't. They just do what the management suggests.

It's worth saying that there are some herbal supplements with a demonstrated track record. For example, St John's Wort has seen use as an antidepressant, but it can also severely interfere with other medications. Ashwangadha has less consistent evidence, but may be useful for reducing anxiety in people with severe problems of that type.

https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/st-johns-wort
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypericum_perforatum
https://examine.com/supplements/st-johns-wort/

https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/ashwagandha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withania_somnifera
https://examine.com/supplements/ashwagandha/#examine-database

Note the caveats. They might be "natural", but they still naturally interact with the world around them, and nature contains many allergens and poisons. They might in fact work for someone, but we've yet to isolate which chemical components are responsible for those effects, let alone optimize their ratio or dosage. In that respect, CBD products are somewhat further along the path of science than either of these two herbs.

With all of that said, I do recommend sticking to solutions that have evolved beyond the supplements aisle. (And on a bit of a tangent, remember that homeopathy is bullshit.)

You know how you have a voice that helps you talk and say things? Well, different people also have voices, but they are not the same as yours. Some people say things differently than you do, even if they use the same words. This is called having an accent. Accents are like different ways of singing the same song. For example, you can sing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” in a high voice or a low voice, or a fast voice or a slow voice. These are like different accents. Now imagine that different people live in different places, like different countries or cities. Sometimes these people don’t talk to each other very much, so they start to sing their songs differently. They may change some of the sounds or words in their songs, or they may make up new songs. These changes make their accents different from each other. For example, people who live in Australia may sing their songs differently than people who live in Britain or America, even if they use the same language. That’s why their accents are different.

There's also an open question of some cephalopods like octopi. We know they're very intelligent; but we're not sure how to test if they are self-aware.

This probably should have had conditions attached. I haven’t reviewed the case though.

Lots of times vertical integration is allowed easily though (for complex business reasons)

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While your exhalation contains more CO2 than the atmosphere it still contains more than enough oxygen for the cpr recipient.

However, a lot of first aid training now teaches compression only CPR, without breathing assistance.

They no longer recommend giving breaths during CPR. Chest compressions are what is most important.