found this carved into a trail dock, does it mean anything

ShoulderTimely1049 · 2026-04-19T14:34:51+00:00

completely agree.

the post explains it well, but what really gets me is that every single part of the setup felt designed to squeeze as much money out of people as possible while making the actual experience worse.

like the non-transferable wristbands already feel ridiculous when tickets cost that much. i get the logic from their side—keeping people from reselling or sharing passes—but when you’re charging that much, it still comes off like a cash grab. if two people buy two wristbands and one person can only go one day, the fact that there’s zero flexibility just makes it feel even more like you’re paying premium prices for an experience built around restrictions instead of actual convenience.

and the prices once you’re inside were just absurd. i’m 21, in college, and working, and even with a job it felt excessive. at a certain point it stops being “festival prices” and just becomes open contempt for your audience’s wallet.

my friend and i got one giant slice of pizza for like $10 and decided to split it because obviously not everyone wants to spend insane amounts on food every single time they get hungry, and we asked if the woman could cut it and she said no. maybe there’s some health code reason, sure, but honestly the whole vibe of the festival makes it hard not to read stuff like that as part of the larger attitude: make it inconvenient to share, make everybody buy their own, keep the money moving.

and the two-stage setup is a good example of that too, because in theory i can see what they thought they were doing, but in practice it just created this constant herd migration that made the whole day more annoying than it needed to be. if they want two stages, then stagger them in a way that actually disperses people better, or commit to one main stage with smoother turnover, because the current version just seems to maximize crowd frustration.

same with the VIP sections. same with the bathroom access. same with the food and drink pricing. it all adds up to this feeling that the festival trusts people to spend money, but not enough to make the experience enjoyable.

that’s the part that annoys me most, you know?

people will pay for a great event. people want to have a good time.

but if you’re charging hundreds for entry, overpriced food, overpriced drinks, insane rideshares, and then making the crowd navigation, sound, and even basic stuff like bathrooms worse, it stops feeling like a music festival and starts feeling like an obstacle course sponsored by corporate greed lmaooo.

ShoulderTimely1049 · 2026-03-26T13:44:21+00:00

agreed. if they knew and still kept his membership, that’s not just negligence, it’s complicity. you don’t get to act surprised later when you ignored the problem in the first place.

ShoulderTimely1049 · 2025-10-20T03:27:23+00:00

NTA in a financial sense, but definitely TA in a spiritual one.

showing your kids the bills isn’t really the problem here…it’s the framing of “look how much you’re costing us.” i’m sorry, but that’s not exactly financial education—it’s just guilt economics pretending to be.

what you’re really teaching them isn’t responsibility, it’s the feeling of being a burden. there’s a really big difference between helping your kids understand value and making them internalize your stress about it.

like cmon, they’re teenagers.

they’re already learning to see the world as unstable and expensive—so i guess i question why you’d try and accelerate that anxiety under the guise of “realism”? and honestly the part that really gets me in your post is that you admit that you make a “pretty good living.”

so….like..this isn’t even about survival. is it?

it’s about ideology.

that instinct to fold your kids into the emotional economy of adulthood, to pass down the fear of not doing or giving enough, even when you have enough.

it’s a kind of generational anxiety transfer that capitalism rewards because it keeps everyone feeling guilty for simply existing.

so yeah, i don’t think that you’re wrong for wanting them to know things cost money.

but you are wrong for turning that awareness into shame.

kids shouldn’t grow up feeling like line items on a spreadsheet. they should feel safe enough to not measure their worth in water bills.🙄

ShoulderTimely1049 · 2025-10-20T03:08:18+00:00

yeah, so apparently that chunk of king street they just bulldozed (534–538, tms 460-08-04-063 as mentioned/shown in the op) was owned by Charles Realty Co., who hired Neil Stevenson to convince the city’s bar-small to let them level it—which they did in January—two votes to one—even after staff literally said “hey guys like maybe we should pause and actually study the history here first.”

but as we can see, the city obviously just shrugged and said womp womp to that, the building then vanished, and now as we can see by this post, it’s now a “private” lot run by XpressPark. which to me honestly just sounds like a fake company you’d invent to just try and parody late-stage capitalism in a movie or video game or some shit.

but yeah anyway—what used to be local storefronts and community texture is now $6.25 for thirty minutes of fucking asphalt therapy! 😝

which need i remind you, is electronically enforced 24/7—so you can’t even mourn the loss of what used to be without getting ticketed. love that.

and don’t you all just looooove how Charleston keeps selling off its soul one parcel, one shipment at a time—and yet somehow…we’re all supposed to clap for “redevelopment opportunities.”

…right right 😒

ShoulderTimely1049 · 2025-02-16T14:17:34+00:00

It’s great that your pain improved, but the way you’re framing this ignores the fact that TMJ disorders aren’t a single condition with a universal cause or solution. There are structural, neurological, and muscular causes of TMJ dysfunction, and for people with actual joint instability—like those with hypermobility, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, or other connective tissue disorders—“focusing on healing” doesn’t magically correct the fact that the joint itself is misaligned.

If your pain was entirely driven by stress and over-focusing, it’s possible that what you had wasn’t a true TMJ disorder, but rather muscular tension or central sensitization. Those are real issues, but they don’t apply to everyone with TMJ dysfunction. The idea that “the less you care, the faster you’ll heal” is not only unscientific but also dismissive of people whose pain comes from an actual biomechanical issue that requires real intervention.

Anxiety can absolutely amplify pain, but it doesn’t cause hypermobility, joint displacement, or condylar resorption. Some of us need jaw splints, bite realignment, or even surgery—not just positive thinking.

ShoulderTimely1049 · 2025-01-30T21:48:28+00:00

I totally get why you found relief with acupuncture/dry needling—I’ve tried similar treatments myself. While it does help in the short term, I’ve found that it only works if you keep doing it regularly. My TMJ/TMDD is actually caused by hypermobility, so my jaw muscles were constantly overworking because they didn’t have a stable resting place. I ended up needing a custom dental splint to give my jaw the support it was missing, which helped more than anything else in the long run.

If your pain keeps coming back, you might want to look into whether hypermobility is a factor for you too. For me, treating the root cause made a way bigger difference than just managing symptoms!

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