Some folks would prefer to repair the toilet they have than run away to use the neighbor's.

If you're just fine with living in a cesspit, though, you do you.

A lot of airbnbs are former real estate listings that didn't sell at the asking price, so the owner put it up as an Airbnb to pay the property taxes while they sit on it and wait for the market to turn around. Meanwhile homelessness increases and the property rots.

There are few options for low-damage area denial. Which ARE acceptable and why?

A heat ray beats tear "gas" (which is really a cloud or spray of particulates) whose misery lasts after the target quits the area.

Even if you wear a CBRN mask the rest of you often gets smegged and that IME is not pleasant.

A heat ray does not require physical combat with attendant injuries.

 

I think everyone is missing the real story here.

This has nothing to do with taking out the garbage, and everything to do with making it impossible to be an "absentee landlord" (or at least hiring a cleaning service)

And it's a much needed change! Far too many deadbeats pick up a literally-condemnable shack in a touristy area and think they can just list and ignore it. It's easy to ghost someone over email, not so easy when your renters are in your face demanding the toilet work ASAP.

Yes, for them, because their games don't depend on the highest level of tech. It won't work for anyone else, there is only room in the market for one player like that at a time.

The county sheriff's department didn't have enough officers to do as much "policing" so that was in fact a force reduction leading to a reduction in crime.

You're not very good at basic sanity checks. You can run along now.

Elon's attack on our government has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people so far and the number is expected to reach into the millions. He's a mass murderer on an epic scale. You're a sick piece of shit for celebrating that, and fuck you and all the other Nazis. I hope you all shoot yourselves in the head in bunkers.

It's not funny, which in this context would mean unexpected, because it's gotten so expensive to make chips now because they are so complicated. This is in fact exactly what one would expect.

Which? If the actions don't make sense, then there's no such thing as a reasonable reason for taking them. That's how those words work.

On average, no you are not.

I stayed in an airbnb in Eureka when I first got up here to Humboldt because it's so hard to get a place. The person who owned it owned five other airbnb houses.

You are a mark.

The surveys my company sends out really are anonymous, insofar as they don't contain a tracking ID and don't ask for a name.

They do, however, ask for our site and our job title. Which would be just fine if I was Engineer #81 of 200 working out of corporate HQ. Instead, our job titles are unusually specific - Mine is basically "$Teamname Engineer 3", of which there are only two in the entire company, and we're based out of different satellite offices (we're all remote, so my "site" is just the company's largest physical office in my state - A whopping 12 people on-site, maybe 50 including remote workers).

So is it anonymous? Technically yes, functionally no.

First, airbnb is evil and must be destroyed. That out of the way...

If you're paying a cleaning fee, you should not have to clean anything. Not a single solitary fucking thing.

If you aren't, then you should do your own dishes.

I'm sure he volunteered once for a weekend five years ago, and he's completely wrong about the funding.

... the usual caveats apply: An expert human, or team of humans, needs to look at what the AI is suggesting, understand what it is suggesting, test it with the same or more rigor they would give to the same suggestion if a human had come up with it, and not "sign off" on it until they are satisfied that it is what they say it is.

It's the humans who are putting their professional reputation and, in some cases, their professional licenses on the line if they get it wrong. The AI is incapable of caring if it's correct or not.

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