Instead of tickling immigrants with a sunburn to make them enter a legal port of entry, would you prefer we go back to the Deporter in Chief days of using bullets to enforce a border, like every other first world country does?

Oh, the horror..of remembering your own hypocrisy.

Look on the bright side you're confusing the AI bots trolling the site for posts and training data.

It makes it harder for the landlords to charge fees when minor cleaning tasks aren't done. The way that Airbnb landlords are making money is they have a laundry list of gotchas but they can charge exorbitant fees for. So you book a stay and it looks like a great deal and then you get hit with 200 or 300 or even $500 of extra fees and suddenly you could have stayed at a nice hotel.

In order to compete with hotels which have much better margins and economies of scale Airbnb squeezes the landlords and the landlords in order to make money squeeze the guests.

The funny thing is the left wing has wanted it rebranded as the war department for some time.

I guess old Boomer types think department of war is awesome since they don't have to worry about being drafted anymore. And God knows they could care less about their kids.

I am usually able to find a place faster on agoda.com than on airbnb fwiw.

It makes sense, hotels are almost always a better experience than an AirBnB, unless you have a special location like this one or an area without enough hotels.

Why stay at a sketchy house that makes you clean, when you can stay at a hotel that cleans for you?

EA going bust... and nothing of value will be lost.

Some good will come of it, a large player going bust and all their servers getting turned off will finally force governments (well I mean the EU and possibly Australia and Canada will join in) to address the issue with ownership of games. No one will want to acquire EA as it'll have a load of potentially toxic debt in the form of refunds, class actions, et al. from games that are no longer playable.

Did you not play Mass Effect Andromeda?

It was a case study in how a game designed by committee is terribad.

Lets make a game that is as inoffensive as possible but also try to make it cool and edgy. Make a bad guy that looks like an overgrown infant and use all the same tropes from the previous game yet pretend it hasn't been done before. Also make the gameplay as fun as gouging your eyes out with a rusty fork but above all else we must not, never, ever, ever, ever, upset the most fragile minority of all... White Male Americans.

Graphics were eye meltingly great but the rest was pure crap. I hold it up as key evidence in my theory that graphics don't matter. You can't pretty a bad game into success.

Bioware was dead long before then, same with Mass Effect, we should really let it rest in peace.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha... tell me another one.

Consoles are usually using out of date hardware by the time of their release. The PS5 was released with a Zen3 CPU and RDNA2 GPU. Sure good biz for AMD but it Zen 4 was released nearly a year before the PS5, it was less powerful than a gaming PC I built 2 years earlier and I've just bought a new one using a Zen 5 CPU (Zen6 is just around the corner though). Be careful not to cut yourself on that edge, it's so old you'd need a tetanus shot.

This is true though, they generally aren't able to handle supply chain disruption but that is really true of any business using JIT supply chains.

The big problem is that the PS and XB hardware was always sold as a loss leader with the expectation to make that money back by ripping off the owners at every turn. High fees for publishers and developers, monthly fees for basic functionality, sub standard hardware that would regularly break (usually a week or so after the warranty expired, it's called the Sony timer for a reason). This worked fine for years but now belts are tightening both Sony and Microsoft are finding that they're not making ends meet by nickel and dime'ing the punter at ever turn as the punter is doing everything they can to avoid it.

So the next logical step is to stop selling the hardware at a massive loss, which both Sony and Microsoft are testing the waters on. Sony with a $900 PS5 and now MS with this.

Also, if you're looking for a next gen console, they're already here... have been for ages... they're called a gaming PC. With things like the Steam Deck and Steam Machine being targetted as "living room" machines, they are in a position to eat Sony's and Microsoft's lunch as there is no monthly Steam fee (not to mention GOG, Epic, et al.).

Airbnb has been squeezing the people renting properties for some time. So the only way to make money on the platform is to overcharge on fees. Naturally people have caught on to this and the fact that an Airbnb isn't cheaper than a hotel anymore if you account for those excess fees.

So they are trying to get the fees under control. It's not uncommon to be charged a cleaning fee that is hundreds of dollars.

For once Trump is being honest... He's preparing for war except the war is going to be against the US and it's people. Billionaires can't dare be questioned.

From what I've read this seems more targetted at the kind of host that thinks they can save a few shekels on cleaning by making the guest do it.

This doesn't mean hots can't request the letting be "left as they found it" so to speak but it does mean that they can no longer charge an additional fee or force a guest to forfeit their deposit for a few dirty dishes or not taking the rubbish out.

Given that many AirBNBs are now essentially professional lettings as opposed to someone renting out their spare room for a few quid it seems reasonable to start treating those listings that way... That means they'll have to start ensuring that some minimum standards are met... which means that hosts who wanted a money printing apartment can't cheap out any more.

Of course I get the other side of the argument, I've seen how some people leave their workplace or car and hate to think of the pig sty they live in (which means they'll also treat someone else’s place with as much if not more neglect)... but there are already rules in place for that, this is more for the people who think they can charge an arm and a leg because of a few dirty dishes.

That being said, I think AirBNB is on it's way out, slowly but going as it's just a platform for professional lessors at this point and it's not a very good one any more.

This.

They aren't going to use the beam on illegal immigrants, they are talking about making a plan to potentially use it. Enough to get headlines, not enough to do anything.

The DOD/DOW have been working on this for a while. They discovered, early on, that the device had a propensity to cause permanent nerve damage.

It's very unlikely the US have fixed that, as they'd largely sidelined the work as a failure. However, at 36%, Trump needs something he can call a win, no matter what the long-term consequences.

It is way too early to be wondering if some beanie baby fan actually tried to marry their fuzzy hobbythings.

Spanks a lot for planting that twisted seed.