I fly 200ish flights a year so figure 70-80 nights away.

2025 was 100% hotels but 2019 was about 80% Airbnbs.

Airbnb will never get my business back. Ever. The professional scammer hosts are so good at finding a way to nail me for a fee. Iâ(TM)ve taken perfect check out video and still had to spend hours fighting fees.

Airbnb allowed making guests do it.

They lost so much money to hotels theyâ(TM)re banning hosts from requiring it.

Accounting is the art of counting the right things, once. Harder than it sounds. We need more heroic accountants and less heroic MBAs.

I've seen that repeated ad nauseam but I can't say I've noticed it. Cloudflare reported a drop in both traffic but that was apparently regular Yandex indexing bots.

So I wonder if it's just propaganda.

At least I won't be labeled a Russian bot for thinking so.

I suspect that "market share" is a lot about what kind of games heavy players are playing on Steam right now. March was when Slay the Spire 2 was released, a very Linux friendly game, popular with Linux demographics. Months where DRM-ridden MMOs or extraction shooter of the month dominates - which is most of them - will see lower Linux use.

They are factually security improvements.

Sure, as long as you're clear it's not your security as a user they're protecting.

That was a joke in reference to venues getting squeezed. Yes, studios and distributors never succeeded in getting a share of concessions, but they have tried, and by all accounts it's miserable to be in the venue business compared to the studios/distributors business.

FYI, it's also a bad idea to throw "conspiracy theory" around to describe garden-variety private profit maximizing schemes. Reserve it for grand conspiracy theories, those that would actually require superhuman levels of coordination and secrecy. You'll regret your rhetorical huffing and puffing in defense of Hollywood when actual grand conspiracy theories take hold of society and fuck up things for you personally.

You mean the theater gets to keep 5% of the popcorn sales?

That's a point in favor of their humanity, technically.

Turn off anonymous cowardice before complaining that people won't debate you, you two.

I recall an explanation of charge separation in clouds when waterdrops would form a thin layer of ice which would shatter in tiny pieces. This would leave a charged waterdrop behind. The ice fragments and the waterdrop would move at very different speeds and this would lead to separation of charge.

I wonder if those water drops have the right charge for corrosion.

Don't give them ideas!

it is about how you read the data.If you make things safer people make the calculation they can relax a bit more and be distracted. if you have lane assist you can pay less attention to your lane and a bit more to your smartphone.

In a way a lot of the modern safety gadgets are 'multitasking assistance' that allow you to think about other things.

Propaganda is always easier when you're armed with a bloody good point. So try to not let the enemy have those.