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.

Seriously, how is a job applicant supposed to be able to distinguish what a hacker asks them to do versus the typical humiliation ritual that passes for the standard employment experience we are accustomed to?

It's two slightly different flavors of abuse.

No. It's not white guilt.

And it's money coming from wealthy to the poor.

The best way to do reparations is to make sure nobody goes hungry and to increase opportunities.

I think that what everyone needs to realize is we are all in this together. 99% of the population is closer to the bottom than the top.

Let's ensure no one goes hungry, homeless or had injustice. Reparations to everyone.

We should show mercy because many decent people have benefited from evil.

We can't look at countries collectively. Religions. White or dark skin. We are not at war with nations, we are complicit in theft for leaders.

If we don't punish the results of war crimes we only empower the excuses.

The Trump admin removed everything that would have prevented this war crime and implemented AI to give them another thing to point fingers at.

I'm less afraid of Iranian justice than I am of Epstein administration mercy.

When the Trump admin fires oversight, the agency that prevents civilian casualties, and hires for loyalty and evil -- it's not incompetence, it's policy.

The "AI made me" was adopted from the same company that did it in Palestine.

They killed non combatant kids because they didn't are not to kill kids.

This is war crimes. And if we don't punish the results we will only improve the excuses.

Thank you for this comment. Iâ(TM)ve been trying to put the same idea into words; the Trump administration tried to do a Bush911 but failed due to incompetent evil.

Also, deep respect to the Iranians for not being bated into a trap. The Trump admin has lessened our cyber security. Poked every bees nest. Taunted and insulted. All to get someone, anyone to attack the American people or our electronic infrastructure.

Nope. Crickets.

They arenâ(TM)t smart enough to pull off a false flag. Too lazy to drum up support. But dumb and arrogant enough to try.

Oh, and rewatching that âoeattemptâ on Trump. He stands there waiting with a fist up while someone has the presence of mind to lower the American flag hanging from a winch so it could be in the photo. Thatâ(TM)s our patriotic pathetic narrative on display. Once you see it you canâ(TM)t unsee it.

No, but it will replace the half Planck.

We donâ(TM)t need long text for short word. We already have inch and ounce. The same value but ironically less character than âoeTrumpdicks.â

The question has the answer. âoeSlave societyâ. The chains are hidden. We already had housing and food scarcity licked in the 80s. As productivity increased, more scarcity and excuses had to be manufactured. âoeWe have to stay competitive.â And apparently, profits to shareholders arenâ(TM)t a part of the price?

This is something that really paints the picture; around 2015 our MIC consolidated military contractors from hundreds down to about five. âoeEfficiencyâ led to 50% layoffs but a shoulder mounted rocket went from $25000 to $400,000. Now for the petro dollar or to end it, we are in Iraq. $2 million interceptors chasing $25k drone. Because thatâ(TM)s where your living wage went. To blow up a school in Iran rather than build one in the USA. The rest was sagely invested in a yacht, cocaine and comfort women and of course someone on TV to tell you some other reason.

And those in power by definition need their power, hence, everyone else is only permitted weak security.

What matters is managing and adjusting the relative weaknesses, to maintain the pecking order.

There will always be back doors.

I mean they didnt do it to an actual living creature, but yeah its still pretty fucked up if you think about it, we emulated a brain and then dropped it in literally a virtual recreation of 'hell'...

Do not create the Torment Nexus.

OMG. Ok I hadn't thought of that. At least the last TV I bought for a relative was just a computer screen for media box.