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Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 1) 29

With fusion power, crypt-coyn, Quantum computing, vegi-meat  and *.AI all producing negative returns ... and promising those losses  continuing into the indefinite future ... pure-play investors need to believe in SOME sure outrageously profitable money-stream.  The wife may tolerate silver, but the mistress demands gold ! If not hallucinogens then ... what ...? Panic ... panic ...

Comment Re:Zoe Kleinman ?! WTAF ?!?! (Score 1) 65

> Second, it is absolutely insulting to judge someone solely by their degree after 25 years of professional experience in the field of tech reporting for the general populace

Oh, it's not just the degree he's judging the journalist on, it's also that she's a woman. Because everyone knows in "We use DEI as a pejorative despite not knowing what it means" lala conservative land women don't know things like us smart men do.

What a fucking tool the GP is. Not as bad, I suppose, as the guy who posted an anti-Semitic slur in the AirBNB article, but still pretty bad.

Comment Re:It's the fees (Score 1) 118

Is the selling point of AirBNB that it's cheaper than a hotel, or that it's more friendly to, say, families (which Hotels are usually hostile to - literally the only hotels I've ever been to that were almost close to family friendly were at Legoland.)

I've never seen an AirBNB ad boast AirBNBs are cheaper. It's always focused on convenience and availability of more than "1 king/2 queens + bathroom" type cookie cutter hotel rooms.

And, honestly, landlords have needed to be reined in for a long time in terms of adding absurd conditions, often not visible until after you've agreed to rent the place. Absentee landlords are common, and a place that's reliant upon guests to do the cleaning is going to be a shithole on a regular basis when one guest follows another with lower standards. It literally cannot work if you rely upon guests to do the cleaning.

Comment Re:VRBO (Score 2) 118

> You can only choose to not stay at a place with "overly strict rules" if those rules are listed in advance.

Yeah, and TBH if AirBNB wants to ban these rules completely, that's entirely reasonable too. The landlords can choose not to use AirBNB just as easily as renters can choose listings that don't have these rules if there's been a race to the bottom and everyone has them (or has them hidden, as you mention.)

Comment Re:AirBNB decides to commit retnal market suicide (Score 2) 118

Why make life easy for AirBNB community smashers. Owners of such properties ARE running mini-hotels and denying land-use/housing  to real residents. Instead of shelter for full-time residents AirBNB creates  drug-addled adult  vacation-toys for the upper-mid class. Is that act basically  wrong?  Yes ... in that nearby rental properties decrease land/aesthetic  values for nearby permanent residents --- see < Isle of Palms SC  > for a prime example, where proliferation of AirBNB-type housing culturally  raped the local community.  Of-course ... no moreso than a resort in the Poconos or Sierra Nevada. But, the distinction should be perfectly clear, between residential  and recreational properties ; things like tax-rates, professional services and maintenance ought to reflect that difference. AirBNB owners want it both ways ... hotel+ income while shoving maintenance on visitors. I'd stop that right now ... as well as allowing ANY AirBNB properties within residential neighborhoods.

Comment Re:Synergy (Score 2) 132

if you look at his track record with DOGE, then you can see his diktats can easily go awry. He walked away from the Fed. Gov. after he screwed it up, he won't be able to walk away from GonzoWhopper Elmo, Inc.

Screwing up the federal government, which was conducting multiple investigations into his companies and himself personally, was exactly his goal. He destroyed the agencies that were trying to regulate him, and investigate him. Being able to steal everyone's data was just a nice side effect to him. Being able to kill funding that was helping to keep hundreds of thousands of African children alive was his way of giving a giant FU to them.

Comment Re:You cannot destroy data, harmless or not ... (Score 3, Insightful) 299

He didn't destroy the data though, the officer did when he blindly put in the code that was given to him. If they are serious about wanting to get into the phone, they should have cloned it first, and then worked off of the copy, and none of this would have been an issue.

This is sloppy work by customs.

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