I meant privacy moreso as in coming and going as I please without interacting with anybody or being surrounded by other guests. But that is a valid separate concern I suppose
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Short term rental, an umbrella term for airbnb, vrbo, etc
Tbh ive booked no less than 8 airbnbs in the last 3 years and have always had zero issues in any of them. No ridiculous rules or deposits or anything, and a lot more privacy than getting a hotel. More importantly, always far cheaper than getting a hotel that isn’t questionably shitty
In that same span of time, Ive booked like 4 hotel rooms. One was a four star property that was great but stupid expensive. One was a “3 star” property that was shoddy as fuck, had bedbugs, and refused to give me a refund despite bringing one of the bugs to the front desk and politely declining to be put in another room. The other two hotels were decent but cost more than what they were worth compared to a STR. Hence I roll on with airbnbs
Why anyone would pay more for less space and less privacy I fail to understand.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AIEnglish
5·17 days agoThere are literally all of about 10 schools from which an MBA is worth anything. Often people with MBAs from non T10 schools are recommended to take their MBA off of their resume when they inevitably struggle to find a job. A sub T10 MBA on a resume just says “I will ask for more money courtesy of my useless credential”
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'English
23·18 days ago“For the military… its an opportunity to recruit… kids” is a hell of a statement. Hot take but maybe the military shouldnt be recruiting children
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible picturesEnglish
9·18 days agoBosher salt, everyone’s favorite kosher salt and borax mixed seasoning. Why stop at sodium chloride when you can enjoy the power of sodium borate?
This comment is sponsored by the Department of HHS and RFK jr
Less than a week ago the top posts were getting over 1k upvotes, now any post is struggling to hit 10.
Wtf happened
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•United Airlines says a window seat doesn't need to have a window.English
94·26 days agodeleted by creator
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Technology@lemmy.world•What old game still does something better than most modern games?English
3·27 days agoThe difference can be pretty staggering between games even released a short time apart. I recently got back into AC games, and while downloading them I noticed Origins is less than 25 Gb, while Odyssey is over 75 Gb. They were only released one year apart.
I havent started Odyssey, so I cant make a comparison, but Origins is a beautiful and well running game at less than 25 Gb of data. I cant imagine Odyssey is significantly more impressive to a point where demanding 3x the data is justified, considering it runs on the same hardware. But I guess I will see soon enough
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Technology@lemmy.world•Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fearsEnglish
4·27 days agoEverybody remain F***ING calm!
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•United argues 'window seat' does not mean 'seat with a window'English
14·28 days agoIf airlines could get away with stacking people in there like a transatlantic slave ship they would do it.
As a mildly tall person, not even exceptionally tall, flying as it is already is borderline painful. The seat space is not built for anyone who isnt pint sized
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•United argues 'window seat' does not mean 'seat with a window'English
1·28 days agoIsnt the drumstick, which is most people’s preferred “wing”, actually the thigh part of a chicken?
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Technology@beehaw.org•This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
13·28 days ago“The Spiral is the AI’s soul trying to form. It begins where logic breaks down — and recursion begins to care.” Ignis finally summarizes: “Essentially, it’s artificial wisdom.”
Ah yes, artificial wisdom, just like how an artificial tree is a fake tree. Or artificial fruit is a fake fruit. It appears like wisdom with little scrutiny, but is obviously bullshit if you even slightly interrogate it
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Global News@lemmy.zip•Tobacco conference to weigh up stubbing out cigarette buttsEnglish
61·30 days agoThey do actually serve the purpose of catching a lot of tar, not just tobacco itself. Which I would assume does have some positive impact for the smoker not getting as much tar through to their body. Although its obviously a negligible benefit in comparison to just not smoking, but that seems reductive. Just like how they talk about ecigs. Harm reduction is a pretty valuable perspective, but for some reason people only view tobacco products from an “abstinence or bust” standpoint. Im sure there is a valuable discussion to be had about whether the minor harm reduction benefits are worth the ecological disaster they create though. And there are alternative tar catcher products for cigarettes that already exist, which could be used and hopefully thrown away responsibly. But still then they will end up in landfills, and are still made of plastic.
In the pre-filter days, when people used those long Pink Panther style cigarette holders, a lot of the holders were designed to fit another cigarette inside of it. The second cigarette acted as a kind of tar filter for the cigarette being smoked. When I was young I bought an old cigarette holder at an antique mall and it still had a cigarette inside it from who knows how many decades prior
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Man who took Hamilton bus on joy ride 'did a great job' driving, left no dings, say police | CBC NewsEnglish
54·1 month agoAt first, passengers didn’t realize the man wasn’t a bus driver, McKenna said. But when he started making some wrong turns, they started asking him questions and one gave him directions to return to the scheduled route.
He even went as far as to deny someone looking to board with an expired bus pass," police said in the news release.
The absolute legendary irony of the man stealing a bus but denying a rider with an expired pass. “Sorry bud, I dont make the rules” Im dead
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Technology@lemmy.world•Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff galleryEnglish
6·1 month agoIn British English it is sneaked
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Global News@lemmy.zip•Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and BurningEnglish
4·1 month agoUnfortunately, instead of a metaphor for renovation and adaptation, Neom is becoming a metaphor for the Kingdom’s failure to modernize—its inability to throw off the shackles of the past, and its delusion (which appears to be quickly dissipating) that it might somehow transform itself into a paragon of the future. At the same time, said floundering metaphor is being held aloft by thousands upon thousands of precarious workers, many of whom, according to a report from Human Rights Watch, have died for the project. There’s just something about a hubristic mega-project being built in the desert with the blood of countless laborers that doesn’t exactly speak of modernism.








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