Booking is also pretty scummy. There was a blog post a few years ago from a hotel that always showed up as sold out, even it had plenty empty rooms. In the end it was a “feature” where other hotels could “promote” their business in a city so it would show up first, but the competition would also be listed as unavailable to force visitors into the promoted business. The other thing is that booking will show “only one room left” to pressure you into booking right now, but what ot actually means is that a hotel might only allocate 20 of 100 rooms to booking, and still has 81 free rooms if you call them directly.
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GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Europe@feddit.org•British Airways Slashes Transatlantic Fares as European Travel to US Drops Sharply Under TrumpEnglish3·5 days agoThere are equally nice things and places to see in other countries, you just never see or hear about them in any US movies.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' StatusEnglish8·8 days agoIsn’t this a ponzi sceme? He uses his starlink as his SpaceX customer. Without Starlink, SpaceX would be a lot less profitable.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Europe@feddit.org•EU to ban dozens of toxic substances in children’s toysEnglish5·10 days agoThis is also one of the reasons Chinese crap is so cheap. EU products have to pass multiple safety checks before they can be sold, which can cost 5 digits or more that has to be added to the price. Chinese can just use the cheapest lead paint and asbestos they can get.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGEEnglish11·12 days agodeleted by creator
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGEEnglish9·12 days agoNeither will the rest of the world, if their cars fail the safety requirements in all the other countries.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Europe@feddit.org•Trump says EU must buy $350B of US energy to get tariff reliefEnglish12·16 days agoHow much is that in solar and wind power?
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Europe@feddit.org•Europe has a 'real opportunity' to take in Americans fleeing Trump. Is it ready for a 'brain drain'?English41·16 days agoThe trick is to tell them what they want to hear, otherwise you won’t get the required permits and paperwork.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey saysEnglish82·19 days agoI use AI for programming questions, because it’s easier than digging 1h through official docs (if they exists) and frustrating trial and error.
However quite often the ai answers are wrong by inserting nonsense code, using for instead of foreach or trying to access variables that are not always set.
Yes it helps, but it’s usually only 60% right.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Europe@feddit.org•Trump tells UK to buy chlorinated chicken from US if it wants tariff reliefEnglish2·20 days agoGosh, then will pour chlor over my chicken dish myself before serving, like some sort of crime scene cleaner.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Europe@feddit.org•E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s XEnglish9·20 days agoBased on his promises to deliver a mars colony by 2018, full self driving cars by “next year” since 2015, retarded ideas of robot axis and busses, impossible hyper loops, household robots and other brain farts he can’t deliver.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Europe@feddit.org•E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s XEnglish61·20 days agoI don’t think any penalties would be necessary, if all Publishers, big websites and popular influencers would simply stop automatically pushing their news to twitter. In most cases this is just an integration someone put in 5 years ago that notifies twitter about new blog articles, and everyone forgot that ot still exist.
This way the value for platform users would decrease, and with it the advertising revenue Twitter could expect from companies.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blockingEnglish10·21 days agoYes, but this only works if you connect your VPN via 3 block chain proxies.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Europe@feddit.org•Young women in England and Wales projected to have just one child by 35English12·22 days agoThe problem is that you need young people to pay for social security and retirement funds, work jobs, live and work in small cities and villages. Without them the services in smaller places will decline, eventually resulting in them to become ghost towns. Once the retirement funds are depleted the older generation will slide into poverty and won’t be able to pay for any goods and services, meaning business has to fire staff, causing more poverty.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blockingEnglish18·22 days agoAd Networks use browser fingerprinting to detect duplicate clicks, which is tied to your hardware, system locale, installed fonts etc.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgto Europe@feddit.org•Germany decides to leave history in the past and prepare for warEnglish1·22 days agoWell, the gas pipeline was built in the early 2000s to get russia on board as a business partner to prevent escalation. As the saying goes: if the goods are not rolling, the tanks are rolling between countries.
Check how many accounts pushing republican propaganda only post during St. Petersburg business hours… 🙃
GenosseFlosse@feddit.orgOPto Europe@feddit.org•Take your clothes off, we need to talkEnglish28·25 days agoBecause there is nothing wrong with it.
Yeah, just not on the consumer side 🙃