Ugh. I may have a different explanation for your steep hotel rates, Freehold: Your ZIP Code.
EDIT: Or perhaps you violated their dress code?
No, that graduation was in my neck of the woods. Unfortunately, even though we were in the same town at the same time it just didn't work out to meet up.
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No, that graduation was in my neck of the woods. Unfortunately, even though we were in the same town at the same time it just didn't work out to meet up.
It's where you're flying from that matters -- the booking agencies have been "caught" jacking up prices for people from more "affluent" areas such as San Francisco. So if you and Freehold stayed at the same place it'd be interesting for you to compare prices. The exposé was on sites such as Booking.com cranking up their rates for people booking out of San Francisco, but I'm sure they do similar things to New Yorkers.
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"Ugh, why am I getting all these results about Muslims?!"
"Hon, your topic was 'Christian-Islamic relations in the Renaissance.'"
"Yeah, they're not supposed to date. What does that-"
"Your research topic for Othello is 'how did Christian and Islamic nations get along?' You're gonna get those results."
"But I said Islam-"
"...Muslims...follow Islam. You're basically saying 'I looked up Baptist, what's all this Christian stuff coming up?'"
"Oooooh."
Can we get another week of snow. Please.
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"Is Italy in Europe?"
My mouse is wireless. I can't use it as a noose.
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. . .
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"We all know these children HAVE no future!"
*stunned cafeteria silence*
"Prove me wrong, children. Prove me wrong."
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And here I was pissed just because I got a call about a server being down at 2:03am. It rebooted for updates at 1:20, and the system detected it up by 2:05. Which means it was already up for about 5 minutes before they called me.
Does it help or make it worse if I say they're the same kid?
Eh. ToMAYto, toMORon.
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No, that graduation was in my neck of the woods. Unfortunately, even though we were in the same town at the same time it just didn't work out to meet up.It's where you're flying from that matters -- the booking agencies have been "caught" jacking up prices for people from more "affluent" areas such as San Francisco. So if you and Freehold stayed at the same place it'd be interesting for you to compare prices. The exposé was on sites such as Booking.com cranking up their rates for people booking out of San Francisco, but I'm sure they do similar things to New Yorkers.
Misunderstood. Thought we were talking about hotels still. No, it was definitely easy driving distance for me. gran may have unknowingly met Freehold though.
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Misunderstood. Thought we were talking about hotels still. No, it was definitely easy driving distance for me. gran may have unknowingly met Freehold though.No, that graduation was in my neck of the woods. Unfortunately, even though we were in the same town at the same time it just didn't work out to meet up.It's where you're flying from that matters -- the booking agencies have been "caught" jacking up prices for people from more "affluent" areas such as San Francisco. So if you and Freehold stayed at the same place it'd be interesting for you to compare prices. The exposé was on sites such as Booking.com cranking up their rates for people booking out of San Francisco, but I'm sure they do similar things to New Yorkers.
"The hell is this room service request, 'be delivered by a milkmaid'?"
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Misunderstood. Thought we were talking about hotels still. No, it was definitely easy driving distance for me. gran may have unknowingly met Freehold though.No, that graduation was in my neck of the woods. Unfortunately, even though we were in the same town at the same time it just didn't work out to meet up.It's where you're flying from that matters -- the booking agencies have been "caught" jacking up prices for people from more "affluent" areas such as San Francisco. So if you and Freehold stayed at the same place it'd be interesting for you to compare prices. The exposé was on sites such as Booking.com cranking up their rates for people booking out of San Francisco, but I'm sure they do similar things to New Yorkers.
It's hotels. If I book a hotel through Booking.com from an IP address in the Bay Area, I'll pay more for the exact same room on the exact same date as you would through Booking.com from an IP address in Illinois.
They're tracking IP addresses and charging higher rates to people from more affluent areas. Variable hotel rates to the extreme. Since Freehold's in the New York area, I'm sure his IP address would qualify him for higher rates.
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Misunderstood. Thought we were talking about hotels still. No, it was definitely easy driving distance for me. gran may have unknowingly met Freehold though.No, that graduation was in my neck of the woods. Unfortunately, even though we were in the same town at the same time it just didn't work out to meet up.It's where you're flying from that matters -- the booking agencies have been "caught" jacking up prices for people from more "affluent" areas such as San Francisco. So if you and Freehold stayed at the same place it'd be interesting for you to compare prices. The exposé was on sites such as Booking.com cranking up their rates for people booking out of San Francisco, but I'm sure they do similar things to New Yorkers.It's hotels. If I book a hotel through Booking.com from an IP address in the Bay Area, I'll pay more for the exact same room on the exact same date as you would through Booking.com from an IP address in Illinois.
They're tracking IP addresses and charging higher rates to people from more affluent areas. Variable hotel rates to the extreme. Since Freehold's in the New York area, I'm sure his IP address would qualify him for higher rates.
Just further proof that a VPN subscription is going to be more and more necessary, one might say mandatory, going forward.
At least, until some business gets the bright idea that doing so is "presenting the consumer fraudulently" and lobbies to have it banned.
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Personally, I find it entertaining that my corporate VPN goes through Phoenix, of all places, which the article lists as consistently getting the lowest prices. So from now on *if* we use one of those sites we'll apparently be booking our trips on my corporate laptop while connected to corporate VPN. A wee bit of ridiculous there.
"Ugh, why am I getting all these results about Muslims?!"
"Hon, your topic was 'Christian-Islamic relations in the Renaissance.'"
"Yeah, they're not supposed to date. What does that-"
"Your research topic for Othello is 'how did Christian and Islamic nations get along?' You're gonna get those results."
"But I said Islam-"
"...Muslims...follow Islam. You're basically saying 'I looked up Baptist, what's all this Christian stuff coming up?'"
"Oooooh."Can we get another week of snow. Please.
Force them to play medieval total war 2.
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"Is Italy in Europe?"
My mouse is wireless. I can't use it as a noose.
I want to observe scints class solely so I can see her bank her wireless mouse off of the heads several of kids who aren't paying attention in a single cast.
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"Real mouse or computer mouse?"
-Better Off Ted
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I had a teacher that threw chalkboard erasers at us. He was also the baseball coach.
In Soviet Union, teachers throw YOU at ERASERS!
Meanwhile in this neighborhood an eraser is a violent threat. Have you seen what those things did to poor Daffy? Gives me nightmares, whugh. Keep that to yourself, man!
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"Is Italy in Europe?"
My mouse is wireless. I can't use it as a noose.
...But as slingshot ammunition...
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I had a teacher that threw chalkboard erasers at us. He was also the baseball coach.
A university lecturer threw chalkboard eraser at me. I questioned her choice of cake to represent cake ideal when discussing platonic philosophy.
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I had a teacher that threw chalkboard erasers at us. He was also the baseball coach.
Lol, when he went to a Jesuit high school (as a mouthy, know-it-all Protestant), WW had not only chalk thrown at him, but on the odd occasion, shoes, and once a Bible.
NH can attest that it can be very, very difficult at times to NOT hurl random objects at WW, and yes, parochial school teachers have more license to do such things than public school teachers do, but still...
Meanwhile, Scint and Drejk both get cookies.
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"Real mouse or computer mouse?"
-Better Off Ted
This is Scint we are talking about.
First one, then the other.
ATTENTION
ALL OF MACROSS(save for DYRL and the original series unfortunately and 3 other movies, 2 from 7 and 1 from Delta) IS ON HULU
I REPEAT
ALL OF MACROSS(save for DYRL and the original series unfortunately and 3 other movies, 2 from 7 and 1 from Delta) IS ON HULU
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
"Is Italy in Europe?"
My mouse is wireless. I can't use it as a noose.
It’s an island. Just happens to be somewhat connected to Europe at the top.
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ATTENTION
ALL OF MACROSS(save for DYRL and the original series unfortunately and 3 other movies, 2 from 7 and 1 from Delta) IS ON HULU
I REPEAT
ALL OF MACROSS(save for DYRL and the original series unfortunately and 3 other movies, 2 from 7 and 1 from Delta) IS ON HULU
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Fascinating. Now, who precisely is this "Macross Darryl" micronian?
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That's kinda the boat we're in as well. Trying to save money, or at least cut down on spending and bills, in preparation for [REDACTED].
We're down to YouTube Premium and Nebula now. I do keep being tempted to try CuriosityStream, but ... yeah just not a good time for it at the moment.
I have youtube premium, netflix, and crunchyroll. I rarely watch Netflix anymore, but do from time to time. Crunchyroll I keep planning to watch something, but can't choose what to start. Although, I did just finish my 3rd watch through of Frieren on Saturday.
Ill never forgive crunchyroll for what they've done.
I'm guessing this is a sub-vs-dub thing. *eats space popcorn with sun butter and Meteor&Ms*
What did they do?I have youtube premium, netflix, and crunchyroll. I rarely watch Netflix anymore, but do from time to time. Crunchyroll I keep planning to watch something, but can't choose what to start. Although, I did just finish my 3rd watch through of Frieren on Saturday.
Ill never forgive crunchyroll for what they've done.
They took away the free tier.
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Ads are an interesting area for me:
Netflix: We're introducing ads. You can continue paying what you are now and stay ad-free, or you can pay less and accept ads. We kept NetFlix.
Disney Plus: We're introducing ads. You can continue paying what you are now and get ads, or you can pay more to go ad-free. We dropped Disney Plus, even though its ad-free tier was still cheaper than Netflix.
Amazon Prime: We're introducing ads. You can continue paying what you are now and get ads, or you can pay more to go ad-free. We stopped watching Amazon Prime (can't exactly unsubscribe because it's part of the overall Amazon Prime membership and you can't split out what you want or don't want. And yes, I checked). Though we are now looking into whether we can cancel Amazon entirely, so they managed to make their video services so untenable that if we drop free delivery, we'll drop video in a heartbeat.
In all cases, it was, "We're forcing ads on you unless you pay more," vs., "You can have a discount if you accept ads." I find the former extortion, and the latter reasonable.
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Kinda the problem with letting the robber barons drive the stagecoach.
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"Anyone else want to try?"
"...uh, sure."
"Thank you! You get a Jolly Rancher for putting yourself out there. Anyone else?"
I swear these things are made of crack.
My teacher once whipped me with a belt.
Homeschooling sucks.
As far as streaming services I can't live without Spotify and I guess Hulu. And then we also have Netflix, Disney+, Peacock, and Paramount+.
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Spotify is good for older stuff (as is Youtube - maybe better), but Bandcamp is where I look for new music.
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"Anyone else want to try?"
"...uh, sure."
"Thank you! You get a Jolly Rancher for putting yourself out there. Anyone else?"
I swear these things are made of crack.
That's what you get when you let the crack ranchers... ranch... crack... DAMMIT! I thought I was going to be able to come up with a joke by the end of that sentence. Winter's got me off my game. So dark. So cold.
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"Anyone else want to try?"
"...uh, sure."
"Thank you! You get a Jolly Rancher for putting yourself out there. Anyone else?"
I swear these things are made of crack.
Uh..
You wouldn't happen to have any cherry or green apple jolly ranchers would you?
Asking for a friend.
Spotify is good for older stuff (as is Youtube - maybe better), but Bandcamp is where I look for new music.
I wish I paid better attention to Bandcamp than I do. I've found so much good stuff there, downloaded it, occasionally still listen to the MP3s, but have forgotten to ever go back and look for more/newer.
Spotify is good for older stuff (as is Youtube - maybe better), but Bandcamp is where I look for new music.
I might have subscribed to MoonJune Records to get all of their releases...Soft Machine, Tony Levin, Markus Reuter, Wingfield, Gary Husband, a bunch of obscure jazz fusion groups ranging from Italy to Indonesia...good stuff.
Hulu is down.
Spotify is good for older stuff (as is Youtube - maybe better), but Bandcamp is where I look for new music.
I'm so far down the independent music rabbit hole on Spotify I only get obscure band recommendations for new music.
Hulu is down.
No doubt Khyron is to blame.