If they get a cut of the booking cost, then they have no incentive to dissuade listing creators from doing whatever the fuck they can to get renters to pull out the credit card.

They already have your money by the time you arrive at your rental and realize the listing was complete horseshit. Most people either can’t or won’t change their planned accomodations that late in their trip.

So you stay in your falsely advertised hovel and complain to the booking company afterward, who says, “we don’t create the listings, inaccuracies in them aren’t our fault.”

Nothing will change until the problem is pervasive enough that bookings drop as a result AND the reduced revenue is correctly attributed to it by shareholders AND they pressure the C-suite to implement policy changes accordingly.

You should consider reading the article before “just sayin.”

Eww, no. Gross.

My gyno jerks off my cows like a civilized person.

They don’t care if the service is good or not because the days of companies actually competing for customers are rapidly coming to a close.

If they can drive the private hardware market into extinction, then they become the only option.

I’m not advocating for anyone to start a civil war. Believe me, I know better than most what it looks like when everything falls apart. I was an idiot high school student who believed the “fight for democracy” bullshit and wanted to see what war was really like, so I enlisted in the Marines in the early 2000s as an infantryman. I got my wish and it made me as anti-war as anyone else.

But unlike my dumb ass, historically, the vast majority of people involved in violent conflicts had no choice otherwise. You can do everything right to avoid being the catalyst for conflict, but that doesn’t mean someone everyone else will do the same.

But we can choose what tools and capabilities we will have at our disposal if violence insists on coming to our homes and families.

Conservatives Are Terrified That People Like Me Are Buying Guns

No they’re not. I’m progressive in my politics and beliefs but associate with a lot of conservatives because firearms are a big hobby of mine.

I’ve seen some embrace left-leaning people because they’re just happy to see others join the firearms community. I’ve seen others laugh at the idea of “pink-haired lesbians” training and imply that everyone on the left is weak and incapable of ever getting good with firearms. Still others dig in with a serious tone and talk about being ready to defend America ® and Patriotism ™ against the communist pedophiles.

But not a single one has expressed fear, because they don’t see themselves as the bad guys. They will either never be the aggressor in a confrontation (but tacitly support those who will be) and thus won’t be in the line of fire, or feel ready to lay down their lives for God and Country and Family Values and Good Righteous People Everywhere. They really don’t see inevitable future that comes with the outhering language they use and administration they support.

polarise US even more

Decades of right-wing messaging being beamed straight into people’s homes and the fact that they now control the majority of all forms of media outlets has done infinitely more polarizing damage than the occasional article that says, “hey, maybe we should consider learning how to use the only tools that have a proven track record of stopping fascists?”

Not necessarily, that’s also just how these types of people talk.

Demons aren’t known for their creativity.

Its most likely just a front-end for one of the command line tools anyway, so you’re probably still using them.

And if it’s the easiest way to get what you need, then it sounds like you’re using the right tool for your use case. That’s a good thing.