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Trying to raise a kind human, take long walks, and not buy too many books I won’t finish. Views expressed are my own.

Fargo, ND
Joined December 2025
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AirBNB had its place and time, but it’s over. Had a lovely stay at a Hyatt last night, left trash in the can, towels on the ground, and am confident my corporate overlord isn’t going to light me up with a guest review video. A professional exchange of goods for money. The AirBNB hosts did this to themselves and the platform lost control long ago.
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The big disconnect on Airbnb cleaning requirements stems from a bunch of ‘hosts’ who got sold a passive income real estate owner dream & found out hospitality is the reality. Asking a guest [paid or unpaid] to take the trash out and strip the linens off the beds is terribly gauche.
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Airbnb owners are my favorite breed of “entrepreneurs” because they’re running service businesses but think they’re real estate moguls who discovered an infinite money glitch. Your customer base is shitting on you saying Airbnb host demands are insufferable. But instead of listening to the market they will just complain to daddy Airbnb about the mean guests (their paying customers) Marriott hotels for me 7 days a week and twice on Sundays.
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Tell them to hire a cleaning service like every other home owner does. Your guests are not your employees. Y’all tried to destroy the hospitality industry not realizing you gotta do the hospitality part to compete with them. Now you got a second mortgage and no guests. 😭
🚨 #BREAKING: Airbnb hosts threaten to sue the company after it banned mandatory dishwashing, deep cleaning, and home improvement services be performed by guests.
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You know what Hilton can't do? Give me a rating as a guest. You know why? Because I'm the customer. LOL Fuck your youth hostel squatter house.
They rolled it out because people are going back to hotels
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Sorry, but this was a long time coming Vacationers don’t want to do unpaid labor for you
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Everyone who says "why don't the AI companies work on things that are actually good for humanity?" - well, this is the sort of thing we *were* working on before ChatGPT came out and everyone dropped everything to compete with that instead.
Google Deepmind (FNV3) CRUSHED the forecast for #Isaias up to 11 days in advance. It picked up some appreciable signal on September 23, locked in on the exact landfall location4 days before it happened, and nailed the peak intensity consistently 3 days before it happened. A new age of forecasting is upon us. First video: Track density using 1000 member ensemble Second Video: Individual tracks and mean using 50 member ensemble
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No. They were designed so we don’t have another Portsmouth, another Blackburn, another Leeds, another Bury etc which is why the PREMIER LEAGUE (as in the MAJORITY of clubs) voted it in Football didn’t start in 2009. The “Red Cartel” had success long before that and it wasn’t based on hyperinflation Besides since the rules came in, Liverpool, Arsenal and United combined have won a measly 5 PLs Quit this farce
The financial rules of the Premier League are designed to give Man Utd Liverpool and Arsenal success in perpetuity despite on field failure. Despite that the owners of City signed up to the rules when buying the club and today is a damning moment no doubt.
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If I was Man City’s lawyer I’d have gone with the irrefutable evidence first…
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PL without City would be like Serie A without Torino
PL without City would be like the bundesliga without Bayern, or La Liga without Madrid
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He was in the UAE a few weeks later in all inclusive to ref UAE games
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Eject the owners. Strip titles. Tax the ownership sale. Points deduction for 10 years. And let the rest of the PL sue the carcass. premierleague.com/en/news/47…
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Man City’s Disguised Funding Scheme: Sponsorship Fees: Season - Total (Actually Paid) 2009/10 - £27.0m (£4.5m) 2010/11 - £41.25m (£12.75m) 2011/12 - £86.75m (£16.0m) 2012/13 - £121.75m (£16.0m) 2013/14 - £127.5m (£16.0m) 2014/15 - £123.2m (£16.0m) 2015/16 - £136.17 (£16.0m) 2016/17 - £140.59 (£11.0m) 2017/18 - £145.73m (£11.0m) Total - £949.94m (£119.25m) So sponsors were only liable for the £119.25m total figure, with the £830.69m additional shareholder funding disguised as ‘commercial partner revenue’.
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When I wrote about this image rights sham for The Independent in 2018, Manchester City threatened to sue us and demanded I tweet out a personal apology on here. We fought them. They did not sue us. City's sham is confirmed by the Premier League today independent.co.uk/sport/foot…
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Gary Neville & Jamie Carragher complained more about Nicolas Jover standing in the technical area for set pieces than they have about Manchester City being found guilty of 114 financial breaches, by the way. It should tell you everything you need to know.
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Aren’t they owned by the same people? 😂
According to sources, Manchester City's main shirt sponsor and stadium naming rights partner Etihad Airways is fully behind the club in their financial dispute with the Premier League.
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If you truly believed in a 10% chance of human extinction in 3 years, you would not be spending your time selling and integrating it into a B2B CRM SaaS platform Watch what they do, not what they say
Welcome Dario to Dreamforce!
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One day AI is going to kill us The next day you are at a Salesforce conference
Welcome Dario to Dreamforce!
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What we used to mockingly call "GPT wrappers", are now respectable "domain-specific harnesses".
I was just at YC demo day yesterday. Besides hardware/physical things, everyone is just basically just building a domain-specific harness
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Manchester City can have absolutely no excuses to not win this league. They’ve spent £1billion in 18 months. Absolutely insane. All whilst being investigated for 115 charges. Shambolic.
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