Right up there with the orange painted cretin throwing White House sterling silverware in the trash

Yes, in the same way that Uber pretended that their service was a way to find people to carpool with and not a taxi service

It's in Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's recent book.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/white-house-staff-reportedly-monitored-trumps-trash-because-he-was-sometimes-throwing-out-high-end-silverware/

What a lazy absolute disrespectful heathen. And recall how Republicans threw fits about things like the outgoing Clinton admin switching letters on keyboards at the White House...

Even worse, hosts would demand that you run the dishwasher and launder the sheets, and then still charge a cleaning fee. On top of that. I knew someone who was paid $25 to clean Airbnbs per unit, while the hosts were charging a cleaning fee of 75.

That's not really the spirit of what the cleaning fee is supposed to be. I can see covering overhead of arranging for a cleaning service being legitimate. Using it as a profit center is wrong. Employing a mechanic as part of an auto service center is different because that is their primary profit center. A host is supposed to make money from the main lodging fee, not an inflated cleaning charge.

Of course. They can't do anything now, only give people money if they get reelected.

yeah, i think you're correct

Yeah, I was saying it from their perspective. No doubt that he’d never pay up, like the idiotic $5,000 thing that would cost the government 1.25 trillion.

Like everything he says about tariffs, or in general, the "tariff refund checks" is an offensively stupid concept. First, he lies his ass off all the time saying that foreign governments pay tariffs, which can easily shown to not only be false, but to make no sense at all (100% tariff = free for us?). He recently said that Mexico "paid for the wall" because he "charged them tariffs". So either he straight up lies because admitting it's a tax on Americans sounds bad, or he's actually too stupid to know how tariffs work. Anyway, so if foreign governments pay for them, why would we be getting a "refund"? Next, if we pay for them, why charge tariffs and then just give the money back?? All that thinking is too hard for your average maga dolt though.

I think a reasonable profit is okay, but 3x the basic cost is excessive.

Cleaning fees are something Uber has reasonably received much criticism for, and something I saw as a problem trying to use the platform myself. One thing is they for a long time did not include the cleaning fee in the pricing you'd see in a search... you had to read the description for each property to see what it was. That meant you might see one property for $200, and other for $100, which seemed like a relative bargain... but then turns out the $200 one had a $50 cleaning fee and the $100 one charged $175, for example. I think they finally changed that a few years back but it's hard to see how AirBnB could not have understood why that would be a problem in the first place.

I guess what I wonder is why Trump fans are either oblivious or indifferent to being lied to constantly

I don't expect people to have already known how tariffs worked unless they personally imported items over $800. A fair amount of people do that as part of their jobs or businesses, though.

However, what I mean is working through the logic of Trump's lies about it. Why would foreign governments pay for a private company to sell something to the US? If it mean the exporting company had to give us a discount, that sort of makes sense, but as I noted earlier, a 100% tariff, if always paid by someone outside the US, would mean it's free for us, and over 120% would mean they paid us to take their goods. Obviously that would never happen.

"I don't care about you, I just want your vote"

He doesn’t even accept that elections he won were fair.

The figure they came up with was $411 million, not 60.

I get extra firm tofu, slice it about 1 cm thick, marinate in tamari, and bake it for 20-25 minutes. It’s pretty firm and dense.

I’m going to take the free gravel and 7 inch teleportation. The gravel is a valuable commodity which can be sold. 7 inches is enough to get through any doorway.

No shit. Groceries have gone up 40% in the past 1-2 years for no real reason while wages have not and things like housing are going up too. Amazing that people would be buying less 'units'.

I don't recall Ubuntu being a lightweight distro or ever aiming to be. It was always Debian with more stuff.