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The average Airbnb one-bedroom charges you $96 to clean the place after you leave. Then the host leaves a note asking you to strip the beds and start a load of laundry before you go. And Airbnb still keeps about $15 of that cleaning fee. Starting next month, hosts can't make you do that anymore. The reason they fought so hard to keep those checkout lists comes down to one line about towels. The line is "start a load of all white towels (use bleach)." Laundry is the slowest part of cleaning a rental. Towels take about an hour to wash and close to another hour to dry, and the cleaner usually has around five hours between an 11am checkout and a 4pm check-in to turn the whole place over. If you start the washer on your way out, the cleaner shows up with the slowest job already halfway done. Same deal with stripping the beds and dragging the trash out to the garage bin. Every task you do comes off the cleaner's clock, so one cleaner can flip more places in a day, and the host still collects the full fee. Airbnb's $15 comes from its host-only fee, which takes 15.5% of the booking subtotal with the cleaning fee counted in. So Airbnb was getting a cut of a cleaning you partly did yourself. Brian Chesky actually promised to fix this back in November 2022. He tweeted that guests shouldn't have to strip beds or do laundry. Nothing enforced it, so hosts kept printing the lists for four more years. This time Airbnb wrote real rules. For bookings made from November 20, hosts can't require you to strip beds, start laundry, wash and put away dishes, or haul trash off-site. Every request has to be on the listing before you book. A sign taped up in the kitchen or a message after you book doesn't count, so the exact sheet in this photo breaks the rules on day one. Hosts who ignore it get warnings and get pushed down in search. Here's why hosts are so mad about it. Back in 2022, Airbnb also started ranking listings by total price, cleaning fee included. So when cleaners got more expensive, a host really had two options. Raise the cleaning fee and sink in search results, or quietly hand some of the work to the guest. Airbnb just took away the second option. At least one host has already pulled their listing over this, and plenty more will threaten to. My guess is most of them stay and bump the price a little. Honestly, I'd take that. I'd rather see it in the total than find out at 9am on the last day of vacation that I'm doing somebody's laundry.

Turn off Face ID! To my understanding they can’t make you use your passcode!!!

BREAKINGNEWS: House Representatives say they have the discharge votes and overwhelmingly have the votes for that Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Act. This will stop Trump from buying Russian oil and lifting sanctions. 🚨

The Philosopher’s Stone is supposedly one of the most valuable objects in existence… so why are the protections around it basically a series of puzzles that three 11-year-olds can solve in one evening? Let’s break this down. First, Fluffy. A three-headed dog is actually a pretty good obstacle… except Hagrid tells anyone who will listen exactly how to get past it. Then there’s Devil’s Snare. Dangerous plant, sure, but Hermione had already learned about it in first-year Herbology. Any moderately competent wizard who had been at Hogwarts for six months should know how to deal with it. Then the flying keys. You need to catch the correct key to unlock the door. But why is the correct key even there? Just don’t put it in the room. No correct key, nobody opens the door. Problem solved. Same with the chessboard. Why make it a game that can actually be won? Rig it. Make it impossible to beat. No winning sequence, no one gets through. Then Snape’s potion riddle. Why does the correct answer even exist? Don’t include a clue to the bottle that gets you through. Better yet, make every bottle poisonous. Nobody progresses. And the funniest part is that the Stone is ultimately protected by the Mirror of Erised anyway. Dumbledore enchanted it so that only someone who wanted to find the Stone but not use it could retrieve it. So if the final protection already makes the Stone impossible to steal, what was the point of all the other protections? I know the explanation: Dumbledore was testing Harry, Ron and Hermione, specifically Harry, because he knew Harry would eventually have to face Voldemort. But the other teachers didn’t know that. They were simply told to protect one of the most valuable objects in existence. So why did they design protections that could be solved by three first-year students? I genuinely find this one really, really infuriating.

This is my exact take on the Jaguar Type 01. It is a well executed design with presence visible across the galaxies. However, unfortunately for Jaguar, Jaecoo will release a knock-off of this design in 2027 at a low price before Jaguar is even able to sell one of these.

It’s hilarious how the media dig into City’s sponsor agreements but show zero interest in the commercial logic behind Man United’s deals. In 2021, TeamViewer sponsored Man United for €55m on revenues of ~€500m – over 10% of total revenue. For context, that’s like Vodafone sponsoring United for €7bn a season. No one asked how a 2,000‑person business could afford a €235m contract with Manchester United. Was that at fair market value (FMV), given no other prestige brand was willing to pay that? Equally, how does a €500m business make an ROI case on a sponsorship worth almost half its annual revenues? Where’s the business case? Remember when Chevrolet’s Global Marketing Director, Joel Ewanick, was forced to resign shortly after overpaying for the United deal? Reuters and The Wall Street Journal (cited by the Los Angeles Times) reported GM’s concern that Ewanick hadn’t properly vetted or internally reported the financial details of Chevrolet’s Manchester United sponsorship. Any investigation into FMV? The criticism centred on the speed and cost of the escalation from a five‑year automotive partnership (announced May/June 2012) to the far larger seven‑year shirt‑front deal starting in 2014–15. No Premier League investigation here? Of course not.

Just a reminder: you're not truly gaming until you're on a PC.

You know that feeling when you book a flight for 50 quid and somehow it ends up costing 100? Getting seats together, correcting a typo, another charge here and there, it all adds up. When the cost of living is already squeezing people, those endless extras can feel relentless. So we're changing the rules for you. Parents won't need to pay a penny extra just to sit next to their own children. You'll be able to fix any name errors on your booking free of charge. And because the last thing you want once you're on the plane is more stress, we're working with the industry to make sure that disruptive passengers who have been banned from one airline can be banned from flying with other airlines too. I know holidays are expensive and these are small things, but hopefully they'll make your trip just that little bit cheaper and easier. That's exactly the kind of thing I want this government to keep on fixing.

BREAKING: Man City boss says fight against Premier League could take years to conclude, Sky News understands. Sky's sports correspondent @RobHarris reports ⬇️ trib.al/vyY55sP

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

At this point if the devs aren’t clearly anti-AI or say that no GenAI wasn’t used in the process, I’m just not going to play it. I have literally 1000s of great human-made games to choose from. I hope more people adopt the same mindset as they get tired of vibeslopped games.