I’ve been seeing this over the past few weeks and feel like the story changes a bit each time. First it was AOG had vanished and nobody could find any trace of them now they are in front of a London judge. Last time Southwest had found the issue and raised the alarm after making routine checks on inventory, not FAA and EU counterparts notified airlines to check their records. More and more airlines are finding mystery parts on their planes and not disclosing details.
Just a weird story that seems to be getting murkier with every re-telling. I hope some larger investigation clears all of it up.
Both sides are frustratingly stupid. Both sides are doing absolutely vile and inhumane things. Both sides will never stop because both sides are fucking stupid
We need the global community to step in and remove both natenyahu and Abbas and give the younger generation, who are not so hateful towards each other a chance to coexist together
Abbas is not the leader of Hamas. I actually really appreciate his take on current events. He said he condemns the death of civilians and calls for the release of the kidnapped prisoners.
But keep in mind that Hamas murdered all the Palestinian officials and officers in Gaza back in 2006-2008, they are not so friendly to each other.
It’s going to take more than the removal of the problem. It’s been a constant problem with the United States and friends that they all just figure. Go in take out the top guy. And much of the infrastructure Bingo Bongo everyone that was repressed is now suddenly free to have a decent life. With no infrastructure and no leadership. When the problem itself really remains and still has the infrastructure to build an intensity again.
The only real answer is to give them a path to properly be part of society and feel they have a stake in it. That is the one thing that makes people less resentful and less likely to try to destroy said society. And that’s going to take generations of dedication. Not just removing Netanyahu unfortunately.
A hallow criticism, given that china runs forced labour camps full of Uyghur people (and political prisoners), and is in territory dispute with every neighbor. Not the mentioned, successfully erased the Tibetan people, and is doing the same to Muslims now.
If you think about it, it is quite an accomplishment that they managed to make communist Vietnam dislike them so much, that they'd rather engage in relatively close military ties with the US. Public opinion towards the US is also surprisingly good. I mean, the US committed plenty of atrocities during the war, so you'd expect them to be far more negative than those towards China.
We booked the hotel, got an email saying “Your reservation is confirmed, no need to call the hotel and confirm.”
We showed up at the hotel… Booking.com never confirmed it with them. Hotel was booked, we had no room.
So we sat in the parking lot for an hour talking to customer service. They did get us a room at a more expensive hotel and covered the difference in price, but Jesus, not a good look.
The first hotel told us Booking.com does this all the time.
In general: Unless you are going through a rewards program, the booking sites are almost never worth using. Or, more pointedly, use them to find the popular hotels in the area. And then go to that hotel chain’s website to book it.
Ignoring that said booking sites will often steal your hotel chain points (and you can get the low tier which gives you early/late checkout REALLY easily), they don’t even have the special deals that the old travel agents had. So you are actually paying more.
Currently booking travel for a Japan trip and have consistently gotten MUCH cheaper prices just by going to the actual chain website.
And speaking of rewards program booking: I have found Hilton hotels are great for letting you just transfer that to your actual account. They seem to HATE all the booking sites and rewards programs. So if you just call them up asking if you can confirm your reservation and “get it in your app” so you can use mobile check in: you pretty much get the nights while still getting to use your credit card points.
Booked a place in Queenstown (New Zealand) on a long weekend via booking dot com. Tourist town, you know what it’s going to be like on a long weekend, and I had trouble finding a place a week out, it was a short notice trip.
Same, “no need to confirm!”
Arrive 5pm… nope, no room, fully booked due to the long weekend, nothing from booking dot com as far as the hotel is concerned.
Slog through booking dot com’s horrible script driven online chat, 90 minutes later, “oh noes we can’t find a place in Queenstown, here’s your money back plus a 5 percent off your next booking voucher for your trouble”.
6.30 pm in Queenstown on a long weekend.
After ringing through every accommodation provider I could find on Google I eventually found a place that had a four bed room for $450 for the night, vs the $150 I had originally planned.
And as a final irritation, the money that they naturally zapped out of my card in an instant at the time of booking took three weeks to be returned to my card.
Booking dot com, booking dot never again you fucks.
They also double dip on the other side, the amount they charge is not always the amount you click on. Several times they add a few bucks and you have to go thru hoops to get it back, most wouldn’t bother. But it would add up over a lot of accounts. Wouldn’t be surprised to see a class action spring up, no way it was just happening to me.
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