Pretty sure skip tracing is something else entirely.  :D

It makes sense except for the part where you believe the higher prices are there to control availability for people that “need to book.” For one, assume anyone who is booking has some need to do so. But crucially, the price bump is because they want to make more money, and see the opportunity to do so based on high…

anyone that skiplags with checked baggage deserves the inevitable consequences.   surely a sign of a malfunctioning prefrontal cortex.

Because they see the higher price you “should’ve” paid as lost revenue.

Plus once they realize you’re not in your seat, they sell your seat to someone else, essentially letting them get paid twice for a single seat.

If the seat is being paid for, why do the airlines care if there’s a person in it? Also, if paying for an extra flight is cheaper than paying for just the first one, that feels like a business model failure.

Airline pricing is one of the dumbest things ever. If you paid their rate for that seat for that flight (or flights), it shouldn’t matter if your butt is actually in them or not. You’ve paid for that spot on that plain for that duration of time. I find it as ridiculous as if you got charged a fee for not attending a…

In my laundry its a constant battle between my apparently rancid towels and my fart-filled boxers.

Hot damn, this was really a cleverly disguised ad for laundry detergent in general, wasn’t it?

Glad I could provide you with something inconsequential to be outraged about today.

I’m guessing you’re a man with short hair.  I am not, and my hair takes about an hour to dry naturally.  I would probably need to spend about 30 minutes in the bathroom with a towel to get dry hair.  I’ll pass.

How much of a concern is it really that stuff from towels is going to transfer onto other stuff in the laundry, where the things are, you know, getting clean? I guess this is what my main question is. I’ve always thrown the towels (workout, shower, kitchen, etc.) all into the load together. Sometimes if I’ve just got…

Oh come on. I’ve somehow managed to survive into my late ‘60s without contracting any dread skin diseases, and I only wash my towels and washcloths every few weeks. I also put them in with all my other laundry. I use hot water because we have very hard and cold well water here, but would not do so if my water was…

the internet proposes that people put potatoes up their posteriors to palliate the painful piles that have proliferated from pregnancy, portliness, or pressure.

Yeah, but I advised you about it in March, so you don’t have to waste the next nine months shoving potatoes in your ass for nothing. 

keytoris

And I especially love this bit “Lenovo insists it maintains the trackball because the ThinkPad’s fans love it. Good for those fans, but it’s a questionable decision all the same as presumably those fans are RETIREMENT AGE and can’t have that many laptop purchases in their future. Trackballs are a product of a bygone…

My first laptop was a Thinkpad. My primary reason for buying it was the keyboard. In fact when I recently built myself a desktop to replace my laptop (after ten years of solid use) I bought a USB Thinkpad keyboard. Also because I’m a nubbin lover.

So many frigging times, yes!

I’m not sure why you refer to that thing as Trackball, there is nothing “ballsy” about it. I generally refer to it as the Clitoris mouse. For some people that device is very important. It’s the best way to move the cursor without taking your hand off the keyboard, which can speed up the typing significantly.