The host doesn’t need to know the guest’s name at the time of booking.

Uber directly employs it’s drivers.

Airbnb doesn’t own or manage the properties, and they aren’t hiring or paying a wage to those who do.

Sure. But any hosts do need to know your name.

And I did not defend discriminatory screening.

As for the Maxwell example, I ran with an extreme one for shits and giggles. There have been other issues with regards to difficulty in checking out guests for hosts on these platforms.

Particularly difficulty in identifying…

Laws around hotels and short term rentals usually require the business check ID, and keep records for some amount of time. Likewise you need the name to make that credit card payment happen, and you have to keep transaction records.

Airbnb exists to a certain extent to skirt hotel regs. But there’s two things there.

1.…

You joke but you can get much better saffron if you buy by the ounce, if you drop about $100 on a tin it works out to be a lot cheaper by volume than the 3 threads in a jar you usually see. And it’s a hell of a lot better.

Since it’s a whole spice keeps reasonably well, stored right it stays good for a couple years. 

So your recommendation here is a prescription only, potentially addicting, anti-seizure and anti-anxiety medication.

Or, depending on how much and what type of dishes a household cooks, it may make sense to buy spices in bulk. (Not necessarily massive, industrial-sized bags, but one- or two-pound bags or canisters.)

Yeah. What knowledge I have on these things comes out of an interest in the particular history of this approach and it’s effect on media.

From what I recall the only innovative thing about ROM was the move to license it for comics for marketing.

Well yeah. The comics end of it is kinda inextricable.

I was more talking where the remaining interest is these days.

Something tells me ROM SpaceKnight isn’t quite global scale property of Spider-Man.

Fact is Spider-Man was already the money makingest comic property in history when Marvel and Sony teamed up. The fact that Sony couldn’t make it make sense is kinda bonkers.

But yeah I don’t think Hasbro is gonna get all that much out…

I actually find it’s the opposite. I’ve never noticed much interest in them on the comics end of things other than “hey you know about this weird thing!”

But there’s a pretty tight group of toy people who are really heavy into it. Even if it’s a pretty narrow age group, it’s the one that kind drives toy collecting at…

I mean, I already knew this

What’s nothing more than a large spritzer?

A spritzer is wine mixed with seltzer with garnish. Occasionally a small amount of flavoring from bitters/amaro or a splash of juice.

The US actually currently bans the use of Champagne for any US produced wine, starting from 2006.

Prior to that they restricted it’s use and you needed approval, mostly based history of using the term. Some of those brands were grandfathered in. I believe for pretty long time it’s use on imported products was…

So it’s a Mashed.com article not a Mashable one. They’re different companies, Mashed.com is basically part of a content farm from ad network.

But the article doesn’t claim Julius Caesar drank Champagne or Sparkling wine. It attributes modern New Years celebrations to him, probably bullshit too, but not what Lillian…

To prepare a punch bowl’s worth of the stuff, you’re going to need a lot of champagne—which, in my case, means reaching for the cheapies.

Thing is they don’t.

Talk to an optometrist or ophthalmologist. Those risks are still there, even if a person isn’t aware or has convinced themselves otherwise. Medical professionals tend to recommend against cosmetic lenses entirely, and report a lot of injuries resulting from them.

There’s also a large difference…

Thing is they don’t.

Talk to an optometrist or ophthalmologist. Those risks are still there, even if a person isn’t aware or has convinced themselves otherwise. Medical professionals tend to recommend against cosmetic lenses entirely, and report a lot of injuries resulting from them.

There’s also a large difference…

They probably weren’t contacts this go round. Most productions have moved away from them, especially scleral lenses. Since there’s not small risk of eye damage.

They apparently used contacts in season 1. And Cavil insisted on wearing them a lot more often, and for a lot longer than recommended. Suffered some eye…

I know exactly what it’s for. Exact what the article advocated using it for.

And exactly why a lot people don’t use them for anything.