At 19, I could fuck off halfway around the world, check in to a $600/night hotel, and do who knows what else with no supervision.

But I couldn't get a standard room at a hampton inn in bumfuck Indiana (or even most of the US for that matter).

Am I missing something here?

But wait there's more!

What if we put fucking TVs in bathtubs?

So I went to a hotel run by a chaebol

Very professional network setup

The public wifi is the same one guests use; and is also what their tv boxes use (which they also want you to use to sign into netflix)

No QoS or anything of that sort

Hmm surely nothing can go wrong, right?

They are plotting something

So we had one no service, but what about a second no service?

The piece of shit

I mean point of sale terminal

Is just doing ok. Not good, not bad, just ok.

It's amazing that after all these years, we still do not have an A1 bottle that doesn't get dried sauce stuck in the cap.

To the person who had the whole damn plane to pick from and decided to sit next to me of all people, I have a question for you.

Why?

Are you that much of a psycho?

Also remember this the next time you hear about potential regulation of interchange fees.

Since this has come up again

I must remind everyone that:

- The visa/mc-merchant settlement may or may not be approved (probably won't be)
- Are any savings going to be passed on to the consumer? Hell no, why would they do this when they could keep the extra profits

The reason potholes are a dying breed in Detroit is that Toledo has been stealing them all

bUy ThE iPhOnE 17 pRo MaX tOdAy

- numerous ads seen on my iphone 17 pro max

Maybe I should consider, at least once

Trenta hasn't been enough for me in a while

Maybe those almost 1000 stars will finally be good for something

The door locks are nfc capable

Our phones are nfc capable

Apple/Google wallets support nfc hotel keys

Meanwhile some schmuck at Hilton decides bluetooth is the future and fumbles it hard, and somehow makes it even shittier on top of that

The next level of bullshit

Hotels that charge card processing fees but only accept credit card (or also bnpl, which has even worse fees)

I love driving on don valley parkway

You're either driving 130kmh or you're in standstill traffic, with barely any in-between.

So I went looking for my travel adapters

Some genius at apple decided this kit needes not one, not two, but THREE FUCKING EUROPLUGS

It also includes another north american plug, along with a chinese version that is the exact same but has no holes in the prongs

And this kit has been sold for years

Someone at coke apparently has no idea what this word is used for

Something happened to colonel, but I'm not sure what.

Most helpful warning

Half of my suitcase is now potato chips.

Security is going to love me.

Apparently Internet Explorer is alive and well, just on vacation in the Penghu Islands.

Sign at Mos Burger: "We accept Taiwan credit cards only"

Other sign: "We accept Visa, Mastercard, JCB, Discover, Diners Club, Easycard, iPass, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, your first born, and even more!"

Which one is it now?

Public parking in Magong is NT$20/hour (up to a max of NT$60).

Parking is free from 7pm to 9am. The first 30 minutes is also free during paid hours.

I get a parking slip at 6:16pm

They never came back...

Why bother at this point?

Oh well at least I'm not paying anything

It was not DNS
Maybe it was or wasn't DNS?
FUCK, it was DNS

Everywhere I go, I see it.

My most coherent neighbor

I love these hotel booking engine domains. I get that Asia is different when it comes to the internet but really? book-secure.com book-directonline.com look totally not sketchy (and are unfortunately real)

I will say having to spend five minutes completing a 3D Secure challenge so I can spend £28 for bar food (because they cannot be assed to have a real pos terminal) is close to if not the peak of payments stupidity.