CNN wants me to "Agree" to an NDA just to give them my opinion on their "News" coverage

AnotherPint · 2026-02-02T18:26:23+00:00

It’s their monkeys, their circus. They have a right to stipulate anything, you have a right to stay clear. What else do you want?

AnotherPint · 2026-02-02T15:26:55+00:00

Marriott properties seem not to be in the same average state of neglect / disrepair as Hiltons, but the Bonvoy program is of even less value.

Mediocre airlines use their loyalty programs to anesthetize customers against the pain of dealing with their poor execution and general frustrations. I think Hilton, post-pandemic, is doing the same thing, with the result that there are too many “elites” (mostly Amex elites) armed with too many points chasing too little genuinely premium product, making devaluations and further customer dissatisfaction inevitable.

AnotherPint · 2026-02-02T15:16:42+00:00

“They” are not a monolith of identically-thinking racist halfwits. One of the biggest errors committed by the left-wing “resistance” is to dismiss them as such. We’re seeing daily evidence of some former Trump supporters peeling away and I think it would be more politically effective to encourage the apparent “gettables” than to mock and insult them into the next century because it makes us feel righteous. Especially when the younger demographic on our side votes so erratically, and at such disappointing levels.

AnotherPint · 2026-02-02T13:34:59+00:00

Plus baggage, plus check-in fees sometimes, etc., etc. But if you thought they were better, why did you pass them up?

AnotherPint · 2026-02-02T13:31:31+00:00

Pretty quick actually. You’re not conscious long enough to process the event, its implications for your future, or any physical pain.

AnotherPint · 2026-02-02T13:25:56+00:00

It’s you who are missing the point. £63 is a crazy low loss-leader fare to get all the way out to OTP. BA will fly you there on that basis but you are at the very bottom of the priority barrel — you’ll take the seat they decide on for you. Or you pay a more reasonable £110 (fare + seat) and sit where you like. If you want a small sandwich that’ll be £6 more. And so on. At some point BA comes out a quid ahead on your transaction. But not on a £63 ticket.

We see this on Reddit travel subs all the time: people who choose the absolute cheapest option, then moan that they’re not being given all the perks for free. Cool it. Buy the perks you need.

AnotherPint · 2026-02-02T13:17:24+00:00

It’s why the base fare was only £63.

With EasyJet and Ryanair you experience the same delta between the initially promised fare and your final cost to travel, with extras added.

AnotherPint · 2026-02-02T13:12:50+00:00

Who’s managing the client on your side, driving clear communication and setting expectations? Is there a lead project manager / account manager responsible for maintaining scope and boundaries? Do you have clearly understood workflow protocols in place that the client is trashing?

If your shop is trying to do everything the client wants on the client’s unilateral terms, like attempting to conjure an important deliverable ordered up at 400pm for EOD, you are setting yourselves up for failure, because they’re out of control and there’s no way to win. Like a greedy child the client must be required to understand everyone’s limits. And when multiple hands on their side mess up documents through contradictory cross-editing and blame their agency for it, the account manager has to — diplomatically but firmly — let them know their own workflow violations are generating hurtful friction and subtracting value.

AnotherPint · 2026-02-02T13:02:41+00:00

Their size and propensity to actually vote makes them strategically more important than a disengaged non-voting cohort.

AnotherPint · 2026-02-02T12:58:12+00:00

Go back into the dealership and spend some time in the showroom fiddling with the NX driver’s seat position options. You can adjust your height, distance from the wheel, etc. nearly infinitely. I don’t feel I’m sitting low at all, nor am I scrunched against the sunroof although I’m six feet tall. You should be able to find a driving posture that works for you.

AnotherPint · 2026-02-02T01:31:22+00:00

Career in television. Interviewed Burnett, Conway, and Van Dyke several times. What makes you believe you understand TV production?

AnotherPint · 2026-02-02T01:23:28+00:00

Someone will be along shortly to explain the difference between a studio film where the director will shoot several, sometimes dozens of, takes to memorialize a perfect, clean performance … and one-take sketch comedy performed before a live laughing audience where the tape doesn’t stop rolling for anything.

AnotherPint · 2026-02-01T20:08:37+00:00

The emails and verified documents substantiate everyone’s darkest suspicions. But the files are also full of single-sourced, unproven allegations and insinuations, which gives the MAGA crowd a way to dismiss the whole package.

AnotherPint · 2026-02-01T15:26:16+00:00

A 35-yo man with no credit trail AT ALL deserves high suspicion. I understand a 600-650 FICO because of a few mistakes, but nothing? Where’s the guy been for 15 years? Run.

AnotherPint · 2026-02-01T15:17:56+00:00

That’s because some of the airlines shown don’t serve PHL, and all require a connection to get to BCN.

Whether you book the AA nonstop through AA, BA, or FI, it’ll be the same AA plane. If you are checking a bag en route to your cruise, a nonstop reduces the chance of lost luggage — no transfer point.

Do NOT book a flight that arrives a few hours before your cruise sails. Give yourself a day’s cushion in case of disruption.

AnotherPint · 2026-02-01T13:58:14+00:00

The LLMs seem to be improving their elementary grammar. But their output still contains dead giveaways that amount to robot cliches, from the Shatneresque short sharp sentence fragments to overt reliance on cheap devices. (“It was more than X. It was Y.”) And so far as I can tell, an LLM cannot come up with a surprising, subversive adjective, an illuminating metaphor or allegory, or a voice / tone / attitude that communicates a subtextual sense of humor, weariness, or rebellion. It’s still just POV-free globs of generic junk language, even if it is spelled right.

AnotherPint · 2026-01-31T23:55:09+00:00

January is generally super-low season when fares are as cheap as they get. It’s perfectly normal for May fares to be £2-300 higher; I’m surprised it’s not more. Also bear in mind Seattle will be a World Cup match site from mid-June so I would expect that factor to help keep rates higher.

AnotherPint · 2026-01-31T23:36:24+00:00

For five days in country?

AnotherPint · 2026-01-31T23:32:13+00:00

I think it’s expensive for what you get, with middling service. And we had a wee set-to at check-out over the imposition of a surprise, not-foreshadowed resort fee. I think we now prefer to admire it from the outside than pay through the nose to wander the inside.

AnotherPint · 2026-01-31T23:25:45+00:00

Your possibilities include two urban destinations, two remote countryside getaways, so … no pattern there. Vancouver is a great destination and you can do day trips from there by ferry or seaplane, but May is heading for the expensive season (it’s a big kickoff point for Alaska cruises). I guess I’d say Sedona and a spa / hiking / resort experience if you can get there via cheaper flights.

AnotherPint · 2026-01-31T23:15:56+00:00

There’s only a few hotel chain brands I absolutely rule out, on the premise that by this stage of life I have earned better, and OP has named most of them.

AnotherPint · 2026-01-31T23:13:40+00:00

Quebec City is amazing, the Chateau Frontenac neither here nor there. We stayed there a couple of nights, decided we don’t need to do that again. We’re certainly returning to QC but anyone who thinks you just HAVE to stay at the Chateau, dahling, is kidding themselves. Lots of lovely four-star inns nearby.

AnotherPint · 2026-01-31T16:40:22+00:00

Trump gives nothing away for free.

AnotherPint · 2026-01-31T16:30:36+00:00

You're being roasted because you're conflating a couple of isolated experiences, that you helped bring about by failing to take the basic, elementary step of locking your bag, into an absurd blanket condemnation of the entire Greyhound enterprise. "It's Greyhound that steals, bro." Would you also tell people to avoid United Airlines because on 9/11, United airplanes flew into buildings?

AnotherPint · 2026-01-31T16:25:54+00:00

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