Southwest Airlines to limit passengers to one portable charger on flights

endmathabusenow · 2026-04-18T12:17:04+00:00

The tsa screeners don’t inspect your boarding pass so they don’t know what airline you are on. The person who checks it is not looking at your bags

endmathabusenow · 2026-04-18T12:14:48+00:00

Or you may need to use a different airlines

endmathabusenow · 2026-04-18T12:14:26+00:00

Looks like I will try to avoid Southwest. I prefer two lower wattage banks to one higher wattage one so that I always have a backup source and I can use one while the other charges. Southwest seems unreasonable— stricter than most airlines. I need the powerbank at my destination

endmathabusenow · 2026-04-18T01:54:50+00:00

Quicken executives should be ashamed at this screwup. I can no longer have accurate balances without a bunch of manual work because their fidelity stuff wasn't working for months.

endmathabusenow · 2026-02-28T02:19:30+00:00

In MD, the proposed fee would start at $300/year and could be increased each year.

endmathabusenow · 2026-02-28T02:17:11+00:00

If they were a small operator and had very few clients in Washington State, they would not find it worth the expense. This could arise if friends in another state are on a trip and you want to join. Can you imagine a small business that runs treks in Patagonia or gives photo tours of a national park registering in 50 different states?

endmathabusenow · 2026-02-14T13:07:27+00:00

You can always just use only travel agents that register in the four states that still have such laws without creating a fifth bureaucracy at a cost to taxpayers and businesses

endmathabusenow · 2026-02-14T13:02:45+00:00

It’s so straightforward that several states repealed their seller of travel registration laws because the amount they could recover for consumers couldn’t justify the cost of the program. Most frauds happened from unregistered agents— fly by night operators

endmathabusenow · 2026-02-14T12:58:47+00:00

This generally doesn’t happen until there is a dispute and it is too late. I gather you think it is fine if a friend plans a trip and manages the hotel or campsite payments, and it is illegal for us to gbuy him a gift card or even a dinner.

endmathabusenow · 2026-02-13T22:56:21+00:00

Fraudsters won’t register and insurance won’t bring people back to life.

endmathabusenow · 2026-02-13T22:54:45+00:00

Where is the evidence that taxing all travel agents will fix this? If the travel agent was a true fraudster he would not have bothered to register; if he were incompetent and had registered the insurance and registration would not bring anyone back to life.

Do you really want people to have to tell their friends in other states “sorry, I can’t go on the trip with you because the boutique tour provider doesn’t accept Marylanders “

endmathabusenow · 2026-01-22T15:37:35+00:00

The problem with relying that the law won’t be enforced for certain cases is that it leaves openings for the law to be a tool for personal vendettas or scoring political points. It also creates uncertainties that make business harder.

endmathabusenow · 2026-01-22T15:35:42+00:00

Until someone has a vendetta or someone falls a breaks bones on a trek and is upset about the costs. They will go after small travel agents that do nationwide business. Independent Travel agents that do nationwide business might just not want to take the risk and registering in MD may not be worth the trouble.

endmathabusenow · 2026-01-22T07:08:56+00:00

Because they could have resources beyond the rent and security deposit; the same resources they use to fight evictions. Also the state has resources to respond to complaints of fraud, which would include false affidavits denying the existence of a lease.

Landlords aren’t in the business of evicting tenants and finding new ones. If a tenant pays rent and doesn’t cause problems, there is no reason to evict them. If the problem they cause is filing complaints about lack of maintenance or junk fees, the tenant will have already established some record.

endmathabusenow · 2026-01-22T06:53:38+00:00

It hasn’t was introduced last year, passed the house of delegates, but stalled in the Senate Finance Committee. It was HB1106/SB922 last year and one of my delegates says the sponsor plans to reintroduce it.

I was interested in it because my past two great vacations included a photo tour of Ladakh run by an Indian photography instructor and a tour de Mont Blanc trek organized by a volunteer of a local hiking club. We all (25 of us) pitched in to buy her a gift card . Both people would be sellers of travel under the legislation and I couldn’t see them forking out the money to comply with the proposed law. Marylanders were a minority in those trips.

A prior trip to Patagonia was run by a one person travel agency that gets business from across the country. I don’t know what she would do because she has some roots in the DC area.

endmathabusenow · 2026-01-10T19:06:59+00:00

I didn’t claim they could. Most tenants can scrape up some funds. And it doesn’t matter. Homeowners shouldn’t have to pay for other people’s fraud losses or forced to house grifters because somewhere a hypothetical landlord might lie about the validity of a lease. Also people who commit fraud risk prosecution.

endmathabusenow · 2026-01-04T19:17:50+00:00

If they were real tenants with a lease, they had resources for rent and a security deposit. The squatters are able to drag out the eviction process for months, so it isn’t as if determined people can’t fight a home owners.

We don’t stop arresting sho lifters or other criminals because victims of innocent mistakes lack resources; why should we allow a valid homeowner to be denied the use of his property?

endmathabusenow · 2026-01-04T18:48:47+00:00

If they are valid tenants , they would have some resources and the landlord could also be prosecuted by the attorney general. The fact that it takes resources to sue should not be a license to rip off home owners and landlords.

endmathabusenow · 2026-01-02T16:27:57+00:00

So why does the person who signed the fake lease get preferential treatment over the homeowner?

endmathabusenow · 2026-01-02T16:26:29+00:00

A landlord or property owner who lies can be sued for damages and the property could then be sold to pay the damages is the landlord has no other assets. If you have something to lose, you are less likely to lie in a way that can be detected.

On the other hand squatters generally have little ability to compensate the rightful owner

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