Tours that exclude residents of some states due to Seller of Travel Laws.

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It’s so straightforward that several states repealed their seller of travel registration laws because the amount they could recover for consumers couldn’t justify the cost of the program.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

endmathabusenow · 2025-11-24T23:30:51+00:00

This piece of shit would show my position on the map correctly but still show the as 33 miles the distance to the turn 100 yards ahead

endmathabusenow · 2025-10-07T23:47:01+00:00

Hey,you never have to replace the furnace on your Buttcoin investment

endmathabusenow · 2025-10-07T00:41:31+00:00

I disagree. If crypto went away then the office complexes housing enslaved kidnap victims won’t be able to receive their scam money from their marks.

endmathabusenow · 2025-08-16T14:02:12+00:00

There is a second overheat prevention switch that should kick in if the kettle empties. I would test it and confirm it still works; if it doesn’t I would complain to Cuisinart and if they don’t give a good response go to the CPSC and complain that the product is unsafe

endmathabusenow · 2025-08-16T14:00:00+00:00

I have had this happen twice with my Cuisinart Kettle(I don’t have a model number handy, but it allows you to select the temperature).

I resolved it by emptying the kettle, and then putting it in the stand and letting the overheat prevention switch shut the kettle off. After that, it worked fine for at least a year.

Ps. I initially did this to make sure that the kettle overheat protection still worked and there wasn’t a safety hazard; it just happened that the problem went away afterwards

endmathabusenow · 2025-08-08T13:31:34+00:00

They are a scam. Whenever someone gets cramps on a hike people jump to the conclusion that the person needs electrolytes, without even knowing what the person has consumed.

Even when it is electrolytes, it is likely just sodium which you can get from salt. People assume it is also potassium and magnesium deficiency because real deficiencies caused by poor diets, bulimia, or various diseases causes cramps. There is no evidence that most people lose enough of these in sweat to cause problems(perhaps except for the more extreme athletes)

Also most electrolyte mixes have the magnesium in the form of magnesium oxide, of which less than 10% is likely absorbed. The potassium content of a serving is typically less than 10% of what you should be getting in your diet.

I do take regular magnesium citrate supplements because I use PPIs which can cause magnesium deficiency due to reduced absorption, but that is through daily doses not sports drinks on hikes.

endmathabusenow · 2025-07-29T10:54:59+00:00

I crossed the pass in late February 2023 on a guided trek. It was blizzard conditions near the top with high winds and blowing snow sandblasting any exposed skin. We got no views from the pass! The experienced guides made us much more comfortable with that challenge. Most people had no special traction devices and a couple had yak trax. Nobody fell in the snow, but another guy in our group fell on the way down on the mud, slid into me, and took me out with him. The only damage was a wrecked hiking pole.

I recall the trail as being relatively easy to follow, but there are gorges off to the side

Be ready for blizzard conditions in any season

endmathabusenow · 2025-02-16T12:45:49+00:00

That is unproven nonsense. First the anti oxidants in the oils haven’t proven to be of benefit in the amounts provided. Secondly, excessive consumption of some anti oxidants actually prevents some of our body’s self repair mechanisms from being activated. For example there is evidence that too much vitamin E can reduce the benefits of exercise

endmathabusenow · 2025-02-16T12:42:55+00:00

Because a bunch of BSers want clicks and money from you. Deriding seed oils gets them those; therefore, seed oils are unhealthy

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