News and notes from around the interweb:
- Derogatory public photos in Japan.
LMAO she got deported from Japan for this! 😆😆😆 pic.twitter.com/LOCUwg82SK
— Swann Marcus (@SwannMarcus89) August 23, 2023
- Airbnb sues Boulder, Colorado seeking to pay less in lodging tax it doesn’t want to include its fees (that guests pay on their stay), claiming that isn’t a cost of lodging but of their platform.
- New Charlotte airport food options
- Global entry vetting standards are actually tougher than PreCheck…
- 20th anniversary of Marginal Revolution, my boss’s blog, and I have guest blogged there.
- There’s a social media meme on productivity that gets roundly mocked, here’s an air travel version of that.
Planning to fly from New York to San Francisco every Monday to gain three more productive weekday working hours via time zone arbitrage.
Has anyone tried this? pic.twitter.com/nPMAp2E01n
— Jack Raines (@Jack_Raines) August 23, 2023
Jack sounds like a really fun guy at parties (if he goes to those types of “frivolous” activities)
Why stop there? You could live in LA and have an office in Auckland. Leave LA on Saturday night and arrive in AKL at 6am Monday morning ready to work. Then on Friday after a full day of work, hop on a plane, work for 12 hours on the flight, and land in LA with time for a couple more Friday afternoon meetings!
Should Tinder , christen singles and Grinder now have a section to note that you have TSA Precheck? I mean a BCI check only covers your state. A TSA precheck covers 50 states.
There is now a “Former President” who would not pass TSA Precheck.
Airbnb is wrong on this one, though obviously if they are forced to give correct prices up front, which they should be, hotels should be forced to as well.
I never date hot chicks that aren’t part of the same airline rewards programs as me.
I have standards
There are some real creepy dudes who have been approved for Global Entry and generally got TSA PreCheck.
The idea that mass background checks of travelers weed out most creeps just doesn’t line up with reality. It weeds out a lot of people with a criminal history somewhere but far from all people with a criminal history.
There are a lot of creepy dudes who do get approved for Global Entry.
The PreCheck thing doesn’t sound right at all. Looking at the TSA site, they are concerned with crimes that impact air travel and the safety of the cabin crew and passengers, not all crimes in general.
But that being said, my husband and I were both approved for our PreCheck very quickly after our interviews. We’re pretty sure the fact my husband’s multiple security clearances combined my multi-year background check for Federal service as a contractor probably helped with that – we had files in the security infrastructure, including our fingerprints. Global Entry approval happened even faster, but that we ascribed to already having the PreCheck investigation under our belts – much less work for DHS.