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  1. I have been twice each for a little over a week. May go again shortly. 
     

    echo the love for bologna. I am less into too much time in historic cities but would still say 5 days in Rome. Milan is boring. Controversial but Venice is small and just a tourist nightmare so would limit to 3 days. 

    except Milan, any of these cities you could spend 5-7 days and have plenty to do without getting bored though. 
     

    definitely driving through Italy is the best way. 

  2. On 6/5/2021 at 4:07 PM, htown85 said:

    My global entry expired during COVID and just realized it. Applied for the renewal, I’m conditionally approved, but it seems impossible to schedule an interview. Anyone run into this issue? I think I’m going to try to do a walk in interview on my trip back from Cabo in September but I’d rather get this sorted out before my other summer travel.

    I renewed my global entry 2 years ago and it took months to find a place to have the interview. I had to schedule it while flying through IAH as I couldn’t get an appointment in Austin, SF, or LA for 6+ months out. 

  3. On 6/6/2021 at 2:44 AM, Steel Shank said:

    What is clear? I've done the precheck, but not sure about this Clear business. Sounds intriguing.

    TSA pre is a government run program. Clear is a private company that has yearly membership dues which has partnered in certain airports to provide a more exclusive TSA pre experience. To date, so few people use clear which makes their lines non-existent. 
     

    everyone I know has TSA pre so those lines can be long as fuck despite being faster than common line

  4. 2 minutes ago, futureman said:

    I don’t get it?

    really?

    companies are very pro-social movements trying to convince consumers that they care. they are just to make money but the fact these companies don't promote their support in even the must mundane way in the ME shows that it is purely pandering to the local communities. 

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  5. On 6/4/2021 at 11:09 AM, CooterBrown said:

    Just did a rapid test for travel and the results are a plain document, no logo, with the results in Times New Roman. It's like an old school printout from a mainframe computer.  It'd be so easy to fake along with printing your own vaccine card on card stock.  I'd guess a sizeable portion of travelers are just faking their docs.

     

    Flying through Germany, I had to do the same. I am shocked at the documents lack of official look / feel. I had to tell the airline employee in Istanbul just yesterday that I don't need a covid test for Croatia travel, because I am vaccinated. He shrug and said ok. 

    Every country that I have traveled to in the past month (4) required to sell paper proof of either vaccination or covid test even though I uploaded to their systems. 

  6. 5 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    The problem with that approach is that it leaves out any sane option. The parties become pure tribes whose only goal is power for their own over the other.

    What we need now is a party that stands up for the rule of law and protects a free space for dissent and debate, while effectively countering the propagandized tribalism of Trumpist fascism.

    That latter part might require some degree of fighting fire with fire. But the value proposition of the Democrats has to be something like this: we defend American values for everyone, even those we disagree with, and we won’t tolerate fascism from either side of the aisle. If all Dems offer is an angry promise to skullfuck the Right, then we’re done for.

    Ugh. You can you skullfuckery to change structural issues. That will enable a return to norms as the parties can skullfuck their way to power 

  7. 9 hours ago, Cacti said:

    Conservatives may dislike AOC but I wouldn’t be so quick to say it’s because of her heritage, skin color or gender. It could be because she is the most liberal of the liberal. And that fact alone causes most conservatives and many Democrats to dislike her, evidenced by the fact that she was soundly defeated in her bid for a seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee when the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee chose Kathleen Rice by a lopsided 46-13 vote.

    Other than Sanders and other members of ‘the squad’, she doesn’t have much support. So little, in fact, that of the 21 ‘substantive’ bills she introduced, none of them even got past 'Action in Committee', indicating her bills were not taken seriously. As a matter of fact, she was ranked 230th out of 240 Democrats in legislative effectiveness.

    She is liked by her constituents; by the social media world; and by Surly, so she has that going for her.

    Conservatives dislike her not because of positions. Conservatives don't care about policy positions. They dislike her, because she is better at the messaging game and calls conservatives on their BS. She is very effective at countering their fake arguments for whatever bs victimhood that conservatives are claiming at the moment. 

    You assume that conservatives care about policy but reality is that only important game for them is to direct the media narrative. AOC disrupts that. 

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