Received: 9 June 2023 Accepted: 20 March 2024 First Published: 3 June 2024

Is it normal that it takes so long to go from Received to Accepted?

Yes. The NIH intermural study on ME/CFS took well over a year to get published.

The sheer volume of papers on Covid/Long Covid et el is staggering too something like 3/4s of a million individual bits of research have been published (all showing its bad news for humans!) and that combined with the doubling of days out sick everyone is enduring due to multiple Covid infections and the brain fog from Long Covid is likely not helping to get things handled quickly.

If you leave a door open to your garden or house, can I come and chill without asking?

These analogies don't work. Sending a bunch of data to a computer and receiving a bunch of data in return is in no way analogous to physically entering private property without permission. They are not the same thing, or the same order of thing, or at all comparable.

The only "real" thing about either of those 2 cases is social conventions.

Is is entirely impossible to imagine a culture where walking unbidden into private property is very normal but pinging someone electronically without a common understanding is an intrusion?

That's because the terms of use of bookings.com insist that you can't offer a price lower than on booking.com.

I don't even if this is legal in your country, but in Germany they ruled against it: https://www.thelocal.de/20210518/germany-upholds-ban-on-book...

100% wrong. You can't advertise a lower price - for obvious reasons, but you can of course give a lower price to people who call, email or walk in.

Many hotels are idiotic about this and will put a cheaper price on booking, then wonder why booking is taking all their reservations. Unexplainable...

Beyond the TOS nobody reads (not even sellers), this sort of difference might be due to a number of factors. It could well be that they provide rooms discounted to Booking.com because they want to fill a certain amount no matter what, and then do price-anchoring for other rooms on their website. This is more or less like them giving rooms massively discounted to package sellers (Thomas Cook etc).

I didn't, but my next OS won't be Ubuntu for the same reasons.

That's why I deleted my account and won't use PayPal again.

Hetzner is German.

Yeah, with "another" I was referring to OVH the parent mentioned.

mailbox.org with a custom domain.

I so understand why anybody would use Microsoft products anymore. You can do all that and more with Linux and SaaS products that works in browser.

Great ending: "Hug me please." Love it.