They want to build a literal smoke-filled back room in which to cut deals?
Our era is beyond satire.

The reason they aren't going to let this go is simple; he's their test case.

If they can fuck him over they can do as they please. And lord it over the rest of us.

Probably because it falls under the binding arbitration clause in AirBnb's terms of service.

Ah, you forget that the guest and the host are not doing business with each other; both are dealing with AirBnB which means AirBnB is the only party with standing to file a criminal complaint against the host. And that their TOS binds the guest. Given how completely they caved to the guest, I'm guessing even an arbitration hearing would have gone her way.

Cointel Pro™

Vermin Supreme! Why not elect a real loon!

You had your chance to elect the lady with the cargo bike...

Propaganda, and ego stroking.

You should be using a variable not an alias.

Variables in bash have a few sharp edges; one of which is that spaces act as a delimiter and turn the variable into a list.

The other being that sometimes escaping and unescaping the contents of a variable can be stupidly tricky. This is why a lot of people who use bash do not like spaces in directory or file names.

Wasn't there a book about this in the 1990's? Or maybe a Wired headline?

Be skeptical of unverified and unverifiable sources. Sure the sources could be anonymous democrats; but they could also be Republican political operatives telling friendly journalists something that wouldn't be credible if it had their name on it.

You're posting a screenshot that doesn't even show the trades you're highlighting.
And, like who is this person and why do they have relevant experience?

Something, something, market irrational longer than you solvent...

So long as you have managed to acquire the correct well-connected lawyers and made friends in high places.

eh, it's mostly automagic but the first few times you encounter it makes for some fun debugging.

Play around with the var=$(ls -A) construction a bit and see what is happening with your files.

It's more of a small instance with some big accounts.