OneMoreFarang

I think there can be many reasons for that. It's up to you to look for alternatives and look what kind of payment others expect. But payment conditions are obviously not directly related to performance. Personally, I set my payment conditions according to the customer. If I am not sure they will pay me according to my usual conditions, then I ask for advance payment. If they pay, fine. And if they don't pay then at least I can be sure I won't have to chase some payment.

Great, then we don't have to worry. Trump will be found guilty and go to jail. Hurray! And many of us think that since years - and he is still free and running for president.

Great idea. Except the Google results are obviously also filtered, and optimized for each user. I agree with most of what you wrote above. But the problem is that we all live in our bubbles. We see the bubbles of the other and how can those others be so stupid not to recognize their bubble. Guess what they say about our bubbles...

What a wonderful explanation. I also think that his supporters are mostly stupid. But, looking at reality, there are also enough intelligent people who support him. There are even more intelligent people who support the GOP in general. And we all know that the GOP is in the moment a Trump fan club. Fact is, they are not all stupid. That is the frightening part. And senile Biden is obviously not helping to convince the people that there is a better alternative. And for the record, I would never ever vote for Trump.

I would love to agree with you. But it seems reality, for those Trump fans, is different. He is the leading GOP candidate, not by a little, but by a large margin. And every time he is prosecuted, he gets more support from his followers. Normal logic doesn't apply to him and his supporters. I wish it would, but that is just wishful thinking.

Ok, fine. But please tell me/us why that didn't convince the 70 million Trump supporters. Why do they still want him as president? Do they still think he won last time? Do they think he lost and lied but they don't care and want more of the same? I find it strange what some people believe. But it seems they do believe in "alternative facts".

Personally I think fox is right wing. But I remember talking to a guy, who seemed pretty rational, who told me he looks fox news and thinks they are most balanced. Are they? (It's a rhetorical question). I think the biggest problem with media companies are omissions, things which they "forget" to report. I.e. a friend, who is not right-wing, asks me from time to time if I saw this or that thing about Biden. Most of the time I didn't know about these events, because the news which I read didn't include this information. And then there are the comments. Sometimes I leave a comment under news in a left-oriented media source. Sometimes they publish my comments. But other times my comments just don't exist. I.e. there might be an article about what they call "the climate catastrophe", and 100% of the comments agree that this is the biggest problem on earth. I don't think they made up all those other comments. They just didn't publish what critical people commented. I am sure that is reality on the left and right and everywhere.

I follow "the news" and I think I have a good idea what is going on. But then, those 70,000,000 Trump supporters will likely also follow some news. Maybe fox news, maybe TRUTH (or whatever Trump's version of Twitter is called), etc. Are they all stupid? I am sure some of them are stupid. But likely there will be also a lot of people who think they know "the truth" but it is another version of what I think is the truth. A local example is what happened in Bangkok in 2010. I was here, maybe 3km away from the events, and I think I know what happened. But other people, who also live in Bangkok, disagree with me. And then there were the news reports from media organizations all over the world. Somehow many of them had differnt versions of the truth. So who is right? Obviously I think that I know what I saw. But then, I wasn't 100% of the time everywhere, and I don't really know what happened all the time everywhere. It's complicated.

In my experience there is sometimes no way to tell who charged you. To analyze my records, I compare my bank statements with my emails (from the bank and maybe the seller) to get a better idea about the situation.

Can you? YouTube alone is probably not sufficient. I look at different news sources, i.e. BBC, Al Jazeera, and others. But I think it is still difficult to know the truth. Just one example: We see videos and read articles about 6th January 2021. But what do we really see? The events happened for many hours. Is what we see in "the news" what happed all the time or most of the time? Or do we see just a small part of it and the rest was different? We don't really know. This is a great demonstration of "news" and which part is reported:

There was a time when people watched news on TV. And news was just that, news, same news in the news. But now people don't watch the news on TV anymore. News as it is is not reported anymore. Everybody publishes their version of their personal news/truth.

But because they all only do part time jobs, they get multiple part time salaries. ???? I guess that will soon create more problems. Imagine one of those parts of they want to work, and another part wants to strike or sleep. Difficult times...

I am sure people will remember PTs priorities at the next election. And (I think) soon there won't be this senate anymore. Things will change, and not for the better, for PT and their criminal hero.

I confirm that also happens on my PC since maybe a week or so. But I am not surprised. Ad revenue is obviously VERY important for the people who run this site.

But it's not too difficult to identify them on the streets...

I wonder why they were allowed at all. The hint is in the names: Outlaws, Bandidos, ...

Have you tried to "double-click" on the icons? That should work. In some areas, like the task bar, one "click" is enough.

I wanted to buy one for my condominium. In my case: Not enough space. This is why I mentioned it.

How many pillars exist where you can overcharge 500%?

Woke idiots. Nuff said.

Never heard of them! ????

In case you didn't think about this: cassette type air conditioners are often big; you need a lot of space above your ceiling.

Which one?

Here is the important part from the article: 19 times in 15 years Since fleeing the country in August 2008, Thaksin has announced his return at least 19 times.

But is it true? Maybe it is, I don't know. But it could be that someone took half out and then took a picture and posted it. It's not that I say that is what happened. But it's a possibility. It seems to me that now someone posts something online and if the story sounds good then lots of people like it and republish it, etc. But how many people know the truth? And how many people care about the truth?