OneMoreFarang

And add the Trump part and I am sure many more won't want to join the US.

I would like to see a survey in Canada how many would like to join Trump-US. I would be surprised if many want that.

There is a difference between not telling the whole truth and bending the truth a little and constantly deliberately lying all the time. Obviously, it would be nice if all politicians, or all people, would always tell the truth. But we all know that is not the case. In most cases, when top politicians say something on stage in public, they thought about what they say, especially if they are the head of state. Trump just makes up anything he likes like firing from the hip. I.e. that BS again with Greenland and Panama. He is full of <deleted>. But somehow many of his supporters seem to think that makes him authentic or one of them or something like that. Sad.

It seems it is the habit of many Thai technicians to come at least with two people and then they roam around. Often one of them has nothing better to do then look here at little and there a little. And then some of them pick up this item, and that item, ... Most of the time this seems to be harmless, but I hate it. So, whenever anybody comes, I make sure I am not alone, and my gf also has a look at them. And if anybody picks up anything not related to their work, we make it very fast very clear to them that they shouldn't do that. I don't know how common it is that things get stolen, it is definitely very common that they look around and want to touch a lot of things. Until now I was lucky enough that nothing was stolen. But then, I also made sure nothing valuable is just for grab.

I am pretty sure some URLs still work the way they should. But it seems to me now they are much stricter about those URLs. I guess they have a whitelist what they allow. Just a guess.

IMHO the most important thing to do might include relaxing for a day or two. Sometimes a little rest is more important than anything else.

He has to pay millions to the woman who accused him. Without any evidence. I don't know if that is technically called guilty, but it definitely feels like guilty.

Does that make him guilty in above case?

I don't like Trump, and I am sure he committed many crimes. But that "rape" case, where the woman doesn't even know in which year he supposedly raped her, is just crazy. It seems he was convicted without any real evidence. He was convicted because that woman who receives the money and some other women said he raped them (or put his hands or fingers in places they should not be or something like that). How is someone accused of rape, with an uncertain date, supposed to defend himself? Should he account for every hour in his life for a time period of more than a year, to show that he wasn't even anywhere near her in that apartment store? This is just crazy - American "justice".

It doesn't seem to me that the MAGA crowd reluctantly supported Trump. And about "millions of US voters are as dumb". To quote George Carlin: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

He is constantly lying, and it does not make any sense to believe anything he says. When will people understand this simple fact? It's not so difficult to see.

Between men and women no one is better than the others. But they are different in many ways. It seems many feminists pretend they want equal rights, but in reality, they want all the rights from men and keep all privileges from women. In theory men and women can do both many jobs. But in reality both prefer different kind of jobs, because they are different. I.e. men like engineering more than women. And women like jobs like nurse and child care more than men. That is a fact, but somehow some feminists don't accept those fact. And about the subject of this thread: Ask women what they want, and they will talk about some nice guy who is soft and nice and all that. And then, who do these women try to date? Successful men, with some macho attitudes, who make a lot of money and take care of them.

Maybe they don't listen to those crazy feminists. And the feminists, who don't know what they want, like that.

Recently I saw a video about Elon Musk's thinking. I don't agree with that guy in many ways, but he is without question very successful, and we can learn from him. It seems for each of his companies he has every week the question: Which is the most important challenge this week? And then he works to solve that issue then and there. Then the same for the next company. And again, next week. That seems to me an interesting strategy. So maybe next year I can ask myself every week: What is the most important thing which I should do/solve this week. And then do it.

AI will get nearer to overtake us. It's interesting and scary at the same time.

Greenland, Panama and all that. And then Israel and Ukraine. Let's look what the crazy guy will do in the next months. And let's look how long it will take before his billionaire supporters will fight with him. I try to see this as a soap opera. It is way too serious to actually believe this is happening. In Thailand I don't see any surprised coming.

How exiting

Will everybody who has less than four years get out of prison?

Why do people pretend those days are something special? 14,737 lives lost on Thai roads in 2022

Should we talk about a story which is full of lies? Should we talk about a book from which most religious people like some parts and dismiss other parts? We don't need Christ and religion to live a meaningful life.

It's all about money. Isn't that obvious?

It's obviously your fault. For how long to you visit Thailand already? Why do you still expect rational calculations?

He tells everybody what they like to hear. The problem for him is that he hasn't discovered yet that what he says is often recorded and they others see it as well. That makes it difficult to promise everybody something different. The good part for Trump is that many of his supporters are just too stupid and/or ignorant to understand this.

From here: Vivek Ramaswamy claims American culture has championed ‘mediocrity over excellence’ for too long In a lengthy post to X, Ramaswamy blamed decadeslong cultural trends as the reason “top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over ‘native’ Americans.” He argued that the decline of U.S. citizens choosing to pursue engineering stemmed from kids growing up in a lazy, culture that has long promoted “the prom queen over the math olympiad champ” and “the jock over the valedictorian.” I am looking forward to the fight between the rich and smart and the stupid MAGA crowd. There is not much they agree on. It's just a question of time before they will be on each other's throat. And Trump is in the middle. Let's get the popcorn out and enjoy the show.

Mostly I only read the headlines and not the details. It seems to me this is a one in a million case and not comparable to much else. And for most people, who never raped anybody and were never raped, and didn't talk to anyone involved in a rape, it will be difficult to understand what happened. I think the best we can hope for is that the judges looked at the details and made the right decision.