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Install warp-terminal and ask it. Or use AI search (Grok). Not perfect but getting better all the time.

I wouldn't pay much more for land because it has rubber trees planted, especially if they are 15+ years old. Rubber prices are OK at present, you might want to look at that first.

I am (was) a botanist so I think I would have noticed if they grow here. Bignonia, Sakura, Cassia, and BAUHINIA, a spectacular tree you see around Chiang Mai. Amherstia?

22 hours ago, alanrchase said:

Britain has one of the worlds largest defence companies. BAE Systems.

Pity the UK can't afford to buy.

The SIL is stuck at home because he can't get diesel. I went to four petrol stations yesterday; one was closed, the second and third had run out, and the fourth had diesel but wouldn't let me fill my jerry can. I think I saw more petrol (?diesel) tankers around yesterday.

You can try spraying with Neem oil, possibly mixed with a little detergent in order for it to wet the leaves properly. Sorry I'm a bit late, but so are you, probably. I gave up on melons because of the regular inspections and sprayings that they require.

A phobia is an irrational fear or dislike of something or someone. Examples: Christophobia, Judaeophobia, there's a lot of that about. So, my irrational fear of Islam stems from the fact that they want to eliminate all non-Muslims , by whatever means necessary, that they are allowed by their faith to lie in order to promulgate Islam... oh, etc, etc, I can't think of much that I like about it.

Let's get on to the argument that always follows: "It's just the extremist Islamists that cause trouble".

QUOTE: "Speaking at Kanal D TV’s Arena program, PM Erdogan commented on the term “moderate Islam”, often used in the West to describe AKP and said, ‘These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”Source: Milliyet, Turkey, August 21, 2007"

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/moderate-turkeys-moderate-pm-erdogan-explains-there-no-moderate-islam-andrew-c/

3 hours ago, MikeandDow said:

Boots on the ground is a big mistake !! this is not like Iraq 70% of the people then wanted Saddam out , but Iran is different 90% want to kill Americans and i think they will get there chance !! You Yanks made a big mistake voting in a madman you will never get him out now !! you reap what you sow !!

Not sure where you got that lovely nugget of information from, It doesn't at all represent what I've been seeing on Tousi TV and others. Looks more like 90% are fed up with this lunatic regime machine-gunning protestors by the tens of thousands, and that army, police and IRGC members are deserting.

3 hours ago, MikeandDow said:

Boots on the ground is a big mistake !! this is not like Iraq 70% of the people then wanted Saddam out , but Iran is different 90% want to kill Americans and i think they will get there chance !! You Yanks made a big mistake voting in a madman you will never get him out now !! you reap what you sow !!

Not sure where you got that lovely nugget of information from, It doesn't at all represent what I've been seeing on Tousi TV and others. Looks more like 90% are fed up with this lunaticregime machine-gunning protestors by the tens of thousands, and that army, police and IRGC members are deserting.

23 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

Why can't they just make passport a mandatory document, or make another mandatory picture ID card, which is proof of citizenship? With trillions Government is spending on stupid stuff, issuing 400 million plastic cards with photos on them would be peanuts. On a more serious note - does the government really not have a database of their citizens with their photos and fingerprints?

Most Americans don't have a passport. In view of the fact that places like California have been issuing driving licenses to non-citizens, which can then be used as voter ID, maybe it is time to introduce federally authorised ID's, don't you think?

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

The US has been on the decline for at least 30 years and all Trump is doing is significantly exacerbating that decline on so many levels. It almost feels like it was planned, the economic sabotage and destruction almost feels deliberate.

So what is the agenda exactly? It cannot be sheer stupidity and monumental ignorance only.

Yeah, right, if you suffer from <removed> then that's the only possible reason.

How about: (after Venezueal) controlling the export of oil and gas to China. That's a biggie.

Stopping a regime that has been financing and encouraging terrorism - ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Muslim Brotherhood, ETC, from getting hold of a nuclear bomb.

Relieving Iran of an extremely authoritarian regime, that didn't hesitate to machine-gun tens of thousands last year...

Agenda: It seems you missed it, maybe you should read some other news source that doesn't keep telling us how warm and cosy the Islamic conquest is. There will be difficulties, that is clear, but that doesn't mean Trump is stupid.

6 hours ago, JohnOFphon said:

What? Not Trumpistan..Or Donnie East? or

Oh, very clever.

Occasionally when filling up the car, someone will offer to clean the windscreen. That's ฿20.- for five minutes work. If I were working on a pump attendant's wages, I would be collecting ฿100.- a day I imagine. I've always been puzzled by the fact that I don't get offered the service every time.

(+ check your oil? tyres while yo're in 7-11?...)

I can't understand why anyone would want to use any version of Windows. Dammit, I'm 78 and have no problems using Linux (Ubuntu).

7 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

78

Do you need to go on dialysis?

I remember when 78 was old once

If you have kidney disease, yes.

At age 78, I'm more interested in how I'm going to die than when. I won't be getting a kidney transplant and I have my doubts about three times weekly dialysis - too expensive so maybe I'll just let it go.

I would like to see: successful moon landings, and something being done about what is happening to the UK at present.

I passed the tests while temporarily almost blind in one eye. A Thai guy in front of me got three tries on the colour test and failed.

I believe that there exist stats that if you're diabetic and break a hip, you won't make it out of the hospital. I would claim that most falls are caused by lack of a sense of balance and/or dizziness, and that much of this can be prevented by daily exercise.

50 years ago in the UK, starting off at a green light at the correct speed would ensure that you would get a steady stream of green lights. Not everywhere, as it could get quite complicated, but it did work.

They respect strength. Incursions and provocations around Taiwan have drastically reduced since this started. Xi has other problems, like his personal survival, to worry about. The expensive radar system that they sold to Iran, not yet paid for, was easily jammed by the Americans.