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Is that the same Joe Biden who claimed that we've already sent everything we have into Helene recovery? That we have no more to send? That's not going to be a good look when Florida gets hammered in 2 days. Maybe that's the October surprise everyone's talking about.

Sorry if this has been covered, but why would anyone want a re-entry stamp on a visa exempt? Even if you could get a re-entry permit, wouldn't it expire when your VE entry stamp expires? Just enter again on a visa exempt. Get a fresh stamp... My own experience... I've recently flown into BKK 17 or 18 months in a row (I lost count), each one on a visa exempt. Last one was September. Next one is in about 2 weeks. I stay for about a week each entry. (no extensions for a week's stay, obviously) So far, so good. I'll post back if I ever do have an issue with my entry. (US passport, worked in Thailand pre-Covid, nothing but VE's since Covid) Just to be clear, I only stay a few days each visit. My experience has nothing to do with extended stays. YMMV

Meanwhile Mayor Adams of NYC is asking for $12,000 million of our tax dollars to care for illegal immigrants for 3 years. What's 12,000 divided by 137?

That's why it's good to have some kind of relationship with the local well drillers (and the gub'ment groundwater people). They can tell you if the local water table has moved up or down, and how it's trending long term. That's helpful long after they've drilled the well using their expertise to know how deep they need to drill to get to a good water zone, and where to set the pump in anticipation of next year's (or next decade's) dry season. There are tons of good interweb sources explaining all those parameters, in whatever language you're comfortable with. But local knowledge is still required.

Carter and Clinton prove that whopper is absolutely false. Carter had character in spades, and his presidency was a disaster. Clinton's presidency was successful, in between not having sexual relations with that woman. As for the rest of your diatribe, go line by line and ask yourself which lines Biden accomplished. Start with "reducing prescription prices" Of the thousands of drugs out there, Biden claims to have negotiated discounts on 10 of them, starting in a couple of years...

Reading some other sources, it seems that the biggest issue is the permitting and bidding process, where the participating companies are required to meet DEI and Green initiatives that are pretty much impossible. (And stoopid). That's probably why North Carolina doesn't have their 20,000 Starlink stations, which would have been handy during the Helene response. But were defunded by the Biden Admin in 2023, having been approved in 2020. Musk claims that the "performance criteria" they didn't meet were ridiculous and had little to do with "performance" and more to do with wokeness and DEI. And the fact that the current administration is cheezed off at him.

It's possible that he didn't get the diagnosis for many months.

What you're also forgetting is the conspiracy theories that revealed inconvenient facts, even if the conspiracy theory hasn't been confirmed. Yet. A perfect example is the "eating cats" conspiracy theory. The inconvenient fact is that Springfield has been overrun with 20,000 Haitian migrants, straining the town's resources and causing all kinds of problems for the citizens. Problems that would have been (and were) swept under the rug until the conspiracy theory went viral. Even if the cat thing is never proven one way or the other, the controversy revealed huge problems with an open border, that wouldn't have made the MSM. But they were forced to acknowledge it, if only to cast doubt on the high statistical odds that turning loose 20,000 visitors from a culture that eats cats would result in some cats being eaten.

Here's a fascinating (to me, anyway) map of US counties and which ones are gaining population and which are losing population, basically since Covid. Especially interesting to me when I laid it over a map of Red and Blue areas in my home state of Texas. Looks like people are (generally) leaving the Blue areas. I wonder why? I'm also interested in what people see in their home state... Click on the sfchronicle link to get details on every county... The image is just a .JPG. The good stuff is in the linked article, which also 'splains where the data comes from https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/bay-area-migration-trends-map/ https://maxyqconcordia.pages.dev/fyshudr-texas-congressional-elections-2024-lmoxcvj/

Going back to the link in my previous post showing 10x as many registered Dems as registered Repubs in mainstream journalism, it's no surprise to me that it's so much easier to find an "Orange Man Bad" story than a "Biden's Dementia" story. Until the MSM couldn't cover for him any more.

Since that is literally impossible to disprove, I wonder what your sources are? (Unless, of course, you have videos of every resident and every dog and cat in town, and someone watched them all.)

Seriously? HRC is even advocating re-education camps for people who listen to the wrong sources. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/10/06/hillary-clinton-maga-cult-extremists-donald-trump-house-republicans-amanpour-cnntm-vpx.cnn

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+N5105+%40+2.00GHz https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel N100 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+5+5560U https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+5+5600H&id=4274 No surprises there...

With over 10x as many registered Dems in mainstream journalism as registered Repubs, you don't figure there's a reason that Dems want you to listen only to the MSM? And the reason isn't journalistic integrity... https://www.theamericanjournalist.org/_files/ugd/46a507_4fe1c4d6ec6d4c229895282965258a7a.pdf

Are you confusing Team America with Idiocracy?

You mean like Judge Joe Brown? Judge Joe Brown Attacks Kamala Harris, Says She Has a Lazy Reputation https://blacknews.com/news/judge-joe-brown-attacks-kamala-harris-says-she-has-lazy-reputation/ The interview began with Brown bluntly calling Harris a “piece of sh*t” and questioning her “professional competence” as a lawyer. He went on to accuse her of relying on flirtation rather than skill in the courtroom, claiming she had a reputation for being “lazy” among her peers and often “hiking up her hemline when she needed influence.”

Only in the eyes of the uneducated. She got a big ol fat booty though. Remember when she was shaking it on video? AOC bumped up against the Peter Principle as a barkeep. Her options for advancement were OnlyFans, or running as a Dem.

How serious is he? Keep in mind you can't add a graphics card. But the onboard graphics are pretty good nowadays, unless he wants to become the Leader of the Universe (or some such title).

I've got one from several years back. It works great. But I donated it to my GF's father when he was in an elder care facility where he had very limited space. It worked great for him, using his room's big screen TV for a monitor (via HDMI). He'd pop it into a drawer when he wasn't using it. Unfortunately, he installed Windows in Chinese, so it sits idle since he passed away. I recommend 'em. Unless you need a lot of eclectic outputs, like serial or parallel. Which are pretty rare nowadays, and there are USB adapters available. BTW, there have been several threads about them, and the AN search function works a lot better than it used to. Edit: Stay away from the super cheap ones that have slooooow CPU's. Check the Passmark Benchmarks for the CPU performance before choosing. It generally doesn't cost a lot more to get a much faster CPU.

I do not. Never did. When I worked in Bangkok, I had a DL and a BOI WP. Now that I only visit BKK once a month on Visa Exempt, I wouldn't dream of pulling out proof of residence at Arrivals to support my short term entry. That would be counter intuitive. That would be like a Thai lady showing a London based job offer letter to the UK Embassy to apply for a tourist visa.

The OP's new strategy may work great. Until it doesn't. And all that takes is an encounter with the wrong IO on arrival. The idea of showing evidence of long term residence to gain a short term entry sounds like a recipe for disappointment.

It's a piece of drivel, conveniently forgetting revelations in the Twitter files, Zuck coming forward (4 years later) and apologizing for squelching accurate information, 51 "intelligence experts" claiming the laptop was fake, claims that the vaccine was "one shot, then you can visit grandma" (and that there would be no adverse side effects), shutting down restaurants was "following the science", but keeping the liquor stores open was okay, that walking on the beach (in the winter) is crazy dangerous, and on and on. Way too many conspiracy theories have been coming true, especially since voice has been given to people outside the MSM. Voices that they'd rather you not listen to.

Our water source wells in the south of Thailand were over 1000 meters deep. Which is neither here not there when it comes to designing systems. For that, you need to know how deep the potable water strata is, how much pressure is down there, and how much the pressure will change over time, a) when you turn on the pump, b) by season and c) long term trending. In the water well industry, the pressure is expressed in feet, or meters of water, not so much in PSI. And you need to know how much water you plan (need) to produce. Otherwise, you can't know what's causing your well problems. You can guess, for sure. But that gets expensive.

Spoiler alert. Google Harris 32 days. Too early to have been picked up and spun by MSM.

Do you know what the standing water depth is, and the pumping water depth? And does it vary a lot by season, or year by year? The depth of the water table (standing), and the pumping (drawdown) depth is key to sizing the system right. Plus, of course, your desired Liters per Minute. It's not unusual to drill a well to 300 meters, and have water standing at the surface, or even flowing with no pump at all. Which is called an artesian well.