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For information purposes only, I paid 8000 baht to get an emergency complex extraction done at Bumrungrad. I went to some small clinics before I ended up there, but none of them had a qualified doctor on duty and I wasn't going to wait a day or two with that pain. Bumrungrad got me in on the spot. And I was happy to pay. If you have time to plan, great. I didn't.

I don't guess it had anything to do with the DEI mayor cutting the LAFD budget by $20 million (need more $$$ for the newcomers, after all) and the LGBTQ fire chief focusing her efforts on diversity and not on competence (and the upper body strength to haul a >100 pound fire hose).

You've been watching too much election year coverage by CNN and MSDNC if you think the economy is in good shape.

As of November 2024, the number of long-term unemployed people, or those jobless for 27 weeks or more, was 1.7 million, up from 1.2 million a year earlier, according to the BLS. Meanwhile, the number of unemployed people in November 2024 was 7.1 million, up from 6.3 million in November 2023, the BLS reported. Job seekers also have faced increased competition while applying for jobs. In 2023, job seekers had to send an average of 254 applications to get a job, compared to an average of 294 applications in 2024, according to Pathrise. A Workday report published in September 2024 found that competition is growing in several industries, with the most competitive being media, technology and communications, which had an average of 30 applicants per offer. Numbers Don’t Lie: Data Barrage Shows Just How Hard It Is For Americans To Find Jobs Under Biden | The Daily Caller Yeah. Big win there. Averaging 294 applications to get one job, with 30 applicants per open position. If you want an unbiased look at the actual job situation, quit listening to the MSM and the politicians. (Especially in an election year). Head over to the St Louis Federal Reserve data and drill down. It's not pretty. Except for foreign born workers and gub'ment employees. They're seeing growth. The foreign born jobs aren't increasing nearly as fast as the foreign born population, though. They're going to put the illegals into the labor pool once Trump gets in, and it'll look like unemployment spiked. It didn't. They're just not counting them now as "unemployed". https://fred.stlouisfed.org/

Where he'll be shedding his load. Repeatedly.

What I remember most about Charlie Hebdo is a couple of weeks later when 2 armed Islamic thugs tried the same at a convention in the Dallas area. They didn't make it out of the parking lot.

January 6 itself won't live in infamy except in the minds of those with the syndrome. The aftermath will rate up with (and possibly exceed) the infamy of McCarthyism for the injustices and the one sided prosecutions. The senior fellow additionally cited the number of charges brought against attendees of the Jan. 6 attack compared to those not charged during the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots. They didn’t tell us how many people were charged. It ended up [with] 1,500 felony charges. It was [an] almost 75% conviction rate. That never happens. Compare that with the 14,000 people that were arrested in 2020. Almost 90% of them were never charged or indicted. They were released. So there was a lot of things that they want to suppress.” In 2020, BLM was linked to nine in 10 riots. The country experienced 637 riots between May 26, 2020, and September 12, 2020 “A lot of the things they said, Laura, were abject lies,” Hanson said. “There were not four officers killed. There were not 10 people killed. There was only one violent death, we think, and that was a Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt Victor Davis Hanson Explains Why He Believes FBI Is ‘Afraid’ Of Trump’s Return | The Daily Caller

Speaking of VDH, where is he wrong here? The senior fellow additionally cited the number of charges brought against attendees of the Jan. 6 attack compared to those not charged during the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots. They didn’t tell us how many people were charged. It ended up [with] 1,500 felony charges. It was [an] almost 75% conviction rate. That never happens. Compare that with the 14,000 people that were arrested in 2020. Almost 90% of them were never charged or indicted. They were released. So there was a lot of things that they want to suppress.” In 2020, BLM was linked to nine in 10 riots. The country experienced 637 riots between May 26, 2020, and September 12, 2020 “A lot of the things they said, Laura, were abject lies,” Hanson said. “There were not four officers killed. There were not 10 people killed. There was only one violent death, we think, and that was a Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt Victor Davis Hanson Explains Why He Believes FBI Is ‘Afraid’ Of Trump’s Return | The Daily Caller Trump and his new team can't get in fast enough.

That's if you subscribe to the rehabilitation theory of incarceration. If you believe in the isolation from decent society theory, they can't possibly rob an Apple Store if they're in prison. Just spitballing, but it seems a waste that the UK already paid for so many idle beds in Rwanda. Or, here's a thought... For about 10% of what it costs to house and feed an inmate in the UK, Thailand could become the hub of penal tourism. Win, win. (Except for the bad guys who would have to acclimate to fish head soup and sweating a lot).

Perhaps that's because there is no threat presented by Trump. Except to screaming lefties. Canada's threat comes came from within.

To call out the machines that were then hacked by a BIC pen and a $5 USB chip in an actual court of law?

Excellent point.

Here's a question for you... What do you have to make to qualify on an average mortgage in Canada, and what percentage of the population makes that much? Here's another... How many healthcare facilities across the border in the USA would go broke if Canadians didn't need them?

Apple's tech being what it is, they should be able to disable any product that wasn't paid for. Or better yet, report their exact location and all the numbers called, to prosecute them. Then Apple needs to use their financial clout to force the cops to do their job, and sue every one of the perps that doesn't get a custodial sentence.

I wonder if they did the Trump dance step.

I wish they'd prosecute him for what he did to the truckers.

I don't think we all share the same definition of "domesticated". To me, that means they don't have the ability to fend for themselves in the wild. Whether they were born and raised captivity, and never learned the skills, or lost the ability to forage. They can't survive in the wild without help, or worse- plundering farms. That's in contrast to "tame", where they're safe to approach and interact with. IMO, the sanctuary elephants are domesticated, but they'll never be fully tamed. And that means they'd starve to death if just turned loose. (Or they'd raid local farms). Hardly a compassionate way to treat critters that we have domesticated. Ideally, they'd be free to live their lives with help. But that's expensive. Sadly, that's self perpetuating since they breed in captivity and live for a loooong time.

Any thoughts about drilling a 1/2" hole in the helmet and stringing it on a padlock with a steel cable? I don't think the 1/2" hole close to the edge would create any safety issues. Or am I wrong there?

I went through a few helmets in Bangkok that never really fit well. That changed when I spent about an hour in one of the helmet specialty shops that have hundreds on display. I tried on a couple of dozen before I found one that didn't have any pinch points. The shop I used was in BKK Chinatown, but I've perused similar shops all over. All helmets, hundreds of them. I'm no expert, but my recommendation (based on that experience) is to NOT buy one online without trying it on. And try on a bunch, because some felt okay, until I tried on the next one that felt so much better. I ended up buying one beanie for the 1km motosai taxi ride to work, and a full face helmet that I never really ended up using because I'm a wimp when it comes to longer trips. I feel much safer with 2 tons of steel and seat belts. But, to each his own.

The fact that there are places like Thailand where you can interact with them probably drives 90% of the funding to protect the wild ones in Asia. It's a conundrum... Just like the fact that more people are probably killed falling in the bathroom than on the adventure of a lifetime. There's no fun without some sense of risk.

I've been very pleased with my Uni-T brand multimeters. They have a huge variety of prices, some of them cheap. My most useful has been the UT71E, which records over time, but they're pretty spendy. For around the house every day, my UT33 was cheap, and it works great. In between is my UT210E, which I bought because it measures DC current with a clamp. That's useful if you're troubleshooting battery operated stuff.

I've got half a dozen versions of Walk, Don't Run by various artists. Obviously, by The Ventures, too. But there's a lot of versions on YouTube by various artists and guitar teachers. You may want to start there.

So, what they're saying is that the climate changes independent of human forces. But we need to spend redistribute $trillions of dollars.

History will not be kind to their legacy. And they deserve every bit of the criticism.

Americans didn't invent pizza. We just made it better. Especially in Chicago and New York. It's kind of like Mexican food. We took an inexpensive cuisine, adjusted it with better and more expensive ingredients and charge out the wazoo for it. I'm gobsmacked when I see what some places get for a burrito. And a deep dish pizza. Don't get me started on what we did to the price of a cuppa.