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If you want an odor free cat, good luck. If you want a low odor cat, get a female, have her spayed, use clumping cat litter, and count on cleaning the litter box daily, if not 2 or 3 times a day. Male cats (at least the ones my significant others have owned) have a bad habit of marking territory with a stench that just won't come out, and making god-awful noises when they're upset. Or horny.

I'm sure it was Trump's fault.

Last time around, she got on the pulpit and raised bail for the mostly peaceful city burners.

Just clarifying, the OP rents the condo? That doesn't make it okay, but it's a different scenario from changing the locks on a condo he owns. (Which the title suggests...) Changing the locks seems like a reasonable way to get the attention of the renter. I wonder if they tried to contact him in person during his absence, and had to resort to the nuclear option when they couldn't.

Do you have a clue how dangerous it is to shoot at tires on a moving vehicle in a public parking lot? Cops don't have a legal or moral responsibility to get the hell out of the way when someone's making an escape.

She died because she put the car in gear and tried to run over the cop standing in front of her car, with another cop in danger who was next to her car with his hand in the window. Thank goodness they stopped her before she ran over an innocent kid or an entire family in the parking lot, as she tried to get away.

She was in control of a 2000+ pound weapon.

If she doesn't do interviews, she doesn't have to be burdened by all that came before. The MSM are rewriting her history for her. Making her immune to fact checks. BTW, someone remind me, is SF Red or Blue, and where did Harris cut her teeth fighting crime? The last remaining Denny’s in San Francisco has shuttered after nearly 25 years. The 24-hour diner chain’s 816 Mission St. location closed Aug. 1, franchise owner Chris Haque told SFGATE. As of Aug. 12, the Denny’s sign has been painted over. “We’re the only store left, and we operated until the last day that we could,” Haque said. “The cost of doing business is tremendous. There’s vandalism, and people come and eat and walk away, and there’s no one to stop them.” https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/sf-dennys-closed-19652076.php

Seems like Musk has invited Harris to do an interview of the same format. I'm looking forward to her holding a cogent conversation for an hour. But I doubt it's going to happen.

The way I read it (Edit: past tense of read, it goes back awhile), she was found guilty of backing up the data on the machines before they illegally deleted the records. On a related topic: Surprise, surprise. Organizers and participants at the DEF CON Voting Village found cyber vulnerabilities in everything from voting machines to e-poll books, but there is no time before the November elections to fully implement their findings. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/12/hackers-vulnerabilities-voting-machines-elections-00173668 To me the only surprise is that Politico reported it.

Green dishwashers are different now in the US. They take over twice as long, and don't even get the dishes clean, and that's after scraping them clean before putting them in. But I guess they use less water per cycle.

But can you cook a pizza in it? I miss a good frozen pizza, doctored up the way I like them. I see them in the import sections of some Bangkok grocery stores.

Who's The Old Guy With Dimentia NOW? We're not s'posed to talk mean about other AN members.

Bathtubs and clothes dryers and electric dish washers hiders. 3 things I don't miss at all from back home. What I do miss (occasionally) an oven.

I remember before Pepcid, when baking soda was the best treatment, but only lasted a few minutes to an hour or so. Plus, I tried all the folk remedies like raising the head of my bed, not eating after a certain hour, etc. I'm not sure I'd have made it to 67 yo without killing myself for the misery of reflux. Then, Pepcid came along. Then PPI's like Omeprazole. Even if some unknown side effect from 30+ years of those meds were to kill me tomorrow, I'd still be ahead in terms of quality (if not quantity) of life. And so far, no doctors have pointed to any side effects on me after 40+ years of H2 blockers and PPI's. Though, there are warnings on the box and on the interwebs. And, not to put too fine a point on it, even with Pepcid, taking the oath and quitting booze helped... But that's a trade-off many won't make and I don't blame them.

I take Miracid, which is a Thai made version of Omeprazole, available everywhere in Thailand and cheap. As I understand it, Nexium was created by the same folks that made Prilosec when the latter went off patent, so they could keep gouging patients when generic Omeprazole went OTC. Very little changed from Prilosec in form or function. But then, I am a skeptic. I've tried other brands of generic omeprazole in Thailand, but the Miracid has been the most reliable for me. YMMV. I've been taking reflux meds over 30 years, starting with Famotidine, then Omeprazole. Various doctors have suggested I quit, but when I push back asking how to relieve the reflux, they relent and tell me it's "probably okay". I am miserable without them. Edit: I'd add that I keep baking soda around (or sodium bicarbonate tablets) for instant relief of flare-ups. The Miracid takes a while to kick in, and I try to take the minimum. So if a Thai chef "surprises" me with a dish that's "just a little spicy", I can get instant relief.

Tragic incident all around. But an excellent cautionary tale to install a dash cam. That would prove (or disprove) that the scooter crossed in front of the driver. With my usual caveat NOT to install a dash cam if you drive like an idiot and the videos are more likely to incriminate you than exonerate you. Or at least practice pulling the SD card out and hiding it if you are in a wreck.

Other than the 4 hour holiday weekend queue for the car ferry (each way), I enjoyed Koh Chang. But I wonder if I'd have enjoyed it had I not been in my pickup with my kayak strapped to the top? I drove as far as I could drive on roads from the SE side of the island where I stayed, to the SW side of the island where my knuckles turned white from the winding road, switchbacks, and dodging drivers passing on blind curves. But I don't recall any concentration of sites to see and things to do, especially around the ferry landing. I'm wide open to the possibility there's plenty I missed, paying attention to the roads. Can anyone comment on Koh Chang as an unmotorized destination? Worth a week? A month? Edit: I guess I should add that I'm not the scooter renting type. No motorcycle license and no death wish. Though I do take a lot of local motosai taxis because they're pros and know how to ride with the flow, unlike me. But not for journeys more than a few clicks, or open road at speed.

My recent peeve (with Orbitz) is selecting a flight, clicking pay now, going through the CC process, and they come back with "that price is no longer available". Caving, I agree to pay 10% more (+/-), then they come back with "price no longer available" for several iterations, until the price is 50% or more higher. But if I close that tab and restart the process, they come back with the original price, and that's what I pay. I don't delete cookies, or anything like VPN through a different country. Overall, I like Orbitz, but that one's irritating.

Between 2020 and 2024, how many primary votes did Harris get? Bait and switch is too polite. This was a coup. Revealing which side is the real threat to democracy.

I thought critics suggested "she" may have XY chromosomes, which would have given "her" a lifelong developmental advantage, regardless of how "she's" managing her testosterone level today.

It's one thing to target a nationality. It's another to target people who are misbehaving, and they turn out to be of a specific nationality.

The economic theory goes that they can use that sweaty tourist money (and not just RMB) to invest in projects to improve water treatment, solid waste disposal and other projects that improve the quality of life for everyone in Thailand, especially the natives. But also the visitors. Of course, that would require some discipline at the trough of corruption. But I don't foresee that happening without a strong man at the helm. Edit: Which is why I don't suffer from Thaksin Derangement Syndrome. He may not be the guy to do it. But he's the only guy I've seen that's capable of enforcing that discipline. But that's another topic for another thread.

Is the 7/11 tech that good that they can tell there's a burger missing between inventory cycles? I can see how she'd get docked if the cash in the till didn't match the receipts issued, but I'm not sure they'd dock her if there was a burger missing. It would probably be days or weeks before they reconcile the inventory. By then, they wouldn't know which shift to dock, much less which girl. Or do they have RFID tags hidden on all the items?

Bring your passport and buy the stored value tickets at any MRT and BTS station. If you don't go during prime times, the queue is generally minimal. I bought mine with cash, and top them up with cash. I only had to present my passport the first time. And once, post Covid when my cards hadn't been used in years. I don't recall whether they binned my expired cards or topped them up. Someone else may chime in with the expiry date if they aren't used for awhile, but I suspect it's over a year. TBH, I only use the ARL once a month in each direction, so I don't know how to buy a stored value ticket for the ARL, though I suspect it's the same. If I had a need to use the ARL more often, I'd certainly try to get a stored value card. The queues at the machines can get long during peak times. I'm told that the BTS has never offered a discount for old farts, and that the MRT discount for old farts has recently been limited to Thai passports. But it's so cheap that I haven't even looked to see of my BTS Elder card still gives me the discount since last month when I topped it up. Good luck, and enjoy!