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Someone help a po' boy out here. The Sun is blocked where I'm staying. (Probably not a bad thing to avoid brain rot) Can someone give me the Reader's Digest version of where they found him and how?

The difference being only a matter of degree. You know the old story about how to boil a frog...

I don't know about a whole party, but if you want to see what happens when, all of a sudden out of thin air, they replace a candidate that got 14 million primary votes with a candidate that got none, look no further than the USA in 2024. The MSM seems to love it.

It's not milking (so much) if they also got the rabies immune globulin in addition the the vaccines. That one is spendy. The international clinic in China where I got bitten wanted to charge me $2,000 USD. So I went to the local clinic and they charged me a few bucks for just the first vaccine shot. Then I finished the course of vaccines in Thailand, also very cheap. I have no opinion how smart that was, You'll have to get that advice from a medical expert.

Have they actually confirmed he got on his BKK flight, or are they counting on a post from "a user"? Any updates from the Finns, or the airline, or any vetted officials in Thailand? A user, identifying themselves as Pol Rithikrai, who works for Thai immigration confirmed Simon had boarded Flight no. AY142 on July 26 at 05:46 am. But despite the crucial update, Simon's whereabouts in Finland are still unknown. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mum-brit-missing-thailand-issues-33403276 That's rather weak sauce if that's what she's basing her assertion on. If someone wanted to throw the search off track, seems like posing as an immigration employee and posting that he's left Thailand would be a good way to do it. And I'm a little skeptical of an Immigration employee posting confidential information like that in a public forum, and not through official channels.

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My nomination for meme of the week.

Hunter, Schmunter. The scary thing is that Biden's sitting across the negotiating table from foreign leaders, many of them adversarial, who have that kind of dirt that could send his kid to prison.

I miss the olden days when it was perfectly acceptable to punish (and even fire) employees who did their jobs wrong, risking hundreds of lives. If they're shielded from consequences of their incompetence, what's the incentive to do it the right way? Edit: If I had a lament there, it would be that they didn't fire the higher people responsible for the rushed conditions and the lack of training. And prosecute anyone who falsified documents.

I hear there was a run on plus sized panties around all the liberal newsrooms after they figured out Harris would have to ad-lib, with no crib notes. They forgot the first rule... Be careful what wish for.

Don't they have to apply for asylum in the first safe country they land in?

Same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. First time in many years I had a problem with VLC. First, I downloaded and installed an update, but still no luv. So I deleted the program and as many folders as I could identify that were associated with it (manually, no dedicated cleanup software. It's been years since I needed cleanup software, and I didn't want to spend the time relearning the software unless I had to). Since I downloaded and installed the latest version, it's been working fine. Win 10 laptop, playing off about 6 USB 2-1/2" Hard Drives (Not SSD's) with capacity of 1, 2 and 4 TB each. They're connected to my laptop through an Orico 13 port powered USB adapter, which I absolutely love. Obviously, YMMV. Edit: I don't know if it matters, but I avoid 4K and higher resolution videos since my 40" screen is 1920x1080, the 4K files are so big, and they eat bandwidth downloading them. I stick to 1080P and 720P, depending on the media.

Hard as I try, I can't seem to muster up any sympathy for her. Big fan of Kate, though. I wish the entire family well, even as a Yank.

Funny how that works... Edit: Great to see he filed the suit in Texas. Where lefties have to fight fair. Except in Austin, which we refer to as LA East with all the Cali refugees fleeing to Texas.

You seem like mugshots since you keep reposting this in multiple threads, so I am sure you will appreciate me doing the same. Edited just now by shdmn Which one has become a popular T-shirt?

Volkswagen Beetles were designed by Nazis. And that's just as relevant.

We'll see. But I wouldn't bet against X's legal team.

They're also free to raise or lower prices if they want. But if they do it as a group, it's illegal.

She's going to wish her team did more vetting.

If one advertiser decides not to spend on X, that's legal. If they independently decide not to advertise on X, that's legal. If they band together that's collusion, and it's illegal. If they band together to squelch free speech, that's dangerous. Glad to see that Rumble has joined the lawsuit.

Sure. It's an indeterminate pronoun. But not a singular pronoun. When you're referring to a specific individual, it's dorky and being rammed down our throat. Edit: Though I miss going to work, I'm glad I was able to complete my career without ever once going to pronoun sensitivity training.

Good topic. I hope the OP posts back with his results. And I hope someone who's been there, done that can help him out here. If any airline has a record of a blacklist, I suspect the Thai national airline would. But you say it's a different passport with a different PP number (I assume) and Thai airlines may not have the ability to match them up like Immigration can. (Or maybe they do, by name and birthdate) If you don't get any answers here, I'd suggest you call them. Best of luck.

Has there been any update in the Real World news? The most recent I could Bing up was from 8/4. (Google's blocked here) It seems as if the Finnair information came from some Thai poster? A user, identifying themselves as Pol Rithikrai, who works for Thai immigration confirmed Simon had boarded Flight no. AY142 on July 26 at 05:46 am. But despite the crucial update, Simon's whereabouts in Finland are still unknown. The article is dated 8/6, but the mother's update is dated 2 days earlier. Maybe someone can find more recent info that I can't open from China? https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mum-brit-missing-thailand-issues-33403276 Edit: Yeah, I know it's the Mirror. I'm hoping someone can set me on the straight and narrow...

I'd kick in a few baht to a GoFundMe to buy decent CCTV cameras. I watched the video a few times, and can barely see what happened at the vehicle. I'm not going to comment about the ladies dropping the poor guy on his head. Has there been any update on his condition? (Pardon my laziness, not wanting to wade through pages of trolling...)

From the 18th century, until the mid 20teens, it was frowned upon. The AP Stylebook has accepted such functions of they, them, and their since 2017, and Merriam-Webster made the singular they its word of the year in 2019. Only in the 18th century did grammarians declare that the singular they was invalid, their reasoning being that a plural pronoun can’t take a singular antecedent. https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/singular-they-history If you used it at my 1970s high schools, you'd have been considered a dork, and graded down on English scores. Not to mention the increased chances of a wedgie. Edit: But the world was simpler back in the '70s.