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Someone should have asked the same question about where the Palestinians should go, when the Brits sold them out... With the support of the Americans.

That belief is why Israel will still be fighting in 100 years. Unless Iran gets nukes...

I'd agree, if I thought the war started on October 7. The current iteration started over a hundred years ago. The war, perhaps as much as 3,000 years ago.

You mean like the guys who are always asking "what is the age of consent?" in Thailand? As if that should matter to a 60+ geezer...

The problem with science as it is practiced today is the way it's being steered to take money out of a bunch of pockets and put it into a few. Studies that don't accomplish that goal aren't funded, and if a funded study accidentally conflicts, it's squelched. Climate change is real. It's been happening for billions of years. It's unstoppable. (Just like the moving magnetic pole) The way to deal with it is to have economies strong enough to afford to remediate its effects. Otherwise, millions will starve when the next volcano causes a temperature drop and crop failure. As has happened repeatedly during human existence. And long before cars and air conditioning and server farms.

If your Lazada phone number was changed without your consent, I'd suggest your first priority be to close the account. No telling what someone's been buying (and approving by SMS) on your account. Then I'd check your bank account(s) to see if they got more personal information the same time they got your Lazada credentials.

It's even more diabolical than that. They're assuming Blacks are incapable of succeeding on their own merit and by their own effort. How racist is that? Like the Dems who claim that requiring ID is racist because Blacks don't know how to get ID. Anyone truly interested should listen to Thomas Sowell as he rattles off reams of actual statistics that show how much damage has been done to the Black community by treating them as "incompetent" (for lack of a better word). He is long winded and can be repetitive, but fascinating if you actually have an interest.

I think Biden ought to call it a day with Hunter, lest he get embroiled in nasty Supreme Court battles over pardons for crimes that haven't even been revealed, much less adjudicated. Following President Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son Hunter Biden’s alleged crimes, members of the liberal media suggested he pardon a wide swath of his political allies, including Liz Cheney and Anthony Fauci. https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/04/liberal-media-biden-pardon-fauci-cheney-schiff-deep-state-minions-obama/ But the more partisan pardons he issues, the more long term damage he'll do to the Dems. Which isn't all bad... Edit: And, using Fauci for an example... Isn't a pre-emptive pardon tantamount to saying a crime has been committed?

They estimate historical temperatures by looking at tree rings, pollen, ice cores and other well accepted methods. So there is an answer. Maybe not one that fits the narrative. But there is an answer.

Adams will always have a warm spot in my heart for revealing the true cost of welcoming NYC's newcomers. It was $12 billion over 3 years, for 110,000 newcomers. That calculates to $36K a head per year. Not just food and shelter. That includes health care and policing and jailing and bilingual education and other services that get hidden when most Dems talk about the cost. And we're already broke- $36 trillion in national debt, plus more $$ trillions in state, local, and personal debt. Guy's got 'nads the size of bowling balls. He's paying a huge political price for that. I hope he gets an assist in his political career.

So it has to be self defense? You're okay if he sits on his thumbs and watches while the bad guy threatens those around him, including women and kids?

Gotta be honest. I don't know what happens when a foreigner becomes both sides of a usufruct agreement. Is it legal to have an agreement with yourself? Or will something hinky happen? My suggestion still stands. Discuss the options and ramifications with an attorney. One that's familiar with the idiosyncrasies of the local land office. Plenty of threads over the years where the local authorities interpreted the law differently. Plus a few where they seemed to just make up their own rules.

I suspect that, between fraud, waste and other corruption, they can afford to keep us old geezers alive, if they weed even some of that out. Personally, I'm looking forward to turning Musk and his AI resources loose to figure out where the money's actually being spent, and on what, and to whom. And not just Medicare, Medicaid and SS. Across, the board, including the military. Up to now, the gub'ment IT guys have been eons behind the state of the art. Probably as a deliberate strategy. I'm hoping that ends with DOGE.

I follow a guy on YouTube who does firearm training and served as an expert witness on dozens (hundreds?) of 2nd Amendment self defense cases. He suggests thinking before going all Rambo with a gun, because defending such a case starts at $100K and can easily run into the $millions. So even if Penny is found not guilty, he's broke. Unless he has deep pockets supporting him. And lawyers are great at writing contracts so that they can't be discharged in a bankruptcy.

Boiling water doesn't remove micro plastics (or most chemicals, it's in the OP). That requires a filter.

Nothing hinky about that photo, especially if it was taken in the beginning stages of the fire fight. When I was in the VFD, we used a hose reel mounted on a faster truck to do what we could while waiting the few minutes it takes (or longer) for the slower pumpers to find and connect to the hydrants, lay out the big hoses, engage the PTO and start pumping the big water. All that takes time, when people may be dying. The guys in the photo may not have even gotten water yet, or they may be moving from one location to another. (Or, as sometimes happened in our dilapidated resort area of New Jersey, the local authorities decided to let the abandoned bungalows burn to the ground instead of risking our lives for a lost cause. We were just there to make sure it didn't spread to other structures.) Edit: I'd add that the big advantage of the red hose is that it's not collapsible, so there's no chance that it'll kink up and stop flowing when you take it around a corner. And it's almost impossible to cut. So it was the gear we used to enter structures, not the quintessential white hose you see in the movies.

Gotta love this gem from Jonathan Turley: “The president clearly is hoping that he’s given [Hunter] this sweeping protection and that includes unnamed crimes, quite literally, Hunter Biden could have six heads in a duffle bag in his basement and [the pardon] would cover it as long as he committed those murders during this ten-year period. https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/03/jonathan-turley-hunter-biden-charges-pardon/

What do you figure would happen if we formed the NAAWP? There would be rioting in the streets. Again.

By his own DOJ, no less. Which, of course, is an indictment of the justice system under his own administration.

You mean like they did during his first 4 years? The administration that came after anyone who represented a threat to their power is on the way out the door. Not on the way in.

My suspicion, having tuned in here for over 10 years, is that YMMV, depending on a lot of variables, including which land office the OP would be dealing with. One more reason to hire an attorney to discuss their options.

If they convict the guy, every death that happens while able bodied guys sit there watching and not acting to stop it, is on them.

How robust is the power grid on Phuket?

It's also funny how one group sabotages a plan, then blames the other guys for the plan going tits up.

If she pre-deceases you, why not "sell" the properties to her grandson within the 12 month limit, with him giving you a usufruct on the property? In any case, I'd get a lawyer that you trust, before the events that may sweep away reason (and get any other Thai relatives sniffing around with greedy intent). Edit: I'm not clear on what happens if she gives you a usufruct on the property then dies. Can you own the property and lease it to yourself, even within the 12 month period? That's why I'd suggest discussing your options with a real lawyer, and not an anonymous AN "expert".