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Kudos to Thailand for recommending it just to high risk groups. Back home, they're recommending it to all ages. As for me, I still haven't recovered from the debilitating effects of my 2nd Pfizer in March of 2021. So they'd have to hold a gun to my head to get a 3rd into me. Or any mRNA product, for that matter.

The Hur report had plenty, and the recommendation not to prosecute isn't binding on the next administration's DOJ. Add in the dirt that the House committee has uncovered (but can't possibly defeat a Dem wall against impeachment), and Biden's lawyers may have their work cut out for them. For years...

You caught me being lazy. I only mentioned Krakatoa, but there have been dozens of volcanic eruptions that caused (for example), the little ice age, the plagues of the bible, and other climate events. Here's just a few of the hundreds of links about how volcanoes, in these cases recent ones, have changed the climate. Some profoundly, others not so much. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255700466_Climate_effects_of_the_1883_Krakatoa_eruption_Historical_and_present_perspectives https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/joc.6958 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925385-000-krakatoa-eruption-cooled-the-world/ https://www.nature.com/articles/439675a https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/krakatoa-heralded-atmospheric-sciences-era-of-global-disaster-today-it-would-cool-world-climate-but-not-mitigate-it I couldn't find a link to the article I read that claims we're still recovering from the Little Ice Age. It's been long enough that it doesn't show up in my interweb history. So I'm not convinced by the science that climate change can be stopped by taking my money and giving it to someone else, or making me buy an EV, or windmills, or... or...

When you Google "own goal", that video should come up on the first page. Or maybe "under the bus".

Even if you ignore the blatant monetary corruption, I wonder how many times Biden has sat across the negotiating table from a world leader who had evidence that could put his kid in prison for life. I'm looking forward to the day he doesn't need to be impeached before they prosecute. They could have videos of Biden walking across the White House lawn with a severed head in one hand and a bloody machete in the other, and the Dems in the senate would have still voted against impeachment. Edit: And with Harris as the replacement, a lot of Repubs, too.

Sure beats renting to a foreigner, then not being able (or willing) to do the necessary immigration reporting.

Who's gatekeeping? It's a piece of data that helps me decide whether to interact with someone, and whether to take them seriously. You can use that info any way you want. I don't know about you, but I'd question the sincerity and motives if an old geezer like myself started posting on Teen Spirit blogs.

I think that article has more weasel words than Mrs. Heinlein would have let me get away with in 6th grade English Comp. verified evidence widespread significant very few cases scale that would influence results Edit: Did I mention, you failed to provide a source for your quote.

Yeah. Nothing says democracy like a cabal of powerful people, mostly from the left, changing the laws and controlling the flow of information to keep one candidate from getting elected. And the TIME article is them bragging about it.

Wouldn't it be a kick in the nuts if climate change opened up millions of square kilometers to human habitation and agriculture, like Greenland, Antarctica and the Sahara?

Nor do I claim to be. Just a first person data point (17 or 18 of them, actually), current up to 3 weeks ago. Not someone's guess, or someone else's experience from 5 years ago, and not something that someone quotes from an outdated website, as is often the case on these threads. Edit: I'd add that I can easily find a few oft quoted official looking websites that still claim that what I'm doing every month is not possible. They claim that the limit is 2 VE's a year, by land or (some of them) by air.

Later this week, I plan to do my 18th or 19th consecutive monthly visa exempt visit to Swampy. I'll post back if there are any issues. It's just my own experience, but it leads me to believe that it's not the number of VE entries that causes issues, at least not at BKK. It's either the pattern of stays, the total days in country, or the way the tourist dresses. (I'm only half kidding with the "dresses" comment) US citizen, 67 years old, worked in Thailand for years, but have not had a visa since Covid. 17 or 18 visa exempts in a row, once a month and I stay 4-8 days on each visit. YMMV.

Does Moo Deng hunt wabbits? I mean, pheasants?

When one door closes, another opens.

Still, you'd have to pay me a buttload of money to be his food taster.

“The participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream — a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information,” https://wibc.com/103360/time-magazine-bombshell-the-shadow-campaign-that-saved-the-2020-election/ The original TIME article is blocked here, but maybe you can link it? https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

There's a great YouTube by physicist Sabine Hossenfelder that explains it pretty well. It's titled My dream died, and now I'm here. I can't post a link because YouTube's blocked here, but it's easy enough to find by artist and title. I downloaded the video and that's how I know the title. Basically, she discusses the process behind getting funding to do meaningful research in physics, and how it's been corrupted by corporate money. She specifically talks about physics, but it's the same with health care, and pretty much any subject where there are corporate and political interests controlling which research gets funded and which gets squelched.

Biden cusses like a sailor at his staff behind closed doors and Harris treats her staff so bad that 92% of them quit. Then they go out in public and act completely differently, to get the votes. There is absolutely no sincerity. No integrity. That's one of Trump's strengths. What you see is who he is. People get the sense he's the same behind closed doors as he is when they see him in public. No surprises... The clowning around, even inappropriately, is baked into his support. So are the mean tweets.

Even a $$ billion warchest can't make her look good. Which isn't lost, even on SNL last night. I can't link because it's blocked here (and I only got to read the transcript). Probably worth a look... It's on my list 'o stuff to click on when I get to Thailand next week, where it's not blocked.

Good on Ms. Swift, and I mean that sincerely. Binging up "Feeding America" doesn't show any red flags like Binging up some other charities in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. (Google's blocked here) So hopefully, it'll go where she intends it, to help hurricane victims. BTW: https://www.wjhg.com/2024/10/10/trump-houses-200-linemen-his-miami-hotel-hurricane-milton-response/

That's true. But it does allow some of us to put you guys in the same category as skankhunt42. I don't have an ignore list, but I do have posters I don't bother to respond to. Not on a serious basis anyway. Admittedly, I will occasionally toss ya'll some chum.

Which begs the question, why are you posting so much on a Thai centric website? If you changed your residence address, you have to change your DL within a specified time, or it's no longer valid. Ask me how I know that...

I disagree with you on one point. Had the 2 opposing riders been in a car with seatbelts they'd be arguing over damages, not dead and in a hospital. In that respect, it's all about the choice of transport mode.

As you should have been, once you no longer maintained Texas as your residence. How does Texas know you weren't (and aren't) also voting in other jurisdictions?

So you don't think Pizzagate was put out there to deflect attention away from P Diddy's parties?