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I love Joe Rogan as an interviewer. He asks a question, then shuts up. I'm also a big fan of JP. Here's another great Peterson excerpt.

Even 5% of 1.5 billion people is a lot of butts on airplane seats. And a ton of money for Thai vendors who have learned how to cater to them. They dump a bunch of money in Thailand, but not on the same stuff that western tourists do.

Because they want to. I think that's implicit when the OP asks where to do it. But the answer (and whether they even need to do it) depends on what he/she's trying to accomplish. If it's for banking, there may be a very different answer than if it's for a dependent visa and that may be different than if they want to buy a condo together, or have the spouse covered under employer provided health care.

Once again, you're confusing debunked with squelched. 55% of Repubs (along with the 54% of Dems) believed going into the election that it was probably or definitely going to be rigged. Why would they have a different belief afterward? I don't claim to know if the shenanigans were sufficient to skew the results. I'm even open to any evidence that shows the reason Trump is so angry is because he didn't get his money's worth. But don't try to gaslight me into believing that there were no shenanigans. No late night vote counting, no ballot mules, no dead voters, no vacant lots receiving hundred of ballots.... Edit: I'd add that any long time Repub with presidential ambitions is probably beside himself pissed off that Trump has derailed his/her plans for 3 election cycles. So I'm not surprised that there's Repubs that would prefer to see him go away.

The thick plottens. Landis claims he put the bullet on the president's stretcher, but it was found on Connally's stretcher. He spotted the bullet after the motorcade arrived at the hospital, and put it on the stretcher carrying the president. He now guesses Mr Kennedy and Mr Connally Jr's stretchers somehow collided, meaning the bullet was shaken from one to the other. https://news.sky.com/story/jfk-assassination-magic-bullet-theory-cast-into-doubt-by-ex-secret-service-witness-12960275 That strains credulity. Like so many other facets of the event, leadup to it, and investigation of it.

Had a friend of mine who returned from a trip to the USA thoroughly impressed that they have toilet paper in the ladies rooms. Strangely, nobody nicks it there. Closer to the OP topic, a lot of my favorite restaurants had sauces so popular they now do a booming business selling the sauces. Some just take-away, but many sell them through the supermarkets.

The left hand is asking whether you should pay for condiments while the right hand is praying you don't notice that it's already over 20 GBP for fish and chips.

how can you not giggle from this when taken in context of the story. oh man. Years ago, my company hired a local, English name "Boy" I refused to call him that, out of fear that an HR Karen from back home would hear me. You can get fired for that back home.

What does that have to do with a judge who has already (and on many occasions) shown extreme prejudice against a defendant recusing herself from a trial?

Here. I'll let Mike Rowe speak for me: https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/mike-rowe-speaks-out-against-student-loan-debt-forgiveness-how-is-any-of-this-the-taxpayers-responsibility.html Back in my day, we called it "basketweaving and ceramics" Nowadays, it's "Gender Studies", code for a degree with no jobs on the other side. In the hierarchy of debts that the gub'ment (and taxpayers) may want to forgive, I'd much rather see them forgive health care debts. Because unlike college debts, nobody applied for cancer or willingly signed up for a heart attack. So far, all I've seen Biden do is to throw $$ trillions of dollars that we don't have at problems. We won't know if any of those investments giveaways will pay out, often for decades.

There's a difference between common areas and common property.

I'd make the case that the pipe is common property and the condo's funds should be used to repair it, before it causes even more damage. Then, if it's found that one of the parties' negligence caused the problem, the board should seek restitution. Of course they have the authority to enter a property if it's on fire or leaking or... or. I'd be real careful about fixing the leak yourself as you're opening yourself up for a lot of liability if the job goes sideways.

You mean the ones who spent a a hundred grand on a gender studies degree, can't find a job (surprise, surprise) and want welders and farmers to pay their debts?

For what purpose?

Give it up, man. You can't have a reasonable discussion with crazy, especially tag team crazy.

Consensus in the Thai blogosphere is: Forget about Forrest, run Jenny, run.

Seems like it would be pretty easy to look up how many Russians have been stamped into the country and how many have been stamped out. Subtract the number who have legitimate long-stay visas and you got yourself some data... Of course they're not all in Phuket. But then how do they know how many are actually in Phuket, other than those who report on TM30 and 90 day reports?

Meanwhile, there's been a localized surge in Google searches for "baby turtle soup recipes".

Somewhere in the Thai blogosphere, there's a discussion of a family's dilemma as the daughter's cheap-ass boyfriend won't pony up for the dowry.

Looking at the way money was doled out in sweetheart deals in "the West" during Covid and the Green movement makes Thai grifters look like like a bunch of amateurs. Probably $$$ trillions.

You've probably never boarded a plane at BKK going to China. I've boarded dozens in the past 12 years. 6 this year. The Chinese that I see are absolutely loaded up with goodies that they've bought in Thailand.

No doubt. But I have a little less jaded view of Thai cops, believing that a lot of them would prefer not to participate in the corruption, but are forced to- out of fear for themselves and their families. Not to mention pitiful salaries, and having to pay for their own uniforms, guns, etc.

I'm just positing an explanation for why most Thai cops don't go after corruption. They enjoy breathing.

Perhaps they enjoy breathing, and they've learned a lesson from the guy who got taken out.

To be complete, you need to add that the investigation has been going on for months, but without benefit of subpoena power. Pelosi handed them subpoena power by starting her Trump impeachment without a vote. Apparently never figured it would be used by the other side. My forecast still stands. Biden will have an off-camera health event which will force Dr Jill to announce his resignation. Kamala will pre-emptively pardon Joe to "quit distracting from the business of gub'ment" (a'la Ford/Nixon) and Joe will have negotiated a pardon for Hunter as part of the deal.