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Honest question... Did you even click the links and look? For me, the beauty of posting left, right and centrist sources is the hard data. The facts that are either true or not. Argue all you want about their interpretation and what the facts mean, but you'll get different true facts from the left, the right and the center. Then I can go as far down the rabbit hole as I feel like, using search to look for the other side's facts. BTW, if you do find a centrist source, please post back. I have about 60 news sources in my bookmarks, and centrists sources are like hens' teeth. 90% are left, 9% are right (that corresponds with the ratio of registered Dems and Registered Repubs in journalism) About 1% are truly centrist.

The Biden White House itself has been caught out when the daily transcripts they released didn't match what Biden actually said. Especially when his words were gibberish, or he read too much, like "Pause..." I'd like to believe the Biden DOJ wouldn't do the same, but color me skeptical. Not to mention they don't really want us to know what caused Hur to refer to him as an old man with a limited memory. If the Biden administration wanted us to trust their transcripts, they shouldn't have falsified their daily releases.

Agreed. My mind also goes to the question of what other behaviors are common to people who would tend to get vaccinated? Do they visit the doctor more than the non-vaxxed? Are they more diligent about taking all their meds, including their heart meds? Do they eat healthier? Do they have better access to all healthcare resources (like money...)? The study doesn't seem to look at a causal link. Just a correlation. Which could have nothing to do with the vaxxes themselves.

Did Ethiopia and Indonesia give them immunity from criminal prosecution? Of course, the victims' lawyers want to sue in the USA. Because that's where they'd get the best settlement. But it isn't close to being over, around the world. Especially since Boeing seems to have crapped on their deferral agreement...

If the DOJ won't prosecute individuals, every country that lost citizens in the 2 MAX crashes should file charges against the culprits and seek extradition through whatever treaties they have around the world. And arrest any one of them that shows up in a friendly country's airport. The DOJ cannot sign away the prosecutorial rights of the rest of the world...

Agreed. The idea that they can "criminally prosecute" a corporation is ludicrous. That punishes the 99% of Boeing employees and stockholders who did nothing wrong, and lets those with blood on their hands to skate free. They need to prosecute the individuals who committed murder by fraud. From the guys on the shop floor who falsified documents, designers who hid features from regulators, to the guys in the C-Suites that knew they were doing it. Send a few of them to prison and see if that doesn't straighten out Boeing's toxic culture.

My brother's on the heart transplant list. He gets knocked off the list if he doesn't keep up with his boosters. Of course, refusing to treat him would have a deleterious effect on his outcome. We'll never know if the vaccine itself is a positive or a negative.

If it wasn't for clickbait rags, we'd all believe the laptop is fake, the border is secure, there are no vax side effects, our vaccine passports are a great requisite for getting on a flight, inflation is transitory, Ukraine's winning, men can get pregnant, and public schools should still be closed- for the sake of the kids.

Life's too short and legal scooters are too plentiful. Move on. Save yourself the heartache. And the money.

PSA: Always ask how much before ordering a bunch. There's some areas where the vendors all charge 20 baht a skewer, when right around the corner, it's 10 baht.

I wonder how many viewers made it through the entire film?

I, on the other hand, would give almost anything to go back and undo my 2nd Pfizer. Because the next day, my quality of life took a huge dump and hasn't recovered in the years following. Left side of my face has been numb, my sense of balance went away and fatigue has been constant. When I first went to the ER, they claimed they didn't know what caused it, but it definitely wasn't the jab. 2 years later when I went to the ER again, they conceded it was probably the jab. But tough noogies... Of course, that's just my story. I'm probably the only person in the world that has happened to.

It's a whole lot more practical than the thousands of GBP in bereavement flowers that will be binned 10 minutes after the funeral is over. Don't like it? Don't donate. But don't piss on the friends who do.

Before they shut it down to rebuild it, I used to go there several evenings a week to walk, ride my bike (or my recumbent after my bypass when 2 wheels wasn't stable enough) , or rent a canoe. The park was very well maintained and quite a pleasant experience in the middle of town. I met a lot of normal, very nice Thai people just walking the loop, or sitting on the nice benches watching the cuties go by. Surprised at how easy it was to strike up a walking conversation in English. (Edit: And not just the usual youngsters, though I like them, too. Quite a few middle age and older business people, some in high places) I've been there quite a few times this past year, watching it open up more and more. A year ago, very few walkers, and no boat rental concession. Bummer. Recently, lots of walkers and the boats are available, including some nice kayaks. I don't know if they rent (or even allow) bicycles like they used to. Anyone got an update on that? Highly recommended...

I salute them for reducing the eyesores, but those look like fiber optic data cables, with the power cables still standing. “As of now, we’ve already rerouted 91 kilometres of electrical wires beneath the city’s surface. We’re gearing up to extend the reach of this project by a further 236.1 kilometres by 2027, with the total length of the wiring to be moved underground amounting to around 1,454 kilometres.” I suspect that's a tiny fraction of the city's overhead power cable. Anyone have a clue how many thousands and thousands of km are in the city?

And your rats moved next door.

200 years from today, people are going to walk past the collection of Royal portraits and wonder "what kind of drugs were they on?" And wonder what the butterfly may have been saying to him. There's a time for originality and spunk. Royal portraits? Nope. They should convey stability. Plus, gotta consider what it's going to look like in the context of all the rest.

They need to tune into the YouTubes of the British guys that use night vision and pellet guns to take out rats for local farmers. Also Aussies. Not many Americans. We get to use real guns and take out feral hogs that are wreaking havoc on farms. May become a whole new tourist thing... Lord knows there's enough Brits and Aussies in Pattaya with special forces training.

If I showed up like he did before, after, and at the SOTU, my company's HR department would have compared that to the countless videos of me stumbling over my words and battling the teleprompter, and I'd have been selected for "random drug testing" the next day. Anyone who believes that wasn't a fortified performance also doubts that the laptop's real and also believes the Biden family never took in money from influence peddling.

Let's compare records... Under Trump, 1.4% inflation, no invasion at the border, no wars in Ukraine or Israel, cost of gas around $2 a gallon, cost of a buying/financing a new house around 30% lower than today... And not a single cannibal story... But there were mean tweets. Which are so much worse than the specter of WW3 and nuclear annihilation.

The OP may get clearer answers by specifying which anti-depressant(s) he's looking for.

Biden may be able to hold his own in a debate about ice cream, but he's well and truly screwed if they ask him about inflation, the border, the cost of housing and health care for "newcomers", multiple wars on his watch, Israel (or Palestine- he loses on both), Afghanistan, the Biden family business, mortgage rates and home affordability, the cost of gas, credit card debt (or national debt), or cannibals.

I wonder if Hemingway would have sold as many copies if it was called "The Old Man and the Olympic Size Pool"?

Yeah. There's no finer experience than plopping down on a comfy chair with a cold beverage and watching the sun go down over the olympic sized pool. And paying 50 baht for the experience...

"The science" says everyone over 6 months old should get a booster. 77.5% of adults over 18 have said, "no thank you". Last time I checked, 77.5% was more than 22.5%. Kinda agrees with the part of my post that you clipped out: About 70% of U.S. adults have not received the most recent monovalent vaccine nor the bivalent vaccine that preceded it. Most folks seem to be rejecting "the science". By almost a 3:1 margin. Dang conspiracy theorists... https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html#When_Are_You_Up_to_Date?