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So you have long term data? Spill.

For kids? How do you know what the long term risks are for the vaccines before a long term has passed and we have data? The short answer is that you don't. End of story, indeed.

I miss the good ol' days when Mom would haul us down to the airport on Friday night and we'd greet Dad as he stepped out of the jetway. If we got there early, we'd head up to watch the planes landing from the outdoor observation deck on the roof of the airport. That was O'Hare. Simpler times.

I do use my brain. So I realize that hopping on a scooter is 20-40x as dangerous per km as sitting in my pickup was. Helmet or no. So I don't accept being lectured by idiots who think a helmet makes them just as safe as me in my pickup with 2 tons of steel and seatbelts. Or the ones that think their superior riding skills (or a helmet) will protect them from a truck coming at them in the wrong lane. Or the ones who think a 99 baht BigC plastic POS that the scooter taxis offer me is better than nothing. So take your condescending attitude elsewhere.

Please tell me she's not a dude.

I think the flaw in that plan is being worth less to the locals alive than dead.

Sounds like at least one of your parents didn't like you and your brother?

Those expats. It's always glass half empty with them.

I'm pretty sure the Brits and the Yanks were doing it long before they announced doing it.

I think they refer to that as a clue. I've been watching way too much Forensic Files. Puts me right to sleep at night...

They used to set up a table in front of the actual gate and do rechecks. But I haven't seen that Post Covid. I don't know whether they focused on certain routes, or if they were randomly selected. Also don't know if they still do them, but I haven't been rechecked in the past 2 years flying once a month. I used to get rechecked on occasion before the shutdowns.

Most of the airports I've used in China do a cursory security check to get into the airport then a more thorough check to get into the departure gates. The cursory check to even enter the airport varies by the airports. Some just swab for explosives. Others x-ray bags and do a pat down, just to enter the airport.

It's not 1939 and Putin isn't waging a war to annihilate subhumans to make room for the Master Race. In fact, one could look at GDP data and argue that the Ukes will actually do better under Russia. The ones in Crimea did.

True. But that's hardly an endorsement of their safety benefits. Especially the BigC 99 baht plastic jobbers.

They kinda look like eazy bake solar powered ovens.

It's okay when the good guys do it.

Dang, man. Don't jinx it. Or you may get caught up in one tomorrow. And it'll be on the one day you don't have your helmet.

If I used a flagfall taxi from my apartment to the office, it would have been a 15-30 minute ride, depending on the light at Sukhumvit. I tried it. Scooter taxis got me there in about 2 minutes, because they could make a wonky turn that a car can't. I also tried walking, but that was even dodgier because there's no sidewalk for half of the 1km route.

Judging by a lot of the get ups I've seen in the immigration queue, I suspect a lot of airlines just wing it when it comes to a dress code.

I think the tipping point was when over half the days in a calendar year were celebrated for some LGBTQ++ milestone or another. Even my gay friends were appalled. It made them all look bad.

That's why I said in the OP, "no wrong answers". Get what you're happy with. If you're happy with the latest 75K baht trifold, more power to you. Same if you're pleased with the 3K baht generic. Lots of discussion here about photo capabilities, compatibility, speed, OS, etc. But nothing that would convince me to spend more than I spent on my low end Samsung A05s. That's because of the way I use it. Not because the additional features wouldn't appeal to others who use their phone differently. The one feature I may pay more for on my next phone is waterproofing. I've lost 1-1/2 phones when they got wet. Once when I hopped in and another when I fell in with my phone in my pocket. I salvaged one, but the other was toast. Still not a bad record given that I've been through quite a few phones over the years. Mostly set aside when something newer and zoomier caught my eye. I could always rationalize why I needed to upgrade. In hindsight, I realize I was usually rationalizing. That's okay by me.

So you'd carry an expensive helmet around with you all day to protect your skull for the 3 minutes you'd be on a scooter taxi for that last mile? Not me.

You'll be back. You can't help yourself.

But they're making the same empty promises. Vote for us and you'll get free stuff. Like student loan forgiveness. And slavery reparations. And we'll take the money from zillionaires, not the average voters. But they don't. They raise taxes and impose costs on Joe Lunchpail. Then they hop on their private jets and go onto the next rally to make more empty promises to sock it to the billionaires. On an aside, did you notice that the US trade deficit last month was cut by about half?

Another good story. And I'd stick to it.