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I don't worry about the polls so much when I see the contrast between Trump's visit to a bodega in NYC and Atlanta Chik-Fil-A and Biden's swing through Pennsylvania. Like night and day. Even in blue areas like Atlanta and NYC.

I'd almost pay for a subscription to a blog from someone who squats on their California property when they leave for a few days. Almost... And it would have to be a blogger/squatter with a sense of humor.

Nah. She's been watching Biden speeches. Figured she'd give it a whirl.

I don't know that it's the number of deaths. It's more the incredulity when the cops announce the results of their investigations. When there is an investigation. Admittedly, this coming from someone who just reads the reports and has no desire to go anywhere where buckets of booze are a thing.

Google's international. Fi is available in quite a few countries. https://au.pcmag.com/mobile-phones/93412/google-fis-unlimited-plans-are-getting-cheaper

Not Oz, but I'm using Google Fi from the USA. Not sure if it's available in Oz. But: 1) I had to sign up with a US address. (OP may want to say whether he's got family back home that can receive the SIM and send it to him) 2) After a few months overseas, my plan no longer supports the data roaming feature. Just phone and text. Apparently, if I was military on a foreign assignment, int'l data roaming is available. The messages say it'll work fine when I get back to the USA. Works for phone and text in Thailand and China where I've been spending the last year. I keep it as SIM1 in my 2 SIM phone, alternating between a China SIM and a Thai SIM (AIS) depending on where I land. That gives me the data...

Agree with them, disagree with them, it's nice to have a party where the members are free to vote their conscience and to benefit their constituents and not just the party line. What's good for Maine may not be good for Arizona. Dems, on the other hand... One of us. One of us... We won't even let you on the ballot if you disagree with the Party Elite, regardless of what your constituents want.

I wonder what it's worth on EBay, and whether the family will get it back. Seems only fair.

Lets hear them then. Going to bed with a stone fox and waking up with a ladyboy... In a holiday condo you're sharing with your college buddies.

FWIW, looks like Israel is striking back... More detailed coverage is available, but those sites aren't "approved" for links. https://www.foxnews.com/video/6351206238112 Edit: My bad, wrong link... Corrected

There's the tragedy. He's not going to let it happen during an election year. So it'll be more killing, more dying and no rebuilding.

If he was trying to draw a line between her suicide and mental health and the abysmal state of the US healthcare system's availability/affordability of mental health care, I'd agree with him. If he's trying to draw a connecting line between her arrest and her suicide, not so much. Edit: I also question the reference to her as "farang", since she's not in Thailand.

My suggestions to the new mgt: 1) Bring back non-anonymous emojis so we know who put up all those scrunchy faces. 2) In the poster reputation rankings, use AI to rate the positivity of the poster's contribution. And how many of each type emoji they used. Expose the downers, the trolls and the meanies. And the positive contributors. 3) Fix the ridiculous amount of full page ads on mobile platform.

Not disagreeing, we all travel our own path and there's a lot of ways to do it right. That's what we discuss at meetings- the 12 steps and how we did them. What it was like, what happened, and what it's like now. A big part of "what happened" is working the steps, the struggles we had and how we got past them. Some people can work the steps right out of the book, but some (like me) do better listening to others at meetings. Bottom line, it's not just about not drinking. It's about being happy about not drinking. Meetings is where I learned how to do that, and to work the steps. And for me, a huge part of early recovery was having an alternative to the bars just for spending time. That meant a lot of meetings, meetings before the meetings, and meetings after the meetings. "Meetings before" were generally dinner, and the "meetings after" were generally pie and coffee. We also had sports teams, camping groups, biking groups, movie groups, (almost) monthly citywide or statewide get togethers, and weekend retreats (similar to the Pattaya Roundup). That's where I got to see people actually living the principles we talk about in the meetings. Warts and all, because there's always life getting in the way when a bunch of people get together.

Is it Thursday already?

That should have been the first test of the merits of her case. If she (they) couldn't find an organization to fund the trial expenses, or an attorney that would take the case on a contingency, that should have ended it before it even started. Of course, there probably would have been financial backing in this particular case. No way they should have used taxpayer money to bring it to trial. Public funds should be limited to defending indigent defendants.

The problem with horn honks and flashing brights is that they mean different things in different areas. Even between states in the USA, there are customs that can cause a wreck if you don't adhere to local practices. For example, in some places, flashing your brights means you're letting someone pull out in front of you. In other places, that's how you warn people that may not see you barreling through.

From the whistleblower: “I viewed severe misalignments when the plane came together, which was remedied by using [an] unmeasured and unlimited amount of force to fit the misaligned holes and parts together. I literally saw people jumping on the pieces of the airplane to get them to align,” Salehpour said. I wonder where jumping up and down on the pieces would show up on the paperwork. They'd sure show up on a CCTV video. https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/boeing-whistleblower-salehpour-faa This whole case is about Boeing not following their own procedures. And the FAA letting them get away with it.

Good info and links. Thx!

Every time I take my vehicle in to have it inspected, I always find out if the horn works. Because I never use it. And not just in Thailand...

When the Boeing guy referred to 165,000 fatigue cycles, was he referring to a single test on a selected fuselage to test the design, or ongoing tests on production fuselages? I can't imagine it being the latter... Also, it would be interesting to see what they actually inspected when they claim to have found no fatigue on 689 of the 1100 in service, and how many hours and cycles those inspected planes had. Edit: I can think of a few dozen reasons it can't happen, but it would be interesting to have CCTV cameras in the Boeing assembly area streaming video for the public to see the planes being built. And I can't think of a single reason they shouldn't have CCTV's for the FAA to watch.

So did I, for years. Post Covid, we got a phone call from the ISP on about my 3rd or 4th day back, saying someone on our network was using a VPN and that needed to stop. YMMV, but that was warning enough for me.

Not meaning to call out the OP, but can someone chime in whether it's really practical to buy and register a car on visa exempt status? Possible, probably. (Especially with the help of an agent, and/or in certain areas) But is it really practical? And if so, what's the process? As I recall from buying and registering a pickup on a WP, it was pretty involved and took over a month to smooth over all the paperwork required to do the transfer and registration.

That's a puzzler... The intervention was 2 days later?

I don't recall Biden being elected chief cook and coffee cup washer. Just Commander in Chief, and in charge of the Executive Branch of the gub'ment. Which puts all those disasters right in his wheelhouse. But probably not your coffee cup. But I'm sure someone will be along soon to tell you why Trump is responsible for your broken coffee cup.