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From the link: The lawsuit also claimed that since security forces were reportedly aware of the development of an unusual security situation on the night of October 6th and the early morning hours of the 7th, participants were still not sent home from the event. "It is incomprehensible," the court wrote, "how the defendants did not order the party to be dispersed immediately." Despite the threat of terrorist infiltration, the party was still not dispersed nor did the security response/equipment match the extremity of the situation. Almost seems like someone wanted it to happen.

Someone help me out here. The full article is blocked here where I'm staying. Did they breath test for alcohol? I'd rather be on a boat with a (very, very) alert captain than a drunk one.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/20/mcdonalds-big-mac-prices-state-by-state.html My home state of Texas, it's $4.39 That's 151 baht. Congrats on reaching the 800K.

I'd move to another city where I didn't have to deal with toxic relatives. If she comes along, great. If not, that's all you need to know. Otherwise, you'll be miserable for the rest of your marriage.

FWIW: FLASHBACK: Lawyer For Epstein’s Victims Says Trump Was The Only Powerful Figure Who Helped Him With Investigation “The only thing that I can say about President Trump is that he is the only person who in 2009, when I served a lot of subpoenas against a lot of people … he is the only person that picked up the phone and said, ‘let’s just talk, I’ll give ya as much time as you want, I’ll tell ya what you need to know,'” Bradley explained. “And [Trump] was very helpful in the information that he gave, and gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever,” Bradley continued. “But [he] had good information, that checked out, and that helped us, and that we didn’t have to take a deposition of him.” Trump has previously said he had a “falling out” with Epstein some 15 years ago, but never elaborated. Later reports, some involving Bradley, alleged that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-A-Lago and permanently banned him from the resort because Epstein “sexually assaulted an underage girl at the club.” https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/02/brad-edwards-jeffrey-epstein-victim-attorney-donald-trump-mar-a-lago/

Great job digging up stuff from 2015 and 2016. I was an anti-Trumper in 2015 and 2016. I used to refer to The Donald as a "despicable human being" Not any more. (Still flawed...) He's not the threat to democracy. I guess you missed the part where the recent survey showed 9% of Dems and 34% of Independent voters have lost confidence in election integrity. Significant increases from a poll done 2 years ago. That's tens of millions of voters who voted Biden in 2020.

Old habits die hard.

Great contempt for voters... That very attitude on the part of the Dems is garnering all kind of support for the other side, and from demographics they used to take for granted. Am I happy that my vote can be offset by the vote of a KKK member who dropped out of the 5th grade? Of course not. But that's the way it works. By deliberate design. One person, one vote. No matter how stupid I may think they are.

You mean like the Wisconsin Supreme Court's finding that the ballot boxes installed by a unilateral decision from one election official were illegal? The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled drop boxes are illegal under Wisconsin law, in a 4-3 decision issued in July 2022.37 Wisconsin Election Commissioner Meagan Wolfe unilaterally declared ballot drop boxes could be used to vote in 2020 elections, even though “WEC’s commissioners never voted to adopt this memo.” Because I don't think that's within the definition of "debunked". Pretty much the opposite. As indicated above, that's from P12.

You're confusing debunked with squelched. 32 pages with links to hours of reading and many hours of videos and you've determined that it was all debunked within 10 minutes of me posting the link? Lack of curiosity is not a virtue. Unless you're a Dem. Just out of my own curiosity, what part of the Wisconsin's use of illegal ballot boxes that were later found to be illegal by the Wisconsin Supreme Court was debunked? (That's on p12). Because I'm not seeing where the US Supreme Court overturned the WSC. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/08/politics/wisconsin-ballot-drop-boxes-supreme-court/index.html

32 pages of nothing. Lack of curiosity is not a virtue, BTW.

Yup. And there's a legal procedure for that. Carefully crafted to weed out criminals, terrorists, etc. And if you want more engineers, you can offer incentives that make it easier for engineers. I worked with dozens of great Thai engineers who would give their eyeteeth to move to the USA an increase their earnings by several multiples. And if you need low wage fruit pickers and ditch diggers, you can make it easier for them. Or, you can throw the borders wide open, neglect immigration laws, and let anyone in, with millions to be a net drain on the taxpayers for decades. That seems to be current administration's modus operandi. Obviously, someone's benefitting (even beyond the cartels who are making a killing). I wonder who?

Coming as far as Mexico? You'd need a link to evidence to convince me that that's true to any significant extent.. Have a look at the increase in docket cases between FY 2019 and 2020, when Trump got serious about illegal immigration and implemented Remain in Mexico" on Jan 25, 2019. Oops. I mean the decrease https://www.ice.gov/doclib/eoy/iceAnnualReportFY2023.pdf Now, compare that to the Biden free for all...

Here's a nicely compiled 32 page summary of 2020 election irregularities in 5 swing states. Anonymously posted because the author probably doesn't want to be swatted (or worse). But with 99 footnotes so you don't really need to know who compiled it. You can follow the footnotes to their original source. I'm not claiming it was stolen. Just that it was definitely tainted. By whom, and whether it actually changed the result, I doubt we'll ever really know. https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/e0/e04e630c-63ff-4bdb-9652-e0be3598b5d4/summary20of20election20fraud20in20the20swing20states.pdf

Easy solution for that... Go to surveymonkey and enter 3 numbers and you, too can calculate the sample size required to meet whatever accuracy requirement you'd like. Conditioned on the caveat that the respondents have to be truly random. https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/sample-size-calculator/

The beautiful thing about this poll is that it flies in the face of the Dem narrative that Trump objected to the results of an election he knew he lost. If tens of million of voters though the election was tainted (notice that I didn't say "stolen"), it's pretty reasonable to think Trump also believes it. And did back then... Of course, it won't stop their malicious partisan prosecution, but it'll raise him in the polls because the only way for the Dems to spin this is to reveal one more time how much contempt they have for the voters. Not unlike several posters on this thread.

That's a typical Dem view. They don't trust the voters to do the right thing. So who's the real threat to democracy? Call 'em deplorables, call em MAGA scum, call em whatever you want. When 1/3 of voters don't trust the process (including Dems), you have a problem.

The issue with water is that it has no net energy until you add some. That energy has to come from somewhere not intrinsic in the water. For that matter, steam is water power that's been used for hundreds of years. Just add heat and you can do all kinds of work with steam. Acknowledging, of course that hydrogen is more storable and portable than steam, for sure. Simple entropy says you can only store steam for a finite amount of time before the energy dissipates, even with the best insulation. I suspect you can store hydrogen indefinitely (though the small size of the H2 ion may make leakage inevitable through even the best container, but I don't know). Edit: I'd add that the technology I'm most interested in related to hydrogen is how to store it in the smallest container. Simple compression has limits to how many H2 molecules you can store per cubic meter. (Not that it matters in an Amazon warehouse, but it matters in a Toyota). Promising developments are coming out in storing it in a chemical matrix where the H2 molecules are stored at a higher density in the interstitial spaces or bound at the molecular level.

100% agree I don't disagree, but I'm keenly aware that I chose to move into an ecosystem that existed long before I got there, and will exist long after I leave. It's incumbent on me to protect myself against risks I was fully aware of before I made that choice. Risks like uninsured cyclists who don't have enough money. If I want to live in a nanny state, I can always move. They can't... They don't enjoy that same luxury.

Sadly, it'll be about who benefits the party elite, regardless of what the voters want. https://edition.cnn.com/polling/approval-rating-polls I don't care what you think about the guy. When you see them putting up a guy with numbers like those, you can't help but question their motives. Total disrespect for the voters...

At the risk of being ridiculed, you could try one of the expat focused churches. I met quite a few nice folks at the (I think) Catholic church near the US Embassy. I also met a lot of people, local and foreign, walking around the tracks at Queen Sirikit and Lumphini parks, especially around 5:00 PM when it cools off a little and the workers come out for exercise. I was surprised at how many local women would approach and speak English. Most of them a little older... Could be because they recognized me from walking there several days a week. Used to meet them bicycling in the same parks, but that seems to have gone by the wayside. (Or maybe bicycling hours have been changed- I didn't ask.) I don't know if they still do it this year (or where), but Sunday evening BKK Symphony concerts in Lumphini park were always enjoyable and usually met some nice folks. Used to be January and February, when it's a little cooler.

Once again, the Dem establishment insisting they know better than the voters. The voters know when they're getting peed on, even if the Dems want to claim it's rain. But feel free to ignore the voters... https://edition.cnn.com/polling/approval-rating-poll-of-polls https://edition.cnn.com/polling/approval-rating-polls And those are the CNN lefties. I won't even link to the conservative press. If I was a Dem looking at those numbers, I'd be looking for a better candidate. And I would have started that search a long time ago.

I'd hope so, but I don't know. That's why I mentioned that it was an '88 model. Back then, you had to catch an intermittent problem as it happened. I would expect today's computers may record the events. The Taurus was my retired company car that I bought for peanuts. When I took it to the shop that did all our fleet work and described the problem, he immediately told me to replace the fuel pump. Strangely, a rebuilt fuel pump cost more than a new one, but he told me to spring the extra money for the rebuilt because the rebuilds fixed some issues that caused them to fail from the factory. In any case, I never had the problem over the next 10 years or so I kept the car.

Had the same issue with an '88 Ford Taurus and it turned out to be a bad fuel pump. I'd replace the fuel filter first, though. Just because it's cheaper and just as likely. There's no telling what you may put in your tank at a gas station out in the sticks. Or in BKK.

That's a good point, and I'll probably roll it into one of my investment accounts when the amount gets substantial (I'm just 66 so it's not a huge amount). But I'm still a little butthurt by one of my family's "trusted" investment advisors that was making stupid trades to bump up his commissions on my inheritance account. Then when I got back to the States after being gone for years, his office staff chuckled at me when I bitched about the lousy (in fact, negative) return. It is a different market now.