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That's been my experience with black cars. I had to clean them much more often or they looked dusty. And whiskey dings, rock chips and door dings were a lot more pronounced. It wasn't worth it to turn on the AC if the trip was less than 5 or 10 minutes. It took that long for the car to cool off. I've had kids and women jump out of the car and start crying after they sat down on black vinyl or leather upholstery in the sun. Not so bad with cloth upholstery. I've got nothing against black cars as a personal choice. Just not one I would make in the tropics, unless it was a great deal on a used car that happened to be black. Some places I've lived, black was the choice because the cops thought they were official vehicles and left them alone. Back to the OP, I haven't seen any discussion of the maximum legal tint for the various windows/windshield. I have no doubt that the installer will sell you anything you insist on. But is it legal, and will there be extra liability in an accident? And can the insurance company deny a claim if they find out the tint was illegal? Those are honest questions, not pointed ones. I just don't know.

Sure, if you're flying through a US airport.

May be cheap in Thailand, even downstream of security. But I've paid $2 to $4 for a bottle of water at some airports downstream of security. It's criminal in the USA.

Post back what you decide, how much it costs, and how it works out. That would be good info. I cringe when I see "UPS" in the same paragraph as "international". But it's been awhile since I got butthurt. Things may have changed, especially after the Covid recession.

https://fixingengines.com/do-black-cars-get-hotter-the-science-behind-it Black cars do, in fact, get noticeably hotter on the inside than white cars do when left in the sun for a long time, and they also take longer to cool off. A study showed that black cars can get up to 17 Fahrenheit degrees hotter than white ones, which happens because the color black traps more heat than lighter colors. I just wonder what makes that a good trade-off for some, especially where it's hotter than heck anyway.

Some folks are truly talented. Some suffer from Dunning Kruger. I didn't want to risk it. There's a long list of posters that we no longer hear from. RIP. Edit: Help me understand why someone would choose a black car in the tropics?

I hate to be a broken record, but I'm liking my Samsung A05s, which is at the lower end of the OP's price target. I bought it the first month they came out, and I think they've come down 1000 baht since then. I've always had good luck with Samsung smartphones (and the software), except that time I fell out of the boat with my phone in my pocket. They're not waterproof. The A05 is even cheaper, but lower resolution screen.

I ended up scraping the film off my windshield. Driving at night in Thailand is dangerous enough when I can see.

You're missing the big point, and I think that's on purpose. Focus attention on a ridiculous meme, and they'll miss the real tragedy. Springfield, with 60,000 residents has absorbed 15-20,000 Haitian immigrants, with no warning. That has overwhelmed their police, their healthcare, and other city services, whether they ate the geese from the local park or not. Most Haitians have never owned a car, and now, they need to drive to get around. (Ohio law doesn't require a road test for drivers over 18) That's causing all kinds of traffic problems (including a fatality), and some locals claim their car insurance rates are skyrocketing. (Imagine turning 15,000 Thai left side drivers loose on a small town where everyone drives on the right) https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-mayor-investigation-into-businesses-immigration-continues/W4OJQYSNUBF7JCMSD72VVQGNQI/ https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-leaders-discuss-growing-haitian-population-with-federal-government/EJWXEEGK2ZFN7N66GWPOPMDP2A/ https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/dewine-says-to-focus-on-challenges-from-number-of-immigrants-in-springfield-not-rumors/S5HDM4BIDZC47BEIWMDNBXZ6CU/ https://apnews.com/article/springfield-ohio-haitian-influx-governor-dewine-f5a552d7ebc6e246882dca96a39a3aaa

Are you trying to prove you dont know diddly? Just demonstrating how fast the lefties change the goalposts. A few months ago, I would have been called out for claiming Biden was on perpetual vacation (much less putting Biden and dementia in the same sentence). Now, it's okay that he's on perpetual vacation. There are others running the country.

Thanks for that. I'm staying where Google Maps is blocked.

Are there any websites posting realtime maps of the flooding situation, like they had during the 2011 floods?

Quick question... With Biden on dementia leave perpetual vacation, and Harris practicing for the debate, who was running the country?

Maybe true, but people go to Big C to buy stuff. They go to the malls to hang out, wander around, drink coffee, gawk at the cuties, and eat. And for the free A/C. Unless the malls have a Gourmet Market in the basement, you still have to go somewhere else to buy groceries. I usually leave the malls carrying nothing, even if I did have coffee and eat. I can't remember ever leaving a Big C without a couple of bags.

If you pass a law that allows viable (if not full term) fetuses to be aborted, and then don't protect the infants who survive the abortion once they're born, are you not allowing abortions after birth? That's what my link showed. It has happened. But the most egregious violation by the moderator is making that hit and run statement just before muting Trump's mic. I thought it was up to the candidates to support their position, not the moderators. Looked more like a 3 on one tag team than a fair debate.

That would be a good thing for the MSM to actually check out and report on, wouldn't you think? Unless they wouldn't like the answer...

Just out of curiosity, what percentage of the crypto projects have gone tits up? And has Bitcoin outlived tulip bulbs?

Walz, however, signed an omnibus bill in 2023 that allowed physicians to refuse life-saving care to infants born after failed abortions. Twenty-four abortion procedures between 2015 and 2022 led to live births, according to Minnesota Department of Health records. Of the infants born alive during abortion procedures between 2015 and 2022, medical professionals provided seven with “comfort care” in an attempt to make their deaths more comfortable whereas “no specific steps taken to preserve life were reported” in one 2017 case, the National Catholic Register reported. https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/11/abc-debate-moderators-fact-check-ignores-what-tim-walzs-state-can-do-to-infants-born-alive-after-attempted-abortions/ “First of all, city officials have not said it’s not true. They said they don’t have all the evidence,” Vance said. “We’ve heard from a number of constituents on the ground Kaitlan, with first hand and second hand reports saying this stuff is happening. So they, very clearly, meaning the people on the ground dealing with this, think it is happening, and I think that it’s for journalists to actually get on the ground and uncover this stuff for themselves when you have people on the ground saying ‘my pets are being abducted, or geese at the city pond are being abducted and slaughtered right in front of us.’ https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/11/jd-vance-media-migrant-crisis-cat-memes/

And that's what's going to make the debate win pretty much meaningless, after the initial sting. Americans did not get to see what they tuned in to see- a discussion of Harris's policy and what both of the candidates plan to do for them.

What facts did they add?

I love this guy's characterization: In this installment of Rocky, a communist beat up an orange guy. Trump failed to do what no man has ever done: win an argument with a woman. With ABC loaded up to fact check Trump but not Kamala, it was clear that David Muir and Linsey Davis teamed up with Kamala. To see more 3-on-1 action, you’d have to switch from ABC to the porn channel. Somehow the “moderators” were able to call the police chief in Springfield, Ohio, in real time to fact check Trump on Haitians eating dogs there. But they could not bring themselves to ask Kamala about her likely lie that she worked at McDonald’s. https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/11/hart-kamala-harris-donald-trump-debate-abc-david-muir/

The problem, of course, is that if they did all that stuff, they'd never get any work because their price would be higher. I've been in hundreds of Thai buildings with excellent craftsmanship, top to bottom. So the skills are available. But are they affordable at the household level?

Why would you need to change the gender on your driver's license to vote? What a bunch of drivel.

Here's the rest of that story, from JD Vance (of Ohio) to CNN: VANCE: Well, first of all, city officials have not said it’s not true. They said they don’t have all the evidence. We have heard from a number of constituents on the ground with first-hand and second-hand reports saying this stuff is happening. So they very clearly, the people on the ground dealing with this, believe that it is happening. And I think it is important for journalists to actually get on the ground and uncover this stuff for themselves. When you have a lot of people saying, ‘My pets are being abducted, or geese at the city pond are being abducted and slaughtered’…This is crazy stuff. And whether these exact rumors turn out to be mostly true, somewhat true…Kaitlin, this town has been ravaged by 20,000 migrants coming in: health care costs are up, housing costs are up, communicable diseases like HIV and TB have skyrocketed in this small Ohio town. This is what Kamala Harris’s border policies have done. And I think it is interesting, Kaitlin, that the media did not care about the carnage brought by these policies until we turned it into a meme about cats, and that speaks to the media’s failure to care about what’s going on in these communities.

If the first few pages of the executive summary are correct, it's worse than that. The Doha agreement called out conditions to be met before leaving. The conditions were not being met, but Biden made the choice to withdraw anyway. No way he can legitimately blame that on Trump. Of course, if you read only the MSM, everything bad that's happened since 2015 is Trump's fault. The Biden-Harris administration was determined to withdraw from Afghanistan, with or without the Doha Agreement and no matter the cost. Accordingly, they ignored the conditions in the Doha Agreement, pleas of the Afghan government, and the objections by our NATO allies, deciding to unilaterally withdraw from the country.