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Kudos to the idiot for saving someone from that line of work. Who the hell goes out in public with no shirt on? He deserved to be decked just for that.

Google harder. They're already flying in the domestic market.

Who was it that said he'd never join a club with such low standards that even he could get in? It's the same with dating.

If you want to know what's really going on, Google C919.

Resurrecting here... Is there a shop in the Bangkok area that does a nice e-bike conversion? Or sell a complete conversion kit? I see the kits on Amazon, EBay, AliExpress, etc. But I like to see the goodies before I drop a few hundred $$$USD on a kit. And with the cost of Thai labor, I wouldn't mind paying someone else to deal with the Jesus clips. (Those are the parts where you're always saying Jesus when you drop one, or they don't fit). Plus, I like the freedom to choose from a lot more bikes than are available as E-Bikes.

I can't vouch for the accuracy, but this one says 65,000 have citizenship and 400,000 Indians "have settled" in Thailand. Make of that what you will... Thai Indians are Thai people with full or partial Indian ancestry. About 65,000 Indian Thais have full Thai citizenship, and around 400,000 persons of Indian origin settled in Thailand mainly in urban cities. When did Indians come to Thailand? - Geographic FAQ Hub: Answers to Your Global Questions https://www.ncesc.com/ Edit: I just figured the Thai news would refer to them as "Thai". Apparently, not so.

Trump admin 'thumbs its nose' at Supreme Court You mean like Biden thumbed his nose when the Supreme Court told him he can't forgive student loan debt? Show me a president that hasn't pushed back against the courts. If it wasn't Trump doing it, it would be fine... Then tell me how Trump's going to take a citizen of El Salvador out of that country when President Bukele politely declined Bondi's offer to send a plane to pick him up. Okay, I fudged a little with the "politely" thing. He was pretty hilarious about it.

You mean the well off tourists that don't leave their A/C rooms, their A/C cars and their A/C eateries and bars? Tough to establish a relationship when there's a pane of glass (and a 20 degree deltaT) between you and the unwashed masses. Backpackers, by their nature (and budget) ride the same transit as the locals. They eat in the same eateries. They share a few of the same miseries (obviously, not all of them- they get to go home to the nanny states eventually). I'd say that gives them a leg up. BTW, in that respect, I'm in the A/C class. But respect to the backpackers.

Who's ignoring a court order? The court ordered Trump administration to "facilitate" his return. Bondi offered to send a plane to pick him up. Bukele said, no thanks. What would you have them do, invade a sovereign nation to bring back a terrorist so he can be deported again? That would just be dumb. And, not to go down the whataboutism rabbit hole, what president hasn't defied the courts? None in my lifetime.

In the MSM, I'm sure it's being feted as a milestone for women. In the real world, it's being called the world's most expensive amusement park ride.

2 factors that you're missing. 1) He was already adjudicated as an MS13 member and ordered deported, but that was delayed because El Salvador was so dangerous at the time. It's not as dangerous now. 2) His protected status changed when Trump used his authority to declare MS13 a terrorist organization, which he'd already been adjudicated as a member- sustained on appeal. He got his due process. Personally, I don't disagree that it was a mistake to send him. But not because he didn't get his day in court. Only for the optics and giving the never Trumpers fresh meat to deflect from the 200+ they're not worried about.

If you know which airline you'll be flying, I'd agree. I use Orbitz because they offer tickets from a dozen airlines where I fly. I've flown at least 8 different airlines this past 2 years on my monthly flights to Bangkok. I can't imagine price shopping them all for every flight. And it's more than price shopping. They all offer different times, routes and waypoints. It could take hours to chase that all down one by one. On some trips, each leg (4 of them) is on a different airline. Though some of them are codeshares. And then I push one button and they already have my personal info and my debit card on file. Eezy peezy.

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Kudos to the OP. I'd refer to him as a low budget traveler as opposed to a low quality. There's a huge difference. But just like tourists, I'm well behaved and I do okay financially but I wouldn't feel comfortable walking into a Gucci shop. The odds that I'd contribute more than the oxygen that I consumed is pretty much nil in a Gucci shop. Out of curiosity, does anyone know what they're like on the inside?

There are. But then they should be referred to as Thai.

So you can get free labor if you hire an illegal, work him a bunch, then rat him out to immigration. Sweet.

He's a citizen of El Salvador. He's in El Salvador. In 2019, 2 judges ruled he was a member of MS13, but they didn't deport him because he faced murder in El Salvador, which was the murder capitol of the world at the time. It's not any more. It's arguably the safest country in Latin America. The Supreme Court ordered the administration to "facilitate" his return. Bondi has offered to send a plane to pick him up. El Salvador's Bukele declined sending one of his citizens (under his jurisdiction) back to the US. Sticky wicket, but I think the guy's staying in El Salvador. Great (though admittedly one sided) story about the meeting in the Gateway Pundit today.

I know this isn't the gist of the article, but how does an Indian man own an apartment building in Thailand?

Good points. Don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating that we stick US inmates in CECOT in El Salvador and let them rot. But if El Salvador was willing to build prisons that meet US (and international) requirements for humane treatment and could do it for a small fraction of the operating cost of a US prison, I wouldn't object to sending them there. Of course, they'd still have to have access to their attorneys, and libraries, and contact with relatives, but that could all be facilitated online. The US could probably also arrange visitation by relatives by air and still come out way cheaper than the expensive (and corrupt) contracted prison systems around the US. Besides, if the inmate was from Florida, El Salvador is closer to home than being put in a SuperMax in Colorado or California.

It's been awhile since I was interested, but it is fascinating to me how retail stores decide what products are given which (and how much) shelf space. Lots of books about it back when people read whole books, which is when I looked into it, 30 or so years ago. Powerful companies can force retailers to absolutely shaft their competitors, making sure that competitive products get crappy, if any shelf space.

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It's happened in the past when Nazis that escaped into the USA became naturalized citizens. They were stripped of citizenship and deported (or extradited, depending on the case). Besides, what's wrong with housing inmates sentenced to death or life in prison in a country that is contracted to house them for a tiny fraction of the $$ 10's of thousands a year that it costs the US and the States to house inmates? Even if they're citizens... They will have gone through their due process and sentenced to incarceration. Seems like housing them in a cheaper country would save the taxpayers $$ billions.

True. And I believe that a powerful family could get 7/11, Lotus, Tops and all the other "Thai outlets" to give Nescafe zero shelf space if they want to carry the rest of that powerful family's products. So Nestle would have the rights to the name, but zero chance of selling any in LOS. Whether that will happen or not remains to be seen. I don't claim to know what it will look like, but I'm predicting Nestle will take it in the shorts in Thailand. Winning the battle and losing the war. Like Pepsico did.

Let's summarize, shall we... BLM: (Police Chief's MCCA Report) Your link says 70 went to prison? That's 1 for every 29 cops that were injured. Jan 6 (according to NPR): 140 cops injured. 720 went to prison. That's 5 for every cop injured. 150x as many as the BLM'ers. That's referred to as a dual standard of justice. Protest on the side of the Angels, and you can get away with arson and looting and attacking cops. Protest on the side of the Bad Orange Man and we will hunt you down for months and sentence you to prison. You figure maybe the J6'ers would have done things differently had they seen over 10,000 BLM'ers going to prison? (2037 injured x 5) Had they enforced the law during the Summer of Love, January 6 would have looked completely different.

I would characterize a 0.5% chance of going to prison even if we do arrest you as an utter lack of consequences.