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Who said it did? Read what I wrote. Not what you think I wrote.

Does Thailand even make solar panels, or do they just trans ship them?

Believe it, don't believe it. I couldn't give a rat. But the new lunch buffet at the local WuMart now has orange chicken.

My beef was that they got assigned to international routes based on seniority. So a lot of them were old and jaded and worn out after fighting the airlines for years over pay and working conditions. Some of them were absolute treasures. But too many were surly and bitter and entitled. I've never once seen a foreign airline's flight attendants refuse to help an elder female passenger put her carry-on into the overhead bins. I saw it regularly flying US airlines which will go unnamed. I had one overnight flight where I sat next to a flight attendant union rep and we talked for hours about the way the airlines abuse them.

Strangely, I had orange chicken for the first time in 25 years here in China. On a buffet last month. It was good.

When you travel in those circles, $3K is pocket change. I don't usually agree with bamnutsak, but I'd be more worried about her phone and her passport. That's where the real money would be.

What conspiracy? The OP says they went bankrupt closing down for Covid.

I migrated to Teams. They ported over my contacts and I now have 4 of the 200+ Skype contacts. That's all that have joined Teams. 3 of them are vendors I haven't used in a decade. No phone calls enabled. I'll let it sit on my computer for a few weeks, then wipe it if it gets no better.

That's sad. And a little suspicious. Looks like another victim of Covid policy. Not Covid. The policy.

The sad reality is that many people have gotten so thin skinned that it's impossible to interact with them and not trigger them. Then add in language and cultural issues from traveling overseas. Fortunately, I was called a dumb Polack so many times growing up (by friends and family) that I'm pretty much immune. And I'm not even Polish, though my name sounds like it.

Closer to today... Team Biden dumped a few $trillion on the Inflation Assurance Act and look how that worked out.

Funny. I don't recall the passage in the Bible where Jesus advocated getting on the dole. 2 Thessalonians 3:10 Context: For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."

That's sure a lot of words. I agree with Candace Owens. Life's tough. Get a helmet man.

I've been to Lancaster several times as my college roommate lived there, working for the Corp of Engineers at Edwards AFB. That was the '90s and it looked pretty desolate out in the middle of the desert. But if you're going to be homeless... No rain and rarely freezing. I take the mayor at his word that they're being inundated with newly released convicts now making up about half of their homeless. I don't know how California does it, but in Houston, they drop the released inmates at the Houston bus station with (I think) $25 in their pocket. My sister's house is a few blocks away and there's always homeless people milling around begging for money. It's a big problem in her otherwise great (and spendy) neighborhood. So yes, I wouldn't blame the guy if he was sick of it. But I don't claim to know the solution.

Hey, there's a thought. Maybe they should include a TESLA parade and smoke out even more violent lefties.

Team Biden insisted that he couldn't do it without an act of Congress. Surely, you're not saying he was lying?

The legislation you're referring to would have allowed up to 5000 illegals a day before closing the border. Thank God it didn't pass, or they'd be suing Trump for not allowing the 5000 a day.

No, "they" won't. I don't own a TESLA.

Or an empty Senate chamber? Oh, wait...

Or maybe they're just not destitute Cheap Charlies who whine about getting cheated out of 5 baht by the Baht Buses.

You mean that legislation that codified and normalized up to 5000 illegals a day before anyone was allowed to act?

You're aware that she gets Secret Service protection... The same Secret Service that's been excoriated for DEI after multiple failures last year.

When I talk about the new LGBTQCOD+ trends with my gay friends, they're even more disgusted than I am. It's giving them a bad name. Living the life is fine. Prancing around in cosplay, not so great.

So instead of Orange Man Bad, it'll be No Orange Chicken on the buffet? Give it a rest.

Gosh. Didn't that require an act of Congress?