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I've had a few times where it became obvious that low audio quality put me off listening. I don't know if it was a low sampling rate, signal compression, or what. I don't claim to understand the intricacies. But the same songs sounded great on another device. (Remember when you got your first FM stereo car radio, how bad AM sounded?) Edit: Lots of YouTubes on why modern music sucks. Mostly because it's all written by the same few guys.

Yup. And just like Forrest, That's all I have to say about that.

If they don't exclude foreigners, I can just see the first few influencers decimating tourism to Thailand. "Got stopped at random while shopping and had to pee in a jar..."

How can they call for a 2nd peace summit with Russia, when they haven't had a first?

Might have been a nightmare from the Korean BBQ I ate last night, but I recall someone recently polling an HRC/Kamala ticket and it polled even better. Tell me it was just the spicy BBQ. Please!

I'm open to correction, but for the life of me, I don't ever remember gangs of foreigners protesting on the streets of Thailand and burning stuff down. (Aside from the Japanese in the '40s) Maybe they've got the right idea?

Not to worry. There's a run on BIC pens and USB chips, and NGO's are handing out voter registration cards along the path through Mexico. Along with free Biden Tees.

Did they blur the insignia on the pickup door, or is that just faded?

I'm watching it in uncurated snippets. Eventually, I'll get through it all, but I take breaks when I get that sour taste that tells me I'm going to puke in my mouth.

Thanks for that, and I apologize for being rude and getting off on the wrong foot. But YouTube is blocked here, so I found the Fox News version... https://www.foxnews.com/video/6357664139112 My quote comes from an "unapproved source": “I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President if I didn’t think she was not qualified to be president,” Looks like that may (or may not) have been accurate, the ambiguity being rather disturbing. He mumbled enough that I'm sure the official White House transcript will be interesting.

I used to pull cooked lizards out of mine in Texas. They made a sad and awful noise when they got zapped. Thai lizards must have learned to stay away from the light...

My concern is that it seems like we're only in the first few innings of a tragic game, related to the amount of free money, and sheer numbers of recipients of free money. With white and Asian, working, native born, family men getting the smelly end of the stick.

Have they banned the practice yet? Climate change and all... On a more serious note, I use the tennis racket type to kill them indoors, and the mounted bugzappers outdoors for that satisfying Zzzzt sound. But away from any doors. They attract a lot more than they kill.

But did you, really? I asked a very specific question.

I was thinking Dylan Mulvaney.

I no longer trust transcripts, especially the official ones. Speaking of the MSM and carrying water for Biden, here's an interesting story from Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle: “As a result, viewers of Fox News understood the president’s condition better than our (WaPo) audiences, which ought to be a huge wake-up call for us. Never thought I'd be reading that in a WaPo column. Suck on that, MSM. https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/11/wapo-columnist-left-wing-bias-biden-age-mental-acuity/

Interesting placement of the quotation marks... Do you have the exact quote? NYT is known for carrying Biden's water.

Twitter and YouTube are blocked here. Can someone confirm (or deny) this quote and then unpack it? If it's accurate, Biden seems to claim he chose Kamala because she was not qualified... “I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President if I didn’t think she was not qualified to be president,” Biden said after a reporter asked him about Kamala Harris being at the top of the ticket. I still contend she was chosen as insurance against impeachment. In which case, that would have been an accurate (and accidentally profound) statement, if you can overlook calling her VP Trump...

That first sentence had me choking on my corn flakes, I laughed so hard. That may have been the origin and lofty founding goal of Wikipedia, but it hasn't sought the truth in many years.

Give Putin what he's already got? Look at the battle map from over a year ago, and look at the map today. Tell me what all the death has accomplished. Zip. Zero. Nada. Just a bunch of grieving families.

5 is just enough to give them false hope, and perpetuate the dying. Zero brings them to the bargaining table (with realistic expectations), the dying stops and the rebuilding starts.

I'm going to offer a counterpoint. In 2015, I had bypass surgery in Bangkok. As a result, I had CT scans, x-rays and MRI's out the wazoo. Recently, I went in for a cancer screening. They found some questionable spots on my lung and on my liver, but referred to my previous scans and saw no change. Had I not had the previous scans, they would have probably looked deeper. Also had a neurological checkup in June, related to my Pfizer injury of 2.5 years ago. Found some "spots" on my MRI/MRA, but once again, there was no change from my 2017 MRI/MRA. I was pleased to have the baselines in my file. Probably saved me a bunch of poking and prodding...

But isn't it nice to read a polite thread where nobody's getting called an idiot? I miss that...

Obama may not have been the worst president ever, but he was the most disappointing. I was thrilled when he won his first term, promising transparency and unity. Failing to deliver on his promises, I was disappointed he was given a 2nd term. During which, he disappointed even more. I've never seen a less transparent gub'ment nor a more divided country. (But I only go back to JFK was the first president I remember) Biden has just been a redux of broken Obama promises. With a side of senility. Covered up by the MSM and Dem elite.

A sleaze bucket unhinged wannabe fascist dictator who presided over a pretty good economy and relative peace around the world. "Please, sir, may I have some more please?"