impulse

Would you trust that lot? Especially in an election year... The same lot that insisted the laptop was a fake and Biden didn't shower with his daughter?

The lengths to which posters will go to avoid praising the locals who helped the woman out... Kudos to the locals. Well done.

Remind me.... How many terms did FDR have? The 2 term limitation is a recent invention.

Another advertisement for travel insurance. Because I doubt that the culprits will be funding the guy's hospital bill.

Another almost useful study... But they are getting better. At least now they're conceding there's a balance between the risk of vaccine side effects vs the risk of Covid damage. But they don't break it down by age, or underlying condition, or some other factor that makes it a good idea for people in that demographic to take the vaccine. I suspect (and that's all it is) that there's an age where the risks of getting full bore (unvaxxed) Covid is greater than the risks of getting vaccinated and hoping for a muted case of Covid. It's like that "study" you posted a few weeks ago where they looked at people from 15-30 years old and their conclusion was that everyone from age 6 months and up could benefit from the vax. Or the studies that say the average age of a Covid death is (for example) 80 years old and you parents still need to vax your toddlers, though we have no long term data on how it will affect them in the future. I appreciate the updates and the studies, but I'm still waiting for the ones that will allow my 35 year old nephew to decide whether his risk from Covid is greater than his risk from vaccine caused Myocarditis. (Or in my case, something that looks like Bell's Palsy) The studies never seem to break it down to ages and details, and I have come to believe that's deliberate. Because I'm sure that data's out there. But I wonder how many years before the public get it in a useful form.

Ask yourself this... If the vaccines actually reduced "all cause mortality" by 82%, would we only be reading about it in some obscure paper?

I'd never crawl under a car that's jacked up using the car's own jack. I've never needed to get under the car or pickup, in order to change a flat. I've seen too many fall off the old timey bumper jacks. Even on solid concrete, the jacks tend to slide out from under the car if you push in any direction. On a gravelly and/or uneven road, they're death traps for anyone climbing under the car. In my driveway, I jack the car onto a tripod jackstand. On the side of the road, I cross my fingers and stay out from under any part of a car on a jack. Back home, I have a nice set of Walmart Rhino plastic ramps that I used all the time. I can't open Shopee from here so I don't know if they're comparable to the OP's link. But they're plenty stout to change oil, shocks, etc on a normal size vehicle. In fact, I prefer them to my old steel ramps because they have better traction. Rated to 12,000 lb GVW, I wouldn't push them anywhere near that, but they are well engineered and work great on my soccer Mom Sienna van, front or back. Most of my recent cars (after 2000), the oil filter is accessible from the top so I may eventually go to a siphon oil change system. I'm almost old enough. But I still like to get the dregs out the drainhole and see what grew in my oilpan since the last change.

The COVID vax reduces COVID infections by 13%, but reduces mortality from all causes by 82%? Doesn't pass the sniff test for causality. There have to be some other factors.

So, no information on how that's going to affect airport tourism SIMs and the ability of foreigners to get a longer term SIM? If it changes at all...

I think it has as much to do with the number of words he's made up from the podium. He says "frumplehump", but the WH transcript quotes it as "transitory".

Honest question... Did you even click the links and look? For me, the beauty of posting left, right and centrist sources is the hard data. The facts that are either true or not. Argue all you want about their interpretation and what the facts mean, but you'll get different true facts from the left, the right and the center. Then I can go as far down the rabbit hole as I feel like, using search to look for the other side's facts. BTW, if you do find a centrist source, please post back. I have about 60 news sources in my bookmarks, and centrists sources are like hens' teeth. 90% are left, 9% are right (that corresponds with the ratio of registered Dems and Registered Repubs in journalism) About 1% are truly centrist.

The Biden White House itself has been caught out when the daily transcripts they released didn't match what Biden actually said. Especially when his words were gibberish, or he read too much, like "Pause..." I'd like to believe the Biden DOJ wouldn't do the same, but color me skeptical. Not to mention they don't really want us to know what caused Hur to refer to him as an old man with a limited memory. If the Biden administration wanted us to trust their transcripts, they shouldn't have falsified their daily releases.

Agreed. My mind also goes to the question of what other behaviors are common to people who would tend to get vaccinated? Do they visit the doctor more than the non-vaxxed? Are they more diligent about taking all their meds, including their heart meds? Do they eat healthier? Do they have better access to all healthcare resources (like money...)? The study doesn't seem to look at a causal link. Just a correlation. Which could have nothing to do with the vaxxes themselves.

Did Ethiopia and Indonesia give them immunity from criminal prosecution? Of course, the victims' lawyers want to sue in the USA. Because that's where they'd get the best settlement. But it isn't close to being over, around the world. Especially since Boeing seems to have crapped on their deferral agreement...

If the DOJ won't prosecute individuals, every country that lost citizens in the 2 MAX crashes should file charges against the culprits and seek extradition through whatever treaties they have around the world. And arrest any one of them that shows up in a friendly country's airport. The DOJ cannot sign away the prosecutorial rights of the rest of the world...

Agreed. The idea that they can "criminally prosecute" a corporation is ludicrous. That punishes the 99% of Boeing employees and stockholders who did nothing wrong, and lets those with blood on their hands to skate free. They need to prosecute the individuals who committed murder by fraud. From the guys on the shop floor who falsified documents, designers who hid features from regulators, to the guys in the C-Suites that knew they were doing it. Send a few of them to prison and see if that doesn't straighten out Boeing's toxic culture.

My brother's on the heart transplant list. He gets knocked off the list if he doesn't keep up with his boosters. Of course, refusing to treat him would have a deleterious effect on his outcome. We'll never know if the vaccine itself is a positive or a negative.

If it wasn't for clickbait rags, we'd all believe the laptop is fake, the border is secure, there are no vax side effects, our vaccine passports are a great requisite for getting on a flight, inflation is transitory, Ukraine's winning, men can get pregnant, and public schools should still be closed- for the sake of the kids.

Life's too short and legal scooters are too plentiful. Move on. Save yourself the heartache. And the money.

PSA: Always ask how much before ordering a bunch. There's some areas where the vendors all charge 20 baht a skewer, when right around the corner, it's 10 baht.

I wonder how many viewers made it through the entire film?

I, on the other hand, would give almost anything to go back and undo my 2nd Pfizer. Because the next day, my quality of life took a huge dump and hasn't recovered in the years following. Left side of my face has been numb, my sense of balance went away and fatigue has been constant. When I first went to the ER, they claimed they didn't know what caused it, but it definitely wasn't the jab. 2 years later when I went to the ER again, they conceded it was probably the jab. But tough noogies... Of course, that's just my story. I'm probably the only person in the world that has happened to.

It's a whole lot more practical than the thousands of GBP in bereavement flowers that will be binned 10 minutes after the funeral is over. Don't like it? Don't donate. But don't piss on the friends who do.

Before they shut it down to rebuild it, I used to go there several evenings a week to walk, ride my bike (or my recumbent after my bypass when 2 wheels wasn't stable enough) , or rent a canoe. The park was very well maintained and quite a pleasant experience in the middle of town. I met a lot of normal, very nice Thai people just walking the loop, or sitting on the nice benches watching the cuties go by. Surprised at how easy it was to strike up a walking conversation in English. (Edit: And not just the usual youngsters, though I like them, too. Quite a few middle age and older business people, some in high places) I've been there quite a few times this past year, watching it open up more and more. A year ago, very few walkers, and no boat rental concession. Bummer. Recently, lots of walkers and the boats are available, including some nice kayaks. I don't know if they rent (or even allow) bicycles like they used to. Anyone got an update on that? Highly recommended...

I salute them for reducing the eyesores, but those look like fiber optic data cables, with the power cables still standing. “As of now, we’ve already rerouted 91 kilometres of electrical wires beneath the city’s surface. We’re gearing up to extend the reach of this project by a further 236.1 kilometres by 2027, with the total length of the wiring to be moved underground amounting to around 1,454 kilometres.” I suspect that's a tiny fraction of the city's overhead power cable. Anyone have a clue how many thousands and thousands of km are in the city?