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Worst insurrection in history. They all forgot their guns at home.

The USA was under existential threat from the Axis in the '40s and we still held elections. Are you claiming the guy who declared martial law is capable of holding off elections as long as he wishes? And that's okay? In recent history, they referred to that guy as Fuhrer. I wonder what the Ukrainian translation is.

Does anyone think that wailing on each other for another year or so will make it any cheaper to rebuild? It's time for the dying to stop and the rebuilding to begin. It's about 2 years (and hundreds of thousands of deaths) past time.

Good question, and I'll give my reasoning, to get input from others. Not because I'm sure my reasoning was sound. 1) I live where YouTube (and others) are blocked, so I download like a fiend on my monthly visits to Thailand. Sometimes, I'm out and about for hours (with my cell phone) and my computer is still downloading the queue of files when I get back to the hotel. 2) My cell phone SIM (AIS) has limits on data. It's been awhile, but I think it throttles back the speed if I exceed the limits, which is easy to do when downloading like a fiend. 3) For 1200 baht ($35USD), I didn't mind ponying up to try one out. The TRUE SIM was the biggest part of the expense (2990 baht) and the nice guy who set me up at Fortune Town said they had the best plan for unlimited data. (Had I just stuck the TRUE SIM in my smartphone, that would have meant yet another new phone number) 4) In the past, I have had data plans that don't allow hotspotting. I think those were mostly in the USA, but my brain leaks. Does anyone know if any Thailand carriers "discourage" hotspotting? Edit: And one other observation... It was so nice to watch a guy who knows what he's doing open the box, insert the SIM, and activate it for me on the TRUE system. I walked out with a fully functional system. That's worth money to me.

Judging from the number of AN threads questioning the age of consent in Thailand, I wonder how many posters here could be banged up if the cops ever checked the authenticity of the IDs of their short time trysts. I'm not excusing the guys in the OP. What they did was despicable. Just suggesting that guys who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. If you have to wonder if she's old enough... she isn't.

You're trying to confuse the warmongers with facts. That rarely works.

The reality is that Ukrainians living in the Russian areas will experience a higher GDP per capita and a better quality of life than those who live in the rest of Ukraine. That's not an endorsement of Putin. I's a statement of fact, based on widely available data. Russia's economy was better, and though it's corrupt, it's less corrupt than Ukraine. It's like if the USA invaded Baja Mexico. The inhabitants would see a massive improvement in their quality of life. But that doesn't mean I advocate an invasion.

I wonder if it's like that last wisp of smoke when my charcoal grill burns its last ember? I didn't think charcoal had a soul. Maybe I need to reconsider.

In my case, I wonder if these symptoms will ever go away, or will they haunt me until I die? In which case, longevity may not be so important (or desirable).

In a few more years, viewers of late night television will start to see commercials asking if "you or a loved one got the mRNA" because you may be entitled to a settlement. It's still too early for the ambulance chasers, but it's coming.

I wonder who we're going to have to send money to this time.

For me, it doesn't matter. I posted in case someone else is contemplating a similar path. Maybe they can learn from my experience, with input from other posters who may have done it differently. On a related aside, I fired up the pocket router on the train to Kanchanaburi, in the middle of nowhere, with no AC power and downloaded a few YouTube videos to the laptop just to see if it worked. It did. Quite well.

Do a sniff test on that when a proper health insurance policy in Thailand is costing some of my expat buddies about $1000 USD a month. What do you figure they're leaving out to reduce the policy price by over 95%? There have been many documentaries of people who thought they had paid for "full coverage" and found out the small print on page 63 of the policy excluded what put them in the hospital.

I got a good chuckle out of that rabies comparison. He nailed it...

But he was saying that long before he joined Team Trump. I agreed with him then, and I still do. Who would know better how many ways there are to hack computer based systems than Musk?

Maybe in lefty bizzaro world. In the real USA, he's getting more popular by the day. CNN and MSDNC only cover lefty bizzaro world, though.

I don't disagree with that, but who's gonna wait up to 12 hours for the bus if they only run 2 a day? Other than the Super Cheap Charlies, and I get the sense Thailand's getting tired of them.

I'm not seeing where he's claiming that... Or any numbers, before they dive deeper. But can you see a problem with budgeting, forecasting and managing Social Security if they have millions of people over 120 years old in the database? How do they figure out what the needs will be in 10 years if they don't clean that up? In the past, they always used the anal extraction method. They pulled numbers out of their butts to push whatever the narrative needed to be for the next election. Maybe now we'll have real numbers.

I wonder if the calculation would be different if they had to compensate the passengers for the 11 hours of their life that they lost?

Seriously? Over a dozen minor district court judges have stepped in and claimed nationwide jurisdiction over what the president can and cannot do as the head of the executive branch.

That seems rather fair.

I read it. But if you had been following along since 2016 (and before), there were machines for sale on Ebay that the states didn't even know were missing. So the kraken team didn't have a monopoly of access to the machines and the codes. Every MSM outlet published articles about the vulnerability of the machines after the 2016 election, and they went wild after the 2018 midterms. Then they went silent after the 2020 election. In fact, quieter than silent. They actually squelched and sued any mention. Why is that? Now the lefties are back again after the machine results didn't go their way in 2024. Edit: Regarding conspiracy theories, I've always contended that I'd believe one side was up to no good, or even both sides. But you can't convince me, based on the evidence, that the machines were (or are) secure.

So let me get this straight. The machines that delivered the most secure election in US history are suddenly suspect? But they were beyond reproach in 2020...

I'm a retired Petroleum Engineer that isn't asking for advice then insulting the very people that could help me.

How dare me what? Defend you from someone accusing you of having nefarious intent? Last time I'll do that...