Confuscious

At this rate, the near future will be that man will chose to be living with a robot who can do almost the whole household (Elon Musks robot) and offer the same, or better, sexual pleasure as a woman (Chinese robots).
Without the usual "head ache" or menstruation problems.

Marrying a "robot" will make you lose all your assets if she wants to file a divorce.
And best of all, the robot will not get praignant and produce babies.

34 minutes ago, MicroB said:

 

Its terrible, engineered by an unholy alliance for the Hard Right and Far Left (or Far Right and Hard Left). Ultimately, a lot of the events of today originate in the Crash of 2008, and how governments responded to that (I'm not sure they could have responded in any other way). Did people in 1938 look back at 1918 (and the details), if they knew what was going to happen in 1939.

 

It really shows what a huge deal the 1914-18 war was; not in terms of numbers or the battlefields, but what disruptive change it caused to a whole continent, and world, that's still being felt 120+ years later.

 

There are moments in history that you can't tell are truely great without the passage of time. The fall of the USSR was such a moment, but I think interpreted wrongly, because the effects wasn't just a terrible economic calamity to the Soviet people (balanced by profound improvements in personal liberty, but liberty doesn't pay the bills), but the effects on Western nations. And no, that's not about NATO, but something more profound. But we carried on as if it was a case of winners/losers, generating tremendous hubris. I understand George Bush (sr) talked about a New World Order; he had lived a long life, seen the growth of Nazism, the Cold War, so he could only be optimistic about the future, especially as he wasn't really going to experience it.

 

Some thought 2008 was a shake to the capitalist order, but somehow it survived it. The ripose was always socialist versus capitalist, without considering emergence of new orders, but ones which do not come from people, but from individuals. So the age of the oligarchs. There are men in Russia who are fabulously rich, but they didn't get there through clever capitalism. Elon Musk is allegedly (on paper) the richest man in the world. I still don't know how he got to that position. There aren't that many Tesla cars about. SpaceX is still largely a services company, with most of its income I think outsourced government  contracts.

 

He was brought up in a household that believed in Technocracy, and he has said that one day, he would like Mars to have a Tehnocratic government. Broadly that means having experts in charge of a coutry, which sounds fine. We want people with strong military experience to run defence. We want people with strong economic skills to run a treasury and so forth. The Technocracy movement sprung up in the 1930s; it believed that in such a system, elections were not necessary, or that the role of democracy could be minimised. Ok, so that kinds of like going from the purist Greek idea of democracy, where everyone had a say, and a vote, on every single law, which meant nothing got done, to what we have now, representative democracy, where we vote for representatives, and lend them our vote.

 

Musk's grandfather was Canadian, and physician who got into this fairly niche brand of politics. He was briefly arrested in WW2 as it was thought he wasn't sufficiently onboard with the idea of fighting the Nazis (code for suspicion he supported Germany). Postwar, he rebranded the Technocracy Movement the Social Credit Party, and was generally unsuccessful at that. Generally, I raise red flags when a doctor gets into politics or religion, because with it comes the Messianic complex. In 1948, he liked what he saw was happening in South Africa, with the race seperation laws, and felt only these could save "Western Christian Civilisation" and took his family, with Elon's baby mum, to South Africa.

I wonder how much in today's USA politics is coming from Trump himself and how much is dictated by Musk.

Analog to Thai politics where most of the government decisions are dictated by Thaksin.

What really happened at the White House.

 

What really happened at the White House.

 

Europe's plans were in the make long before Trump came in.
Europe was planning already a long time to have their own army, instead relying always on the USA and the NATO pact.
Trump escalated the plans for an European army with his attitude towards other countries.

This is not the only plan Europe was making.
Europe was also planning to ditch the USD for their trade and push the EUR for trading with other countries.
And in the last years, they are planning to have their own digital currency.

IMHO, the USA will leave Ukraine and Europe will step in to help Ukraine to join the NATO  starting WW3.
Putin made it very clear that he will never allow Ukraine to join the NATO.

The United States, per the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, is contractually bound to defend Ukraine.
That Memorandum was signed three years after the collapse of the former Soviet Union and at the time, Ukraine had the third largest nuclear arsenal in the WORLD behind the United States and Russia. To coerce Ukraine into transferring its arsenal to its former fellow Soviet state Russia (for further arms reductions), President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and Great Britain's Prime Minister John Major assured Ukraine of its sovereignty and defense in exchange for eliminating its nuclear capabilities. No one alive at the time would have imagined that within 30 years, Russia, under its Dictator Vladimir Putin, would break the treaty--twice--by invading Ukraine and that the U.S., led (in name) by a sick Putin sycophant named Donald Trump, would take sides with Russia by falsely blaming Ukraine for the latest war, and by demanding that Ukraine beg and bow for U.S. assistance that, per that old Budapest Memorandum, it "should" be providing anyway! 
Trust, if Ukraine was still sitting on the world's third largest nuclear arsenal, Russia NEVER would have invaded and Trump wouldn't be trying to pimp the nation's vast mineral resources. But just like the U.S. has broken treaty after treaty with Indigenous American tribes over the past 200 plus years, I believe that Ukraine MUST turn to the European Union to supply all of its armament needs! Indeed, as a longtime student of world history, I also believe that several old U.S. allies like Taiwan, South Korea, Germany and Japan had better be prepared for anything because the U.S., at least while under MAGA control, is NOT to be trusted to uphold treaties that provide for mutual defense and stability. 
 

I am not a regular user of Skype, but I did use it many times.
I wonder if it will be possible to backup the messages before Microsoft stop the service.

6 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Chihuahua's are evil nasty little b@stards...  yet they can't actually chew off a child's face in a single attack...   And this is why the breeds I mentioned earlier are so dangerous....

 

The power they poses is extreme and their breeding combines to a formidable result - people will argue 'they are ok if they are well trained'...  I'd argue, why do they have to have the violence 'trained out of them'....   'family' Dogs should be saft and sappy by nature... 

 

The poodle is not capable of ripping someones scalp off their scull, or tearing their face off....  a Pit Bull is....    the comparison you make is night and day.

 

A Poodle is not less dangerous as (than a) Pitbull - thats complete delusion. 

 

In the example you use...  a poodle bit someone in the face....   its quite likley that if that dog were a pitbull, it would have ripped off the victims face....  there's a huge difference. 

https://www.quora.com/Has-a-small-dog-under-25-lbs-ever-killed-any-human

https://time.com/5280769/dog-attack-dachshund-woman-oklahoma-death/

5 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Chihuahua's are evil nasty little b@stards...  yet they can't actually chew off a child's face in a single attack...   And this is why the breeds I mentioned earlier are so dangerous....

 

The power they poses is extreme and their breeding combines to a formidable result - people will argue 'they are ok if they are well trained'...  I'd argue, why do they have to have the violence 'trained out of them'....   'family' Dogs should be saft and sappy by nature... 

 

The poodle is not capable of ripping someones scalp off their scull, or tearing their face off....  a Pit Bull is....    the comparison you make is night and day.

A Poodle is not less dangerous as (than a) Pitbull - thats complete delusion. 

In the example you use...  a poodle bit someone in the face....   its quite likley that if that dog were a pitbull, it would have ripped off the victims face....  there's a huge difference. 

A dog is family of the Wolves and have the same instinct.
Once the instinct is triggered they will attack anything that stand in their way.

Dog owners shall be held responsable for the actions of their dogs and made to pay the damage they have caused by every possible way. Confiscate their house(s), Car(s), Motorbike(s), bank accounts and salaries, etc. until they have paid for the damages of the dogs.
There should be also a forced insurance for dog owners like in most Western countries to ensure that the victims will be paid.

https://commercevillagevet.com/3-aggressive-dog-breeds-revealed-youll-surprised/#:~:text=The Dachshund.,Jack Russells came in third.

The study involved researchers from the University of Pennsylvania as well as 6,000 dog owners. The number one aggressive breed out of the 33 dogs surveyed? The Dachshund. Yes – the wiener dog! The study found that “one in five dachshunds have bitten or tried to bite strangers, and a similar number have attacked other dogs; one in 12 have snapped at their owners.”

Number two on the list is an even more diminutive breed – the Chihuahua, while Jack Russells came in third.

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Agreed.... 

 

This will be considered a very unpopular opinion by many... but here goes...

 

1) Ban the breeding of all dogs considered 'dangerous breeds' 

2) Only allow trained and licensed owners of dogs considered 'powerful'

3) Remove all dogs considered 'dangerous breeds' from their homes and euthanise them

4) Remove all dogs considered 'powerful' from their homes if owners are untrained & unlicensed

5) All other dogs must have a collar with the owners name on them.

6) If a dog (with a collar) is found on the street or on public land - the owner faces a fine

7) If a dog is found without a collar, it is removed and euthanised

 

 

*Dangerous breeds: All Pit Bull breeds, Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino, Fila Brasileiro.

*Powerful breeds: Rottweiler, Doberman Pinscher, German Shepherd, Bullmastiff, Cane Corso, Alaskan Malamute, Siberian Husky, Presa Canario, American Bulldog

 

 

 

Not a popular opinion - and I 100% agree, its a horrific solution but its the only solution  that would prevent further attacks on innocent children....   

 

Also ban dogs in Condos... 

Also ban dogs in houses without a resonable garden for them to run in (and that garden must be secure).

 

 

The issue here - this is a brutal first world solution to a third world problem due to carelessness....

To be fair, small pets are known to also attack people.
Ever past a chihuahua with his barking and showing his teeth to anybody passing near?
I know personally cases where a little "Poodle" attacked people and bit them in the face.
Not less dangerous as a Pitbull.

10 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

Authorities are investigating the incident and considering potential legal action.

 

So, a 6  year young girl is fighting for her life and all the USELESS THAI POLICE is doing is CONSIDERING potential legal action?
Waiting for the girl to file charges against the Pitbull maybe?

Who is going to pay for the hospital bills? 
Who will pay the cosmetic surgery to restore the girl?
Who will pay for the girls trauma, maybe for life?

There should be a law stating that the owners bear FULL RESPONSABILITY for their pets.

Hope the girl has access to a "GoFund.Me" to pay for the hospital bills.

Seems that the Thais like to inflict horrific abuse to others.
 

4 hours ago, Confuscious said:

I remember the case of the young girl who was poored hot water on her by her employers.
When she tried to escape and she went to the police. the same police carried her back to her employers.
Disgusting when the ones supposed to help you bring you back to the people who are abusing you.
Nowadays, people who are abused turn to a social media influencer before contacting the useless RTP.

https://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/citynews/features/4-6-million-baht-awarded-to-kidnapped-karen-girl-kept-as-slave-for-5-years/

She never received a single baht as the Thai couple were tried IN ABSENTIA.

17 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

They deserve a great degree of shame and humiliation, which is fairly easy to accomplish here. 

Unless you want to risk being caught for "DEFAMATION", it's OK.

9 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Well, in that particular case both the perpetrators and the police that were involved need to be punished severely, I can think of a few ideas. 

Agree 100000% with you .....

Only .....

The perpetrators are still living in luxury without having spend 1 day behind bars and the polie officer has never been punished.

This Is Thailand ....

I remember of a case in Belgium when I was at school where a kid died after a minor accident because the parents objected to a blood transfusion.
The parents were members of the "Whitness of Jehova" which forbid blood transfusions.

Sad that parents can object to a kid being vaccinated or have a life threatening blood transfusion, but the same parents can not object if their kid want to have a sex change.

I remember the case of the young girl who was poored hot water on her by her employers.
When she tried to escape and she went to the police. the same police carried her back to her employers.
Disgusting when the ones supposed to help you bring you back to the people who are abusing you.
Nowadays, people who are abused turn to a social media influencer before contacting the useless RTP.

Blaming a Thai cop for stealing.
File a case for "Defamation".
How did she dare to say the cop had stolen the items when he simply was keeping the items in a safe place.
Ungrateful citizens in Thailand.

Sad if a citizen need to seek help from an "influencer" instead of the police.
Time for Elon Musk to come to Thailand and test f the RTP is worth their salary.

16 hours ago, Social Media said:

He was jailed for three years for rape and deprivation of liberty before being released early on probation in 2022 after appealing.

He will be free to do it again after 3 years in prison.
Nothing new under the Czech snow.

And Thailand want to have high-speed trains.
What a joke Thailand is.

11 hours ago, mikebell said:

Another statistic to add to Thailand's roads being named the 2nd most dangerous in the world ably assisted by the lack of a police force.

Most of these victims will sadly not appear on the statistics as they will be declard death AFTER arriving at the hopsital.
The death declaration will be signed by a doctor at the hospital, not on the road or during transport to the hospital.

 

I did it for many years at the local "Amphur" (Town Hall) in Nakhon Ratchasima.
Signed, dated and stamped for free with a smile.
 

This song applies to many here

I felt more loneliness when I was married to a Thai girl than I feel now without any woman.

Better to be lonely alone than to be lonely with a beloved partner who doesn't care about you.