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2 hours ago, Dexxter said:

Awesome!!! I just had a look and it has every place I have visited every single day since November 2015 when I bought my first smart phone.

I'm astounded that you think it's awesome that Google has been tracking your every move..you know they also tracked what you searched for on the WWW, watched on youtube  emails sent and received @ gmail  what apps you installed along with usage stats...your phones contact numbers  etc etc etc.

1 hour ago, Dexxter said:

Yes, if they receive a court order.

Not needed now for NSA CIA FBI   FISA act just renewed for anther 2 years  allows total surveillance without warrants.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/12/fisa-surveillance-act-reauthorized

21 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Its wrong when its used against decent people whom I like , but its OK to use it against trump because him becoming President again would be a disaster for the USA

I think we are witnessing a similar thing to the McCarthyism witch hunt

but this time it's "Orange man bad"...worse than Hitler,Stalin and Pol Pot combined !!

9 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Trump admits that, if elected, he will weaponize the Justice Department against his enemies.

 

Are you okay with that?

Well some seem perfectly happy that Trump is receiving this treatment

so why not be okay with it when the shoe is on the other foot ?

3 minutes ago, jesimps said:

but the loud bass-heavy music every evening jars me off. 

Agreed the extremely loud and bassy musak  is impossible to escape 🤮

6 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

So you're the OP, seeking advice, when you already know it all ... 

Yes starting to look like a "wind up"

7 hours ago, Neeranam said:

After being sober for 23 years, I've never been breathalysed, which is kinda annoying 555

The one time I was breathalysed  was the exact day that I had not had a drink..which was kind of a relief ( lucky ??? 5555)  

On 4/13/2024 at 9:04 PM, thesetat said:

At any rate. My thai wife can be owner of majority if it is too difficult to make me the full owner. 

That would be the much easier route to take leave out the

(unwanted dirty ) foreigner  just let the Thai person handle all the hassles of which I'm sure there will still be many..best of luck to you.

1 hour ago, Walker88 said:

Amazon and Facebook know infinitely more about people than the NSA.

One and the same, whatever  Google,facebook,Meta,tictok etc etc know about you so do the CIA,FBI,NSA,MI5,MI6 etc etc all the 5 eyes countries and most probably more share the info...but its all for your safety nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide !!!!

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Because it won't take too long before the authorities will realize that this would just involve too much money and manpower - even if 90% would be done by AI

These so called "authorities"  are the exact same who want to wield the total power that an AI "policeman" can give them..they are the ones pushing ,promoting, and legislating for this AI takeover...it's kind of ironic to realise that in the end even they (along with everyone else) will be consumed by it.

7 hours ago, JoseThailand said:

 

There was no water splashing in 2020, 2021 and 2022. What a happy time!

 

Those 3 years where the height of Covidicy whilst there was (thankfully) no water throwing  they where hardly happy times IMHO

A couple of photos from 2003 Songkran Wun Lai (19th)  on Second road near the Tony gym intersection.

My car in the foreground broke down so we bought a bottle of vodka and got soaked and smashed.

@Issanman  great photos  the couple of foreigners in the first one don't look too happy....  got any more to share ?

Another step along the path to a total surveillance totalitarian state...

"for your safety" of course.

1 minute ago, topt said:

Unfortunately however I ended up going back from 20 to 19.5 a while ago due to issues with the add-ons

This is the number one issue for me and what stops me updating

as I have my few addons TVheadend,backend and IPTV simple setup just right and working nicely for a couple of years..only problems being with sdcard corruption on the Raspberry Pi  that runs Kodi

( I still prefer calling it XBMC)

On 4/11/2024 at 6:45 AM, giddyup said:

Unless you value "period correctness".

 Period correctness over political correctness gets my vote.

34 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Is that even a word?

I find people getting overexcited over diverse casting to be racist.

I find people who re write history with "diverse casting"  to be wokeist.

I have no (not much)  problem with modern characters being diverse except that it often goes over the top...bit like the Google gemini AI woke debacle.