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On 3/12/2025 at 4:27 PM, JBChiangRai said:

Would this be from the same book that says the earth is roughly 5,000 years old?

 

Stop teaching religion to young impressionable minds and it will die out in 1 generation.

 

Most religions fail because in their "holy" documents they try to explain something that science/medicine of the time cannot explain and modern knowledge proves it wrong.

 

The Quran gets it wrong on where sperm comes from, clearly it's not the word of god, it's closer to Stephen King.

If the story of the Jews in Egypt actually happened, they could have walked over the Isthmus of Suez since the Suez Canal was not there back then. No need for miracles.

20 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

You should be thanking whichever deity you follow that Harris wasn't the winner. No matter how bad the present POTUS may be, it's nowhere near as toxic as that nattering imbecile Harris would have been.

I agree that Harris was/is a loser, but I blame Obama for having picked Biden. Have there been any "tell alls" on how Obama settled on Biden as his running mate?

3 hours ago, NedR69 said:

Just get a sim, I suggest True.  After the account is active, you can tie your Thai number to your iCloud.

SIMs are not expensive in Thailand. Also, the OP should download LINE, but maybe he would have to be in the country where his SIM is based. So get a SIM here and then download LINE. It's used by people and businesses for phoning and messaging here. Maybe WhatsApp is similar, but LINE is the choice in Thailand.

On 3/14/2025 at 8:18 AM, Eloquent pilgrim said:

 

 

Not charged as of yet; however, Mahmoud Khalil is a pro-Hamas activist, and as such, is a serious threat to the national security of the US; if you don’t think that is a good enough reason for him to be deported, then you are part of the problem.

 

Supporting and enabling terrorist sympathisers and antisemites is the reason that the Democrats were flushed down the gurgler at the recent election, something it seems you have failed to grasp.

 

 

 

You are conflating support for Palestinians with support for Hamas, as is Rubio et al. Khalil and the protesters are victims of this strategy.

Also, mixing up antisemitism with anti-Zionism has been a strategy for around 10 years as a means of suppressing free speech of people who support self-determination for the Palestinians, but since October 2023 the campaign against free speech has been abetted by laws equating the two through the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

6 hours ago, JimGant said:

Good. No reason why Americans have to tolerate no-value-added trash in our country. Maybe the Air Force will loan one of their C-17s, now being used to cart undesirables back to South America, to reunite these Hamas bums with their camels.

Another waste of taxpayers' money.

26 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

None of this really means anything, since Egypt is not prepared to take in any Palestinians, nor is Jordan or any other country for that matter, since they are universally disliked throughout the Arab world. 

 

Trump is just making noise, throwing out garbage proposals, and kissing Bibi's butt, as usual. 

Actually, if Jordan and/or Egypt cooperated in ethnic cleansing of the Gazans (or West Bankers), their populations would be incensed and the stability of their regimes threatened.

There seem to be inaccuracies in this story. The total amount for Gaza cleanup and reconstruction is set at $53bn. This includes the construction of 400,000 dwellings.

The Arab League of 22 nations unanimously adopted the Egyptian proposal. US and Israel rejected it. The plan is to seek the approval of the OIC (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation), comprising 57 members.

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

They do have the army.... mandatory five years as far away from relatives as possible without a day out for visitation rights.

Would that be the Burmese Army?

6 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Do the crime ... Do the time 

 

Oh well ... what goes around, comes around.

Hint ... Dzungar genocide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzungar_genocide

This was done by a previous emperor 1755-8 during the conquest of Xinjiang.

Maybe this report from The Independent was from 2018, or it has been so much condensed that history appears to be current news. Hamdullah Mohib was ambassador to Washington 2015-2018, and Mattis was Secretary of Defense 2017-19. The report Afghanistan’s National Peace and Development Framework was presented at the Brussels concerence in 2016, and the last iteration of this report was in January 2021 for 2021-25:

https://www.fao.org/faolex/results/details/en/c/LEX-FAOC218844/

Since the Taliban now control all of Afghanistan, the threat from IS Khorasan is not a big problem. The issue is that the Taliban government is not recognized by the UN, US, etc, so big mining companies cannot be involved. Even China gave up years ago on a project to mine copper.

Here is a map of resources:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/24/mapping-afghanistans-untapped-natural-resources-interactive  (2021)

There is a railroad in Uzbekistan reaching the Afghan border, and from Pakistan the railway map shows a proposed line from the border to Kandahar in Afghanistan. So perhaps an extension to the rare earth deposits in Helmand might be possible, or processing could be done in the country.

If you want something serious, why not build the basic structure and floor of wood, then use bamboo for the walls. If you want to be comfortable and neighbors are not close, you could design an alternative to exterior walls, such as vertical bamboo slats or louvers. Bamboo must be properly prepared and treated, not green.

18 hours ago, riclag said:

Maybe contact a pesticide company to sponsor your project! No sarcasm!

 

https://epmpestcontrol.com.au/blog/what-do-termites-eat-add-do-termites-eat-bamboo/

As the link mentions, bamboo needs to be treated to resist insects, including termites.

On 2/22/2025 at 8:15 PM, sanabavy IV said:

I recently read that we can learn a lot from urine and blood screenings before undergoing those scary biopsies. While I am in Bangkok where would you suggest I go to  get those tests done; I mean should I see a urologist or can a G.P. write up the prescription? That's before I go back to my remote island. And I must say I'm already on tamsulosine. 

A new urine test is being developed that will reduce the need for biopsies and MRI screenings.

https://news.vumc.org/2024/04/18/new-urine-test-has-higher-diagnostic-accuracy-for-prostate-cancer/

Of course, it will take longer to be available here, but its approval in the US will probably be accelerated with the Trump people taking over at FDA, etc. Also, standards for approving tests are less stringent than for drugs.

On 2/23/2025 at 2:40 PM, villageidiotY2K said:

Im concered about how cancer is being treated, being chemo and radio being the only option. 

 

do you think when some dud doctor in pattaya (especially in B@ngkok hospiyal) tells one that theyve got some sort of SERIOUS cancer, its better to take nature its course instead of being an experiamental rat posioned with all the expensive goodies which they [ossibly know that they mostly wont work, squeezed all the monies from the patients and their familes for their happy fruitful retirement wealth passed on to their next gens? 

it is hard to distinuish the doctors with their smiles, and i can see dollar signs shining in their eyes and ear to ear grins. im scared... i guess i will have some beers

 

 

 

Anyway, get a second opinion from a reliable institution. I was told that I had a year to live, nothing to do about it. That was 17 years ago.

3 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   So how come they have now managed to give the correct body back ?

It could have been that Hamas were testing Israel to see whether they would identify the body with DNA tests .

   If Israel didn't I.D the body , then Hamas could send different bodies back next time when they return corpses 

The Red Cross should be tasked with doing to DNA testing in Gaza before transfer of the remains.

3 hours ago, Hakuna Matata said:

 

Call Center SIM boxes are not using Internet connection at all. They are connecting directly to Thai mobile networks from over the border(AIS, True, DTAC, etc). The individual operators are connected over LAN network.

 

Why don't mobile network operators like AIS, DTAC, True etc. do anything to effectively render those call center SIM boxes inoperative by restricting service based on geo location? I know how to configure the Cellular Switch software to restrict and deny service for certain geographical area. Why don't those Mobile Network operators know how to do that? Incompetent, unprofessional or just greedy?

 

The SIM box signal is coming from over the border, from another country, but using Thai network SIM cards and Thai cellular networks.

 

There is a way to stop this at once and forever.

It's also a question of "know your customer". Maybe the Burma resistance groups are also using SIM boxes to communicate with the outside world,  Musk could provide them with Starlink service which would give the resistance more mobility.

2 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Which pro Israeli lobbyists are those ?

I do hope that you aren't just once again holding Israel responsible for everything .

   The report was published by a USA magazine and nothing to do with Israel 

Chomper Higgot is probably referring to the source

7 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

China will not only win this trade war, they will kick the US in the butt. Just another example of simpletons under estimating them, and diminishing not only the US economy, but it's remaining influence. And in the process dramatically overestimating the importance and the influence of the US on the rest of the world.

 

There is no question America is not the country that it once was, and that the entire planet is infinitely less dependent on them than they used to be.

 

Which is a good thing for the planet, but a terrible thing for the very simplistic president of the US. 

 

He has never won a trade war with Xi, and he was outsmarted in every negotiation with Kim, Putin and MBS. Trump is an absolutely terrible negotiator. 

 

https://youtu.be/HO7mt7d9Zp8?si=-LgZ__a835aIKdel

 

I agree that it's unlikely that Trump will do any better with China than last time. That said, it's Clinton's fault for getting China into the WTO. And of course, the resultiong China shock was one of the reasons for Trump's success in getting elected. (Another reason was Obama's ham-fisted mismanagement of the mortgage debacle).

We should have set up a different trade regime for countries like China, with a lot of SOEs (state-owned enterprises). Hopefully working in tandem with the EU, dividing up airplane sales between Boeing and Airbus. My idea was rather diabolical - licensing factories to export to the US with approvals based on a point system, so the highest ranking applications would be approved first, and licenses would last for 3 years from the date of application. We could speed up or slow the approval process depending on China's behavior - a bit murky like working with Chinese bureaucracy. The worst applicants might end up not having their applications reviewed before they would have to start all over again.

16 hours ago, Social Media said:

Trump was explicit in his intention to reshape the center’s programming along conservative lines.

How about the Liberty University Concert Choir from Lynchburg, VA?

14 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Israelis do have mandatory service (with exceptions) for men, women, trans, and intersex but presumably some would serve non-potential combat roles depending on their particulars. They get a chunk of money after service so If you see on a budget groups of young Israelis in Thailand and other popular destinations, there's a very good chance they're taking their after service long holiday abroad. For many that's their last hurrah before going back to stressful full blown adulting. I wonder how that compares to Amish Rumpspringa. (Very wild times!)

Thanks for the perceptive comment.

I wonder how far back these bans in Phuket go? Military service in Israel has evolved from conventional warfare to controlling the Palestinian population in the West Bank. As settlements have constantly expanded since Netanyahu's first term (1996), the repression and impunity has increased. The bad behavior in Mae Hong Son may well be explained by a distrustful attitude toward the "other".

As for Amish, they are peaceful people. My mother's thinking was much influenced by the neighbor, a Mennonite bishop.

7 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I call B.S. 

It's been talked about on this forum many times for decades.

The problem Israelis are generally young men.

Does military training have a role in bad attitude? Is there some kind of indoctrination that makes these young men so arrogant?

On 2/5/2025 at 10:07 AM, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Saudi Arabia are building the line city just across from Israel , its scheduled to house 9 million people , Palestinians could all move there 

Some of the Gazans could move into the settlements after the settlers have been removed from the West Bank per opinion of the ICJ last July. After they move back to Gaza, Palestinian refugees living in camps in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan could live in the settlement dwellings in the West Bank.