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Marriage rights could not be on the agenda while Rowe was still out there. Until now, challenges to gay couples were limited to whether a bakery had to serve gay people wanting a wedding cake.

Sorry, only 12 Republicans voted for this bill. Of the other 47, 36 voted against.

The Supreme Court declared state laws forbidding mixed-race marriage unconstitutional in 1967. After their recent anti-abortion decision where Thomas opined that under the same logic mixed-race marriage, same-sex marriage, and contraception decisions could be similarly reversed, Congress is now moving to make laws to protect these rights.

Banks and brokers I deal with give the option of text message or email to send authentication codes. The ones in the US generally don't have fields to enter foreign phone numbers, so I use the email option. Some years ago, with a US regional bank I would periodically have trouble logging on from Thailand because of my Thai IP address, but now they identify me by the computer I'm using, besides then sending an authentication code by email. I usually use a US address with US financial accounts.

SCB and Bangkok Bank have offices in NY, so it used to be possible to wire to the NY branch of SCB/BBL for credit to one's account in Thailand. For many years I did that, but then the originating US bank (JP Morgan) stopped that method, and I started using SWIFT via Citibank.

With ubiquitous mobile phones and social media spreading delusion, it's hard for monks not to be drawn in to meritless amusement including drugs. Maybe society needs to start by reforming the schools. What is happening in the temples is a reflection of society at large.

No, the tax would be $100. It's not much. How much is the broker commission?

Maybe the farmers should open a co-op market and with some profits form their own distribution company to get their produce to the traditional markets. Supermarkets would be much more difficult because of established relationships between Chinese families, I suppose.

The OP could get an account at Citibank in the US. OP could check whether their Thai bank has a correspondent relationship with Citi beforehand, but it is quite likely.

It would make sense to ask the Thai destination bank which are their US correspondent banks. If your account is in such a correspondent bank, the SWIFT transfer is quick and easy to resolve if there is a snafu.

The ARIS IAEA SMR book has over 200 reactor designs. On pages 255 (actually 265) and 267 (actually 277) are thorium designs. Bill Gates has a project in the works, but the Ukraine war is a complication: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuclear/bill-gates-nuclear-startup-wins-750m-loses-sole-fuel-source

No, trade the reactor for the immobile Chinese submarines. Maybe no secrets in the export model, though.

It's normal in the US to inquire about a doctor's success rates in major surgeries. The one time I asked in Bumrungrad, I could feel that the question was not appreciated. Answer: 50-50, while the Johns Hopkins surgeon claimed a 90% success rate, without a robot needed. In the US it can make a big difference where or by whom you get treated, just as here.

The triads go back hundreds of years. Logically, they have been operating in Thailand for a century or more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad_(organized_crime) This seems quite informative: https://books.openedition.org/irasec/327?lang=en

In Chiangmai I transferred stamps to my new passport, then went to the 90-day drive through window to do the first 90-day report. The next report was rejected anyway, so it might be advisable to do the first report by mail. After the rejection, I sent in a 90-day report by EMS mail and am waiting today for delivery.

Doc said that it was not dangerous.

I went to one of the CMU gastrointestinal specialists who takes appointments in the Excellence Building on the other side of Suthep Road from the new Sriphat OPD Clinic. I learned that everybody (BKK-CM, Ram, Sriphat) is using the advanced technology colonoscopes these days which use blue/green light and zoom to better discover polyps and judge their level of danger. In the Excellence Building they apparently don't have an anesthesiologist, and I had a colonoscopy once under those conditions. Once was enough to see one's inside scrolling by. So I went to Ram for a colonoscopy. A polyp was seen but not removed or biopsied.

What if you need to do a 90-day report (by mail or online) before the annual extension? Would you use the number of the canceled passport, or the new passport not yet entered into their system??? Seems problematical.

In Chiang Mai I was told that, after transferring retirement visa stamps to new passport, I could go around the corner to the 90-day drive-thru window to do that operation and have my new passport number recorded. Just this week I tried doing the 90-day report online, and it was rejected. So having sent a new report by EMS, I am waiting for the receipt from Immigration, but the 4-day holiday is delaying a response.

There are four curves for four regions in Thailand, and it's really difficult to figure out which one is for the North.

Maybe it's good if someone could find out when the latest vaccine versions are distributed, assuming that both the Northern and Southern are available here at different times. Otherwise one could end up at the tail end of a vaccine version's usefulness.

Unfortunately, hospitals give conflicting advice as to optimal timing. Is it rainy season or January-June? "For Thailand, an expert recommends that people get the vaccine during January – June." https://www.bangkokhospital.com/en/content/influenza-can-prevented-by-vaccination Apparently, in the case of the Southern Hemisphere vaccine, the vaccine is "now" until 31 December. https://www.phukethospital.com/package/influenza-vaccine-with-4-strains-the-2022-southern-hemisphere/ https://www.bumrungrad.com/en/packages/flu-shot https://bewell.co.th/influenza-vaccine-2022/ (see WHO vaccine table at bottom of page - may be outdated) WHO's current vaccine compositions: Northern: https://www.who.int/news/item/25-02-2022-recommendations-announced-for-influenza-vaccine-composition-for-the-2022-2023-northern-hemisphere-influenza-season Southern: https://www.who.int/news/item/23-09-2022-new-recommendations-for-the-composition-of-influenza-vaccines-in-2023-for-the-southern-hemisphere When will the new Southern be available? Does it alternate here seasonally with the Northern composition?

There was a documentary on al Jazeera about Thai berry pickers in Sweden (currently not available online). https://www.aljazeera.com/program/101-east/2021/5/6/swedens-thai-berry-pickers

The weird font on the first link (the Sachs website) is very difficult to read. It starts out making the US help for Ukraine as the culmination of a 20-year neocon disaster. That is simply not plausible. Neocons have historically had influence in Republican administrations, while in Democratic interregnums they held out in think tanks on K Street. Iraq 2003 was a true neocon disaster.

In the Yeltsin era Sachs was a promoter of giving Russians vouchers representing shares in state enterprises. People sold out cheap, and this led to the rise of the oligarchs and of Putin.