jas007

Who knows? Whatever they are, I'm not feeling any danger from them. As for the "drones" everyone is seeing. That may be a big deal. What seems plausible is that they are US drones "sniffing" for a stray nuke that was sent to the US from Europe.

Some people think that they did survive and evolve and left Earth a long time ago. They come back once in a while to check things out.

Once in the US I wanted to sell a car because I was leaving town the next day. So I priced it right, put up an ad on Craigslist, and had it sold in about two minutes. The people that bought it got the deal of a lifetime.

Agreed. I think he's talking about the kind of "war" that will be over and done with in 10 minutes.

I'm pretty sure Planet Earth isn't harboring a galactic rebel base. So, no need for that. We're lucky, I think. Whatever it is, we may be finding out soon.

People shouldn't get all hung up on the speed of light and the space/time thing. It's real. to be sure, but probably doesn't tell the whole story. We live in but one of many universes. Whatever these things are that seem to be visiting, it's happening all over the world and they're making no effort to hide. Do people create fakes? Sure, but they can't all be fake. Nor can all the videos currently popping up online. Something is happening. I don't think they're dangerous. If they have the technology to get here, they surely have the technology to obliterate planet Earth, if that's what they want to do.

Again, those people have jobs. Trump's first order of business will be to deport the known criminals and those who have been ordered to leave. Supposedly, there are millions of them, that they know about. after those millions are gone, we'll see what comes next. No one is arguing that some that are here illegally can't find jobs. Businesses love them.

Well, at least they seem to be acknowledging their presence. But what are they, really? Several theories. 1. They're Chinese drones sold to Iran that are based on a "mother ship" off the US East Coast. Plausible, perhaps, but I don't buy it. They seem veery sophisticated, or at least some of them do, and the military doesn't seem too worried about them or the risk they might pose. 2. Russian drones? Probably not. Again, the response has been cautious and seemingly minimal. 3. Drones produced by US military contractors that are being used in response to a nuclear or biological threat of some sort. Since the Pentagon isn't officially involved, the Pentagon can deny any involvement. This would explain why there's no real effort to shoot them down. 4. As above, but the US technology is being put on display as part of a massive PsyOp to prevent the inauguration of Trump. Declare a national emergency, declare martial law, stop the new administration before it even starts. 6. Real alien technology, here to keep humanity from destroying itself.

Those are the ones with jobs, correct? The rest cost everyone big money. And the country is almost bankrupt as it is.

When I was a little kid, I used to have a similar reaction to eating oatmeal, especially after doing some exercise or playing outside. The doctor prescribed something similar to Benadryl. Anyway, I learned to avoid oatmeal and did OK that way, although they sometimes put oatmeal in food as one of the ingredients, and if you're not careful what you eat, you can end up in trouble. For example, I don't eat multi-grain bread. So, I'm not sure what caused the allergy in San Diego, but it fits the usual pattern for me. Food allergen + exercise = reaction. The Japanese food I ate was a Yakatori lunch. It came with some rice and a small salad, I believe. Anyway, unless they somehow made the glaze using oatmeal as in ingredient, who knows? I'm pretty sure the lunch had something to do with it.

He may not be successful for various reasons, but I'm pretty sure the people he will be deporting don't do much to help the economy, in any event. They're costing the taxpayers big money.

One time, I ate lunch at a Japanese restaurant in San Diego and an hour or so later took a long walk on the beach. About half an hour into the walk I had a very strong allergic reaction to something, presumably something in the food I recently ate. I started to itch all over, my eyes were swollen almost shut. I was having trouble breathing. It was bad. I should have gone to the hospital, but I just went home, went to bed and didn't move. I think in was anaphylactic shock? Anyway, I usually don't have a reaction to Japanese food, but who knows what they put in there. Too much MSG? Something in that food about did me in.

No. Real robots doing menial tasks. It's coming, I think. Those robots are better than you think. It all seems crazy to me, but look into it. Robots won't cost much at all, compared to a human.

There are some interesting threads over on X. Some people are suggesting that Mangione was the fall guy, that he'll somehow commit "suicide" ion prison, and that there's more to the story than meets the eye. The murdered CEO was under investigation and others could have been implicated in the process. More than a few important people.

Supposedly, wine priced at lease than 1000 baht is not taxed. Not that you can find fine wine at those kind of prices, but you can try.

According to some of the AI people, in a few short years robots will be doing a lot of the work and real people won't have anything to do except whatever they want to do. That sounds crazy, but maybe it's possible?

Some people can think of better ways to spend 30 or 40 minutes. Plus, I'm not sure how you calculate the potential aggravation factor. Knowing, me, I could go through the process to that point and find out I missed something and need to start over. That's not going to happen. My agent looks everything over in the first place. All I have to do is pay some money and not worry about it.

What's the corruption? A person meets all the criteria. Absolutely. So what if they pay an agent to do the legwork?

I'm not sure about that. I've done this myself and I've used agents. On and off since 2006. I'm sure I did it myself the first time. Anyway, I'd probably pay the 20,000 if I was a Newbie, just to avoid the hassle. I'm not sure what the point would be for me to actually do it myself. I'm pretty much past the point in my life where I want to put up with mental aggravation, and 20,000 isn't that much.

If anyone needs an education on this, I suggest they spend a day outside in the hall at the entrance to the emergency room at Pattaya City Hospital. They seem to have a steady stream of patients in and out with injuries from motorcycle accidents. And those are the lucky people who don't die at the scene.

There's an agent on Soi Post office that I've used. Maneerat. The cost is 8,000 baht for what you describe. That's me. as well. I have the money in the bank, I just don't want the aggravation associated with trying to do it myself. To me, it''s worth the money.

I wasn't trying to condemn a "flawed" system. I was simply responding to a post someone made about typical delays at the register. I could tell similar stories about people who get in line at the grocery store, and then finally get out their checkbook to write a check for the total. By the time some of those people fish around in their purse for their checkbook, write the check, annotate the check in the check register, and subtract the total from their supposed balance, they've wasted everyone's time. And that's the case if we assume the check wasn't written on a bank in Outer Mongolia, in which case the store manager will quickly be involved in a shouting match with the customer, all while there are 10 people in the line waiting to buy whatever. Or the people with multiple coupons, some of which have probably expired. And then there's an argument about those. So no, I don't have a problem with a cashless banking system. But I also think there's a place for cash and I think there's room for improvement. As for using Apple Pay to pay? I even had a problem with that one day. We finally got it to work. I think that day there was some sort of a worldwide outage in the Apple Pay system.

"At least for now.." Supposedly, this new chip could provide a means to "brute force" its way past the traditional encryption of the blockchain. That's been a concern for years, but now it may be possible. Anyway, although I do have some Bitcoin and some other cryptos, I haven't actively followed the space e lately. Assuming the concern is valid, have they now developed any additional layers of protection over and above the traditional passwords?

You're right, but you also miss the point. It's not only about "cashless." We use that all the time. What it's about is that technology has now advanced to the point where data from different sources can be connected, analyzed, and utilized instantly. They can now condense you and your entire life into a profile. You're no longer a person. You're a person with a rating. You're a person they can control. You're a person that can be included or excluded from society instantly. That's the danger.

It happens all the time to me. I'm at the convenience store just trying to pick up a few things and the person in front of me at the register spends five minutes trying to open their banking app. Or they can't make it work with the card reader at the register. Or, they want to argue with the cashier about why it should work but it doesn't. Usually, it's tourists and the communication with Thai cashiers isn't so good to begin with.