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Interpol allows "prisoners of conscience" onto their lists?

Also as people can easily be re-infected.

The gloves are what get me (that and facemasks outside far away from anyone). You obviously take them off at some point, which is likely when you reach some sort of destination. You may as well just wash your hands thoroughly when you arrive. I wonder if it's some sort of status thing. The more scared you are of covid, the more important you are.

And we really only started "living with it" in February/March 2020. So more like two and a half years.

Sadly, many areas of Thai society operate on the "one slight error in any way and someone dies, fly by the seat of your pants, if it aint broke (and we won't know if we don't check) don't fix it" principle.

The rice pledging scheme had an effect, no doubt the next scheme would have also. And? If you knew literally anything about Thaksin, you would know that he enriched himself massively during his time as PM. The fact that you would think this suggests you have literally no idea about Thaksin, or you're lying. What does that have to do with anything? You sound completely uniformed and unable to realise/focus on what is being discussed.

Don't be so hard on yourself. I'm sure you could copy something from Google translate if you wanted to.

Everyone is allowed to ride on the bus. No matter how much that bothers you.

I've seen that somewhere. I assumed it meant that the bus stops there and people can get on or off the bus.

Yes. She took an overdose and the dog clawed her face trying to wake her. But what does this have to do with the OP?

So the dog read about it in the news and flew into a rage?

Literally no one is complaining about this.

The issue is that what you describe is stealing to these people. I'm curious as to whether the people asking for the diamond's return would be happy for it to go to decedents of the indigenous tribesmen that probably occupied the land prior to the arrival of the colonisers and their slaves. I don't see any reason for it to automatically go to whomever is ruling in South Africa now, simply because they are Black and from somewhere in Arica.

Hardly surprising, really. Sadly, it seems that criminal non-Whites (not all non-Whites) have become extremely emboldened by the hoo-ha going on in recent years. Due mostly to police completely caving in and choosing to let criminals get away, rather than risk being labelled "racist".

True. Might have saved one of them though. Can't exactly see clearly from the angle. Hence it is better to wear them just in case. I guess head on, at speed, flipping into or under the front of the truck. Shame the truck driver couldn't have paid a little more attention, or the bike driver couldn't stay off the fast road. TiT.

"Natcha heard a scream, a loud bang, and the sound of a body smashing onto the ground, but he assumed it was just normal traffic noise in Thailand and thought nothing of it."

It actually isn't strange at all.

Suicide seems to involve a certain amount of overcoming resistance and a last minute change of mind. Obviously taking tablets is a little unreliable and probably quite easy to back out from. it also involves a risk of permanent damage without death. Suicide by hanging often involves the victim tying their hands behind their backs to stop themselves from resisting and there was a video of a jumper who was wearing a sleep mask to help himself jump. It seems that suicide, like many physical actions, involves a conflict between the conscious and unconscious mind. This leads to the person who wishes to take their life trying to find ways of ensuring that their survival mechanism isn't able to kick in and derail the attempt. Jumping off a building is certainly one which is hard to reverse.

And were seatbelts worn?

It's the original meaning and it was created based on "execution" meaning to put someone to death. So not exactly a misconception. Many people don't really "accept" this relatively modern used of the word, although dictionaries do use it.

I struggle to understand how people can have a whole range of beliefs here that seem completely illogical to me. The answer is simply that they are raised to think this way and it is very hard, if not impossible, to change them.

Because it used to mean that and is based on the word "execute" which means to be killed. It should never have been allowed to change. I don't really understand why it was. ????‍♂️

Gibberish. Who shot whom in the ribs?

Of course, that's why his vote buying++ has been so successful. The point is, they don't see that it is better to have 300B a day for ten years, than 500B a day for two years, then 200B a day for eight years. They don't look at what happens to the economy or what is likely to happen. This, I'm sure you will agree, would be a problem for them, at least after that initial two years. They're still free to think what they like and vote for whomever they wish, but we are also free to point out that that things always get worse for them in the long run when the vote buying money dries up. It's an easy enough concept to understand, that you can pay poor and uneducated people to vote for you and then use the country as your personal business while they take zero interest in what you are actually doing, but it isn't necessarily a good thing, nor something that should be encouraged.

Unfortunately, most people only care about the money in their pocket that day. "Thaksin gave us money so we like him." I doubt many cared about what he actually did to the country or the economy.