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I personally see no problem if adult people get their kick out of risky behaviour. It is their decision, as long as nobody else is harmed. And I obviously believe, that his family is grieving. But it was his planned decision to jump -- and by extension to put his loved ones through the consequences of his actions. It was a high risk jump from a relatively low building into a tree-lined street with unclear visibility, so my assumption is, that in his community of base jumpers, it is a fitting epitaph (along the lines "he died doing what he loved"). His right to document his actions, in my eyes, trumps the right of his family to not be confronted with his decisions (which I am sure they kew about, this was not his first jump looking at the risk level). Therefore I still see no issue with the video circulating.

You do note, my link was from AP, and there are lots of credible resources refuting your position. In the end, neither you nor me know the true facts, we are both guessing. I prefer an abundance of caution and persuasion, you obviously want to break a few heads and wish that good reason and sense will come from that. I guess we will need to agree to disagree what is the right -- or even better -- way. We will see pretty soon, who is right, not that there will be any prizes for that.

Just because I read about it in the Israel press, how "effective" they have been, does not make it true. Literally, we heard that there were WMD in Iraq. I do not want to risk either Jerusalem or Teheran becoming a nuclear wasteland, just because we have a crazy American president who is unable to follow decent morals. In my opinion, the only way to hold Iran back from becoming a nuclear state is to convince them that they are better served to not follow this path and become a normal nation state accepting the right of existence of all its neighbors. To note: Israel flying bombing raids into literally all their neighbors makes it difficult to see them having the moral high ground or even any good argument here, and having an American president literally threatening complete obliteration would also not make me think that not having a working deterrent in my own hands would be preferrable to everything else. What is needed here is really difficult diplomacy. Frankly, I think, this was already blown with trashing the JCPOA (and we will need to be living with Iran as a nuclear state on the same level as Israel already is), but I would rather like to be wrong than right here. Because Trump is simply too incompetent for even simple diplomacy.

I did not miss the strikes. What I am saying is, that the Iranians obviously are learning out of their expensive past failures and are setting themselves up in a way that surpasses current conventional capacity of Israel. https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-natanz-uranium-enrichment-underground-project-04dae673fc937af04e62b65dd78db2e0 They are known for a while; it simply takes time to build them. During their last airstrikes, Israel attacked the air defense radar sites around Natanz, while destruction of actual military facilities was reduced to peripheral installations.

As I said, there is known construction of suspected nuclear research facilities in Iran which are literally located under mountains. They are not stupid. So, "bunker-busting" does already not cut it any more. And, of course, literally any state actor -- and Iran is one of the bigger and technically advanced ones -- would be able to create a dirty bomb poisoning a city like Tel Aviv or Jerusalem with the already existing enriched uranium, in case further enrichment capability was destroyed. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/iran-could-build-a-dirty-bomb-today/ Trump exiting the JCPOA literally gave Iran the breather needed to make a nuclear capability unavoidable.

Americans do not need to go very far to find their own technology companies directly supporting the Nazis in germany. Read up on General Motors and Opel, just to get the first whiff of stink (there is much, much more). If you ever believed, you guys were really the "good ones" in the 1930s, think again.

Just think a step further. Bomb them... how? The Iranians are building their centrifuges under mountains by now, so you can only reach them with a (large) nuke. To nuke all of Iran -- it is a really big country -- you will need a good number of bombs, the fallout will devastate Israel in a really bad way. And the Americans nuking another country without prior confrontation will make them worse pariahs than the North Koreans for a 100 years; already they are loosing their friends as it is. The US are reliant on trade, so this will be economic suicide for the US. Literally, besides a land occupation there is no good tool either Israel or the US have. Have a look, how Russia is faring right now and how successful the US was in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan and it tells you, that you either make the Iranians come to the table by their own will, or you have nothing at all to prevent them from having their own bomb sooner or later (many think, they already have).

Which makes them not necessarily more mature. But indeed, the infantilization of youngsters in the west has created many weird circumstances, where people are old enough to vote, drive or become a soldier, but have the emotional maturity and social ability of 12 year olds. I am not sure what is better. Having a stunted childhood as many Thai youth have who need to look after themselves early (especdially those from poor backgrounds), or the padded extended childhood the west now often offers... the brain matures at 25 and we all live longer, so maybe, in balance, we would have the luxury of not rushing to become adults.

How a (believing) Thai would look at it: you are living out your Kamma. You might believe in the delusion that being rich(er) makes you luckier or happier. But the truth is, that it prevents you from seeing the true nature of things, as it makes it all the more difficult for you to let go from earthly things. For a rich person it might be especially difficult to be magnaminous or giving. But, as long as you are willing to give, are polite, merititious and respect your elders, you are not in a bad place... yet. How I handle it? I try to self-reflect and try to pair my comparable financial richness with appropriate volitional and positive actions -- as you already do, too. But it does not weigh on my conscience.

How can you be loyal to a country that is not loyal to your oath? It is maybe not right to cheer on the Chinese, but the Americans are currently making their bed to sleep in for the next generation.

In both places there were masked demonstrators destroying property and injuring people. In one place, they were pardoned and called heroes, in the other they seem to be dangerous terrorists endangering the existence of the United States. Find the problem.

Don't post stoned or drunk, and neither fall in love when heavily inebriated. The next morning you wish you had done neither.

Imagine, you are allowed to carry a gun in public, but not a mask. Americans really make sense... NOT!

Are those pictures from inside the Capitol in January?

I would question a website that has videos of random tragedy. I would question it a lot less if those were videos of people posting their stunts for clicks, views and fame, and then have something going 'oops' during an illegal action.

One would indeed think so. If this goes on, we will have soon more (wouldbe-)shepherds than sheep left, to stay with the image of the OP, and that can only end badly.

The US have pushed Europe and the Germans now long enough, so they have awakened something I thought would never happen. Even here on ThaiVisa, there are so many people clamoring for Germany to re-arm. I personally think this is horrible; there was a reason -- a very good one! -- why us Germans should rather stick to being merchants instead of soldiers, as we seemingly never know when enough is enough. The history lesson should not have faded, as it was not that long ago. Well, the German parliament just voted to change the constitution to allow for limitless weapons spending. Interesting times indeed.

Having said that, still a great achievement, I have been and still am watching the NASA live stream; a great touchdown, no doubt. Crazy, just this moment a school of dolphins is swimming around the capsule in the water.

You mean to say that the engineers at SpaceX were able to do what the (already disgraced) engineers at Boeing were unable to do? Why this childish person cult with you Americans? You are really dreaming of Marvel heroes coming to rescue you, are you not? I must disapppint you, in the real world, things are pushed forward by (often fallible) real people, not mystic entities.

I am not American, so I cannot be partisan in any of your stupid politics. But as a navel-gazing American, you would have never thought that there are other people in the big wide world who have an opinion.

Are you internet illiterate? You only need to look here: https://alerts.in.ua/en

I guess both the Europeans and the Canadians definitely learned their lesson. This one, the Americans will fight out alone, however much it will cost them. Maybe he will get help from the Russians and North Koreans, since they are literally now best buddies?

Liar, liar, pants on fire. Already air sirens in Kyiev and ongoing air attacks in other parts of Ukraine as I type this, including exactly that infrastructure. Let's see until the numbnut in the White House finally notices, that he is played by literally everbody and taken for the idiot he is.

My son has a similar history. He is currently in university in Malaysia, studying, so he could have been exempted easily, only his mother did not register it porperly. Whenever he enters next into Thailand, he will be captured, I am not sure what the penalty would be. The statute of limitations is 10 years, so he will not be able to enter Thaland until then. This, of course, helps the OP exactly nothing, as he needs a timely resolution of the issue. Contacting the Thai National Service office in Thailand directly would be my first step to resolve this. They will need to provide the letter, so they will need to privode the details of what they need to write it. Edit: Of course, I should have read until the last post 😑 Good luck to the OP!

They might even choose to join the EU, building a bridge to Canada. That sure would be the mother of unintended consequences following Trumps tariff threats.