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On a fresh hoagie roll? I do like a good brat, but not really much heathier or less processed than a decent dog.

I assume he jumped on purpose, but why assume it was a suicide? Suicide is difficult to understand.

I moved to Thailand full time in 1999. At that time, I think the percentage of mom-and-pop shops was much greater. It was my experience that many of the shops sold out-of-date products, turned the air conditioning and refrigeration off at night, were open irregular days/hours and were quite often dirty. All that seemed to change with the proliferation of 7-11. Given a choice, people started choosing 7-11 over the mom-and-pop shops, not because of price, but because of the quality, variety and consistency of the products, as well as the cleanliness of the staff and facilities. It was the same with all the pumps and Jet. Once people were given a choice between PTT, Shell, Caltex and all the other crappy old pumps and a nice Jet pump with big, clean bathrooms, good parking, Amazon coffee shops and great "Jiffy" stores, people voted with their feet. Most all the pumps started improving and finally PTT bought/merged/whatever with Jet. The consumer benefited greatly in both cases. Everyone had to step up their game. You claim there are 11,983 7-11s in Thailand as if that's something bad. Would it be better if there were fewer? In any event, over half are owned by franchisees. I don't hear much about people getting sick from the food at 7-11, and I doubt very much the people think they are buying heath food. It's iensinexpve, filling and tasty which is what people buying it want. I went through one of the plants that made some of the heat & eat stuff about ten years ago and it was pretty impressive by any standard.

My dad wrote his memoire about the last ten years he lived. It was nice having it. What a different world they lived in.

From being dead? Is this a joke?

It's the same in the US with Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Walmart et al. Fund the right party and do what you want.

King Crab legs cost US$60-100 a kg, and half of that is shell. What does one expect to get for a dollar?

I lived in Silicon Valley (Vally?) fifty-one years, and I say it is true!!!

Any examples you'd like to provide? I think the greatest wealth inequality in the world is in New York City and Silicon Valley.

Good catch, I should have read and responded more carefully. I believe that the high cost of medical care in the US is primarily due to government intervention, not insurance companies. I also believe that the medical care provided in the US as good or better to than in any other county in the world, and I have never seen anything at all convincing that shows it's not. In my opinion, given the number of variables, using life expectancy alone to gage the quality of medical care is ridiculous.

Ever visit the "Up to You Pub"?

Is it your position that there are not a lot of know it all's here? Okay strike that. Again, how do you get to: "So diabetes is a thin people disease?" from: "Diabetes is not just for fat or obese people." You feel. that's pretty strong evidence. I do not disagree, but I imagine diabetics that do all the right things get tired of people claiming it's their fault. You say "diabetes", yet type 1 and 2 are very different. Diabetes is not rare, and many people are born with it.

For his girlfriend

So, locking it and getting pump-food is something you can't do with an ICEV? There are a lot of really great things about EVs, being stuck close to a charger for half an hour is not one of them, whether you're hungry or not. Why not focus on the things that are great about EVs rather than pretending the relatively short range, and long "fuel" times are never inconvenient?

I think it's closer to the opposite, but you're welcome to prove otherwise, perhaps with the same old life expectancy ruse you love.

I said it was all good, didn't I? You're right, that was faux news, I just checked CNN and immigration is at an all-time low, my bad.

Yes, we need fewer options and more regulation in the medical insurance industry to drive down the cost and improve coverage. I feel heathier already!

Why would a sex addict marry at all?

yet

Does anyone even go out on a hotel balcony when they're not drunk?

The single Mom who at 25 does not marry a 70 year old guy is going to have a child without a father from the get. Would a stream of boyfriends be better? At least the mother (and child) might have a house and a little dough to fall back on.

I used to take them to work, the girls in the office loved them. I usually use Kewpie mayo from Macro. My kid likes it with siracha mayo. Wish I could get decent horseradish here.

You can't send people and weapons through satellites or over the internet. China has what, 300,000 university students that have to register with the PLA? China investing in US companies and buying up farmland. Wide open US southern border. It's all good.

You (and people like you) think opening a factory and giving impoverished people jobs is exploiting them as well, yes? Go to a third world country and hand out someone else's money to make the people dependent and you're a hero. Go to a third world country and spend your own money to build a factory and teach people skills that make them independent and you're exploiting them.

I worked in India, just because food is vegetarian does not mean it's healthy. Ever heard of Ghee?