John Drake

Democrats seem to have disappeared. So who is determining things?

But the rehab does start immediately. The situation is bad if you're in a country or medical system with limited rehab facilities.

As long as it's not one of those slow, boring films that Joe makes.

They had dinosaur roarings coming out of the loudspeakers on Phrom Phong BTS station.

This was one of my big fears about Trump. I posted to AN about it several times. I think he's capable of doing a 180 on China. It's already happening with Tik Tok. Trump actually initiated the ban on Tik Tok but now says he has "a warm place in my heart" for it. Watch out for Trump trying for a Nixon Goes to China moment.

Thought so. Wonder what happens when people try to bring in things like Gold Eagles? Or Platinum and Silver Eagles? The Gold Eagle, for example, only has a face value of US$50, legal tender.

Every time I post that comment, I get confused emojis in the reactions. But you're right. Prayuth was better.

You're seeing the Hun Sen model of government at work.

Picture of Pelosi at the Luxembourg event where she fell. You can see her wearing the stiletto heels on a marble floor. https://www.the-sun.com/news/13088503/nancy-pelosi-injury-hospital/

Probably not a good idea for an 84 year old woman to wear stiletto heels on slippery surfaces.

Mitch: Nancy: The US government is beginning to resemble a geriatric hospital ward.

Can't wait to see how the Thais squeeze that 15 percent out of the Chinese.

What happens when I try to take it out of the country or bring it into the country?

Per the photo. Thai men seem to age so much worse than Thai women.

It seems to be a desperate piece of PR to me.

How do they know it got the correct answer?

I do believe you'll gripe about anything. Yes, free. Just like roads and highways are/used to be free. But of course to build and maintain them comes from taxes. Do you really think half a million American citizens should be thrown into bankruptcy to pay for the right to live through adequate medical care?

I'm utterly indifferent to the fates of these two, Thompson and Mangione. I am interested in abolishing health insurance, prohibiting health care from being anything other than a non-profit business, providing free, yes, free, care to citizens, and prohibiting all non-citizens from anything but pay as they go services.

I think much of what you say is correct. Biden did a relatively good job on the economy, especially reshoring and the CHIPs act. I had actually determined to support Biden over Trump, but Biden backed out. That meant a choice between Trump and Harris. Harris is horrible. She should never have been the nominee. Stupid, stupid, stupid move. Pelosi, Obama, and Schumer made this mess. Whatever happens is their fault for submarining Biden, helpless as he was, and putting up that low IQ nitwit who couldn't answer the lowest level of questions on Jeopardy if her life depended on it.

I don't believe in sympathy at all. Just polite indifference.

People celebrating his death are wrong. I think the proper response is simply to acknowledge it without comment and go on to discuss the depredations of his and other similar insurance companies and, indeed, the entire medical system and its employees.

Yes. That is the key. Physicians make outrageous sums. And see what happens with a trip to an emergency room. It can bankrupt you, even with insurance. Too much money is being sucked out of the rest of the economy just for health care.

I think those issues are addressed in the above links. And remember this is only Google's "latest" quantum chip. It's a developmental increase over what was already there. IMO this news will be used to generate a selloff. Too many people never investigate either what they are holding or the news that appears on their screen. Many of them are FOMO-ing, too, and it only takes a slight trigger to turn that around. One other thing: if quantum computers are ever able to access bitcoin safeguards, then crypto will be the least of our problems. There are many other encryptions/passwords/authenticators for everything from bank accounts to your Tops 1 Card that will fall prey long before crypto does. And if that happens, we'll all need to return to writing checks and withdrawing/depositing cash in person.

Sounds more like a commissar than a commissioner.

Lots of doomsayers claiming this is the death of Bitcoin. Seems slightly more nuanced than that, although it could provide a reason that some people have been looking for to exit crypto.