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John Drake

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  1. Prayuth was better. And, as it now turns out, more fair and democratic.
  2. The major skill needed for AI is to outwit and circumvent the algorithmic filters when asking for information. Pretty soon there will not need anyone with AI skills to create AIs, because the AIs will be able to do that themselves. Google Gemini told me so when I asked.
  3. The establishment in both the US and we see now in the UK will come together to smear and destroy any alternative to their power structure.
  4. Hold a lottery among the offenders every six months. 3rd runner up gets the five year ban. 2nd runner up get a ten year ban 1st runner up gets a lifetime ban grand prize winner gets the death penalty.
  5. As usual, Trump and his own campaign team are his worst enemies. There is every chance Biden makes him look silly (there is also the chance Biden malfunctions and goes into blue screen mode). Trump gains nothing with a debate. He actually gains nothing and in fact loses whenever he opens his mouth. He had a golden chance to avoid the debate, with all the conditions the Democrats put on it. But he's stepping right in. Same way the judge gagging him only increased his poll numbers, because people didn't actually hear him mouthing off and embarrassing himself constantly. The man is a fool.
  6. Allow foreigners to buy land and property and most of the participants in this forum will be priced out of the country along with Thais who have poor or average income.
  7. Thailand will not be the next Singapore. It'll be the next Sihanoukville.
  8. And Arabs will get their hands on those 99 year land leases.
  9. Likely to be true if you're over 65 and the girl is in her twenties. But it's that way everywhere. Not just Thailand. Just the relative "wealth" ratio is lower.
  10. When I taught at Mahidol, the students enrolled there almost exclusively came from these schools and a few others not mentioned. Their oral and written preparedness was solid enough, mostly. But they had virtually no other academic qualifications. That is, their knowledge base was shallow, reasoning and research skills non-existent. At least three quarters had never been to a library. All written assignments had to be carried out in class. Otherwise, they simply would cut and paste from Wikipedia. Whatever the salary is in these schools, it is too high. Parents paying too much. They wuz robbed.
  11. The tea incident was a prelude to a revolution. Burning down the White House was the result of an invasion. Not just "making a point." I suspect the people involved in these antics want something similar.
  12. Depends on the AI. I wouldn't want to be governed by Zuckerberg's AI or Google's AI. But I'm probably okay with Elon's AI.
  13. Each time one of these events takes place, I bet they get Nigel Farage another 50,000 or 60,000 votes.
  14. This article is basically a conspiracy theory complaining about conspiracy theories. I used to attend lots o Democratic conventions as a delegate back in the 1970s. The sort of things this topic describes are routine convention politics. And frankly it would be a good thing to see Trump ousted at the Republican convention through whatever the rules allow. As for the Democrats, their party has its separate strands now fighting each other in the street. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-807411 I wouldn't be surprised to see Biden's antifa, Jews, and Muslims go after each other with guns in the street by convention time. The Democrats are becoming increasingly violent.
  15. There are over one million foreign students enrolled at american colleges. Trump is proposing giving them a green card and the right to displace american workers from high paying jobs. BTW, the 9/11 hijackers were attending flight school. Great vetting, eh?
  16. Wonder if Chinese will be exempt from the worldwide income tax or if it will just be unenforceable because can't get the information out of China. That would partially explain Chinese dominating the market.
  17. Prayuth was better. He had songs and poems.
  18. Already have it about 6km from my house. http://www.chinatownsalaya.com/
  19. Should make them perfect candidates for Harvard or Columbia then.
  20. Are you saying, well, vote for Trump, because Biden is even worse? There is no disputing the fact that Trump is doing a 180 on his promised immigration crackdown. (He did this last election, too, btw, when he promised to cancel DACA on "day one" but instead on "day one" came out of a plane with his daughter and actually proposed expanding DACA.) The reason this time? It might just be this: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-mega-donor-adelson-back-major-pro-trump-spending-group-2024-05-30/ . Miriam Adelson is the widow of Sheldon Adelson who always conditioned his funding of Republicans on their support of expanded immigration. Basically, Trump is for sale. No matter the issue. Same as with Tik Tok, where he went against his own policy of banning Tik Tok just to get money from a billionaire invested heavily into Tik Tok. Don't be a chump. Vote for RFKjr. Trump has no core beliefs. And Biden's beliefs are bad. Not to mention that Herman Munster displays more agility and alertness than Biden. Only RFKjr can save the country.
  21. How did they ever get into Germany to do such a thing???
  22. Make room for the Chinese colonists.
  23. This is the definition of a colony. Thailand is becoming a colony that exports its raw materials and agriculture to the mother country and in return receives manufactured goods. So its own manufacturing shuts down. This also explains the trade deficit with China. (And why things like durian are so much more expensive for Thais than in the past.)
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