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Polio is still endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan. There are ten countries where tuberculosis is still endemic.

If the Chinese were designing a virus for the next pandemic, they could not wish for a better appointment. A recovering heroin addict who claims a worm ate part of his brain. What could possibly go wrong?

True. It's quite rare for Thai women to bring equal income to a relationship with a foreigner, and I am highly skeptical of those posters who claim they do. All I can say is I am getting excellent value for money, for those who want to view our relationship in those terms.

IIRC Trump said he was going to abolish the Department of Education. Which may actually be a good idea, if the bureaucracy is too much for the teachers at the coal face. Russian education collapsed in the mid-eighties. Russia now has a severe shortfall of scientists and engineers, as the ones they have are retiring.

That should be a concern for them.

Occam's Razor says the simplest explanation is also the most probable. On that basis, IMO lack of education is most likely.

What makes you think I am doing any of that? I don't feel humiliated, just sad Americans have been so stupid.

Mine is good for a lot more than that, and has proved it multiple times. Sounds to me like you got burned.

I like to listen to the sound of our washing machine in the afternoon while I nap. My GF goes off to play pa som sip with friends in the village until the spin cycle is completed. Clothes are dry the next morning, ready for ironing. The OP should specify whether he is using a nonionic or anionic surfactant before claiming his clothes are superclean.

Two years. By then, the Americans who voted for Trump will have realized what a horrific mistake they have made, and will vote accordingly in the mid-terms. Meanwhile, Trump or Vance will be trying to polish a turd. I do not repent from saying the turkeys voted for Christmas. No doubt MAGA's will try to humiliate leftists. That's merely to make themselves feel good about their manifold shortcomings.

I would be quite happy to take on a mental test, provided people much younger than me do too. Going by some of the posts I see on ASEAN, IMO quite a few would fail - miserably.

Smoking reduces lung capacity by 2 - 3 litres. The average non-smoker has a lung capacity of 5.5 - 6 litres.

Fair enough, it gets hard on this forum to distinguish humor from posts that are deadly serious. My apologies. May you continue to flourish.

IIRC you were commenting on Big Pharma as well. In the USA, it's a monster out of control. As an example, a cancer drug I was taking for 12 months cost me AUD 100. I am reliably informed in America, the same course of treatment would have cost USD 70,000. We have had leftist governments on and off since Federation.They are usually the ones introducing major reforms. As for wokeism, Australians are much more easy-going than Americans, who seem to be getting wound tighter and tighter every year. We are also far more cynical about politicians from the left OR right, which is why we have so many independents.

Air Asia is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur. The pilot was Indonesian, the First Officer a French national. The cause of the crash was ascribed to pilot error. I don't know what your point is.

Tyson's punching power against fellow professionals was legendary. IMO he still has that, if not his former speed and stamina. Most heavyweights can break a rib with a single punch, that is how hard they hit. Jake Paul is not a professional boxer. He's probably never taken a punch from a pro like Tyson. IMO his best shot is to keep running around the ring until he tires Tyson out. If he tries to mix it with Tyson early, it will be a short fight.

If you don't have one, buy a large suitcase and pack toiletries plus a week's worth of clothing. Leave any non-essentials behind. Take all official documents. No forwarding address. Change your phone SIM and email address. Close social media accounts. Your choice to empty joint bank accounts. Then, walk out. No goodbyes, you're gone. Never go back. IME clean breaks are liberating.

Do you avoid flying with any Thai carrier, because the pilots are Thai and by your definition incompetent? Or the aircraft have not been maintained? I am confident any nuclear industry in Thailand would have the same international oversight as the aircraft industry. Having said that, an Australian report indicates SMR is a very expensive way to produce electricity: "The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has estimated that small modular reactors (SMRs) are a high-cost technology that would not play a major role in Australia's efforts to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The CSIRO's 2023-24 GenCost report found that SMRs are up to nine times more expensive than large-scale wind and solar".

The loathsome leftist Australian government has a program called the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme ( PBS ). The maximum fee for drugs is $31.60 for general patients, or $7.70 for concession card holders e.g. pensioners, unemployed. There is a safety net ensuring general patients pay no more than $1650 per year, or $277 per year for concession card holders. Any prescriptions that exceed the safety net are free. No doubt Trump and RFK will copy Australia, for the benefit of all Americans.

I have lived for 81 years. In remission from three different types of cancer. Without the intervention of the medical profession, I would have been pushing up daisies for about 17 years already. While I congratulate you on your longevity, I can't say the same for your dumb comment.

With Musk, I think the main concern is he will throw out the baby with the bathwater. IMO people in charge of reducing government waste could do worse than read Robert Townsend's business classic "Up the Organization".

I guess I am biased against a felon, fraudster, sexual predator,narcissistic sociopath and serial liar, because I was brought up with certain moral and ethical standards. I'll leave it to others to judge how much credibility I have. You are trying to tell me the appointment of a recovering heroin addict, with a bias against one of dental health's most successful measures as the health czar, is based on merit? Appointing someone with serious allegations of under-age sex unresolved, is based on merit? What planet are you on? Trump admits mistakes with weasel words that have to be pried out of him. He has never admitted his dilatory response to COVID probably cost Americans' lives.

That's because the posts were on a different thread, " Giuliani claims financial hardship" You would work for Trump in arrears? That's what Giuliani did, look where it has got him.

Let's see: Trump has appointed an anti-vaxxer and anti-fluoride campaigner to safeguard the nation's health. In his last administration, he appointed an oil industry executive as Secretary for the Environment. On that basis, I'd say he is running true to form. It's yet to be seen whether he will pardon the Jan 6 insurrectionists. Attacking me indicates you can't handle the truth, as Jack Nicholson would say. If you consider my post to be so offensive, report it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/11/14/matt-gaetz-attorney-general-underage-sex-allegations-investigation/

I asked whether you would work for Trump in arrears, when you questioned my claim every lawyer working for him demands payment up front.