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You are aware the topic is bum guns?

There were thousands of Australians fighting over toilet paper in supermarket aisles during the COVID pandemic. I was not one of them. Every dwelling I have owned in Australia since I first visited Thailand in the nineties is equipped with a bum gun. Toilet paper alone makes me feel dirty. There is a nanny state regulation in Australia prohibiting the installation of bum guns. No doubt formulated by some bureaucratic richardhead. The basis of the prohibition is fecal contamination of mains water supply. It's one hell of a bacteria or virus that can swim back past half a dozen check valves with miles of pipeline against a positive pressure/flow any time a bum gun is used, but that is government stupidity for you.

IMO the appropriate term is trigger-happy. While there are some things Americans do extremely well, with firearms they have yet to grow up.

I think you'll find there are a lot of Trump supporters who do not donate to his campaign, or buy his NFT cards. I drive a 2006 Vios. Assuming I was willing to spend money on an EV, my contribution would be insignificant. When an EV is fuelled by electricity generated by Mae Moh power station, the carbon dioxide emissions are simply transferred elsewhere. If every ICE in Australia was converted to EV's overnight, it would reduce the CO2 emissions of that country by a mere 8% You are generating 80% of your electricity to save money. It has nothing to do with your beliefs. Your returns from that investment will probably increase with time. The validity of my position on global warming/climate change is not changed by the fact I am not financially invested in reducing it now, although I was one of the first people in Australia to install solar panels on my house. IIRC, about 25 years ago.

Humans have been around for 200,000 - 300,000 years. They only began to influence the Earth's climate with the Industrial Revolution, about 200 years ago. Your post is a good example of a red herring argument.

Starter spray is diethyl ether. It has a flash point of -45 degrees C. You may be right, possibly it is too unstable for the Thai climate and hence not sold here.

Fortune tellers do make predictions from responses of clients, and physical cues. Dogs can detect various cancers on the basis of odor signatures. It may be some humans are gifted with similar olfactory capability.

Thais believe implicitly in fortune tellers and spirits, Christians believe in miracles. There is no such thing as a miracle, only good luck and bad luck. If someone has Stage 4 cancer, and goes into remission, is it a miracle? No. It's a statistical outlier. My Thai GF will not go outside at night alone, because she is scared of evil spirits. However, she will go outside at night with me quite happily. Apparently her logic is, because I don't believe in spirits, they will stay away.

You joined in 2011. How do you know I was not posting under a previous nom-de-plume prior to 2017? Please consider changing yours to No-Toes, you keep shooting yourself in the foot with incorrect assumptions. Pray tell, what is the relevance of that attribute to the credibility of either of us? I do not post for likes. I say what I think, which annoys posters who don't enjoy having their pretensions punctured. They are miffed when I post facts in rebuttal of their misinformation and/or conspiracy theories, or when I demonstrate the dishonesty of their arguments. As I have done quite a few times with you. To me, a credible link contains established facts or data. Many of your links on the OAP are not credible because they contain the word "proposed", or are factually incorrect. You were not wrong when you said there were 2.5 million pensioners in Australia. You were wrong when you said those pensioners could afford to live in Australia. Of course, that fact was ignored in your response. Nothing wrong with forming hypotheses, it is when they are treated as established fact problems begin. As many organizations have found out to their cost. It's a Labor government. We all know the track record of the Liberals, what logically do you think Jim Chalmers will do, when it's a choice between going after a small cohort of overseas pensioners for very little gain and some political risk, or removing rorts for the rich for much bigger gains and widespread public approval? Posting a few times on a topic is OK, posting the number of times you do is boring. Noted you reply to everyone, although permit me to doubt that is courtesy. More like obsessive behavior in justifying previous posts.

Fires in EV cars are less likely, according to the link I posted. I'd agree many people do not read manuals, when they could save themselves a lot of angst by so doing.

In layman's terms, all forms of energy are capable of conversion from one form to another. A fossil fuel can be converted to electrical energy via a turbine in a power station, or kinetic energy in a car. That's the first law. The second law states heat cannot flow from a colder to a hotter body without work. The oceans warm in response to solar radiation trapped by greenhouse gases and re-radiated as heat. Any meteorologist will tell you warmer water leads to more violent hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones. Tropical cyclone Ilsa is a case in point. Cyclones etc. need a water temperature of 26 C to form. The water temperature for Ilsa was 31.5 C. Ilsa broke records for sustained wind speed, i.e. kinetic energy. One could argue the First Law preceded the Second Law when solar radiation was converted to heat, quite correct. It depends where one wants to start in the cause-effect chain.

I suppose you gave yourself an escape hatch by using the term "vehicles" in your OP.

Fully electric vehicles, on the other hand, were deemed far safer than both hybirds and gas cars; they are far less likely to catch fire, with just 25.1 fires per 100,000 sales. That’s compared to 3,474 hybrid fires and 1,529 ICE fires per 100,000 sales respectively. Source: https://insideevs.com/news/561549/study-evs-smallest-fire-risk/

Really? The Larsen Ice Shelf is melting at an unprecedented rate. Iceland's glaciers have lost 18% of their surface area, about 2200 square kilometers. Polar bears are losing their Arctic habitat. The most conservative models of the Tibetan plateau are predicting the flows of water to the Ganges, Mekong and Brahmaputra river will be halved by 2050, without the Chinese building more dams. One billion people in Asia depend on that water. If that is not a crisis, I don't know what is. In reality, you are posting an opinion, unsupported by fact.

Yes. Check out the Indians with their Brahmins and Untouchables, or the Japanese with their Hairy Ainu. Here, Luk Kruengs, Akha and Thai Yai don't get much joy either. You can even find it in the good old USA, a Main Line inhabitant has very little good to say about a Kentucky hillbilly.

I agree entirely. My aversion to debt, and abhorrence of violence towards women, were handed down by my parents. I happened to be in a car with a youth counsellor/psychologist on a ride to an airport. He said the major problem for many of the troubled youths he dealt with was the absence of a male role model.

Rubbish. Ask any Bangkok Thai what they think of dark-skinned Isaan people.

I am not trolling you, I am rebutting you. As far as personal attacks go, IIRC they started with you. Take a vote among posters on this thread to determine whether it is you or I that is regarded as a troll. Or look at our relative positive rating scores and ratios. I agree knowledge is power. Hypotheses and predictions only have power when they come to fruition. Opinions are not power. Egregiously stupid comparison. I post across a wide spectrum of threads on ASEAN. You have 346 posts on this thread alone, leading the field easily. I doubt if I get past 20 posts on any thread, unless I find the topic particularly interesting. Kettles? Do you know what a non sequitur is? Telling us you are an information source might be true if you posted new information, instead of mantras repeated ad nauseam.

The reason the media get the two terms mixed up is ignorance. Try finding a journalist who has any scientific training, let alone in thermodynamics. IIRC, the ice age was supposed to happen if we had a nuclear winter.

Check out Tropical Cyclone Ilsa, which recently set new records for sustained wind speeds in Australia. Pro tip. Don't buy any real estate in Bangkok.

It's not the same. Climate change is the result of global warming, following as night follows day. Global warming is the Second Law of Thermodynamics in operation. Climate change is the First Law of Thermodynamics at work as a consequence. The ship has already sailed as far as scientists are concerned, when it comes to global warming being caused by anthropomorphic emissions of carbon dioxide. The evidence is overwhelming. Roof insulation, venting of ceiling space help.

Latest news is Fox will have to pay Dominion nearly 790 million ( USD ) for publishing lies about the 2020 election. It's not the end of Fox's woes, Smarmatic is suing them for 2.6 billion, same complaint. Murdoch has been a climate denier for a long time as well. It's a pity the same can't be done with the climate deniers on social media, but then they are so dumb they probably don't have two 1 baht coins to rub together.

The obvious suspect would be the fossil fuel industry. There's a lot of money at stake. It's interesting the insurance industry is taking no notice of social media. If one lives on any coast or is more at risk of bushfires and storms, premiums in those areas have been rising progressively. It is now impossible to get insurance in particularly vulnerable areas.

Racism is based on poor education. Differences in skin color,eye shape etc. are simply beneficial genetic adaptations to the environment the person was born in. It's rather sad to see Thais trying all kinds of possibly harmful skin whitening products, when their natural shades of skin are so beautiful.

It really depends on what lens is used. I don't regard myself as normal, because I left my home country, learned to communicate in Thai, and have a GF 23 years younger than me. OTOH, I pay my way, am law-abiding, and protect my health with diet and exercise. I don't drink, smoke, or use pot. It's normal for people to resist change, I embraced it.