Lacessit

What are your OS on each device?

I felt privileged to watch Sir Antony Sher's live performance in Richard III, it was mesmerizing. RIP. TV has always dumbed down, as it caters for the lowest common denominator in the audience. Occasionally a gem is found in the byre's muck. One such example is "Sun on the Stubble", a 1996 coming of age TV serial set in the wheat-farming belt of Australia's Eyre Peninsula. My pet peeve is the canned laughter which is used on almost every American TV show to support the notion it is comedy.

That says something about your own sizing.

So-called "sideline girls" are all over Thai social media looking for sponsors short-term and long-term. Most of them are university students. I can't provide any links. However, when my son was studying at university in Australia, he estimated one-third of the female students were selling sex to supplement their income, and that is a more censorious society. No reason to suppose Thailand is different. It depends on location, I can remember an angelic-looking bar girl in Chiang Mai who worked in Malaysia, and boasted of having 19 clients in 24 hours. I suspect that was exaggerated.

You don't know how many men your non-bar girl has shagged before you. Segregating women into a binomial order of marriage is ridiculous. I understand about one-third of university-educated women in Thailand and elsewhere sell sex as a means of supporting themselves during their time at university. Are you going to bar them too? How would you know? You would probably be safe for marrying if you picked out the plainer ones, good luck.

At risk of sounding conspiracy theorist, the pharmaceutical industry has a vested interest in developing medications for which there is an ongoing need, sometimes for the lifetime of a patient. I suspect if there was a competition for the research dollar between a drug which had to be taken regularly, and one which cured a condition permanently with only a couple of doses, the former would win out most times.

Then presumably you have also heard of binomial statistics. Pretty simple really. A COVID patient either has chronic fatigue, or they don't. They lose their sense of taste and smell, or they don't. The more symptoms they have, the sicker they are. You are putting the horse behind the cart in terms of ranking severity. That suits your argument, which reminds me of the Dilbert aphorism.

He says he has 20 million baht to play with. More likely it's the truth being played with.

How are things going with Mrs. Owl?

You think I care about your opinion? It would take several generations to achieve what you want for me, I will be gone by then. As will you.

Nuclear power plants have their own problems, as Fukushima, Chernobyl and now Zaporizhia have demonstrated. There are also blind alleys, such as carbon capture and storage - a fossil fuel industry boondoggle. What annoys me most is the fact Australia receives more free solar energy than almost anywhere else, and the opportunity has been wasted by venal politicians.

Agree. However, the proportion is probably 90 - 95%. Fairly easy to measure, it's the number of Thais who have not been outside Thailand.

You have obviously never heard of the nominal level of statistics, which can be just as valid as the ordinal, interval and ratio levels. I can explain it to you, I can't understand it for you.

The OP is in a different culture, where men are expected to foot the bill. Personally, I would be uncomfortable if it was a woman paying for me, due to the reversal of expectations. Thais are not ignorant in terms of their own milieu. They are ignorant of the wider world, due to an education system directed at maintaining the status quo. Just as well it does, because with better education maybe Thailand could become unaffordable for us.

They are a lot better looking than you, and have equipment you don't.

Faulty comparison on your part, explain how a flu vaccine, which is generally accepted in most countries, differs from a COVID vaccine. Both are dealing with multiple mutations, polio vaccine only has three to contend with. Tetanus is a bacterium. The definition of "sicker" is easy if based on symptoms and duration. COVID's are sore throat, runny nose, loss of smell and taste senses, lung congestion, memory loss and chronic fatigue. My GF had four, I had two. Ergo, she was sicker than me, on duration as well. Obviously you did not put much thought into that part of your post. The implication my GF is an idiot for wanting to get vaccinated after a bout of COVID is noted. IMO the idiots on social media are the ones resisting vaccination for all kinds of wacky reasons. I have zero sympathy for them as they head into an ICU, because they are hogging beds intended for other patients, on the basis of their beliefs.

You have been vaccinated for polio, tetanus, typhoid, flu and pneumonia? Vaccines work, whatever the idiot fringe has to say on social media. COVID vaccines are no different in terms of effectiveness. It is possible for an unvaccinated person to be less sick than a vaccinated one, it's called a statistical outlier. OTOH, myself and my GF are not.

Bar girl, looking for a farang to take care of her. I do.

Er - drivers usually sit on the right hand side of a vehicle in Thailand. You expect them to get out via the passenger seat?

When the previous government in Australia had a Prime Minister's Department which was staffed 90% by people with links to the fossil fuel industry, no surprise any data from scientists was swept under the rug.

The broader statistical data supports my personal anecdote, unless you are one of those people who rely on social media for your analysis. No surprise if you do.

In other words, Professor Lomborg ( qualifications in political science ) is in tune with your confirmation bias, so you prefer his cherry-picking of data as it feels more comfortable. I put him in the same class as scientists who worked in the tobacco industry, to make said product more addictive. I don't have any skin in this game, I'll be dead by the time the worst hits. Having said that, I do prefer facts and evidence to BS published by someone with no education in the hard sciences, and no experience at the coal face. An academic in an ivory tower. Most scientists are worried about the butterfly effect aka a tipping point, or Black Swan event. It could be triggered by albedo or clathrates, I'll bet Lomborg glosses over those inconveniences. What training in thermodynamics do you have?

I have found it is no use attempting to discuss global warming and climate change with anyone who has no understanding of the laws of thermodynamics. I agree, it is crazy to be saving the planet with electric cars when the electricity that propels them comes from power stations that are burning fossil fuel. Virtue signalling at its best. By 2050, conservative models of the Tibetan Plateau's glaciers and ice fields are predicting the flows of water to the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Mekong rivers will be halved. 1 billion people depend on those rivers. It will create unprecedented economic refugeeism, possibly made worse by the Chinese damming everything under their control. Scientists are on average 0.5% of most populations. Your post is a good example of how their message gets swamped on social media by sheer numbers. Also how most people instinctively reject information they don't want to hear.

I have no interest in Facebook and Twitter. IMO the former is for narcissists, the latter is for twits. Do I care? Not one jot or tittle. ASEAN and YouTube are the only social media I use. YouTube is useful when I am trying to find a demonstration of how to cook corned beef, or what exercises to perform with osteoarthritis. Having said that, there are many YouTube posters putting out blatant misinformation. I am gobsmacked by "influencers" such as MrBeast ( aka James Donaldson ) , who apparently has 168 million followers. He has accumulated about $500 million on the strength of posting videos where he is behaving like a moron on a survival challenge, and showing a great mouthful of teeth. It's a depressing comment on the mindset of the current generation of young people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MrBeast

The world is currently experiencing the hottest average temperature on record, so your post is in denial of reality.