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Cant decide if I should get another covid booster. What about you?
Lacessit replied to jack71's topic in Health and Medicine
It's called a reductio ad absurdum, perhaps you are unfamiliar with that line of argument. The Romans were using it more than 2000 years ago to demonstrate the falsity of a proposition, try to keep up. -
Trump under investigation for potential violations of Espionage Act
Lacessit replied to Scott's topic in World News
Extreme far left? Please do get a grip. In most other democracies, the Democrats would be regarded as a bit right of centre. As for the GOP taking over the House, you seem to have forgotten the Supreme Court's rejection of Roe vs Wade is creating a cascade of <deleted>-off women voters. -
Trump under investigation for potential violations of Espionage Act
Lacessit replied to Scott's topic in World News
At 3.42 minutes. -
Cant decide if I should get another covid booster. What about you?
Lacessit replied to jack71's topic in Health and Medicine
The VAERS report is data collected from anywhere, and not assessed for causation. A drover's dog could report being off its tucker after a rabies shot, and it would be accepted into the database. I quote: "The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event". and "VAERS is a passive reporting system, meaning that reports about adverse events are not automatically collected, but require a report to be filed to VAERS. VAERS reports can be submitted voluntarily by anyone, including healthcare providers, patients, or family members. Reports vary in quality and completeness. They often lack details and sometimes can have information that contains errors." You obviously believe the data is significant, despite the limitations cited by VAERS itself. https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/dataguide.html You can't have it both ways, the .gov suffix says it is government funded, and you've already posted your distrust of authority. -
Trump under investigation for potential violations of Espionage Act
Lacessit replied to Scott's topic in World News
It's all over YouTube. -
Trump under investigation for potential violations of Espionage Act
Lacessit replied to Scott's topic in World News
Are you gaslighting or what? -
Cant decide if I should get another covid booster. What about you?
Lacessit replied to jack71's topic in Health and Medicine
Actually, the nom de plume you have adopted makes the claim you are smart. So you would have waited. Until you get tested for antibodies, you won't know if you have dodged a bullet, or are still waiting for it to arrive. I had myself tested for antibodies 3 weeks after my first jab. While the result was not high, it gave me confidence if I did get COVID, I would cope with it comfortably. And I did. I'd suggest if the world had waited, based on your advice, the butcher's bill of deaths and long-term impairment would have been far higher. Do you believe in natural selection in a pandemic? That's pretty cold. We are all shaped by our life experiences. You evidently developed an abiding distrust of authority very early on. While I share some of that distrust, I think I am more selective in applying it. -
Cant decide if I should get another covid booster. What about you?
Lacessit replied to jack71's topic in Health and Medicine
I see, picking and choosing as you do with COVID data. There's a lot of things I don't know. Like how to fly an aeroplane, or perform brain surgery. A shame when quite a few posters on ASEAN could obviously benefit. I don't see any reason to become Uriah Heep because a poster is suddenly overburdened with sanctimony. -
Trump under investigation for potential violations of Espionage Act
Lacessit replied to Scott's topic in World News
A dwarf as Jack Reacher, you're easily pleased. Alan Ritchson was way better, and much more believable. Speaking of believable, Trump's claim national secrets belong to him certainly is. The universe revolves around Trump, Galileo was wrong. -
Trump under investigation for potential violations of Espionage Act
Lacessit replied to Scott's topic in World News
Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher was a travesty. -
Cant decide if I should get another covid booster. What about you?
Lacessit replied to jack71's topic in Health and Medicine
Which begs the question, how do anti-vaxxers know they are right? -
Cant decide if I should get another covid booster. What about you?
Lacessit replied to jack71's topic in Health and Medicine
Hindsight is always 20:20. Tell us what you would have done. -
Cant decide if I should get another covid booster. What about you?
Lacessit replied to jack71's topic in Health and Medicine
When I am told by an anti-vaxxer poster I am wrong and know nothing, that is contempt of the five years I spent getting a tertiary qualification, and the 50 -odd years I spent getting better at my chosen line of work. I do have to wonder if posters who dismiss training in science, logic and statistics themselves have a limited formal education, and hence a giant chip on their shoulder about the lack. A friend once said to me " It doesn't matter how smart you think you are, there is always going to be someone out there who is smarter than you." Can't say I have encountered an anti-vaxxer that fits the bill. -
Cant decide if I should get another covid booster. What about you?
Lacessit replied to jack71's topic in Health and Medicine
I'm afraid post hoc ergo propter hoc - after this, therefore because of this, is the only logic train an anti-vaxxer can follow. No other explanation allowed. -
Cant decide if I should get another covid booster. What about you?
Lacessit replied to jack71's topic in Health and Medicine
What is preposterous is the selective cherry-picking of adverse data to suit the anti-vaxxer argument, when the statistics world-wide indicate getting jabbed drastically reduces the probability of dying, being admitted to an ICU, or developing long COVID. What is preposterous is COVID anti-vaxxers who shriek to high heaven about those vaccines, when they have very probably been inoculated against polio, typhoid, tetanus, whooping cough, Hep A and flu, without any ill effects. Permit me to doubt there are many whose bodies are completely unsullied by a needle. What is preposterous is those same anti-vaxxers who reject medical science, seeking the best medical assistance they can afford if they happen to break a bone, or come down with any painful condition. Quite happy to accept the help of Big Pharma then. The anti-vaxxer belief system reminds me of those religions that reject life-saving blood transfusions for their adherents. There are instances of unvaccinated COVID patients being wheeled into ICU wards begging for vaccination, I guess that's heresy. Or recanting their beliefs. -
New Entry Requirements.
Lacessit replied to Makoshark's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
My Thai GF knows to take me to a public hospital, either Phan or Chiang Rai. All life is a gamble. I take sensible precautions, and keep myself physically and mentally fit, with diet thrown in. If you enjoy being a doom-laden naysayer, who am I to deny you that pleasure? It does not sit well with your nom-de-plume, though. -
New Entry Requirements.
Lacessit replied to Makoshark's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
I don't need 10+ million in my bank account, that's a gross exaggeration. My 800K stays untouched year after year, I have 500K set aside for medical emergencies. I also have assets in Australia I can liquidate with a click of a mouse. And the option of going back to Australia for free private health care. Assuming I could even get past the pre-existing conditions clauses ( none of which are life-threatening ), my age means I would be shelling out more than 200,000 baht per year for something I may never need, and may never collect on if an insurance company decides to renege. That goes way beyond stupid. What gets on my wick is sanctimonious posters who have the mindset of one size fits all, and I should be insured. I'm here, I am not insured, and I'm probably more financial than they are. Get used to it. -
I split the rock; I felled the tree: The nation was- Because of me! Old Botany Bay Taking the sun from day to day... shame on the mouth that would deny the knotted hands that set us high! Dame Mary Gilmore Sorry, off topic.
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Legal Help to Dispute a will left by my Father in Law
Lacessit replied to BAKABAS's topic in Family and Children
IMO the only people who gain anything from such disputes are lawyers. I remember one lawyer telling me money brings out the worst in people. Better to walk away, and put the angst aside. Life's too short. -
New Entry Requirements.
Lacessit replied to Makoshark's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
I self-insure, i see no point to paying out huge sums at my age to an insurance company who will be doing their best to weasel out of any obligations it incurs. Yet another self-righteous poster with Procrustean ideas. -
Trump under investigation for potential violations of Espionage Act
Lacessit replied to Scott's topic in World News
I put the poster you refer to on ignore some time ago. Quite apart from wiretaps and witnesses, IMO there is an informant at Mar-Al-Lago. How else did the FBI know Trump still had sensitive documents in his possession? How else would a Federal judge and Merrick Garland both sign off on the search warrant? Whatever the informant provided must have been solid information. Quite probably, the identity of the informant was in the affidavit tendered to the Federal judge. Given Trump's propensity ( vide Pence ) for egging on his followers, it makes sense to protect the informant's identity, and ignore howling Republicans. My hypothesis could be wrong. However, based on what transpired with the search itself, it seems very likely. The FBI knew exactly what they were looking for. -
I tend to look for items that I think are reasonably priced, also at the product and seller ratings. If it says coming from overseas on Lazada, not interested. Having said that, the OP is right. I was looking for a meat thermometer, I thought this is BS, the prices are 500 - 700 baht. Sure enough, when I kept clicking and going through the pages, I got a meat thermometer for 77 baht, including shipping, from a reputable seller.
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Hi..Where do people order their vitamins in Chiang Mai…?
Lacessit replied to mikey88's topic in Chiang Mai
I use iHerb in the USA, IME even with the shipping cost most supplements are much cheaper than local pharmacies.