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What does this rant have to do with mass shootings? AFAIK most of the mass shootings in America are perpetrated by disaffected and deranged white supremacists. If you have better information, post it. Perhaps it has not occurred to you without labor from south of the border, most of US crops could not be harvested economically in California and Texas. While Trump was building his "beautiful wall" ( the unfinished one ), he obviously did not shy away from employing undocumented workers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/5-questions-about-president-trumps-use-of-undocumented-workers/2019/12/04/29439928-16a2-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html

Not the only one, unfortunately. It's the same as anti-vaxxers and climate deniers, beliefs vs. facts and data.

As a series of posts that miss the point entirely, yours take some beating. If I go into a school armed with a baseball bat, I might knock over a couple of people. The rest either flee, or disarm me with numbers. Same with a knife, I might get a couple more before someone hits me with a chair. It's all work at close quarters. If I go into a school armed with an AR-15 and a couple of MagPul 60 bullet magazines, no-one can get near me, and the only person that can take me out is another person with a firearm, probably responding after I have slaughtered a dozen or two. Way too late for the kids or the parents, as Uvalde just demonstrated. Take away the firearms that can kill so rapidly, as Australia has proved over the last quarter century, and you don't have mass murders of people. Is that too complex for you to understand?

I'm not inclined to test it myself for the sake of confirming whether the banks still charge fees if using a different ATM. I don't particularly like cards anyway, handy for online shopping, but difficult to keep secure. IMO no better security than having to front up to a bank teller with a savings passbook and a passport, I defy any thief to breach that.

Have you tested to find out? I haven't because I would only use an ATM for emergencies anyway. I know one can use any bank card in any ATM in Australia without fees, but Thai banks IMO would be very reluctant to let go of any revenue.

Er - I think you will find if you put a Bangkok Bank debit card into a Kasikorn ATM, or vice versa, there will be a fee attached to any withdrawal.

Just buy a few packs of fine steel wool, and put them where there is a flow of the pool water. Any copper present will plate out on the steel. Probably take a few days to clear. Copper content is easy to measure with atomic absorption spectrometry, most universities, technical colleges and commercial laboratories have the equipment. The first step in controlling anything is measuring it. Note: Steel wool, not stainless steel scourers.

Agree completely, my guns were in a gun safe, the rifle bolts and ammunition were stored separately in the house. Without all three, useless for a burglar to steal them. They were not assembled until I was out on a station 100 km from the nearest town. I never owned a handgun, like assault rifles their sole purpose is killing people. Some posters on this thread claiming to be hunters, they'd have professional shooters in Australia rolling on the floor laughing.

You go hunting with a pistol? Now I have heard everything. Please explain to me how a gun for "protection" is called an assault rifle, something of a contradiction. The statistics say people who keep guns in their homes are far more likely to commit suicide, get shot, or be sued by an unarmed burglar or their families.

Thai bank. If the OP doesn't want to pay ATM fees, he needs to open a bank account in Thailand. But you knew that already, didn't you? I don't know about the rest of the Western world, but savings passbooks are as anachronistic as button-up boots in Australia. Most banking is done via the internet and debit/credit cards, ATM's are being closed by the banks. It's well on the way to being a cashless society, which the government loves.

There is only one argument justifying gun ownership, and as Jim Jefferies said, it's not a very good one. Gun owners like guns. Any other argument is specious BS that can be demolished by the simple application of facts, statistics and logic.

Do the American authorities even have records of guns and their owners? Seems to me with about 390 million firearms in circulation in the US, that's a fairly big ask. There's a saying in quality circles, if you can't measure it, you can't control it. What with background checks, the fact anyone can own as many guns as they want, and the quantity available to anyone over 18, it seems to me the system has more holes than Swiss cheese.

I would only withdraw funds from an ATM in an emergency. I go to a bank in the same province with my savings passbook and my passport, collect a queue ticket, and wait patiently to be called. I then withdraw what I want without any fees. The 200 baht fee is for the convenience of getting cash from an ATM in under a minute.

I think it's also fair to say America has more than its fair share of gun owners who think having 10 or 20 firearms in their household is quite normal.

I read recently about a farm in Australia, running merino sheep. According to the owners, wool production has increased significantly since a solar farm was installed on the property. Can only speculate as to the mechanism. Sheep insulate themselves with their wool, believe it or not. While we use wool clothes to keep warm, the skin temperature of a sheep is a fair bit lower than the surface of the wool. There is a $30 billion project called the Sun Cable which is connecting solar farms in the Northern Territory of Australia to Singapore, so some fairly wealthy people do not share your skepticism.

I understand some EV purchasers in Thailand are putting solar panels on their houses to supplement commercial charging stations, I don't know how widespread that is. IMO a smart move, as the commercial stations may be non-functioning or occupied. Chiang Mai, Lamphun and Lampang's electricity comes from possibly the dirtiest generator on the planet, the lignite mine at Mae Moh. Still a lot of it in the ground, don't see that power station closing any time soon.

Civilian Americans own 46% of the entire gun population of the world, some 393 million firearms. Excluding suicides, there were 20,000 murders using guns in America in 2021. Australia had 35 in the same year. Population 23 million. Is the proposition less guns = less murders too complex for you? As for the other guns, they are probably waiting for a child to find them.

IMO Thailand has not changed much in terms of warming. I suggest the sceptics should visit the Larsen Ice Shelf ( while it is still there ), Iceland ( glaciers disappearing ) and the Australian centre, where they can fry eggs on any surface exposed to sunlight. Then perhaps a stint in thermodynamics class, where they can learn about real science, not the BS posted on social media by their ilk to comfort their confirmation bias.

You haven't had your morning coffee yet?

If it's a Thai-sized condom, I am sorry for your loss.

I wear a mask out of courtesy to others, it does not worry me if other people do not. Three vaxxes plus having had a mild three-day bout of COVID, IMO a repeat infection is only going to boost my immune system. I do not wear a mask when I am exercising, that's stupid. It will be interesting to see how the percentages shake out after June 1, both in terms of mask observance, and COVID infections. My guess is most COVID-infected people are self-testing and self-isolating, the only ones visible are those presenting at hospitals.

You're making sense, just don't expect it to take hold on this thread.

You were definitely asleep in maths class when ratio was explained. It doesn't matter what the relative populations are, it's the gun deaths PER 100,000 PEOPLE that matters.

Australia still has 14 guns per 100 civilians. Confiscation would mean zero guns per 100 civilians, perhaps you were asleep in English class. When I owned guns in Australia after Port Arthur, I had up to four of them, all legal. I'm just wondering when Americans will stop lying to themselves about the purpose of semi-automatic assault rifles, because it certainly isn't hunting or target practice.

Australian gun laws obviously work, the country sits near the bottom of the chart with one death per 100,000 population. The USA is twelve times higher. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-deaths-by-country Australia has 14 firearms per 100 people, the US is top of the tree with 120. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country The math and probability calculations don't need an Einstein.