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By making things that people want cheaper and better? The ship has already sailed as far as electric cars are concerned.

I doubt I would want to wear anything that proclaims I am less intelligent than average.

Plenty of places in Australia that are not under a flight path. As Henry Blake/MacLean Stevenson, said, I'm staring into a big empty. The only contrail visible in outback New South Wales is a Hercules ferrying supplies from Sydney to Pine Gap, a secretive US base.

IMO there were two turning points in the campaign. The first was when Harris filleted Trump in the last presidential debate. Billionaires realized their tax free ride was at serious risk. The second was the assassination attempt on Trump, backed up by a second incident. Be that as it may, perhaps you can point me to any predictions I made regarding the election outcome. OTOH, most economists agree tariffs and deporting the cheapest labor is going to be inflationary. That's not a prediction, it's Economics 101.

You are not whining about posters who call out Trump and the MAGA cult for what they are? Enjoy the honeymoon. While inflation in the US is still 2.9%.

The implication was there, denial is not a river in Egypt. As for yes man groups, guess what Trump has surrounded himself with?

So do I. The implication I am gay only serves to establish your homophobic credentials. Should I add bigotry and racism?

My GF showed me a photo of herself when she was in her twenties, with her very young daughter. She was quite porky. She is not all that disciplined in what she eats, but is very dedicated in her exercise regimes. Gets stressed if she hits 43 kg. What percentage of women are obese because they have mental or physical issues, and what percentage are fat because they have no self-control? Call me shallow if you want, I prefer slim feminine women.

My views are independent of anyone else's on this forum. I post facts, popular with some, not with others. OTOH, there is a wailing Greek chorus of MAGA morons ready to descend on anything I post. Are you part of that cabal?

It's called American exceptionalism, there's little difference between it and Hitler's notion of Aryan superiority. In reality, America has the world's highest prison population. The wealth disparity is so huge just three men in the USA have more combined wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Its tax system is so screwed up billionaires pay less tax than the receptionists and janitors in the properties they own. Yet this is accepted as normal, which only confirms Einstein's observation about the Universe and human stupidity. It also spends $820 billion on its military, far more than any other nation. At the same time, it spends about $130 billion on infrastructure, then probably wonders why it only has 80 km of high speed rail. Too busy building walls. Just a couple of examples of what is wrong with America, let the ad hominem attacks begin.

IMO airlines should start charging a premium, based on the percent increase over normal body mass index. Alternatively, put them in first or business class, with corresponding costs.

AFAIK the ratings are not done on the basis of the number of posts, they are done on the basis of the number of positive emoticons they get. Easy to see why you never appear in the ratings.

Then move out from under the flight path.

She would not be my wife or GF under any circumstances. I guess I would sentence her to a 1200 calorie daily diet, call it reformation. She reminds me of an exchange between George Bernard Shaw and Gilbert Keith Chesterton. "Shaw, you look like there's a famine in Ireland". " Chesterton, you look like you caused it".

Is Chiang Rai a viable alternative? Granted it would need an Immigration centre, I am thinking is the runway sufficient to land the same planes as CM.

Dear Elvis/Bob/Bignok/ Susanlea etc. etc. The subject of Thai roads and Thai drivers has been done to death. Just assume everyone out there on the roads is trying to kill you. Why don't you try a different topic, such as does being vaccinated reduce your sex drive? Guaranteed to pull in all the fruitcake posters.

This is one I couldn't post on YouTube, too much copyright BS. About 14 minutes of excerpts. I kept it for my own pleasure. DANCINGCOMBO.mp4

Usually, when there is a shortage of something in a country, the country starts importing it from somewhere else. Somewhere cheaper. I guess Americans are a bit slow to catch on.

It baffles me why Venezuala has the world's richest oil deposits, and also has a government so corrupt and incompetent it cannot utilize them properly. 5 million Venezualans have left the country. The CIA has previous form in Chile, perhaps Trump should put them to work in Venezuala. Cheaper oil, and less economic refugees. Win win. Beats trying to take over the territory of a NATO ally.

Disagree. The death rate from COVID was far too low. What we really need is a virus with a 90% death rate, and a mRNA vaccine for it all the anti-vaxxers refuse.

Ah, the last refuge of the MAGA cult. Personal abuse. Goodbye, SFB.

The height of American cuisine.

Don't waste your time. You are arguing with an idiot, and a liar. An idiot, because he/she/it denies viruses exist. A liar, because ICU's during the pandemic were full of mostly unvaccinated COVID patients, displacing non - COVID patients.

It's one thing to think outside the box. It's another to be batsh!t crazy. Common sense says alienating your closest allies with tariffs is stupid. Common sense says crucifying your farming sector with tariffs not once, but twice, is moronic. Common sense says making a trade enemy who can cut off your supply of vital, strategic raw materials with the stroke of a pen is daft. Common sense says when you offer your Federal employees voluntary redundancy, you will lose your best and brightest. You'll be left with the office politicians and clock watchers. Common sense says when you pull out of the WHO, you are facilitating new pandemics. Bacteria and viruses don't give a rat's rectum about national boundaries. Common sense says when you say you are going to dispossess 2 million Palestinians, said people will embrace every terrorist group in the Middle East sworn to bring down the Great Satan. Common sense says when you deport your lowest cost farm workers, prices on the supermarket shelves will increase. I agree the liberal side of politics got themselves tied up with peripheral concerns. That doesn't change the fact Trump is like a bull in a china shop, who can't see past his nose. What Trump does can't affect me, short of a nuclear war. I can be objective, what about you?

Alcohol is not addictive? Ask any doctor, it's a serious health problem. Most criminal activity is related to a drug's illegality. All the countries who have legalized drug use report a reduction in crime statistics.