fredwiggy

Because you aren't intelligent enough to decipher the BS from reality, and have never lived there so don't understand what goes on and has gone on there for centuries. One of the most advanced countries, besides the usual problems all countries has, isn't quite dysfunctional. Look at what other countries do daily before you judge, including your own.

Who are you going on about?

Explain this, seeing many think it's only the west which has this happening...........https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Thailand

The parents of those who are raised to hurt others intentionally, because their own childhoods were full of trauma.

No, background checks should always be used. Most of the huge crimes are white collar crimes, where someone\s making a profit keeping them out of jail.

Surely I do. Sometimes we disregard the minor red flags because they're so pretty and talk nice. Then you realize what you chose and leave while you're sanity's still intact, and let them self destruct as they will, and turn their hostility towards another who might not take it so lightly. All narcissists pay the price at the end.

Add to that the large amount of women here who lie and scam their foreign boyfriends and husbands after they fall for their lies. A covert narcissist love bombs a person until they have them trapped, building houses and buying condos, buying cars, gold and land, and then they attack, becoming once again what they have always been, lying, manipulative abusers who are only after the men for a profit, and then toss them aside.

It isn't affecting them so it means nothing.

Also who is armed with a crossbow.

Cooking duties? Another case of looking at women as slaves to men. Helpless little man couldn't cook for his own mother?

No, but this might.........https://vocal.media/motivation/signs-of-low-intelligence-from-speech-patterns-to-body-language

Here in Sisaket I found out I had it during an gastroscopy and Colonoscopy I had done. They prescribed the usual 2 antibiotics and a proton pump antacid, which messes up your gut microbiome but is the only known way to rid the infection. I wanted to get a re-test after the treatment but they don't do it at the same government hospital unless you get another endoscopy. I was told the breath test had to be done in Sisaket hospital, as the one I went to didn't do the breath test, so it seems not any government hospital will work. I've asked if I could get a breath test at a regular doctor but they didn't know, so that might also be an option you can try. I don't think clinics will have it. I'm sending the link for Bangkok hospital, as it has it listed there..........https://www.bangkokhospital.com/en/bangkok/content/save-your-stomach-diseases-risk-with-c-13-ubt

That's yet another downside of being in Isaan. The good food is scattered about. I had to visit Vietnam to get a Banh Mi.

Stuffed cabbage. How did I forget those? I miss Matzohs. Texas had a few Greek restaurants where I had Chicken Gyros with Tzatziki. One reason I want to be home soon.

My dad had an above genius level. He was a whizz at everything he did, from building his own Ham radio from scratch, to old school photography, magic and most things electronic. He always wanted me to try things he was into but the only things I liked that he did was hunting and fishing, yet we never hunted together. There are many facets of an IQ and yes, tests don't show all of it. My ex wife and ex girlfriend, who I had children with, both had a 90 IQ and all my children from them are very smart, so it obviously came from my dad's side. Their school tests, which aren't an accurate judge, as children much of the time don't care about those tests and only want to get them over with, still showed them to have an above average score. I can see some of their weaknesses and strengths, like all people who are intelligent. My son is smart in some things, graduated college and has a pilot's license, but he lacks in others. Same for my daughters. A lot goes into the intricacies of the brain, and we don't use but a fraction of it so who knows what some can do if they put their mind to it. Some very smart people don't succeed like you pointed out, and some who aren't too bright end up rich.

I was never a fan of blood in soup. Here also, I ask them not to use it as I prefer the clear broth in the noodle soup I get. The blood style is okay but it's just a thing I'm not into. I haven't had Pierogies since I visited my late brother in New Jersey over 15 years ago. Babka has been a lot longer. When I move back to the states I'll be visiting my family in the NYC area and have some of that old style food, especially the pizza, Jewish deli sandwiches, hot dogs from a street cart and pretzels. Been too long.

Yes, your childhood teaches you a lot regarding what's really good food or not, but you don't fully realize it until later when your taste buds mature and get beyond sweets.

This clarifies a little on how genetics does make a difference in IQ, but it does change as you grow into adulthood from environment, especially as far as the tests themselves..........https://www.psypost.org/groundbreaking-study-reveals-the-impact-of-genetics-on-iq-scores-over-time/

My dad, who did a lot of the cooking in our home,was Polish and made many ethnic meals, some using the pressure cooker. It sure worked well. I didn't care for some of the things he made back then, but later they grew on me and I now realize what good ethnic food is. He made corned beef and cabbage, which I used to call corned beef and garbage until I knew better. Stock was always used, along with certain spices, which makes normal ingredients of any kind into a good soup. His beef stew was also killer, as was the 7 bean soup. My godfather was Sicilian, and his parents were from Sicily, and I remember her homemade sauce still being the best I've ever had to this day. Cooked all day for the St. Joseph's Day celebration. A last thing about the pressure cooker. One day my dad was making something in it and I remember it exploding, with much of what was in the pot hitting, and sticking to the kitchen ceiling.

Which puts the question out of how many are hired to drive trucks here without a commercial license or experience. Or if they have one, how did they pass the test? Going downhill in neutral? Engine braking is what truck drivers are supposed to know. So many accidents in trucks and buses here from "brake failure", when it's more likely complete incompetence and drivers hired without any skills but who know someone. Another reason I don't like being on the roads here.

You could say that about a multitude of locals here also.

The US has their own reasons that aren't about Israel, to stop Iran's plans.............https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–United_States_relations#Second_Trump_administration_2025–present

It's been going on over a century for their own reasons, which this link explains but why are you taking sides? .......https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-44124396

Wokeness is an over used word and not in my vocabulary. Yes, you can say anything you want, but don't think you won't be called out on it as there are those who like peace, and peace doesn't come from prejudice.

The slaughter is on both sides. If you don't hear things from people, you can't assume their ideas. FB has translate. I know that some here are prejudiced against every creed, nationality and race, but that doesn't make it right to add to it. And you don't like Americans from assumed propaganda, not by actually knowing many of them. They're all from different heritages, including your own. it's just a piece of ground where they all live.