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1 hour ago, bunnydrops said:

Silly question. The ones who knew he was going to do it.

Everyone knew it when he advised before his announcement, "This is a great time to buy" so no insiders!

Had he not said this, there might be grounds for insider trading, yes?

6 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

 

 

So you're referring to DTV , Workcation category? 

I would hardly call what you outlined as working as "digital nomad" 

 

Will try freelance, manage my trades and other investments digitally wherever I go. Live 6 months of the year out of Thailand, and travel fairly extensively inside and out.  So I'm a digital grey nomad 😅

I work remotely managing my active portfolio (super fund), plus fixed securities and a rental property - hoping that will get me across the line. Anyone have any experience with this?

Amazing new technology instead of nuclear - what could go wrong 😅

Mix it up with couple of 5km runs each week, 40 mins of resistance & stretch exercises a few times each week, 18 holes of golf once a week and 600m swims a couple of times each week. Something every day.

At 73 am more flexible than I was 20 years ago and wish I'd supplemented my runs x5 for many many years with more variation earlier. Very good health, with occasional knee niggles and my herniated disc L4-L5 of 15 years ago is well behind me.

Data presented by hundreds of people, who all have the same doomsday view on Climate Change as they don't allow, let alone encourage others to attend and expound their research.

The vast army of government funded researchers are somehow considered holier than industry funded researchers.

On 2/12/2025 at 5:16 PM, spidermike007 said:

While I do agree with some of those points, personally I think the US is in a lot of trouble on a lot of levels, most of which is simply not acknowledged by relatively simple minded, propagandist chest pounders like Trump. 

I find it interesting how so many people said world leaders don't take Trump seriously, which is clearly being shown to be so wrong. No US president has so quickly got major things done in such a short time, trust you can see that.

As far as US in a lot of trouble on many fronts, Trump is addressing many of those things quickly though I don't necessarily agree with all his methodology nor some of his policies. But he is taking an axe to the sheer waste in bureaucracy, legal overreach, absurd regulations especially for business, falling education standards, lousy health generally and the sickening trend of the Left towards the Western civilization, reinforced in the universities and naive arts community. China hasn't been impeded by these, even though it is the Left that so many people in the West now aspire to, kinda crazy uh.

Meanwhile China has its own significant problems, despite not having the above US challenges - population in decline and ageing is huge, as is their internal economy while exports will get chiseled away by Asian tigers and India. Let's also see how their Climate Change industries fare in the next few years.

In my view Democracy, with all its warts, is the biggest differential as so much better than Authoritarianism, not just for personal freedom but ultimately creativity and efficiency. Folk worrying about Nazi Trump are deluded, he's simply doing what needs to be done, even if it often seems ham-fisted - which most of the bewildered media remind us hourly. Let's see how it evolves.

Vapes are "95% safer than tobacco", according to British studies and they are saving hundreds of thousands of lives by encouraging smokers to switch to vaping... https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66852503

There are still a lot of studies to be done, but vapes do not have the carcinogenic agents that cigarettes do and hence why they're seen today as 95% safer.

Nicotine is addictive and every effort should be made to keep the kids off it. Vapes should be regulated, and sold next to the cigarettes, with hefty fines for selling to kids.

4 hours ago, kwilco said:

 

THis is usually  the choice of militaristic governments and dictatorships....

Not sure where you that notion.

Quite a few countries have moved their capital from the largest city for main reason of reducing population, but also make it more neutral - thinking of Canada, Australia, Indonesia, Nigeria, Netherlands, Turkey, Brazil.

Think it makes a lot of sense and Nakhon Ratchasima would be ideal. Good political move and with high speed rail, public servants could live half way and not that far from Bangkok or Korat.

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Good. The PC crew, the liberals in the US, the universities, and many others are so anxious to hop on the support bandwagon, for anyone who wants to be different, regardless of the complexity of the circumstances. When it goes so far that the governing body of competitive swimming in the US is supporting "trans women", who are biological MEN, and enabling them to compete with "real women", who have little chance of winning against a 6'4" man who has transitioned, with shoulders the size of a quarterback, it is beyond ridiculous. I am an open minded guy. I have had a number of gay and lesbian friends for a long time, and am generally supportive of alternative lifestyles. But, there has to be a limit. Somewhere, somehow. This whole thing has spun so far out of control. Likely, just one of the reasons the Dems lost the recent election. 

 

Have you heard of the new animal identities? This is really happening. And the school districts are being told to allow it. You cannot force a student to "speak human", if they identify as a wolf. How dysfunctional is that? If I did not know any better I would think it is a joke. There is a good documentary called "What is a woman?", by Matt Walsh, which explores some of this. 

 

If I were a teacher the first thing I would ask is how much actual time have you spent living in a wolf pack, and how did the wolves feel about you living amongst them? 

 

When first told schools were encountering this, from Maine to Wisconsin, the thought was humorous, like Halloween year-round, dressing up, so-and-so thinking he or she is a zebra or giraffe. 

 

But when speaking with teachers, the hard reality hit me – kids are being allowed to suspend all reference to reality, integrate into their thinking not only the idea that a girl can become a boy or boy become a girl – and win at sports that way – but they can now become an animal, by will.

 

https://amac.us/kids-identifying-as-animals/

 

 

 

 

 

Frightening really that it has come to this. Brainwashing on a major scale and constantly amazed how my Left wing mates refer to the ABC in Australia as the purveyors of truth on many contentious issues, where the Left/Green have built incredible dangerous power.

Frightening really that it has come to this. Brainwashing on a major scale and constantly amazed how my Left wing mates refer to the ABC in Australia as the purveyors of truth on many contentious issues, where the Left/Green have built incredible dangerous power.

2 hours ago, loong said:

 

I am confused by this. Are they saying that migrant workers are paid more than Thai workers?

Yeah, same here, which is counter intuitive. I expect the Thais get better paid in Hua Hin than the Burmese.

As for Thais won't work from hotchilli - not my experience, living in Hua Hin and wide family clan in Ubon.

Migrants generally work harder in new countries, unless they're pandered with handouts and can't speak the language. In London 45 years ago, they'd employ Aussies cause they would "work harder", at the same time Brits could easily get jobs in Australia 😅

 

The Kool Aid overflowing in this analysis.

Not a hint of why the Dems lost comprehensively and the internal soul searching underway

No mention of post election Trump increase in surveys, campaign pledges into action - now there's a novel concept

Lastly how Trump's disruption, all going reasonably well, could change the landscape for many years, just like Reagan did.

3 hours ago, The Old Bull said:

Why do they call them contractors instead of mercenaries?

And the alternative amongst Jihadist goons would be?