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I suspect that the key words here are "silence U.S. citizens and companies". This is all about protecting Facebook and Google's right to collect advertising revenue and do targeted marketing. By phrasing it as a "freedom of speech" law, they can disguise their true intent.

Easy - before I had a cat I had to set mousetraps every night and they were frequently full in the morning! After cat - no rats at all.

I have no animals in my house... my cats deal with them before I even see them!

He's still healthier than that panther he killed.

Now that Cannabis is legalized in Thailand, do Thai customs no longer check baggage for it? Or do they check for it and then just tip off the police at the destination?

I'm sure that her contribution was "Don't you know who my father is?".

12 people sitting in my office - only 2 phones went off!

A fellow I knew seemed like a normal guy, but from things that he and his Thai wife said probably committed insurance fraud and maybe bigamy! It seems that he took out a life insurance policy and then left his wife and children back in Farangland and moved to Thailand. His wife then claimed that he had died while overseas and was able to claim the insurance after a few years while he married a Thai woman, had a child and started a new life here. He was on about 10 years overstay when he had a heart attack and died.

There are whole neighborhoods in Dubai where the most common job description is businessperson/politician/gangster.

I wonder if she saw the Red Bull killer boy there? I understand that he's a big F1 fan.

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I think you mean: 10% of the complex will be crowded and busy, 90% will be practically empty! 😉

Although I carefully examined those pictures I still haven't seen her feet!

I predict a growing number of socially conservative but economically liberal Pro-Islamic political parties will arise in both the UK and throughout Europe. With the power to throw their votes to the left or right on different issues they will tend to have a disproportionate power in shaping the future of Europe.

I was betting on Marco Rubio being the first one out, but it looks like I was wrong. I will still bet that Rubio will end up doing a full 'John Bolton' with a tell-all book and numerous anti-Trump Youtube appearances!

My grandparents lost a total of 3 out of 13 children back in the 1920s. Vaccines would have saved those kids. As my oldest aunt once told me: "In those days everyone lost one or two".

Many, if not most, middle-class boys go through an Army Reserve Training when they are in high school. This exempts them from the draft. So the actual draftees are heavily skewed towards the working class/rural kids.

Except that Trump loves the military and usually gives them more money than they even ask for. Aside from cutting the DEI programs he will probably add a 4th supercarrier fleet! Don't expect DOGE to touch the Defense budget, which is probably the most bloated and wasteful part of the Federal Government!

Dear God! In addition to the uneven sidewalks I now have to worry about GG touching me?? That's it, I'm giving up walking in Thailand! 😜

I can speak and read Thai fairly well. One problem I have is all the regional dialects. If I drive for two hours away from Bangkok everyone sounds like they are speaking an entirely different language. My wife wants to move up north when I retire, but I'm not looking forward to having to learn Phasa Nua!

It could be worse... Just what would he do if he found himself in a toilet with no tissue paper!

So you're saying that the problems that California faces are based on color/ethnicity? I agree that California is no longer livable, but that's because of over crowding and cost of living, not the fact that my neighbors were Chinese rather than white Southern Baptists!

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Interesting screenshot. However you cut out part of the description: Notice the last line: Hight for factual reporting. Now let's take a look at a pro-Trump media outlet:

I did Cambodian border runs when I first came to Thailand about 23 years ago. While waiting for my stamp at the border I noticed people just walking across the border a hundred or so meters away. It was only the need for proper stamps in your passport that made you use a border crossing between Thailand and Cambodia!