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Sunlight will affect the color, dulling, bleaching as it does to most plastics. Where we live, it hits 40C and up often, so prefer aluminum, and not a cheap build or installation. Like things to work hassle free.

Here's a link / site that may help you find out how healthy or not, your diet is. You can track all your intake, or like me, just input some foods now and then, to see how healthy, or if fitting in or reaching my desired intake, more proportional, of fats / protein / carbs, which I prefer to be F-75 / P-20 / C-5 % of my diet. More features to the site, than my occasional inputs: https://www.fatsecret.com/Default.aspx?pa=m Which I kind of fail at, as seems always a bit more carbs than I want. Here's a sample, as I put in today's food. My usual coffee @ 0600, first meal around 1200 noon, had a burger around 1530, then dinner at 1700. If I eat anything else before 2000 hrs, probably be blueberries w/whip cream. The fat from the heavy cream should offset the sugar in the blueberries a bit, slowing digestion. Then next meal won't be till about 12 noon tomorrow. Out the door now, for my evening walk with the dog. Didn't really weigh anything, but this should be ball park enough. Wish everyday was this good:

As long as not exposed to the sun, this is the tropic, and why I don't use UPVC. And 'cheap' anything, will eventually need to be replaced.

If you can't make the financials for an 0 non immigrant visa, then one should think hard, if it's a good decision to live overseas without the safety nets of home country. 400k & 800k is the minimum for a reason, so 'you' have enough to live on, even in case of an oops. When a single person can live on 20k a month, or 40k comfortably, that leaves quite a bit every year to save for an oops, if not having an oops fund already, or health insurance. Married person has the advantage of universal healthcare for the wife & kids, so again 40k should be enough.

yea ... sometimes they work, sometimes not. Haven't figure out how to tell the difference. Sometimes, after you enter the link, and hit enter/return, then it sets as a clickable link. Happens a lot with YT or FB shorts, sometimes opens, or not.

https://www.carnegie.org/our-work/article/11-barriers-voting/ highlight - right click - go to

I google that, and I'm not seeing anything restrictive of preventative from voting. Some folks, like convicted felons, need to do a bit more paperwork, in some states.

Best way is for them to leave the country, then join the Q to enter legally

Every US citizen can vote it they want. There is nothing to stop them. Don't know why people imply it's difficult for some people to vote. Everyone has that right, to vote, simply have to exercise it. Really is too simple. If can't make it to the registry office, they will come to you, one way or another. That it's difficult to vote, is a false narrative IMHO. I only voted on local level, in hometown when living there, as those elections are basically the only ones that would directly affect me. Learned a long time ago, state and US politicians (lying scum) usually say anything to get elected, and do anything after elected, so I never bothered.

They were bought for her to sell if she needs to, once she puts my butt in the ground. Much better investment than any safe interest earned in USA or TH. For me .. they were bought to avoid any new neighbors. Will buy the rest of the land around us, IF & when it becomes available. And same, she can do what she wants with them after I'm gone. But with my usufructs on the chanotes, they won't be sold while I'm alive, unless I want them sold. I'm actually in more control than she is, while I'm alive. More money is something we don't need, while I'm alive. Or we wouldn't have bought them. Being 20+ years younger, more is better for her, when I'm pushing up lilies.

It is a danger to the lungs & body ...

Hopefully joking, about the joy of smelling the smoke from the burning. As I was joking, hence the emojis, stating you may be off your rocker .. or not There's days west of the house, where if not knowing they are there, you wouldn't know the hills are there, barely seeing the outline of the top of the ridge. That's only 10 kms away. I can tell what the AQI is, by looking at the limestone headlands of the bay from the back veranda. Clear or blurry, and how blurry.

Living in the USA for 45 yrs before TH, it's actually pretty hard not to get registered to vote, as both parties do their best to get you registered if not already. To the point of showing up at your door, to give you forms & motivate you to vote. Since I moved around quite a bit, different states, and during a voting cycle, they seemed to pop up at the door, to make sure I'm registered to vote, since address changed on 'state ID' and not showing registered. Since I only voted once in presidential election, my name dropped off the registry quite often, since no record of me voting in the previous election. My experience anyway of 27 yrs of voting age, in the USA. Now in TH, can't count how many notices I got to register to vote. Even on AN, there was a banner reminding Yanks to register to vote.

Shouldn't be that hard of a task ... Gaza Strip ... For reference, about the area of urban Pattaya, the land mass on the W side of Sukhomvit Rd / Hwy #3

Not a bad move for the USA. Location for naval base, small air strip, along with all the oil off shore. Win win

... nuff said

I disagree, and assuming you referring to states that require an ID. Everyone should have an ID, as that's simply common sense. There is nothing hard about getting an ID in any state. IMHO, to vote, you should have an ID, to register & vote.

A true 'air fryer' operates on a different principle (air circulation) than your convection oven, mis-labeled 'air fryer' for marketing. Same as our 56L convection oven, labeled 'air fryer' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfdAj9D90FQ&t=42s&ab_channel=PrudentReviews

Seriously, buy the 9L, as 4.5L really isn't much room at all. Better to have too much, than not enough. Our is 4.5L and I'd have a hard time cooking a 'meal' in it, even just for my self.

Only ~78% of voting age are even registered, ~262M of ~335M - wiki & google Only ~58% bothered voting either, ~52M, of 262M voted for either - wiki

If SB's coffee was good, it really isn't that expensive. Their cups are considerably larger. If the Ma / Pa vendor, small chains charge 50 or 60 baht a cup, then SB, is about right. Ma / pa & chain vendors, you might get 5 oz / 150 ml, without the AC & comfy seating. 8 oz / 236 ml 12 oz / 354 ml (Tall) 16 oz / 473 ml 20 oz / 591 ml My morning cup at home is 400 ml, and cost all of ฿20

Totally understandable, not accepting anything but cash, if vendor is charged a transaction fee for use. I'm totally against fees for transactions, as the whole point of electronic banking, way back when introduced, was to lower the banks operating cost. Or sold to the people that way, not to increase profits. Cash paying customers should get a discount, or the transaction fees should be an add on, to those that use such avenues to pay.

Hell Yea ... anything for more visibility 👍

I have to say ... you're one F'd up individual The only time I want to smell smoke, is when someone is grilling or passing me a doobie. Even when the wife is burning trash, I stay indoors ... no marshmallows or wieners cooking during the burn Hypocrisy - the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform.

I get that most fruits are nutritious, but if I was a diabetic, I'd use a bit more judgement in which fruits and how I ate them. I'm not even diabetic and I try to pay attention to my fruit sugar intake.