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I hope she's charged up her power bank

9 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Testing is the answer. That is fairly simple. A very reliable lab based test in the home nation, with test results before you board the plane. Then a simple antigen test at the airport. It takes 15 minutes for results. Sure, Thailand would have to invest in the test kits. Some general would have to be willing to part with a few million dollars. Each test itself, only cost $5 with the new Abbott test, which is available now.

To be fair, other places are only now getting round to something like this.

Have you checked the major dictionary apps?

When the geneticists get round to engineering two foot mini-elephants, the pet market will be revolutionized.

Musk, Bezos, Buffet, Gates etc do something useful & make it happen!

39 minutes ago, patman30 said:

i thought they just legalized Kratom a few weeks ago ?

IIRC from what wifey told me, but could be LIT

correct that, after looking myself
it just looks like gov will soon be able to "legally" produce, sell and export,
and will still criminalize anyone else that engages in the activity

But it's decriminalized for users?

On 11/12/2020 at 10:01 PM, webfact said:

"The drug is not popular in Thailand, and is mostly sold abroad, including Europe, Australia, Taiwan, Japan and Korea," he said.

I heard (from a doctor, so it should be reliable) that ketamine (aka K-fen = "K powder") is a popular illicit drug in China.

On 11/13/2020 at 4:17 AM, elgenon said:

The bag appears to say "Made in Chi...". Where could that be?

So popular I'm kind of surprised they have any left to export ????

1 hour ago, fangless said:

Can I stop a particular poster from sending me PMs?

If so how?

I do not want to use the "ignore" function

See the bit above in this thread about 'hovering' over the user's avatar & clicking 'ignore user'; that lets you block 4 separate kinds of interaction with the user, including just PMs.

1 hour ago, tifino said:

Thank you No to LiPo... I always only use the 18650 based units 

Mr Musk, I presume?

8 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Ya think there's no correlation between hospitalizations and deaths?

In most places that correlation seems to be holding up better than the cases/deaths one (which is getting distorted by increasing test volume).

19 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Are you denying that there is a lag time between cases being reported and deaths? Because deaths are rising again, aren't they?

IDK if he/she was, but looking closely at the Swedish cases & deaths charts, I wonder if the normal "cases lead deaths by ~3 weeks" relationship might be reversed there. (Sounds crazy, but if you're not doing much testing, perhaps because you think you're reaching herd immunity, you might only start to ramp up testing in response to a spike in deaths....)

(You seem to have misunderstood my earlier posts; I don't consider Sweden a 'good example', more be an anomaly.)

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

All I can say is that someone is obviously having a bad day and needed to vent.

By TVF standards, this isn't much of a vent!

You can get a EMF tester for <$20; maybe other people can advise you on which kind, what to look out for etc.

On 11/13/2020 at 11:05 AM, Crossy said:

IIRC 3D printers are controlled items.

The mind boggles

33 minutes ago, placeholder said:

However, the latest figures show Sweden is experiencing higher levels of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths than its neighbours, relative to population size.

IIRC the figures have shown this more or less from the beginning... (but those inclined to support the Swedish policy have tended to explain this away in terms of factors special to Sweden, while never considering that there might be other factors special to Sweden behind that policy's apparent success).

But TBH many other countries would 'die for' even Sweden' recent daily death rate (<25, for a country of ~10m population).

2 hours ago, RichCor said:

'Breakthrough finding' reveals why certain Covid-19 patients die

->Genetic association  found relevant in* 10% of serious Covid-19 patients

*only, but it's a start...

12 minutes ago, 3NUMBAS said:

A new coronavirus strain could potentially leap to other animals, such as rats, mice, ferrets and voles, an expert has warned.

So probably also cats & dogs... Perhaps pet-keeping will soon be as passe as bat-eating...

1 hour ago, 3NUMBAS said:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/riots-erupt-naples-lockdown-protest-22898101

Dateline:

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• 06:14, 24 OCT 2020
• Updated 06:18, 24 OCT 2020

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Almost every demonstrator could be seen wearing a face mask in the photos and videos that emerged.

Covid chin-warmer style, in the pic right above this quote!

On 11/12/2020 at 4:07 AM, mlmcleod said:

No vaccine will be successful it loses effectiveness in 4 months as has been reported.

An oral vaccine that doesn't require refrigeration could still be very useful though.

33 minutes ago, webfact said:

He said actual terror attacks in the kingdom, the world's top oil exporter and a key U.S. ally, had "fallen to near zero" following a restructuring of the interior ministry

'Sharp tool' incident in Jeddah aside,  I wonder if he's counting the one in the cemetery two days ago on Armistice Day. (Either 2's 'near enough' to zero in MBS arithmetic, or the tool's not so sharp.)

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@FoxNews daytime ratings have completely collapsed. Weekend daytime even WORSE. Very sad to watch this happen, but they forgot what made them successful, what got them there. They forgot the Golden Goose. The biggest difference between the 2016 Election, and 2020, was @FoxNews!

Tweeted by @realDonaldTrump, a few hours ago.

Is someone confusing his Ass and his Image?

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

A Change.org petition titled 'Remove Amber Heard From Aquaman 2' has been signed by more than 960,000 people.

AKA the "Amber Herd"

44 minutes ago, Silurian said:

There is absolutely no reason to withhold the same courtesies to the Biden team.

Apart from Trump-level vindictiveness...

3 hours ago, placnx said:

It is highly regrettable that the debate has been between shutdown or "let it rip". There is a middle ground.

There certainly should be. But in many places, implementing some kind of 'middle way' has been hampered by difficulty communicating/lack of public cooperation &/ failure of politicians etc to abide by rules.

Right wing commentators also seem to be using the situation to exacerbate distrust in government/civil society. Let's hope they haven't managed totally succeeded by the time it's really needed (eg asteroid heading Earth's way.)

47 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

It's such a shame, were I live a lot of young guys race at night with no lights on the bike. They take off anything that has weight. Who said it would be nice to be young again?

Darwin's Angels?

26 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

Out there, out there somewhere, there is a 2nd Grade class missing its special student. 

C'mon, she could count to 25!