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I agree the story sounds strange. But from what I can gather the gang rapes did not involve that many men. Over the course ten year period, there were 92 separate incidents involving 72 men, and even though some of the men raped her more than once, it seems her husband was careful to orchestrate the rapes in such a way to mitigate the effect it would have on her when she woke up (even though he himself anally raped her, since she would not consent to that particular sex act). Before the rapes began she had already been prescribed an anti-anxiety drug that had the effect of making her drowsy. He just added a little more to her food to ensure she remained unconscious. So if you figure that ten years is 3650 days and there were 92 incidents, you can see that he was probably trying space out the incidents so that he could successfully explain away whatever complaints she might make. Even so, she did have blackouts and other symptoms. She went to several doctors but none of them bothered to check her blood for drugs apparently and a cursory examination revealed nothing wrong with her. Every time she was accompanied by her husband who explained away her symptoms by saying she was exhausted from caring for her grandchildren so perhaps the doctors didn't take her seriously as a result, hence her anger at French male society. Then, again, she was in her sixties, so the idea that her husband was drugging her and soliciting men to rape her was probably not something most doctors would think of. The husband, of course, completely confessed, so if there is more to the story, it could be that he's trying to protect others. He was a member of a forum dedicated to stories and discussions about raping and abusing women while drugged and taught one of his friends how to drug and rape his own wife and then raped her himself. He was also accused of raping at least one other women and was implicated in the murder and rape of another woman. Still, at the trial his wife said that he was an ideal husband who always took care of her. The psychotherapist who examined him called it a case of split personality. Well, as Hamlet said, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." What is most chilling is that there is a whole subculture out there of men who engage in acts like this or even worse and they meet online and exchange stories and photos. Incredible.

Thanks for telling us what to think!

I only use it with Firefox on the laptop. On the phone, I mostly use NewPipe.

Wow, I never heard of it -- it's only list now

With Christmas looming, I decided to watch again my favorite Christmas movie: Die Hard 2. Does anybody have any recommendations for other Christmas movies woth watching? (Not It's a Beautiful Life, please)

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Citibank ATMs didn't charge the fee if you have a Citibank card and a preferred account. No ATM fee, no transaction fee

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The woman has shown the kind of initiative that we expect from our government officials.

A bunch of Thaksin gibberish as usual. Interesting that both Thailand and the US have leaders with no official office.

Yes, I do. Look at all the billionaires in Trump's cabinet. He's in awe of them, always has been. A momma's boy with an inferiority complex that he tries to hide with a lot of bluster.

Elon bought himself a president for $277 million. Nobody voted for him. Twitter is a propaganda machine, which cost him $40 million but ended up proving invaluable during the election. Why is he accumulating all this power? What is his agenda exactly?

As you can see, Musk is now dictating terms to the US Congress: No bills should be passed Congress until Jan. 20, when @realdonaldtrump takes office. None. Zero. https://x.c om/elonmusk/status/1869461048828522999

He promised to have fully autonomous cars by 2017. How's that working out? Not much point in going to Mars until you've worked out how to build a self-sustaining colony there. Even then, the rest of the planet will remain inhospitable. A colony on the moon first would seem like a better idea.

A ruthless if dishonest businessman, megalomaniac, narcissist, white supremacist, immoral, chronic liar, somewhere on the autistic spectrum, lacking in empathy, sympathy, poor understanding of social relations and politics. He's completely untrustworthy in my opinion, and I certainly don't want him running the country. Seth Abramson is writing a biography of him. He has loads of material about Elon on his substack (some of is free, enough to get the gist, the rest behind a paywall). Musk comes across as the kind of evil genius you see in James Bond movies but hope you'll never encounter in real life. https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-musk-from-his-biographer

Trump's Cabinet includes 8 billionaires (including Elon, the richest man in the world) and 5 multi-millionaires (some of whom will, I am sure, be billionaires within the next four years). RFK Jr is the poor man on the totem pole. His grifting has only earned him $15 million (and a trophy wife in Cheryl Hines), although I'm sure he intends to rectify that. Draining the swamp indeed.

You're right -- I should have said his first Western. "Misty" was a good movie, though. Another good non-Western was, I thought, "Tightrope" although it doesn't get talked about much.

Yeah, but nobody wants to live like that.

I'd say it's time for you to take your meds.

The first movie he directed, I believe

Unforgiven is a movie I keep going back to, especially the last scene. A lot of great dialogue

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I wouldn't call myself far left but I agree with you. This guy should be shut out of anything to do with government.

That's my whole point. First, I've never had an automatic conversion when using a debit card. Always, I've been asked if I went to use dynamic conversion. Second, I've never had a withdrawal canceled because I refused the conversion rate. But both of these things happened with the SCB ATM at Central Chidlom. At K Bank, I couild make the withdrawal as usual, but, still, the conversion was made automatically and I had to reject it. I think a lot of people won't understand what the conversion is or why they're seeing it and they'll just click on the buttom to proceed with the transaction. I did ask if some change had been made but the staff I spoke with didn't know.

It was a Fidelity debit card. The 5.5 percent conversion fee was on top of the ATM fee. I've used this ATM before without any problem so this is something new.