save the frogs

$$$ is a part of it though. No one likes to pay high energy costs. But with renewables, everyone can just get the hell out of the middle east for once and for all? Hallelujah!

I think the thugs know what they can and can't get away with. In other words, when the cops do finally come around and inquire about what happened, the thugs know they will need to justify their actions. And I doubt they would get so vicious over a triviality because they know the police would not turn a blind eye or just give them a slap on the wrist. Since Thailand relies heavily on tourism revenue, if you rack up a bill of 10,000 Baht and refuse to pay, the police will likely turn a blind eye if you got a beating.

These tourist zones are very dangerous places to hang out. The story does not appear to have all the details. The motorbike taxi refused to return a mobile phone? I don't think they normally steal phones. Something else must have happened. Walking Street needs to have police patrolling. Come on guys, make a budget for it.

The US is a net exporter of fossil fuels, probably why they don't want to switch to renewables. The EU needs to import fossil fuels, one reason they do want to switch. In the meantime, energy costs in the EU are double of the US and China. Remains to be seen what the energy costs will be with renewables, but it has a major impact on cost of living.

Just watched video by an Israeli guy, so he may be biased. He claims Israelis did not steal any land. In the Israeli declaration of independence, it states "we extend a hand of peace to our neighbors". But the Hamas charter states Israel must be obliterated. So yes, that is precisely what the Israelis believe - kill or be obliterated and wiped off the map. This is a quote from Golda Meir:

there probably are, but you are probably the only one who goes to chiang mai for gogos.

It would be good for mental health to travel more and take a break from the daily news. I'm preaching to myself here too. The world will not burn. Elon Musk is promising that we will become an intergalactic species soon. And you will be able to book a trip to Saturn at a very reasonable cost. See the ring up close.

This guy's theory on the Iran War: Iran War - An Engineered Crisis to Bury the Petrodollar and Usher in a New Monetary Order.

You found him offensive because you spend too much time listening to blockheads. Comedians are the only people who can be brutally honest. Because everyone else would be considered too offensive or politically incorrect, but their comments are thinly veiled as humor, even though most of what they say has some truth to it.

There is possibly some information missing. He refused the offer? Why did he stop in the first place? Could be he was so naive that he doesn't understand why the ladyboy was flagging him down I guess ... but ... or the asking price was too high? Yeah, don't try to negotiate with ladyboys in dark alleys at 2 am.

But I can't grasp the history of these people. Makes no sense. This is from Quora. Their original homeland was a "Roman Province"? So they never had their own country? So if you don't own the joint, then you can get expelled. Which they did. But how come they never had their own country to begin with? So makes sense that they should have their own country, but the fact that they didn't historically before Israel seems odd. https://www.quora.com/Why-was-there-no-Jewish-state-country-before-Israel-Why-are-there-so-few-Jews There was also, at that time, no “Israel” as a country we know to day. There was the Roman Province of Judea. (Named JUDEA because it was where Jews lived as their ancestral homeland). When the Jews of Judea were expelled, the Romans renamed the province as Palestine (and also renamed Jerusalem as Aelia Capotilina) - the aim being that the land had been emptied of Jews. This is where the name Palestine comes from: the ETHNIC CLEANSING of the indigenous inhabitants who managed to return to their homeland c1900 years later.

Seems like the Palestinians also killed women and children at one point.

maybe need to wait. it's probably coming. and this would be great news. no need to take a flight to hong kong / tokyo / singapore to hitch a cruise

ChatGPT was out in 2023, no? No more need to English tutors.

Obliterate is my new favorite word