save the frogs

I'm out. This Trump madness is taking too much of my energy. Good luck with the doom and gloom.

It's not that simple. A lot of things are changing. Nobody knows what things will look like. If you search "Sovereign Wealth Fund", which there was an executive order issued for, there will be no doubt a bunch of media outlets putting a negative spin on it. Here is what appears to be an unbiased objective description of what it might look like. So he appears to be trying to copy a system that has been successful in other nations. Maybe it won't work out. But he doesn't get a pat on the back for effort? You really need to stop putting your biased negative doom and gloom spin on every single thing he's doing and blow things way out of proportion man. What's your blood pressure look like lately? https://law.stanford.edu/2025/02/24/how-trumps-sovereign-wealth-fund-could-solve-a-tax-problem/ President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund — a government-owned fund that could invest in stocks, real estate or other private assets, allowing the American people to share those companies’ profits. Countries as disparate as Saudi Arabia and Norway have used their oil revenue to set up such funds, which are generally thought to have been quite successful.

But your measuring stick is the status quo. Who is to say the status quo isn't crap? Reserve currency ... maybe it should be crypto.

This appears to be a scam. Because the address on the back of the container says Littleton, CO and they give a web address xemenry.com which doesn't exist. Must be a Chinese company. Holy crap. I cannot believe this sort of thing is going on.

My supplements arrived. They pulled a "switcheroo" on me. The brand name on the container is Xemenry. Is that Thai? Chinese? The brand I ordered was a known Western brand. So there is some shady stuff going on. Never ever again will I order supplements on Lazada. iHerb it is. Thanks everyone.

The US has always been a bullying nation. Even if you get an Obama-type orator in there who is always polite, behind the scenes there is ruthless maneuvering to maintain its position at the world's most powerful country. Trump is just crass enough to openly admit it. I don't even think "superpowers" should exist.

He has an inflated ego and shouldn't be making comments like that. But I've met people making 10 dollars an hour with bigger egos than Trump.

I don't know. But someone should bring baseball to Thailand. Not using bats for thuggery.

why do you need to see his shlong? entertaining? for comparison?

It's good that there are alternatives to Pattaya.

The Don weighs in ....

Yeah, because you own the joint.

Lower cost of living. You can survive longer without needing to hold a job. Cockroaches can bring diseases? He sleeps with the thing? He ain't afraid it will climb into his mouth while he sleeps? Mentally ill is right.

There was a young boy in a gogo bar once. He put his hands on his eyes as he walked by the stage. It was funny. The Thais are pragmatic. They understand this industry brings in cash. And I'm not saying it needs to be banned because of the kids. But neither can you avoid coming into contact with the adult scene as the previous poster suggested.

there are families there. and i guess they need to explain to the kids what all the naked women are doing.

Sort of. The adult entertainment is not hidden. It's deliberately in your face because it's what keeps the coffers filled. It's a huge chunk of the GDP. No one if forcing you into the bars, but they are all near the beach. So if you take your kids to the beach, they will see half naked women across the street. I guess the Thais don't think much about it and it's become normalized?

how does he speak exactly?

Yeah, the way Trump decorated the Oval Office bothers you. What a joke. He put cherubs in there. Angels. For good luck. Yes, made of gold. But so what?

I just met a Buddhist monk woman. She was a working professional and then got into a serious car crash. The person next to her died. She had a NDE I guess, was in a coma for a while. When she came out, she ran off to monastery. She was in a monastery for a while, now basically just sits at home all day praying to Buddha and meditating and chanting with Buddhist chant music going on in the background. She tells me she keeps that chant music on while she sleeps. Seemingly no friends, never goes out of the apartment. It's Buddha 24/7. It's one way to live, I guess. But almost seems like a "penitence" of some sort to me.

Well, the price is comparable to what this goes for on iHerb. I avoided the ones with ridiculously low prices ie with non-Western name brands. I've already ordered it, so I'll take a chance and use it. But next time, I should do a background check on the selller? I hadn't thought of that. Yeah, there is a mall near me. I guess I can go hunting for it there, but I doubt they will have the variety I'm looking for. There was a few other supplements I also wanted. I doubt I will find any physical store that has them all. Thanks! Appreciate it.

You are putting on overly negative spin on things. For one thing, they can be labeled debates, not necessarily bickering, which has a more derogatory slant on it. And the debates are about rather complex issues. It's not like people are bickering constantly over nonsense, apart from ocassionally. When it comes to politics, it's complex. So it's normal that arguments will occur.

good point I hadn't thought of. they are not using the hospital system. probably a net gain for the govt then. so it makes no sense then to freeze the pensions.

Thanks for your reply. I mean, the prices vary wildly from non-descript shady name brands to Western brands I recognize, which are 4 times more expensive. The question I had is if it's a Western brand, can they seller actually sell crap and put it in a Western brand name container? Based on the answers I got here, it seems like this is possible. But I find it hard to believe Western supplement companies wouldn't come down hard on Lazada with lawsuits for this type of behavior. Or maybe there's no way to check?

I don't have any friends on here. Doesn't stop me from posting.

you resurrected, hummin? thanks.