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And what is the card cash advance fee that your bank charges? For credit cards a cash advance is typically 3-5%. Does your bank not charge this fee when using a debit card?

If this "story" was being told by anyone else, I'd think there's a remote chance it could be even partially true, but since claiming to be chased out of China this guy has made it his mission in life to create more anti-China content than the rest of the world combined. With that in mind, he provides no claims as to what these HUGE NUMBERS could be, not even a guesstimate. Just 10 or so mobile phone clips of EVs on fire as his "evidence" that this is a HUGE problem. No explanations as to why these EVs caught fire other than "poor QC", obviously because.... China.

You may have purchased the wrong olives as those appear to be stuffed with air. I love green olives, but I'm such a bad shopper I have to admit I have no idea what a good or bad price for pretty much anything in a supermarket. I tend to buy a couple of bottles of green olives with pimentos and they're gone in a day or 2. Then in a year or 2 when I make it back to the supermarket, I'll buy another couple of bottles.

Possibly* true. I've had an agent tell me I'm required to carry a tm.30 receipt in my wallet or passport or I risk being arrested and/or fined. ????

I would love to know what time you're out and about when you're only coming across a handful of people on the streets. That's quite fortunate as every time I've been there the streets, mall, and shops along the sois were packed with Thais along with a sprinkling of Japanese, Koreans, and westerners.

What a terrifying ordeal. Have you contacted the Chinese Embassy and informed them that you may have witnessed a Chinese Thai driving a taxi? If true, the loss of face that could result for the entirety of the Chinese Thai community would be devastating.

Only the banks know, but there is a format used after the BIN as there are services available to merchants which offer detection of a cards type and class of card via an API. This can detect not only credit, debit, and gift/prepaid, but also differentiate between the different card products offered by banks.

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Yeah, I'm thinking the mechanics are likely confused as I've never heard of an engine requiring a timing chain replacement at 100k km. Even 100k miles would be considered conservative. I was under the impression they last 100's of thousands of km these days and aren't changed unless there are signs of impending failure. It could be a Suzuki thing but if it were I'd imagine the Suzuki mechanics would have figured out what OP was wanting done.

Sorry, the education comment crossed the line. You made some good points. Cheers

In this case it was a combination of a young, inexperienced, and possibly inept doctor using cheap old equipment resulting in said scarring. Go to a cheap hospital and they likely have cheap older equipment combined with inexperienced doctors to use it on you. I learned my lesson.

No, sex is recorded at birth, as male or female (and possibly hermaphrodite in places... I don't know). If you are confused as to the difference between sex and gender, well, you clearly have access to the internet and don't want links from any of us...

Another recommendation for Bumrungrad. Avoid Saint Louis. I went there first and still have the scar to prove it.

Another bad faith request for a link. I asked for one link, in good faith, after searching for and being unable to find a reference citing what a poster had claimed. That poster then performed all sorts of mental gymnastics to avoid providing a link to back up his claim. Since that post I have been asked multiple times in bad faith for links as some sort of childish pay back, as if my initial request was also in bad faith or unwarranted. Yes, the law is called, not named, the "Don't Say Gay" law. Yes, critics and/or the media have given it that nickname, which you obviously already know, yet somehow think I don't, even though I used quotation marks around the nickname. Do you happen to be a product of the Florida public education system?

I definitely could have worded that better, and I left out the part relative to learnt experiences. I was trying to say it would be a rational fear if "men" have been assaulting women while they do their business to such an extent that it has become instinctual. Likewise it would be rational if there were reports of this happening in the present day, yet I can't remember ever hearing of such a thing. If the only reason women are scared when they see a "man" (in this case a transgender woman) in the woman's restroom is because it's outside of our normal experiences, then I question if that's not an irrational fear (again, the fear that a transgender woman would assault a woman in the restroom). If a transgender woman who makes little or no effort to look like a woman, decides it would be a good idea to use the woman's restroom, I would certainly agree in that case the fear is completely rational. Quite a lot of our points thus far have obviously been based around the idea that people would be able to ascertain who was born male vs. female while that isn't always the case. Trans women who take female hormones from puberty can be impossible to discern by most people with the exception of perhaps doctors or experts on anatomical differences (differences which may be apparent in these cases). Do they have to use the men's bathroom? Should there be somebody checking IDs at all restrooms denying these otherwise impossible to discern trans women from using the women's restroom? If the fear is only based on our assumption of a persons sex at birth, is this a fear that should be entertained to such an extent in modern society that we take actions which discriminate against one group of people so another group can "feel" safe? Sorry for clipping the rest of your post as it's getting late, but you made good points and I think I agreed with all of your ideas on the potential origins of learnt and inherited fears and behaviors.

They just did, what are you gonna do about it? ????

Yes, I'm denying that. I do understand it may be a difficult concept to grasp. I wasn't trying to attack you, and I don't know why you have taken it in that way, I was only pointing out that surgery is not a requirement for one to be transgender. Gender is a societal construct (man and woman), different from sex (male and female). Transgender people don't identify with the gender society has assigned them. Some transgender people undergo surgery, some do not. I honestly can't tell if you're trolling at this point, due the overwhelming irony with regards to your name and this particular topic, but I'll play along if it makes you happy. ????

Perfectly understandable. But is this a rational fear? And by that I mean is this a fear brought about by thousands of years of evolution which has become embedded in our DNA, or is this a learned fear from being raised in a puritanical society? Do women and girls in nudist colonies or the parts of the Amazon and Africa (and other places) where people aren't "fully clothed" also experience such fear? Even Europeans will laugh at Americans over their puritanical values while ignoring their own biases relative to those less-clothed societies previously mentioned.

Understandable. What if a large, mean looking woman went into the bathroom while a young woman/girl was in there? Would they be scared then? Is there anything we should do about that? Or if just your average butch woman who looks and dresses a bit more like a man? Would they be scared then? Is there anything we should do about that? I think a large part of the fear is penis = weapon which can be used in a sexual assault. With females generally being smaller and less muscular than males, a "former" female probably doesn't cause men fear in most cases, other than fear of their own desires perhaps. ????

OK? Is there another sub-forum more appropriate for this topic?

I actually find the root causes of intolerance to be much more interesting than discussions on what is or is not "appropriate" intolerance, as that is all based on ones perception, which is relative. How people handle being made aware of the root causes of their own intolerance's is quite fascinating. Have any papers been published hypothesizing on the stages people go through (similar to the stages of grief) when being made aware of their own misconceptions due to the relative nature of intolerance?

I honestly thought you'd go straight for the "liberal Biden administration" or Wikipedia but you chose the Mayo Clinic. I love this thread. It's the gift that keeps on giving.

Please be careful posting such pornography. I think you may have just turned me gay.

Yes, multiple pages deep already and posting 1 link would be off topic, but discussing why you won't provide said link ad nauseam is apparently on topic. I hope you do understand that nobody is buying this, though the mental gymnastics you're going through are proving to be quite entertaining.

And as I said, those do gooders are the ones who want books banned. It's completely natural to come up in such a discussion. Do you not think it possible that part of their do-gooding could eventually lead to the threat of banning books here? That's optimistic.