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Tragically, he has a good chance. There will likely be one or multiple third party candidates that could siphon votes from the democrat. It will be another very close election, the democrat will obviously win the popular vote as usual, but it will come down to a few states electoral college contests. Plus assuming it is close and Trump loses, Trump will try yet again to illegally overturn the election results, and this time he has more practice in that.

Borscht can be good and coincidentally the best Russian food I've ever had was in San Fransico. Of course there is a history of Russians in Northern California. Borscht is Ukrainian though.

Gmail is aggressively deleting dormant accounts. But in this case, proceed with caution.

It's only obvious to non Magadonian cult members.

No they don't.

I want more benefits from the Russians. I've yet to find a decent bowl of borscht in Pattaya.

Yeah but the Magadonians will run with B.S. till the cows come home.

I also criticize Obama for failing to nip Putin's aggression in the bud after he stole Ukraine. As far as Ukraine corruption, it was obvious that Trump's motivation was to corruptly help his political campaign as he was impeached for that.

Of course it's a fact that being an incumbent is a great advantage but Biden has a few severe weaknesses -- the perception of him being too old and that even though the economic numbers are positive, most Americans still aren't feeling economically secure. A more normal republican can beat Biden.

There's a back story here. There was clearly a bigger conflict that led to the cutoff.

New mobilization coming. This could mean a new big wave of fleeing Russians to all the places they go which includes Thailand. That is if Russia doesn't close their borders.

You educated yourself. What is Russia, really?

That's nice. In any case, the Russian economy (now crippled by the war) is heavily dominated by oil and gas, followed by mining. Tech comprises only a small percentage of Russian GDP. As you posted, Nginx was acquired by an American company in 2019. I don't know the current situation as far as the impact on Russian Nginx workers under western sanctions.

I don't agree at all. Biden is beatable by a non maga candidate but the republicans can't nominate a non maga candidate because they are dominated by maga. Take Chris Christie. He openly attacks Trump so he has no chance of being nominated. Most others either openly support Trump, possibly going for a VP slot on the ticket, or they dance gingerly around the issue being careful not to offend the magas. All are waiting / hoping that Trump blows out because of being a criminal.

Another adorable Magadonian at Trump's recent Erie PA rally. "Kill them all" -- toxic enough for y'all?

So he lost to a dumb guy then.

SDFCU will open accounts with passport as ID and no US address. That's generally unheard of otherwise. But they're rather a quirky outfit to deal with. Swift transfers online for 35.

OK, but US credit reports always list your current and previous addresses. Plenty of places they could get that. Credit card applications, mortgages, etc. I assume if you tell your U.S. credit card issuer that you now live in Thailand that they would put your Thai address in the U.S. report.

I assume non-Thais that do have Thai based credit cards would be in that system as well.

Interesting. Well as you know U.S. credit reports list your current and previous addresses. A debit card comes with a bank account. I'm talking about getting an actual credit cards. I still don't quite get how if you get a credit card in Thailand that it wouldn't end up being picked up on your U.S. credit report. What's the situation for Thais and credit cards? Do they have some kind of credit reporting / scoring system here?

Maybe use your imagination a little bit about why many older people eventually do go back even though they never planned to.

Well currently it's about 170. It's about the permanent penalties IF you repatriate.

Yeah, understood. Which is why when I read that advice not to worry about it if you're older kind of odd. I think they were making assumptions about what older people's lives are like that may or may not be true. Of course, obviously if you can keep a high score, why not? The point of the advice was don't worry about it.

Well I have sometimes needed a credit card of some kind. For examples, paying for an online tax service and a VPN.

I think the answer to that is too obvious to bother answering.