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Indeed! Get on it ASAP state Secretaries of State!

Don't be a pawn of the patriarchy! Excluding trans women in women’s chess makes you a pawn of the patriarchy | Arwa Mahdavi | The Guardian

One thing I can't shake. Overtipping barbers especially if I'm using them regularly. It's definitely not the Thai custom but I just can't help it.

I think drivers deserve tips more than waiters, unless at fancy restaurants. Never heard of a waiter killed bringing food to a table.

You intentionally don't get my position. There should be no separate categories based on gender in chess at all. It's insulting to females that they've done this. They should reconsider and abolish the separation.

Don't play dumb. You know what I meant. They're competing but it's not a physical competition like sports such as swimming, track, etc. Whether a person was born male or female should make NO DIFFERENCE. To suggest that it does, is sexist garbage.

There shouldn't be any gender segregation in chess AT ALL. If women haven't rated at the top YET, then that's something to aspire to. Chess players are not athletes.

Yeah I get that. Living in tourism centers creates different expectations.

You definitely shouldn't spunk on the staff at least on the premises.

Different countries have radically different tipping cultures.

Round up or nothing for cheap meal. 20 baht per person for a modest meal. 30 to 50 baht per person for an expensive meal. Forget percentages. You're not in Kansas anymore. If service charge has been added, then it gets tricky as often the restaurant just takes that money.

Yes. Plenty. Also, plenty of FITS traveling as couples or their family.

He would debate if a non loony tunes challenger enters the contest. It would be politically insane to dignity the current troll challengers by standing on a debate stage with them. Also Biden is the incumbent. Trump is the incumbent for the delusional.

My current IP which is a DTAC sim card blocks torrents and stremio but works with a VPN.

It can't be enforced.

Some are. Most are useful idiots for Putin. Just as isolationists leading to WW2 like Ford and Lindbergh were useful idiots for Hitler.

You made that up.

That makes no sense. So if he doesn't participate, then what? He's kept off ballots?

I'm as anti Trump as it gets but I won't criticize him for skipping debates when he is so far ahead. It's a smart political decision.

I bet you never heard of this one. Bob Patterson played by Seinfeld's Jason Alexander. A cancelled one season disaster but Alexander argues there was a lot of bad luck responsible for the spectacular failure. I had also never heard of it until now. I'm going to give it a chance. On youtube:

It sounds like domestic terrorism incited by a fascist cult leader. He has nothing to lose now. He's willing to destroy the country to save his own ample ass.

Expanded Medicaid blocked by right wing governments in so called red states. So basically for ideological reasons they're killing their own state citizens. Private insurance if you're older and/or preexisting conditions is massively expensive. Over a certain income level, the Obamacare subsidizes the insurance quite well in the lower ends of the scale. Employers are not obligated to provide insurance. They often play games to avoid that. Americans will often not call an ambulance (and thus die) because they want to avoid the massive bill just for the ride.

I just watched that too. Totally disgusting! What a sleazeball. Plus of course he's on board with pardoning Trump. As bad as he is, he's still better than Trump or DeSantis though.

Most homeless in the U.S. these days are homeless because the rent is too darned high! They may become mentally ill or dead from being homeless though. I know I couldn't hack that.

Interesting comment but the cooler weather in Bagaio is a definite big plus for many. Also not that far to travel to a beach area occasionally if you want that. The trekking thing is something you might do once as a tourist outside the city. It's the city there that appeals to me a possibly great place to live, though of course we can't know anything much before visiting. His economic info about the U.S. is dated, but worth looking at for the Baguio content: