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This seems splitting hairs to me. Biden tends to use qualifiers for such things for political reasons. Like semi-fascist instead of fascist. Such things are best not taken too literally.

No it doesn't. Transgenderism is not only about genitals.

First they came for the transgender people. ... Fascism is afoot in the maga controlled republican party.

Thighland in the news again from U.S. politicians. Previously we had a politician mispronounce Thailand as Thighland out of ignorance. Now we have a report of a politician INTENTIONALLY mispronouncing Thailand as Thighland to see how compliant female dates are. If they corrected his pronunication, it was game over. Rather revealing behavior. Wonder why Thighwan doesn't get this kind of fun action? Now that the cat is out of the bag, the Thighland gambit is now useless. Perhaps, men afraid of assertive women can say Singerpore instead? Or Vietname? How about Bally for Bali? Feel encouraged to come up with your own date testers. Gov. Ron DeSantis used to pronounce Thai as ‘thigh’ to assess dates, former Yale classmate claims (yahoo.com)

So will China help Muscovy in this way or not? China is trying to build it's good guy image with soft power in the global south. The global south is not joining the western coalition to help Ukraine, but I don't think it would help China's image to be explicitly arming an invading and genocidal nation (Muscovy).

Touche!

Hardly. The fare is 10 baht. The urban myth that it doubles at this light or that light is invented by f-rangs. Quite rarely, you will get a driver saying things like that, but it's rare. If a time comes that a significant percentage of drivers object, then and only then would I change my advice. That said if you've been on a very long ride as the only passenger, the fare is still 10 baht but I suggest a situational response in such cases to pay 20.

White man's burden?

But it happens. Especially to drunks.

Another one that doesn't get it. Although it does sound illogical, the actual intended meaning of could care less is exactly the same as couldn't care less. Again, they are both informal idioms. There is no requirement of logic for informal idioms. It would be like insisting on perfect logic in slang.

Yes baht bus fatalities are very rare. There have been a few crashes over the years too. You can choose to not stand on the back. In my view other than back standing, the risk is in the drivers taking off quickly before people are seated after boarding. Compare to the risks of riding bikes, and it isn't even close.

Not correct. The fare is 10 baht all the way to North Road. But if you want to pay double, by all means do so.

I think people can be confident at least for the major offices that they follow the clearly written law saying TWO months before the application date.

Agree to disagree.

In defense of could care less. From an American media source, of course. He's big on the sarcasm angle, as am I. But really you don't need to feel bad if you want to use couldn't care less. The real reason people say “I could care less.” (slate.com) Another amusing thing about all this is the common British misconception that Americans don't get irony or sarcasm. Yet it seems to be the Brits here most outraged by my defense of the American sarcastic use of could care less. So who doesn't get sarcasm then snookums?

It actually IS an American usage which has been well documented here already. Think more carefully before spewing specious insults.

Any bank anywhere will be in trouble if there is a run on the bank caused by panic, justified or not. In the case of SVB it was justified.

The blob is woke; it's going to Florida to die.

Arvind Narayanan

Which office?

10 baht.

You've got the 800K part reversed. The 800K needs to be in for TWO months before the immigration application date and THREE months after the extension is approved. For the rest of the year, the balance can't go under 400K.

No. They have the same meaning. PERIOD.

Barron is the only one of his kids that might still have a soul.

Obviously my position isn't that could care less is THE American usage, but rather that its AN American usage. It would be impossible to really know what percentage of Americans that use either phrase favor could care less, but I think there has been a good consensus that I agree with that the could care less usage is more common in the US (and based on something I have read Canada as well) than the UK. Cheers.