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Posting to get confirmation on the dates. What is the last day they need to record the form to avoid benefits cutoff? My understanding is that if you don’t get your February check, you've been cut off. Is that correct?

He's rich so he's eccentric but take away his cash and it's looney bin time city.

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It was a big age difference. So what? The Thai man was no chicken. Death eternally erases such age differences. This was a horrible accident. Maybe take the gossiping insinuations elsewhere and show some respect. You didn't know them. You don't know the details of their relationship.

I love Latin American football so of course the Argies got to win. But Brazil vs. Argentina would have been a lot more fun.

I wouldn't rule Tim Scott out. He could be an antidote to the embarrassing stench left by Herschel Walker. As he's obviously a very intelligent man but politically wrong. Pro trump and infamously stating the USA doesn't have a racism problem, he's the kind of black man that does have a chance with Republicans.

There is already that more politically neutral alternative to Twitter -- Mastadon. But Twitter is a big name. It will take a lot to kill it but it now appears Musk is bending over backwards to do just that. Funny you mention Meta. I think their stock is a good buy now!

I just disagree. I get your one point though. Do they cover every British expat traffic death in Thailand. I assume not. So if they covered this one because they were a gay couple with a big age difference (as we all know big age differences are very common among expat couples and married people here) they still handled the story very respectfully going as far as to provide multiple quotes about what a good guy the Brit was. I don't see the harm. I don't see how friends or family of either of the accident victims would have objections to this coverage.

Yes, he really is very horrible in so many ways.

I'm going to have to disagree on this one. Although it's true the press often does what you're saying, if you look at this specific article, it does not do that at all. In fact, I see the opposite. They were obviously a long term couple, the foreigner Mr. Keith Miles, had been a popular and well liked teacher, and the article is saying that they were a couple SEES them in the wake of their tragic deaths as what they were. Good chance if same sex marriage was legal in Thailand, they would have been married. So gay couples like they were can often be INVISIBLE as their relationships have no legal status. On the other hand, the completely disgusting and uncalled post on this thread insinuating that the ex teacher was a pedo is homophobia on steroids. There is this fascist tendency internationally (Putin, DeSantis, etc.) to falsely conflate gay men with pedos, using the toxic word "groomers" for any mention of anything gay in any context in schools, etc. and certainly targeting teachers. Such bigotry needs to be called out for what it is.

That's what I do but it can be a burden sometimes for the host. I log into his network from Thailand, turn on the device which is just some kind of cheap box loaded with Linux, then connect to that via Teamviewer. I have been doing that for many years and of course it works. But always seeking other options as like I said, there are burdens.

Basicaly Musk the owner of Twitter is now acting as the Alpha Troll of Twitter, in a similar way as Trump used to do. Of course in Trump's case that drove up usage because there is mass appeal to watching train wrecks. Trump is allowed back but so far is declining as he's currently all about his very own absurdly named Truth Social. But having the owner and the Alpha Troll of Twitter being the same (right wing) person is downright weird. It objectively deeply degrades the Twitter brand as any kind of global town hall. We already had Parler and other right wing socials. So if there is any rationality (doubtful) to what Musk is doing, it would be about gaining attention of any kind in the hope to grow the brand. But now the brand is toxic. It had problems before, sure, and some hoped Musk would solve them, but he isn't, he's making things much worse. It's even greatly impacting Tesla! Thanks to his antics Tesla is now being branded as a RIGHT WING car company. Nobody in their right mind wants their car company to be linked to any kind of political ideology if they hope to be more than a niche company.

Imagine if they were a straight couple. Nobody would gave posted what you did with the same set of facts. It was a disgusting post and totally unfounded.

He's a shameless demagogue. A trump without the entertainment value he used to have.

Yeah attacking Disneyland is so common.

About what's happening in Juarez / El.Paso now.

I call BS. Migrants aren't citizens who can vote. In some cases eventually but its a long process when even possible. Also Latinos who are citizens are not reliably democrats. See Florida.

My understanding is that the people in that Juarez El.Paso line are waiting to LEGALLY enter the United States to LEGALLY claim asylum. There is a spike now because Title 42 Covid restrictions have been lifted. People trying to enter illegally don't line up like that at an official border crossing.

I'm happy Griner is home and the right wingers that don't welcome her home because she exercised her American right to peacefully protest are truly disgusting. But I think Bout is valuable to Putin and I don't like the precedent of this deal. It makes Americans more of a target to our enemies and make no mistake, the US and Russia are basically at war now.

Exactly. The fascist party of Trump doesn't want a real solution. They want an eternal race based campaign issue. At the same time big businesses are happy to ruthlessly exploit the cheap undocumented labor.

They're coming to work. Hardly freeloaders. Immigrants in the US are amazing. We need many more of them. Yes there are too many coming illegally which is why comprehensive immigration reform is needed to open up better paths for sorely needed legal immigration.

The Russians have accused Whalen.of being a spy. So it's never going to be easy to get him out.

Well young people have always gone through phases. Sometime they stick and sometimes they don't. I knew two people while young that told me they felt they were female in a male body That was shocking and definitely wasn't trendy back then. One turned out to be cisgender gay and the other cisgender straight. Also even the guys I knew that were into just gay stuff turned out to be straight. Very disappointing. Adolescents and their parents shouldn't jump to premature conclusions. It's natural to experiment and try on different hats. My favorite peer growing up was an openly bisexual adonis that enjoyed dropping acid while getting top marks and being the star quarterback of my high school football team. I don't know how he turned out. I suspect he peaked in high school.

It's "funny" (not ha ha) that the anti Griner rhetoric from the American right wing mirrors pro Putin Russian propaganda. Who is copying who? James Carville: 'Most' Critics of Griner Deal Are Racist Putin Lovers (mediaite.com)

Yes and once you've been president as Trump has been it's much harder to present yourself as a Washington outsider. Trump has learned how to use the levers of federal power to become a dictator. He knows all the loopholes now so he's very dangerous if he gets power again. The founders didn't imagine a president as corrupt and malicious as he is. It would be shocking if he's reelected again, but interestingly since he announced he's running for 24 he hasn't done any public events. So he's the weakest he has ever been politically but still strikes fear into republicans who can't wait for him to be indicted.