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Well going to war is supposed to involve an act of congress, but that has been ignored by U.S. presidents for a very long time. A hostile annexation of Greenland would be an act of war against NATO ally Denmark. As far as the funding for wars, that does need buy in from the house.

Alaska. Tallest mountain in North America.

Well I'm thinking in terms of our human species which I have a love - hate relationship with.

Update -- yes had a Grab driver accept paying by scanning his QR code (to pay with Bangkok Bank account). Does that mean that all or most all Grab drivers would do the same? It seems probably so as they all have to have functioning phones to do the job at all. Also all Panda drivers? I guess so. It's weird that neither say anything on their apps about this option. Paying cash is not the same thing as scanning a code. Tops Online for example gives that as option to choose when ordering. Maybe these apps don't want to commit to obligating all their drivers to do so. That said, I still want True Money wallet for two reasons -- It often takes longer to get a driver to accept the order when cash is selected. Bigger chance of cold food. It could even lead to rejected orders with no driver found. I'm in the frequent order promotion clubs on both apps. The savings especially on Grab are quite significant. The only way to keep paying those modest dues is to have an online payment option on file.

His dictator instincts drive him to lead by FEAR both at home and abroad. But at the end of the day, he's a FAKE strong man.

It's of course a potentially great tool but based on history and human nature, it seems inevitable that humans have designed a tool for their own extinction. Humanity has dodged doing that so far with nuclear weapons but add in AI and I don't like the odds.

This is the kind of juvenile trolling behavior that you think is desirable from a US president?

You've got repeating all the anti West Kremlin talking points down to a fine art. Vladimir thanks you.

Greenland does have significance to U.S. national security. Greenland and Denmark were already friendly to the U.S. How wise is it to threaten friendly NATO allies with unwanted annexation and possibly using military force. If it's US policy to feel the need for more cooperation with Greenland and Denmark, why not approach them with respect as allies instead of threats?

For me and I think human civilization, AI is a bridge too far.

Tomorrow can't come soon enough.

Trump clearly is far into the PROFANE end of the sacred to profane scale.

Apparently, previous Trump administration officials have reported that Trump's obsession with Greenland was first inspired by his idiocy about how it is pictured on MAPS.. Greenland appears as massively LARGER than it actually is on MAPS and it's well known that Mr. Trump is fixated with BIGLY stuff. Obviously for a bizarre egoist like Trump having the legacy of grabbing such a GIANT chunk of land would be very pleasing to him. The most powerful man in the world to be -- Americans voted for this MADNESS. Embarassing to say the least. Why do maps show Greenland so big? - Geographic FAQ Hub: Answers to Your Global Questions

I have been considering getting a Thai credit card from Bangkok Bank tying up 50,000 baht to do so. But so far I haven't found it necessary. I assume that would work with those apps but worth verifying. If True Money and Scan QR won't work for me, then there would then be a stronger reason to do that.

Another angle on the Panama Canal thing. Jimmy Carter now lies in state at the U.S. Capitol. The flag will be at half mast at Trump's swearing in shindig. People are now giving Carter a lot of attention and saying very nice things about him, at least about his POST presidency. The final handover of the Panama Canal to the people of Panama was done by who? You guessed it. Jimmy Carter. Trump of course is an extreme narcissist and always wants to have more attention than anyone else in the entire world. So this explains his timing, yes?

I am doing exactly the same thing, but eventually I will have accessible income and then of course THEN I will file if it meets the threshold.

I will try! Thank you. It's possible to chat up drivers when they accept orders and ask if they can change 1000 (it helps to tell them how much you will tip if they can as after all they're not bringing your food for their health) and I can also ask them if I can scan pay. Do others have experience doing that successfully with Grab and Panda drivers?

I didn't really think of this with food delivery drivers. When you order and choose CASH, I have assumed you need to be ready to pay cash, or if not, why didn't they say pay with SCAN QR as an option? I do pay Tops delivery by scanning QR with Bangkok Bank and I also use bank transfer from Bangkok Bank when buying from Lazada. So far as far as I know it's only about these two very popular apps.

Starting about January 6th, both my Grab and Food Panda apps began rejecting my Bangkok Bank debit card payment method. Both had messages indicating that I must contact my bank. I let it slide a few days by switching to cash hoping it was a temporary glitch but finally called today and found out is definitely NOT a temporary glitch. Bangkok Bank told me (I have a MC debit card) that these apps have "upgraded" and it will be no longer possible to use my card for payments with them. I asked if there was anything I could do, like switch to new card from them, and was told that they can offer no solution. I then tried adding my Kasikorn Visa debit card. It was not accepted. Of course I wouldn't know what other Thai banks might also be blocked or might still work, but it's not looking good! Switching only to cash won't work for me as I use their services so often and drivers can't be expected to always be able to make change. So I noticed both apps do offer the option of TRUE MONEY WALLET. Checked with them and it is available to foreigners. However my first attempt to sign up with them hit an unfixable roadblock, so I'll try again of course to see if I can get into their system. Specifically it stopped me when I tried to enter my occupation. It wouldn't let me enter anything. So basically a frozen attempt with no way back or forward.

I have a very major update about this. Not good news! Important enough to start this new topic.

Not encouraging that he just threatened a NATO country with military action to steal their territory for the U.S. What's the point of even being in NATO if you do something like that?!?

He does need his base. The BILLIONAIRES.

Attempting to sign up today for True Money. So far it's been tedious but clear. I did the passport scan and then the face scan. All OK and then address / occupation info page. Got to the last item, occupation, and it's impossible to scroll to anything! Got the message -- Unable to process, Wait a moment. It's been over an hour. Now I'm wondering if the page will ever time out but it doesn't look promising that I'll get past this roadblock at least on this attempt.

Republicans at their dirty anti democracy white nationalist tricks again. The idea is to suppress as many votes from the poor and ethnic minorities as possible. To create more hoops to jump through. To intimidate people from even bothering.

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