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I'd be the first to say that Trump doesn't understand anything but selfishness. However, I do think the stock market's ups and downs due to his implementing and then withdrawing tariffs are very useful and advantageous to his billionaire buddies. They can sell when the market is high and buy when the market is low, knowing it will go up again soon. All they need is a little warning in advance.

I am a far-left-wing liberal and consider myself a socialist. Trump, IMO, is definitely not a socialist. He's an ultra-right-wing capitalist.

Arrest him, throw him in jail for 30 days, and then deport him. 😡

I'm a Trump Hater! 😡 As far as those who supported or still support him, I divide them into two classes: - Those who actually have the same values as Trump. I hate them. 😡 - Those who have been duped by Trump. I pity them and hope they see through his con jobs. 😔

Yes, I have six daughters: four "home-grown," one adopted, and one foster child.

I've started wearing a mask again when I go to places with a lot of people. Has anyone heard of a vaccine for this new strain? And if the government is planning on making it available to the public?

I'm not a UK citizen, and in my country, the USA, we don't have any restrictions like this, but I think doing anything to discourage people from having children is a good thing. In fact, in my most recent book, I name human overpopulation as one of the three main causes of our (human's) continuing degradation of the Earth's biosphere. In my book, I, in fact, recommended a global 1-woman/1-child policy, which would reduce our population to about 10% (a 90% reduction) of what it is now, but that would take about 350 years. But, in the book, I explain why even doing this would only slow down the inevitable human destruction of the Earth's environment. The simple message of the book is that we are already "over the cliff" on this. 😞

I'm a far-left, woke liberal, and, although I vote for the Democrat candidate 99% of the time, don't really consider myself a Democrat. I don't identify completely with any political party. But, I do think the suggestions above, which encourage the "...attempt to shame and silence anyone who diverges from progressive orthodoxy." I'm above all a free speech advocate and believe everyone should be allowed to express whatever opinions they have on anything. I do, however, also believe that no one should be able to prohibit anyone else from living their life as they see fit, as long as doing that does not harm anyone. And, I don't believe allowing transgender women or transgender men to use the public toilet facility of their choice is harming anyone.

Yes, a couple of nights ago, about midnight, we heard what I assumed were jet fighters cruising low over our mountain home near Phetchabun. They must have been very low because they were not only very loud, but their engines caused some of the windows in our house to vibrate.

I didn't click on the link because I know what my views are on anything Trump does - DISGUSTING!!! 😡

My home in the jungle-filled mountains of Phetchabun Province. And, I hope it stays that way! 👍

After having lived in Thailand for about 20 years, my answers (some are guesses) to the questions above are as follows: 1.) What percentage of this is due to peer pressure? - 0%. I think they're just trying out something different. 2.) What percentage continue to live like this as adults? - 5 to 10% (A guess) 3.) Would these people face discrimination from society if they decided that their previous ways of dressing and acting had been "a phase?" - No. (An opinion) 4.) How do Thai parents typically react to their children cross-dressing or identifying as LGBTQ? - They are okay with it. (Limited knowledge, but based on a few personal experiences)

I just don't understand all this hubbub about the reports on Biden's health. First of all, he had a VP who could step in for him if he did have to resign, and secondly, it's old news. The lies and deceit perpetrated by Trump in just his first couple of months as president are much worse than anything done in the Biden administration.

No, we are not prepared for that...

The USA did this over 10 years ago. All you need to do is show immigration that you are making deposits of over THB 65,000 in a Thai bank account each month. Your bank will give you the proof of that.

Data is the result of applying an opinion. It's the result of someone's (or some AI's) decision on how to calculate the data. In the case of your data, that calculation did not include all the extraneous technologies, machines, and structures that would be required to create, deliver, operate, maintain, and finally retire the energy-harvesting technology. I am prohibited from posting links to or even the title of my book. I assume I'd be allowed to send that to you via a message, but I won't do that unless you ask. You might be interested to know that in my book, I reduce the sources of energy used by energy-harvesting technologies to just three: solar, nuclear, and gravity. I included all the fossil fuels under solar because the biological method in which they were created is exactly like how we use solar panels today. I also included wind and water mills under solar. I placed tides under gravity. Soon after my book was published, which was five years ago, I decided that solar should also just be a type of nuclear energy. Then several years later after a lot of thinking on the subject, I decided that ALL ENERGY comes from a type of a force we call "gravity." I have not revised my book since these realizations because classifying types of energy sources is not the main focus of my book. The focus of my book is broader than that. It is an ideological inquiry into the human-caused degradation of the Earth's biosphere.

You are posting someone else's opinions and assertions. I am posting ones of my own.

I can't give you a link to a verification of my assertion that ALL technology, including solar panels, costs more energy to produce, operate, maintain, and dispose of than they ever produce. The verification is in my recent book, but I'm not allowed to enter a link to it or even its title on these forums. In this book, I did use solar systems as my example. What I believe is the problem with the AI response to your question is that you only asked about the energy "generated" by a solar panel. Without getting into clarifications of the use of the word "generate," I'll only say that you would also have to include the manufacture, operation, maintenance, and disposal of all the related technologies associated with the solar panels and required for their use. Examples of these are their mounting brackets, all the wiring used to transfer the harvested electricity to where it will be used, batteries, if they are part of the system, inverters, if AC electricity is required, etc,, the list goes on and on. When you add the energy expended (and all the pollution created) to manufacture and use all these various parts, the total usable electricity produced is less than that.

Is there a new vaccine for this yet?

You are absolutely correct in the first two sentences you have written above! 🖕 And, I would ask what you mean by "viable" in your last sentence, because ALL energy harvesting technologies (solar, wind, tidal, fossil fuel, nuclear, etc.) create more pollution during their life cycle than the usable energy they harvest and make available to us. That was my point. It takes more power to create, run, maintain, and eventually dispose of all energy harvesting technologies than the usable energy they ever produce in their lifetime.

That is a good question. Considering that the first of the Boers arrived more than 350 years ago, how do you propose finding out exactly who took what land from whom? The farmers on the land today were not the ones who took it, nor are the angry blacks the ones who lost it. We are talking 10 plus generations in the past in many cases. I would love to hear how to fairly adjudicate this situation. That's a good question, and could be asked of my home country, the USA, as pertains to the American Indians and the European immigrants, or, I imagine, almost every country. I don't have a good answer, but IMO there should be some acknowledgment of how the land changed hands, and if possible, some attempt at restitution, even if it is to descendants hundreds of years later.

ALL energy technologies create more pollution in their life cycle than usable energy, but windmills are certainly less polluting than burning oil.

I would say the driver of the bike that hit him was at fault because he was making a right-hand turn from a side street. I didn't see any traffic lights in the video.

I agree that any violence against White farmers in South Africa is despicable, but, like most of the problems in the world today, history plays a big role. In this case, how do you think this land was taken from the native. Black South Africans by White immigrants in the first place? 🥺

My post was in response to Digger70's post in which he hoped this would be done in "every country."