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hankypankee

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  1. Nobody actually has to smoke weed anymore in Thailand to get high and have to seek out the right place to do it. Now you can vape it just about anywhere and nobody can smell anything.
  2. Unfortunately, after I posted the full original NYT article, it had to be removed and replaced by an AI summary because of content copyright. ABC News Australia posted nearly the same article as the NYT, but which is not behind a paywall. You can read it on the link below if interested: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-24/errol-musk-elon-father-abuse-allegations/105810162
  3. If a non-left leaning person says they want you to back up something negative about the other side with facts, they’re usually lying. What they really want is you to waste your time explaining a position they will neither understand, consider nor accept. If they really liked facts at all, they wouldn’t be so against anything that doesn't lean their way.
  4. He's like Woody Allen who married his stepdaughter, only far worse. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/world/africa/elon-musk-father-errol-child-abuse.html NYT: Elon Musk’s Father, Errol Musk, Accused of Child Sexual Abuse Sept. 23, 2025 (Summarized by AI) A New York Times investigation has found that Errol Musk, father of billionaire Elon Musk, has faced accusations of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren since 1993. The allegations, reported in police and court records from South Africa and California, have strained the Musk family for decades and repeatedly drawn appeals to Elon for help. The first claim emerged in 1993, when Errol’s 4-year-old stepdaughter said he touched her inappropriately. Later incidents included the same child allegedly catching him sniffing her underwear at age 14, and in 2022, her young son — fathered by Errol years later — reportedly telling relatives his father had groped him. Other accusations involved two of Errol’s daughters and a stepson. At least three police investigations were opened, though none led to convictions. Family letters show relatives frequently turned to Elon Musk, Errol’s eldest son, seeking intervention and support. He sometimes provided money, housing, or schooling for half-siblings and stepfamily members, and even explored keeping them in California away from his father. In private comments, Elon described Errol as having committed “almost every evil thing you could possibly think of.” He has since cut contact with him. Errol Musk, now 79, denies all allegations, calling them fabrications by relatives seeking money from Elon. He has publicly maintained that he and Elon are “very close,” despite Elon’s own statements to the contrary. The family saga is marked by turmoil: Errol’s former wives described abuse and instability, while his stepdaughter — later involved in a sexual relationship with him as an adult — has battled drug addiction but says Elon continues to provide her financial support. The Times reviewed more than 50 emails, letters, and records, but many documents remain sealed due to child protection rules. Some relatives, like Elmie Smit, Errol’s former sister-in-law, say they decided to speak publicly after years of silence, angered by Errol’s recent attempts to profit from Elon’s fame, such as promoting cryptocurrency and property projects linked to the Musk name. Despite the shadow cast by these allegations, Errol Musk has avoided conviction, and family divisions remain unresolved. Meanwhile, Elon Musk continues to distance himself, describing his father in interviews and biographies as abusive and destructive.
  5. Nah, could be a collector. Or maybe he has the yellow one and the green one at home already and just needed to purple one to make it Mardi Gras.
  6. 1. Social Media A horrific attention-extraction machine leading to a humongous black hole of narcissism and needless drivel. Engineered to exploit psychology, sow division, spread disinformation, and keep billions doom scrolling their lives away. 2. Fentanyl A synthetic opioid so potent it is now both a medical tool and a weapon of mass addiction. Pushed, abused, dangerously mixed with other drugs and now leaving trails of overdose deaths everywhere it touches. 3. Nicotine Vaporizers Marketed as a safe alternative to smoking, but designed with candy flavors, oils that destroy the lungs in a very short time and slick branding to hook a new generation on nicotine. A recycled dangerous and useless addiction dressed up as cool innovation. 4. Nuclear Weapons The ultimate monument to human self-destruction. A single device with the power to erase entire countries and continents. 5. Human Air Pollution The invisible addiction: cars, coal, oil, and industry pumping billions of tons of micro toxins into the atmosphere daily. We breathe it in, the planet burns, and the machine keeps running.
  7. 1 - Internet 2 - Smartphone 3 - AI 4 - Robovacs 5 - Online Shopping BONUS: 6 - Short Time
  8. From my experience, the answer is yes, it can create good stuff, but with an important caveat: it cannot really be done effortlessly. AI can produce good writing, but only if you give it detailed context and direction. It needs a story, a framework, or a clear narrative to work from. Even then, you usually have to put in a fair amount of editing and massaging of what it creates to make the final output feel original and authentic, and to get it to where you really want it. Good AI writing may end up really only being 50 to 60 percent AI, mainly as the foundation of the text, with the rest shaped by human input and manual tweaking. It is the final human touches that often make it truly good writing. If you go beyond that threshold, the final results will often suffer. So one has to be able to write well enough to begin with, or the necessary combination of AI writing and human participation cannot fully be reached. Sometimes it even takes a few rounds of back and forth before the AI really starts to understand the tone, style, and meaning the writer is aiming for. In fact, one of the best ways to use it is to first draft something yourself and then use AI to refine, edit, polish, tighten, and improve word flow and meaning. The idea that you can just throw in a quick one or two sentence prompt and instantly get something really good out of it in two minutes is both myth and misnomer. AI is a tool, and like any tool, it works best when guided by quality human input and creativity. Without that, the results are usually mediocre at best. As the old saying goes in the world of creative media, “Garbage in, garbage out.” So if you want good results, you have to be willing to put in the effort. Much of the AI writing you see online that is actually worth reading almost certainly had a strong dose of human direction and editing behind it, or it is probably not even worth reading. AI writing should really only be seen as a draft or starting point and not be viewed as a one-stop-shop that provides the final product.
  9. 1 - Cannabis: Prescribed for medical use for health conditions such as chronic pain, muscle spasms, multiple sclerosis related symptoms, nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy, poor appetite and weight loss from hiv or cancer, epilepsy and seizure disorders, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, glaucoma, crohn’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome, parkinson’s disease symptoms, tourette syndrome, and autism spectrum disorder related symptoms. 2 - Alcohol: No known medical uses and never medically prescribed for any reason. Long term use is known to cause liver cirrhosis, alcoholic hepatitis, fatty liver disease, liver cancer, pancreatitis, stomach ulcers, esophageal cancer, mouth cancer, throat cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, cardiomyopathy, high blood pressure, stroke, alcohol use disorder, and brain damage including wernicke korsakoff syndrome, cognitive decline and dementia.
  10. I had both a Xiaomi and a Deebot before. Meh. Now I got an Anker Eufy Omni C20. It's the proper business. Paid only 6.5K Baht for it on Lazada from the Anker Flagship store. You'll pay £450 for the same unit in the UK. If you pick one up during the upcoming "Lazada 9–9" sale in about 10 days from now, which is their biggest sale day of the year, you might even be able to get it for less than I paid. And once you go Eufy... you'll never go back.
  11. Why the drug traffickers thought he was the ideal candidate to move their stash is truly an ace move of criminal genius. I mean, right there on page one of the Drug Traffickers Handbook for Dummies, it clearly states: "WARNING, do not, under any circumstances, use a cock in a frock wearing a blond wig as your mule." Bro, It's not rocket science and it doesn't take an Einstein IQ. You simply want the kind of person moving your kit who looks like they have never broken a rule in their entire life, the human equivalent of a generic beige cardigan, gliding through customs with a suitcase full of sunshine and smiles. What you absolutely do not want is someone strutting through Heathrow or Gatwick with 75 pounds of weed looking like Priscilla, Queen of the Desert has just rocked up in her party bus, dragging along two suspiciously heavy Samsonites while screaming “notice me” louder than a drunk Japanese salaryman singing karaoke at 3 am in a Tokyo hostess bar.
  12. impossible. he/she is already as creepy as creepy gets.
  13. And you would know because you are the one who wrote that original fairy tale post yourself.
  14. I only have 3 words to add to the topic: bob, bob, bob.
  15. Is it? The original post says nothing about Thai prostitutes. And Thailand is the only country in Asia with bar girls and prostitutes? Kyoto Kyle - Maybe he is discussing bar girls in Japan? There is no shortage of them there either.
  16. I don't see the word Thai or Thailand appear anywhere in the original post?
  17. "Sweaty, fat, smelly, bastard".
  18. Ah, she is complaining about the lack of size. Can't blame her.
  19. It's Bob. Isn't it obvious?
  20. This topic seems idiotic and the OP lacks any substance to spark a meaningful discussion. Depression exists everywhere, among both locals and foreigners. Every country has people who struggle with it. There is nothing unique about Thailand in that regard, so it comes across as a stupid and pointless question from someone lacking critical thinking rather than some basis of a meaningful discussion.
  21. If we put aside all the media noise and negative commentary about Trump, looking past all of his own grift, corruption, criminality, sex related crimes, and even the fact that he's an insurrectionist and a traitor, and focus only on his recent campaign promises and achievements, I would say that the only positive action he has taken in his seven months in office so far is bombing Iran. That took a great deal of courage and leadership. Whether it actually achieved anything in slowing down Iran's nuclear program remains to be seen, but the act itself showed decisiveness and should be acknowledged. Aside from that, he has failed to end the war in Ukraine or in Gaza, failed to lower grocery costs for Americans, failed to release the Epstein files, failed to eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits, failed to reduce taxes for the poor, failed to create any type of national healthcare program, failed to cut two trillion dollars in federal spending and balance the budget, and the list goes on. He has also failed to bring back jobs to America and has, in fact, contributed to a slowdown in new job creation, which has just resulted in a sudden rise in unemployment. He has essentially failed to deliver on all of his major campaign promises. In reality, seven months is enough time for him to have achieved at least a handful of these priorities, yet he has not. There are also broader failures worth noting. He has failed to secure meaningful immigration reform, failed to restore trust in American institutions, failed to unite a deeply divided nation, failed to take meaningful action on affordable housing, and failed to present a clear and consistent foreign policy strategy beyond reactive measures. Not to mention all the added chaos and confusion caused by his tariff madness. At this point, there is little more that can be said. Love him or hate him, call it a hoax, a witch hunt, some sort of anti-Trump syndrome, or whatever buzzword you like, the reality is that he has become a lame duck president. In fact, he has done more harm to Americans, their quality of life, their public welfare programs, their freedom of speech, and their civil liberties than any president in modern American history. In a word, he's basically achieved absolutely nothing to make America great again.
  22. I saw him make a new post after this one, probably around 10 days ago, something about some Indians in Big-C if I recall correctly, but then the topic disappeared shortly after it was posted and I don’t think I’ve seen him post anything since. Not sure if something else happened or not.
  23. No, what you did is wrong. And it wasn't funny or entertaining. You are only breaking the site's rules and you are stealing somebody else's property. That's why your topics were stopped. Do you think you have some special right to do what you did? Do you have zero regard for others? You must not know anything. I won't respond to you again.
  24. Could be, but not the point. If his posts are so bad, why are you copying them? Can’t you come up with your own ideas to get views? Taking someone else’s content and passing it off as your own is lazy and it’s wrong on every level.

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