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  1. On 1/22/2025 at 8:25 PM, candide said:

    The laptop story misteriously popped up a few days before the election.(Giuliani had it for one year)

    No.

     

    John Paul Mac Isaac gave a copy of the hard drive to Robert Costello, an attorney who had Giuliani as a client, in August of 2020. That's how he acquired it. 

  2. On 1/22/2025 at 7:16 PM, Hawaiian said:

    Has any one of them come out an apologized for their damning letter?

    No. 

     

    Actually one of them was interviewed yesterday. Playing word games he smugly insisted the '51 spies' only said the laptop story had 'the hallmarks of Russian disinformation'. That their statement didn't say the laptop story was false, and if people assumed so, that was their fault. 

     

    Cute. But they knew what they were doing. 

  3. On 1/12/2025 at 12:01 PM, Moonlover said:

    That's one reason to follow @DrJack54's advice and wait until the next renewal. Use the old passport No. until then. Immigration are not aware that you have a new passport until you tell them

    I had thought about doing that. Had gotten the new passport about seven months ahead of the next extension time. Was thinking to just use the old passport number for the two online 90-day reports (which in practice have become '75-day reports') ahead of the time I'd do the next extension. But thought better of it, just play it straight. Yeah, I knew what would happen with that. Online submission with new PP number rejected, come on in, please.

     

    Since one with a new passport will have to do a 90-day report in person, at some point and I believe even after immigration has 'officially' recognized the new PP number from an extension, I just decided to do it first, before the extension. Which worked out OK, as I also got the stamps transferred to the new PP that day. And then next online 90-day report (75-76 days later) before extension time, using the new number, sailed through. 

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  4. On 12/19/2024 at 11:10 AM, theblether said:

    The X timeline is what you make it. All I know about Bluesky is that its apparently are dominated by leftwingers. I see plenty of left wing comment on Twitter so no need to go there.  

    Absolutely. There is a lefty-oriented echo chamber already on X, a remnant of the Dorsey-run site. Still relevant, active, free to do it's thing. Musk liberated X, allowing for alternate views by lifting the censorship. Result? Real competition of ideas in the marketplace expressed on a major social media platform. 

    Who would want to be against that?

     

    Lefties had so enjoyed the heavy-handed censorship of the earlier twitter, leading them to a false belief they were right, and owned the market with their views on political and other issues. 

     

    Not so fast, it turned out. At least since Musk acquired it, that is. And now with the '24 election/rejection of the dims and Harris in the books, and  their utter shock of Trump's victory, one of their scapegoats to explain it is X.

    Just another moment of the "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!"

     

    So now lefties doing what they do best. Flee in the face of truth and reality. Gotta get to a 'safe space'. It does provide a chuckle or two when reading all the "I am/I will be leaving X because.....". If bluesky didn't exist, you'd have to invent it.

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  5. 10 hours ago, thoengthaied said:

    Googled and Google says that Adobe Acrobat is good.

    Acrobat is good, yes, but about a year ago the app required some user permissions. I guess that's so you can edit files? I tend not to use apps, if it can be helped, that require those permissions. To just read and save pdf files, pdf viewer is a basic, no frills option. No permissions requested. Free version does the job.

     

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pspdfkit.viewer

  6. 2 hours ago, AlwaysThere said:

    Unlimited still available in 15 Mbps and 6 Mbps.

    Thanks for the update. There are so many different configurations, offers, on these one year sims. I checked my usage for the past several months, using a dtac 30 Mbsp/unlimited, and I usually never even approached 100 GB in a month. Maybe once I had 105 or something. Sometimes 50 GB. So 100 GB certainly will work for me, I think the "20/100" sim will suffice. Even at the dtac advertised 30 Mbps the speed at times was sluggish.

     

    On facebook there are ads for 30 Mbsp unlimited one year sim cards, with dtac, True, and AIS priced very low, below 1500, 1400 baht. Was told by a fella working at one of the more established mobile shops at MBK, affiliated with A Lot Tech, that those are scams. Just to put that word out. 

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  7. Trump had a final total of 55 counties that flipped for him in '24, after having gone for Biden in '20.

     

    Kamala did not get a single county flip of the more than 3140 counties! Not one. That had not happened in almost 100 years! In 1932 incumbent Herbert Hoover, in the midst of the great depression, was the last presidential candidate to not flip a county.

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