thaibeachlovers

Indeed, they were called clever.

That's engineering, IMO, not science. Discovering that O2 exists in air would be science.

That goes back to whether we are ALL scientists, or not.

I have zero idea as to how I can type this on a machine here and it can be read all over the world in a matter of mere seconds. However, the OP is about whether it is beneficial or detrimental to do so, and I might well be better occupied doing something else. IMO science has enabled something so addictive I have spent thousands of hours typing things that will be forgotten by the next day, and of no ascertainable benefit to myself. I'll leave the reader to decide if that is beneficial or detrimental.

I have done so.

As a farang I had a far, far higher quality of life in LOS than in any other country I lived in. Switzerland may have a better quality of life in some people's opinion, but I'd never ever want to live there ( and I have been there ). "Facts are Facts, your misleading opinion doesn't really matter" Right back at you.

No idea what "If you completed your education, given up on health and decent health care" means, but I didn't consider my Thai family members' education, health care, or career prospects my responsibility as they were richer than I, and even had they been poorer I didn't marry them. I ignored the "culture" as much as possible, as it was always used as a way to try and make me give them money without any benefits to myself. I WAS an alien, and never allowed to forget it when I had to go to the immigration office 4 times a year. Foreign food in LOS was generally the same over processed, full of chemicals <deleted> that I live on in the west, and I generally ate the same food as Thais do at the same price as they.

Silly me! I thought concrete was used to make the roads better to use, rather than to raise land prices. Live and learn, what?

That might be preferable to being left to die as used to happen ( and might still ) in non welfare countries. In a certain country I believe just being born female was a death sentence at a time in history

Service charge is not the same as tipping, but I fail to see why it's not included in the prices.

Perhaps present day welfare state countries like to give benefits to people that never worked/ paid taxes in them before, but in a just world they wouldn't. I wouldn't even give citizens benefits if they were capable of working and refused to do so.

Perhaps America should see the light and have a minimum wage sufficient to live on without needing tips, which apparently are not voluntary in the USA, so not really "tips", IMO.

We generally don't have much say in whether we get cancer or some other similar life destroying disease. Happiness usually departs once the medics destroy us to save us ( happened to me ). However, while I agree with the first being essential for happiness, I'd add money, as it's not much fun having to work in a sweat shop for 9,000 baht a month just to survive.

I never knew how <deleted> my life was till I discovered Thailand, but it was <deleted>.

You have a choice?

I don't want to be 100, or even 80. There is absolutely nothing in a "rest home" that I want to experience as a unit of income for the greedy corporation that will run it for profit.

LOL. I'm pretty sure most use the word science to describe the scientific process, rather than Og the caveman discovering that fire made him warmer and frightened wild animals, or that Ug the cavewoman discovered that a tree trunk could be used as a roller, and subsequently a wheel.

IMO you don't.

I disagree. We have been around for 50,000 years or so, most of that entirely without the presence of "science". One doesn't need any knowledge of science or physics etc to invent a crossbow, a longbow, armour, the wheel, chimneys etc etc etc.

In the post you quoted I wasn't referring to "science", but his opinion. Soooooo science isn't fixed? Perhaps someone should remind the politicians that have jumped on various bandwagons of that fact.

If they come up with the scientific possibility that "God" does exist, after all, a few of us will be laughing like drains. After all, in a multiverse with infinite possibilities "God" is not such a stretch to accept, IMO.

Do you forget that without doing things like sending things into orbit a lot of people would lose their income, and might have to work in the real world for a pittance like ( IMO ) most do? Having discovered most of the easily ascertained facts IMO they are now trying to invent new ways to get those luvverly big grants. I saw several garbage science projects in Antarctica myself, none of which have benefited humanity in the subsequent decades.

You think humans couldn't invent stuff without a "scientist" being involved? Most of humanity existed before "science" even became a word.

IMO science just "is". Whether it is beneficial is down to the use that is made of it and that's by fallible, greedy and corrupt humanity. I'm sure there is plenty of science that would be beneficial if used, but wasn't profitable enough to be put into use.

If I could go back to that moment I first saw my wife to be I would still follow through, as we had a good life for some years, but I'd do a lot of things very differently, such as refusing to go live in the village, which was when it started to go wrong. What I'm asking, is, if you had the chance, would you avoid her completely as too toxic to contemplate, or, was there enough potential to try again, but not same same?