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4 minutes ago, gargamon said:

Or the political soapbox. Or ...

Or complains about subjects people don't like. 

How about just don't click on them ?

On 7/31/2024 at 3:39 AM, Social Media said:

" However, Musk's repost stripped away this label and simply called it "amazing

I had originally bought stock on Tesla  but sold many years ago and made a pretty good return, I thought Musk was a visionary then , now I am convinced  that he is just an A-hole who was at the right place , at the right time. 

Unless they encode some sort of a watermark in AI creations not only would it create a deepfake problem but it would give others plausible deniability to say to any recording, "That was not me, that's deepfake".  

9 minutes ago, Presnock said:

well after re-reading a lot or most of my notes here, I notice that my spelling appears really shaky too but it is not that I don't spell the words correctly, it is that even at this advanced age, I try to type as fast as I used to but unfortunately the fingers just don't spell as well as they used to.

Same here.

I find myself to now  have to look at the keyboard  otherwise I often lose my place on the keyboard and type nonsense,(wekk moe nonsense than usual) LOL  Most of the time I am missing a letter because i do not strike the key strong enough. Also I have notice on myself that being bilingual might confuse me in my choice of letters, (not sure what is going on there) The "V" in the qwerty keyboard is an (N) in Greek, and the  B  in the English keyboard is a V in the Greek ,and these letters are right next to each other so I often find myself subconsciously having made the wrong choice. ( Weird right?) .

I also tend to be a bit controversial in my posts and consequently I get a lot of  Notifications, and I am often sparring with  two or three members here while holding conversations on FB with my sister in Italy, or my other sister in Greece, or my baby sister in the US, and some people in the FB groups I belong, and I dont have the time to proofread everything I write, but even when I do skim over it, because my brain  knows what I meant to write   often miss what it is actually written. 

   Oh the joys of getting older , but if you consider the alternative, not too bad! 

5 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Still believes Thailand attracts a great variety of people of different reasons. Never met so many all kinds of trouble, and obviously escaped something back home. Not only people who escape cold seasons back home. 

 

However I do not doubt what you saying about being adventorous and the link to more progressive people, I just find Thailand someway different when it comes to the mix of expats as said from every other countries I have lived or visited. 

Certainly  many different people , but what is the common thread that unites most ou us?  not all, but a majority of us. 

1 minute ago, wwest5829 said:

My reality … yes, living expenses have gone up here in Thailand since my retirement 13 years ago. Then again, my retirement funds are invested and are providing a sustainable retirement income (knock on wood for the stock market in the USA stays the course).

I have by US savings parked on CDs and  treasuries , keeping pace with inflation,and  insured,  I could make more in the market but at my age I cant afford  to lose them. 2008 I lost almost everything, but I was young enough to make some calls get back to NYC work my ass of, and get it all back, Now I would be done for .

11 minutes ago, retarius said:

My belief is that Harris is only riding high in the polls is because no one knows anything about her.

The evidence suggests otherwise,

If what you say is correct then they would had been high in the past few years when we knew of her even less. 

But how often is what a Chicken Don supporter says corect? Not often otherwise they would not be Chicken Don supporters.

So let me break it down for you, When people knew less of her , her polls were down, now that they know more of her, her polls are higher, what does that suggest to you. (this should be fun) 

14 minutes ago, susanlea said:

So intelligent. 

No,, just stupid on my part, and jumping the gun. I got your joke after going back and reading the post I was replying too and you then replied. 

I tried not to reply on spelling errors because " those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"  Often my spelling is also atrocious as I get older .  It is an interesting subject to me as an observer to my own  mental decline. I think I will start a thread. Ye have a lot of older members here and I wonder how they deal with it and even if they are aware of it. 

testing testing ,

LOL

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18 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

I think they don't care about retirees.  Tourists spend probably 10 times in one day what retiree does. Retirees appear to be a nusiance to the government  here. If everyone left they would probably be happy. Bring in the no Visa tourists.

Though what you say might be true within the context of the financial relationship between tourism and retirees,

Obviously tourism creates a lot more revenue than retirees, and id retirees negatively  impacted the revenue from tourism, then the would chose tourism over retirees. 

,But It is not true  within the contexts of this conversation , which does not include tourism in the mix.  

 The reason given over the tax scheme, is to increase revenue from taxation , and with in that context if doing something increases revenue or decreases revenue is an important factor and unless they are stupid they care. 

On 7/17/2024 at 3:38 AM, Social Media said:

CIA Director Bill Burns disclosed on Saturday that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, is under mounting pressure

Like the pressure on the Hamas leader who was assassinated in Iran? 

By who I wonder? 

Politics are like a stripper who dances from  the right leg to the left. and from the left to the right, 

But she makes her living in the middle . 

30 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Concerning the beauty of Florida before the White Man, this is a quiz question to which only someone like Howard Zinn might do justice, and I suggest reading Zinn's book: A People's History of the United States in order to answer it.  As you can see, I always remain on-Topic...

 

 

I am a know it all ,and don't need to read any stinking books