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I won't disagree with that.

Trump thinks he's the smartest man in the world. Knows everything about everything. Thus he's smarter than Powell, etc and they should do whatever he says. Too bad for Americans (and the rest of the world) that he's an actual idiot and couldn't successfully run a business even if his father gave him 400 million 1965 dollars. Every time he tries to run a company it goes into bankruptcy. His only success is selling his name to fools that believe his con man spiel.

Maybe it's that they're overpriced and the market is stabilizing.

They need to add an anti-vax forum. One you can set to ignore like you can for quizzes.

They used to have a suicide hotel there. Got closed after 3 or 4 foreigners came there to kick off. The pepper is the best in the world though. Used to ship it to the British monarchy way back when.

If they set all the condos on fire in Pattaya where the residnt had drinking issues, you'd be able to see the blaze from space.

Big outbreak in the Philippines now. It's only a matter of time till it gets to Thailand.

From what I can find, shingrix was the vaccine in the study. Lots of info out there if you google it.

Thanks. Booked my appointment with this guy. Just appointed 34th President of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, so he's likely competent. Fully covered by my insurance too. The other DR the was PM'd to me was not in my insurance plan. Thanks for the info though.

That does explain all your negative comments on everything that comes out, though. This is the new golden age of TV. All the pay services have one or two gems each. Don't expect it to last long though, as there will inevitably be takeovers and the pool of services will shrunk.

Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk A new analysis of a vaccination program in Wales found that the shingles vaccine appeared to lower new dementia diagnoses by 20% — more than any other known intervention. An unusual public health policy in Wales may have produced the strongest evidence yet that a vaccine can reduce the risk of dementia. In a new study led by Stanford Medicine, researchers analyzing the health records of Welsh older adults discovered that those who received the shingles vaccine were 20% less likely to develop dementia over the next seven years than those who did not receive the vaccine. The remarkable findings, published April 2 in Nature, support an emerging theory that viruses that affect the nervous system can increase the risk of dementia. If further confirmed, the new findings suggest that a preventive intervention for dementia is already close at hand. https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vaccination-dementia.html

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2025/04/17/russia-seeds-chatbots-with-lies-any-bad-actor-could-game-ai-the-same-way/83137756007/ Russia is automating the spread of false information to fool artificial intelligence chatbots on key topics, offering a playbook to other bad actors on how to game AI to push content meant to inflame, influence and obfuscate instead of inform. Experts warn the problem is worsening as more people rely on chatbots rushed to market, social media companies cut back on moderation and the Trump administration disbands government teams fighting disinformation. Earlier this year, when researchers asked 10 leading chatbots about topics targeted by false Russian messaging, such as the claim that the United States was making bioweapons in Ukraine, a third of the responses repeated those lies. Moscow’s propaganda inroads highlight a fundamental weakness of the AI industry: Chatbot answersdepend on the data fed into them. A guiding principle is that the more the chatbots read, the more informed their answers will be, which is why the industry is ravenous for content.But mass quantities of well-aimed chaff can skew the answers on specific topics. For Russia, that is the war in Ukraine. But for a politician, it could be an opponent; for a commercial firm, it could be a competitor. “Most chatbots struggle with disinformation,” said Giada Pistilli, principal ethicist at open-source AI platform Hugging Face. “They have basic safeguards against harmful content but can’t reliably spot sophisticated propaganda, [and] the problem gets worse with search-augmented systems that prioritize recent information.”

What does it taste like?

Old farts may have a hard time getting back up ghe hill to the road, but it's my favorite beach there. Not too crowded, some reasonable food & booze. What more could you want.

Cement

Ridden

I can't believe you wasted all that time analyzing and critiquing some idiot's YouTube channel.

I guess that would exclude some here.

Wrong. When the USSR collapsed the nukes remained in the countries they were in. Three decades ago, the newly independent country of Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world. Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that followed, Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize. In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia would guarantee Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum. https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082124528/ukraine-russia-putin-invasion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51iKRJtEEQ4

No, only concepts of a plan so far.

Oh, sue, kicked off the site again and had to make yet another user? How many is that now? 12? 20? Maybe the next time you could call yourself Strawman. It would be appropriate.

You're wasting my oxygen. You know what to do.

PM me please the Dr you used. I'm heading to the US tomorrow to look at getting a hip replaced. Hopefully my Medicare will cover a portion.

That's good. In Thailand or elsewhere? And how much, if anything, did it cost?