Andre0720

An IQ test or proof of knowledge in politics should be mandatory before having the right to vote....

Thailand creates a culture. Support this culture. And then appears offended at the result of this culture. Very simply, laws not enforced are the same as no law at all. Wrote that before. This taxi driver will get a slap on the wrist, while complaining that he had a reason....

My point is that in this country, if you start talking about these concepts, people will look at you and wonder from what planet you are coming from. And I repeat myself, I did not find any Buddhism here...

So much substance in your post, I do not know where to start..... Well, thanks for your input on Buddhist religion, that will certainly benefit the readers here.... And your teachings here will help me move from an 'F' to a 'C' I would hope. So I will read it again, before taking your knowledge test....

How about when they have a stabbing argument within their culture. Warm and considerate, huh. How about riding motorbikes that can break an eardrum? How about endangering people on the roads by caring only about themselves? How about people having to put a 'No parking' sign in their driveway? And so on... I find many of them smiling during an hand to hand' money transaction...

Of this list of religions: Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism., JAINISM might be the best one.. As I did some study of Buddhism, and was so happy to come here as a tourist, to immerse myself in the belief that I found so wonderful. Only to realize that there is no such thing a Buddhism here, at least nothing described in books. Wearing amulets, and hoping to win the lottery, does not make one a Buddhist....

Atheists love to knock religions, but they got nothing better. I think that Richard Dawkins did offer better alternatives to a delusional religion. He sometimes talk about listening to beautiful poetry or music, bringing him at times to tears. I ask my son to look at the clouds, and see the beauty in them. And as he says, believers are taught to believe in a religion (Delusion) without proof. The result is people who get to think that 'that is what I believe', is a perfectly good argument. Raised under a Christian culture will shape nicely the mind of an individual. But accepting this belief without proof, makes good people do bad things, thinking that they are right in doing so. So how about learning how to find a purpose in life, without brainwashing ourselves into a delusion...

Since the Democratic party under Biden was terrified of even attempting trade negotiations and possible conflict, let alone a war, might just bring it in the scope of the topic.

Well, even their ancestral countries do not want them back.....

No tourists of French culture would behave like that....

The factors that make me choose Trump as the best leader, is that there is no one else that is even close to deliver anything better for the American people....

If the idiot was able to swerve to avoid a cat, one would expect that the same idiot would be able to swerve to avoid the Som Tam shop. Oh well, the qualifier I use show what I think of this liar...

You are correct, depending on the type of workers. When I went to renew my passport at home last year, the staff at the passport office looked all very busy. But Peterson, with all his knowledge and wisdom, does not make a distinction. Might be the same for building contractors, where I used to work in one of my first jobs. You have to deliver in there. But then, I worked in a few government departments, bureaucracy oriented, and we all knew that many workers did just about nothing, and some workers were just about busy all the time. The non-performers were kept on staff, as it was difficult to terminate their employment, and also because having a large datff was good for the salary increases of the directors. But the waste was worrisome. And so I fully understood why Musk was sending letters to bureaucratic staff, asking what they had done in the day, or week. I worked with many people who would have pondered for quite a while, trying to prepare a reply.

Thais are champions at littering. 7-11 are ubiquitous. One great way to reduce papers littering the ground, sometimes right besides the litter bin outside the store. Some little anguish about perhaps being over-charged is a small price to pay...

Just that in Thailand, it reflects the doing of mainly Thai people. You know, those who Wai and utter the silly noise of Khap ad nauseam, to show that they are more polite than the rest of the world. While in the US, we do not know any more what it reflects....

As long as tobacco cigarettes will remain legal, then this vaping issue is certainly not related to health concerns...

The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, suggests that roughly 80% of outcomes or consequences are derived from approximately 20% of causes or inputs. So that 20% of employees do some 80% of the work. In a large governmental organization, this gets catastrophic. As Jordan Peterson explains, tackling this useless percentage of staff will have consequences, many of them unforeseen. I have witnessed some attempts by political leaders to deal with this problem, by trying to reduce the number of employees, but to be met by strong resistance from the bureaucrats, who benefit from having so many next to useless employees, And many times the 'Bureaucracy' wins over the political attempts to reduce waste. Musk is dealing with this now...

In one week, three serious accidents here, right in front of my apartment. Always sad, And always the same cause, Speed....

One misuses an emoticon, when it adds nothing to a given subject. Nothing.....

Everything that you describe is indeed sad situations. But then, everybody knows that it is a sad situation, so no need to to try to show that you, yes you, find it sad. IT IS SAD. Useless emoticons... Move on..

And you are exempt from being biased it would imply.... God I have a profound dislike for bigots.... Go show your ignorance somewhere else please...

''IMO such sophistry is only possible for someone with their head embedded in their ass."... Are you implying that every one who does not think like you is, is, well what you describe there so elegantly. Smacks of the definition of bigotry, don't you think?...

Oh dear, I got someone confused. Well then, perhaps looking at what the 'left' does will help. The 'left', no more critical thinking when confronted with common sense, all look lobotomized, and of course they show up in the polls.

Democracy is a sophism. Polls reflect biases. Making things right makes lots of people unhappy, and many people benefited from Biden's waste of funds. And having American friends who are not happy about Trump does not make Trump wrong. And bureaucracy will fight democracy, as bureaucrats benefit from wasted funds... And bureaucracy's strategy will always be to try to create a cognitive bias, to their advantage. And the resulting bad perception towards Trump does not make them right...

Boys had a genitor, but no father.... They will never even know how unlucky they are....