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Mainlined to the heart Mia Wallace style.

Blah blah blah. Any treaty the US signs isn't worth the paper it's printed on. "That Putin fails to honour his international obligations is not surprising; he is pure evil." Yada yada yada... There's the pot calling the kettle "black." Personally I don't care. Let the West go to war with all those whom they now refer to as "aggressors" and "enemies," and the overused "Axis of Evil!" I've got a pretty good idea how it all ends. I seriously doubt I'll survive to the end of the next World War. So what. I'll leave the hating and fighting for the rest of you who all seem to have a dog in the fight. Go for it!

I saw one in Elementary school in the early 1960s with a leg brace. But that was it. One person supposedly from polio. I had all of the childhood diseases. I remember being sick with a fever and uncomfortable during most of those episodes, but it wasn't the end of the world. None of my friends or classmates died of childhood diseases - none. The only person I remember dying while I was in school was JFK from a shot to the head. So this canard about children dying left and right from childhood diseases is more fear mongering. Anyway - if vaccines for childhood diseases are so safe, then I'd personally like to see the indemnity laws be abolished. They are perfectly safe right, so no liability protection is needed. Right? Kids don't need to be made into human pin cushions for the profits of Big Pharma. A very limited number of vaccines imho are warranted, but the schedule of shots for your typical kid nowadays in the West is simple overkill and I have no doubt they do more harm than good. Wanna argue that point? Then abolish the vaccine liability screens and let the chips fall where they may.

My favorite "Fear Mongering" on AN: "Donald Trump Is Gonna Get 'Cha!!!" Nightmare On Pennsylvanian Avenue - AseanNow Edition

Floating petri dishes. I avoid them.

You can see Thai drivers driving (drifting) from shoulder to shoulder in the mountain portion of Highway 11 between Lamphun and Lampang all the time. More like the norm than the exception. They aren't "foreigners" so no one give a hoot.

Cash works very well here.

Try SCB, Bangkok Bank, or Kbank. I do understand that some of the other banks may refuse you as a customer. Is it stupid? Yeah, but TIT. And as far as filing taxes. If I still worked, I'd still be filing taxes. I don't work anymore, and none of my overseas income is assessable as per my home country's DTA with Thailand. I don't worry about it. if I was every forced to file, the Revenue Office would simply owe me money. But not enough to make it worth my while to file. If the banks ever start paying significant interest on account balance, I may rethink that.

Ditto!

We rewired the house about 7 years back and we put all of the wiring in electrical conduit. Really. Up to you regarding how safe you want your residential wiring. It didn't cost that much more and we did two houses. If I had to do it again, I'd do it again.

Waste of paper.

Then we have the "Everything Is Fine, you're just all 'Conspiracy Theorists'" members. Now remember - "Shut up, put on your masks, stay 6 feet apart, get your shots, stop driving, kill your pets (they fart), beg your fearless leaders to send their armies to 'teach Russia, China, Iran, the DPRK, and all their BRICS friends a lesson and show them who the boss is,' and 'Trust The Experts' and The Main-Stream News...only!"

That puppy stalled big time.

So please, please, please - get your mRNA Covid vaccinations regularly, every 6 months for sure. Safe and Effective!

The longer this goes on, the more of Ukraine will be fabricated into a demilitarized buffer-zone protecting Russia and the 4 new Russian Oblasts plus Crimea from the rump-state that is what's left of Ukraine. Trump will pass the baton to the EU and there will be another grand old war on the level of WWII on the borders of the EU and Russia once more by 2030. Hell, European "leaders" are actively planning to march East to go to war with Russia by 2030. Europeans love war and hate Russians, so they figure that The Third Time's A Charm. They'll pick up where Napoleon and Hitler left off and march on Moscow to "Defend Democracy From Russian Aggression!" 🤔 "Hummmm..." World War 3 WILL happen within the next 5 years, I have no doubt. Me? "Catcha 22!"

The exact Neo-libs who insist that places like California need to have translation services available for all non-English speakers and DMV tests written in Spanish, Armenian, Chinese, Hindi, Punjabi, Vietnamese, Korean, Tagalog, Arabic, Russian, Japanese, Farsi, Khmer, Thai, Hmong, Lao, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Amharic, Bengali, Burmese, Gujarati, Ilocano, Indonesian, Malay, Samoan, Somali, Tamil, Tongan - and Thai1 - also have no problem with the Ukraine government outlawing the Russian language, Russian culture, Russian History, and the Eastern Orthodox Religion in Ukraine. Diversity for we, but not for thee. The Blue State liberals and Democrats, and now the new class of rainbow-colored-flag waving War-Hawks (historically anti-war but not anymore), insist we celebrate "diversity" in the United States (like 32 different DMV test languages) and support "hate-crime laws" (say anything about a minority and go to jail), and yet are the exact people who are rallying behind the Ukrainian government's Anti-Everything-Russian laws that outlaws, well, everything Russian in Ukraine. Outlaw all things Russian and hate the Russian minority all you want - and it's s'all good man! The hypocrisy is over-the-top. 1. Caveat - Since 2021 CA have pared the DMV test languages down from 32 languages to 7 after the Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act of 1973 was reinterpreted, perhaps due to CA over-blown budget and state debt. But the Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act of 1973 does seek to protect the most represented of the 5% of the CA population - unlike Ukraine which is just the opposite and have laws making just about everything Russian (language, culture, religion) illegal. At the same time as they are outlawing Russian speaking, on June 4, 2024, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s parliament) adopted the law making English an "official" language in Ukraine. Ukraine does hate their ethnic Russian population.

Good for him. Stick to your guns ol' buddy (Oh wait, Zee doesn't have a gun and is never in harms way at the front). Ok - keep press ganging volunteering Ukrainian men and sending the cannon fodder brave, highly trained soldiers to the front. Russia is down to launching washing machine and dryers full of TNT as they have run out of missiles, the Ruble is Rubble, Russia Is In Tatters, and the reality on the ground is that the Russian "cockroaches" (I believe that is how you refer to Russians) are running back to Moscow as Ukie troop retake Crimea and push "The Invaders" back to the Russian border. The US just needs to send $500 billion more ($50 billion to a special offshore account in the Bahamas) and you'll have Ivan running home to momma. "The more money you send to me, the more I be richer, and of course war turn out good for Trump and JD too. War good for Ukraine, send more money and war get better! We win for sure. Russia orcs don't have snowball chance in bonfire of burning Benjamins ." <unrolls a $100 dollar bill and sniffs> In other news, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters, "...that things are just fine. No problems. President Trump is great man who understands the root cause of the conflict. We see peace sooner...or later. No hurry Future plans? Off to India and Pakistan to see if we can talk them out of nuking each other and irradiating Southeast Asia which is downwind."

(Concerned US Citizens): "I'm protesting against genocide in all of its forms wherever it happens." (Trump Administration): "TERRORIST! Get ready to send this one to a El Salvador SuperMax." (Concerned US Citizens): "I'm a US Citizen." (Trump Administration): "Who is now a TERRORIST! Habeas Corpus and Constitutional protections no longer apply."

Nothing tickles me more that Al Gore and Friends flying in private jets to Climate Catastrophe Events to preach to the commoners why they all should stop flying in order to "Save The Planet From Jet Caused Global Warming." And give up your cars, your pets, and "eat the bugs."

Actually I came here looking for a "What Are You Reading" topic. I don't see one. Hummmm. 🤔

Tom Hardy keeps cranking out TV and movie, but I've been waiting for Taboo Season 2 forever. I wonder if it's ever going to happen.

This current season is pretty good. Previous seasons were so-so.

I think there is a break in the number of people who actually read. And I hate to say it but it may have to do with the literal dumbing down of the public and the current generations. And it might be generational. Or not. But I don't see publishers going out of business, and I've got to admit that I've read some really good novels this yet. So novels have their place. And there are good novels being written.