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After your rant about paying for sex - please don't come back.

" Is it any wonder, with all the constant flip flopping on visas, taxes, dual pricing, airport tax, scamming locals, earth-quakes, constant violence on social media & the strong baht - that tourists are now opting for safer, cleaner, cheaper and friendlier destinations? Thailand lost it's smile decades ago, and if they are still smiling, one can't even tell because of the masks they are still wearing... Mark." bob There! Fixed it!

You mean - "Digital Nomads?"

Taiwan is Chinese territory just like Hawaii is US territory. If the local government of Hawaii decided to establish the sovereign country of Hawaii, this would be like China threatening that if the US launches a large-scale invasion of Hawaii, it would force China to divert its military resources to the mid-Pacific. If Hawaii secedes from the US, it's none of China's business. The issue between Taiwan and China is a domestic issue. The US is threatening war with China to support the secession of Taiwan. That would be as stupid as China threatening war with the US over the secession of any of the 50 US states. It's none of the United State's business but they need a casus belli to go to war with China and this is the one they have chosen. The US and NATO countries need excuses to project aggression. Taiwan is the excuse to go to war with China on the Chinese mainland. Ukraine is the excuse to go to war with Russian on the Russian homeland. Nuclear enrichment at a 3.6% level required make fuel for nuclear reactors and falls with in NPT guidelines, but will used as the excuse to got to war with Iran in Persia. If it wasn't nuclear enrichment, it would be some other excuse, like Iranian missile tech that would be used to go to war with Iran. Which is coming soon.

And what do you expect. The Western leaders and their military generals have been verbalizing their intentions to go to war with Russia, China, and Iran for years. How do they do it? They project their intentions on Russia, China, and Iran: "Aggressive Russia plans to conquer Europe." "Aggressive China plans to conquer all of Asia." "Aggressive Iran plans to conquer the entire Middle East." US foreign doctrine pretty much since the end of WW2 has been to overthrow these countries by instigateing government upheaval from within or by external military force and then install puppet governments which work for Western interests that allow Western corporations to rape those country's resources and destroy their cultures and way of life. And then the US and NATO push their troops right up to the borders of these countries and then issue military threats in the name of "Countering Russian, Chinese, and Iranian aggression." Now we are to that point where Russia, China, Iran, as well as the DPRK have been driven together to form alliances and mutual defense pacts. The war rhetoric is coming out of the US, UK, EU, and other US allies by Western "war hawks" and "war pigs.". What is coming out of Russia, China, Iran, and the DPRK is the acknowledgement that the West plans to go to war with them all by 2030. The West has been verbalizing it for decades. I know who the actual "aggressors" are. Start by identifying the one with 180 military bases around the world as well as their allies - not the ones with a handful of bases worldwide. I have no doubt - the West is going to drag the rest of the world into another world war - "To Protect Liberty, Freedom, and Democracy, and The American Way" - of course. The end result? Have Vickie Nuland cook up and another batch of cookies! It should get hot enough.

The scams are driving my each "mark's" personal greed. If you aren't driven my greed, you'd never fall for the con.

I learned this at an early age: "There is no such thing as a free lunch."

Ya gotta kill it if ya wanna grill it. -Ted Nugent "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum." - They Live, Rowdy Roddy Piper (Nada) “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” “The edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” -Hunter S. Thompson Live like you're the main character in a comedy, not a tragedy—laugh at the absurdity of the chaos as it gets ready to blow.

I'm keeping this is a box and having it cremated with me.

Send a message to the White House and tell Trump that his tariffs are stopping Thailand from bending you over a stump and giving you the Jolly Roger.

Go into a pharmacy as ask for Valosine 75mg. If that doesn't ring a bell with the sales staff, ask for Effexor 75mg or generic Venlafaxine 75mg. You probably want to write them out or take a picture of a box with the label. Pharmacy sales staff in Thailand can be hit or miss, especially when there is no pharmacist around.

I don't use the Thumbs-Down emoji.

Just download a copy of Windows 11 Pro and install it. Licenses on Lazada are dirt cheap. I'd personally would never use a pre-loaded version of any OS because you honestly have no idea what is running in the background hoovering up your personal information.

They need to throw someone under the bus.

I was thinking along the same lines: They are killing the compliant. But they did try to mandate the shots and get the global governments to force you to take it. We were on the cusp. Corporations aligned with the WEF and Gates were tasked to force their own employees to forcefully submit to the shots or lose their jobs. You can tell the companies who still have their employees under their hooves - all their employees still wear masks at work. And my guess is that all of their employees are forced to take boosters or lose their jobs. I would have found a different job.

The shots were given FDA approval based on their ability to increase antibody titers and not due to observable efficacy in double-blind, placebo based studies. And as this article points out, it's still this way except the FDA now significantly narrows down the target community of these shot - and healthy children are not recommended to get the shot. Plus the studies run by the manufacturers of the shot is the definition of "Conflict Of Interest." But the reality is that Big Pharma owns Congress as do other monied special interests with multi-million dollar lobbies. https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-19-vaccine-reform-is-moving-slower-than-many-had-hoped/

I love the ones who mock people who tend to have these traits because some people don't fit into the little box of social norms and behaviors that they themselves expound, emulate, and propagate.

Sigma men are defined by extreme self-reliance and comfort with solitude. Check They prioritize questioning assumptions and rejecting traditions that contradict personal truths. Check, which doesn't make me friends as I've been "questioning assumptions and rejecting traditions" since I was a kid. High value is placed on freedom of thought and lifestyle design on their terms. Check, I detest Orwellian clamp-downs on freedom of speech and thought that are now in vogue in nanny-states like the UK, EU, AU, and NZ. Wanna see a lot of Sigma male behavior? Look at those of us questioning all of the "killer pandemic" nonsense that began in March 2020 and continues to this day. Intense focus, drive, curiosity, and creativity fuel their ambition. Check - reading "banned" books, taking personal positions based on my interpretation of factual data as opposed to ideology. They have little interest in group identity or leadership, preferring independence. Check - I don't belong in anybody's club, I don't align to political parties, I have no need to integrate in the expat community. Life purpose and direction arise from inward self-validation, not external pressures. Check So I'm a "Sigma Male," except? I could give a freaking rip about labels. Big deal.

That he is.

I've now see it all. I can happily die now.

Do they look like this?

Just a suggestion, but - get a life?

bob smith - did you just reinvent yourself again you old devil?

Nice place to wait to die. I'm chilling with it. You hit your mid-70s, outlived your own parents age-wise, death's coming. So enjoy the wait. Well unless you're a nihilist and believe it all ends in the annihilation of consciousness, then you're probably too scared to enjoy the wait. "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry!" In the meanwhile, here's some "Waitin' Room Music."

Good luck shutting down popular AI sites. You gotta give the kid credit. I wouldn't have even thought of that. But don't have to as social media giants shower me with soft porn. Trust me, I don't want it. This is a site where I share pictures of pets and dinner and keep in contact with family and friends. And yet only about 5% of the cr*p on my feed had anything to do with my family and friends. I just keep getting a ton of stuff I really don't care about.