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Ditto - Female Asian Elephants can have tusks, but not as pronounced as males.

And then? Not even then. Elephants are dangerous and unpredictable. Especially when they are hormonal. Elephants in musk are freaking deadly. People + Elephants = Bad Outcomes That Are Then Blamed on The Elephant and mahout. Observation only parks at the most. From India. And you expected what? Friendly Dumbo? An 80 kg mahout can not control a 4000 to 8000 lb Asian elephant. Best of luck for anyone who thinks so. So in this video, it's the mahout's fault that the elephant went ballistic? That little guy sitting on top of the elephant isn't in control of anything. It's the nature of elephants. They are not docile creatures. If you want a docile elephant, buy a stuffed furry one from a toy store. KAvY7A-TWBrsaWPQ.mp4

So Teflon Tony is on the campaign trail now. And here I thought that as part of his "get out of jail free" arrangement that he would not indulge in Thai politics. Seems everyone has a short memory.

Of course, tourists put themselves into the position to get gored all the time. I see it on the Chiang Mai forum on Facebook. "My husband and I and our three children are coming to Thailand and want to bath elephants at an "ethical" elephant sanctuary." There is no such thing. And tourist demand fuels the continued exploitation of elephants as a kind of fun sideshow. Then someone gets killed. "IT'S THE MAHOUT'S FAULT." Gotta toss someone under the bus instead of shutting the entire nonsense down. Let's not even talk about the places where tourists can "pet" sedated tigers. Freaking fools.

I agree 100%. Elephants should stay in the forests with minimal interaction with people.

Right - men can actually control the actions of elephants 100%. The Thai government is going to throw him under the bus. If I was a elephant caretaker, I'd be looking for jobs that didn't interact with tourists.

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Absolutely 100%

Former Thai PM Yingluck Faces Prison Return Amid New Detention Rules That will never happen. She'll get the "pampered, Thai, elite" treatment. 😨 Two minutes before landing: "Oh, ohhhh! My heart! I need a doctor!!!" 👨‍⚕️"So sorry but Khun Yingluck is too sick to go to prison. But we have her brother's penthouse hospital suite ready to accommodate her stay - for as long as it takes!" (wink wink)

Good. However, we're all about to find out who the Republican conservatives are and who the RINOs are. Hopefully the latter will be met by conservative voters who expect their Republicans to reflect conservative values. I'm surprised that with less than two weeks remaining before Trump's inauguration that their has been no activity to confirm his appointees. There seems to be some foot dragging going on. And the confirmation hearings will "out" the RINOs for sure. Wait for it.

-------- 2019 "OMG - The air is unbreathable. What should we do!" 2020 "OMG - The air is unbreathable. What should we do!" 2021 "OMG - The air is unbreathable. What should we do!" 2022 "OMG - The air is unbreathable. What should we do!" 2023 "OMG - The air is unbreathable. What should we do!" 2024 "OMG - The air is unbreathable. What should we do!" 2025 "OMG - The air is unbreathable. What should we do!" 2026 "OMG - The air is unbreathable. What should we do!" ------- The same thing you do for the annual flooding perhaps?

This is interesting. Talk about cosmic humor. "Meta Says Fact-Checkers Were the Problem. Fact-Checkers Rule That False. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, blamed the company’s fact-checking partners for some of Facebook’s moderation issues, saying in a video that “fact-checkers have been too politically biased” and have “destroyed more trust than they created." Fact-checking groups that worked with Meta have taken issue with that characterization, saying they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/business/mark-zuckerberg-meta-fact-check.html

Robbie Starbucks may not have led a campaign against Meta and Facebook, but the "Go Woke, Go Broke" meme seems to be having an effect in corporate boardrooms. Facebook's parent company, Meta, is ditching "Fact Checking" and instead are moving to an X "free-speech" style Community Notes model. From Mark Zuckerberg: When we launched our independent fact checking program in 2016, we were very clear that we didn't want to be the arbiters of truth. We made what we thought was the best and most reasonable choice at the time, which was to hand that responsibility over to independent fact checking organizations. The intention of the program was to have these independent experts give people more information about the things they see online, particularly viral hoaxes, so they were able to judge for themselves what they saw and read. That's not the way things played out, especially in the United States. Experts, like everyone else, have their own biases and perspectives. This showed up in the choices some made about what to fact check and how. Over time we ended up with too much content being fact checked that people would understand to be legitimate political speech and debate. Our system then attached real consequences in the form of intrusive labels and reduced distribution. A program intended to inform too often became a tool to censor. We are now changing this approach. We will end the current third party fact checking program in the United States and instead begin moving to a Community Notes program. We've seen this approach work on X – where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, and people across a diverse range of perspectives decide what sort of context is helpful for other users to see. We think this could be a better way of achieving our original intention of providing people with information about what they're seeing – and one that's less prone to bias. Once the program is up and running, Meta won't write Community Notes or decide which ones show up. They are written and rated by contributing users. Just like they do on X, Community Notes will require agreement between people with a range of perspectives to help prevent biased ratings. We intend to be transparent about how different viewpoints inform the Notes displayed in our apps, and are working on the right way to share this information. We plan to phase in Community Notes in the US first over the next couple of months, and will continue to improve it over the course of the year. As we make the transition, we will get rid of our fact-checking control, stop demoting fact checked content and, instead of overlaying full screen interstitial warnings you have to click through before you can even see the post, we will use a much less obtrusive label indicating that there is additional information for those who want to see it."

At the end of the day, all Male-Female relationships are transactional.

Thank God he didn't utter, "Ai Farang!"

I did the spreadsheet a few months back: So, do you really owe Thailand any tax. If not, why file. They can fine you 2000 THB. Ya know, if I file I could recoup all of the withholding tax they take out of my bank interest payments. But it is such a pittance at 1% interest that it's not worth my time to go and claim it. Same goes with a fine. It's worth 2000 THB for me to not waste my time filing when I don't owe Thailand any taxes, on the contrary, they owe me a tax withholding refund. If they leave those of us who owe no taxes alone - like they do for the majority of Thai citizens - then it's a win-win.

Purebreds are inbred and therefore inherently rife with genetic health issues. I'd rather have my Heinz-57 "Thai dogs" any day of the week.

Slobber-dogs. Yuk.

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"Let's go to Thailand and pet tigers and wash elephants." Read through that a few dozen time to let it sink in about how bad those ideas sound. "Ok, let's go zip-lineing!!!" What a grand idea.

And I'm exactly like the other 60 million Thais who don't file returns. I've run the numbers and I don't own Thailand a satang. If they really want to recoup tax monies, they should aim their enforcement resources at the rich who are actually avoiding taxes. From my understanding, that was the purpose of these changes in the Thai taxes. They'd be wasting their enforcement resources tracking down people who don't meet the tax threshold. Really - You people worry too much.

Most of us under DTAs don't either. Well, except for those rich blokes who love to call the rest of us "Cheap Charlies" while smirking.

Which of his friends benefits one wonders?

How inconvenient, 'eh? Given a long enough timeline, a whole bunch of "conspiracy theories" end up having their basis in conspiracy fact.

UK Ex-MP Claims Grooming Gang Ethnicity Was Suppressed to Protect Votes What's new?