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True. And let's not forget the Libya debacle. Hillary's baby!

I suspect he knows the longer Biden keeps it up, wasting more resources (now running out of ammo), the more territory he can keep in the end, the better terms he'll get, and the weaker the USA will be. Biden is a weak negotiator as well, let Iran run all over him, screwed up Afghanistan, cut and ran. He knows he'll win, as did anyone with much sense. Things were stable until Biden, with his love of Ukraine (cue Hunter) went over and blabbered about Ukraine joining NATO. SO stupid. And Biden could have headed off the whole thing by requiring Ukraine to make some concessions. Russia did have some complaints--that Russia obviously took seriously.

Coherent isn't a word applicable to Biden. Putin prefers Biden, just as he said. Nothing much more they'll do to "stand up" to Russia. Can't, no money and popular support's running out for throwing money down that rathole mostly to help The Party. Worked great before Biden got in to screw up everything.

Not trolling but exactly right. Yes, one of you obviously does have something wrong upstairs. Charitably, a lack of common sense.

So much nonsense. Try to think for yourself. You've been led like the usual ninny into the Demtards' Russia Collusion Reboot. What else have they got, can't run on their record of failure. The ‘Russia Collusion’ Reboot Is Going To Be Terrible Besides, he'd much prefer a weak senile Biden figuratively at the helm. Why wouldn't he? He ain't stupid. He says so: “We are ready to work with any president. But I believe that for us, Biden is a more preferable president for Russia, and judging by what he has just said, I am absolutely right,” Putin told state television, with a slight smile on his face. “This means that I was right,” he continued. “What I said was for our audience first and foremost not for Americans. You are a Russian journalist after all. And you asked what was better for us. So, I told you then and I can confirm and repeat it now: Biden.” The Russian leader previously voiced Biden as his choice of the two candidates as he is “more predictable” than President Trump. --Putin: ‘I Was Absolutely Right’ About Biden

When it's time, it's time. Now you might go to Jib, Advice, PowerBuy, or wherever and get a demo before you buy. Middle of the road has changed a lot in the last 15 years, to say the least.

Oh, it's much more than that. You just now ignored, for example, the national debt I mentioned, typical of selective perception. With that, we got inflation and wrong-headed, absurdly wasteful spending priorities. We could go on to talk about homelessness, crime, the hollowing out and destruction of once-great cities, politics of division, censorship, attempt at media control, dual standards, subversion of the justice system, further expansion of the welfare state, and . . . . You get the idea. Also fair enough, and critically important. Posters on Trump topics here haven't the slightest interest in the reasons Trump supporters (or just tolerators, actually), think Trump might be somewhat good, amid all the noise, for correcting many of the problems Biden and his leftists have foisted on the USA. The hope would be to return more to the previous 4 years (marred at the end by COVID) of low inflation, energy independence (Biden selling off the Strategic Petroleum Reserve--brilliant!), NATO allies coughing up more of their share, peaceful international relations (except for Afghanistan--Trump's plan for withdrawal thwarted by the war lobby, only to be botched by Biden), Iran in its corner after Obama foolishly threw money at them, etc. I imagine it'll be hard for Trump to do much without inflicting pain. Reagan, or now the Argentine president Javier Milei, had the courage, but they also had a large base of support and no vast disinformation campaign w/ cooperation of the media, big tech, and corporate interests. The Dems are also leaving poison pills to stop him . . . . Tried to do that w/ the immigration portion of the recent spending bill that failed. With no interest in those reasons, and, indeed, an inability to discuss them anyway without soiling their diapers while parroting the opinion-setting apparatchiks on The View or MSNBC, posters on a Trump topic merely enjoy the same old bashfest with a lot of name-calling, preening themselves on being informed and highly intelligent while leftists undermine them for a Hunger Games-style society. Kind of like middle class supporters of the Bolsheviks later murdered by the Bolsheviks.

Actually it's just receiving service for payments. The exact amount of payment, in total, including full tuition for her daughter, won't be revealed.

Or 10,000 less, if you don't need more and couldn't really tell the difference anyway? Or 55,000 baht more to get an I9, 48 Gb RAM, Nvidia 3070 graphics, and backlit keyboard? Really depends on how it's used. For surfing porn, watching youtube & Netflix, checking email, checking the BBC, posting on the forum, like most posters--it's overkill. Even for playing script kiddie with your VPN. Ross Ulbricht, aka “Dread Pirate Roberts,” ran Silk Road from his Samsung 700z laptop, 4 Gb RAM, HDD, and a server in Iceland, and amassed 50,676 Bitcoin (worth nearly $3.4 billion in 2021) for himself. Hardware intensive applications--editing videos w/ Premier Pro, playing some recent games with high fps, rendering animations, compiling large programs, etc--will require more. I, like a few others here, find it satisfying to keep an old box running that meets all my needs. 🙂

Not a good idea. Ask Google Translate to translate its translation back into English. 🙂 It doesn't really compare with a skilled human translator. Maneerat on Soi Post Office had a translator working in the back, nice guy, got his translation certified by MFA. I dunno about his tech skills, however. https://www.facebook.com/maneerat.fon.0818630320/?paipv=0&eav=AfaI45RRLJiysfULFKGLsbk7l5nyIm3nfOPqxmNNQf-PBp5HfISwhYQofJr1qmn0TIU&_rdr=

You got the name-calling down right, man. Proof of higher education and intelligence. Count those wins. 🙂

Nah, nose job, boob job, mindless generic music. Here's a reason to love Thailand: Best backup dancer ever.

Our dicks demand to know ALL the details needed to solve the case. Now: were they HIS false teeth?

Unusually good details here for CSI: ANF to work with. But we have more questions. Front door locked from inside? Balcony door left open, escape to the next room over?

Fantasy of the week. Good thing it'll never happen, 'cause you'll just injure yourself.

No crack is going to enable security updates past EOS. Money will. Not suitable for ordinary desktop application users. Ubuntu or Mint's his speed.

Who, as I noted, may have been influenced directly or indirectly by bar girls. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, your claim to authority on the Thai language has also been shredded:

Bar girls understandably have no respect for the idiots they have to deal with. They probably did, on average, before they entered the profession. Bar girls go back to villages and spread the word, too. I could see using "it" myself. That's one reason I learned to start every transaction with a Thai in Pattaya with a pleasant, polite, sawadee krub and a smile. Immediately lets them know you're not one of the idiots. Works well even with the toughest old tourist-shocked vendor.

Depends on how you say it. Quickly, with a perfunctory businesslike tone, doesn't signal further interest. I usually get the same back or nothing, as it's clear I don't expect any response. I think it helps always to give a pleasant sawadee krub at the beginning of any business transaction, even at supermarket checkout. The OP may expect further discussion, however, and that might be part of his problem. Ordinarily, there's no reason to imply or expect that.

Yes. Only ignorant farang tourists believe that Pattaya isn't a VERY Thai city run by Thais who are just as Thai as elsewhere.

One example is in the pink card discussion. Besides a lot of nonsense, you made up the assertion that pink cards are for migrant workers and not farang. From that false assertion you concluded that Thai Amphurs don't WANT to give pink cards to farang and create unnecessary obstacles out of xenophobia. 🙂 That's merely what an ignorant bigoted farang believes. Your beliefs about Thais are mostly ignorant, bigoted farang beliefs, with readings from tourist guides. Probably comes from living in the UK all those years. Though rogue offices exist (not many, it seems), the purpose of the requirements is merely to verify identity with as much validity as possible. The Pattaya office is one of the toughest, if not THE toughest, in Thailand. Yet everyone in City Hall was quite helpful, and, after I fulfilled the requirements, they granted me a yellow book (even a blue book, which I'd never had), with politeness and grace. We parted with wais and smiles. Very much so IF you were really a Thai rather than basically a farang with a Thai ID card, whinging that Pattaya bar girls don't greet you with a wai. LOL. The point is that you spread irrelevant misinformation, as noted by @Gecko123: The question before us has a very simple answer, and it was answered satisfactorily in the first two posts in the thread. I also noted that Japanese don't greet strangers in, for example, elevators or even crowded trains. It would never occur to me to do so, unless hitting on a girl--which is business.🙂 There's no smiling at strangers. Why should there be? Only Brits like beating up on Russians with that arbitrary standard. Yet they're among the world's politest people. Anyway, I'm not going to get into one of your endless bickering loops. That'll have to do it for your tummy rub. I stand by my BRIEF original statement that you're a poor source of information about Thai culture and doings. I get it that you of course strongly disagree. Feel free. Posters can make up their own minds.

A good mechanical RGB backlit TKL is the bee's knees. That's what I use on my desktops and am typing on one right now. Got particular keys lit in different colors. GF told me it's a kind of fruit salad. But a USB light (several types available, I chose this one because somebody said something about not liking white light), though imperfect, can be better than nothing and good 'nuff. I use one on my laptop if I'm typing on it at night, which is not often, only during travel. Some of them have longer lighting fixtures, e. g., https://www.lazada.co.th/products/i4656857717-s19149775058.html and if you put that down low on your top row, focused outward a bit to hit the others, you'll have NO problem seeing it.

Try one of these USB lights in warm yellow. You can afford it. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/i4043649493-s15733550802.html

Friend of mine did plasma for her hip pain. Very minimal relief. A hip replacement will be coming up.

Yes, as usual, our old buzzards have gathered to see how many different ways they can poop on this hard-working couple. We need that feeling of superiority.