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TiT. One of those cute lil' gotchas. I didn't get mine either.

Been the norm over in the flophouses of Soi Buakhao for decades since the heyday of the great Golden Egg Layers who built Pattaya.

Such is the goal ever promoted by our ace ANF Life Coaches, usually old fat guys on meds: a short but happy life ending with a smile on one's face during a bonk. In practice, as seen in the Health forum, it seldom seems to work out that way. The "glory" seems gets lost in the fight against the debilitating symptoms of early chronic disease.

That, just the "live" version, should boot on a wide variety of machines, legacy to UEFI. Without persistence, your desktop will always be the same. If you want an installation with a larger variety of useful software included, you might try PCLinuxOS. I like it better than the ol' Knoppix. Ventoy seems more convenient for running a variet of ISOs. Just copy them over and the appear on a boot menu. Installing Mint on USB stick that'll run on a variety of machines and update is very different proposition. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=252351 Best use an external SSD for that. Wear on a stick is too much, and it's slow.

Reincarnation, close 'nuff. Altering timelines and ripple effects = common SF trope. Cf. Back To The Future. I first encountered it as a kid reading Ray Bradbury's story, "A Sound of Thunder," in The Golden Apples Of The Sun. Here, though, residual memories of other timelines, central to the plot, complicate things. And the creepy kid moves between them, like alternate universes--now that's really too much. Often leads to contrived coincidences; no exception here, rather annoying.

Not if he created the stick with persistence. https://www.fosslinux.com/60398/create-a-linux-mint-usb-drive-with-persistence.htm I like Rufus for this, and a dedicated stick, but supposedly Yumi will do it also.

Alcohol only one of the risk factors and is usually related to all the others common among those not living a healthy lifestyle. Even the medication for others, such as for BP, can contribute. You’re more likely to develop gout if you: Eat lots of purine-rich foods, including red meat and some kinds of fish, especially scallops, sardines and tuna, though the health benefits of eating fish likely outweigh any gout risk. Consume food and drinks sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup or drink excessive amounts of alcohol, especially beer. Are overweight, leading your body to produce more uric acid and to have a harder time eliminating it. Have a family history of gout. Have certain chronic conditions, including diabetes, obesity and heart or kidney disease. Take high blood pressure drugs, such as diuretics and beta blockers. Have an imbalance in your microbiome, the trillions of bacteria, viruses and fungi that live in your gut and regulate the immune system. The microbiome is implicated in most inflammatory diseases, including arthritis. --https://www.arthritis.org/diseases/gout

Interesting for SF/fantasy fans, but it does require patience. Peter Capaldi, great acting. Ambiguity at the end works w/ the surrealistic timeline differences. The Devil’s Hour Explained: The Ending, Gideon, Lucy, Isaac and…Everything

But the signs aren't just on sausage stands. Much, much more. Shopping in the malls, stores, pharmacies, staying in better hotels, owning condos and so paying fees, eating in a variety of restaurants, spending at the beaches for massages, fruits, snacks, spending in the markets and tourist shops. Thai business owners, vendors, companies, developers all making money, much more than from the usual baked-beans-on-toast Pattaya monger.

Exactly. You didn't see any paperwork from friends, don't have any, just listened to their accounts, and don't have any objective evidence that you were in fact ripped off. Now "fighting" for a claim, if in fact you ever did, may merely mean you had to present sufficient evidence of a real claim to your insurance company, which was bothersome. And it seems you do try to "wriggle" out of things, as you're trying to wriggle out of the small print nonsense. So it was wise of your insurance company not to trust you, no? Perhaps you're simply projecting your own chronic wriggling. Did I say I care what you think? On the contrary, I said "believe what you will," which you're trying to wriggle out of heeding.???? I trust we have that out the way now. I think you'll need some outside help soon getting yourself out of this repetitive bickering loop you're in. It's off-topic to the OP and to my original post. And you're resorting to the inevitable personal attacks because you have nothing else.

????Highly convincing evidence to meet forum standards. Meanwhile, we do have relevant quotations from actual insurance policies NOT in small print.

Very naive. Sponsors may not pay the researchers directly (though they have) for influence, but they don't really need to. Funding bias When big companies fund academic research, the truth often comes last . . . the funding source can influence the design, conduct, and publication of research. Although more difficult to define, sponsorship can also influence the research agenda, namely the initial step in conducting research, during which the research questions are chosen and framed. --https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6187765/ Which applies to both industry and gov't. The gov't often sponsors politically favorable research, and industries may in turn determine those politics, in a snake-eating-its-tail scenario. Gov't and industries have the money for these expensive studies. No money, no research, no jobs and careers for academicians and researchers (boo hoo). Disagreeable researchers likely to find unfavorable outcomes get shut out from the research studies one way or the other, just as independent academicians will be shunned or drummed out of institutions. For an example of a broad corrupt influence (without resort to any facts that are cancelled on our beloved forum), Nina Teicholz published in the British Medical Journal a blistering analysis of the scientific report that serves as the basis for the 2015 dietary guidelines. Yet conflicts of interest continue but aren't disclosed. So the gov't dietary guidelines, actually determined by the food and pharma industries, not to say rabid vegans, PETA, climatoids, LGBTQ whatever, and male feminists. No experts on low carb permitted. When the "guidelines" are published, the legacy news outlets all witlessly cheer from on high--and get quoted, perhaps right here on the forum. ???? Our analysis found that 95% of the committee members had COI with the food, and/or pharmaceutical industries and that particular actors, including Kellogg, Abbott, Kraft, Mead Johnson, General Mills, Dannon, and the International Life Sciences had connections with multiple members. Research funding and membership of an advisory/executive board jointly accounted for more than 60% of the total number of COI documented. --Conflicts of interest for members of the U.S. 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Unbiased.???? No conspiracy theory, fact. So I pay more attention to the independent thinkers less likely to be biased, and I think for myself in taking all sources into consideration. I look at new studies, I know how to interpret studies, I read responses to the studies (often published in Letters To The Editor), and I read books. Unfortunately, as much as 90% of the published medical studies can't be relied on anyway. Meta analyses may also be flawed, using flawed studies, a flawed model, and predisposition bias. See Lose, Gunnar, and Niels Klarskov. “Why Published Research Is Untrustworthy.” International Urogynecology Journal, vol. 28, no. 9, Sept. 2017, pp. 1271–74. Springer Link, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00192-017-3389-1. and Ioannidis, John P. A. “The Mass Production of Redundant, Misleading, and Conflicted Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.” The Milbank Quarterly, vol. 94, no. 3, Sept. 2016, pp. 485–514. www.milbank.org, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12210. So I can't and don't claim to be right all the time (really, ha ha), but I do have a pretty rational, objective viewpoint likely to be unpopular here for various reasons. Oh, find a response to the latest anti-moderate drinking study here. Since 1.0 RR (i.e. equal mortality) is just barely in the confidence interval, the paper can proudly proclaim there is "no significant difference (at 95% confidence)" Nowhere does it mention that moderate drinking is still estimated to be healthier with 92% confidence though. And now some entertainment: Scientists Discover Strong Correlation Between Trusting Government And Eating Paint Chips We've had this discussion before, I know well how you think, so no need to waste time having it again.

Oh, but it is. You've moved the goalpost, "small print," to wriggle out of admitting the reality that the exclusions applying to these motorbike crash victims are not in small print. In general, on this forum at least, anyone whose bill wasn't paid by his insurance company will claim he was cheated by the insurance company. How "legitimate" those claims really were will never be proven. We'd need ALL the details, the bills, the policy, the reasons given by the insurance co., etc. And you probably don't have all that either, just the word of the disgruntled. We never hear of any lawsuits or even complaints filed with insurance regulators. But that's another point, and individual cases aren't my concern. Believe what you will.

No. A beloved forum myth that's been refuted with evidence several times. Families claim small print to try to shift blame and create more sympathy for their GoFundMe campaigns.

Plug it into your power bank. I dunno where you're getting your cargo shorts with only 3 pockets, but go buy a pair with at least 4 pockets. Let's see if we can figure this out. Tough one. First, stop carrying around your own personal supply of toilet paper. Take Imodium before a night out. Then, a copy of the front page of your passport, with your permission of stay stamp printed on the back, can be folded to a small rectangle and then placed into a small medicine ziplock bag you can acquire from any pharmacy. Waterpoof. And this will easily fit into one of your 3 pockets with your phone, wallet, or keys, even in your wallet. Could be taped on the back of your dead phone. If still worried about loss, it will probably fit in your *ss crack. Where there's a will there's a way. That's been addressed, but any of the Kodak or Fuji photo shops will print it for you. Busy copy shop to the left of Immigration, you can make a few copies there after you get your next extension.

Seems to be confusion here between HIT and HIIT. Here are the commonly accepted definitions: https://www.theperfectworkout.com/high-intensity-training/

Good straw man, but the point of my original post, in response to a false assertion, was that the ranges of healthy blood pressure are the same irrespective of age. I didn't address causes, treatment, or consequences. Treatment is between doc and patient. Causes may vary but many are common. The consequences of high blood pressure are fairly predictable; and that's why you and millions of others take their meds. Now if you wanna expound about causes, treatment, and consequences, and talk about yourself, be my guest. If someone wishes to ignore the science and redefine healthy blood pressure for themselves as 140 and ignore it, up to them. Why should I care? Nor did I suggest that I do. You don't have a point.

Well, you're addicted and dependent already. Best thing to do, unpleasant as it will be, is to taper off the benzo and quit. Start over w/ other methods as suggested here.

Please recount the event when you, or anyone, were "preyed upon" by Immigration police demanding to see your passport and suggesting a bribe for not producing it on the spot so that you wouldn't be detained merely for not carrying it on your person. That was your assertion as to what the police were doing the other night. But you don't know of any such event. A credible witness reported no such extortion or even that tourists needed to carry their passports at all. So deflecting to your blah blah doesn't mean that your claim has any merit whatsoever. Actually, it was merely an attempt to spread FUD and pretend superior knowledge, contradicted by the report. Now, spreading FUD on the forum isn't against the rules here in general, but can be in the specific. But neither is calling out the spreading of FUD and laughing at it, as I've enjoyed doing. And we're not disagreeing. We both agree you have no evidence whatsoever to support your specific accusation and were therefore just blowing. Good 'nuff. Suggest we move on unless you need to bicker more and need help getting out of the loop.

Excellent point. While driving a motorbike, one shouldn't neglect to monitor the road ahead for any of countless obstacles, potholes, debris, dogs, poles, construction, parked cars, doors opening into your lane, etc. Still, the operations of Fate, very much respected here on our forum, can't be discounted. A few years ago, an old girlfriend of mine was driving upcountry on a totally deserted two-lane road. Daytime, clear visibility. In the distance, another bike approached in the other lane from the opposite direction. Moderate speed, not driven erratically, all normal. As it approached my girl's bike, it suddenly, for no reason at all, kamikaze-like, crossed over and crashed right into her, knocking her over, damaging her bike and injuring her. It was driven by an old man who happened to fall asleep at just the right moment.

@save the frogsshould clarify what he meant exactly, though he himself may be a little confused.

No, as shown in this thread as well as countless others, what the science says does matter in individual situations, as rational individuals know well. And so an elderly person may well value his remaining time even more than someone younger. Having even less of something precious typically does. But that's just you, and it appears you took your pills as recommended. You may stop if you wish. Irrelevant to some other elderly person's similar decision to prolong his own life, even enhance its quality, for the limited time available to him. I presently know a couple of guys in their 80s going through considerable ordeals--far more than just taking BP medicine--for exactly that reason.

Nor did they need to, and then they were told what's going on. Yet all tourist advisories for visiting Thailand mention something about the need to carry ID. Which is common sense anyway. Your point was this: police But you see the relevance of this point assertion, given that Adam adduced no evidence of any tourist "preyed" upon, isn't really clear to those not in the know, blind as bats, leading sheltered lives, blah blah. Oh. And what did they do to these "hapless tourists?" False comparison for obvious reasons. And then an example of the Complex Question fallacy, as you haven't shown any "preying."

And so do the tourists, as police said they didn't. Nor did they need to, according to a reporter on the scene. I didn't disagree, and it's you who are worked up, resorting to casting personal aspersions already.???? I suppose that if you know 'cause you know, the impertinence of the question of how you know in this particular instance--contrary to credible evidence--must be upsetting. My sympathies.