BigStar

Emojis-R-Us!

Yes, you do. And looks like you gon' stay fed up. I rather like the reddit system of simple ups and downs. Here, you could filter out the ones getting the most up votes. :)

Too often leads to useless time-wasting and endless bickering. No member here has ever changed his mind about anything. What he knows, he knows absolutely. So, if you can't think of a good laugh, or a correction of fact, hit the emoji.

And the inability to use spell check? OK--just ignorant, perhaps explaining the many confused emjojis. A post based on ignorance is often a confusing post.

The performance can be checked w/ tools. MemTest86 is a standard. And there's https://ram.userbenchmark.com/Software https://www.passmark.com/products/performancetest/pt_advmem.php Most importantly, the perception of the actual performance of the chips, in a blind test. Real world, the OP probably couldn't tell the slightest difference. First I bought 1866mhz RAM for my old box. Then bought 1666, no perceptible difference. Now we do have extraordinary posters here of utmost delicacy with claim to super sensory perception in most everything, beauty, coffee, and beer especially. Yet I'm amused by this test more than 10 years ago: Most of the time, most of our subjects literally could not tell the difference. In fact, it was worse than that. It wasn't just a case of putting hands up in the air and declaring it a dead heat. Frequently, our testers actually got it the wrong way round, declaring the low-end rig to be rendering with greater fidelity or actually running faster. --"Can a £300 gaming PC compare to a £3,000 one?" https://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/can-a-300-gaming-pc-compare-to-a-3-000-one-1071338

PM @scorecard. He did so recently, as I recall.

Senior brain fart. Poster meant Thai SS, as you should know. Whether from the US Europe or Antarctica, the pink card is now the standard ID used in Thailand for using Thai SS health insurance. And that's what I use at my designated SS gov't hospital. So: entirely relevant. It's possible to have a separate card issued after jumping through some hoops, which you'd do IF you had Thai SS.

Something to be said for that, esp. when you get a lot of likes. However, most posters are too immature to accept a negative emoji and take it personally. Often leads to emoji stalking--which we still have, but much less. Hence the anonymity is on balance a good thing. In the OP's case, people just often disagree with his little cynical, stereotypical observations.

And just made up yet another little fiction.

I don't believe that or there must be some special circumstances either not stated or misunderstood.

No, I usually don't.

Overheard at Windmill. They accepted mine, no problem. :)

My bank accepts it for over-the-counter withdrawals, with my bank book. Post Office accepts it, government hospitals accept it, DLT accepts yellow book, police accept it, SSO accepts it, tax office accepts yellow book. Good 'nuff.

True, a few members only do what's absolutely necessary, just eat, sleep, and defecate. And nobody cares whether that's all for you. No one ever said a pink ID is necessary: that's THE typical straw man argument. However, I find mine convenient to use at times. Going thru the process of getting it didn't bother me. I made it enjoyable. :)

I like mine and whip it out wherever it's accepted. Used it recently for hotel registration and for a hospital visit. Saves me from having to pay property tax. With yellow book, didn't need a Residence Certificate to renew my DL. Etc.

Sour grapes because life-threatening for you, even willing to pay annual property tax to avoid getting one.

No, I buy drinks for a few ladies I find entertaining and am fond of, known them for quite a while. They're good people. I leave their bar in a good mood. You're extremely worried about respect. Why is that?

Person. That relationship is rather tenuous and its significance unproven. Roger Stone is also a kind of colorful nutcase and performance artist.

Directly. Smart politicians know that, in the words of the Wicked Witch of the West, "these things must be done delicately." It reminds me of Hunter Biden and his 20 shell companies, or Iran and its proxies in the Middle East.

Yah, the DOJ found a few nutcases who, unlike all the others, were unquestionably plotting to keep Trump in power and potentially violently. Like others, they forced their way into the Capitol. I don't think Trump will pardon them, if he gets into power. :)

More than a couple of comments AND high profile. Bill's on board, and she helped build the whole big leftist momentum behind abolishing the Electoral College and turning over the vote to the mobs. Hillary isn't Biden, but the point I was making was about the broad-based tradition. Dems approve overthrows (by lawfare, if possible, or de facto coup) if it's their overthrow, you see. Moreover, I agreed that Trump was the loudest monkey in the forest--out of a LOT of monkeys (link given). They're obviously linked by Biden's incompetence, bad decision-making, and, with Ukraine, possible corruption. All the implicitly Dem-approved rioting by their militant arms is linked to Biden as the leader of the party in power who did nothing. Doing nothing is also taking responsibility, as you'd be quick to point out IF it's Trump. This is a disputed point that, as I earlier pointed out, you aren't competent to discuss. But countries with their fiscal houses in order didn't suffer large increases in their inflation rates. We'll never know if the inflation rate in the US would have been lower under Trump. Probably so, as all those huge spending bills to support the wasteful Dem vote-buying wouldn't have run up the deficit as much. As for workers, what workers? Labor unions of all stripes are traditionally paid off by the Dem party in exchange for their votes at the expense of consumers. Given the salaries of union bosses and staff, workers are constantly bombarded with propaganda and don't dare speak against the leadership. Still, Trump got 4 out of 10 labor union votes in 2016j, best of any Repub ever. He can make the case that Biden's open borders will create jobs competition and a vast misuse of tax money for illegal immigrant welfare. It's amazing what a high percentage of Biden's "jobs" are actually for social welfare needed for illegal immigrants and the otherwise impoverished. The Welfare-Industrial Complex This is not to more government overhead in general and "favored" industries. Great if you're working for one of those. :) However, a lot of Biden voters are too obtuse and brainwashed to care about any of that. Inner city voters in Dem-run cities keep voting for the same kinds of idiots destroying their once-great cities. Eric Adams, Brandon Johnson, London Breed . . . . Funniest part of the DeSantis-Newsom debate was when DeSantis pulled out the poop map of San Francisco. Trump can point to Biden's canceling of the Keystone pipeline, hostility to oil and gas, and support for EV. And he can point out that he imposed tariffs on imports. Yet most union workers go for the short-term payouts. Layoffs, business failures, higher prices, greater taxes, jobs lost from automation and now AI--go over their heads. Elite, favored union members won't be better off under Trump. Currently, the West seems moving more and more towards Hunger Games societies. The fact that a number of groups won't benefit, groups you like who enjoy unfair advantages owing to political market distortions, is a good thing. :) One of the great things Thatcher did was to curb the power of unions, no? That's about it. You asked for an informed, evidence-based opinion, you got it. And I gave you sources of objective info. Your opinion, however important it is to you and seemingly rational, basically just repeats MSNBC, a Democratic mouthpiece. So I know all your opinions and thoughts already on this topic.

Freedom to do what is the issue. Live, shoot up, defecate on the streets, shoplift for fun & profit all good now. Plus a lot of other stuff. Rural area, yup.

Usual lying nonsense. No one was charged, let alone convicted, of sedition, either. Which could have something to with why no sedition charges were brought. :)

We don't like it when Thais administer street justice, however well deserved. The publicity's OK. Was handled peacefully, helps discourage other wannabe beach chair squatters.

Hillary, though conceding, kept up her "stolen" narrative and called for an end to the Electoral College, attempting to overthrow the system and deprive smaller states of due representation. Stacey Abrams, too, started up a special-interest group, and engaged in serious lawfare attempting to undermine respect for election results, alleging discriminatory and suppressive election practices in Georgia. She finally lost. Both were and are "outrageous." I doubt you're sufficiently knowledgeable to discuss Jan 6, but you may give some examples of articles you've read, such as the brief one I linked for you, in the interest of having an objective, informed opinion, explaining why Jan 6 wasn't that big of a deal, as these things go, and how Trump didn't encourage any rioting, let alone insurrection. This is not to offend anyone's religion. I'd agree he didn't handle it well. Often he doesn't act in his own best interests. Finally did and of course botched it, as you note. As Obama said, "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f--- things up." And so not surprisingly his own botching basically led to the Ukraine-Russia war, otherwise preventable. Lot of leftist propagandists support him (paid by lobbyists, I assume) as well as Repub militarists; you may be onboard. Nonetheless, sentiment seems gradually turning against perpetual warfare, as people are gradually realizing the costs of supporting the military-industrialist complex Eisenhower warned about. Trump seems in agreement, one of his appealing points. The poll numbers merely reflect the results of his real failings on the economy. Why would you, an objective observer, wish to deny the facts? The question is, why are voters so down on the economy if the Biden administration is constantly touting its economic record? The simple answer: Facts are stubborn things. --Failure of “Bidenomics” Is Rankling Americans We could come up with a list of his other failures and power grabs, some found illegal. In view of their pretensions to support democracy while undermining it--very much so. Told a big lie the other day, and doubled down on it, with the blessing of controlled media, about drownings on the border. Biden Administration, Media Caught Lying After Blaming Recent Border Drownings On Texas. New report out says FinCen, like Bolsheviks, asked banks to troll through their customers' private, protected speech for terms the regime thinks hostile. This could be a very long list. But the best example you're familiar with would be the Jan 6 "insurrection" lie constantly repeated for re-election purposes and used in lawfare, for example, the illegal removal of Trump from ballots. (BTW, that Colorado decision was laughable in its self-righteous pomposity, covering up the poor reasoning.) You remind me of this covering for implicitly Dem-sanctioned rioting: One of many. As you can see even on the forum threads, reasoning is useless. Force and power are what they understand, period. It's come to that, so bring it on. Again, you're merely echoing the party line. You may link to articles you've read that disagree with you on each point, if you've read any. As an article referenced above notes, partisan lawfare against Trump is running out of gas.