GroveHillWanderer

Is it not?

Now, unsurprisingly enough, the Russians are claiming US and UK involvement. US, Britain, Ukraine behind Crocus City Hall attack — FSB chief

What on earth are you talking about? The figures you quoted say absolutely nothing about the lifetime mileage of vehicles of either type. They are not "off" by any multiple whatsoever, because individual vehicle longevity is not a part of what those statistics indicate. You apparently don't even understand what the numbers that you quoted mean.

Similarly, my wife has had a whole bunch of 1 year visas, one 2 year visa, one 5 year visa, and two 10 year visas. Never had a problem with any of them.

If you meant to say "get a UK visa" rather than "get a UK" then firstly we don't know that he didn't plan this weeks ago and secondly he might already hold a 2, 5 or 10 year visit visa for the UK. They're not that hard to get.

That's demonstrably untrue. When the Russians first invaded, a lot of the western experts and media thought the Russians would win in a matter of days. See just a couple of examples below. US concerned Kyiv could fall to Russia within days, sources familiar with intel say How Western Experts Got the Ukraine War So Wrong

That's not the case. I renewed my passport last year and what the instructions say is that a countersignature is only required for a passport renewal if you are not recognizable from your previous passport photo. So all they need to confirm your appearance has not changed is to compare your old passport photo with the new photos. Since my appearance was still similar enough to my last passport, I did not get anyone to countersign and I did not need to attend in person (did it through an agent).

Don't forget that in the first case that came to court, the damages were only $5 million. It only went up to $83 million after the second one because Trump was stupid enough to keep on defaming Carroll after having already been found liable once. This meant her lawyers were able to add additional counts of defamation to the second case that was still ongoing, and gave the jurors the impetus needed to ratchet up the damages to that higher level. If Trump had just had enough sense to avoid repeating the same things he was already on the hook for, he wouldn't have ended up with such a hefty judgement against him. As the article below points out, in terms of why the jury decided to make the punitive damages so high: Defamation defeat a double-edged sword for Trump

What's just as troubling is that Cannon has asked both prosecution and defence to provide hypothetical jury instructions that deal with issues related to the Presidential Records Act (PRA). However as Andrew Weissman, a former Assistant United States Attorney, George W. Bush appointee and current professor at NYU Law School points out, her order is legally fundamentally wrong, given that Trump is not charged with offences under the PRA. He is charged with violations of the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice and making false statements to investigators. So whether he contravened the PRA is not germane to the case and therefore the jury doesn't need any instructions about it. Andrew Weissmann: 'Legally fundamentally wrong’ Judge Aileen Cannon faces increased scrutiny

I actually think that the UK would be better off without a monarchy, but I also believe in accuracy and pointing out relevant facts. Royal assent was last refused in the UK in 1708. As far as I'm concerned, what happens with the Belgian monarchy has no relevance to the UK's monarchy, in the same way that what happens in the Belgian parliament has no relevance to proceedings in the UK parliament.

No it doesn't. But it does make bringing his name into a discussion about presidential hires, both illogical and irrelevant.

The point was the quality of presidential hires. Bob Menendez was not hired by Biden, he's been a senator since 2006.

Difficult to say, given that before I saw that quote, I'd already read several articles that shed more light on how things had unfolded.

One might, although as I say, based on multiple other reports, it would appear that two different videos were recorded. One apparently by the policeman who was assaulted, which we have not seen, and one by a bystander which we have.

No, the article simply says that the incident was being "recorded by the police" - it does not say that the video which is available online, is the one taken by "the police". Again, multiple different sources make it clear that "the police" refers to the policeman who was assaulted with some reports even suggesting that it was the fact that he was filming them, that aroused the ire of the two men. As far as I am aware, the video that the policeman himself was filming, has not been made public.

I think you're misinterpreting the phrase, "while having the incident recorded by police" to mean that the video we have seen, is what was being recorded by police. Other reports, including the one above from The Thaiger (which includes the video in question) state that the assault started while the pair were being filmed by the policeman that was attacked but that the video doing the rounds was not the video taken by the policeman, but was shot by a witness to the incident.

It is reported in various articles from multiple different sources about this incident, that it was a bystander who took the video, not a policeman.

The same story is available from multiple sources. Here's a report from ABC News, for example. Trump's TikTok ban reversal comes after meeting megadonor who has stake in TikTok

Here's why negotiating with the Russians seems like a non-starter at the moment. This is the Russian peace plan, according to both Russia's security council deputy chairman, and Putin's party chairman, Dmitriy Medvedev. https://x.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1768323542750199843?s=20 "1. Recognition by the former 'Ukraine' of its defeat in the military component of the conflict. Full and unconditional surrender of former 'Ukraine' in the person of the neo-Nazi clique in Kyiv. Demilitarization of former 'Ukraine' and prohibition on the creation of militarized formations on its territories in the future. 2. Recognition by the international community of the Nazi nature of the former Kyiv political regime and conducting UN-controlled compulsory denazification of all former 'Ukraine's' government bodies. 3. UN acknowledgment of former 'Ukraine's' loss of international legal capacity and the impossibility of its successors joining military alliances without Russia's consent. 4. Resignation of all constitutional bodies of former 'Ukraine' and immediate elections for a temporary parliament of the self-governing territory under the UN's aegis of former ‘Ukraine.' 5. The temporary parliament's enactment of laws regarding the payment of all due compensations to Russia, including payments to the relatives of deceased citizens of our country and payments for injuries to wounded individuals. Establishment of the procedure for compensating property damage inflicted on entities of the Russian Federation. 6. The temporary parliament of former Ukraine's' official recognition that its entire territory is the territory of the Russian Federation. Adoption of the act of reunification of the territories of former 'Ukraine' with Russia. 7. Dissolution of the temporary parliament. UN recognition of the act of reunification."

Those are some impressive figures. I wonder what it'll cost here. Online sources say it goes for between US$28,900 to $38,000 in China. So starting price there equivalent to around 1 million baht.

I would say so. He's someone who (according to what he's been charged with) carries firearms in public and quite clearly has a problem keeping his anger under control. As far as I'm concerned, that's a potentially lethal combination.

Not sure why you'd say something that's so demonstrably false. It's not common knowledge at all, in fact it's quite untrue. What happens to old electric car batteries? As for what the manufacturers say, well here's a quote from Nissan executive Nic Thomas. Electric Car Batteries Lasting Longer Than Predicted Delays Recycling Programs

I think maybe the person writing this got their terminology mixed up. They are namesakes, but they're not what I would call lookalikes. They're both bald and have some vague facial similarities, but that's about it.

Here's another analysis of the issue. Do electric cars have an air pollution problem? Its overall findings: "The study found heavier electric cars cause marginally more road and tyre wear for the larger PM 10 particles and the smaller PM 2.5. Yet once engine pollution is added in, petrol and diesel cars were marginally worse."

Yes, one of my Thai nieces has one (the other one has a BYD Seal).