GroveHillWanderer

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).

At the risk of repeating myself: Did you bother doing that? If you did, you'll have seen the multiple other images of similar occurrences in the UK and if you didn't, then it seems you're just trying to bury your head in the sand and pretend that if you can't see it, it didn't happen. Which is weird, because you've already seen and commented on the images posted by @Fruit Traderthat provide further evidence that you were wrong and the UK does indeed allow EV charging cables to be lying on the ground.

Last time I checked, foreign vehicles are allowed into the UK, so the provenance of a number plate is not definitive. In any event, the vehicle with what looks like an EU number plate is parked on a road that has UK style houses, bollards, road surface etc. Anyway, if you don't like those photos, just do a Google search for, "kerbside charging UK" and click on Images - you'll see any number of additional photos of cars parked on UK streets with charging cables trailing on the floor.

You might want to look again. At least two of those pictures (the last two) are almost certainly from the UK. The last one because it's from a UK article, quoting UK sources: Kerbside charging biggest barrier to EV adoption, says AFP And the third one because of the characteristic lamp posts, houses and hedgerows (nowhere else that I've ever been, or seen pictures of, in the world has that combination of features). The middle one could very possibly be from the UK, given that the article quoted above mentions that some councils are trialling cable gullies. Only the first photo is overwhelmingly likely to be from a non-UK location, based on the car number plate. Here's a couple more from UK sources showing EV cables lying on the street.

Kerbside charging has been available in the UK for over 5 years. I've searched and can't find any evidence of such issues occurring. Although, if you have any links or sources, please provide them.

Unless it's changed recently, my understanding was that the Border Force did not routinely check passports for people leaving the country, but did random checks only (usually for "high risk" destinations). Whenever we go to the UK, my wife gets an entry stamp, but there's no exit stamp. I seem to recall them saying something last year about starting to collect data from airlines but I don't know if that was implemented yet.

Where is your account? I have accounts at both TTB and Kasikorn banks and they will issue bank statements with those details in English if I ask them to. They'll even do it for a Thai person, on request (my wife gets statements in English when she is applying for a UK visa, for instance).

Yes I saw the reports about the Luton airport fire, many of which pointed out that it was caused by a diesel-engined vehicle. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/11/london-luton-airport-fire-car-parking-garage-live-updates/

The convincing information that he was meeting with Russian intelligence services is in the indictment, which has already been linked to. The proof that the Republicans knew the information was suspect comes from Republican lawmaker Ken Buck, who stated this live on air in an interview. Republican: Colleagues were warned informant’s Biden claims were not verified

Then perhaps you need to do a little more reading. This was actually one of the stranger aspects of the whole Steele dossier affair, that the funding that led to it came initially from Republicans, then later from Democrats. Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier

You think this war could have been avoided? Pray do tell.

Did you even bother reading the article - or for that matter, the quotes from it that I included? Both the article, and the quotes I gave, make it perfectly clear that kratom did not cause 4,100 deaths in two years in the states. It was listed as either the cause, or a contributory factor. And again, without wanting to sound like a broken record here, both my post and the article are clear about the fact that, "The vast majority of those cases involved other drugs ..." Also, these figures are quite clearly not lies - they are taken directly from coroners' reports which are a matter of public record and freely available to anyone who cares to look them up. As Sheryl pointed out, no-one here (nor the article) is calling for a ban, it's simply a question of pointing out some of the potential dangers for people to be aware of - especially if mixing kratom with other drugs.