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mind blowing. it's interesting to note that there are at least 3 factions: - FSB: hates GRU, Ministry of Defense and Wagner. not sure what military support the FSB has - GRU and Wagner share a base near Moscow, Russian SSO (Flustikov) was transferred from GRU to MoD. I think it's safe to say Flustikov is friendly to Wagner, otherwise what would be the "point" of securing headquarters ? - Ministry of Defense: supposedly Putin's faction, so it would also include Rosgvardia and we still haven't heard from the Chechens in the last couple of days

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well, there is white people's food and then there is ... "modern" white people's food. I'm sure if these Chinese tried proper Italian, French and ... basically the whole continental Europe's cuisine (sorry Brits), they would like most of it too. what I see in these posts of the Chinese is food prepared by white people who either hate good food or can't cook or overdo the "healthy". Switzerland, Germany, and other countries are now full of people like that who eat strange food. and yeah, it's strange white people's food. well, yuck. when the Chinese are right, they are right.

my dad's cellar still has its moments. the Trois Rivières was from 1979, probably bought for around 20$ at the PX at the time.

I'm in none of the poll's categories. It seems the poll is made for people who always do the same day after day. I usually drink very little. Often nothing for weeks. Sometimes wine, beer. A glass of wine a day seems so restrictive. Drinking alone ... sometimes. Sometimes much wine (my father's got some nice bottles) and then some rum (Trois Rivières) and/or Chartreuse and similar. Sometimes I get hammered. Where is the "I just drink what and as much as feels good in the moment" option ?

sadly, all proper sleeping pills with short half-life are on the restricted lists.

I don't know why everybody loses so much time with this dam demolition. It's clear the Ruzzians did it, it made sense from a military point of view, I don't see it as being such a big thing compared to the other horrible acts committed by the Ruzzians. It's just one more item to add to the list of their war crimes, which is already quite long.

how about going to a notary ? the fee shouldn't be exorbitant

maths require exact numbers to work - 12000BTU , 33.3 months. I feel the price of aircons has also gone down. I recently replaced an aircon for just 8.000 THB, and have been saving 600-800 THB per month, so I guess it will have paid for itself within a year.

which was a huge defeat for the red

I think the battle is ferocious and there are heavy casualties on both sides. I wouldn't be surprised if losses were balanced. The reason for this is that the West didn't give Ukraine F-16 in time, apparently Ruzzian helos are giving them a hard time. Ukrainian losses would be much less if they had air superiority or at least could defend against the RU helos. The important thing for Ukraine is to breakthrough to Mariupol, Berdiansk or Melitopol, even if they lose half their equipment. The Ukrainians are true heroes of our time, they are fighting for all of us.

lol. and there are people who believe that kind of thing ?

yawn... the man that got hand-picked and instructed to play a certain act got scripted reactions in order to fuel, spin, hype the show ... that kind of "news" can safely be ignored.

What is Putin blabbering about ? He annexed the Donbas. Now he wants to declare it independent ? I watched his round table with bloggers a handful of days ago, he appeared to be blabbering there too, didn't look strong at all. He probably has gone senile already.

very misleading title

There are safety requirements, obviously flight attendants need to be able to move fast in the plane and perform other physical tasks and perform well in case of an emergency. So it's natural that some physical fitness is required. But as a customer-facing service job, it's also a question of representing the airline. It's quite natural that there would be some requirements in the looks department. That's how it is in life - not everyone has equal chances at everything !

thanks - yes water quality is not great, also there have been pipe building works in the building in recent years, and I had a lot of issues with sand/dust in the filters. but there is enough pressure, as I am on the ground floor - pressure has ever only been a problem when the filters were obstructed.

normal actually has a meaning in maths, which is the normal distribution (statistics or probabilities), so something "normal" could be understood as being within one standard deviation from the average. and me coming from the predominantly German-speaking part of the central European alps, I expect home appliances to last at least 25 years. So 7-8 years is quite underwhelming.

is it normal for water heaters to die after 6, 7 or 8 years of use ?

I got an error message on all my orders. There were 6 orders with status "pending, awaiting payment". It seems all my orders were registered, but without a payment method. I had to go into "my orders", select "pay now" and then select "cash on delivery". Very strange.

all is fine until "place order"

very strange I can't order anything from Lazada now - site keeps saying there is a problem on their side, I should try later I'm unable to buy any of these, lol https://www.lazada.co.th/products/rinnai-nippon600mp-multi-point-i1440360473-s3739038173.html https://www.lazada.co.th/products/rinnai-nippon600mp-6000-moderntools-official-i634110410-s1216474615.html https://www.lazada.co.th/products/rinnai-nippon600mp-6000-i2998685035-s10993852363.html https://www.lazada.co.th/products/rinnai-nippon600mp-6000-ski-official-i3945016264-s15315806924.html

yes, the offer seems to be dodgy - there is mention of cashback coins in the description, probably some kind of scam. this one seems to share the same components: https://www.lazada.co.th/products/rinnai-nippon600mp-multi-point-i1440360473-s3739038173.html

yes, multipoint, check the link in my first post. this isn't exactly an inexpensive unit, 6000W, costs around 5000-6000 baht. water flow is now stronger of course, the water passage in the stop valve was tiny.

it seems Mex and Rinnai share a lot of components