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Bangkok car crash: Honda Civic bursts into flames, passengers escape
I can almost see the fart can and the wider inexpensive wheels from here, this was a professional Thai driver, he knew what he was doing. Must have been brake failure. -
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British Tourist Attacked in Pattaya: Nose Broken, Eye Bruised; Authorities on the Hunt
High Season is here. I forecast 4 or 5 months of our fellow countrymen making us ashamed and embarrassed. -
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Why are many people so partisan?
That bureaucracy sometimes makes decisions slow is not new. And some posts are inefficient or superfluous. That Trump wants to change this is not a bad idea. But to choose Musk for this that is the bad idea. And worse is to give him almost unlimited power like a second president. But sure it will be his benefit -
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Why are many people so partisan?
too true, we each have our opinion which is natural but too many folks on this forum don't accept that if it is different from theirs and they gladly it seems want to let the world know. I am not a Trumper but yes, I was a former civil servent and recognize the bloated government bureaucracy of the US and the waste. I am not sure that all will be good in the new administration..I have read the Project 2025 plan to shrink the govt, get rid of abuse of positions, etc and like you say, who can argue with that! It would be nice thougjh if the elected officials in the Congress could think more about the citizens and the nation than they do about getting re-elected. They remind me of the traditional used car salesperson who changes his spiel on selling a car based on the person to whom he is speaking and could really care less about the truth. I think that the conservative move being sought through the project 2025 might be good if carried out honestly...the key to government but which I find lacking just about everywhere. -
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Trump's 'huge lie' shows 'he’s taking everyone for an idiot': analysis
That's one solution, I guess. Neutering them so they don't pass on their gene pool is another. Seriously, what I write is a harsh reality for which there is unlikely to be any solution, and I know 47 does not have one. The human race has entered an era where Darwinian Capitalism rules: the fittest survive and prosper. There have been a few periods like this in human history, with varying 'solutions'. The age of serfdom ended when the Bubonic Plague wiped out 25%+ of Europe, putting labor in short supply. Sometimes the 'solution' is war, because governments try to divert attention from domestic problems by manufacturing an external enemy. WWI was kind of like that. One type of labor was obviated when the McCormick Combine was invented, a device that could do in a day what it took 50 farm workers two weeks to do. Fortunately, displaced agricultural labor had the factories of the Industrial Revolution to absorb them. Tell me where unskilled labor goes today, when technology and AI continue to replace human labor? I have no idea. Neither does 47. Maybe we're all just going to paint each other's fingernails and cut each other's hair? Others see this harsh and intractable reality, and have proposed measures like a guaranteed income. Two problems with that: one is every nation is already wildly indebted, so where is this money going to come from to provide obviated labor with income? The second problem is that work gives many people their major source of personal "meaning". If an increasing percentage of folks have nothing to do but sit around collecting their guaranteed income, what effect will that have on their mental well-being? Let me add one more problem: the world is awash in capacity. China added more steel production capability in the last fifteen years than existed until 15 years ago. Where is the market for all that steel? Since much of these new factories use lots of automation, what is the labor component relative to steel factories of a hundred years ago? The world also has excess capacity in cars, TV and electronics, aircraft....almost everything. We also have excess capacity in weapons of war, but we have the occasional war as a 'solution' to that problem. I am of the view the reason people like 47 get elected is because they offer false hope to people who have lost hope. The trouble is, NOBODY has a solution. 47 is both cynical and transactional, as well as totally self-centered; he offered pie-in-the-sky fantasy to the forlorn, while lacking even the 'concept of a plan', and did that solely to get their votes. He got what he wanted. Now he wants to do what...enact massive tariffs? That will just add more pain to those already hurting. My view is not elitist. It is simply the reality the world faces. AI is just going to exacerbate the problem. Adding massively to debt has been the solution for the last few decades, and that worked as long as everybody suspended their disbelief and pretends sovereign debt will at least be serviced. Nobody thinks sovereign debt will ever be repaid, but so long as it can be serviced, we can continue to suspend our disbelief. Greece ran into trouble a decade ago when it couldn't even service its debt. As rates rise, more nations will suffer the same problem. In the US, each 1% upward shift in the Yield Curve adds another $350 billion to each year's deficit. What happens when the 'guaranteed income' scheme adds even more to the deficit? Money printing and wild inflation, or a sharp rise in rates, neither of which have pleasant outcomes. 47's new sidekick Elon Musk has stated that Americans are going to have to suffer. That's some tough love, but I cannot think of an alternative. Obviously you don't like my take on reality. Perhaps you have a solution? If you do, get 47 on the phone, because he certainly doesn't have a solution. Tech and AI have given birth to an unprecedented time in human history, worse than the age of serfdom. Maybe one reason why birth and fertility rates are falling everywhere (this year it's .69 in South Korea, and even in Thailand it's below 1.5) is that is a natural way of doing something about the problem of redundancy and obviated labor. Again, if you have one, please let us all know your solution. -
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Pervert gets rocks off masturbating in Pattaya
Please go to Phuket and do this kind of thing. We don't need these kind of people in world class family resort.
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