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Brian Thompson’s killing sparks outrage over state of US healthcare
Evil insurer tales, for sure. That's how they play the game these days, or so it seems. Don't think, though, if this was in fact a grievance murder, that the people who would do such a thing are worried about right and wrong. They're past that point. Someone paid for insurance and didn't get it. Or, they had a loved one who died as the result of a denial of care. For them, the "system" didn't work. So they hired Luca Brasi for "justice." -
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Do you wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle in Thailand?
Asking the wrong question. With scooters being 20-40x as hazardous on a per km basis, and helmets only reducing that risk by 40%, the real safety Rubicon is crossed when you throw a leg over a seat instead of buckling into a ton of steel. I'll always take a car (or the BTS or MRT) if those choices are reasonably available. But I realize that's not always practical. Not that I don't hop on motosai scooters for short trips down sois where taking a taxi just isn't practical. In those cases, I look at the helmet they may (or may not) have on offer, and make a judgment call. Usually, they're as good as nothing. -
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90 day report in Bangkok - how bad is it now?
No...sorry....that was a little misleading ....Chaiyaphum....soz. -
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Thailand's Marriage Equality Bill to Become Law Next Month
I can understand coming to the conclusion that you do with the reasoning given. Another question to consider in the light of that same reasoning would be why some people are kleptomaniacs, knowing that it will continue getting them imprisoned. Or, why do people gamble their livelihoods away and destroy their families, knowing that over and over it has led to destruction. Or, why do people continue to choose drinking to excess or doing drugs to excess, knowing the ends of such things. Or, why do people who think that the government is spying on them everywhere they go and is out to get them and is conspiring to kill them and/or steal their most valued possessions, continue to think in such ways even though nobody has ever tried to kill them or has ever broken into their home or stolen anything from them? Nor do they own anything of any sort of high value or have any particular knowledge or special reason for them to be targeted. Or, why do some people continue lashing out in anger at the slightest provocation even though it has landed them in the hospital or in jail a number of times and nobody else thinks they are justified? Or, why do some people lapse into a malaise or depression, even though from the view of every objective person around them cannot find any reason for such thinking and the person's life looks like it should be wonderful, even to the people (family and friends) who know them the best. Same can be said about people behaving with extreme anxiousness/anxiety and even often self-admittedly have no objective reason for it. As you said, "life would be so much easier if they weren't (this way)", so why would they choose it? There are many things that people do that bring them chronic misery that are outside the normative behavior of humanity. These have usually been considered a problem of the psyche. When a person is encouraged to embrace these things that they have a proclivity toward and it is treated as though it is normal, then the person suffering with these things has a higher likelihood to continue in them, although some do try to work their way out of them (thus we have things like Alcoholics Anonymous). Just like, I believe same-sex attraction can have a biologically driven basis, it does not need to be given ground and encouraged to grow into a habit/lifestyle. But when everything in such a person's environment encourages them to embrace the habit/lifestyle (gambling, drinking, homosexuality, delusional thinking, thievery, etc.), then it becomes extremely difficult to do anything but embrace it. Just ask any alcoholic who is given a drink, a gambler who is given some cash, a kleptomaniac who is given inside information on how they can get away with stealing, or give a depressed person reason to believe that the things they are depressed about are real, even though no objective person thinks they really are, or fuel a person with anger issues by supporting their ideas and agreeing that whatever it is that they're angry about it completely right, even though no objective person would think there would be any reason to be more than maybe a little irritated. These things are why suicides are often not publicized because it will push some who suffer with some sort of issue pushing them that direction to follow suit. It encourages them, so to speak, to follow through with their thoughts. This is why some assassins (or other variety of murderers) have been "created" because whatever issue they were struggling with didn't get dealt with properly and they somehow got pushed to the ends of killing. Homosexuality also was always considered to be a problem of the psyche until recent times when the social sciences began slowly changing it's theories and interpretation of the data. It's a fascinating study to review psychology textbooks since the 1800's to the present day. It took many decades for this change to come about, but very little by very little the data was interpreted with different theories and interpretations, until now, where we have arrived and people have been taught the way it is viewed now for at least a couple of decades. What's next? No idea.... but I can't help but wonder. Does it continue evolving on the path that it has been for over a hundred years, wherever that could possibly lead to? Or does it somehow reverse course? Or have we arrived at an enlightened truth!? I highly doubt that one.... I, of course, don't have the answer. Just ideas from some years of discussions, pondering, and reading. -
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Electric Vehicles in Thailand
What do they sell the Sealion 7 (or similar) for in China? -
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Russian Tourist Drowns on Pattaya Beach, Early Morning
54 year old Russian woman ? If she is anything like the size of the Russian whales on the beach it will likely be a heart attack from obesity. Which is sad really as russian women look stunning from 18-28, prior to exploding -
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Senator John Fetterman Calls for Pardon for Donald Trump
Presidential pardon does not apply. Trump does not have any convictions, anyway.
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