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Why Do So Many Foreign Men Still Marry Short-Time Girls?
What’s a short time got to do with it. Next. -
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Thailand police crackdown on pornographic content production
Both of the Kosher faith. -
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Mass Walkout at The Guardian: Journalists Strike to Defend Observer's Legacy
There are three types of Guardian fans: those that despise the Guardian, those that really despise the Guardian and those that really, really despise the Guardian. I read the Guardian only to try and understand their hatred and why they are so upset, but it's not working. So here we are, all gathered together at another online anonymous Guardian haters backslapathon and hoping for enlightenment (but not holding my breath). -
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Starling bank - declined Easy Saver account
Their logic doesn't make any sense, I only applied as its "easy" and apparently the automatic interest they apply to current accounts will be zero % next year. This is a scenario taken from a reddit thread here: "My girlfriend who has a credit rating off 546 was approved almost instantly. She has an overdraft with them too. My credit score is 988 and I have never been in debt and have 30k in my account with them. I got put on a review for 20 mins and then declined. Been declined 4 times now. I’ve taken all my money out now and will try 1 more time next week otherwise I’ll be banking elsewhere" Doesn't seem to be anything to do with location but its a bit annoying as for the visa I want to apply for (next year) I need to keep a significant amount of cash in the bank account to avoid the need to purchase insurance, and would obviously prefer it to make interest. -
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Do you believe that Ivy-Leaguers will become servers of justice in this injust world?
I’m not sure your post will draw much interest, so I’ll add a long tome here just for the heck of it. Your post reminded me of that second “A” in the acronym MAGA. The “Again” part. When was this Camelot Era of America being greater? When women were barefoot and pregnant and a “Negro” who didn’t know his place might find himself as “Strange Fruit”? Personally, I’m of the opinion that people who embrace that acronym know they are inadequate and fear competition with those not as entitled as the acronym lover believes he should be. As for healthcare, when was this era of healthcare being more in line with adequate healthcare coverage being a basic human right? Was it back during the time of the Black Death? Maybe the Spanish Flu just after WWI? The AIDS epidemic? Covid time? Modern healthcare in the US is merely a continuation of what has been the norm since Oldavai Gorge…..the elite always have things better, with the great unwashed masses either irrelevant or chumps. The elite are, in a social sense, Darwin’s fittest. What you are arguing---and I’m not disagreeing, just pointing out the facts---is that “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” and “equality under the law” encompass healthcare. Maybe it should, but that has never been enshrined anywhere. Even in places where it supposedly has---such as the UK NHS system---I really don’t think the typical Newcastle coal miner would be treated as well as someone whose name appears in Burke’s Peerage. Just the cynic in me thinks that. Brits can chime in and disabuse me of my cynicism. It’s a touch Communist, too, or at least Socialist, because it requires EVERYBODY to pay for the needs of those who cannot afford things on their own. Are you arguing Marx and Engels were right? Maybe under the coming reign of 47, it’s time to decide what we might add to “inalienable rights”. Is equal access to top level healthcare an inalienable right? Is Capitalism to be limited by the actual value of what the private sector produces? Should a company that spends $500 million developing a drug be forced to sell it at manufacturing cost, ignoring the cost of development and testing? Should the collective “us” all chip in to help Big Pharma recover the cost of development? We would laugh at the thought everyone deserves the chance to own a Lamborghini Revuelto or a Gulfstream 700, but perhaps we’ll agree that everyone should be able to get insulin or Ozempic on the cheap. Or maybe not? How about the ‘fairness’ of people who take good care of themselves and minimize the likelihood they will need expensive medical care vs those who spend their days sprawled on the sofa binge watching Netflix and wolfing down chips and root beer? Maybe the first step in fixing the things that bothered Luigi enough, so that an act of violence was the solution, would be for society to decide, and put in writing, just what constitutes the full range of basic human rights. That might include equal access to quality healthcare, even for folks who do nothing to take care of themselves. Maybe it involves housing, so that no one sleeps on the street in freezing weather. Maybe it involves a chicken in every pot. Maybe it turns acceptance into Harvard or Stanford as a lottery, so that even the typical MAGA with an IQ a std dev or two left of the mean can juice his resume so that Goldman Sachs hires him upon graduation. Maybe it imposes a 100% Estate Tax on the rich deceased, so that a guy born in Queens who may well be ‘the worst student I’ve ever taught at Wharton’ doesn’t get handed a massive allowance since age 3, daddy co-signed loan applications when trying to become a casino operator in Atlantic City or a RE developer in NYC, and eventually inherits $412 million and claims he’s a self-made man. He even gets a game show that acts like a multi-year election campaign, popular enough so that the forlorn and woefully naïve actually believe he knows something about anything, other than self-aggrandizement. How about accounting for other accidents of birth, such as where one materialized on this planet? Born a mostly white male in the USA, I had the greatest birth circumstances since Eve ate the apple. I would have had to try to fail so as not to become a millionaire by age 30. Do I deserve this much better and more comfortable life than a female born in gang-infested Guatemala? MAGAs think so, as they don't want her to bring her rapist and murdering gene pool across our border. Maybe we’ll even go so far as to accept the idea of Dr Robert Sapolsky, who says there is no free will and nobody anywhere is self made and the entire idea of meritocracy is flawed, because what a person is, is a function of his heritage, culture, genetics, what socio-economic class his mom was, what mom ate or drank during pregnancy, what traumas a kid may have experienced growing up, etc. We’ll make nobody responsible for his or her own actions or lack thereof, and all are treated absolutely equal in every way. The world will be that of Harrison Bergeron. Luigi fired his shot from the top of the mountain, maybe not knowing he’s on the edge of a very slippery slope. Perhaps before the next Luigi pulls out his gun, society finally has to decide what beyond “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” constitutes an inalienable right. Until then, keep your powder dry, or maybe “Stand back and stand down”. As for the Ivy Leaguers---being one myself---I know that the Ivies also produced buys like Bannon, Kushner, Cotton, Cruz and Hawley----as well as the Unabomber and Luigi. -
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Retirement visa after overstay ban
I did exactly the same this year but had OA for 5 years immediately before with no violations of any kind. To a my amazement when I went to convert to the type of Visa they actually challenged the 800k I had in a timed account for several years as to whether it came from foreign sources. So I had to jump through my a** to go to Bangkok bank and get complete record showing that all of the money had originally come from foreign Bank transfers and it took 2 days to get all that information and then they finally allowed my O Visa. That was totally unexpected. Hua hin office. Might be good for him to clearly prove his 800k account before doing the visa conversion. Good luck. -
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What do you give a Buddhist for Christmas?
Christmas has many non-religious customs associated with it. Among them are gifts, most decorations, a shared meal, etc. -
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