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Sure, Give the work to Boeing or Raytheon. We'll pay twice as much, it'll take twice as long, and in the end the project won't perform half of what they promised. But they're in good with the Pentagon...

To carry those 7 people on scooters, there would be 3-4x as many vehicles and 3-4x times the chance of a crash, and perhaps 10x (or more) the odds for someone to be killed. On a per km basis, studies in the US and Aus show scooters to be 20-40x as dangerous as a 4 wheeler. Even in the back of a pickup, you have a lot of steel.

The good news is that he keeps making the case for no bail, no way stronger, with every act. Now they need to go out and round up everyone that's aiding his intimidation, coercion and witness tampering. And no bail, no way for them, either.

Good luck doing anything without federal funds.

In the hierarchy of traffic dangers, I think riding a scooter is more dangerous than riding in the back of a pickup. If you ban that, aren't you relegating them to an even more dangerous mode of transport? I wish everyone could afford 4 wheels, tons of steel and seatbelts. But that's not the economic reality for most Thai people. Cashed up expats are the ones who have a choice.

Can't say I blame any port for declining the cargo, especially if it was compromised in any way. An ammonium nitrate explosion killed about 600 people in Texas City in 1947. https://texascitytx.gov/464/First-Explosion https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texas-city-disaster Edit: And apparently, the SS Grandcamp only had 2300 tons loaded when it went off. I can't imagine 8x that amount.

I hope he checked the tank on the roof for dead bodies first.

The problem, of course, is that if they aren't held to account, they'll do it again next time. Guaranteed. These won't be revenge prosecutions. These will be completely foreseeable consequences for their actions.

The "party of law and order" rioted for a week, all over the country after their candidate took the L in 2016. Burned and looted and fought the cops... Made Jan 6 (one afternoon, one location, BTW) look like a rowdy school field trip.

Maybe the hawker was just saying hello to his own mistress, who was dressed in blue.

I've flown into Swampy every month for the past 19, and I've been extremely pleased at the short immigration queues. Mostly, less than 5 minutes with one or 2 times being 20 minutes. None longer. Departure immigration has also gotten shorter with the automated lines. Worlds better than clearing immigration into the USA... That's a cluster something that rhymes with duck.

You mean like they let Biden off the hook for Tara Reade?

What I'd like to see is honest statistics of road accidents and fatalities by km driven, broken down by heavy trucks, passenger vehicles and scooters. I suspect driving a car in Thailand isn't nearly as dangerous as most expats think it is, and riding a scooter is a crapshoot in any country. Once I got used to Thai road etiquette, I had no problems in my pickup. Edit: And I'm a much safer driver back home, where the defensive driving skills I learned in Thailand stay with me.

If you mean the ones who have heavy student debt paying off useless degrees, I can understand why they'd vote Blue. They want their debt expunged. No mystery there.

I was kinda tickled at the idea of a "Beverage Recycling Factory". We call them "urinals".