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Under this administration, we honor our history and learn from it — we don’t erase it.

What a ridiculous thing to say.

Taking down a portrait is not erasing history, it's merely refusing to celebrate particular people or behaviors that the entire world finds abhorrent in 2025.

Thai politics are very strange from a Western perspective.

I know enough about it to know that I just don't get it at all and trying to understand through the prism of Western politics is just confusing.

However, without knowing anything about this specific situation my strong suspicion is that this phone call was a convenient excuse to remove her.

Oh please.

Yes you shouldn't feed beer to animals.

Yes this tourist should be charged with interfering with wildlife or whatever relevant local law exists.

Yes changes should be made to avoid this type of interaction in future.

However, "forced" is clearly the wrong verb here, and I don't think a few hundred ml is going to harm a several thousand kilo animal.

the structural design assumes everyone is a welfare cheat until proven otherwise

I disagree. I work in a related industry and sadly see a lot of people trying to interact with centrelink.

Over the years I've developed a strongly held belief that their processes are designed to be invasive and difficult to follow in order to discourage claimants. Dealing with centrelink is your last, worst option, and that is by design.

I remember I was maybe 8 years old and lucky enough to go out on my dad and uncle's fishing boat. They were commercial fishermen, netting sardines.

I was so excited when dolphins showed up, only to discover that not everyone loves dolphins when my uncle got the shotgun out. He didn't actually murder any dolphins that day but not for lack of trying.

Suffice to say, I think most fishermen have a healthy dislike for other predators.

I don't think it's necessarily so pointless.

I do agree that it's ethically dubious and in a perfect world you'd have enough police to monitor areas where this is likely to happen, but that's not really the reality.

I don't really agree that no crime would've been committed if the police hadn't left a scooter there. Perhaps that's true, but it's more likely to me that delinquents are looking for opportunities all day.

I also don't agree that we should avoid charging kids with this type of crime. If the court is producing bad outcomes then that is what should be addressed.

On balance, I think it's the last, worst option. However, if police don't have the resources to manage this problem then it would allow you to grab a few kids who are hanging out at the same shop every day stealing everyone's stuff.

to change climate so water can refresh their data

sorry what?

I was about to correct you on that but I looked it up and you're more correct than me.

I thought groceries were more like packaged goods and not necessarily edible.

Like here in Australia if I went to a super market and bought steak and veggies I wouldn't say "I'm just out buying some groceries".

Another example, "I buy my veggies from the veggie shop, steak from the butcher, and then other groceries from the super market".

I guess it is a somewhat old term. becoming less popular I suppose.

Here in Australia, most of the inflation we encountered in 2024 was due to large retailers simply increasing their prices because everyone expected everything to be more expensive.

Well honestly I kinda don't understand what's been happening since April. I know there's been a lot of chickening out but I had thought that a lot of tariffs were in place even if it's only 10%. Have grocery chains not been passing this on for the last several months?

It's one thing to say someone is a terrible parent who ought not to have had children, it's a whole other thing to prevent someone from having children either before or after birth.