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Just imagining accessing my USA tax information from Thailand and trying to file every year in the USA. Couple years ago someone posted on Sawasdeeabout a home in Pattaya charging $1000lmonth plus extra charges (diapers?)

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https://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showthread.php?23514-Tomboys

Just opened up my app - 8:30 am in Pattaya (location: Bang Lamung Chonburi) At least 5 NICE looking Twinks Edit: make that 10

you scared off three cute straight boys?

Well just open the app on your phone, set your search location to Pattaya TH, and see for yourself. But I wouldn't skip jumping on a motorcycle taxi to go to Sunee area and see Nigh Boys bar

The boy (named Win or Wim) got sick some years ago. This has nothing to do with the bar closing, I was just concerned about him

Developed eventually - news to me. Elaborate, or more likely speculate. Doubtful that present myth is cast in stone Who was the cute blonde boy with braces that passed out on stage from HIV. I pray he is doing ok.

https://sawatdeenetwork.com/v4/showthread.php?23505-First-time-in-Thailand-for-a-while-)/page3 They had a good Blue Kamikaze...

Glad I'm not in Thailand. Just read Winner Boys had closed last week. (Reported on Sawasdee forum) They were advertising the bar for sale for 50,000 baht. Wonder what the rent costs are? If I was there I might have done something unwise. $$$

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/born-soviet-union-grindr-ceo-100800191.html Born in Soviet Union, Grindr CEO was told he had two career options: Learn English or how to shoot a gun Most young people are told the path to prosperity is to study hard, maybe go to college, and get a grad job. Not Grindr CEO George Arison. Born in the 1980s Soviet Union, his father told him he had only two shots at success—one of which was learning to be proficient with a firearm. “My dad would come to say good night and spend 30 minutes talking to me about the fact that, in his view, the Soviet Union would collapse by the time I was 15, and the only people who would succeed if the Soviet Union collapsed were people who either spoke English or knew how to shoot guns,” Arison exclusively tells Fortune. “And seeing that he did not expect me to know how to shoot guns or be good at it, my only alternative was to be really, really good at speaking English.” While other kids his age were raised on tightly controlled messaging, he says he was fortunate to have access to global news channels—and that’s how he perfected his English, opening him up to a world of possibilities when he eventually moved to the US as a teen. “I had a great grandfather who lived in the same apartment building that we lived in, across the hall, and he had been a very senior officer in the Soviet military during World War Two, so as a result, he had special privileges,” he explains, while adding that one of those privileges was access to a radio which would sometimes catch non Soviet radio frequencies. “So oftentimes, when something was happening, he would be able to listen to Voice of America… and so I could actually absorb some of this stuff in ways that most other kids could not.” Later, Arison’s grandad similarly had access to cable before others. “The two cable channels you got were CNN and C-SPAN, which I think is really ironic with government sanctioning… My parents would never let me watch TV, but they would let me watch this because it was great to practice English.” By the age of 12, Arison had memorized the full names of every member of Congress—and two years later, in 1992, the Soviet Union dissolved. But just before, he had successfully applied to a boarding school in Maine, U.S., thanks to an American exchange family. He used the only public fax machine in Tbilisi to smuggle his application across the border, setting him on a path few could imagine from a city still behind the Iron Curtain. Grindr CEO says Gen Z’s career expectations are ‘out of whack’ with reality Like many immigrant U.S. students, Arison’s free time was spent working multiple jobs. It’s the one thing that separated him from the majority of his classmates, he recalls. One of the jobs he held was working at the college campus’s cafe until the early hours of the morning. Oftentimes, he’d return to the dorm after finishing his shift at around 4 a.m. and still be up for class later, like everyone else. He also navigated the challenges of being a gay man in a new country, finding guidance from older gay men—mentors who helped him navigate both personal and professional growth. Arison made his first entrepreneurial mark by founding Taxi Magic, now called Curb. He sold it for an undisclosed amount, before taking the reins at Grindr—the LGBTQ+ dating app with 14 million monthly users, in October 2022—landing a $1 million-a-year salary, plus bonus and stock options. And he says his success, in part, is thanks to those early hardships he experienced—now, as a CEO, it’s something he looks out for in talent. “I think that life being difficult teaches you a lot of challenging things, and showing that you overcame those challenges is oftentimes very appealing to people like me,” Arison says. But in reality, he’s taken stock of the fact that many Gen Zers lack that grit. In his eyes, having access to the world’s information at their fingertips has created a generation of young people who think they’re experts, without having put the work in—and seeing twenty-something influencers with millions in the bank only adds to that delusion. “The expectations around ‘hey, I read this in Wikipedia, so I’m an expert in sales,’ is very different from anything I ever experienced,” he explains, while adding that their expectations for promotions and progression are “out of whack with reality.” “And then the second thing is, I think people want to get credit for how difficult their life might have been… But if you view it as, because my life was difficult, I deserve XYZ, you really hurt yourself.” Grindr CEO’s advice for Gen Z: Be patient and willing to put the work in Like the CEOs of Pret and Cisco, Arison stresses the importance of learning the ropes first, and mastering the unglamorous early roles before worrying about a promotion. And for those racing toward the corner office far too early, he offers a reality check: most companies have a single CEO and a long queue of people with decades of experience competing for that spot. The average age of a Fortune 500 CEO is around 57, not the early twenties. “Everything I really know is either because I learned it myself or I learned it from my mentors,” the CEO stresses. “I did not learn how to raise capital because I read about raising capital. I learned how to raise capital because I watched my mentor, and then I learned how to do that from him. It was a learning process.” “And I had no expectations that I would have my boss’ job at 27 years old,” Arison adds. “Only the truly exceptional ones will break out and become amazing—that’s an exception to the rule.” “So my advice would be: Be a lot more cognizant that learning a professional skill set is almost all about apprenticeship. You need to be very willing to put in the work that it takes. Find really good mentors—seek them out—and learn from them.” This story was originally featured on Fortune.com

Seeking *Advice* for a lousy *$100 * donation in USA? Wow- last of the big spenders...

quite the benevolent high rollers here. obviously a quality crowd

Mostly DJ Station from what I can recognize.

GOD was more exciting when the walls were made from black painted plywood- the early days...

A satirical website urging President Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron, to be drafted into the military appeared online in the wake of a deadly U.S.-Israel strike on Iran, quickly drawing attention for its pointed timing and over‑the‑top praise of the president’s family. The site, DraftBarronTrump.com, was created by Toby Morton, a comedy writer who previously worked on South Park and Mad TV, according to his personal website and Variety. Morton has described himself as a “creator of anti‑fascist websites” and is known for registering domain names that appear official but redirect to parody pages impersonating public figures or institutions. Morton has launched dozens of similar sites targeting politicians, religious leaders, and organizations, including parody pages aimed at the Trump‑Kennedy Center, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andrew Cuomo, televangelist Joel Osteen, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/03/draft-barron-trump-website-parody-us-strikes-iran/88958422007/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/kim-jong-un-level-insanity-110206256.html President Donald Trump says he plans to build a 100,000-seat stadium near the White House to host a UFC fight on his birthday. The president confirmed the MMA event last year, although his critics have branded the plan to build an arena for the event as “Kim Jong Un-level insanity.” “They are going to put up something that’s really amazing,” Trump told reporters. “It's really having to do with our great 250th birthday, where we’re having so many wonderful things. “UFC’s coming, as you know, in front of the White House, where they’re building, literally, a stadium. We’re gonna have over 100,000 people. This is gonna have a lot of…I won’t even say how many people because I think it can set a record for racing. It’s gonna be very, very important.” Trump made the announcement while holding a meeting in the Oval Office about his executive order to bring an IndyCar street race to the capital. However, Trump’s critics have slammed the plans to build the 100,000-seat arena. “Do the American people have a say? Who is paying for this?” one X user asked. “That is what America needs,” another user wrote on X. “Right now. No Epstein. No war. No dying service members. Let’s talk ballroom.” “This is Kim Jong Un-level insanity,” author John Pavlovitz wrote on X. During his second term, Trump demolished the East Wing in order to make way for a $400 million ballroom and paved over the White House’s rose garden. He has also teased plans to build a huge ceremonial arch for America’s 250th birthday. Much of the planning around his birthday UFC fight, which will be held on June 14, has been kept under wraps, though. “We’ve been so secretive about this,” UFC CEO Dana White told iFL TV. “I’ve got boards, which I’m sure you’ve seen, hanging in our War Room. This isn’t even on the boards. “We bring in a whiteboard, we write the fights down, and then erase them every time we have a matchmaking meeting,” he continued. “Usually, matchmaking meetings are every Tuesday. They’ve been every day for the past two weeks.” “I’ll announce the whole card this week,” White added. “The card is done.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/virginia-legislature-passes-bill-banning-211110172.html The Virginia legislature has passed a bill that prohibits the state’s public schools from teaching that the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol was a “peaceful protest” or that there was “extensive election fraud” in the 2020 presidential election. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) is expected to sign the bill that was passed on party-line votes by Democratic majorities in the state House of Delegates and Senate and is believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S., according to a report by The Washington Post. The text of the bill, HB333, adds new language to the Virginia statutes that requires any local school board that imposes new restrictions on “[a]ny program of instruction on or relating to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol” and “any accompanying curriculum or instructional materials, or any instruction provided by a teacher as a part of any program of instruction.” Any school that teaches about the events of Jan. 6, 2021 is required by HB333 to “[d]escribe the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol as an unprecedented, violent attack on United States democratic institutions, infrastructure, and representatives for the purpose of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election.” The new statutory language also says that schools shall not “describe, portray, or present as credible a description or portrayal of the actions precipitating or involved in the events of the January 6, 2021, insurrection as peaceful protest” or “state, suggest, or present as credible a statement or suggestion that there was extensive election fraud that could have changed or actually changed the results of the 2020 presidential election.” The bill’s sponsor, Virginia Del. Dan Helmer, a Democrat representing Fairfax, characterized HB333 a response to a website launched by the White House on Jan. 6, 2026 that blamed Democrats and Capitol police for the violence, accused then-Vice President Mike Pence of “cowardice” and “sabotage,” and claimed no wrongdoing by President Donald Trump. “The White House webpage says January 6 was a peaceful protest, and people who instigated it were the police and National Guard,” said Helmer. “This is a preventative measure against a massive disinformation campaign on the part of the White House.” Republican legislators criticized HB333 as “state-sponsored mind control,” reported the Post, adding that the bill “raises complicated questions about how far government should go in dictating how historical events are portrayed, particularly in an era when even basic facts are increasingly treated as matters of partisan debate.” Helmer rejected claims by Republicans that this was an effort to ban speech and argued it was instead about “establishing guidelines.” “All this does is put guardrails on to ensure public education in Virginia can’t lie to our kids,” he told the Post. Last year, Oklahoma attempted to require its schools to teach debunked conspiracy theories about fraud in the 2020 election, but were stymied by the state’s supreme court.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/flailing-trump-79-t-keep-115510877.html Flailing Trump, 79, Can’t Keep His Story Straight on the War He Just Started President Donald Trump can’t seem to explain why he went to war with Iran or what his goals are for the military campaign. The president has given four different explanations in two days about how long he plans to bomb Iran and what he envisions for the country’s future, leading to accusations that he’s making up the deadly military campaign as he goes along. The administration has also given shifting explanations about why Trump started the war in the first place. The repeated contradictions suggest the president does not have a long-term strategy in place for the joint U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign, which killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggered a wave of retaliatory attacks in the region that left three American soldiers dead. President Trump has refused to answer questions about his bombing campaign in Iran, which began Saturday morning in the capital of Tehran. / Getty Images “All I want is freedom for the people,” Trump told The Washington Post at about 4 a.m. local time on Saturday, soon after announcing “major combat operations” against Iran. Later that day, he told Axios that he could end the war in “two to three days” if Iran’s new leaders agreed to end its nuclear program. Then on Sunday, he said the ongoing attacks would last “four to five weeks,” and insisted that it wouldn’t be hard for Israel and the U.S. to continue bombing Iran despite the risk of more U.S. troops dying in a wider regional conflict, The New York Times reported. One option, Trump said, would be to leave most of the government intact, like in Venezuela, but with leaders who were willing to work with the U.S. to avoid further attacks. He said he had “three very good choices” about who could lead Iran. But then, on Sunday night, Trump changed his story yet again by telling Jonathan Karl of ABC News that the top candidates to take over Iran had been killed in the initial attack on Saturday. “The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates,” Trump told Karl, according to a post on X by a veteran Washington correspondent. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei was killed during the initial wave of U.S.-Israeli attacks. / Iranian Leader's Press Office - Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty On Sunday, Iran’s top national security official, Ali Larijani, said an interim committee would run the country until a successor for the supreme leader was chosen, the Times reported. The president appeared to be calling up journalists to “workshop different timelines and goals for his war,” The Economist’s Middle East correspondent Gregg Carlstrom remarked in a post on X. “He’s throwing spaghetti at the wall,” Carlstrom said, adding that there were “plenty of possible scenarios in which Trump declares victory and leaves the region with an absolute mess.” The U.S. continued to bomb Iran on Sunday. / ATTA KENARE / Atta Kenare/ AFP via Getty Images According to Politico, the president spoke to 10 different reporters over the weekend but failed to offer consistent, specific answers to their questions about his plans or the justification for the war. The administration’s explanations for why Trump ordered the strikes have been equally murky. The White House on Saturday claimed that after weeks of deliberations, Trump finally decided to launch a full-scale attack against Iran because the U.S. had received indications that the country was planning to launch missile attacks against U.S. bases. But during a briefing with congressional staffers, Pentagon officials said there was no evidence that Iran had been planning preemptive strikes. President Trump's attacks against Iran have ballooned into a wider regional conflict, with Israel striking Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday. / - / AFP via Getty Images During a video announcing the strikes, Trump also claimed Iran was building missiles that “could soon reach the American homeland.” U.S. intelligence assessments, however, contradicted that claim, finding that Iran was years away from developing intercontinental ballistic missiles and wasn’t interested in doing so. After the U.S. military’s Central Command announced that three soldiers had been killed at a base in Kuwait and five seriously wounded, Democratic lawmakers blasted the president for putting service members in harm’s way without laying out a plan for victory in the region. More in World Iran’s ferocious retaliation for US-Israeli strikes has rattled its neighbors CNN ‘Sorry for Your Loss!’ Cenk Uygur Ruthlessly Mocked for Praising Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Mediaite Trump Can’t Commit to Honor U.S. Troops He Got Killed The Daily Beast 720 Helping Government Agencies Accelerate AI-Fueled EfficiencyCustom Content from WSJ | Deloitte Podcasts Ad In a video statement Sunday, Trump shrugged off the casualties as “the way it is.” Rep. Pat Ryan of New York, a 43-year-old combat veteran of the Iraq War, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that it was “pathetic” the president hadn’t provided answers to the families of the fallen soldiers. “It’s because he doesn’t have answers,” Ryan said. “There’s not a plan here, or if there is, he’s not sharing it with the American people.” The former U.S. Army intelligence officer said the Iran campaign was reminiscent of “past ill-conceived, half-baked regime-change wars that sound good until they start, and then all of a sudden, no one knows what the heck is going on, and it’s young American men and women that pay the price.” Reached for comment, a White House spokesperson told the Daily Beast the president had articulated three “clear, achievable” goals for military operations against Iran: destroying the threats posed by Iran’s ballistic missiles, missile industry, and navy. View comments(178) Advertisement Terms and Privacy Policy Your Privacy Choices About Our Ads Up next Trump takes unconventional approach to communicating to the public about war in Iran DAVID BAUDER Mon, March 2, 2026 at 5:06 PM CST 5 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Add Yahoo on Google Typical of an unconventional presidency, the Trump administration waited more than 48 hours to make any live, public communication to the American peopleabout why it had decided to go to war with Iran. President Donald Trump discussed why he launched the attack prior to a White House ceremony honoring military heroes on Monday but took no questions from reporters. Earlier in the day, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine briefed journalists at the Pentagon. The two days previous, Trump delivered two pretaped statements that were released on Truth Social, the social media site owned by the president's media company, and granted telephone interviews to more than a dozen journalists — several of which produced fragmented responses that, to some, clouded as much as they cleared up. The communications strategy opened Trump to criticism that he hadn't done enough to explain the rationale and objectives of the war, even as the American military suffered its first casualties. By contrast, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has teamed with the U.S. against Iran, delivered two statements the day the war began and addressed reporters Monday at the site of a missile attack that killed nine people. The Israeli military has held multiple press briefings each day. “The American people need a commander in chief, and he has been absent in that role,” Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff under President Barack Obama, said on CNN Monday. Emanuel, a Democrat, is contemplating a run for the presidency in 2028. An unconventional strategy leads to criticism Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, wrote on social media that “after Trump launched a new war on Iran, he did not rush back to the White House to make an Oval Office address to rally the nation as other presidents have done. He stayed at Mar-a-Lago to attend a glitzy political fundraiser.” That post provoked a response from Steven Cheung, White House communications director. “Imagine being a reporter so consumed with Trump Derangement Syndrome that he wants President Trump to mimic the failed policies of the past. The truth is that President Trump spent the majority of his time monitoring the situation in a secure facility, in constant contact with world leaders, and made multiple addresses to the nation that garnered hundreds of millions of views. He also took dozens of calls with reporters.” The calls included one with Baker's colleague at The Times, Zolan Kanno-Youngs. Trump's mobile phone number is known to many of the reporters who cover him, and the president often takes their calls for on-the-spot interviews. Besides The Times, he spoke in the aftermath of the attack to journalists for ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, CNBC, Fox News Channel, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Axios, Politico and an Israeli television station. Most of the calls were brief and marginally illuminating; Politico's Dasha Burns said Trump answered but said he was too busy to talk. The public couldn't hear what Trump said in the interviews and was dependent upon what the journalists chose to report on the conversations. “I spoke to President Trump today and he told me that the operation in Iran is going to go very fast,” Libby Alon, a reporter for Channel 14 News in Israel, wrote about her interview on X. “It’s doing very well, and (will) make the people of Israel very happy, and the people of the world very happy.” The Times reported that in its six-minute chat, Trump “offered several seemingly contradictory visions of how power might be transferred to a new government — or even whether the existing Iranian power structure would run that government or be overthrown.” In one of his two conversations with Trump, ABC News' Jonathan Karl said when he asked about the death of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the president said: “I got him before he got me. They tried twice. Well I got him first.” CNN's Jake Tapper went on the air minutes after his conversation Monday, saying Trump told him “the big one is coming soon,” an apparent reference to a future attack. Asked for comment, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said: “President Trump is the most transparent and accessible president in American history. The American people have never had a more direct and authentic relationship with a president of the United States than they have with President Trump.” Hegseth briefing concentrates on friendly reporters Pentagon reporters learned late Sunday about Hegseth's briefing. Reporters from The Associated Press, Reuters, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and Stars & Stripes were permitted into the briefing room, but Hegseth did not call on them. Instead, he took questions from NewsNation and Trump-friendly outlets like the Daily Caller, Daily Wire, One America News and the Christian Broadcasting Network. Most mainstream news outlets left their regular stations at the Pentagon last fall rather than agree to Hegseth's rules restricting their work. Hegseth denounced the “foolishness” of people wanting to know details of the operation in advance, such as whether Americans would commit to more than air power, and said the operation would continue as long as it took to achieve objections. He initially ignored NBC News' Courtney Kube when she called out a question: “President Trump put a four-week time limit on it. Are you saying he's wrong?” Later, Hegseth denounced Kube for asking “the typical NBC sort of gotcha-type question. President Trump has all the latitude in the world to talk about how long it might take — four weeks, two weeks, six weeks, it could move up, it could move back. We're going to execute at his command the objectives he set out to achieve." Unlike Pentagon briefings in past administrations, reporters were given assigned seats, with the Trump-friendly outlets seated in front. Jennifer Griffin, Hegseth's former colleague at Fox News Channel who left the Pentagon with other reporters after not accepting his new rules, was seated in the last row. ___ David Bauder writes about the intersection of media and entertainment for the AP. Follow him at http://x.com/dbauder and https://bsky.app/profile/dbauder.bsky.social.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-own-intel-agencies-iran-112258501.html Trump’s Own Intel Agencies Say His Iran Claims Are Nonsense Leigh Kimmins Sat, February 28, 2026 at 5:22 AM CST 4 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Add Yahoo on Google 1.4k JIM WATSON / AFP via Getty Images (JIM WATSON) U.S. intelligence experts believe that President Donald Trump’s claims about Iranian threats to the U.S. are vastly exaggerated. Trump, the self-proclaimed “President of Peace,” launched a wave of missile strikes on Iran early Saturday morning, telling the public in a prerecorded address that the U.S. military had begun “major combat operations.” The strikes, unauthorized by Congress and performed alongside Israel, are designed to stop this “very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests,” Trump, 79, claimed in the video message. “We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground.” However, this argument, which he also peddled during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, is tenuous at best. While Iran has a vast arsenal of short and medium-range ballistic missiles capable of hitting Israel and U.S. military bases in the Middle East, it is years away from producing the intercontinental ballistic missile Trump warned of. An explosion on the streets of Tehran on Feb. 28, 2026, after Israel and the U.S. carried out a “preemptive strike.” / EHSAN / Middle East Images/AFP via Getty In an assessment from May last year, a month before Trump’s first strikes on the country, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) said it would actually take nearly a decade for Iran to produce such weaponry. The report, titled “Current and Future Missile Threats to the U.S. Homeland,” stated that the regime could produce a “militarily-viable” intercontinental ballistic missile by 2035, “should Tehran decide to pursue the capability.” Sources told CNN that any suggestion otherwise is false. No intelligence suggests Iran is building an ICBM program to hit the U.S. at this time, they said. Three sources confirmed that Iran currently has no interest in expanding its capabilities in this field. Indeed, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview this week that Iran was not developing long-range missiles. “We have deliberately limited the range of our missiles to 2,000 kilometers,” he told India Today TV. He added that their short-range missiles are for defense. Despite the lack of intel suggesting Iran has ICBMs and a mind to use them on America, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly responded to CNN’s reporting, saying, “President Trump is absolutely right to highlight the grave concern posed by Iran, a country that chants ‘death to America,’ possessing intercontinental ballistic missiles.” He accused the Iranian regime of building missiles that “could soon reach the American homeland.”

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ran across this in my YouTube-