AgentSmith

Really? Can you give an example?

Paper will keep working regardless of digital methods so what's your point? No one's preventing you from using cash. Works fine for me. Payments happen within a second. Much faster than fiddling with coins by most people. Actually your phone doesn't even need a data connection for NFC payments. That's a huge advantage over QR payments. QR is fine but quite cumbersome. Requires a data connection, opening an app, enterinf an amount and showing the payment slip to the vendor. NFC payments don't require any of this. Unlock your phone, hold it close to the payment terminal and done. Faster than anything else even cash. I've been using Wise with Google Wallet for a while now in Thailand. Works great. I can leave most of my money abroad now. I convert to Thai baht in my account when the exchange rate is optimal and just leave my baht there. The less money I need to send to my Thai bank account the better.

Plenty of alternative channels too. As long as the official channels divide their customers by man-made borders I'll happily pay alternative channels to watch what I want wherever I want. In any language not just English.

I'm pretty sure that was irony. ????

There are indeed plenty of very friendly pitbulls and lots of people are actively trying to give these dogs a better reputation. The problem though is that they _can_ be trained to become killer dogs which is what happens too often. Pitties can be turned into weapons (can't do that with a lab) and too many people abuse that. So yeah better to get rid of them. Problem solved. Just like ordinary people shouldn't have guns. No pitties far fewer kids will be killed from dog bites. No guns no high school shootings and far fewer kids are killed. It's quite straightforward logic really.

Obviously we can't take this message seriously in a country with more soi dogs than people. You'd think they'd take all those dogs off the streets but no.. Too much work for these lazy tarts. Tough language without tough actions in this country, as always.

there is a much worse pandemic in the making. We're having the worst bird flu epidemic in recorded history and it's happening in western countries. Trust me, once it jumps over to people and starts killing millions we'll be missing the current corona viral pandemic.

You gotta read all my posts. I clearly wrote this is a northern African problem specifically. For all sorts of reasons.

Epidemiologists treat ebola very differently from monkey pox. If there is an isolated case of ebola somewhere on the planet you can be 100% sure this person will be isolated immediately. This means full hazmat. Ebola means big trouble for the people around. Ebola will never get the chance that monkey pox got to go around. And of course that is directly related to the death rate of both diseases.

Why would you say that? The death rate of monkey pox among people who get proper medical treatment is practically 0.

Ebola not being airborne doesn't spread very easily. It can hit North African countries hard but that is partly due to cultural reasons. Many local communities there balm the dead and ebola takes advantage of this intensive bodily contact. The distrust in medical facilities is also quite high causing many sick people to stay in their village infecting others. Ebola is a highly incidental disease in other areas and for good reason. I wouldn't worry outside North Africa.

So when is Thailand actually going to adopt NFC technology for store payments? QR codes are clumsy and always require a data connection. NFC payments work entirely offline and don't require any user input other than unlocking your phone. This has been mainstream tech in the west for years now. In my home country I can create a virtual debit card in my online banking app. Then I simply hold my phone next to a payment terminal until all lights are green. Takes 2 seconds max and done. Works everywhere. And if Thai banks don't want to adopt this tech all by themselves then they could at least support Google and Apple pay. I prefer the direct method though.