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I think a turned up collar on a polo shirt is probably only a minor fashion crime. 

A real fashion crime is the dude I see wearing a Rodger the Dodger (red and black) striped t-shirt tucked into green/blue/red tartan shorts, with a white belt, black socks up to the knees, and sporting platform soled roman sandals.

This could be considered a crime against humanity -  or at the very least a potential hazard to passing traffic. 

I suspect the real threat to crypto is the soon to be introduced Central Bank Digital Currency.  My take is that the next major financial crisis (which is just around the corner) will trigger every major currency to wipe out paper money and traditional "banking", and introduce CBDC's. This is the WEF's wet dream coming true.

The technology already exists and could be introduced over a long weekend. All it needs is a big enough financial crisis to convince the proletariat that CBDC's are the only lifebelt available. Paper money and your traditional bank account become valueless overnight.

Putting aside the Orwellian ramifications of a government controlled and traceable CBDC (which will be the biggest impact on society since the internet and associated social platforms), the threat to crypto is that governments can restrict/limit/prevent/trace conversion of crypto to the currency du jour, being CBDC's.

Essentially this means that converting crypto to a CBDC is totally at the discretion of the government.  Unless of course crypto transactions become a million times more acceptable and transactional.  But even then, if a government decrees that you cannot buy or sell crypto with a CBDC, it makes the market very restrictive.

And of course we all trust our governments. Am I right, or am I right?

My missus used to get a multitude of calls from some legitimate companies (insurance, car companies, retail companies etc) and also what were obviously scammer calls from dodgy lenders or some pyramid scheme.

I would listen to her repeatedly say she didn't want the product or service, and often the phone calls lasted 10 minutes or more, with her occasionally almost giving in to whatever their pitch was. I mean, she even listened to the pre-recorded type of calls, FGS!

After one particularly tedious call from an insurance company, I asked her why she didn't just end the call.  Her answer - that would be rude and impolite.  The next 4 or 5 times she got calls, I grabbed her phone and ended the call, after saying FO to the caller.

I think It may be possible that the Thai class and hierarchical system system that enforces "respect" is the reason so many Thais are sucked in.  They find it difficult to say no, or be so rude as to end the call. And then because they actually listen to the pitch, that's when they get brain fade and see the chance to make a fortune, and go all-in!

Missus now automatically ends any call, and she gets very few now.  I suspect her number is being deleted from their databases.

Don't worry, intersectionality will eventually be the downfall of this alphabet soup coalition. The LG's are already at war with the T's. 

And the T's are at war with the TERF's and traditional F's, and the LG's and TERF's seem to be on the same page of the gender war.

It would appear that the LG's, the TERF's and the F's agreeing that a woman doesn't have a penis really annoys the T's.

I'm unsure where the Q's, A's and 2S's stand on this issue, but strongly suspect they're in bed with the T's. 

99% probable that somebody saw you putting the phone under the bike seat and nicked it. Tea-Leafs don't go randomly opening bike seats hoping for treasure.

A bike seat lock can be popped with a screwdriver or a damp piece of lettuce. A lesson for us all.

Is it the texture of the plaster that is the problem?  The existing walls may have a rougher (or smoother) texture than your repair.

Try using things such as a sponge or a paint roller on the wet material to achieve the matching texture.

Also, don't plaster a perfect rectangle.  Plaster over a greater area in a haphazard or random  shape. This makes it harder for the eye to pick up any irregularities.

I'm guessing that the entire tax take from approximately 50 average wage working individuals will be required to fund this scheme.  Extrapolate that out to the entire population and there is a slight problem with the math. I know socialism has it's own version of math, but eventually reality has a way of kicking you in the rear end.

They could solve corruption in a heartbeat by raising sufficient tax to enable the government to pay first world salaries, healthcare, and social security.

Increase VAT to 20%.  Employ 78,000 tax inspectors to hunt down every street vendor and farm worker to tax them at 40%. Put in place a myriad of new taxes such as a fringe benefit tax, capital gains tax, fart tax for all farm animals. Institute a special carbon tax on all street vendors that sell grilled chicken. Raise fuel, alcohol, and tobacco tax to 80%.

Invest zillions in wind and solar farms, and destroy the gas and oil powered electricity generators before there is sufficient replacement capacity.  

Problem solved, and Thailand becomes a first world Utopia with a perfectly functional non-authoritarian, non-corrupt government, just like my country, New Zealand.  Yeah, right. 

I thought LGBTQ+ was now old-school and been replaced with 2SLGBTQIAAP+++.  (For clarity, the "." is actually a grammatical period/full-stop, and not a pretend gender - at least for now.)

Alphabet soup anybody?

I'm waiting for the data revealing how many deaths are caused by secondhand vape inhalation.