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Take a step back, guys. If you want to change Thai driving habits then say goodbye to all that we love about Thai people. I had one accident in 15 years (the usual "Not my fault") and I have seen improvement in driving habits as the old guard, that learnt to drive looking at a buffalo's a**e slowly die off.

WHO lists Thailand as having the one of worst traffic deaths rates in the world.

No Arab state wants these people, Lebanon took in many refugees and it is no longer a predominantly Christian country. Many non-Muslim people had to leave. Egypt certainly doesn't want them.

There is, or used to be, a law in Switzerland obliging you to slow down and honk when approaching children on the road. Can't see that one working in Thailand. I heard this story 40 years ago so it must date back to the 60's: In Iran somebody passed a law forbidding the constant use of horns. Some people actually had a switch that allowed the horn to sound incessantly. The law didn't work. They set up wayside reception committees and: stripped the guys to their underpants, shaved their heads and painted them red, and confiscated their car and their shoes. After a few days of seeing red headed guys limping down the road, honking ceased. three days the honking ceased. Ah, to be a dictator!

I read a news article two days ago predicting that 'leftists' (authoritarians) were going to attack Trump's mental acuity as a distraction from Biden's unforgivable situation. I don't like Trump's rambling manner of speaking but don't see that as evidence of mental decline. I don't see his gathering of supporters around himself (unlike in his first term) as evidence of appointing sycophants. There is no medical evidence that he has anything approaching the problems of Biden, and contrary to what the Op wrote, he has taken medical tests regularly.

Comfrey is associated with moist, shady places. I'm not criticising the use of comfrey but conditions are so different here in Thailand, there are certain adjustments you have to make. I worked in landscape gardening for 50 years and much of what I learnt doesn't apply here.

Sun-dried them or made fig jam.

That can happen in the first year of fruiting. We were getting enormous harvests after three years, two years later they all died at the same time.

A health advisor going around the villages (Buriram) was handing these out a few years ago. I have no idea what they are supposed to be good for, but we do get a small crop off one plant, and for the first time in my life, I saw them blooming. I've also seen them in a schoolhouse garden.

If (as is probable) the potatoes are imported, then they will have received a treatment to prevent them sprouting. Seed potatoes get cultivated in cooler climates where certain insect pests are not around, thus ensuring disease-free crops. Sweet potatoes grow well here, why not try that?

So all the armchair farmers are out en masse. "Isaan" is a huge area, apart from that, even in our village, there are differences between one area and the next. This side of the road we can't grow sugarcane or members of the nightshade family (tomatoes, chili, etc), 10 minutes walk away you can. So no advice from me apart from the post above advising the poster to look around at what is actually growing locally. I too was going to revolutionise farming when I arrived here and now realise why it is barely a subsistence occupation for most. The only thing I managed to get done was with the cattle, making sure they were properly fed and immunised. (costs money!) Even then, foot and mouth, various other problems made it not very profitable. So Livestock? Not for us anyway, even though we do still have 6 cows + a magnificent bull.

Even in Europe it is easy to buy a chain saw but getting the salesperson to admit that there is such a thing as a chainsaw file, and even, if we get really nerdy about it, a correct chainsaw file size is a persistent battle. Then comes technique of filing. If you are using you saw a lot you might want to buy a chain sharpening machine, which you will also have to learn how to use. Anyway: as far as I remember, the round file should be 1/5 larger than the hole it is filing. You also need to file down the depth guages from time to time. I'm giving you what is basically useless information, most of us learnt it professionally and I find it a scam that saws are sold without instructions as to how to maintain the chain. Don't rely on information from Stihl, the chains are interchangeable, good luck.

I worked self employed in Switzerland for 40 years, and I paid more than my employees as it was assumed that I was going to cheat anyway. A ruinous divorce took the rest and I managed to get to Thailand by the fur of my teeth and two suitcases. So now I learn that the globalists (ASEAN) are going to take another ฿23 000.- from my barely adequate income and I'm not too happy about it. They couldn't intervene in the ongoing Myanmar conflict(s) but invent taxes, yes, they managed that.

Nice! Those are what I call Firebeans, which are judged difficult to grow in my part of Europe. I must admit, I never even tried runner beans once I had found Yard Long Beans, and I hardly grow anything that I used to grow back home.

You got it the wrong way round. Suppose you weren't a typical Biden supporter, who only reads news sources that support your world view. In that case, you might see that the "Insurrection" was't an attempted insurrection, both legally and in intention. Trump's last-minute Tweet urging people to stay peaceful was immediately censored, appeals by Trump to call the National Guard were refused, people like Joe Biden were still claiming years later, that FIVE policemen had been killed, security guys politely invited people onto the premises, thereby making them automatically in breach od the law... etc etc. Never mind, it took 4 years of Biden to ensure that it was "never again:" time.