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I thoroughly enjoyed riding around Asoke where I lived and worked. In fact, on Suk Soi 16 where my apartment was, it was much safer to cycle than it was to walk, with no sidewalks on most of it. I also highly recommend taking your life into your hands and put your bike on one of the rickety longtail boats out to the Elephant's Ear. That's another great place to ride in Bangkok. Edit: As I recall, it was 20 baht to go across, and they'd get 5 or 6 bikes and passengers on each trip. It may have been more, but I recall thinking how cheap it was. As an alternative, they used to rent bikes right at the dock where the boats drop you off. Maybe someone can do a post-Covid update... That's a fun afternoon in Bangkok, and I rarely see anyone talking about it.

Thanks for that. Seems it's always a flip of a coin, whether anyone will post useful replies.

It's a throwback to the days of olde when it took months to travel to DC from the West Coast. After it took months to get news of who won... I think it still serves a useful purpose to give the lefties time to recover from that syndrome that doesn't exist, before they take to their beds (and to the streets) again when The Donald does get sworn in. Wouldn't want too many to shave their heads and buy their plane tickets to leave the country. Possibly to a country with low balcony rails.

Then they should find a more suitable line of work.

The biggest issue with copper clad aluminum (CCA) is that it corrodes a lot faster than a pure copper conductor. Especially in wet environments. Aluminum also carries less current (has higher resistance) than the same diameter copper, but that can be engineered out by using a larger diameter. The corrosion problem... Not so easy to engineer away. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), properties installed with aluminum conductors manufactured before 1972, are 55 times more likely to have faulty and fire hazard-deemed connections than a property wired with copper. https://www.electricmauinui.com/older-hawaii-homes-and-aluminum-wiring/

Trump has inherited a “turd of an economy,” and when things “roll over,” he’ll be the one blamed for it. This dire news comes from COVID vaccine data analyst and former BlackRock asset manager Edward Dowd. Dowd predicts things could “unravel anytime between now and March.” And if the incoming Trump administration doesn’t “get out in front of the narrative,” then they are “going to get blamed for what is coming.” “The real economy (not the stock market) has been rolling over,” Dowd lamented, “and we’re just waiting for the financial markets to figure this out. They will. And when they do, unfortunately, Trump will inherit turd of a financial market crisis.” I'm still waiting for the unemployment numbers to reflect all the "newcomers" that are without work. I think they're waiting for Trump to get in before they add them to the "available labor pool". At which time, there will be a spike in unemployment. And they'll blame it on Trump, though it's Harris/Biden's fault. I'll let you Google Edward Dowd to figure out if he's credible.

Nope. Mostly oilfield equipment. Including cable, electric motors and pumps. I've never touched a drop in Asia, so there's no way I could evaluate a wine or liquor.

I made my living as one of those guys, for years. Mostly in China. You'd be amazed at how easy it is to keep the int'l QA guys out of the shops with wine and wimmun. Especially the wimmun. I wasn't popular with dodgy vendors because I took the oath and quit drinking years before I came to Asia. The good vendors liked me because I worked with them to solve their problems instead of just ratting them out at the first sign of an issue.

If you say so. I look at the entire supply chain and all the places it can be subverted. And what steps I can reasonably take to keep myself safe. A few bucks for a digital caliper seems a small price to pay. If the airlines can't keep counterfeit parts out of their maintenance warehouses in Europe and the USA, I'm not sure any Thai retailers can keep counterfeit wire off their shelves...

Thai Yazaki Electric Wire I'd still measure the conductors. It's pretty easy to counterfeit just about any brand and packaging, even if the genuine article is compliant. Digital calipers cost just a few $$, and the correct conductor diameter specs are all over the interwebs. Then it's a matter of making sure you got copper conductors and not copper plated aluminum... Another common scam.

Or those which do not please Sadly, that opens up defamation charges in Thailand. Even if true.

I think a lot of the posters are are missing a key part of this. The appliances you bought, with a power cord? That cord is very likely sub standard. So are the extension cords you may be using around the house. I found that a lot when I cut power cords to shorten or lengthen them. Took a dial caliper (micrometer) to them, and the conductor is nowhere near the correct diameter.

I was kinda digging on Putin and Hamas staying in bounds, and the border being as secure as it's been in my lifetime. And I'm tired of the USA being used by NATO like a Thai short time GF uses her boyfriend, as a walking ATM...

The image in the post you quoted has everything you need to go to the FEC official website and pick apart the same data for Trump. FEC.Gov/xxx

If the guy does find a solution, please have him post back for the benefit of others in a similar situation. Many of us are 1 bad bank hack, one bad health issue, or some other factor outside of our control from being skint. For some, I fear it's going to be a change in tax laws... Maybe not even paying the taxes, but getting caught out for not filling in the right paperwork to get next year's extension.

I'm still getting used to Ms. Mizz...

Good point...

I was anti-Trump myself, before he changed my mind by doing a pretty good job as President. Nowhere near perfect, but much better than the disaster of the past 4 years. Taking CNN off my bookmarks bar also helped. It's still in my bookmarks, but down the list of the other 60 or so news sites.

I wonder how many expats have been dipping their pen in underage ink, trusting the establishment to weed out the illegal ones. With a nod and a wink.

Plus, if their target demographic is "last mile" commuters, nobody steals a clapped out commuter bike with a lock. They may steal high end recreational bikes, but I never lost one leaving them for hours at a time cabled to a tree or signpost in the bowels of BKK. My philosophy was that if I was afraid to use it, may as well not have it. But I was always pleasantly surprised...

Condolences to the OP and to the guy's family. It sucks to lose a good friend, especially living overseas where the good ones don't exactly grow on trees.

Pantip Plaza used to be my favorite, but I'm not sure it's even there any more. They shut it down a couple of times to "improve it", long before Covid. It was slow to come back, and may not have made it in the end. Maybe someone can update us? Nowadays, my go-to is Fortune Town at MRT Phra Ram 9 station. Super easy access by MRT. (Pantip used to be a hike from the BTS, but worth it...) Edit: For smartphones and tablets, Chinatown and MBK are also great.

Hopefully the U Tube VDOs of crying lefty snowflakes will be appearing soon. I've been waiting for them. Imagine paying $50K-90K a year, and the professor cancels classes because she doesn't feel like working after the election.

Hunter...

If you've got 5 minutes to spend on a hilarious liberal meltdown article, have a look at some examples: Universities are decrying President-elect Donald Trump’s victory and offering a swath of therapeutic safe-space activities to help students cope with their emotions. Several universities are offering counseling services and special post-election debriefing events on campus, while professors canceled classes and called for a rise against the future administration, according to emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Just one example: https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/11/safe-spaces-therapy-colleges-help-students-cope-kamala-harris-loss-2024-election/ Where was all the compassion for conservative students after 2020? Or is it just the lefties that are frail and unstable? Scary if these are the people that plan to run the country in the future.