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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.

I had a similar issue in BKK and the easiest way to solve it was to buy a cheap plastic welder and DIY. Cost peanuts, and they're available on Lazada. Much easier than looking for someone, no Thai language required, and next time I needed it done, I already had the tool. Basically similar to a soldering iron, with a flat tip. They also sell cheap filler rod, but it doesn't look like you need any. (In fact, if you have a soldering iron around, I wouldn't even bother ordering the special tool). Edit: OP may want to specify where in BKK, because shops that can do it are all over town. No need to trek 20 km. Personally, I'd use the zillions of shops close to Khlong Thom market in Chinatown, but that's because I'm there just about every day anyway. That's where I stay on my monthly visits.

Bookending the 2020 election results between 2016 and 2024 should raise some eyebrows regarding the "most secure election in history" narrative.

The captured comment isn't mine. That's just the way the link worked...

At what cost? And did you consider the diet of the "average Hawaiian kid?" Hawaiian cuisine seems to be heavy on sugar... I don't know enough about fluoride to have an opinion one way of the other. I'm just glad we're getting someone in that's not averse to looking at the data, the good, the bad, and the ugly. And maybe funding some of the studies on the gub'ment dime instead of leaving it to Big Ag and Big Pharma to decide where the research (and advertising) money go. Edit: And I would add, a guy who doesn't have a career to justify and cover up all the poor decisions that have been coming out that are destroying public confidence in healthcare advice and policy.

If they really spent $100K to doll up a hotel room for an hour, that 'splains a lot of the USA's fiscal problems. We spend the most on education, for worst-in-the-developed-world results. Same with health care. And... And... The new administration can't get in there fast enough... But I'm betting that they'll be stymied at every cut in gub'ment waste and reduction in giveaways to foreign LGBTQ and equity projects.

There's also a lot of press about how much her campaign was paying influencers to generate excitement. It was all manufactured. Very little organic joy.